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Most have already demonstrated thier inability to multitask so am not too concerned.
What are your pet peeves?
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I was at an inner city grocery store, an unSafeway. Some man was in the 10 item checkout line with his cart overflowing. In true inner city fashion, someone told him he was in the wrong line with all his groceries and full cart went off on the person. It was memorable.
Yep, they think they own the store...been in more than one confrontation over this...and because nearly all the offenders are Black, store security is afraid to confront them...can't be "racist" you know!
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There are many people who only follow rules that don't go against them and their behavior. Inner city people think they have to get an attitude, get in the accuser's face, yell and name call.
They'd have gone without those flashlights. The older I get the less tolerance I have for people who don't help themselves.
Today's pet peeve is plants that won't come out of the pots so you can transplant them. Admittedly we left them until they were root bound but still we almost had to get a jackhammer into them to get them out.
Another pet peeve since we have a few narrow country roads here is people who drive straight down the middle and won't pull off to one side so you almost have to go bush to avoid them
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Another pet peeve since we have a few narrow country roads here is people who drive straight down the middle and won't pull off to one side so you almost have to go bush to avoid them
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Today's pet peeve is plants that won't come out of the pots so you can transplant them. Admittedly we left them until they were root bound but still we almost had to get a jackhammer into them to get them out.
Another pet peeve since we have a few narrow country roads here is people who drive straight down the middle and won't pull off to one side so you almost have to go bush to avoid them
When there are rolling hills, this is how bad accidents happen.
I can be stubborn about such things and do something to help the person coming toward me understand what they need to do. This is easier if you are not going too fast. I take my position, my half, where it should be and stop. The oncoming person has to move over, or stop as well.
I see a similar problem when walking on sidewalks or when I was at a mall. People will go 4 or 5 abreast, and expect everyone to move out of their way. I just stop where I am. When I walk with friends, it seems that one of my friends will step off to the side of an 8 foot wide sidewalk if someone has decided that their piece comes out of the middle. Not me. I just stop, in the place where everyone can have their piece.
Exactly what I was gonna comment. Take your place and stop if you can. Force them to move over. Never put yourself at risk of going off the road and rolling over.
People on sidewalks doing that drive me ape. I've gotten to where I will hold my place and keep moving. Of course my elbows move out some. As tall as I am it tends to hammer folks in the gut or chest. Stopped one little punk in his tracks. I actually heard the air come out of him a bit. LOL People behind him decided to move over a little.
If the wife is with me, I'll move her to the outside away from the crowds and do the same on the opposite side. If we are in a crowd on both sides she lines up directly behind me and I'll clear a hole for her to get thru. She hangs onto my belt to make sure we don't get seperated.
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Some things become more than pet peeves/personal annoyances --
People who must be feeling insecure, feel it necessary to turn every comment or response they make to my normal friendly conversation into a competitive remark. Like I really need that right now.
A lot of what I say makes no sense to me anyway.
Squirrel!
People who must be feeling insecure, feel it necessary to turn every comment or response they make to my normal friendly conversation into a competitive remark. Like I really need that right now.
A lot of what I say makes no sense to me anyway.
Squirrel!
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Some days I see squirrels, too.
My employees can be so sensitive sometimes.
My employees can be so sensitive sometimes.
That is how the wife totaled the LAST car I bought for her. Snow storm and I suggested to her it would be a good day to stay off the road. Two hours later she calls. She thought a school bus was driving over the center line. Instead of stopping, she moved over, drove off the edge of the pavement, over corrected and wrapped the car around a electrical pole.
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Most of my in-laws are that way, insecure. Plus they have very very very short attention spans. They can't remain focus pass their little world, everything is about them. Then there are the narcissistic co-workers that overcompensate for their insecurity by going nuclear on everything.
My pet peeve today is why is it that whenever I do any woodworking, I get more splinters in my hands than the project I am working on? I guess my wood is attacking me?
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People who name their dog "Peeve." 
I actually despise tiny little yappy dogs. You go to visit someone and their tiny yappy dog won't shut up, can't even have a conversation because of the dog. I especially hate the ones with "bug eyes", eyes to big for their tiny heads... They look like they are getting a permanent enema and won't shut up about it.
Every time I cross paths with a tiny yappy dog I secretly wish I were Korean..
Every time I cross paths with a tiny yappy dog I secretly wish I were Korean..
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My mom tells the story of her little dog as a child. She was sent for the summer to help work for her Aunt Deemi, mom was about 9 or 10, and this was a common thing because Deemi was a widow. Deemi's dog had puppies, and as a gift/payment to mom for helping with work all summer, mom got to have a puppy. She said she brought it home, dressed it in doll clothes, and would wheel it around in an old doll buggy. The dog hated it. Along comes her older brother, my Uncle Melvin, and "rescued" the pup (so he says) from his life dressed as a doll. The dog followed Uncle Melvin everywhere. He renamed it Perb. I've asked him recently, "Why Perb?". He is in his mid 90's now and has no idea.
Co-workers who after 5 years of employment still can't manage to find an unassigned IP from the master IP list (that they created) and relay the IP to me.
