I just realized from reading other comments that nothing annoys me more than going to the cardio room in the gym, starting my workout, then realizing that the tv in front of me is tuned to Fox news. I’ve tried to ignore it by trying to read a magazine but that’s hard to do when exercising and impossible for more than a few minutes. Part of the reason for working out is to relive stress and to get away from the more hellish aspects of contemporary life. I will literally pause my eliptical and go to the front desk to retrieve the remote, rather than spend 30 minutes with that in my face.
Pet peeves are a universal human experience, no matter the culture or background. But for those of you with SO many pet peeves-aren’t you just constantly ticked off???
No. 
Because I don’t encounter those behaviors daily or even weekly.
^^^I don’t either, but that’s probably because I’m a relative hermit. If not for DH’s prodding, I’d probably never leave my house.
I wouldn’t call these ‘pet peeves’. I’m bothered by rudeness; by people who don’t think about or care about how their actions impact those around them. It’s a sort of narcissism or self-centeredness.
Don’t impose your noise, smells, flesh (that airplane seat again) on me.
“Charities that, if you give them money just once, won’t leave you alone for the rest of your life.”
My father-in-law, who apparently gave to a lot of charities late in his life, moved in with us for a few months before he took sick and passed away. Naturally during that period he changed his mailing address to ours. He’s been dead about a decade now, and they have not received a nickel from him since the day he died, but we are still bombarded daily with mail solicitations for further donations. It’s clear they will never stop.
I volunteered for the Special Olympics in college and for a few years after college I regularly gave $50 a year in donations. Then the calls started. Calls during dinner, calls at the kids’ bedtimes, 3 calls in the same evening. All from paid fundraisers. Even after I explained that paid fundraiser calls were the reason I had decided to no longer give to SO the calls continued. sigh
The anger at parking space lingering astonishes me. No one owes me a spot. Since I don’t have any expectation on what someone should do for me, I don’t feel any particular anger if they don’t do it. Maybe “lower your expectations” isn’t the right advice, but it works for me.
ETA:
Public littering bothers me. Cigarette butts, water bottles, chip bags, whatever. I do have an expectation that people will refrain from soiling public areas.
This is a thread about pet peeves- what bothers people, not what makes people angry. Its about what is annoying. People being inconsiderate, self focused, entitled and basically rude is annoying, regardless of what it is they are or are not doing.
In the spirit of this thread, here is a great book of zingers about human nature:
TV’s in restaurants! I recently took my sister, BIL and mom to a nice dinner at Marchand’s at the Vinnoy in St. Pete. It’s in a beautifully restored 1920’s ball room and the meal wasn’t cheap, the massive TV at the bar in the center of the room totally ruined the experience.
I hate that too! I find it so distracting.
On charities… we decided early on after finding that the mail never dries up once you’ve donated once that our strategy now is to give a lot to just a few charities than a little to a bunch of them. It does get hard sometimes to say no to a small request from a good cause but they are like bamboo.
Perhaps they do not want to be “that driver” who backs out of the parking space “without looking” because they cannot see around/through the car parked next to them.
People who let their dogs off leash.
People who back into parking spaces.
Narcissists with no self-awareness.
I always back my car in when parking in my office garage. We have staggered start and end times but it seems like traffic is always heavier in the afternoon and it is much easier to pull out without blocking traffic so much.
@TatinG me too! Some people can be quite selfish!
Another pet peeve is the guy at work who feels self important so he raises his voice several decibels to let everybody within earshot to know how awesome he is. Who cares? People have work to do and I give zero whatevers about you.
Of course the person in the bathroom talking on the phone is pretty bad. A nice flush usually dissuades that kind of behavior.
@Hamurtle Just this week, I took a seat next to somebody engaged in a very animated conversation while seated ‘on the throne’ personally, I’ve never encountered that before then, but it was gross! In a similar vein - I don’t like entering a public restroom in the wake of an ‘evacuation’! :neutral: Some things are best done in private!
@natty1988 said:
Have you read the When somebody owes you money thread? That will destroy your faith in humanity. 