Pet Peeves

[john doe]

Drivers who forget that when it's raining that they should slow down and keep more distance between you and the person in front of you.

People who go 35 in a 65 just because a couple raindrops hit the road. If your tires are that bad, you need new ones. And while we're at it, get out of the left lane so I can get to work.

[hordak]

Hordak, I didn't realize there was such a thing as a "native" Floridian. Can you give me an apprx total?

Actually i have never met a real Native Floridian (they are like unicorns and only spoke of in legend) but there are "native" Floridians (note the quotes) they would be like horses with horns glued to their head, the like the look and made the commitment.

native:

belonging to a locality or country by birth, production, or growth; indigenous a native Bostonian, native industry, native plants:p

[Dravin]

People who go 35 in a 65 just because a couple raindrops hit the road. If your tires are that bad, you need new ones. And while we're at it, get out of the left lane so I can get to work.

This but snow.

Yes, caution is required when it is snowy, slowing down can certainly be warranted. However snow != magical death dust. I'm looking at you, the drivers, a lot of whom were in trucks or SUVS, who made me waste time going 25 mph in a 65mph zone. I know it's not Alaska, you don't have quite as much experience with snow, but come on!

[hordak]

Tip jars,

you make at least $7.25 to take my money, hand me a tray or bag full of food and a cup to go fill up myself. You haven't earned a tip so why are you asking.

[coral]

i dont like rude people, ive been brought up to be polite and it cost nothing to be nice.

i also dont like late-ness, i hate people being late to meet me, i hate being late for anything, i feel all irritable if this happens

[Dravin]

Tip jars,

you make at least $7.25 to take my money, hand me a tray or bag full of food and a cup to go fill up myself. You haven't earned a tip so why are you asking.

I can almost see it in some places, like a sandwich shop or even a coffee shop where there is an opportunity for some TLC with the order, or with unusually large or difficult orders. Usually I seem them as change disposal cups. Of course I got a tip a time or two working at Subway, I loved it, but certianly didn't expect it.

Speaking of tips.

When did a tip, a gratuity, become mandatory?

: something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service; especially

Be honest, call it a service charge. At least places that charge you a rate for large parties are moving past calling it a "mandatory gratuity" (a contradiction in terms) and are more accurately labeling it a service surcharge. But it's funny watching wait staff (note: I pay the customary 'service charge' ) complain about how paying a gratuity isn't optional, it's required when eating out in the US (at places you are actually waited on). If it's required, by definition, you aren't talking about a gratuity.

[zippy_do46]

ok i have another one ...earphones. Someone who walks into the room talking and I do not see the phone. Then look at me like I am crazy when I answer a question they ask....

[john doe]

Tip jars,

you make at least $7.25 to take my money, hand me a tray or bag full of food and a cup to go fill up myself. You haven't earned a tip so why are you asking.

Because some people are dumb enough to pay extra for no service.

[Bini]

Some of my pet-peeves are:

• Kids calling adults and elders by their first name instead of addressing them appropriately as "Mr." or "Mrs."

• Backyard breeders that don't know a thing about breeding

• Women drivers

• Unwashed cars

• Mums that still think they're 18 and dress like it..

[RipplecutBuddha]

people that drive through cities at night with their fog lights on...in any weather besides foggy weather

People that drive through cities at night with their high beams on...as though the street lights aren't even there.

People that tailgate you...even as you're going five over...in the right lane...and they stay behind you for half a mile, then suddenly cut around you and take the very next right off of the road.

People that talk as loud as possible on their cell phones in public, then glare at you when you look at them...as though you're supposed to be deaf or something.

People that follow you down a row of cars in a parking lot to see you've got a spot they want. These people I actually love because I'll deliberately walk away from them through the rows just to get 'em wound up....

yeah, that'll do for now..oh, wait...you're cruizing on the interstate in cruise control, then someone passes you only to slow down and force you to slow down, yet when you go to pass them, they speed up again....especially in a semi that can't go over 70 mph in the first place....

[Dravin]

Kids calling adults and elders by their first name instead of addressing them appropriately as "Mr." or "Mrs."

I suppose I'm no longer a kid anymore. It's still kinda weird to refer to my teachers (in college) by their first names (most of them insist). Now I'm not that much not a kid any more though, so you've got folks who still think I should refer to them by their Mr./Mrs./Title Lastname, I generally just go with how they introduce themselves, it usually doesn't fail.

Unwashed cars

If I washed my car I'm afraid I might was away the rust holding it together. :)

People that tailgate you...even as you're going five over...in the right lane...and they stay behind you for half a mile, then suddenly cut around you and take the very next right off of the road.

In that vein, people who tailgate you in the right lane for any distance when there is a completely open and fully functional lane to your left. Tailgaters are annoying, but if they are that desperate to get there 30 seconds earlier you think they'd just go ahead and pass you. It's almost as if they are offended that you aren't going to same speed they are.

[pam]

I always find it humorous having someone whip around you in traffic because they are in a hurry..so you get up to the light and you are right behind them. Yeh buddy...you got somewhere quicker than me. You get to sit at the light longer.

[Misshalfway]

I hate it when you go to get your nails done and the attendant watches you fill out the receipt to make absolute sure you leave a good tip. Like $40 bucks for a manicure isn't enough. And I hate it when they expect a tip even after they have made your fingers bleed by mishandling the tools.

