PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

People who use their lack of familiarity with New York City to act incompetent at things any adult should be able to do anywhere.
Friend visiting from another large city: "Do you have any allergy medication?" Me: "No, but there's a drug store right across the street" [I gesture out the window, through which a drug store is clearly visible]. Friend: "Yeah, I just don't feel very comfortable wandering around. Guess I'm not ready to be a real New Yorker!" OR Random Person: [Stands on A train platform between two stairways, above which are signs indicating that the B, D and F line are downstairs] "Where's the D train?" Me: "Downstairs." Random Person: "Wow, I don't know how you New Yorkers do this every day!"

— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Travel | 11.26.2009 | Comments (1)

Faux-accents developed after a brief residency abroad
Maybe you actually did pick up a slight British accent after your year of travel. It still sounds fake - and dumb.

— Karolena from Brooklyn | Travel | 2.12.2009 | Comments (8)

Standing behind someone at airport security who thought it would be fun to wear every bangle, necklace, brooch, and belt they own, while you stand there unadorned and shoeless wondering how someone could be so bad at life.

— Nick from Los Angeles, California | Travel | 12.19.2008 | Comments (0)

People who go to England for a week and come back dropping words into conversation that they learned there.
It's quite cold. Cheers! Fancy a drink? Etc...

— wonderama from New York, NY | Travel | 12.17.2008 | Comments (4)

People who travel to foreign countries on vacation and then refuse to participate in the culture or attempt to eat any of their cuisine.
Went on a trip to Asia, and the friends I went with refused to eat at any real restaurants that normal people living there would go to and instead opted for fast food or convenience store food every night.

— Daniel from Texas | Travel | 11.5.2008 | Comments (5)

"Have a safe flight!"
I'll try not to crash!

— Stuart from Boston | Travel | 9.24.2008 | Comments (1)

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.