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What are the little things that just piss you off?

For me its sentences ending in prepositions, drivers on cell phones, political correctness and/or people who are too sensitive about things people say.

bigwhoop

People who wait until the last possible moment to pull onto the interstate from the ramp, and who do so slowly.

thefictionweliv

My pet peeves are double negatives, political correctness, people who drive less than the speed limit, gulping anything, the spanish word "chongo", and people who make excessive slurping noises while eating spaghetti.

Dwayne

People who use double negatives that arn't realy words. People who think they own the road. And People who drive while talking on their cell phones.

pattycakes

people who explaine every thought that they have when you dont care why they are doing something

xxSquirtxx

Loud eating and drinking. (Wasn't there just a thread about this? I could be confused easily, though.)

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darkness1162

my biggest pet peeve- when people say things like, "I don't mean to be a racist, but I just don't like black people." Or, "not to be rude, but your nose is really big and you're ugly."

I mean, it's horrendous. As if starting a statement with a denial makes the statement less inflammatory.

Super_Mole

My list of pet peeves is a mile long but here's a sample:

1. Annoying, loud, and spoiled kids (and their ignorant parents).
2. People who park on the road in front of their house when they have a huge, completely clear driveway.
3. People who don't say please or thank you.
4. Guys who walk like they have biceps and chest muscles the size of redwood tree-trunks.
5. Well you get the point...

nottwood

People with more money than me.

boredom

people who merge and in the middle of going from one lane to another they then put on their blinkers.

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Rdr4evr

People who kiss ass.

ProdigyWill

racists, drivers on cell-phones, people who talk insanely slow without ever making a point

present_future

People who put $3000 sound systems into a $500 car.

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The Magic

Anal people. People who are illogically paranoid and always think something bad will happen.

macsmith230

I dislike cell phones in general. I admit, I own one, and I use it maybe 1-2 times a week, and I always try to go somewhere private to use it, but when you see (and hear) people on their phones all the time and some of the inane conversations they're having, it just bugs me to death. Some of the specific cell phone uses I hate:

People driving and talking on cell phones
People driving and talking on cell phones at 6.30 in the morning. I mean, who gets up that early first of all, and secondly, why are there other people that are willing to talk on the phone with them so early? What are they talking about, what they had for breakfast? How they slept?
People that turn on their cell phones the second an airplane's landing gear touches the tarmac. Ok, so you need to let your ride know you've arrived, fine. If it's for another reason, just wait a few minutes until you get into the terminal.
The guy at Blockbuster that called at least 4 people while in line to rent a movie that told every one of those people that he had lost 5 pounds on his new diet (honestly, you would never have guessed), and also told those people that he was in line at Blockbuster and so everybody else in the line (it was a very long one) got to hear him relate the same information 4 times in a row.
People on cell phones in restaurants.
People with those Star Trek-like headsets.

Sorry, I didn't realize what a problem I have. I'm going to go take a Valium now.

warrrreagl

You're right; there are a lot of threads about this. And that leads to a pet peeve of mine; a SEARCH tool that gathers dust.

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=66904

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=890

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=26249

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Sawfmonkey

I have a pet peeve for petty fights. At least fight about something that will come to a stinking conclusion and had reason beforehand for the argument!

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Glory's Sun

yup.. this is a pet peeve of mine also

Menoman

People who are constantly talking about their cock, and how big it may be.

Drives me nuts (no pun!)

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Dingo2879

People who use the word "actually" all the time
People who start a sentence off by saying, "you don't understand"
People who are voting for Kerry this election and have no idea what he stands for

xepherys

Dingo,

You don't undserstand... actually, Kerry is great because he's not Bush.


okay, sorry, I had to... :-p

ShaniFaye

this is getting to be a BIG pet peeve of mine on any board Im on....

people who dont realize that there are people who are dyslexic, and that those people post on message boards (and yes it happens here on TFP too), and those people get dogged by spelling and puncutation nazi's....there is not much more I dislike than reading thru a thread that I KNOW was written by a dyslexic...and yes there are people like that here....and seeing someone make a post that says something only to make the point that the poster didnt use puncuation...

My Dave is dyslexic and its EXTREMELY frustrating for him to post on a board and have people who just dont understand completely pick apart his posts....

