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When I am the only one with a bag or backpack and everyone else makes me carry their wallet/cell phone/book.

Do you know why I carry a bag? To be self-sufficient. Did it ever occur to you that I find bag-carrying just as annoying as you, but I carry one anyway because I like having my wallet and keys and reading with me while not bequeathing my inconvenience to others? Now my bag is six times heavier than yours would have been if you'd just taken your own. Bonus points if you roll your eyes and sigh when it takes me 20 minutes to find something of mine because of all the other crap in there.

— Diana from Brooklyn | Etiquette | 4.28.2009 | Comments (2)

I wish there was a place to buy fanny-packs for like a dollar (I am really wondering and not suggesting the dollar stores carry the item), so you can stuff your bag with those and hand them out to people who want you to carry their shit. Half the time I really hate carrying a purse, so if I'm not going to take it, I am comfortable with what I need in my pockets. The real problem with peeves is there aren't enough sociable solutions to them, like I'd have to tolerate this foisting of shit into my purse with a smile, but giving away free fanny-packs would be odd and people would complain.

— Kerrin posted 4/28/2009

That's a good point, Kerrin �??� responding to a peeve is a peeve itself. That's one thing that makes a good peeve: you can't respond to it without looking like a jerk.

— Biffy posted 4/28/2009

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

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

"Irregardless." » 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.