PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Receipts with my name and maybe some other information printed on them.
A pizza place I used to order from had caller ID so the receipt stapled to the box had my name and phone number. Sometimes I use my card or have a shopper card that transmits my name and even my address to the print-out. I don't need a list of my groceries with my name and address on it floating around out in the world somewhere.

— Kerrin from Boston, MA | Shopping | 8.23.2009 | Comments (0)

When you are waiting in an obviously long checkout line and the person behind starts to sigh- LOUDLY, then starts to complain- LOUDLY, as if to draft you into their small army of self pity.
Perhaps they believe you will join forces with them and wage an attack on the cashier, or rise up against the management team at Wal-Mart. After all, why should a person have to wait more than 23 seconds to pay for their cat litter?

— KEGger from philly, PA | Shopping | 11.17.2008 | Comments (2)

When women take a half an hour to put everything back into their purse after paying for something.

— Ben Melbye from Toronto, ON, Canada | Shopping | 1.10.2010 | Comments (3)

When someone at the back of the line is only "half" standing in line.

— Ben Melbye from Toronto, ON, Canada | Shopping | 7.24.2009 | Comments (1)

Someone in retail whose spirit has been crushed.
And they look at you with dead eyes when you ask them anything.

— Stuart from | Shopping | 11.23.2009 | Comments (3)

Using mobile phones at the register.
I work nights as a grocery store cashier and I'm sick and tired of people coming up to my register on their mobile phones. It always seems to be the people who are awful at multitasking, so it slows up my line--which can negatively affect my performance reviews--and it's just plain rude. Unless you're a doctor walking an intern through a life-saving procedure, why not quit your lame-ass conversation and actually interact with the human being in front of you. I may only earn minimum wage, but you might find the experience pleasurable all the same.

— Yiannis from soho, new york | Shopping | 2.17.2010 | Comments (8)

Someone talking to me while I'm in the changing room.
My mother is guilty of this the most. She yells, "Biffy, are you doing alright in there, hun?" to me, thereby broadcasting my assumed need to shop with my mother for her express approval to the entire anonymous set of changers, in addition to the room attendant who I actually have to face on the way out.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Shopping | 10.7.2008 | Comments (1)

When a cashier puts your change on the counter instead of into your outstretched hand.

— Jesse Ball from To the Moon | Shopping | 10.7.2008 | Comments (12)

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

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

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.