Little Pet Peeves

[GSPHUNTER]

Didn't mention the houseboat trip we planned with two other couples. Boat and ski boat were reserved 13 month in advance for vacation on Lake Powell. We got together several times to make plans on when we would depart, what pre made meals each couple would bring, Where we would stay the firsts night, it was about a 16 hour drive so we decided to break it up into two days on the road. We got together a week before it was time to leave to finalize all our plans. We decided to leave friends house at 7 AM. Third couple call the night before and said they might be a little late because they had not done ANY packing yet, WTF. At 6:30 day of departure they called and said they would not be ready until late afternoon. I said we'll see you in Page AZ. They told us later how inconsiderate we were. I pointed out in no uncertain terms how wrong they were.They did have the inconsiderate part correct, It was them.

 

[Btaylor]

"Hi... my name is Gary... and I have OCD."
<Group> "Hi Gary..."

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To elaborate on the gentleman who mentioned when people ask a question like "How's it going?"

What's the answer we're all supposed to give? Without me even saying it... we ALL know the expected answer... the answer that every mofo usually pipes up with? "Fine." Even if like your Mom passed away y'day... what's that person gonna say? "Fine. <Then opens up about the funeral or whatever>


And like, all manner of bad isht could have just recently happened to you, but the expected response that most others instinctively somehow believes is supposed to be said back is.. "Fine." Matter of Fact... lotta times if you DON'T at least respond back FIRST with "Fine." People secretly will say with each other that you're a belly-acher , a whiner, a Negative Nancy, or whatever.

For some time now, I simply say "Um, I'm doing Fair." cause I mean, truly most of us are never really just "Fine" there's always SOME little piece of drama or responsibility at least going on to some degree disrupting your peace on some level.

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The Moving Road Block -aka- The Wall of Prius'es

You're on the Fwy... where in SoCal the de facto speed limit is realistically like 80-85mph. Then you get these low-money mofos in cars like a Prius... and I dunno.. maybe because of the raping in Gas Prices out here.. they perhaps get uber frugal with their attempts at stretching out their MPG? And I'm like... that's ok and everything... but move it the freak over!!!! They SERIOUSLY need to patrol for enforcing the move it over if you wanna go slower BS. And soooo often... you'll encounter thee MOST frustrating configuration of this problem... I call it the Wall of Prius'es. Ya end up getting like them and one or two other turd-box sub-compacts with barely enough oomph to get out of their own way all lined up close to each other.... somehow magically not keying in to the fact that there's now this ever-increasing space in front of them... and errbody and their Mama now crowding in behind them!? It's like how discontented from reality freakin' are you!??

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Ladies who can NOT... for the life of them... post up a picture that isn't filtered to death to where they don't even look human anymore.

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Ladies who leave up as their profile pic, a pic from like 10-15 yrs ago. And the them of today is WAY in the hell different, if you catch my drift.

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Ladies who draw WAY in the freak outside of their lipline with their makeup! I mean, don't get me wrong, judiciously doing it a teensy bit for a dressed-up special occasion to enhance a look a lil bit... sure. But like... when it makes others question whether or not you have Vision problems? You really need to reconsider your choices here.

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People on Social Media who weirdly take it as a personal attack on them when you're simply over here in the convo/debate debunking and shooting holes in all the flaws in the logic they presented in their assertions during a discussion. That's soo weird to me! As an engineer, we're constantly doing that with each other. You observe the point being made, think about it, and offer up your argument as to why that assertion is wrong or flawed. The interest being to arrive at the truth. It's not about like trying to make the other person look bad, (though I can certainly do enjoy doing that too when they're trying to be a sheeple virtue-signalling cvnt).

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When the Wife buys anything other than Charmin Ultra TP. I've had to hold my tongue on that as of late with the supply chain BS though.

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How the large friends group I got added into after pairing up with the wifey... you'll hear all these middle-aged single ladies bitching about how they can't find a man (or at least one worth a isht)... and yet... they seem to mostly only attend these functions with "the usual suspects", which basically doesn't change all that much. Just don't like hearing people whine about isht they have the power to do something about I guess.

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New one lately? When I hear someone say "Impordant" instead of "Important".

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Biggest Pet Peeve of all time? When in a "discussion" with the Mrs when she's pissy and she starts in with the cutting off my sentences, and attempting to just talk over me. I know it drives her crazy, but I'll just simply wait until there's any little bit of pause then go RIGHT BACK to the beginning of that sentence and just start it over again. I will not be silenced, it's a war of attrition... I WILL NOT allow myself to be silenced by others when it's important and involves claims made about me and my honor/character. I can ALWAYS logically show and prove how and why I'm not the blame, the vast majority of the time. And I'm not dodging the blame either... for if you can offer up a valid observation and support it and bring up a viewpoint nad perspective I hadn't considered, I'll humbly concede if the logic is solid.

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When somebody IM's you, or TXT's you... and you make it a point to note that is seems to be an urgent matter for them... so you reply quickly... but possibly need clarification so you pose a simple question that would only require a one word answer.... and then......... nothing.... for a significant while.

