I don’t like strollers in restaurants. Put your little one in a booster seat at the table or just carry him/her into the restaurant in the car seat. I hate navigating around your stroller as I’m trying to get to the rest room or trying to leave. Its also a hazard to the waitstaff who is trying to maneuver around it with loaded trays of hot food. If your little one needs to sleep, perhaps this isn’t the right time to go out to eat.
Many of my pet peeves have already been listed here (nice to have company in this regard) but will vent about 2 others:
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People who yawn with hugely wide open mouthes, almost in seeming slow motion, and do not cover their gapingly wide open pie holes (almost wish a bug would fly in)!
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The other is people who take an exceedingly long time to pull out of a parking space when there are people waiting in the crowded lot for their space. I believe there was a study done once that showed people tend to take longer to pull out when someone is waiting than when not. I believe it.
I’m probably one of those people who takes more time to pull out of a spot because I’m always worried that I’m going to rush and hit someone!
The truth is the person who is impatient to get in my parking spot is usually way to close for me to pull out quickly.
With all the back up cameras readily available, backing out should not be a problem. And it seems some people purposely dawdle (check their phone, etc) when others are awaiting for the spot. IMO thats rude. When I see someone waiting, I do all I can to get out (quickly and safely) so they can have it.
ESPECIALLY when said yawn is accompanied by loud, yawning noises!!!
People who throw their lit cigarette buts out moving car windows and assume it’s not littering because small gnome like creatures will miraculously find, and dispose of their disgusting refuse properly.
https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/10/21/do-people-take-longer-if-someone-is-waiting/
The articles on territorial parking spot holders
And the ones who hold their lit cigarettes out the window at stoplights because they don’t want the smoke in their cars. Well guess what- the people next to and behind them don’t want it either!!!
People who block the sample carts at Costco while interrogating the sample person on the nutritional value of the food.
People who take several, and often the last of the samples, ostensibly for their “family” (usually nowhere to be seen)
Tourists driving 10 miles under the limit. People eating with their mouths open. I asked to be moved last night because there was someone doing this near me. I could hear their mouth smacking.
In defense of people that are slow to leave their parking spot, I’d rather they check their phones while parked instead of while driving. And not every car has back up cameras. Some of us drive old(er) or cheap(er) cars and spend our money on other things.
I always view having to park further away as a way to get in a few extra steps. Or I sit there trying to improve my patience levels. 
Ah yes, smokers who Go in their backyard to smoke and cause our child to wheeze in his own bedroom!
Also going in the backyard to have loud fights so we can hear every expletive word!
I guess these behaviors are a bit more private but make it impossible to enjoy our own home. 
Sure its better to check your phone when not driving (its illegal to hold a phone when driving where I live) and sure not all cars have cameras. But the “parking space dawdle” is not new. There is no need to dawdle and take ones sweet time if there are limited parking spaces and someone needs it. Just inconsiderate, IMO. Now, if someone honks to get the spot… thats another story ;). Gee, someone is honking to eat my spot? Time to check few posts on cc!
Another pet peeve is when there is a long line at the checkout and when they open a new register, asking for the next person in line, the people at the end of the line go rushing up.
I’m afraid if I get started, I’ll never stop…I find that I’m not very tolerant of rude or self-absorbed people in any which way. I will say that the one post about men spitting in public is also a huge pet peeve of mine. I’ll stop there, I’m crabby and it’ll probably just make my night worse.
Well…us Florida residents have been dealing with the snowbirds all winter so it’s someone else’s turn. Must be something about travel that makes people from elsewhere act badly, but I’m happy to deal with the hot Florida summer in return for having all the visitors go back home.
This whole thread kind of reminds me of our local “next door” group. I had this theory, well, not really a theory once, more like I was trying to come up with a motto or way to describe the Bay Area. It’s like, we don’t care what your race, national origin, gender identity, sexuality, etc is, but you’d better not drive like a jerk or fail to pick up your dog doo, and woe be unto you if you piss someone off by parking in “their” spot.
(We have had entire threads about the etiquette of throwing out dog poop in other people’s garbage cans on the street on garbage pickup day. The consensus after hearing that non-dog owners get annoyed if the garbage already was picked up is don’t do it, especially if the bins are empty. Okay then…).
We don’t get snowbirds in San Diego but we get “Zonies” in the summer - Arizona residents fleeing hot weather. They usually drive very large SUV’s and don’t know where they’re going or where the exit and merge lanes are. And they want to bring their dogs everywhere.
Apologies for being annoying when leaving the parking lot. No back up camera. A very short woman in a small car in an area where mammoth vehicles are the norm. Frequently I have very limited visibility, because the vehicles next to me are too long and tall to see around. In my regular grocery parking lots, I have to be very very careful because small children sometimes get away from their parents. And elderly folks, or young folks looking at their devices, wander in back of me even after I’ve started pulling out. Sometimes backing out is really a leap of faith, so I go as slow as possible. I’m doing the very best I can. Really.
OTOH, I’m always going to let you have the parking spot, or go ahead of me in a line, because these days I have the luxury of never ever being in a rush. You’re on your lunch break? Shopping with fussy kids late for their nap? Please go right ahead. I used to be you. I can easily wait.