PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Asymmetrical eyelid creases
When you wake up one morning and one eyelid is creased funny, making your whole face asymmetrical.

— Karolena from Brooklyn | Self | 12.22.2009 | Comments (1)

Pressure to find my "passion."
What if I don't have a deep desire to make handbags or cupcakes? What if I just want to have a regular job and just be kind of okay with it, whatever?

— jmc from long island city, ny | Self | 4.22.2009 | Comments (4)

when people list mundane or otherwise generally enjoyable things as their interests on the internet
Interests: hanging out, sleeping, music, my friends, food, laughing, having a good time food & sleep are necessary life functions, and everyone likes to hang out with their friends and have a good time. none of these make you unique.

— aleks from brooklyn, ny | Self | 1.21.2009 | Comments (5)

Noticing that you repeatedly use certain phrases, but being unable to stop yourself from doing it.
I teach at a local college and realize that before each example problem I do on the board I say, "Let's say that..." I notice it every time I say it, and I'm sure my students do as well. However, somehow I can't stop doing it! (The sad thing is that this is only one such phrase.)

— Brooke from Florida | Self | 11.20.2008 | Comments (3)

My own inability to avoid using exclamation points in emails.

— Grome from Long Island | Self | 9.19.2008 | Comments (4)

Feeling excited about the mundane.
It's revolting how pleasant it can be to, say, organize your desk drawer, or cut 2 minutes off your commute.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Self | 7.23.2009 | Comments (1)

when hair gets onto your eyeball
when you have long hair, and it gets in your face, and you close your eyes, and wipe it away but one strand is caught between your lids, and slides across your eyeball.

— rebecca from still connecticut | Self | 8.5.2009 | Comments (1)

When I tip for bad service.
What is this impulse that forces me to put change or even a dollar in the can when server is rude and I know this donation will not be acknowledged in any way? It is truly pathological the way I find an excuse to give money to even the most sullen employee.

— Stu from Brooklyn, NY | Self | 1.7.2009 | Comments (6)

Forgetting to proofread something that you can't upgrade or edit.
Adding a peeve to PeevePile and not checking for grammatical or spelling errors before submitting it to the site, therefore, having your bad English displayed on the open wide Internet for everybody to see, even if the only one who cares is you and pretty much everybody else can reasonably understand it. Man I hate that, and I couldn't find a way to add a comment to my peeve because it wasn't posted yet. Oh well, as long as both the previous one and this one is submitted.

— Trentdaddy from AL, USA | Self | 11.18.2008 | Comments (2)

Taking forever to get out the door.
I'm about to leave and I realize I need my phone or keys or a list of things to buy...and this keeps happening until all the time it took kind of makes a mockery of whatever it was I was supposed to do outside.

— Stuart from | Self | 4.25.2009 | Comments (9)

When you have one check left, and screw it up.
Either you rip it badly and the part with your name stays stuck in the book, or you mean to write, for example, $67.95 and instead you write $97.65. And then you have to get a money order.

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Self | 9.29.2008 | Comments (1)

Office formalities which require me to thank a superior for giving me an assignment.
My boss gives me a pointless, time consuming and brutally boring assignment that I simply don't want to do. Yet I find myself thanking him afterward. Like I am just so grateful for being given more work.

— Rachel from ny, ny | Self | 7.21.2009 | Comments (3)

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I guess it makes more sense in the winter/spring, when people have on shoes that have been in mud, snow, slush, etc. It does make the place easier to clean, but it is annoying to me (as the guest) because now MY socks are covered in hair/skin cells/general place filthiness. So the peeve goes both ways. – KimK 3/21

Constant belly-rubbing by pregnant ladies » When you're used to being SKINNY, and all of a sudden you have this HUGE belly.... it's kind of hard to keep your hands away from it. Not to mention, I seem to hit my belly against things (since I'm not used to having it) and keeping my hands there, reminds me to pay attention to it. – Jami 3/20

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » i think for me it's just family/cultural practice. my dad's from guam, and that whole side of the family doesn't think twice before taking off shoes at the door. – whothegoods 3/17

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. » They startle me in public too, when they suddenly start talking LOUDLY to themselves...while they are alone...in the middle of the supermarket. I think "crazy, or Bluetooth?" – Ami 3/17

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

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.