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tropple

Cell phone users in general.
People who shuffle their feet (scuff their heels/tools) when walking.
People who whistle while standing in line.

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mmiller0617

When people pick the polish off of their nails and that high pitches irritating sound it makes.
Being touched on my skull. Drives me batty. Not sure why but you will get hit if it happens.

aberkok

People who don't listen. You can usually tell someone isn't listening during an argument when their train of thought is NEVER disrupted by any input you have (if you can get a word in sideways to begin with).

I actually believe that 95% of the world's problems would be solved if people just listened.

Listen to me goddammit!!

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dksuddeth

pulling a dish from the cupboard only to find that its not clean.

jalora

People that roll their eyes at me when I'm talking. It makes me want to rip their fucking throat out.

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chance

fake people
slow drivers
rude and mean people
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smacking while eating

HockeyGuy

People who chew with their mouths open, people who don't buckle up their children in their cars (do what you want but the kids should be safe!), people who don't indicate while driving... giveme time and the list could go on for a while i'm sure!

byesman

One of my biggest is when you are driving down interstate, passing a car, and a really annoying car comes out of nowhere, gets behind you, and starts flashing their brights so you will pull over to let them go by. First of all, I'm already going above the speed limit (by 5 mph or so) so I'm not speeding up to let you around me when there may be a trooper sitting around the turn, and secondly, if you are in that big of a hurry, leave earlier. If you are in a medical emergency, thats why we have ambulances.

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DJLaurieB

Ok in no particular order:

1. Parents who think their children can do no wrong, and don't expect them to take responsibility for anything. (can you tell I'm a teacher?)
2. The assholes in traffic who KNOW a lane is closing and everyone has formed this nice little polite line, and they speed up past the line to the merge point and nudge their way in.
3. Every last one of the morning radio DJ's in the DC metro area - good GOD I guess brains aren't required of that job around here.
4. People who get toooooooooo drunk toooooooo often and use that as an excuse for their constant assholish behavior.
5. Those damn "can you hear me now? GOOD!" commercials.

I think that covers the big ones.

hunnychile

People who keep posting old threads. (Like this one...been there, wrote it, it's done.)

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ncgti

1. People who don't use their turn signals
2. Folks who talk when their mouth is full
3. Parents who kowtow to their "precious little" children and give in to their every whim and whine

lurkette

This is a small thing, but I am annoyed about it nonetheless.

Those stupid oval stickers with a few letters on the backs of people's cars, most of which make no obvious sense whatsoever. It started a few years ago around here when people from Europe came back with their cars and had the oval country marker stickers and now there's an oval sticker for just damn everything. Bugs me.

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pinkie

When you go to a diner and the water glass tastes like egg!

Toothpaste splattered on the bathroom mirror

Anti marijuana ads

Tailgaters, and heavy breakers

Terrible, terrible music

Loud, rude, drunkenness

Smelly burps

When the toilet paper roll is on backwards

Dirty ashtrays

The drunken guy at the party that takes control of the music even though it’s not his house. (Except for my friend Ian)

Militant evangelists

Political bumper stickers (Bumper stickers in general)

The cat food bowl on the kitchen floor (I always end up kicking it if it’s there)

Cats sleeping on our car

Long hard knockers (You know like when it sounds like a raid or something?)

Trash on the ground

People that have enough nerve to come to your door, and ask you for a cigarette

Cigarette smoke

Pessimists

william

Drivers who can't see motorcycles (some as big as cars).
Any driver doing anything but driving.
Drivers who ignore pedestrians when they have the right to cross.

denim

Nosy people. People who ask questions which could be considered "nosy". People who don't understand that "freedom" includes the right to offend, to disagree, to be different. Companies which require the social security number, and employees of same who refer to it as my "social". Extreamists. Peopl woo kan't spell simpl wurdz and dont seem to understand apostrophe's and woo dont' understand basic sentence structure and woo do'nt get basic punctuation and grammar even though they supposedly gradutated the sixth grade and then complain when people get upset with them because they can't communicate worth spit.

inharmony

Arrogant people. Rude people. Crust that forms on your toothpaste cap. eww

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macsmith230

The woman I work with who says, "I seen" instead of "I saw". C'mon, you're 24 years old, you've never heard another human being say 'seen' instead of 'saw', so why do you insist on doing so? This is a huge pet peeve I live with 5 days a week.