Pet Peeve Thread...Thanks Quicksilver!

[footsurg]

For me the worst has got to be when I see someone throw a cigarette butt out of their car window. Especially when the car is in motion and in front of me and the damn thing hits my windshield. Smoking is one of the nastiest habits one could have in general. Its so nasty apparently that the ones who do it can't stand to smell their own used cigarette butts in their cars. So they have the unmitigated gall to litter the rest of the world with the refuse of their own nasty habit that is apparently so vile that they can't tollerate the smell of it in their own vehicles. This behavor is indicitive of someone who has no regard for anything but themselves. I take it back. If they cared about themselves they would be nonsmokers.

Mark

[Thunder22]

1) People who can't follow simple directions

2) People who don't follow through on a commitment

3) People who decide to pay the .81 in change by fishing through their pockets/wallets/purses (that have about $5 in change stuffed into them) after they're done with their conversation with their friend in front of them in line. The kicker is when they act surprised that their lunch doesn't cost an even $6 and THEN decide to start fishing for change.

4) People who ride the EZPass lane who don't have EZPass and then decide to move to the cash lane at the choke point and tie up 4 lanes of traffic (anyone who has ever taken the upper deck of the GW Bridge into NYC will undoubtedly have experienced this one)

5) People who blame society for how they turned out.

6) EXTREME left wing Liberals (not your every day run of the mill liberal, but the extreme left wing liberal.

7) EXTREME right wing conservatives. (not your every day run of the mill conservative, but the extreme right wing liberal)

8) Anyone who doesn't admit that they bought a high end car "just because they wanted it"

9) Met/Jet/Devil/Islander fans. oh, and Bosux fans.

10) People who park next to my vette when I've purposely parked 100 yards from the closest entrance where no one has parked in about 10 years.

11) When people who work for me use some stupid excuse for why they're late when they don't have to be in he office until 10 as it is. And THEN leave before 6 as if they're entitled because it wasn't their fault that they were late.

12) People who use the phrase "i could care less". just for the record the phrase is "I COULDN'T care less", if you COULD care less, you obviously care.

13) Fans who stand up in front of you at sporting events looking for their wallets to pay the concession guy $8 for the cotton candy and funny hat for their 4 year old kid who hasn't watched 2 minutes of the game, and who fail to realize/consider the hundreds of people sitting down behind him who are now blocked from seeing the sporting event that they paid to come see because you can't get your wallet out of your pants while sitting.

14) Anyone who watches the "OC" for the plot

15) All HUMMER owners

16) People who die their hair purple and then pierce various parts of their anatomy and then get an attitude when you gawk at them for being different.

17) My parents who screen every phone call at their house by looking at the caller ID and yet, despite the fact that I've had the same phone numbers for over 3 years, they still let the answering machine pick up because they "didn't recognize the number"

18) People who stand in the doorway of the subway car and don't get out of the way when you're trying to get on or off the train. And then give you attitude when you push through them (even though you've said excuse me about 5 times)

19) People who blame/curse at the cop for giving them a speeding ticket despite the fact that they were in fact speeding and deserve said ticket.

20) People who ride the shoulder to get ahead of the traffic jam and then cut back into traffic up ahead, as if wherever they are going is more important than the hundreds of people that they just jumped ahead of.


and #21 - People who have a long list of pet peeves

[Thunder22]

sorry 1 more -

#22 - My mother who likes to leave me phone messages saying "when you hvae a minute, please call me back, i have a question" instead of leaving the question as the message so that when I call back I have an answer or leave the answer on her machine if she's not home, instead we play phone tag until I drag the question out of her. BTW - the question is usually computer help related and by the time we actually speak, she has either forgotten the problem or is incapable of describing what happened, OR, my all time favorite, she received an email from someone she didn't know and wants to know if she should open it or just delete it.

[rangerfan]

People who call my house and then my cell phone looking for me, but decide not to leave a message, especially when they call at night when we're putting the kids to bed and the darn phones just don't stop ringing (yo, bor-in-law, I'm talking to you!).

[Thunder22]

People who go to a fast food joint like McDonalds and stand there staring at the menu over their head trying to decide what they want when the damn menu hasn't changed significantly in about 50 years. (Not to mention that they had about 10 minutes to decide while they were waiting for the people in front of them to stop staring at the menu it's a viscious cycle)

[Carbon Schwarz]

Originally Posted by footsurg

For me the worst has got to be when I see someone throw a cigarette butt out of their car window. Especially when the car is in motion and in front of me and the damn thing hits my windshield. Smoking is one of the nastiest habits one could have in general. Its so nasty apparently that the ones who do it can't stand to smell their own used cigarette butts in their cars. So they have the unmitigated gall to litter the rest of the world with the refuse of their own nasty habit that is apparently so vile that they can't tollerate the smell of it in their own vehicles. This behavor is indicitive of someone who has no regard for anything but themselves. I take it back. If they cared about themselves they would be nonsmokers.

Mark

WOW! I couldn't agree more with you. Aside from how disgusting the act of smoking is, the loitering of a lit butt out a car window has contributed to numerous grass/forest fires....some of which destroyed million dollar homes in B.C.