Pet Peeve Of The Day!

[Lauri D]

Doesn't everybody have a pet peeve? And don't worry, you're not limited to just one per day. As the hours pass you can add as many as you like.

Mine so far: there's a great little park less than a block down from my new place, it's like a very miniature botanical garden with all kinds of shrubs and flowering plants and a rose garden area. Anyway, I like to walk down there for a smoke now and again. This morning, I noticed the following: crumpled beer cans, cigarette butts, and a huge area of smashed tortilla chips around the two benches for sitting, plus the empty tortilla chip bag and a bunch of Taco Bell wrappers.

With three nice (painted to kind of blend in) trash containers within 25 feet.

WTF? I won't begrudge teenagers with nothing else to do (in their minds) finding a nice little spot to do their thing late at night, but how hard is it to DEPOSIT YOUR TRASH IN THE RECEPTACLE? Gah. :madrant:

[Adam]

Maybe they were painted to blend in too well...

[Lauri D]

nah, these kids are clearly locals so they know there are trash cans there. If all else fails, put your trash in a bag and dump it at the gas station or whatever. It's like they enjoy messing up a really pretty space, or just don't care and figure someone else will clean up after them - either way it makes me angrified.

[chunksmediocrites]

People who sit at one end of the park and yell over and over to someone somewhere else. Actually just yellers in general.

People who don't give equal sidewalk space.

[Lauri D]

People who don't give equal sidewalk space. Ye gads - the drifters. There are two or three of them and they just keep meandering along the sidewalk left to right, right to left, and ya can't get through. It's as though they've never heard of the "pass on the left" rule.

[chunksmediocrites]

The sidewalk hogs I was thinking of are the two or more people who take up the whole sidewalk, and though you are clearly approaching, yield no space. That's when I either stop completely or retie my shoe.

[Megatron]

Assholes that go 5 under the speed limit in the left fucking lane.

[Naru]

Cheap paper towels. This one-ply crap is bullshit.

[freemonkey]

people who block the aisles with their bodies and/or carts in stores. People who use the express lane but require multiple non-express services.

[godfry n. glad]

Actually...One of mine is similar to yours, LS.

When walking through a local park, I spy a dog-owner exercising his big dog off-leash, on a softball field, inside the park. Not ten feet to his right and slightly above his eye-level is a large Park Department sign that reads: "ALL DOGS MUST BE ON LEASH AT ALL TIMES IN THE PARK."

Dipshits.

In other peeves....why is it that so many people who decide to engage in an animated conversations, which ignore all but the two or three people involved, take place on narrow crowded stairwells or in busy doorways?

DON'T FUCKING BLOCK THE EXITS JUST TO BLOVIATE, MORONS!!!

[lisarea]

Just last week, like Thursday afternoon--not on a weekend, not during busy hours--we were at the grocery store, and there were MULTIPLE huge families just sort of half-shopping half-loitering around in the aisles. Like they'd be all spread out, with the adults in some kind of huddle, and then the children would be orbiting around them like tiny destructive satellites. These were not regular two-adult and 2-3 kid families, either, but some kind of giant incestuous sex orgy families with about a hundred people.

And you'd finally manage to get past one of them by either taking a detour or with elbows, and you'd get stuck behind another family reunion. And by the time you made it past the second one, there would be another one up ahead, PLUS the original one would have caught up with you.

We almost died.

[godfry n. glad]

You live in Mormon country, don't you, Lisapea?

[freemonkey]

Despite my best efforts at taking detours to avoid them, I have sometimes found myself TRAPPED BETWEEN groups of those families, lisarea.

[lisarea]

You live in Mormon country, don't you, Lisapea?

No, I don't think so. I just went to find a religion map (http://religions.pewforum.org/maps), and it has Colorado at about 2% Mormon. I couldn't find it at city level, but our city has an average household size of 2.76, so I'm guessing it's not very Mormon here.

