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When somebody in your household constantly finishes the last of something and doesn't replace it.
E.g.: Ibuprofen so the next time you wake up at 2am with cramps there is none to be found. Because walking 45 minutes to the only 24 pharmacy in the city is something one would actually like to do at that hour. Everybody can forget to replace on occasion, what really gets me is the chronic type who tries to cover up their lazy disrespect by pretending it's all about you not "being chill" enough. These people find it perfectly acceptable to take total advantage of the fact that you make sure certain necessities don't run out. They use up the last of things all the time, but then don't bother replacing them because *THEY* "can deal" with not having the item for awhile. E.g.: They are fine with routinely finishing the milk but THEY are "totally able" to drink their coffee with or without milk for many days on end (even when they know you can't). These people also seem to have NO QUALMS about eating your specialty items, just the replacing part. Eventually you might even realize you are buying most of the food because they can "deal without having basic necessities" for extremely long periods of time, so what you thought was "sharing" is in fact them being a selfish asshole.

— laura from Helsinki | Roommates | 1.8.2010 | Comments (1)

Roommates who lock the door for you
Just because you're staying in doesn't mean you have to lock the door after me. When I go out, I have my own keys. Believe it or not, I'm fully capable of locking the door!

— kaykay from Canada | Roommates | 11.16.2009 | Comments (0)

when people complain about not having money and being broke yet still spend around $60 on their drug habit every few weeks.

— lean from cbus | Roommates | 12.7.2008 | Comments (1)

When you and your roommate both use universal household products (coffee, hand soap, toilet paper) but you buy the expensive version or large package, and the roommate uses the last of your contribution and "replaces" it with a far crappier one.
While I'm sure it was with much sweat-of-the-brow that you contributed that travel-sized envelope of instant coffee to the opulence of our home, if you ever again use the last of my Kona peaberry coffee and tell me you've "replaced" it with that shit while acting as though you deserve a special hat for your efforts, I will personally remove your internal organs with my teeth. This particularly irks me when the other roommate is noticeably more financially capable than I am: it's not like I have the money for a steady stream of luxury products, so the ones I do spring for actually count. Either pony up or no more sharing.

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Roommates | 11.24.2008 | Comments (5)

When someone else's standards of living change dramatically and thus, yours must in accordance
For example you live together in one place where your roommate is known as the messy one, and then you move out and suddenly YOU ARE THE DIRTIEST PERSON ALIVE and if you are not constantly cleaning you're giving them dysentery and probably, deliberately. OR Suddenly they buy one nice piece of furniture and all of your stuff is now comparatively worthless.

— Alana Post from Brooklyn | Roommates | 10.20.2009 | Comments (2)

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » I call that look "business douche". 50% human, 50% robot, 100% asshole. – Brandi 3/16

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I have to side with the poster on this one. I think if you have guests over, you should just deal. It's not an every day thing. – jmc 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I agree with the two other comments before me. It's actually much more cleanlier to take them off. It seems to be more of an American ritual. (Canadians by the way tend to take off their shoes always) – Kara 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » Think of the things buffered by your shoes on your way over to that house/apartment. Dogshit. Gum. Spit. Actual DIRT. Yes, I may have some cat hair on my floor, but the bottoms of your shoes are still too disgusting to be on my carpet. – D. 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » yes. yes they are. – E. 3/14

People who consume multiple french fries per mouthful. » I suppose we should eat them one at a time, with a fork (held ONLY in the left hand...Eurostyle), and pat our mouths after each fry with a napkin? ;-) – Ami 3/12

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.