pet peeves

[gcal]

People who park their campers or vehicles smack in front of laundry room doors so I  have to walk thru the bushes to get  in instead of parking in the empty designated spaces 20 feet away. I've  met some of them on the trails. They aren't  handicapped.

 

[ccbreder]

mentaly?

 

[wayne49]

Definitely Socially.

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

A festival I go to had barricades in front of the foot bridges to stop people from camping in front of them.  People are so stupid, without the barricades they would pitch their tent so everyone has to walk around to cross the bridge.  I think many people are in their own world, and unaware that anyone else has a life.

 

[Canine]

My work truck has saddle tanks- one on each side. Therefore, I need a fueling station that has a satellite pump so I don't have to fill up one tank, turn the truck around, hope no one else drives in, then fill up the other side. There's a guy from Pacific Steel that has a tank on only one side, but every time we meet at the same time, he uses the bay with the satellite pump that he cannot use. I then have to wait for him to get done. Sometimes I'm first and he waits until I get done instead of using the other pump. I went to confront him, but he had a glossy look in his eyes. Something told me he wouldn't understand how a satellite pump works for those of us with saddle tanks. I decided to let it go. Meh, what's a few minutes?

Another peeve that bothered me was when I lived at a 6-plex that was set back in the alley. It had a narrow lawn on the front and sides with a giant gravel parking lot. 5 apartments had 2 parking spaces with the 6th one having 3 parking spaces. Even with those spaces filled, there was plenty of room for extra cars- LOTS of room to park. Not to mention the on-street parking. However, when someone new would come to visit, many would park on the nice, green lawn despite a dozen or so available spaces. This happened kind of a lot. Never could figure out the mentality of that one.

 

[Marie]

Didn't want to take up someone's personal parking space???

 

[gcal]

If your question was to me, Marie, no, it wasn't a matter taking up someone's space. It was a matter of having nothing but empty space between the ears.

 

[masterplumber]

I drive a diesel pickup. Most of the stations in our area have 6 - 8 gas pumps, and only 1 -2 combination pumps with diesel. invariably i pull in and half the gas pumps have no one in front of them, but there is a small car or mini van filling up at the combination pumps. Like Harmonica Bruce said, many people live in their own little world and our unaware of, or just don't care that there are other people inhabiting it.

Also, my all time biggest pet peeve while driving - people who can't merge. They get to the end of the on ramp, and then look to see if anyone is there, or don't look at all. Could be the same root cause as above.

Which makes me think that it may be the same root cause of the reason people do the things that annoy us. So hopefully we can all pay a little more attention to what others are doing around us and respond in a cooperative and kind manner to try and make the world a little less stressful for all of us. That's my current goal to work on myself anyway.

 

[WheelEstate USA]

Watching someone open canned food with a dirty, nasty can opener. 
Just lost my appitite

 

[LeeRevell]

I think the licensing process needs to be toughened. I see so many idiots on the road who should be using buses......
Where to begin.....
Tailgating me, cutting me off, passing illegally, no use of turn signals (be nice to know what the fool is wanting to do BEFORE he's halfway into it!), no lights on in a very low-light situation (I call them 'Klingons', in their invisible stealth cruisers), speeding and weaving in traffic. Seems they are in an awful hurry to get to their own funeral. But please don't take me with 'em!

 

[GypsyDogs]

LeeRevell- I add to your list.. the people that have to follow closely behind on freeways, with no other cars near.. and, as the exit approaches, AbsolutelyMUST Gun engine, Blow Past, Cut you Off, to take the exit.

Damn near wrecked my truck a few times trying not to get my front bumper clipped by these morons.
This is Not GTA5 people! Just stay behind me and take the exit like a civilized intelligent driver.. geeeeez

 

[HarmonicaBruce]

I'm sure this will get some people riled up.  I have a pet peeve with people who bring their dogs into the grocery store or Lowes.  I was walking down the aisle at Lowes, and a guy was walking toward me with two large dogs on leashes.  I didn't know if the dogs would bite me, or lick me, or sniff my crotch, but I got all the way over against the shelving and still his dog needed to get a sniff.  More and more festivals are becoming "pet free", but even with a no pets policy, people still show up with their dogs.  They explain that their dogs are well behaved, so they don't have to obey the rule.  AARRGH!!!