[Adam]

The security desk at work. It always irks me that I have to scan my badge to get in. Seriously, stop treating me like a potential criminal for coming to work. And, when I happen to leave my badge at my desk, walk out and, and realize it as I'm passing through the checkpoint on my way out, I have to sign out a temp badge to get back in long enough to walk 30 yards down the hall and get my badge? Jesus H, you just watched me walk out, literally 2 seconds ago.

[Demimonde]

nah, these kids are clearly locals so they know there are trash cans there. If all else fails, put your trash in a bag and dump it at the gas station or whatever. It's like they enjoy messing up a really pretty space, or just don't care and figure someone else will clean up after them - either way it makes me angrified.

A story to give you hope Lauri:

My best friend teaches Spanish at a private school. Those kids can be sweet as hell but expect the world to cater to them. She also teaches the girls' golf team. One of her girls before a tournament ate her breakfast in the parking lot and littered all over the place. Senora got really pissed and make her pick it up, and carry it to the trashcan a dozen yards away. Later she drove the message home.

Once they got to the golf course, she grabbed the girl while the others were practicing and took her to the stream that ran nearby in a cart. This beautiful natural place was COVERED in litter. Senora explained that THIS is where litter ends up, a minute of laziness is there forever. By the end of the lecture the girl was tearing up. A strong lesson in littering with (hopefully) one convert.

[Lauri D]

Demimonde - that's what I'm talking about :yup:

Especially in places near here, where everything left in the gutter drains to the ocean, I wish they did more public education. I'm sure people don't want their beaches and harbors messed up, but they don't realize how their tiny actions make that the case.

[BrotherMan]

The security desk at work. It always irks me that I have to scan my badge to get in. Seriously, stop treating me like a potential criminal for coming to work. And, when I happen to leave my badge at my desk, walk out and, and realize it as I'm passing through the checkpoint on my way out, I have to sign out a temp badge to get back in long enough to walk 30 yards down the hall and get my badge? Jesus H, you just watched me walk out, literally 2 seconds ago.

I'd make you sign out a temp badge if you left it in your pocket and didn't have it ready before you walked to the checkpoint.

:cavitysearch:

[Dingfod]

People that throw their trash out of their car windows. The other day I witnessed a older man throw out candy wrappers and soda straw papers as he sat in the QuikTrip parking lot, not more than 10 feet from the trash can, with three small children in the car. Yesterday I saw people throw out drink cups as they were driving down the street. Oklahoma has got to be the trashiest state anyway, assholes like these are to blame. I should write down their license plate number and phone in a child molestation report anonymously. But I won't, that would be way more wronger than littering. Doesn't stop me from being tempted to do them harm in that sort of way.

[Qingdai]

Typing with three stitches in my index finger.

Dog owners, with their dogs off leash in a "must be leashed" area, who yell "he's friendly" to me when I ask my son to take my hand, so as not to be chased by the running dogs.
If they feel as if I am insulting them by "hand leashing" my son, I guess.
Dogs like to chase things, kids like to run.

[godfry n. glad]

People that throw their trash out of their car windows. The other day I witnessed a older man throw out candy wrappers and soda straw papers as he sat in the QuikTrip parking lot, not more than 10 feet from the trash can, with three small children in the car. Yesterday I saw people throw out drink cups as they were driving down the street. Oklahoma has got to be the trashiest state anyway, assholes like these are to blame. I should write down their license plate number and phone in a child molestation report anonymously. But I won't, that would be way more wronger than littering. Doesn't stop me from being tempted to do them harm in that sort of way.

Hmmm...In another thread, I bemoaned the littering habits of my fellow Oregonians, particularly in regards to discarded plastic bottles...like bottled water bottles, and Adam jumped on my case with this,

Where the fuck do you people (OK, I guess mostly godfry, since others have only mentioend it to say that they don't see it) live that there's this plague of discarded drink bottle litter? We don't have any kind of deposit on bottles here, and I rarely see that sort of thing.

