Since it's National Pet Peeve Week I want to know: what gets under your skin? (Hopefully, it's not commemorative weeks for random things like pet peeves!) I'll start you off with some of mine.
- Emails that lack proper grammar and capitalization.
- Friends who take long cell phone calls while we're hanging out.
- Corner markets that charge me $.25 to use my credit card.
- Getting my meal at a restaurant after everyone else has already eaten theirs!
- People who stand in front of the bus entrance, making me have to force my way through them.
- Fingernail clipping in public.
- The airport security liquids rule.
- Cable personalities who make mundane stories sound like the end of the world.
- People who eat stinky food in tight quarters.
Pheeww! I feel better. Now tell me yours.
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Definitely agree with you on:
-the emails
-friends taking calls
-getting charged for charging
-airport rules
And my own pet peeves:
-when people get into the elevator before letting the people who are already on it step out
-when people are very opinionated on things that they know nothing about
-people that do not know how to park aka being crooked or over the line or the WORST taking up TWO spaces!!
-chewing loudly
-when people dont know how to walk in public places and you are almost running into them!
There are probably so many more but thats all for now!
1There are tons, but I'll list a few.
- When I'm hanging out with someone, and they're constantly texting or talking on the phone. It especially bothers me if I'm with my boyfriend, and his friends are constantly nagging him to go hang out.
- When someone pushes in on my chair instead of saying, "Excuse me, could you scoot in?" This doesn't happen much anymore, but the teachers used to do that a lot when I was in school. I HATED it.
- The sound of fingernail/toenail clipping.
- When I'm at work, and the supervisor brings something else over for me to do first. I hate stopping in the middle of something and having to resume it later.
- When my mom is yelling/nitpicking about something. She does it in a specific tone of voice that I cannot stand. It makes me want to rip her voice box out.
2People who don't know how to drive.
3People who are constantly on the phone in their car & are not paying attention to the road.
People who talk on their cell phone while on the gym equipment for LONG periods of time.
People who act fake.
The cost of EVERYTHING going up up up every day.
That lettuce has almost no calories, but chocolate has a ton.
Oh I could go on!
-Anonymous internet comments
-Guys who call you a b*tch or stuck up because you don't want to talk to them when you're on the bus, but you really don't want to talk to them because they are creepy and weird
-People who "keep it real" and "call you out" when they're actually just being rude and imposing their own personal opinion as fact
4People who don't signal when changing lanes or turning.
5People who talk/text on cell phones while driving
People who smack their lips when they eat
People who leave dishes on the table instead of putting them in the sink
People who park so close to my car that I have to climb in through the passenger side.
People who talk to me while I have my headphones on, then get mad when I don't notice them talking.
-folks who double park
6-rude salespeople
-any customer service rep
-people who are faux interested
I agree with most of those. My biggest pet peeve is when people spit on the ground on public. It's gross and unnecessary.
7-Iceberg lettuce. I think my most hated thing in life might be when restaurants only offer salads with iceberg lettuce.
- when price tags on clothes are discounted, then the cashier tells you the discount is a mistake and insists on charging full price.
- trying to decide on a restaurant when eating out with friends who insist they "hate" broad categories of food desite never having tried them
-people who misuse the term "socialist"
-when people at the gym are blatantly looking around and comparing themselves to everyone else
-when people go overboard using Rachel Zoe-esque slang terms (obvi!)
8I'm with you on some of those peeves! Here's mine:
*Your is not you're!
*This is n0t e4zy sp33king. Write/type properly. You ARE talking with someone who got her degree in English, after all.
*Gossip, gossip, gossip, gossip, which brings out the drama llamas all over the place. I get so much gossping going around with my friends that I'm sick of it. I do however, like the llamas. Just not the drama kind.
*I AM NOT DATING THIS/THAT/THIS GUY! I'm friends with them. Can't I be friends without dating?!
***On an added note, stop trying to fix me up.
*After a period of time that you've known me....you'd know I really, honestly, DON'T care about inapporiate pictures being posted on Facebook if I'm not in them or anything similar to those shenanigans. Their business, their lives. It doesn't affect me. So don't try to get me to agree with you that it's inapporiate and it should be taken down!
*Don't be so clingy. We're friends, yes, but we are not BFFs or attached to each other like conjoined twins. Give me my space, please. And don't get butthurt about it.
*Don't get mad at me if I choose to hang out with other people and not you. There's a reason why I hang out with them and not you sometimes....