It's like... is this important to you? Or isn't it? I had to pull myself out of the isht I'm deeply focused on for work... just to answer your trivial, yet important for logistic decisions question.... and then you don't reply back in timely manner? WTH!

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Ugh... people in a business setting that try soo damn hard to choke their sentences with fvcking business jargon words!!! (such as Gavin Newsom, for example) HATE this!!! "On a go-forward basis" Oh. so you mean "from now on" then, right? Well then just fvcking say "From now on" ya douche!

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When people don't put tools back where they got them from!!!

You have made me feel a lot better about being me.

 

[Azone]

"Hi... my name is Gary... and I have OCD."
<Group> "Hi Gary..."

-=-=-=-

To elaborate on the gentleman who mentioned when people ask a question like "How's it going?"

What's the answer we're all supposed to give? Without me even saying it... we ALL know the expected answer... the answer that every mofo usually pipes up with? "Fine." Even if like your Mom passed away y'day... what's that person gonna say? "Fine. <Then opens up about the funeral or whatever>


And like, all manner of bad isht could have just recently happened to you, but the expected response that most others instinctively somehow believes is supposed to be said back is.. "Fine." Matter of Fact... lotta times if you DON'T at least respond back FIRST with "Fine." People secretly will say with each other that you're a belly-acher , a whiner, a Negative Nancy, or whatever.

For some time now, I simply say "Um, I'm doing Fair." cause I mean, truly most of us are never really just "Fine" there's always SOME little piece of drama or responsibility at least going on to some degree disrupting your peace on some level.

-=-=-=-

The Moving Road Block -aka- The Wall of Prius'es

You're on the Fwy... where in SoCal the de facto speed limit is realistically like 80-85mph. Then you get these low-money mofos in cars like a Prius... and I dunno.. maybe because of the raping in Gas Prices out here.. they perhaps get uber frugal with their attempts at stretching out their MPG? And I'm like... that's ok and everything... but move it the freak over!!!! They SERIOUSLY need to patrol for enforcing the move it over if you wanna go slower BS. And soooo often... you'll encounter thee MOST frustrating configuration of this problem... I call it the Wall of Prius'es. Ya end up getting like them and one or two other turd-box sub-compacts with barely enough oomph to get out of their own way all lined up close to each other.... somehow magically not keying in to the fact that there's now this ever-increasing space in front of them... and errbody and their Mama now crowding in behind them!? It's like how discontented from reality freakin' are you!??

-=-=-=-

Ladies who can NOT... for the life of them... post up a picture that isn't filtered to death to where they don't even look human anymore.

-=-=-=-

Ladies who leave up as their profile pic, a pic from like 10-15 yrs ago. And the them of today is WAY in the hell different, if you catch my drift.

-=-=-=-

Ladies who draw WAY in the freak outside of their lipline with their makeup! I mean, don't get me wrong, judiciously doing it a teensy bit for a dressed-up special occasion to enhance a look a lil bit... sure. But like... when it makes others question whether or not you have Vision problems? You really need to reconsider your choices here.

-=-=-=-

People on Social Media who weirdly take it as a personal attack on them when you're simply over here in the convo/debate debunking and shooting holes in all the flaws in the logic they presented in their assertions during a discussion. That's soo weird to me! As an engineer, we're constantly doing that with each other. You observe the point being made, think about it, and offer up your argument as to why that assertion is wrong or flawed. The interest being to arrive at the truth. It's not about like trying to make the other person look bad, (though I can certainly do enjoy doing that too when they're trying to be a sheeple virtue-signalling cvnt).

-=-=-=-

When the Wife buys anything other than Charmin Ultra TP. I've had to hold my tongue on that as of late with the supply chain BS though.

-=-=-=-

How the large friends group I got added into after pairing up with the wifey... you'll hear all these middle-aged single ladies bitching about how they can't find a man (or at least one worth a isht)... and yet... they seem to mostly only attend these functions with "the usual suspects", which basically doesn't change all that much. Just don't like hearing people whine about isht they have the power to do something about I guess.

-=-=-=-

New one lately? When I hear someone say "Impordant" instead of "Important".

-=-=-=-

Biggest Pet Peeve of all time? When in a "discussion" with the Mrs when she's pissy and she starts in with the cutting off my sentences, and attempting to just talk over me. I know it drives her crazy, but I'll just simply wait until there's any little bit of pause then go RIGHT BACK to the beginning of that sentence and just start it over again. I will not be silenced, it's a war of attrition... I WILL NOT allow myself to be silenced by others when it's important and involves claims made about me and my honor/character. I can ALWAYS logically show and prove how and why I'm not the blame, the vast majority of the time. And I'm not dodging the blame either... for if you can offer up a valid observation and support it and bring up a viewpoint nad perspective I hadn't considered, I'll humbly concede if the logic is solid.

-=-=-=-

When somebody IM's you, or TXT's you... and you make it a point to note that is seems to be an urgent matter for them... so you reply quickly... but possibly need clarification so you pose a simple question that would only require a one word answer.... and then......... nothing.... for a significant while.