Others were not saying that they "don't see it", but evidently either Indiana is a highly pristine state where nobody litters anything, or Adam is going through his life with blinders. I see here that others are noticing the same kind of thing I see here in Oregon...and now...with this from INDOT (http://www.in.gov/indot/3218.htm), I'm fairly sure that Adam is oblivious or in denial after spending the last few years pitching his household garbage out his car window on the way to work. Maybe...

Remember, Adam...If you're not part of the solution, you're the precipitate.

[Crumb]

ok, mickgodfry. :blank:

[godfry n. glad]

What?

I'm not supposed to link two similar trains of thought, from two different threads, without being accused of being a mickthinks clone?

Besides, I used the standard multiquote format, rather than all that colored text.

:pout:

[Dingfod]

Typical Oklahoma roadway:

http://bkneese.com/bradneese/uploads/2008/05/litter_highway_1.jpg

[lisarea]

Typing with three stitches in my index finger.

Dog owners, with their dogs off leash in a "must be leashed" area, who yell "he's friendly" to me when I ask my son to take my hand, so as not to be chased by the running dogs.
If they feel as if I am insulting them by "hand leashing" my son, I guess.
Dogs like to chase things, kids like to run.

This also sucks a LOT when you're walking a dog on leash. Most dogs, when they see other dogs out running around off leash, want to do it too. Whether it's out of a sense of fair play (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/08/dogs-demand-fair-play-or-wont-play-at-all/), or whether it just gets them worked up and in play mode, it can be a huge pain in the ass, especially while a dog is still learning. And, being tethered to their owners, some dogs tend to be leash reactive, so if they sense a dog coming at them aggressively, they can go into protective mode and would be entirely justified in defending against the oncoming dog.

But you know what I LOVE? I LOVE when some asshole is letting his ill-mannered little dogs run around off leash, and they turn around to see them charging at my dog and they come running after them yelling "AQUAMAN! LUNESTA! OH NO! STOP! COME HERE! NOW!" and their dogs don't listen because they never actually trained them. I know my dog is good with other dogs, but they don't. Ha ha.

[Qingdai]

Yes, there is nothing like the "oh shit" look of an off-leashed dog owner realizing his dogs are not going to listen to him.

:laugh: Lunesta! Good to hear dogs are getting the bad pharma names too.

[Adam]

Hmmm...In another thread, I bemoaned the littering habits of my fellow Oregonians, particularly in regards to discarded plastic bottles...like bottled water bottles, and Adam jumped on my case with this,

Yah, like I said in the other thread, I suspect that the difference might be that the burbs are just less littered than urban or rural areas, probably because there aren't as many people walking around.

[Qingdai]

Yell at my three small children, alternating with yelling on my cell phone, mamas, who wait in front of my house for the bus every morning and afternoon.

[godfry n. glad]

Yell at my three small children, alternating with yelling on my cell phone, mamas, who wait in front of my house for the bus every morning and afternoon.

Um...Is that the same thing as yell at your four friends on the bus, who all yell back, often at the same time, and are all within a four foot range of each other?

I was told that was a 'cultural thing' and that I was a bushwa jive-ass honky bigot for even noticing it.

That's what I was taught. I think. I'm not sure I got all those descriptors right.

[Adam]

People who have figured out how to turn their paper forms into PDFs, but not how to just make the damn form as a PDF in the first place and let me fill it out electronically. I cannot tell you how much I love printing out an electronic document, scribbling on it, and scanning it back in.

[mickthinks]

I was told that was a 'cultural thing' and that I was a bushwa jive-ass honky bigot for even noticing it.

An OMGUS derail? :yup: Yeah, that always sucks...

:popcorn:

[Smilin]

[
I was told that was a 'cultural thing' and that I was a bushwa jive-ass honky bigot for even noticing it.



New User title for you GNG... :laugh:

[freemonkey]

My pet peeve today:

people who are so darn special they get to park their cars in the no parking/main traffic lane of the busy supermarket parking lot at lunchtime while waiting for their friend to run and do some shopping. Asshole.

