PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Kids with huge backpacks
Sometimes so big they are actually little suitcases with wheels that they pull along behind them. New York parents: you have taken things too far, anyone can see this is just plain wrong.

— Stuart from | School | 8.27.2010 | Comments (1)

Music venues turning on music right after a band has played
Rudeness + bad taste but almost universal. Can we have a few moments of palate-cleansing silence before deafening music starts up again?

— Stuart from | Public Places | 9.10.2009 | Comments (0)

Hipster service.
Not good honest rude service (like, say, Polish service)... just waiting a beat before serving you as if to emphasize that they're not actually a waiter. And then, "What can I get you, man?" You can stop fucking around and get me my goddamn coffee right now! Man! Get over it, you have a service job.

— Stuart from Brooklyn, NY | Public Places | 9.22.2008 | Comments (2)

When person you were talking to couldn't hear you.
"Sorry, Stu, I think you were mumbling a little. I couldn't hear you." You know what? just forget it!

— Stuart from Brooklyn, NY | Conversation | 6.2.2009 | Comments (6)

Getting off the phone.
Except in purely business conversations, always seems to take forever. Usually a first, preliminary, questioning "bye" or "talk to you soon" before the official bye.

— Stuart from | Conversation | 4.30.2009 | Comments (1)

People getting their slice of pizza to go.
Where are you going, hotshot? Are you going to eat it on the street while you talk on the phone? Are you taking it back to your desk? Are you taking it back to your apartment to serve to your beautiful fiancee on a special silver pizza plate??

— Stuart from | Dining | 2.27.2009 | Comments (4)

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)

Acres
"Since 1970, almost 50 million acres..." "Surrounded by 4 acres of..." What the fuck is an acre?? what am I, a farmer? is it bigger than a football field? deeper than a fathom? how many cubits is that?

— Stuart from | Language | 1.22.2009 | Comments (13)

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

— Stuart from Boston | Travel | 9.24.2008 | Comments (2)

"Make no mistake..."
This is along the lines of "quite frankly," or "honestly," except it's especially popular with the politico set. I think George Bush said it in some speech about rounding up the evildoers, and since then everybody who wants their opinion to sound manly has been writing it. "Make no mistake" -- thanks for correcting me in advance. I might have been about to have a thought that was contrary to yours and incorrect. Close one! p.s. I'll cut you.

— Stuart from | Conversation | 11.26.2010 | Comments (0)

Predictable rhymes.
Dance/romance; money/honey, etc. Arms/charms is especially bad.

— Stuart from Boston | Music | 6.13.2009 | Comments (7)

Loud laughter among people you dislike.
Blar har har har har!!

— Stuart from Boston | Work | 7.8.2009 | Comments (8)

"Appropriate"
"That's really not appropriate" "Do you think that was appropriate?" etc. -- these are pissy little phrases that imply a watered-down, corporatized version of "proper." "Proper" is stuffy and victorian but at least it's honest, implying a vast structure of social obligation. "Appropriate" is like a sneaky, underhanded version of this -- it pretends to be non-judgemental but it isn't.

— Stuart from | Language | 1.13.2011 | Comments (1)

Cheap spoons that bend in ice cream.
Also cheap forks with one tine bent.

— Stuart from | Dining | 7.27.2009 | Comments (1)

Corporate Words II: Using "solve" as a noun.
Did you know some people use "solve" as a noun? Like, "There are no easy solves on this one." Does this happen in Calgary?

— Stuart from | Language | 3.13.2010 | Comments (2)

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 (4)

Receipt for a coffee.
Or a danish, or a hershey bar. Do they think I need this for tax purposes?

— Stuart from Boston | Public Places | 8.23.2009 | Comments (9)

Corporate Words
"Grow" is not a transitive verb, unless it's referring to horticulture. For some reason, in my office you don't call someone, you "reach out" to them. "Stuart, could you reach out to Glen about this?" Why? Did we have a fight? Did his dad just die? Does Glen have a drinking problem and need an intervention??

— Stuart from Boston | Language | 5.3.2009 | Comments (3)

Putting on a clean pair of socks, entering the bathroom or kitchen and standing in a water splash left on the floor, thus getting your clean socks wet and forcing you to change them. » 5 stars

Excessive and difficult-to-remove packaging » 4.95455 stars

Having to act completely surprised and utterly amazed by any and all gifts given to you in a public setting. » 4.91667 stars

When two light switches control the same light, but one must be off and the other on for the light switch to work. » 4.90909 stars

Driving behind someone with their blinker on for miles. » 4.90909 stars

Being forced to participate in a bouquet/garter toss at a wedding » 4.9 stars

Saying that men watching their own kids are "babysitting." » 4.88235 stars

The dried lotion booger stuck on the nozzle of the lotion bottle. » 4.88235 stars

Using mobile phones at the register. » 127 Comments

The non-existance of unpadded bras in cup sizes less than D. Macy's, Victoria's secret, and Bloomingdales do not carry them. unpadded. » 64 Comments

The "insert" button on keyboards. » 62 Comments

When pregnant women complain about being pregnant. » 60 Comments

"Irregardless." » 56 Comments

People who deliberately pronounce words incorrectly and repeatedly. » 55 Comments

People who put ketchup in the refrigerator. » 53 Comments

Women who are just so beautiful they don't have to contribute to sex... » 52 Comments

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10.31.10

Thanks to a recent torrent of spam, I’ve had to disable comments for a while. I’ve now removed the ability to put links in the comments. Email me if you want to put something in, such as five links to knock-off handbag sites, and I’ll happily oblige.

09.10.10

I’ve added two features to the sidebar: Highest Rating and Hotly Debated. They will be updated daily. To my surprise, the ketchup-in-fridge peeve seemed to really incite some anger — it’s clearly a complex situation that affects us all.

It should be noted that the star ratings indicate how much you agree with, or appreciate, the peeve, not how you feel when it happens.

I will be adding a Paragon Peeves section as well, for my and my friends’ personal favorites.

Please enjoy, and contact me if you have any new feature ideas.