<p>I work at a grocery store and I don’t mind stray carts. My biggest pet peeve is when customers grab their groceries out of the cart and then leave it next to me. It’s even worse when they say “is it okay if I leave this here?” or “i don’t need the cart”. No it’s not okay. It’s rude, and I don’t need the cart either. The cart bay is directly outside the door. It is impossible to leave without walking past it, so why leave your cart in my way? I would rather you leave it in the middle of the parking lot. If you leave your cart next to me, I will take it, follow you out the store, and slam it into the bay. All while giving you the dirtiest look possible</p>
<p>When one of my students has been absent and then comes to me and asks, “Did we do anything yesterday?” </p>
<p>When a student has been receiving low grades all year long and their parents wait until there’s a month of school left to come in for a conference. I tell the parents of my students all the time that I may not be the best at initiating contact but I’m always good about hitting reply and/or returning a phone call.</p>
<p>No, I’ve never left a cart in the middle of a parking lot even when with small children. Best friend has an almost 3 year old and an almost 1 year old and always manages to put her cart back. A friend of mine had an incident a months ago when she was 8 months pregnant. Lady came and left her cart in the parking lot and it ran away and ended up right in front of friends car and the lady was still walking away while she had a runaway cart. My friend got out of her car, and very very pregnantly grabbed the cart and walked right past the lady and pushed it into the cart return which was just two or three bays up, staring her down the entire way. She said the lady looked like she was going to yell at her till she realized how pregnant she was and then she had a look on her face like she felt bad about it.</p>
<p>My new philosophy is that I park right next to the cart return bay - on the side opposite of the grocery store. I’ve yet to have a cart whack into me there. I’ll walk the extra 15 feet if it means less dents in my car.</p>
<p>My pet peeve on CC are a couple of posters, one in particular, who have to one up everybody. Their kid is bigger, better, faster, know what I mean. Their opinion is so important, they must repeat it over and over, keeping threads going that should have died a peaceful death long ago. I wish there was a way to block a poster from my view, because it has gotten to the point that I get aggravated when I see the use name, don’t even have to read the post.</p>
<p>fishy, I know that feeling… there are certain people that make me not want to post on a specific thread just because of the fact that they have posted in it and I know they will jump down my throat the moment I do.</p>
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<p>My pet peeve is when I have been on cruise control forever and slowly overtake a vehicle only to have that car speed up and get back in front of me. This would be acceptable if the car continued on at the increased speed…but nooo…the car slows down and we began the process all over again.</p>
<p>My kids leave shoes, socks, flip flops, back packs, drinking glasses, granola bar wrappers… you name it - all over the house! If I pick up shoes for them and put them on the stairs…the shoes will sit on the stairs until the kid next needs to wear them, or I nag…“Would you take these to your room.” Yesterday I walked around a corner and tripped over a back pack just plunked on the floor - almost did a face plant. This drives me nuts.</p>
<p>India based call/support centers invariably staffed with people who are trained robots who read from a script, can’t converse in English very well (think accents, can’t comprehend inflections, etc.), lie when asked to speak to a supervisor, and are often quite rude.</p>
<p>Fortunately I’m not the only one to experience this and more and more companies realize they made a mistake by moving their call centers to India and are losing customers as a result and thus are moving them back to the USA. I know the location of the support center will be a factor in my next laptop purchase.</p>
<p>People who text though dinner. Yes I am talking about my children and my nieces and nephews.</p>
<p>Kids who when I did them a favor and put their clothes in the washer/dryer leave those baskets of clothes in my living room for 3 days. Seriously, you can’t take them up to your room. </p>
<p>Only Michigan people will get this. You’ve been following some guy for miles and finally hit a passing lane and the moron speeds up! Just until the passing lane ends and then they slow down again. Annoying!</p>
<p>Flexi dog leashes. Not only do they teach the dog to pull on leash, they allow the dog to get 20’ away from its person–and the next thing you know, there’s a dog fight going on and you have a leash wrapped around your ankles.</p>
<p>All the other members of my family who know the dishwasher is empty/dirty, yet leave their dirty plates, cups, etc on the counter on top of the dishwasher assuming another human being is their servant and will put it in the racks.</p>
<p>ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad, I could not agree more! Another factor about call centers is that there is no accountability; it is often the case that the rep I talk to is wrong or flat-out lying, which I don’t discover until I call in to follow up. Of course, there is no possible way to talk to the original rep, so the new rep apologizes profusely and you start all over again, knowing that everything this new rep tells you is probably wrong too. </p>
<p>Just last week, I had to call from work about a payment that a vendor didn’t receive:</p>
<p>First rep, “Kendall”: If you mail it on the 13th, we will hold the account open until the 20th.</p>
<p>Second rep, “Cynthia”: I see that you talked to Kendall and the payment is due on the 13th. We cannot hold the account open until the 20th. No ma’am, I don’t know why Kendall said that we will; that is not our policy.</p>
<p>Cynthia’s supervisor, “Heather”: Cynthia was incorrect; we will hold the account until the 20th. No ma’am, I’m not sure why she told you we won’t. </p>
<p>Who knows if Heather is right or not…</p>
<p>I usually keep on calling back until I get a rep who would do what I want.</p>
<p>Some of these are so dang funny! I can relate to most of them too. I’ll add dealing with insurance companies to my list. Also, people who skip in line really tick me off. I really wanted to randomly use the wrong words in this post and cover it with apostrophes, but I just couldn’t make myself do it. 
Also pet peeves of mine!</p>
<p>Fishy and fender: Although this isn’t who you are talking about, have you noticed there are some posters that ALWAYS say the same thing on every thread they post a response to? There is one person who turns every question into a conversation about fin aid. I don’t even have to look at her name to know its her…I swear she must have her spiel saved as a shortcut key. Its not really a pet peeve as it is a mystery why she does this.</p>
<p>lol, i have noticed some things like that yes. there are always people like that on every MB. :)</p>
<p>If I am in a driveway or side street and turning left onto a busy street that has 2 lanes each way plus a middle turn lane, please, for the love of God, do NOT stop and wave me through. I can’t see whether the person in the next lane will stop, and then I run the risk of getting nailed by cars coming from the right. Just please keep going and I will wait for a natural break in traffic so I can make my left. Tyvm.</p>
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<p>People that use the center turn lane to enter a busy road drive me nuts. Oh, and the fact that it’s ILLEGAL! And it’s dangerous too. Especially for the person in the turn lane trying to make a left turn and then you turn into that lane in front of me!</p>
<p>Guys in black luxury cars, wearing ties, who are talking on their cell phones - they are clearly SO much more important than rest of us, so we need to get out of their way or risk the wrath of their horn or a dirty glare. One guy came flying around a van that was pulled over to make a delivery, took up half my lane, nearly drove me off the road - did I mention he was in MY lane? - and gave me a dirty look.</p>
<p>Also people who tailgate. Someday I’m gonna slam on my brakes just to teach them a lesson. </p>
<p>I also hate when I go clothes shopping and can’t find the size tag easily. Too many companies have a half-dozen tags hanging from the sleeve of their clothes - none of which have the size on them. I have to look in the collar or waistband to find the size.</p>