[Qingdai]

Also two parking spot parkers...

But mostly today mandatory meetings.

[freemonkey]

yesterday it was a car with regular plates and no placards parked across two or three handicap spots at the library.

[Miisa]

The over- and faulty use of the word "literally".

[Ensign Steve]

I will literally kill the next person who does that!

[Crumb]

The over- and faulty use of the word "literally".
Oh that's an all-time pet peeve. :sadyup:

[Miisa]

I will literally kill the next person who does that!
:whup:

Great, now my headache is so bad it is literally going to kill me.

[godfry n. glad]

Dipshits who think they can key into whatever electronic device they have in their hands while ambulating. Luckily, I think many will be thinned from the herd. I just saw one today barely avoid pitching headfirst down a set of concrete steps because she was so engrossed in her...addiction. The problem is, I would have had to arranged to have her carcass removed and the stairwell cleaned.

[lisarea]

Fuckwads who either don't know or don't care that their big fucking SUVs and stuff block the view of people in regular passenger cars.

To get just about anywhere here, you have to feed out from a smaller residential street onto a bigger, four lane road, so about half of the time I'm sitting there, waiting to turn right, some dickwad will pull up right next to me in some stupid high profile thing and completely block my view. Every now and again, I'll throw my hands up dramatically and yell at them, but more often than not, now I don't pull along to the side, so they can't fit next to me. (The road isn't marked, so it's not like there's actually a left vs. right turn lane.)

Also, I think parking lots should have rules like drive ins do, where high profile vehicles have to park in the back, because if you get stuck in between two SUVs and have to back out of a space, you are driving totally blind.

[BDS]

Dipshits who think they can key into whatever electronic device they have in their hands while ambulating. .

People who are annoyed by harmless things other people do.

Misuse of "literally" is a vile cliche, but it doesn't particularly annoy me. I do object to the misuse of "comprise" -- because the only reason to use the word in the first place is to sound erudite. Nothing "is comprised of" anything. "Comprise" means "includes comprehensively", and you shouldn't say "is comprised of" any more than you should say, "is included of".

[Crumb]

Dipshits who think they can key into whatever electronic device they have in their hands while ambulating. Luckily, I think many will be thinned from the herd. I just saw one today barely avoid pitching headfirst down a set of concrete steps because she was so engrossed in her...addiction. The problem is, I would have had to arranged to have her carcass removed and the stairwell cleaned.
Teen Too Busy Texting Falls Down A Manhole | Strollerderby | Babble Australia (http://www.babble.com.au/2009/07/15/teen-too-busy-texting-falls-down-a-manhole/)

[freemonkey]

Also, I think parking lots should have rules like drive ins do, where high profile vehicles have to park in the back, because if you get stuck in between two SUVs and have to back out of a space, you are driving totally blind.

Yes! Thank you!

[godfry n. glad]

Dipshits who think they can key into whatever electronic device they have in their hands while ambulating. Luckily, I think many will be thinned from the herd. I just saw one today barely avoid pitching headfirst down a set of concrete steps because she was so engrossed in her...addiction. The problem is, I would have had to arranged to have her carcass removed and the stairwell cleaned.
Teen Too Busy Texting Falls Down A Manhole | Strollerderby | Babble Australia (http://www.babble.com.au/2009/07/15/teen-too-busy-texting-falls-down-a-manhole/)

And what is her family doing? Suing!

Stupidity just might pay off. Stay tuned.

I think I just figured out that BDS is a sleazy private injury lawyer.

[godfry n. glad]

Accident Analysis & Prevention
Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 69-75

Mobile telephones, distracted attention, and pedestrian safety
Jack Nasara, Peter Hechtb and Richard Wenerc

aCity & Regional Planning, Center for Cognitive Science, Center for Criminal Justice Research, The Ohio State University, 231 Knowlton Hall, 275 West Woodruff, Columbus, OH 43210, United States

bTemple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

cPolytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, United States


Received 19 December 2006; revised 13 April 2007; accepted 18 April 2007. Available online 21 May 2007.

