Admittedly, I have a lot of pet peeves. Probably more than the average person. Which is fine because I’ve decided it doesn’t make me high maintenance or bitchy; it makes me quirky.
I’m not ashamed of my pet peeves, either, because people really need to get it together and I’m all for helping them do so because seriously, tell me that none of these bother you:
- Receiving an email that’s riddled with spelling errors, punctuation abuse, and incorrect forms of words (ex., using “your” instead of “you’re”). It’s even worse when it’s from a professional organization.
- Using letters and numbers in place of words anywhere except text messages. And I can’t really stand it in texts either (true story: I have a friend who proofreads her texts before she sends them to me).
- People who move unnecessarily slowly, especially in the supermarket or when walking on the sidewalk.
- People singing incorrect lyrics to songs, especially songs that I like. Misquoting movies and TV show is included in this.
- Open shower curtains. When I’m rich, I’m replacing all the curtains with shower doors.
- Not texting me back but posting all over social media.
- In what probably makes me seem all Sleeping With the Enemy-ish, I can’t handle it when the labels on cans in my pantry face different directions.
- Wire hangers. No.
- The sides of the comforter on my bed being uneven.
- Celebrity nicknames, specifically the combining of two names into something ridiculous.
- The term “shipping” as it refers to wanting two characters on a TV show to get together. WHY DOES THIS EVEN EXIST?
- When people use big words and they clearly don’t know what the word means.
- When people mispronounce common words (it’s “moot”, not “mute”) or incorrectly use a word (hey, irony, I’m looking at you).
- Employees of an establishment smoking directly in front of the entrance so that you have to walk through their cloud of smoke.
- Rude smokers in general.
- People who are not 80s children claiming they miss the 80s.
- Putting a pitcher with 4 drops left back in the fridge.
- When drivers have 8786 miles and 128943 signs warning that the lanes will merge but still wait until they have 5 feet left until the lane ends to get over.
I’m going to stop here. The list could be way, way longer but:
How about you guys? What are some of your pet peeves? And if you’re interested, you can read some of my other ones, ones that are a little more substantial, in this post.
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I am the same with numbers in place of words in emails or texts. DO they even sell wire hangers any more? I have never heard shipping used that way, weird!
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On the rare occasion when we get stuff dry cleaned, the clothes come home on wire hangers. No. The madness needs to stop.
Ugh, the late lane changers.
Here is a big new peeve for me and all females-just read this in Dr. Christiane Northrup’s newsletter about pinkwashing breast cancer. We should insist on thermography.
Thermography should totally replace mammography now. It is radiation and squish free and detects changes in your breast, in other words, way better. Now if testicles had to be examined a la mammography,
thermography would be immediately available to all men.
I knew another screening method did exist, now I know the particulars. Goddess speed to all.
Love, SMD’s Momma
The fact that another screening process exists is good news and definitely should be used more often.
The pinkwashing of everything is annoying. For instance, why do sports teams have to have pink shirts for their female fans? Most of us are perfectly happy to wear the team colors. No need for pink.
MOMMY DEAREST! Seriously love that movie!!!
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It’s a great movie!
Ummm… I have never heard of this “shipping” business. I think I’m pretty glad that I have not, given that I nodded my head along with all of your other pet peeves.
My biggest pet peeve (right now, anyway) is people’s incessant use of the word “literally.” The rage…
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OMG, the first time I heard it, my head wanted to explode. It’s so damn stupid.
I didn’t put the overuse of “literally” on the list but yes! So irritating.
Along with not being texted back, I hate when someone apparently doesn’t have time to respond to MY message or comment, but they DO have time to update their status/tweet and respond to other people’s comments.
One of my biggest pet peeves: People, usually co-workers, who ask a question as they are walking by me, and continue walking! You wanted the information, so why don’t you stop to hear it? If people do this, I remain silent and force them to come back and repeat themselves.
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Yes! That bugs me, too. Like I’m not actually there.
And do not ask me questions if you don’t want the answer. I’d rather just be ignored.
hahaha shipping makes me laugh, though i have never used it myself. i think the whole obsession that makes people want to ship other people annoys me more than the shipping itself, if that makes sense.
i hate when people don’t text back but get on social media. RUDE.
also, i hate when people say moot, unless they say moo and they are being funny like joey… or not.
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To me, shipping someone else is okay but the word is terrible. It’s up there with abbreviating everything. Just…stop.
YES to people moving unnecessarily slow! I have no patience for that. Especially when they’re crowding an aisle in a grocery store, paying no mind to the people shopping alongside them. I also proofread almost everything I write and hit edit and delete far too much because of my obsessive attention to detail.
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Proofreading is good!!!
No patience for unnecessary slowness. No patience at all.
Slow walkers/drivers are the worst, and don’t stop in the middle of the sidewalk/road pull over!
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People who stop in the middle of the road or parking lot need to be punched. No reason for that.
I’m pretty sure that ALL of these things are applicable to my life as well.. but to caveat on that first one.. when people misspell my name or job title (in the navy we’re called by our job title) when it is RIGHT THERE in my address block or in my email address, I get SUPER RAGEY.
