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)

"Whilst"
It means exactly the same thing as "while" but some think it's clever. If what you're saying is so boring that you need to spice it up with "whilst," then just don't say it.

— Karolena from Brooklyn | Language | 12.9.2009 | 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)

White yuppies observing (or worse, complaining about) gentrification in their largely-minority neighborhood
I still can't believe this actually happens, but I see it all the time. Have some self-awareness!!

— Karolena from Brooklyn | Neighborhoods | 12.15.2008 | Comments (1)

Going out to eat with a large group and everyone only has credit cards.

— Karolena from Brooklyn | Dining | 2.6.2009 | Comments (2)

When parents start voicemail messages with "hey [name], it's your mother/father." » My husband does this with his kids! It never fails to drive me bugshit! – Mindy 7/26

Grubby, tangled haired children. » Keeping clean is one thing; the kids I see don't even start out clean. Parents and kids both seem to roll out of bed and go to the local WalMart (where else?) without so much as running as hairbrush through their hair or taking a bar of soap to their bodies. I think we can be quite sure they don't know what a toothbrush is for! The trend of wearing pajama bottoms in public needs to stop as well. – Mindy 7/26

When strangers try to touch my children. » Good god, it's like you read my mind. I absolutely hate it when I'm in the grocery store and people touch my son's feet or poke his little cheeks. Yes, I know he's the cutest thing on this earth but THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN TOUCH HIM – CakeThief 7/24

Air quotes. » use shocker quotes instead. form shocker with fingers, bend to mimic quoting action. – kn obel 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » I always want to know if people would feel equally as badly if the opposite were true. Like, if you only gave money to non-white street beggars out of guilt/fear of being perceived as racist. That's racism, too, right? Right? No one complains about that one... – Chelsea 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » Ugh. This happened to me when I declined to sign a petition without even hearing what it was about (I was also not a registered voter in that state AND was in a hurry). Jeez, I'm not racist! I hate all petition signature gatherers equally. – Kate 7/21

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.