PEEVES of LATE ››
December 15th,2011
Men who always claim their phone died.
Seriously the minute my phone dies I charge it. It shouldn't take a dude three days to do so and call me back. Just broke up with someone for doing this shit.
Charge your phone and call people back and you won't get dumped.
— Avangelis from Denver, CO | Relationships | 12.15.2011 | Comments (1)
September 13th,2011
People who recline their airline seats as far as possible for an entire flight.
My kids and I sat behind a couple and their child for an entire 8 hour transatlantic flight yesterday. It was a daylight flight, not overnight. They reclined, practically into our laps, the entire time, even when they were sitting forward to eat, or getting up to go to the bathroom, etc.
— Katherine from Virginia | Travel | 9.13.2011 | Comments (1)
August 14th,2011
Leaving left over time on the microwave.
You heat something up in the microwave for a minute. You let the microwave run for 57 seconds. Is it too much to ask that you clear off the remaining 3 seconds?!
— Heather from Alabama | Kitchen | 8.14.2011 | Comments (0)
May 30th,2011
People on any type of competition style show who say "I'm not playing around. I'm here to win!"
Every time a contestant is interviewed they always feel the need to remind the viewer WHY they're on the show. Really? No shit. I kind of figured that out by the mere fact that you are a CONTESTANT!
— Jenn from KC, MO | Television | 5.30.2011 | Comments (1)
May 27th,2011
Pushing food onto your fork with your fingers.
Sure, there are foods we eat with our hands - sandwiches, pizza and the like - but if you have a fork in your hand, use a KNIFE to move food onto the fork, if the fork itself is not adequate. Would you go outside to shovel snow, lay down the shovel and use your hands to place snow on the shovel? No! Would you throw a bath towel on the floor and roll around on it to dry yourself off? No! Use the proper tool properly, otherwise, just scoop your food into your mouth and forget the fork, cuz that's basically what you're doing.
Besides being illogical, it's gross!
Also, bring the fork to your mouth, do not bring your face to the fork. You are not an animal at the trough. That kind of gobbling greed (in SUCH a hurry to eat you can't wait for the fork!) is effing disgusting.
Please and thank you.
— lids from boulder, co | Dining | 5.27.2011 | Comments (1)
May 26th,2011
People that add an "S" to store names that are not plural.
"I have to go to Wal Marts, you can buy that at Victoria's Secrets, I am on Nutri Systems".
— Jenn from KC, MO | Conversation | 5.26.2011 | Comments (2)
May 9th,2011
People who say "schedule" to sound like "shedule".
Why have they picked this word to pronounce that way?! How do they say "school"? Or "schooner"? "Scheme"? Or what about "schizophrenic"?!
— Kp from Ontario, Cabada | Conversation | 5.9.2011 | Comments (2)
ASSORTED PEEVES ››
Rancid dish sponge.
Ubiquitous in office kitchens. If you can smell it from across the room it's time to throw it away.
When the inconsiderate coffee drinker who made their hot beverage last gets coffee granules in the sugar pot
... which I don't have the time nor patience to pick out, thus polluting my cup of tea with domineering coffee taste whenever I add the formerly pure sugar.
Making coffee when the sink is full of dirty dishes.
a) It's really difficult to pour the old leftover coffee out of the pot without spilling it on the counter; and b) it's almost impossible to position the pot under the faucet. And it's even worse if it was your turn to wash the dishes the night before.
New co-workers asking if I like my new job.
People only ask this to make conversation with the new guy.
Real answer: "It's retail. I'd rather be neutering myself with a wooden spoon, but it beats dying broke."
That takes too long to say and might garner some strange looks, so I just say the answer that will shut them up the fastest: "yeah, it's not bad."
When office emailing conventions cause you to write in ways that make you lose respect for yourself.
Hi there, team!
Just a quick FYI about the upcoming PowerPoint seminar! I know that everyone is multi-tasking in anticipation of the holiday closing, but if you could just check in or touch base with me about any feedback you have on draft 168 of the accompanying 72pp report, that would be super!
:)
Diana
When you ask someone a yes or no question and they respond simply by saying "please."
When I am at my retail job and someone is buying a really small item (something that could very easily be carried) I always ask them if they need a bag (in the hopes that they won't and I can possibly limit the number of wasteful bags being dispensed). Upon asking the customer if they need a bag for their purchase and they look at me tartly and say "please" as if they had never even considered the option of not wasting a plastic bag.
People who opt to sit at a table RIGHT BESIDE YOU in an otherwise empty cafe.
I had to MOVE my stuff for her so she could get by, all the while looking incredulously at her. THE PLACE IS EMPTY. She clearly has no sense of personal space. UGH!
Snifflers
If you need to sniffle more than once or twice, you need to blow. Your co-workers, roommates, friends, etc do not want to listen to you sniffling over and over and over and over and over. Take a decongestant. If you're sick, stay home, away from others. If it's a nervous habit, investigate behavior modification, immediately.
Having to act completely surprised and utterly amazed by any and all gifts given to you in a public setting.
Oh my god! You got me something?! For my engagement?! What a surprise, here at my engagement party! Oh what a beautiful ceramic clown! One of a kind! We're going to build a special shrine for it and dedicate our entire living room to its splendor!
The phrase "mental hygiene".
I hate that this has become an accepted public health term. It always makes me think of this one graphic I saw in a teen health publication of someone flossing himself through the ears. The idea to be marketed here is practices that enforce being not-crazy, not mental images of cleaning the armpits of the mind. Please spare us.
When people say "ignorant" when they mean "rude."
When people say "supposably" instead of "supposedly"
Sure, I still know what they mean, but it bugs me nonetheless.
