<p>rodney, that station is not in my area, but as far as I can tell, <em>every</em> station that is in my area plays it. Over. And over. And over.</p>
<p>^^ i never realized it was a national commercial; wow…that’s even more annoying!!!</p>
<p>I honestly thought it was New York based…</p>
<p>Rants:</p>
<p>People with skunk hair. Looks great on Raitt, but the rest of ya should de-skunk.</p>
<p>Big ass oversized umbrellas. C’mon fold and go people.</p>
<p>People that toss smoking material out their car windows. Hey you smoke it - you keep it.</p>
<p>On the manners subject: This morning I was exiting Sears and held the door for a woman coming in from the parking lot. She opened her door and was holding it for me, too. We laughed about it. Manners STILL exist somewhere!</p>
<p>My pet peeve when traveling in the US is the phrase “I need you to …”</p>
<p>I think its perfectly OK as an expression of State power, for example the police “I need you to take your hands away from the wheel … [or I might just decide to shoot you]”</p>
<p>But now all sorts of service people are using it to impose some fake authority, such as on the airplane “I need you to pull down the window”, “I need you to move away from the galley”, “I need you to drop that packet of pretzels”. Or in some or other business “I need you to wait here until the doctor is ready”.</p>
<p>I think if I said it like that it would rightfully sound rude. On the airplane “I need you to give me another beer”, or in McDonalds “I need you to give me fries with that”, or in the same office “I need you to summon the doctor immediately”.</p>
<p>Yet again this morning there is a huge pile of dog crap in my yard! I walk two dogs several times daily and I can count on one finger the number of times I was short a poop bag. Is it really that hard to have a bag in your jacket or pants pocket and pick up after your dog?</p>
<p>Most of my neighbors pick up after their dogs, but there are a few that don’t bother. One neighbor actually told us he doesn’t pick up from the empty lot next to my house because it doesn’t matter. They also don’t pick up from their own yard. </p>
<p>I have really thought about getting one of these signs for my yard and the one next door, but I have a feeling the subdivision would not allow it; we have a mile long list of dos and don’ts!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mysecuritysign.com/MSS/QS/dog_poop_signs.aspx?lstrel=3[/url]”>http://www.mysecuritysign.com/MSS/QS/dog_poop_signs.aspx?lstrel=3</a></p>
<p>LOL Snowball! Great signs!</p>
<p>We were dogsitting a neighbors dog. We had a bag to pick up the poo. My DH picked up the poo but deposited it in the dirt at the base of some shrubbery that was not in anyones yard (it was common area). So he was carrying an empty plastic bag in his hand. He went to put it in a neighbors can that was at the curb for next day pick-up (some pickup is Mon, some is Thurs) and the neighbor came out and started SCREAMING about putting something intheir trashcan. How neighborly.</p>
<p>cashiers who give you change by putting all the paper bills in your hand then coins on top. Which slide right off.</p>
<p>^^ OMG yes, I hate that! Besides being irritating, it also indicates a cashier who doesn’t know how to make change, a “skill” which after all isn’t even arithmetic, but simple counting. If someone is actually making change, the coins automatically end up under the bills.</p>
<p>Even though I starting to learn how to drive, here’s one of mine: People who slow down when they merge onto a freeway. Your supposed to match the speed of all the other drivers, right?</p>
<p>People who feel it is there God given right to comment on every aspect of other people’s lives! Why, oh why, can’t people just live and let live. My dear friend is going through a difficult time with her husband and son. Every time I run into someone who knows her, I have to endure the questions and comments on her difficult situation. If these people were asking out of concern for her and her family, that would be great, she can use all the support she can get. But this is people being nosy or catty and I have had enough of it!</p>
<p>Pet peeve of mine - women who apparently think it’s okay to sprinkle on the toilet seat in a public toilet (assuming they don’t do it at home, but who knows?) and then walk out with a smile. My favorite graffiti regarding that, “If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie”… </p>
<p>I know it was gone through early -on but agree that people that don’t return their carts are thoughtless. I understand it if you are handicapped or really old and it’s physically difficult but I have never in my entire life left a cart in anyplace except a cart corral or at the front of the store. If you have a small child, you strap them in, lock the car, return the cart and return to the car. Even in the summer. They will not die in the sixty seconds it takes to return a cart. A couple of the grocery stores around here have parking spaces for pregnant women or people with young children, but truly, I think they need it less then older people like my parents that are not technically handicapped bu have a hard time walking. I was certainly in better physical shape 9 months pregnant at age 30 then my 80+ year old parents - who also return their carts…</p>
<p>Recently I was at a grocery store and I noticed an elderly person near her car with a cart and I asked if I could return it to the store for her. She looked at me, smiled and said, “You’re the third person that asked me that! I just got the cart from the corral and need it to walk into the store.” I thought it was pretty neat that she had to refuse three offers of help!</p>
<p>My pet peeve is people who use the ‘Reply to all’ on an e-mail instead of just replying to the person who needs the information.</p>
<p>My first peeve is people who are lying to me and the second one is people who make me wait. The first one makes me upset because they must be thinking I must be stupid and the second one because I’m in patient.</p>
<p>Absolute agree to the toilet seat! Just yesterday I have to wipe the seat down before I could use it. I figure some women don’t sit, but straddle the seat, so their aim isn’t that great! That’s all fine and good, but they could at least clean up after themselves; of they don’t want to do it, what makes them think I do!!</p>
<p>Not exactly a pet peeve, because it’s fairly rare in this day and age, but a vent: in the airport this morning, a man going through security was given a bag search. Turns out he had a couple of cans of gourmet soup in his carry-on bag. Let me repeat - 2 cans of SOUP. As in liquid. As in a total of 20 ounces of liquid. The TSA told him he could not carry 20 ounces of soup onto the plane. </p>
<p>The man then began a loud and angry argument about 2 cans of soup. Which of course brought the whole security line to a halt.</p>
<p>Really, guy? You hadn’t heard? You have perhaps missed the last 4 years? Or did you just think there was some sort of soup exemption that, once brought to the attention of the TSA in a loud and argumentative way, would immediately cause them to apologize to you and wave you through?</p>
<p>So many of these pet peeves boil down to the same thing: OBLIVIOUS PEOPLE. </p>
<p>People who don’t bother to think of anyone or anything except themselves. People who hold long chatty conversations with the cashier/teller/customer service person when there’s a huge line behind them. People who get off the escalator or go thru an entrance then immediately stop, and stand around, blocking everyone else’s path. The people who let their kids run wild at stores and shows (worse is the ones who think it’s cute. Listen lady, I didn’t come to the park to watch your 4 year old run to the front of the stage and wiggle her butt, I came to hear the school band!) People with airhorns at graduation (or anywhere, for that matter). People who talk - loudly - at concerts and solemn occasions, like weddings. </p>
<p>People who think they - or their relatives - are just SO super special that the rules don’t apply to them.</p>
<p>Speaking of public toilets, how does all that toilet paper wind up on the floor? Do people pull off more than they need, then throw it around randomly? Even in my smallish office ladies room, I’m often having to pick up dropped paper towels. I feel like leaving a note saying “Your mother doesn’t work here”, but that would be unfair to mothers.</p>
<p>In California, it’s the law that all children under 18 have to wear bike helmets. My pet peeve is that the new fad is for kids to hold the helmet instead dangling from their handle bars, to plop it on if they see the police or a teacher. I’m like a crazy person yelling out of my car window “Put your helmet on!”.</p>
<p>What about people who leave a recital(dance, orchestra, band, choir) as soon as their kid finished performing?</p>