*Don't try to have converstations with me via texting....I don't like that. Texting is meant to be short messages, not a letter format of our conversations. Save the big stuff for when we meet up, 'kay?
Ok, more generic:
*People who say they're sorry that I'm deaf. I just retort with a "I'm sorry you CAN hear."
*People who assume that I can't do this or that becuase I can't hear.
*People who tailgate me. Give me space, idiots! You rearend me, I WILL make sure that your rates go up. It's your fault for being stupid.
*Slow drivers to the right, please! Don't be slowing down traffic all over the place just 'cause you feel like we should drive 10+ below the speed limit.
*Truck drivers, learn to PARK. If my brother can park his 1 ton Dodge Ram (It's HUGE, runs on diesel) backwards properly without being over the lines, so can you with your puny little trucks.
*Don't tell me I'll change my mind about becoming pregnant! I've said I don't want kids since I was 13, what makes you think I'll magically change my mind after 13 years?
Phew. I feel better.
9- friends taking calls while with you
10- slow/clueless walkers on sidewalks
- people who dig dirt from under their fingernails with their teeth (vomit)
- people who reply to a text message I send with "k"
ahh cut of the rest of my list
- elevator rudeness (same goes for the subway)
11- your/you're misuse (also they're/there/their)
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one with driving/driver issues.!!!
12Improper grammar/spelling, particularly when it's intentional
People who text and/or call others excessively when I'm with them
People who are constantly trying to impress others
Poor etiquette on public transportation
The phrase "butt hurt"
This is much more specific, but I volunteer for a crisis hotline and recently people have been signing up for shifts then e-mailing the day of or the day before to see if someone else can cover them because something came up. It is starting to become extremely annoying and is climbing up the list and about to be my #1 pet peeve.
And, my specific Sugar pet peeve is when people say, "easy" or, "easy peasy" on Guess Who's, etc. It just bugs me.
13I have a millions pet peeves...
morons who don't know how to walk (aka slow walkers, people who walk in the middle of the sidewalk preventing people from passing, people who don't know how to use umbrellas & walk at the same time)
people who stand in front of an elevator door about to open/subway door and block it so people can't get out
drivers who wave on pedestrians when there is another lane of traffic
people who talk loudly on their cell phones
when people get off an escalator extremely slow so it then almost causes people right behind them to fall
when people talk in the "baby" voice
people who run late constantly
14Things I've noticed I can't stand from work:
- people who decide to leave a mess on the table (this includes their coffee cup, muffin wrapper, stir stick, straw, etc) when they were sitting literally 5 feet away from a garbage can
- stuck up, snobby, rude people
- ridiculously impatient people (banging on the drive-thru window when we have a rush, umm rude much?)
- being told a thousand times how to do something because I made one mistake
- being blown off by someone who feels the need to dish to me about every little thing in their life
In general:
- slow drivers
- people who wait till the last second to signal to make a turn
- being asked to sign up for a store credit card more than once after I've already politely declined
- ignorant people
I totally agree on the friends fixing me up one! It's even worse when you turn out to not like the guy and your friend tries to convince you to like him.
15haha lilkim, I agree with the "easy" one. You got it, great. We don't care that it was easy for you!
16One of mine is when people order salad dressing on the side of their salad and then proceed to simply dump it all over the salad. Couldn't you let the cook do the same thing?
Changing lanes and excessively late blinker usage annoys me too. If you've already gone halfway across the road for your left hand turn, the blinker is a little useless at this point.
I have a ton of driver peeves, but I'm not going to get into them here. The list would be a bit excessive.
The elevator thing makes me crazy too. My mother always yelled at us as kids to stand to the side so people could get off first. Now whenever I go to get off and there's a pack of people standing in the way I want to yell that they're all rude and should move.
17Can't stand it when people clip their nails in public, especially on public transportation!! I also freak out when the person in front of me on an escalator STOPS right at the top and me and everyone behinds me trips. And people who create Facebook/MySpace drama!!
18My biggest pet peeve is definitely non-compact cars in compact parking spaces. My old car was tiny, and fit great in compact spots. But after multiple times of having to get in my car through the passenger door, I finally lost it when I had to CRAWL THROUGH MY HATCHBACK to get into my car. People, your Suburbans and Escalades are NOT COMPACT. Ugh.
19My other pet peeve is people dressed inappropriately for the weather. An example that comes up most often here (Oregon) is sweatshirts and short shorts, with Ugg boots. Seriously, just put on pants!
lol there is a lot of anger here...