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Shaking my head !!! ...I go to a garden site often...a person asked what to do with stink bugs on her plants..so I truthfully replied, "Squash them"....which I do...and I got a note from the administrator stating they had to remove my post because it was inhumane....LOL LOL....I am too old for these eccentric ones...
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Really? What do they expect you to do, relocate them?
Send me a link and I'll make the same suggestion. If they delete my post we can get a chain of people to post.
OH I agree with so many of these. Here let me add one or two.
People who are nose blind and either wear too much cologne/perfume or use way too much fabric softener. It's not bug repellent people!
People who wear spandex in public - typically spandex that's too small. I don't care how old, what size, etc. I don't want to know that much about anyone!
People who are nose blind and either wear too much cologne/perfume or use way too much fabric softener. It's not bug repellent people!
People who wear spandex in public - typically spandex that's too small. I don't care how old, what size, etc. I don't want to know that much about anyone!
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I'm with you on both of those, LadyLocust. Nose blind people generally attract insects with those smells.
I am known to dislike it when people where yoga pants as outer wear pants, and the spaghetti string stretch tops that go with it. My whole family knows how much I hate this. It looks like Star Trek uniforms, completely skin tight. If I see a lot of it at one time while we are out, I call it a Star Trek convention. The twins middle school teachers wore a lot of these yoga pants, in all patterns, as pants. I wear these under long skirts in the wintertime to keep my legs warm. I consider all of this underwear, not outerwear.
I am known to dislike it when people where yoga pants as outer wear pants, and the spaghetti string stretch tops that go with it. My whole family knows how much I hate this. It looks like Star Trek uniforms, completely skin tight. If I see a lot of it at one time while we are out, I call it a Star Trek convention. The twins middle school teachers wore a lot of these yoga pants, in all patterns, as pants. I wear these under long skirts in the wintertime to keep my legs warm. I consider all of this underwear, not outerwear.
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In this case you ladies better not go to WalMart.
.Its like a fashion show for the freakers ball.
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Most of Albuquerque is a fashion show for the freakers ball. You don't even need to be at Walmart. I stand out modestly dressed.
@Meerkat I am that mean old lady who tells those children in the grocery store to find their parents and stay with them even if I know the parents are standing right there. Parents usually let them run free because they can't stand them either. I've had a parent give me a look before but have yet to have one say anything about it. The children won't learn if nothing is ever said to them. I'm rather narrow minded that way - also believe parents are responsible for their childrens' education not the tax payers. If a child can't function in a group, send them back home to the parents to deal with until they can. (My opinion.)
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A few days ago, I just felt irritated by so many people. I wondered what was wrong with me, or were there that many irritating people out there? The common denominator was people playing (or maybe not) dumb and asking questions that they could easily figure out themselves, but decided to ask their dumb questions instead. I know that asking dumb questions is one way of getting attention. My best response to dumb questions? Nothing.
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Grandson used to ask dumb questions to me constantly. I told him I would quit talking to him for awhile until he used his brain. Both twins spent years in state mandated therapy before they came to live with us. So, they enjoyed dumb questions as small talk.
"What were the three best things about your day?", "How are you feeling?", "Were you angry today, if so, why?". They'd walk up to a complete stranger and asked if they'd like to hear how their day was.
We got rid of all of the therapists when we became guardians of them.
"What were the three best things about your day?", "How are you feeling?", "Were you angry today, if so, why?". They'd walk up to a complete stranger and asked if they'd like to hear how their day was.
We got rid of all of the therapists when we became guardians of them.
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Dealing with CUSTOMER SERVICE.A big one for me at times. Most are just doing their job and being professional but now and then you get one that wants to be rude.
A certain Phone company is one of the worst, they have destroyed my $600 laptop and no refund. I was paying #9.99 a month for tech help from this company and the tech blew up my laptop. He apologized but they didn't replace it, They over charged my cousin $900 on his phone service. When it is the only game in town you have to pay dearly to play. He is VNam vet with war related bad health problems and lives up in the Georgia Mountains, I live in Florida and we both live in rural areas. So no choice.
A certain Phone company is one of the worst, they have destroyed my $600 laptop and no refund. I was paying #9.99 a month for tech help from this company and the tech blew up my laptop. He apologized but they didn't replace it, They over charged my cousin $900 on his phone service. When it is the only game in town you have to pay dearly to play. He is VNam vet with war related bad health problems and lives up in the Georgia Mountains, I live in Florida and we both live in rural areas. So no choice.
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It is not fair to these kids to be victims. They will have to deal with life and making weaklings out of them is not going to help.
One of the worst argument I've had with one of my daughters was over her two grandsons,at the time 4 and 8. They were stomping my plants into the ground and looking at hubby and I and laughing. I had just worked very hard on that bed with tree roots with an garden fork and a lot of ax work chopping roots.
I told her if they did it again I'd whip their ass and then hers if she didn't like it. We made up but it was terrible. Their mother in in prison fro a long time and their father is dead. They are now 7 and 11. And doing much better since then. It seem to improve once they started tearing up her stuff,
. She is a good person just under lots of stress with these two kids in her senior years. I have 12 grands and 13 great grands,one just born last month.
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I don't think I'd wait for the next time on anybody laughing whilst tromping down my plants. Ass whipping it is! Line up. C'mere ya little brat.
Mean grannies!
Mean grannies!