Abstract
Driver distraction is a major cause of traffic accidents, with mobile telephones as a key source of distraction. In two studies, we examined distraction of pedestrians associated with mobile phone use. The first had 60 participants walk along a prescribed route, with half of them conversing on a mobile phone, and the other half holding the phone awaiting a potential call, which never came. Comparison of the performance of the groups in recalling objects planted along the route revealed that pedestrians conversing recalled fewer objects than did those not conversing. The second study had three observers record pedestrian behavior of mobile phone users, i-pod users, and pedestrians with neither one at three crosswalks. Mobile phone users crossed unsafely into oncoming traffic significantly more than did either of the other groups. For pedestrians as with drivers, cognitive distraction from mobile phone use reduces situation awareness, increases unsafe behavior, putting pedestrians at greater risk for accidents, and crime victimization.

Status MEDLINE

Authors Taggi F. Crenca A. Cedri C. Giustini M. Dosi G. Marturano P.

Authors Full Name Taggi, F. Crenca, A. Cedri, C. Giustini, M. Dosi, G. Marturano, P.

Institution Dept. Environment and Prevention, Section Environment and Trauma, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. taggi@iss.it

Title: Road safety and the tsunami of cell phones.

Source: Annali di Igiene. 19(3):269-74, 2007 May-Jun.

Abstract In the last years an extremely rapid massive diffusion of the cell phones is occurred. Currently in Italy, as in many other countries, almost all the youngsters and a lot of adults possess a cell phones. This device is enormously useful, but its use can determine negative effects on the user's attention, i.e. during vehicle driving. Numerous epidemiological studies show that cell phone use in driving determines a relative risk of causing a road accident around 4 (equivalent to driving with 0.8 g/l blood alcohol concentration), for both hands-held and hands-free devices. This risk doesn't seem well perceived from the Italian drivers: as our surveys show, the 2.5% of them use a cellular hands-held while driving. This situation appears to evolve toward more critical conditions, given the quick diffusion of ever more technologically advanced instruments, such as video-cell phones, mostly capable of capturing the attention, or TV-cell phones, with which the distracting occasions could be more frequent and prolonged. The use of the cell phone seems to imply an important risk for pedestrians: the first results of the monitoring results that we are producing on this matter in Rome show that the 5.5% of the pedestrians cross the road while talking with a hands-held cell phones, in the most of cases ignoring the traffic conditions at all. All this facts show the urgency to promote specific actions of prevention, in absence of which it is reasonable to foresee a consistent growth in the number of road traffic accidents. In our opinion it is necessary to capillarily inform the public of the signalled risks, possibly also in the advertising spaces of the producers and managers of the cellular telephony, apart obvious repressive actions on the use of the cell phones during the guide of a vehicle.

Status MEDLINE

Authors Hatfield J. Murphy S.

Authors Full Name Hatfield, Julie. Murphy, Susanne.

Institution NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, The University of NSW, Sydney 2052, Australia. j.hatfield@unsw.edu.au

Title: The effects of mobile phone use on pedestrian crossing behaviour at signalized and unsignalized intersections.

Source: Accident Analysis & Prevention. 39(1):197-205, 2007 Jan.

Abstract: Research amongst drivers suggests that pedestrians using mobile telephones may behave riskily while crossing the road, and casual observation suggests concerning levels of pedestrian mobile-use. An observational field survey of 270 females and 276 males was conducted to compare the safety of crossing behaviours for pedestrians using, versus not using, a mobile phone. Amongst females, pedestrians who crossed while talking on a mobile phone crossed more slowly, and were less likely to look at traffic before starting to cross, to wait for traffic to stop, or to look at traffic while crossing, compared to matched controls. For males, pedestrians who crossed while talking on a mobile phone crossed more slowly at unsignalized crossings. These effects suggest that talking on a mobile phone is associated with cognitive distraction that may undermine pedestrian safety. Messages explicitly suggesting techniques for avoiding mobile-use while road crossing may benefit pedestrian safety.