Reading these, I can only imagine how many I'm guilty of committing.
Probably all the driving ones...I tend to drive based on my mood, usually very fast, impatient, and quick signals, but there are the occasional deep in thought, below the speed limit moments.
My pet peeves are people who say "sure" they will do something, but then just sit there, and either u seem like a jerk for telling them to do it already, or u have to wait endlessly until they feel like getting up.
And...I really hate unnecessary grammar police, I have a degree in English, but not every forum calls for perfect grammar rules, sometimes the people pointing out all the errors are more irritating than the mistakes/lingo.
Finally, I agree with the customer reps/cashiers comment - HATE all of them. I once had a cashier pull apart my item, open the box, broke all the seals because she was sure there was a different price tag somewhere else, like inside on the darn pans! I just let her make a fool out of herself since I knew she wouldn't find anything else.
20My pet peeves include:
- Bikers who stay in the middle (or too close to the middle) of a driving lane, going 20 mph slower than the posted speed. I also dislike "biking lanes", where people on their bikes ride directly next to cars. For me, this only becomes problematic if they veer too close (and I freak out about not wanting to kill them) or they just cut me off completely, as if I am not driving a 1,000 lb piece of steel.
- People who do not use their turn signals at all, or at the wrong times.
- Each time one student of mine learns a new word, he starts using it all the time, mostly incorrectly, and does it just to be impressive to myself, and of course his fellow classmates. The worst is when he rants about how "incompetent" the other students are if they do not know the definition of the word he is using -- especially if it was a word I said in class and they have forgotten the definition of. Honestly, is "sagacity" really worth throwing a fit?
- People who send 10 texts in a row when you could have easily (and quickly) said all you needed to say in one or two text messages.
I have many more pet peeves, ranging from people saying they hate something when they have never tried it, to people who bump into you 12 times at a concert and never say "I'm sorry".
21I have been on the other side of the cashier/customer reps hatred, and one of my biggest pet peeves if people who come in with an attitude. I have had many problems with cashiers in the past, but I don't let it affect the way I interact with cashiers now.
22@ Limelindsey: I'm with you on the sweatshirt, booty-short, Ugg combo. Seriously, are you cold or not?!
-Hate when I'm watching a movie with people and they either ask what is going to happen next every five minutes or they try and guess (example: Oh, I bet his going to shoot, her, just watch, I bet he's going to do it!")
-HATE people who complain their food bill or vet bill is too high, but don't think twice about dropping like $500 on silly electric devices or $5 on a daily latte habit.
-Women who let grown-*ss kids ride in strollers (seriously, I've seen 8-10 yr olds still in strollers holding their feet up so they don't drag)
-People who don't stop at stop signs. The sign says STOP not roll through!
-Women that complain on end they are getting fat, refuse to eat but then want to go to Starbucks for a grande mocha-nightmare with chocolate and whip or frozen margaritas. ugh.
-People that let little dogs get away with stuff they would never ever allow if bigger dogs (like snapping, jumping, aggressive behavior. "Oh look, isn't he cute? He thinks he's a big scarwy doggie, yes he does!")
23Definitely agree with a lot of those including the shorts or skirts with boots in snow, slow drivers need to be in the right lane, and friends on the phone while hanging out etc.
My list also includes:
24-People who seem the need to constantly ask WHY i'm single. Usually people ask if I have a boyfriend, when they find out I don't, they have to know why. What do you mean why? What kind of answer are these people looking for, i find it plain rude. Then they feel like they have to set you up with someone they know, like it's not okay to be single.
-Close minded people. Just because you don't agree doesn't mean it's wrong. Or people unwilling to try new food, or food from different cultures. You don't know you don't like it unless you've tried it.
-Finally... Lack of common sense!
Since others have eloquently described a lot of my pet peeves, I will focus on this one group in particular. Any and all eating noises, including the chomping/smacking of gum and slurping of coffee make me want to loose my ever loving MIND!!! If you cannot eat quietly, you either need a decongestant or you need to rethink your mastication technique. Oh, and let's not forget the "slurping every last molecule of flavor off my finger like a two dollar hooker who hasn't eaten in a week." ARGH! No eating noises!!! And get your damn elbows off the table! Act your species! I can handle a lot of stuff, but the lack of table manners just sends my blood pressure into orbit.
