What is your pet peeve?

People the don't respect others.
People that are selfish.
People that make fun of others(usually in packs...the coward's way).
People that change the way they act in some social context to gather people's acceptance.

1#: Barking dogs at night! When our one and only neighbor moved onto his acreage near us, his bloody damn dog yapped all night and I had to call him on the phone at 2:00 a.m. to get him to shut the stupid thing up. "Oh, but it got skunked!" he said," and I can't bring it indoors." "Well, put it in your garage, it is going to give my partner a heart attack from stress!" I said as civilly as I could manage. Then the next morning the bastard dog started barking again and my partner went outside and shouted " SHUT THE ###$ UP!!!" and we haven't had any more problems with this. Miraculously we are on good terms with our nieghbors. The poor things; those scary mountain hippies next door where more than these city folk expected when they moved onto the property next to us.
2#: Getting a recorded voice when I call a business, and having to go through hoops to get a real person on the phone.
3#: Screaming brats in public places. When I was in Japan I never saw a screaming brat. Whatever the Japanese do we should learn from them. Thier little toddlers sat quietly but alertly playing with a toy, and looked pretty happy.

Noise I can't control. I find solace and comfort in making noise patterns (like drumming nails on the countertop) but if someone else does it it's absolutely unbearable. I don't find it distracting, but it's the possibility of them changing the pattern. Dogs barking, children crying, people yelling, even my friends/family raising their voice is really unsettling for me.

This is really trivial, but here goes: when a TV commercial has a close up of a person's face and the face takes up so much of the screen its like the person is right in your face!
Fortunately I download most of my TV sans commercials, so I am spared this aggravation.

jazzyrandom wrote:Dogs barking, children crying, people yelling, even my friends/family raising their voice is really unsettling for me.

Dogs barking makes me feel unusual or embarassed or something... ... I'm not scared of dogs - I adore them - but I just hate it when they bark.

Jobsworths.

ie:, people who won't make allowances for people.

The last 'jobsworth' situation i was in - I was in a coach station, desperately needing the loo. I had 11p on me. It cost 20p to go in the ladies', and the toilet attendant wouldn't let me for the sake of 9p!!! I was so annoyed that I considered taking down my knickers and weeing on the floor in front of her, but luckily I decided to hold it in instead.

You should come to Ireland! Our central bus station is also pay-only but there is never any attendant there. So, I just leap over the rail. Once you get inside the toilet it's hard to figure out what exactly you 'payed' for: 1) The doors to the toilets are literally hanging from a single hinge; 2) There is invariably a drunkard/homeless person asleep on one of the toilet bowls; 3) And one time there was even faeces smeared on the wall.


Oh, and watch-out for those pools of 'water' on the floor.


Take care,
Kevin.

Yuk! Public toilets are nasty places. It's such a shame that people muck them up like that.

People who leave 1 piece of toilet paper on the roll and prefer to walk round with a #######5 arse all day rather than change it to a new roll.

I think that the majority of the population goes around like that moose! Also, the amount of men that don't wash their hands is astonishing. Just be careful who's hand you are shaking next time.


Kevin.