PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

People that leave voicemail messages to tell me they phoned me, despite knowing full well I have caller ID.
Seriously mom, stop it.

— personaldecay from Canada | Technology | 2.22.2010 | Comments (0)

When the sound transmission delay on your cell phone is such that every time you speak, you accidentally interrupt someone.
"So, how are you?" "..." "I wanted to tell you that my mom died tragically in a vibrator accident last Tues--" "Good."

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Technology | 2.20.2010 | Comments (0)

People who touch computer screens.
Unless it's a touch screen, this is totally unnecessary. Point at what you're talking about and leave your greasy thumbs fingers for the remote control.

— Tedman from Mt. Vernon, Illinois | Technology | 2.2.2010 | Comments (2)

Cell phone notification beeps.
The people that leave the notification beep feature on their phone never seem to get irritated by the fact that their phone keeps beeping every couple of minutes. I, however, notice and am irritated.

— lamer from WI | Technology | 2.19.2010 | Comments (1)

Passengers who do not take their navigation duties seriously.
I am driving and my passenger is supposed to be giving me directions. His cell phone rings, he answers it and begins to talk away. This causes me to continually interrupt him to ensure that I am going the right way and to slow down cautiously at every intersection and ask, "straight?" And, of course, the one time I don't slow down and ask he'll inevitably scream at the last minute that I'm supposed to be in the turning lane, three lanes over.

— srobs from Pittsburgh | Technology | 12.24.2009 | Comments (2)

DOC file email attachments.
Some people even put the contents of the email in the .doc file. Not everyone has or wants Microsoft office, bro.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Technology | 9.21.2009 | Comments (1)

People who want to have in depth conversations over text.
"How wz Canada?" "Do u think Tom is doing OK with rehab?" "Whats Mom up to these days?" ONE SENTENCE. That is the max for texts. Logistics. Flirting. Yes and no questions. Otherwise, you always still have an actual telephone in your hand.

— rebecca from brooklyn | Technology | 7.29.2009 | Comments (1)

When you receive a call on your cell phone while in the process of checking your messages.
If you take the call you miss the message because it keeps going.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Technology | 1.21.2010 | Comments (0)

"Sent from my iPhone" or "Sent from my Blackberry"
Um, are you just showing off? "Look, I got a smart phone!!! I can check and send email from my phone!!!" I get it, you have an expensive phone. You pay a lot for a data plan. I get it. I don't have a problem about with it. But why is this your signature? When you send emails from your computer, does it say "Sent from my Desktop"?

— Matt P from New York, NY | Technology | 12.19.2008 | Comments (8)

Websites with music.
Nothing makes me hit the mute button quicker.

— Molly from New York, NY | Technology | 12.2.2008 | Comments (2)

Being forced to keep people in your cell phone address book simply because you don't want to pick up when they call.
I must have 15 people in my phone book just so I can avoid them.

— rebecca from brooklyn | Technology | 9.5.2008 | Comments (5)

Calling me back without listening to the voicemail I just left
Now I have to say it all again, and you're going to listen to it all again later.

— Mogo Hos from New York | Technology | 9.20.2008 | Comments (3)

Repeating music on DVD menus.
You memorize, and are subsequently annoyed by the soundtrack. Then, when you finally get around to hitting the 'play' button after preparing for your film's enjoyment, you'll hear it a couple more times in the actual movie.

— Charles from Brooklyn, NY | Technology | 3.16.2009 | Comments (1)

Hallucinating the ring of my cell phone.
Is it because I'm so desperate for human contact that my mind produces phantom rings? A friend of mine feels phantom vibrations of her cell phone.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Technology | 2.18.2010 | Comments (6)

Kids with cell phones.
A bad habit that they really could wait a few years before picking up. I think I would rather see them drinking a Bud.

