Oh yes, I agree with the TV in restaurants comment. Why do so many restaurants have TVs blaring all the time? I understand sports bars having them, but not regular restaurants.
Why do so many doctor’s offices have the TV blaring?
Because it’s better than skimming the reading options in the waiting room, like Self.
@FlyMeToTheMoon or, pediatricians’ offices have the tv running at all?
As I was out on my hike this morning, I was traveling a track that can comfortably accommodate two people side-by-side, or two people traveling in the opposite direction to each other; countless times I had to stop and wait for oncoming 2xhikers to pass me in order I could keep going; not one of them considered single file, they just kept their conversations going and assumed I would stop. So rude!
Another thing I CANNOT abide is people who sneeze or cough into their hands and then reach for a handshake, open the door, handle the salt shaker etc. It is so gross!!! Oh, and don’t get me started on loud throat clearing, or snorting snot…
^ Yes to both!
I now stop in my tracks and block the path. It takes a minute but the two (or more) blocking my right of way eventually get it and move over. (insert swear word here)
I find there is a correlation between those waiting rooms with TVs and those waiting rooms where they make you wait a long time. Pacifies the masses I guess.
“Oh yes, I agree with the TV in restaurants comment”
I find TVs blaring from gas station pumps to be annoying. As in the Dr.'s waiting room, while pumping gas I feel like I’m trapped and forced to hear that TV against my will. I’m willing to pay a few cents more per gallon in order to take my business to stations that don’t have TVs on their gas pumps.
Waiting rooms, taxis, gas pumps, airports, etc. It’s getting to be impossible to avoid loud televisions.
Nervously waiting in bed in the prep room for day surgery I was subjected to the loud TV apparently placed there for our entertainment. Unfortunately the show playing on the TV was interrupted every few minutes by a series of commercials for malpractice lawyers. “Have you been injured or permanently disabled due to a surgeon’s mistake? Call the office of… We’ll get you what you deserve!” Not what I wanted to have to watch.
I’m also not a fan of those repeating video clips in the back of taxis. By the fourth time I’ve heard the same chirpy human interest story in the span of 10 minutes I’m ready to jump out and walk.
What is annoying is when you try to be a good citizen and let one car in from a side street in traffic, and 10 cars think its ok to plow through (and block the intersection). An not a one waves a thank you. Grrr.
Well here’s one…I think you should all thank me for giving you an outlet to vent your pet-peeve frustrations!
No need to stop or step aside on a trail wide enough for 2 - just keep your shoulders straight and hike confidently forward. No one has bumped into me yet. Some dogs on flex-leads sometimes get in the way, and I glare at the owner.
People who park on the street right across from your driveway making it hard for you to get in/out.
People who line up to board first on Southwest in a wheelchair, guaranteeing they’ll sit near the front of the plane, and then they somehow don’t need a wheelchair when they disembark, and therefore get off first. Flight attendants call them “miracle flights”. Stop cheating!
Apologize in advance for generalization, but you know who you are…
Men in line at the grocery store. They wait until the are told the total of their purchase, THEN reach back to pry their wallet out of their back pocket, then open the wallet to find the card, then fumble-look for where to put the card. It’s like they were surprised they have to pay at all. A woman four deep in the same line is standing there with her credit card in hand ready to roll.
And in grocery stores where appropriate and low on staff (which I find in many of our grocery stores nowadays) the royal highness that doesn’t help bag and stands there just staring at the check out gal/guy, waiting for them to finish their 24 tasks as things just pile up. Help out people and keep it moving!
I like this therapeutic thread, I may be back with more.
Oh oh oh post edit, one more at the grocery store since on the topic - people that write checks at stores. Not too often thank goodness, but really??? Didn’t those go the way of the carrier pigeon?
Apparently, I have stress issues at the grocery store.
It may be different where you are, but at my local Whole Paycheck, it’s the older females who pull this stunt, usually with 20 items in the express lane.
Along the lines of pet peeves at the market - when there is a huge line and three employees standing around gabbing and not opening up another checkout lane.
I find there to be an age difference on who has their card out ready to pay, not gender.
Not in my experience. It’s the woman who waits until given the total to even unzip her purse and then extract the wallet. After payment, just when you think the clerk can start scanning your items, she then needs to load her bags into the cart. Why wouldn’t you load the bags into the cart as they are filled? And then she needs to close her wallet, put it in the special zippered compartment in her purse, then zip the main compartment shut.
My husband and I grocery shop together, and we are very good at choosing which line to check out. We can spot the “problem” shoppers and choose another lane.
I want to shop at your store.
Speaking of early boarding… On a flight I took recently there were at least 20 people who boarded with the early “People who need more time (read, disabled)” group. A few were in wheelchairs or elderly, but many just seemed to want to get on ahead of everyone else. Many people in line grumbled but no one, aware of the fact that invisible disabilities exist, wanted to question the people boarding early. At the same time it was pretty clear that the odds were there were fakers in the group. Ugh.
Well apparently, others also have their own kind of peeves at the grocery stores, those were mine.
On airline boarding: last flight I took (2 weeks ago) out of O’Hare, kid and I were ‘group 3’ of 5. United has lines now for groups 1 and 2 ahead of time and then consolidates after those 2 get called. This plane was enormous and late so when they called group 3 the line extended back a LONG way so we made our way to the end and then found that some of those people were (of course) actually group 4. So I started asking people in front of us what group they were in and if they were 4, if we could go in front of them. One woman’s pass was definitely group 4 but snottily said to me, “There’s a LINE here!” like I’m cutting. I’m like, “well, yeah, there’s a line for group 3.” Like ugh. On the one hand, yeah, we are all going to the same place. On the other, I already paid to check a bag and would like to put my bulky backpack in the overhead thanks.
On grocery shopping - I try to go during off-peak hours and help with bagging. There’s a checker at my Safeway that looks like James Comey although I’m sure the real James Comey would be a lot faster. I’m turning into one of those distracted old ladies though… the other day I put in my Safeway card but forgot to put in my actual ATM card until the checker reminded me. Oops. And then going right before a holiday… I have to stock up tomorrow for a teacher appreciation event + Easter. And it’s also almost Passover. I’m sure it will be crazy. The couple of days before Thanksgiving I call Amateur Week at Safeway.