<p>I’ve been lurking and occasionally posting both questions and responses for a few months on CC now and was wondering if any of you have any pet peeves you’d like to get off your chest? This would be the thread where you can gripe, moan, criticize, whatever and hopefully not do it on other threads that don’t call for it. (Guess what my pet peeve is?) </p>
<p>I can tell some people get irritated when a thread gets off topic. I personally don’t mind that…it’s like a conversation that keeps evolving to me. I like to hear other people’s opinions; afterall, that is why I am visiting this site. What IS hard to take is when someone starts personally bashing someone else…reading too much into their post, or not taking it in the light-hearted manner it was intended, or maybe not reading their whole post to begin with. Some posters don’t give others the benefit of the doubt in that they may not mean things in the worst possible way. </p>
<p>This is NOT meant to be a serious thread for serious issues. Just vent. It doesn’t even have to be about CC. Meanness is not the desired response.</p>
<p>I’m going to show my age here, but kids who think they have it ALL figured out at the ripe old age of 19, and proceed to tell parents how to raise their children, or deal with very adult issues they haven’t been faced with yet. I like kids input here. It can honestly be a breath of fresh air sometimes. Every once in a while there is one you just want to tell to come back in twenty years when they’ve raised their family.</p>
<p>People who act as though they are better than the rest with their high and mighty attitude. They often look right through others who they feel are not worthy of their attention.</p>
<p>As old as I am I cannot understand this way of behaving, can you???</p>
<p>I like to read and I drives me nuts when other people find that out and then make a point of telling me that they wished that they had time to read. This is usually said in a condescending manner and accompanied by comments about how they are too busy spending time with their kids, or having a life, etc. Hey, I don’t put them down for having a hobby.</p>
<p>I’ll second - drivers who don’t use turn signals. Sometimes I feel that I’m the only one who uses them. </p>
<p>Tied to the above - people who talk on their handheld cell in their car - tied because this is one reason people have gotten out of the habit of using turn signals. They think they can handle talking on the cell and driving well at the same time but they…can’t. </p>
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<li><p>Furniture store commercials that state they’re having the perpetual “biggest sale of the year” sale every day along with every conceivable holiday they can use as an excuse for another sale. Worse - the consumers who fall for this tactic.</p></li>
<li><p>Religious people who knock on my door trying to get me to join their religion.</p></li>
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<p>ucsd, i literally laughed out loud when i read your furniture store commercials thing… Every single week we get a “going out of business sale” flyer in the mail for a local furniture store… they pop up everywhere and go out of business after six months and are constantly having ‘best sales ever’ and ‘going out of business sales’. Furniture and mattress stores are on every corner here. If I go into the city there is actually one stretch where we have not one, not two, but THREE Sleepy’s within a 2 block radius… literally!</p>
<p>Well, yes, but to be honest, didn’t you leave the cart next to your car when you had young children? After all, it would have been so immensely difficult to return it. </p>
<p>In order to load the groceries into the car, you had to take your child out of the cart and strap him into his car seat, right? If you didn’t do that, your child could have climbed out of the cart and fallen while you weren’t looking. But it isn’t safe to leave the child in the car while you return the cart to the cart-collecting place. So you would have to take the child out of the car seat and put him back in the cart while you return it, and then bring the child back to the car and strap him in again. </p>
<p>All this while your child is probably fussing and the frozen food is melting.</p>
<p>I don’t like stray carts, either, but I try to remember what it was like to go shopping with a toddler – or later, with a three-year-old and a baby.</p>
<p>I agree they need to invent a better system for returning carts. Maybe like a zip-line that runs from one end of the parked cars to the other, and you just clip your cart onto it. The point is, you could access it right where your car is parked.</p>
<p>My pet peeve, drivers in the left lane who shouldn’t be there. Don’t people know that left lanes are for passing traffic. I hate being stuck behind a slower moving car who refuses to let anyone pass. Do they ever look behind them and see the train. It is one of the rules of the road that many don’t seems to get. It seems that they want to be the left lane monitor, then all of a suuden they have to move all the way right for their exit. When did that happen.</p>
<p>And, I ALWAYS returned my cart, even when my daughter was young. My car and her were always in sight while I took my cart back to the bay of carts.</p>
<p>^^^ My pet driving peeve: people who won’t move over for me once I’ve moved over for them to get on the highway. They have to immediately accelerate to 70 or more and stay on my right side until I slow down in the left lane to get behind them and move over, or accelerate way beyond my comfort zone to get in front of them and then move over. And it’s often one of those competitive drivers who can’t stand the thought of being passed - they just stay on my right side until I accommodate their competitive nature, slow down, and get behind their car.</p>
<p>I want to say, “what the heck?” You don’t have the right of way when you’re merging onto the highway and it was considerate of me to move over so you could have a smooth merge. Shame on you."</p>
<p>Pet CC peeve - personal attacks in the parents forums. Against the TOS but they happen often. Secondary pet CC peeve - snippy responses to well-intentioned posts. And another one: parents who try to prove their points by exaggerating about or outright lying about their kids’ accomplishments.</p>
<p>My pet peeve on CC is when people are rude because they’ve had a bad day or something. I often wonder if they would speak to other people like that in person. Another pet peeve is when people are judgemental just because someone else had lead a different life style, it includes spending habit, school choice, career choice, parenting style…The biggest pet peeve of mine is when people start with “Asians are…” “immigrants are…” “I know because I know one Asian family at my school…”</p>
<p>Rant over, this is what we are suppose to do on this thread, right?:)</p>