People talk over me ALL THE TIME. I have no idea how to stop it and it drives me nuts.

"Excuse me, I wasn't quite finished yet."

It took years of practicing this phrase but I've almost got it to a habit. Because I'm often very soft-spoken (especially at work), people have been talking over me for years. The first time I said this phrase, everyone fell silent like and looked at me like I'd just whipped my top off. They were that surprised.

I also hate when people say they don't like the taste of water. WTF. It's WATER. That's literally the most "first world problem" thing you can say.

Well, they may mean they don't like the taste of what comes out of the faucet, which will rarely be pure water.

Hey now I can tell you in some places the tap water DOES have a weird taste/texture. That's the case for where I live...and it's full of lime on top of the horrible taste.

Of course there's an easy solution to that: buy a filter.

Hey, I'll say it... I don't like water.

And no, it's not because of the weird taste tap water has.

I'm not saying it to try and be "difficult"... i just don't like the taste of it. The only time that I don't mind drinking it is when I'm working out, but even then I don't find it very refreshing. Also, I HATE drinking it with food. Say I was eating a sandwich... to me, drinking water with that would be the equivalent of pouring water on a piece of bread and eating it.. and who wants to eat wet bread?! lol. I don't know why I think like that, but I do.

If I drink water, I add either a little bit of lemonade to it, or I use those Propel water-flavoring packets. I just don't like plain water.

I work with people who can't stand plain water. I can kinda understand it, because there's additive to tap water that can be funky. But if you were to drink plain distilled water, it tastes like butt. But these are the same people who are addicted to caffiene. I wonder if drinking 6 cups of coffee or 6 pepsi's in a day warp your taste buds to make plain water taste nasty. I have no problem with tap water though.

I'm the same way. I drink either caffeine free Diet Pepsi or caffeine free Diet Dr. Pepper on a daily basis. I make myself drink water when I'm being physically active but I'm like you...I add one of those packets to it.

Though I will say if I drank more water I probably wouldn't have to whiten my teeth as often. And I don't even want them WHITE...I just want them to be stain free and healthy looking. I'm sure downing 6 brown colored drinks a day (even with straws) doesn't help. That only recently occurred to me and I've since bought a bunch of those flavor packets for water bottles.

I drink like 4-5 diet pepsi's a day and 96 ounces of water and I still love the water. It does have to be "good" water though (no nasty tastes in there).

I have a co-worker who drinks out of straws all the time and always has. She now has wrinkles that look like smoker's wrinkles, from her lips being pursed around a straw so muhc. So becareful with the straw usage! It may come back to haunt you in your 50s!

Small desks. I know they have to fit so many in one classroom, but it's so hard to fit everything and still be able to write at the same time. Today we had to have out book, hand-outs, and other junk and literally everyone had stuff falling down or had to have stuff in their lap.

I get you (grew up on well water, so I know from funky water), but I hear people complaining about the taste of bottled water too. My dad does it and it drives me nuts.

I drink water all the time, but mostly tap water and some bottled water tastes nasty, very plastic tasting. I know which brands are least likely to do it, but it seems like I've tasted it in nearly every brand (excepting premium brands like Voss or Fiji and it's not worth my money.) so usually I just drink tap water if I have a water bottle or some other way to ensure that it's cold.

Adding on to my elevators and people-adjusting peeves:

- People who drive in the passing lane at the same speed as the right lane so they're side by side for miles.

- Bad parkers! Whether it's that they are in multiple spaces, or they used a handicapped space, or park on the curb.. Parking is just one of those things that stands out to me.

- People who "like" statuses that aren't positive. ("Sprained my ankle on the stairs" does not constitute a "like" situation, even if the visual is humorous)

- Slow walkers. I only have one speed. Slow isn't it.

- When the boss at work calls me her "sales girl". It makes me cringe but she doesn't use it in a way that is as derogatory as it seems in text so I deal with it.

- Customers who pay with a $100 bill for a $12 thing and are mad that I had to give them 5's and 1's because they took all my large bills.

- People who ask for advice and then don't take what they're given. Don't ask me if you don't want my answer.

That's all I'll post for now. I may come back and edit ;)

This is more of a vet thing but, vet students who are careless with the laser and burn holes in the hot water blanket.

Vet practice owners who are cheap. The ones who have old and/or cheap equipment/material. ex: generic sutures, hemostats that stick really bad, water heaters that overheat, posted signs that say "one soap scrubber per day."

Vet techs who put the wrong equipment in the surgical bags, and then I don't realize it until I'm in the middle of surgery.

Vet techs who forget to express the patient's bladder and then I don't realize it until I'm in the middle of surgery. I shouldn't have to ask, that's your job.

Vet techs who forget to use lidocaine splash. Don't apologize to me, apoligize to the patient.

Vet techs who take forever to put the animal down and or have no clue how to intubate.


I had a really bad day today.:(:mad:

OMG. Just saw a huge pet peeve: People who wear bluetooth headsets 24/7. No one is that important and you look like a HUGGGGGGGEEEEEEE toolbag.

Well, I guess I need to list people saying something is "really unique." Uniqueness is like pregnancy -- there are no degrees of uniqueness.

Thank you. That's the closest I have come to laughing since I got off work. I needed that. :o

This reminds me of the girl from England I knew in college. She pointed out something very interesting that none of us noticed.

D: Look at your water bottles and read the ingredients.
Me: *reads them off* What? Nothing weird that I couldn't pronounce. Why?
D: IT'S WATER. WHY DOES IT HAVE INGREDIENTS??
The rest of the class: :eek:.....:( Never noticed that.

Yeah. With baking soda and all sorts of minerals floating in water (bottled or not), no wonder it often tastes weird. I'll take my little Brita water from home over "flavor-enhancing minerals" any day.

One of the secrets on PostSecret.com this week:

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New pet peeve - people who can't bother to take off their giant Bose headphones when standing in line for food.

I have too many grammar related ones to list, but my current obsession is when people refer to the "heighth" of something. It is length, width and height, not heighth.

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I haven't seen this one. Hilarious, though.:p

Or, "Yes, bitch, all the time. And I look damn good."

They're jealous, or they wouldn't make that comment, and it's rude. I realize being rude back isn't the mature way to go, but sometimes it just feels good. ;)

This is the appraoch I take. LOL

One of my "friends" at work always jokes around that I never eat.. Even though he only sees me eat one meal a day. I'm one of those people who, once I find something to eat that I like, I stick with it. When I first started working there a year ago, I had salads every day, and every day he would make a comment about how I didn't eat.. The salad had chicken, and pasta, and dressing mixed in (along with other veggies), but it didn't matter.. He would always say I was anorexic, and he'd point out if I didn't eat even the last two pieces of lettuce at the bottom of the bowl.

So just a couple months ago, I tried some new things in our cafeteria.. And I haven't been able to stop eating egg salad sandwiches. The first day I got one, I ate the whole thing, and of course he made a comment: "wow, anorexic yesterday, bulimic today." So I said, "yup.. I mean, its kind of a waste of money, but all those calories cost me more in the long run!" And I said the whole thing with a smile on my face.

He still says "wow, good job" when I finish everything on my plate, and makes me feel guilty about starving children in Africa when I don't, but I've learned to make jokes back...

Even though it pisses me off to no end!

:)