PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Household | 9.1.2010 | Comments (1)

Missing socks in the laundry.
I have an ever-growing section of my sock drawer devoted to single socks that have lost their mates in unsolved laundry mysteries. It's as if the missing socks will magically reappear one day when I dump out my laundry bag onto the bed and be reunited with their long-lost friends. Where are these socks going? Do they always go missing singly, or sometimes in unnoticed pairs? What the hell is going on in the laundry?

— CC from new york city | Household | 2.5.2010 | Comments (0)

Plastic masquerading as metal
When I buy something that looks like chromed metal, I tend to assume that it is indeed metal. Then I get home and find it's just flimsy plastic painted silver. If you're gonna make things out of plastic, can't they just be plastic? What makes it even worse is when you clean it and the silver paint starts to rub off.

— Bryony from London | Household | 12.27.2009 | Comments (1)

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment.
Especially when they have pets, so there's always cat/dog hair all over the floor anyway - are my shoes really going to make your place THAT much dirtier?

— M. from Boston, MA | Household | 3.14.2010 | Comments (9)

When two light switches control the same light, but one must be off and the other on for the light switch to work.

— Ben from Batavia, Illinois | Household | 12.8.2009 | Comments (2)

Houseguests who are completely unable to fend for themselves.
One person was so timid and weird about things that she would not open the refrigerator, even in front of me, even when I told her to go ahead and help herself. Another made me accompany him to our local subway stop despite my having given the clear instructions "Take a right out the door and walk three blocks, you will see it immediately" -- he cited a fear of getting lost because he was "not so used to New York yet".

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Household | 9.12.2009 | Comments (2)

When you get close enough to the end of the aluminum foil that the tube pops out of the box when you pull.
There's like 4 and a half feet just hanging there and it never rolls back up smoothly and it's too much to just throw away.

— Kerrin from Boston, MA | Household | 8.21.2009 | Comments (0)

Cheap blinds.
When only one side goes up, and it spreads out like a fan. Or when you have to pull at the string forever to get them level at the bottom and the top half folds up and the bottom half folds down.

— Carmen from Austria | Household | 7.18.2009 | Comments (1)

Trying to open an overstuffed drawer when its unseen contents keep pulling open the drawer above.
Especially when the contents turn out to be plastic grocery bags that someone has been hoarding for years, or old socks that no one uses.

— Carmen from Austria | Household | 7.4.2009 | Comments (0)

Dishes, silverware, etc. being left in the drying rack that have been dry for days.

— CC from new york city | Household | 1.23.2010 | Comments (0)

snapping the top down on the dish washing liquid
why would you ever snap the top down? it just means you have to snap it up every single time you use it. soap is thick, it does not pour out even on the off chance it falls over. i consider this snapping up down action OCD.

— rebecca from brooklyn | Household | 9.9.2009 | Comments (2)

People who put ketchup in the refrigerator.
Ketchup does not belong in the refrigerator. First, it does not spoil. Second, nice hot food with ice cold ketchup on it sucks. Restaurants have room temperature ketchup.

— jerry t. from tampa,florida | Household | 9.11.2009 | Comments (21)

When handsoap is diluted with water
If times are so tough that you must sacrifice cleanliness for thriftiness, then maybe you should be using bar soap.

— Vagina Jones from Aberdeen, washington | Household | 6.25.2009 | Comments (2)

When the battery compartments of regular household objects require a screwdriver to access
I get it if it's a kids' toy and you don't want little Timmy to remove the Duracell from Teddy Ruxpin and start sucking on it. But why the additional safety measures on my clock radio?

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Household | 12.18.2008 | Comments (0)

Household items that come on a roll: when the end is elusive.
Tape, toilet paper, saran wrap, sometimes thread. Oh the precious time I've wasted twirling these things round and round looking and feeling for the useable end.

— Hairnette Funicello from malibu | Household | 10.7.2008 | Comments (1)

Precariously hung refrigerator decoration.
Postcards and pictures suspended on the face of the refrigerator by the merest magnetic power so that the slightest touch disengages them and unleashes a chain reaction of other postcards, all fluttering at your feet when all you wanted to do was see if your friend had anything you could eat while you waited for him to finish talking on the phone.