— Stu from | Technology | 2.15.2010 | Comments (1)

When my computer substitutes a copyright symbol after I type parantheses around the letter c.
I could fix it on the default, but it would be better if Microsoft weren't so presumptuous about my wish to use symbols connoting intellectual property. Then again, not surprising.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Technology | 2.26.2009 | Comments (1)

People using their cell phone as a speakers.
People walk in the street and share their music with friends on their cell phone, but the speaker is so lame that you can't even recognize the song (and often in France it's bad hip-hop).

— speps from France | Technology | 2.17.2010 | Comments (0)

The "insert" button on keyboards.
And hitting it accidentally, and then writing over what I've already written, which is my own fault, except -- who uses the "insert" button?

— Leonard Loeb from Montclaire, NJ | Technology | 1.11.2009 | Comments (7)

The Mac-PC War.
I'm tired of the Mac vs PC war. It has come down to the commercials. Just pick one, hook your iPod to it and be on your merry way. Don't try to convince us why we should switch!

— ME from Amurica | Technology | 6.8.2009 | Comments (14)

The fact that I can't change the default automated voice on my cell's answering machine from saying the following:
"The person you are calling is currently unavailable, please leave a message after the tone, to leave a call-back number you can be reached at press pound, for more options press star." Is all that really necessary??! In this day and age do we need to be told to "leave a message after the tone"? And does anyone ever use the other options?!

— Ben Melbye from Toronto, ON, Canada | Technology | 12.23.2008 | Comments (4)

Non-Compliance with ISO-8601.
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm ISO-8601 is the only logical date format. Elements are in order of descending unit size and hours are measured from 00-23. Objects named thus will sort chronologically. Everything else is stupid.

— Kames from Seattle, Washington, US | Technology | 9.20.2009 | Comments (4)

When you help someone with their computer, and they blame all subsequent problems on your intervention.
I've somehow ended up as tech support for a handful of people. This is one of the side-effects.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Technology | 12.4.2008 | Comments (3)

Mandatory use of "my" for items on the internet and on one's computer.
My Documents, My Pictures, MySpace, MyCiti, MySQL, My God!

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Technology | 12.5.2008 | Comments (6)

Accidentally launching Photoshop.

— Evany from Oakland | Technology | 8.2.2009 | Comments (6)

When you blame me because my cell phone is breaking up.

— Grote from New York City | Technology | 2.16.2010 | Comments (0)

The sound of a cell phone battery dying.
My phone uses so much energy to announce to me that it is going to die. Additionally, it uses a lot of energy for a blinking animation of the battery level dropping to nothing. This happens when ever the loud noise happens � it makes me anxious.

— Messy from ca | Technology | 2.15.2010 | Comments (1)

When people double-click on hyperlinks

— Tom from | Technology | 8.30.2009 | Comments (2)

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Right, but some people can be really insensitive about this, like by complaining about a problem they have when you wish your life was that good. Like "my dad keeps sending me dividend checks from this huge stock investment in my name, but I am SO tired of living in his shadow and just wish I could cut him off totally but am afraid to not have the money, even though I make well over 60K a year and have no debt" when I am in the midst of unemployment and student loan drama. I think when people say "some have it worse" it's sometimes a very polite, gentle code for "do you have ANY respect for what I am going through at the moment?" – Diana 3/8

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Yes, I know that other people have way worse cancers than mine, but I'm still scared shitless. And no, I'm not freaking grateful. – Acacia 3/8

When people say "American" when they mean "White" or "Caucasian." » Yep, Nationality does not equal race does not equal ethnicity. Especially for somewhere like the USA where most places are pretty diverse. – Punky 3/8

Receiving an email regarding a phone call. » I hate that as much as I hate the 'email, then immediate phone call to ask "Did you get my email?!?!"' Yeah, I got it. Give me a damn minute. – Raj 3/8

When people say "American" when they mean "White" or "Caucasian." » way to miss the entire point of the peeve – wow 3/6

Being told other people have it worse when I talk about a problem I have. » Definitely. This is akin to the "everyone feels that way, Biffy" peeve. I'm no telling you my problems so that you can diminish their worth. – Biffy 3/6

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.