So...BDS?

You've got evidence that this behavior is harmless? Because the evidence I find seems to indicate that it is NOT HARMLESS and becoming more harmful by the moment.

Please post convincing evidence or stfu.

[godfry n. glad]

Oh...I certainly hope you have a cell phone plastered to your ear as much as possible.

Please, make sure you do as much texting as possible on your bicycle rides.

And, make sure that you always have it activated while you drive to work at your sleazy law office. And, don't forget to watch the porn on your dashboard video, too!

What I hate is great ignoramus dumbshits like BDS, who take joy out of other peoples' suffering, pulling their uninformed opinions about other people's safety outta their asses.

[Adam]

:roflcopt:

[Adam]

Oh, peeves:

I'm down with the SUV thing, although I guess I might technically drive one. We have the same deal here, where you have to turn onto a four lane artery from a residential street, and even in my Jeep I can't see over or around them if they pull up next to me.

Also, I hate it when the person at a register acts like me not wanting a bag is the strangest thing they've ever heard. Yah, dipshit, I'm pretty sure my hands, with their opposable thumbs and all, are up to the monumental task of carrying a loaf of bread and a box of cereal without a special container for them.

[Shelli]

People that make every little thing into big, monumental things. :soapbox:

Seriously, get a life, take a pill, whatever, but just :stfu:.

[godfry n. glad]

What's that, Adam? I can't understand you through all that cum gargling.

[Adam]

Can we get a :cumgargle: smiley, liv? Pretty please with semen on top?

[godfry n. glad]

People that make every little thing into big, monumental things. :soapbox:

Seriously, get a life, take a pill, whatever, but just :stfu:.

Senseless deaths are 'every little thing', huh?

Boy, you have a twisted sense of priorities.

[Shelli]

:yawn:

[Naru]

Senseless deaths are 'every little thing', huh?

Boy, you have a twisted sense of priorities.

I wonder how many people die each year from cum gargling. How can you make jokes about such a serious issue?

[Adam]

For just 39 cents a day, the price of a cup of coffee, you can provide a dental dam that could save a life!

[godfry n. glad]

:yawn:

Trying out for the ChuckF cum-garglers?

[Naru]

:yawn:

Trying out for the ChuckF cum-garglers?

The fightin' Cum-Garglers!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KqJ3EOnDjj0/Se8LFtrSk6I/AAAAAAAAAV0/XCdxMTiHeqo/s320/colbert.jpg

[Shelli]

:spew:

[Smilin]

:yawn:

Trying out for the ChuckF cum-garglers?

The fightin' Cum-Garglers!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KqJ3EOnDjj0/Se8LFtrSk6I/AAAAAAAAAV0/XCdxMTiHeqo/s320/colbert.jpg


Is that a picture of Shelli?:huh?::eh?:

[BDS]

Please post convincing evidence or stfu.

--------------------------------
Status MEDLINE


Authors Full Name: Bonavici Desiderius Solari

Institution Dept. Environment and Prevention, Section Environment and Trauma, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.

Title: Road safety and cell phones.

Source: Annali di Igiene. May-June 2010.


Experimenters from the National Institute of Roma measured the ability to drive and walk safely when exposed to watching people talk on cell phones. Both drivers and walkers were observed over a particular route. In one instance, nobody with a cell phone was visible along the route. In the second case, grad students were planted along the route talking on mobile phones, listening to i. Pods and texting messages to each other. Although most people were able to ambulate safely even given the distraction of seeing other people using electronic devices, some went into paroxysms of rage. One subject (Mr. g.n.g.) became so enraged upon seeing a pedestrian text-messaging that he deliberately rammed into her with his car. On another occasion, the same subject began beating his head against a wall upon viewing a pedestrian listening to music on headphones. The recommendation of the National Institute is to deny passports and entry visas to all people irrationally bigoted against electronic devices. Such individuals are extremely dangerous to Italian citizens.
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[Naru]

Is that a picture of Shelli?:huh?::eh?:

:sadno:

But you did give me an excellent idea.


