Your minor pet peeves?

[MN ChimpH8R]

At the top of my list are the stupid asshats who get off escalators and STOP. Like they don't know there are more people behind them who have to get off the damn thing or have their feet eaten by the escalator?

And right behind them are the morans who try to rush in to crowded elevators before the occupants get out?

Encountered both while getting lunch. What's with these idiots? :banghead:

[brainshrub]

1. The sound of lawnmowers when I'm trying to nap.

The ice-cream truck that blares it's music all day next to my house. (Not so bad this year.)

[tk2kewl]

2. jerks who want to stand by the door on the subway ...

get on first and don't move while a dozen more people need to squeeze past them :grr:

[aeolian]

3. That's a specific manifestation of a general phenomenon,

that of people just fucking STOPPING in lanes of traffic: top of an escalator, just beyond the threshold of a door in a public place, in a supermarket aisle, etc.

:nuke: pisses me off, too :nuke:

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Or, The 4 Abreast Folks!

Aisle is 5 feet wide and these folks HAVE to walk across instead of single file.

Happens at the airports a lot too. Yeah, the aisles are much wider, but there's a zillion people trying to get by as well.

These people seem oblivious to the fact that they aren't the only ones there.
The Professor

[aeolian]

20. Yes! They, too, must die!

or, well...maybe just lobotomized...

[GirlinContempt]

4. Loud eaters

specially when they don't close their mouths

[MN ChimpH8R]

7. Eeeeewwww! n/t

[Strawman]

11. When people eat on the radio

and I can hear them chewing and talking with their mouths full. Hate it!

[flvegan]

5. Those that spread ALL their groceries all over the checkout belt

rather than trying to consolidate some space so others can start putting stuff down. Oh, and do me a favor, "10 items or less" means 10, not 13 or 15, and IT SAYS NO DAMN CHECKS!!!

[johnnie]

6. People who want to "have a taste" of something that is on my plate

Go get your own food! I hate people picking at my food.

[livetohike]

8. Shoppers who use the express lane when they have more

groceries than the limit.

SUV and big truck owners who park over the parking space lines limiting anyone parking next to them.

Drivers who don't use turn signals and then cut right in front of you like you should be able to read their mind.

Yes, I just got back from the store :eyes:

[aeolian]

9. Oh, I'm sorry, I know I'm talking to you, but my cell is ringing,

let me make you sit there and listen to half of my conversation with this person.

Now, what were you saying?



...fucking rude motherfuckers. Let the goddamned voicemail pick up!

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Humans

Think about how peaceful this place would be if the infestation had not occurred. (Yeah, i watched Independence Day again.)
The Professor

[SOteric]

12. People who think this piddly kinda stuff matters.

Say excuse me and move along. It's just not worth getting worked up about.

[WhollyHeretic]

14. People who lick their fingers before counting money

I don't want their freakin' spit and why is it so hard to grab the money without spit? :mad:

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Or To Turn Pages of A Book

What if someone else needs to read that book? It grosses me out.
The Professor

[seemunkee]

25. It is when your fingers are so dry they crack open

I try not to do it but sometimes I just can't separate the bills without it.

[aeolian]

15. people who slow down on highway entrance ramps

For fuck's sake, you have to be going 60 mph in about 100 ft! What are you slowing down for?

[caty]

16. Walking up to a store with double doors--

and only one door is unlocked. Of course, the first door I try is always the one that is locked. So, I have to make a second try to get a door open. If they can take the time to unlock one of the doors, why not unlock both of them!!!!!:banghead:

[WhollyHeretic]

18. Self-satisfied smug people who love to point out

how above other people they are.

[aeolian]

19. People on the radio who clearly need a drink of water

If I can hear your tongue clicking around in your mouth, you need to go get some water. :grr:

[kick-ass-bob]

21. I shove them with my forearm.

It's actually not a shove, it's just the momentum from the escalator.

:headbang:

[ComerPerro]

22. Harmonic minor is my biggest minor pet peeve

[aeolian]

24. What, you don't like raised-7?

or is it that augmented second between 6 & 7 that gets you?

:p

:toast:

[ComerPerro]

29. I like your screen name

[aeolian]

32. You're probably one of the few people who knows what

"aeolian" actually means. :evilgrin:

To music! :toast:

[lpbk2713]

23. My neighbors who obsess about the appearance of their homes & yards.

They might have a yard the size of a postage stamp but they have sheds and garages crammed full with thousands of dollars worth of tools and equipment that seem to keep them continually occupied.

[aeolian]

26. Asking for a "small" order at a restaurant, and being informed that

"we only have 'large' and 'medium.'"

:eyes:

...ok...which one is smaller? I'll have that one.

[MissMillie]

27. squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle

and people who never put the covers back on things (or seal them up properly) after using some and leaving some behind.

[mrfrapp]

28. Language Peeves

When people say "literally" when they really mean "metaphorically".

The use of the word "orientated". Okay, it's a word but it's rarely useful. The word they're looking for is "oriented". A very minor peeve perhaps but in my line of work (Software Engineer) having to hear "Object Orientated Language" day in, day out becomes very trying.

[oregonjen]

35. How about spelling errors? Like "noone" for no one!

I see that a lot on DU

On Edit: unless it is like a freep spelling like morans

[aeolian]

30. When people continue to explain things to me after I have clearly

indicated that I comprehend.

[AlCzervik]

31. people who just stop in the middle of a walkway and chat with their friend

what the fuck are you people doing? Move over out of the foot traffic and have your conversation.

[quisp]

33. My kids leaving EVERY FREAKIN' DOOR IN THE HOUSE OPEN!!!

I always thought my Dad was an uptight jerk but now that I'm paying for the a/c I get pretty uptight too.

[DS1]

34. Same goes for the assfucks that get off a plane and stop

Get the F outta my way you fucking morons!

Same applies for Busses, shuttles, trains, subways, and any other form of transport that involves other people.

[tonekat]

36. Turn Signals

Both the non-use of, or neglecting to turn them off.

[RubyDuby in GA]

37. Asshats that don't get out of the way of emergency vehicles!

How do they know that the ambulance or firetruck that is tearing down the road isn't for their house or the police car isn't on it's way to stopping a crime that is happening to their relative? I simply hate people who think they're more important than any emergency vehicle.

[prole_for_peace]

38. people having a reunion in the middle of the store aisle.

there is no other place for you people to catch up? maybe you could go to a less busy part of the damn store and get out of my damn way. and when you try to squeeze past them they look at you like you are bothering them. i just want to take a running start and RAM my basket into them like a bowling ball into pins.