It's like... is this important to you? Or isn't it? I had to pull myself out of the isht I'm deeply focused on for work... just to answer your trivial, yet important for logistic decisions question.... and then you don't reply back in timely manner? WTH!

-=-=-=-

Ugh... people in a business setting that try soo damn hard to choke their sentences with fvcking business jargon words!!! (such as Gavin Newsom, for example) HATE this!!! "On a go-forward basis" Oh. so you mean "from now on" then, right? Well then just fvcking say "From now on" ya douche!

-=-=-=-

When people don't put tools back where they got them from!!!

Wow.

 

[Sherman]

Didn't mention the houseboat trip we planned with two other couples. Boat and ski boat were reserved 13 month in advance for vacation on Lake Powell. We got together several times to make plans on when we would depart, what pre made meals each couple would bring, Where we would stay the firsts night, it was about a 16 hour drive so we decided to break it up into two days on the road. We got together a week before it was time to leave to finalize all our plans. We decided to leave friends house at 7 AM. Third couple call the night before and said they might be a little late because they had not done ANY packing yet, WTF. At 6:30 day of departure they called and said they would not be ready until late afternoon. I said we'll see you in Page AZ. They told us later how inconsiderate we were. I pointed out in no uncertain terms how wrong they were.They did have the inconsiderate part correct, It was them.

Bruh.....I want to punch the wall after reading this. This made my anxiety rise.

 

[ODB]

How about walking down the street in Seattle watching a guy dig though the trash can for food. You walk up to him, hand him the banana and apple you didn’t eat for lunch and he looks at you and says, “I don’t want that shit.”

Then how about that almost exact same thing happening the next day…

A man has his limits…

 

[ewade07]

Drives me nuts when someone refers to an area they hunt as a "zone". Also, when people refer to the gear they use as a "system".

 

[robtattoo]

Seems to be largely a Facebook thang, but people who use the words 'sale' & 'sell' interchangeably. "Good luck with your sell" "Hope you can sale it"
I wish all these people slow, excruciating deaths.
I bet they're the same people that can't put their shopping carts back in the stalls.

 

[Azone]

Other people’s choice in music for a workplace setting or a road trip. The agony of a shit radio station or play list is too much sometimes.

 

[robtattoo]

OH!
And people, meeting me for the first time, asking "So, are you Irish or Australian?"
Are they literally (sorry) the only other English speaking countries you've heard of?!

I'm frigging ENGLISH! And no, we don't all sound like Tom freaking Hardy!

LONDON ISN'T ENGLAND! (Also, no. I probably don't know your neighbor's cousin who moved to Wales 6 years ago. Or his wife. )

 

[TxxAgg]

Didn't mention the houseboat trip we planned with two other couples. Boat and ski boat were reserved 13 month in advance for vacation on Lake Powell. We got together several times to make plans on when we would depart, what pre made meals each couple would bring, Where we would stay the firsts night, it was about a 16 hour drive so we decided to break it up into two days on the road. We got together a week before it was time to leave to finalize all our plans. We decided to leave friends house at 7 AM. Third couple call the night before and said they might be a little late because they had not done ANY packing yet, WTF. At 6:30 day of departure they called and said they would not be ready until late afternoon. I said we'll see you in Page AZ. They told us later how inconsiderate we were. I pointed out in no uncertain terms how wrong they were.They did have the inconsiderate part correct, It was them.

My blood is boiling reading that. No No No

 

[timberland]

Two words: flustrated and anywho!!

 

[ODB]

OH!
And people, meeting me for the first time, asking "So, are you Irish or Australian?"
Are they literally (sorry) the only other English speaking countries you've heard of?!

I'm frigging ENGLISH! And no, we don't all sound like Tom freaking Hardy!

LONDON ISN'T ENGLAND! (Also, no. I probably don't know your neighbor's cousin who moved to Wales 6 years ago. Or his wife. )

Were you born within the sound of Bow bells?

 

[robtattoo]

Were you born within the sound of Bow bells?

About 200 miles north.

 

[WVTrooper]

Been mentioned already, but the shopping cart thing is #1. Being late is #2....if you can't be on time, be early

 

[RS_Non-Res]

"Same Difference" when they mean "no difference." Same difference needs two differences, therefore three things, even if two of them are the same.

And "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" .... Horsesht (expressed with a sweet singsongy voice).

I have almost successfully, after 25 years, gotten the roomy to stop stacking filthy dishes in the sink. Wash them now or stack them to the side. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

 

[cnelk]

Anyone, and I mean anyone that owns a boat should know how to back it down the boat ramp…..

 

[Sherman]

When I hear people say “libary” instead of “library”.

 

[WhatToHunt]

It pains me to hear people say "expecially" instead of "especially."
Also someone close to me very often says "literately" when they mean "literally."

 

[couesbitten]

I've got another one that I see frequently here. The use of "advise" in a sentence when the correct word is "advice". For example, "what advise can you give me?".

 

[TxxAgg]

"Peaked" my interest instead of piqued

Also "track" of land instead of tract