The fightin' Cum-Garglers!
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5699&stc=1&d=1247846505

[lisarea]

OK, you guys done?

It bothers me when little podunk online newspapers don't have any uniquely identifiable location in their mastheads. Things like "Jefferson County's Voice of Reason" or "Serving Springfield and Surrounding Areas" don't really help me.

I know it's probably kind of embarassing to admit that you live in Iowa or Nebraska or whatever, but you don't have to write it big or anything.

You should be flattered that I'm even reading your sad little paper. So just show me a little courtesy and just tell me what state you're in so I know whether I'm reading about hillbillies, peckerwoods, thugs, or rednecks.

[Ensign Steve]

http://cowbirdsinlove.com/comics/petpeeve.png

[lisarea]

It makes me mad when people get mad about split infinitives. Do I win?

[Ensign Steve]

It makes me mad when people get mad about Comic Sans.

Also split infinitives suck unless you're talking about "to boldly go".

[The Lone Ranger]

"To boldy split where no man has split before ..."

[lisarea]

Also split infinitives suck unless you're talking about "to boldly go".

Now you're starting to seriously piss me off!

[Ensign Steve]

Don't make me literally kill you!

[Shelli]

When the top sheet comes undone from the bottom of the bed and my feets are touching blanket. I HATE that. :shakefist:

Hey, it's the little things that count sometimes. :dunno:

[Demimonde]

Also, I hate it when the person at a register acts like me not wanting a bag is the strangest thing they've ever heard. Yah, dipshit, I'm pretty sure my hands, with their opposable thumbs and all, are up to the monumental task of carrying a loaf of bread and a box of cereal without a special container for them.

That bugs me too. Generally, in my neck of the woods, they are good about asking if I want one. I hate it when they automatically bag a pack of gum and hand it to me.

If I get a weird look, I tell them I'm trying to save a plastic tree. Sometimes I get a laugh, sometimes a blank stare.

[Qingdai]

"to boldly split the infinitive where no man has split before...."

That's a great idea ES, I'm allergic to most pets, but pet peeves I can have.
I'll name mine fluffy.

[Plant Woman]

My next pet's name is going to be called Peeves...

[godfry n. glad]

And what's all this shit about split infinitives? This is English, not Latin!

We can boldly go where we damned well please.

[Caligulette]

A while back my cat (or a child - it's really hard to know) chewed through my cell phone charger cord. I bought a new one and it takes a lot of wiggling to get it to show that it's working. I hate this.

[erimir]

Typical Oklahoma roadway:

http://bkneese.com/bradneese/uploads/2008/05/litter_highway_1.jpgWow, that's pretty bad.

I dunno if North Carolina is as pristine as Indiana, but I have to say that I haven't seen a single highway even close to being as bad as that anywhere that I've driven in NC.

I'm sure that there's plenty of littering in NC tho. It probably helps that the area I live in has a $250 fine (ok, it might be less, but it's over $100) for littering too.

Anyway... pet peeves... hmmm... people who spit gum anywhere other than a trashcan. I hate stepping in that shit.

[Adam]

I saw two of another peeve on my way to work this morning: Jeep owners who take their tops down (:bunnythrust:) and can't bothered to do a decent job folding it up and putting it away. No, seriously, people, the entire canvas top will fit into the space behind your back seat if you spend 2 or 3 minutes doing it right. I'll admit that sometimes if I'm in a hurry, I do a sloppy job and it sticks up an inch or two higher than it should, but the people I saw this morning weren't even trying. It looks like they just unclipped the top and shoved it backwards without paying attention to how it landed. Th canvas was literally flapping in the wind behind their Jeeps.