 

[compassrose]

Cellphones! Or rather people on cellphones continuously. That includes the "hands-free" devices or what I call "psycho talking" devices. It's not the fault of the cellphones, or the manufacturers. But the people who use them, talking and texting non-stop. I got so tired of people coming up to me at work, expecting me to wait on them and all the while they are either talking on their phone or they start dialing as they get up to me. I never knew if they were saying "yes" or "no" to me or the person they were talking to on the phone! And then they would have the nerve to call me rude (yes, I did have a woman tell on me for being rude to her because I did not "acknowledge" her while she was on her damned phone as I was waiting for her to finish her call and waited on others). No more. Yesterday was my last day and I can now tell people they are being rude for being on the phone all the time instead of dealing with me.

And I don't mind the well-behaved dogs in the stores as long as they are on a leash even the tiny yappers need to be leashed (I put mine in harnesses). I just wish they would put the kids on a leash and control them. I did.

 

[minimotos95]

As a motorcyclist my biggest pet peeve is all these people on their phones while they drive. From what I've seen the voice to text drivers are the worst, followed by those that try to hide that they are texting by holding it down in their lap or at the bottom of the wheel taking their eyes completely away from the road.
The ones that cut you off on purpose, pass you just to get to a red light faster, tailgate and generally act like they own the road. Irk me a little but I have finally learned to shrug it off and throw the "sorry about your penis" hand signal. Palm up, pinky, ring and middle closed, thumb and index finger showing about a 1" gap.

 

[LeeRevell]

I have been plagued by the idiots behind me who utterly refuse to slow as I am slowing to turn, with my brake lights and turn signal on. Especially unnerving when I am on my motorcycle! Then they zoom past me IN MY LANE, passing me by a paintjob. I have had a moron pass me on the highway IN MY LANE on my right too. And the moron looks at me like I am a not too interesting piece of scenery! Idiot could have killed me without thinking......
I have just received the Dashcam I ordered.

 

[GotSmart]

I lived on a street that had a 5 intersection junction.  (4 T's with a Y thrown in.  :huh: )   3 of them had stop signs, and the main road was 45mph.  The people going to their shift at the county hospital would come barreling in on the main road and cut onto the Y.  All while juggling their coffee, smoke, phone face paint, and steering wheel.   :dodgy:  Then on the way home, they would skip the stop sign on the Y, and sit in the cross lane on the T waiting to make a turn.    :s . Just try turning on the T when someone has skipped the stop on the Y and is blocking you.  The semi behind you is going 45 and expecting you to be out of his way~~~.  To top it all off, they built a $15 million YMCA at that intersection.

 

[Canine]

HarmonicaBruce, I'm all for having pets in the store, etc., BUT those damn dogs must keep to themselves. Walking over for a sniff is out of line. What would that pet owner have done if you went up close and personal to get a whiff of that yummy Ice Blue Aqua Velva? I bet he would have a whole different tune. And his dogs might, too, because they know how inappropriate and scary that can be. Even a dog knows this, but for some reason people have it in their minds that it is OK. I often tell or politely ask the owner to keep the dog out of my personal space. Then I go to management if they don't comply. Service dogs aren't allowed to do that, either, and can be asked to leave. Not even a service dog is entitled to run amok. No matter how polite that dog may be, running amok is not allowed.

Every once in a while someone will call the cops on me because I have my dog off leash, but law enforcement never does anything because I've never done anything wrong. Busy bodies who make it their life mission to control other people for no reason are at the other end of the spectrum. I'm surprised I don't have a pet peeve about them. I guess it is because they almost never have power over me unless I let them. However, a friend of mine did get a dangerous dog ticket because a loose dog attacked her on-leash dog and her dog supposedly (maybe, maybe not) bit the owner of the other dog who had jumped into the fray. On a different day that same loose dog went after my dog. Law enforcement was involved, yet I didn't get a ticket or anything even though both dogs were off leash.

 

[highdesertranger]

I hear you master plumber the diesel pump thing really irks me. the merging lane thing is just sad. I have seen computer programs for freeway design where the little dots(cars) on the road all merge perfectly. of course this never happens in real life but for whatever reason they still design freeways this way. highdesertranger

 

[rvpopeye]

The only explanation I can think of is that the people that design roads don't have a license and have no on the road driving experience.

Does anyone actually pay attention to YIELD signs anymore ?

How about traffic lights that have two lanes which turn to one lane immediately after the light ?????

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhrrrgggghhhhhhhh !

 

[mockturtle]

Slow drivers holding up traffic on two lane roads who never use the 'slow vehicle turnouts'.