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[hordak]

yeah, that'll do for now..oh, wait...you're cruizing on the interstate in cruise control, then someone passes you only to slow down and force you to slow down, yet when you go to pass them, they speed up again....especially in a semi that can't go over 70 mph in the first place....

Your cruising down the highway doing 80.Someone come up behind you going faster so you do the polite thing and move over.

He came up behind you doing 90 but is now passing at 70 and all those cars you just passed who were and are going 65 jump in behind him to pass you.Worse when they stick you behind a big rig. I just blew past you a mile ago give me 2 seconds to get back over and you will never see me again.

[Guest Godless]

All I'm going to say is that you all need to stay the HECK away from Kuwait City. And Cairo. And Doha, Qatar. Okay, maybe just the Middle East in general. Oddly enough, I felt right at home over there. Hordak, I couldn't help laughing when I saw that bumper sticker thread you started, because the phrase "Drive it like you stole it" came to mind many times when I was on the roads in those countries.

Edited January 22, 2010 by Godless

[pam]

Having a 1:00 doctor appointment and not even getting called into the examining room until 2:00 to wait until 3:00 for the doctor to actually see you.

[LilRed]

I totally agree with all those traffic annoyances... I get them all the time.

Hordak: There is actually quite a difference between northern and southern Utah. We get snow once a year down here, and it usually doesn't even last an entire day. Northern Utah is why we get the title "Best Snow on Earth"

[sleepless3977]

i get annoyed at drivers that tail-gate when you are already doing the speed limit.

[BenRaines]

Driving: How about those drivers who pass you and with no one else on the road pull right back in front of you as soon as they pass. Very unsafe. Pass me by 5 car lengths and then pull back in.

Ben Raines

[Dravin]

Driving: How about those drivers who pass you and with no one else on the road pull right back in front of you as soon as they pass. Very unsafe. Pass me by 5 car lengths and then pull back in.

Ben Raines

Even more fun (as previously been mentioned) when they do that and slow down. So you pass them. And they repeat. You end up playing leapfrog as he's giving you the finger and yelling things at you.

[hordak]

Having a 1:00 doctor appointment and not even getting called into the examining room until 2:00 to wait until 3:00 for the doctor to actually see you.

That's due to the fact the fact in a primary care setting they don't know what the will encounter so the set appointment based on how many people they think they should be able to see.

My wifes work does 1 appointment every 15min. Great if everyone seen before you is relatively healthy or has a routine appointment to refill a script but the whole system can be thrown off if someone has something that requires more investigation, labs, xrays more paperwork etc.

Pick appointments as early in the day as possible, even if it's just after lunch the Dr might still be playing catch up from the morning patients.

[Saturnfulcrum]

Closed shower curtains when no one is taking a shower.

Seriously. I've watched way too many movies where there's a robber or murderer behind that curtain...and after watching A Haunting In Connecticut and seeing the curtain try to suffocate that girl, I am determined that shower curtains are possessed.

Another one is when someone chews really, really loudly. You know that sound...where they chomp as loud as they can and you hear the food and their saliva sloshing around in their mouth *shudder*.

Roommates who come out in the living room only in a towel, FORGET that they are only in a towel, bend OVER in said towel (giving you quite an unwanted show) and then have the NERVE to call you a pervert for yelling at them for their stupidity. All while you are trying to close the blinds before the group of boys coming down the hall gets a show. <--this happened twice.

[pam]

That's due to the fact the fact in a primary care setting they don't know what the will encounter so the set appointment based on how many people they think they should be able to see.

My wifes work does 1 appointment every 15min. Great if everyone seen before you is relatively healthy or has a routine appointment to refill a script but the whole system can be thrown off if someone has something that requires more investigation, labs, xrays more paperwork etc.

Pick appointments as early in the day as possible, even if it's just after lunch the Dr might still be playing catch up from the morning patients.

I know all of that but it's still a pet peeve of mine. To me there is no excuse for wasting patients...errr customers (because yes we are customers.) But it's still amazing. I've made appointments at 8:30 in the morning and still didn't get seen by the doctor until after 9:30. So to me doesn't matter what time you make an appointment.

The only doctor I could excuse would be ob/gyn because you can't plan when you are going to get called to delivery a baby.

Edited January 22, 2010 by pam

[Dravin]

What I love is you'll wait so long, but for some of them, if you don't give 24 hour notice for canceling an appointment they'll charge you a fee.

[RipplecutBuddha]

On a more religious note...

A serious pet peeve of mine is when anti's come up and try to tell you what you believe and/or what the official doctrine of the LDS church is. Then when you politely try to correct them, they immediately launch into the time-worn tactic of 'lying, or dodging the question'.

For anyone who is not a member of the LDS Church to assume they know the official doctrines of the church better than an actual member is not only illogical, but arrogant.

Most already know that we attend three hours of church every sunday, plus two General Conferences involving over twelve hours of instruction, two Stake Conferences involving three hours of instruction, two Ward Conferences involving one hour of instruction every year...plus all the training and correlation meetings...One would begin to realize we probably know our stuff pretty well.

I don't have a problem with people disagreeing with LDS doctrine, nor with someone who is firmly planted in their own faith. Religion is something we all must decide on our own. However, don't try to tell me what I believe, because you don't know what I believe unless I tell you first.

There..rant overwith. Thank you.