(If there is a medical reason beyond your control, then obviously compassion and tolerance will be shown. Otherwise, I will fantasize about smacking you about the head with one and only one blunt object.)
I feel better now. I really hate eating noises.
25Smacks83- I completely agree about the grown a** kids in strollers, what is with that?
And kids on leashes, i don't get that either. Why don't you teach your kids how to behave instead of tying them to a rope like an animal? Ugh people!
26Agreed Kim, i've seen a lot of people talk to cashiers in a very rude way...as if the cashier is their servant!
I try to never, ever act that way, but when some of them get a bit ridiculous, I think they more than deserve the eye rolling and the occasional sarcastic "thank you for the great customer service"!
27Chrstne, where, exactly, would you like us to ride? I understand getting jumpy with cyclists - I do too, when I'm driving - but I would like to think (hope?) that most of us ride curteously.
Peeves include:
281. women who are 100% defined by their children. get a hobby.
2. Sugar pet peeve: ANONYMOUS USERS. gah, grow a pair and stop hiding. it's the freaking internet, we can't see you anyhow.
3. 50 mph in the left lane.
4. the dbags at my gym
When people park too close to me I write a not saying "learn how to park *sshole!" and put it under their windshield wiper... Idk if they even care, but it makes me feel better.
- Slow drivers (especially when they sit in the left lane)
- People who put their hazards on when it's raining heavily... ITS FOR EMERGENCY STOPPING ONLY DUMBASSES!! (that might only be a Miami thing though, because I haven't seen it anywhere else.
- People who eat too slow... You don't have to wait a full minute before bites.
- Rachel Ray and Tyra Banks
- People who are willing to take the swine flu vaccine.... Swine flu just happened not too long ago, this vaccine's been around for like a month... What's wrong with you people? At least pay people for being test dummies.
- People who don't wear deodorant... and then they're convinced they don't stink... FYI, YOU STINK!
- People who take their shoes off in restaurants.
There's a bunch more, but this was all I could think of right off the bat.
29As a pedestrian, I cannot count the number of problems I've had with cyclists! The crappy thing is that it's a few bad apples who ruin the whole bunch. I see multiple respectful cyclists every day, but I also see at least one every day who just refuses to obey the rules of the road.
30Zeze, I totally understand; I can't help but be a little snippy when I get bad customer service! It's especially bothersome when the people are actually rude and not just clueless! (Although, the clueless people are annoying after a while, too. I just try harder to remain patient with them, particularly because sometimes it's the fault of a manager, etc.)
31I really hate having my senses violated. Any kind of food sounds drive me nuts (i.e. scraping your plate, smacking, hearing the silverware hit teeth, popcorn and nachos in a movie theater), smelly food or perfume, crying/out of control kids in public. I consider myself very sensitive and my senses get overloaded easily. It stressed me to even think about these pet peeves.
32It makes me crazy when I'm around people who are listening to music so loud that I can hear it through their headphones.
33The fingernail clipping in public drives me batty, especially on public transit, when you can't run away. I've also seen people FLOSS on public transit. That is even worse.
34runningesq, the bike lanes here seem to be very poorly placed because they are on roads where the speed limit is 45-50 miles per hour depending on where you are. It would make more sense on a road where the speed limit is reasonable like 25 mph, but on a 50 mph road, riding next to and swerving into the lanes of drivers is totally unsafe for everyone. You don't allow bikers on highways, so to me, it's still unreasonable to allow them on roads with such high speed limits. I don't think they are trying to be rude, but I do think some people (esp those with headphones on) tend to forget that not paying attention will get you killed.
I remembered another pet peeve I have! My boyfriend goes to take a shower and shave every morning, it sounds easy enough, but what does he do? He gets out of the shower, dripping wet, water running. He stands at the mirror dripping wet and shaving, and then goes back into the shower to wash off again. He then gets out of the shower, then turns the water off and starts prepping for his day. When he is out, the floor mats and the floor in general is soaked. Three towels are completely drenched, not from drying his body, but from drying the puddles on the floor and counter. And, on top of it, I am the one who has to deal with the dripping, soggy mess. Couldn't he just shower, turn off the water, let himself drip for a second (I do this all the time, maybe that is just me), then wrap a towel around himself or at least dry himself off and then start shaving?