— Leonard Loeb from Utica, NY | Household | 11.12.2008 | Comments (4)

Stickers on fruits

— Jan from Uppsala, Sweden | Household | 2.21.2009 | Comments (9)

When people label things as theirs with a sharpie that should otherwise be community, or they shouldn't care as much. This goes hand-in-hand with not sharing and being selfish.
In a shared household environment, labeling your food/beverage products that totally should be for everyone, is rude. Rude rude rude! YOU can use anything of MINE whenever you want. Everyone else shares everything and no one cares, but you. You hoard your own food and label it. I don't care if you bought it with your own money, if I let you eat as much of my food and drink as much of my drinks as you like, you should be equally generous and stop having problems.

— hatsukoi shoujo from Massachusetts | Household | 2.28.2009 | Comments (9)

Alarm makers insisting on creating an annoying tone instead of a pleasant one.
Maybe a beautiful alarm noise would encourage us to become conscious once again.

— Biffy from Brooklyn | Household | 10.8.2009 | Comments (6)

Electronic items which lack a switch, and therefore must be unplugged to be turned off.

— Biffy from Brooklyn | Household | 11.18.2009 | Comments (4)

Do you mind if I use your bathroom?
As a guest in my home, should you even have to ask this? What am I going to say? No? "Take it outside, please."

— Lauren from California | Household | 6.19.2009 | Comments (4)

When I tell someone I have huge cockroaches, describe some revolting scenario involving huge cockroaches, and they say "oh, you mean PALMETTO BUGS" as if that makes the situation not revolting.

— Sarah Bryant from Tuscaloosa, AL | Household | 4.1.2009 | Comments (4)

Strangers who tell me to smile because "it can't be that bad" or because I'm too pretty not to. » I'm a female with a long face. I *cannot* smile on command. And my normal expression is not a smile either. It's not my fault you feel uncomfortable. – 9/5

Being obnoxiously wide on public transportation. » You never know when someone is actually needs the space. Some people could be suffering from something not visible to the naked eye. Like if someone blocks off the seat next the them, they could be having impending diarrhea cramps and really not want to deal with someone sitting so close next to them. That being said, I KNOW that some people just feel entitled to a huge amount of space and that pisses me off so much, since I am so anal about taking up a fair amount of room. – 9/5

When you are driving and the person in shotgun holds on to the door or the dash or fucking tries to press their foot down on an invisible brake as if I don't know what I'm doing or how fast I'm driving. » It's totally instinctual for me. I wish I could stop. The "holy shit" handle holding is not quite a reflex. I am not passive aggressive about it, I usually tell the person their driving scares me as well. – 9/5

People who deliberately pronounce words incorrectly and repeatedly. » I greatly dislike when people pronounce 'shrimp' as 'scrimps' or 'strawberries' as 'scrawberries'. Come on! I've never heard that before. odd. – 9/5

Escalator as ride. » Yea I have no problem if they just keep to the right. – 9/5

People saying "we got the memo?" (or such) when two or more people are wearing similar outfits or colors. » I'd never heard that before. I think it's cute. – 9/5

02.11.10

Send in your mobile phone pet peeves for the week of February 15th! Perhaps the simplest and most common generator of peeves, the mobile phone prods and pricks us in all places, public and private. With skull phones just around the corner, it’s likely these peeves will soon become irrelevant—so let’s spray them across the galaxy while we still can.

01.18.10

For the next week or so, the pictures for peeves will be of Peeve Pile’s national spokesperson, Rob Grace, and his special person, Shana, enacting various peeves. Please feel free to make such pictures yourself. Just include a link to them when submitting a peeve.

01.02.10

Hello. I’ve added a voting feature, so you can vote as you assume that you would – just click on a one-to-five star rating (it will tell you your vote has been recorded); five indicating that you completely agree with, or find the peeve amusing, one meaning the opposite.

Once a bunch of ratings are in, I’ll add a worst, and best rated area to the right column.