We can be rage friends. 🙂
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I can’t even with the mispronouncing of the name. I am so use to people saying my name wrong so it doesn’t bother me but I do get pissed when I tell someone how to say it and they clearly aren’t listening and continue to say it incorrectly. RUDE.
YAY FOR RAGE FRIENDS!
I pretty much agree with ALL of these, but late lane changers, using/pronouncing words wrong, and people who move ridiculously slow/are totally oblivious to everyone around them REALLY get to me!
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The worst slow offenders are the ones who can’t walk and text so instead of pulling into an aisle or the side, they just stop in the middle. I hate those people.
YES, seriously! It’s like is there no common decency or consideration for other people anymore??
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I hate rude smokers, but I hate the extreme rudeness and hatefulness and judgement vigilant nonsmokers make of all smokers even more. If they’re away from you and not bothering you, it’s not your business.
I detest mispronunciation and I must correct it.
This morning on my way to work some ahole was slow walking while the light was green with his face in his phone. Really? I will run you OVER.
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That person deserves to be run over. That’s just rude.
Smokers and nonsmokers need to come to a consensus.
I HATE the following: when someone doesn’t push the chair they were sitting in back under the table when they get up, when people’s windows are open on different levels (this is so tacky and half ass), the same goes for blinds, using several cups a day instead of rinsing out the one you originally use (that’s mostly my children), and I could go on and on..but then people would think I’m psycho. Lol
Wear your crazy with pride. I do. #noshame
Uneven blinds, especially when one side is higher than the other on the same window, makes me nuts. I will fight with it until they match. I don’t care how long it takes.
Wire hangers are the worst! I’ve never heard of “shipping” in that context, but I remember having being confused about the other meaning of the word “talking”. “Are they talking?” “What? I don’t know where they are or what they’re doing.” “No, I mean TALKING.” “Uh…” Evidently it means they’re considering dating. Of course, what “dating” means depends who you ask, too, so…
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That is definitely confusing. If I had to date now, I’d be confused all. The. Time.
Funny! I do leave the shower curtain pulled open though because there is a window…otherwise my bathroom looks too dark. I hate when people say “irregardless.” It means the same fucking things as regardless. I think they just want to use a bigger word. I also hate when people watch me get ready in the morning (not that it’s usually a problem). Oooh, here is a recent one thanks to new technology. When you are having a conversation with someone on iPhone (texting) and you can see the little bubbles where they are starting to write, but then you never get a text. Gahhhh, what were they thinking but didn’t send?!?!? 🙂
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YES!!! The mystery bubbles!! What are they trying to tell me???
I’ve never heard of shipping before. Argh. I hate made-up words. And really, you don’t like open shower curtains. Interesting! I hate shower doors. Actually, only the old school ones that are attached to top of a tub. They’re so hard to get in and out. I’d love a floor-to-ceiling door though! And actually, I HATE when people merge too early. It’s like, come on, you got all this extra lane, use it! I think the last-minute mergers are bad because they are bad at merging. Good mergers wait until last minute and do it right.
I hate cleaning shower doors but they are exponentially less annoying than an open shower curtain.
I haven’t heard the term ‘shipping’ when referring to TV people. I definitely shorten stuff up in my text messages cuz I am lazy but auto correct has been spelling most of it out for me. In an email, that is another story. I feel like that determines a person’s level of intelligence so if someone speaks text in an email – the level is probably not very high.
I also hate improper spelling of words like they’re, their and there. I especially hate it on a website or somewhere that is supposed to be a representative of an establishment or business
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On a website, in a blog post, or anywhere that’s representative of a person, business, or brand should have proper forms of all words. I have a hard time reading when it’s not. And I don’t respect the business or person.
Yes to all of these. I could do a whole dissertation on driving peeves alone, so I won’t even go there.
For those who don’t know, “ship*” is a shortened form of “relationship*”. So if you’re someone who wants the characters to have a relationship, you’re a relationshipper, or just a ‘shipper. Etc.
I think it’s totally stupid – just like calling the remote a ‘mote or the computer a ‘puter. Just say the damn word. One extra syllable isn’t going to kill you!!
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Thanks for explaining it!
There are so many driving pet peeves…you should do a post on it!
Can I get an amen on all of this? The one that stuck out most to me is people walking slow in the supermarket… I have got to learn my damn lesson about grocery shopping on the weekends. Jana, these idiots have nowhere to go and all day to get there; drives me bonkers!
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I cannot handle supermarkets on the weekends. The weekdays aren’t much better but at least there’s less people and more room to get around the slow ones!
Ha! Love this list Jana 🙂 I’m with you on the wire hangers. I CANNOT STAND THEM. They make me crazy, and also? The cans MUST face the same way. When my husband puts the cans away in the pantry, he just puts them in haphazardly. I have to go in after him and have them face forward.
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Cans MUST all face the same way! Why do they not understand this??
‘Shipping’ is a new one on me.
So many of those are mine too. A couple of others are people who start looking for their wallet when all their stuff has already been checked through! Did they not know they had to pay?
People who email me i.e. have to type in my email address and still leave the H off my name in the email body!
People on buses who don’t understand that their rucksack takes up space, especially when they turn around suddenly.
Yep – I could actually keep going but it’s your post Jana lol
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