35Music and the bass so loud it vibrates my car in traffic. Bad drivers. People who are late constantly. Children who ruin my dinner because their parents don't make them act appropriate in public. People with meaningless conversation. People who don't keep the door open while I'm close to walking in the door. People well over the express lane number of items and buy a treadmill also. This has happened to me. I agree with Smacks83 half grown kids need to be walking. I hate to see kids still being pushed by parents in carts and strollers. My SO is guilty of this with his daughter. I've said something so I refuse to be see with them now.
36Chrstne: they have anti-fog mirrors you can put up in the showers with suction cups. Make him shave right in there!
37Chrstne: good point... and you brought up another of my pet peeves
--- cyclists who
wear headphones, don't wear helmets, don't follow the rules of the road.
38- The trucks that try and run me over almost every time I venture outside my dorm (it's AT LEAST once a week).
39- Drivers who SPEED UP when they see a pedestrian in the middle of the crosswalk, as if they are trying to shoot through before the pedestrian walks another step.
- Police officers who think that responding to college students with cans of beer is worth nearly killing the students in the cross walk.
- Pedestrians who think a SOLID red hand means "walk" and then complain about almost getting hit by a BUS for the 3RD time.
- People who can't bother to use proper grammar and spelling "because it's the internet".
- People who hang out in large groups in doorways and act like they've been assaulted when you ask if they could please move.
- Cyclists who think they own the road and/or sidewalk and think it's therefore ok to play chicken with cars and run over pedestrians.
- Windows Vista's Networking center, when my computer can't find the campus network it's plugged into and gives me a bunch of bogus network names and no internet.
- When I'm playing WoW and someone comes up and steals my mob/node, and gankers who kill characters severely less powerful than them (which they get no honor for) just to make someone's day worse.
- People in general.
I agree, Kim. I hate it when people are rude to cashiers, restaurant workers, etc. My cashier comment was directed towards an experience I had last weekend when I bought a running shirt that was originally $25, marked down to $17.50. When it rang as being full price, I (politely) pointed out that it was actually on sale. The cashier said she would have to talk to her manager, then came back a second later and accused me (in front of other customers!!) of altering the price myself! It was unbelievable!
40People who constantly text other people while you're with them
When cashiers place the bills and receipt in your hand first and then the coins on top.
People who push their way onto the bus without letting people off first.
People who aren't smart with their money.
Teens and immature adults who talk on the bus like they're the only ones on it.
Walking into a clothing store and having all the sales associates hound you while you look around.
When closed-minded people open their mouth.
Parents who don't discipline their children or teach them responsibility.
My sister's negativity/pessimism.
Taxi drivers who don't know how to get to the address you are going to!
I could go on and on..
41— people that are late
42— other people's hair touching me
— when someone takes your plate at a restaurant when there are other people at the table still eating
— too much perfume
— slow responders to e-mail/text
Socks that don't match each other
43no responses to emails
people who stand right in front of an entry way or in the middle of the sidewalk
bad spelling
Bad spelling on Facebook updates! I seriously want to correct some of my friends' updates for them!
Walking diagonally across the parking lot, because it takes up a lot of time. Just walk across in a straight line so that the people driving can get across!
Rudeness to service employees! I have a friend that I refuse to eat out with because she's such a b**** to waiters, I'm afraid I'll have my food spit in because of her!
44Agree with most of these, but the one that made me laugh that I totally agree with is the "butt hurt" phrase. HOW did that start and can we please get rid of it!
45- people chewing loudly
46- people who snore really loud on an airplane
- someone who doesnt like it when you tap to the rhythm to a song that is playing
-People that bring bags too large for carry-on onto the plane and hog all of the space. They always pretend like they didn't realize it was too big when the flight attendant comes and helps them...pisses me off
-Dog people who put their bags of dog sh!t into my garbage can AFTER it has been emptied on garbage day
-People who talk to their kids while you are speaking to them on the phone....this is HUGE for me...if you don't have time to talk because your kid is your whole life, call me when he isn't
Many, many more, but these will do for now.
47Spelling mistakes, definitely. People who throw papers or rubbish in the street, people who speak too loud on their cell phones inside buses/ trains/subway, people who allow cellphones and phones to ring endlessly, people who chew loudly, people who listen to music so loudly that I can´t hear the music in my own headphones inside a bus, crowded buses which means I have to make the long journey back home standing up. Those are only some of them.
48Another one: when people inside the bus/subway use their cellphones as speakers and everyone has to forcibly listen to their crappy music of choice.
49It hardly ever rains here in SoCal but it did today and it reminded me of another pet peeve.
People who drive like maniacs when it is pouring rain, then start honking at people who are being careful.
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