Hee Hee! You crack me up! ($10 says she'd drop the baby to catch the ball, all the while continuing her conversation)

My pet peeves:

1) I, too, am terrified of truck drivers. They drive like maniacs, and I HATE when you are in the center lane on the highway and you get stuck between two. It's all you can do to floor it and wait until you are past them.

2) People looking over my shoulder when I am reading, writing, etc. I know that if I am reading a magazine something may have caught your attention but get your own - I HATE feeling like I am being spied on.

3)People who make really passive-aggressive comments... or talk about you behind your back. If you have a problem with me, please tell me directly...

4) When your drunk friends start making crazy demands - like when you are at one party and everyone is drunk and then they start demanding that (drunk) friends drive them places - its a pain in the ass AND its dangerous.

I have too many pet peeves to list, but here is one that has really been annoying me lately:

When you are trying to get off the elevator and the person waiting for it tries to push his/ her way on without letting you off.....that is SO ANNOYING! Living in dorms, you see stupid stuff everyday that just grate on your last nerves that you have left....
more later!!

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I hear you on that one! My junior year in high school, my parents were taking me to visit a school out of state. As we were getting on I-81, a truck driver decides he needs to get off at that exit, and of course he's over in the left lane. So he comes flying over, and thank God for my dad's quick reaction and his slamming on the brakes, or my whole family would have been dead!

Some other pet peeves of mine (Most have probably already been said):

-Anything grammatical. I know it's "no big deal" but it drives me nuts when people don't know the difference between "you're" and "your," "their" and "they're," "then" and "than," etc.

-When you're on one of those highways with one lane going each way and the person in front of you is going 10 miles below the speed limit, and when you FINALLY get to a passing zone, one of two things happens. Either every car in the world is coming on the other side, or even worse, the slow person speeds up so you can't pass them. Then of course once you're in a no passing zone again, they slow down.

-When you're on the interstate, in the left lane, and the person in front of you is going slow. As if that isn't bad enough, you can't change lanes, and the person behind you is tailgating you. Do they really think they're going to get anywhere any faster by doing that???

-I work at my school's information desk. I can't stand it when people call and ask for a phone number, and when I start to give it to them they say, "Wait! Let me get something to write with!" Okay, you knew you were calling for a phone number, why didn't you have the pen and paper ready??? It also annoys me when, as soon as I answer the phone, they ask if they can put me on hold.

-When my roommate knows I have a huge test at 8 am, but she still comes in drunk at 3 am and WAKES ME UP to tell me she's drunk!

I could go on... but I won't. Pretty much everything everyone has said annoys me beyond belief.

Were we separated from birth? You couldn't have said it any better! I need to show this post to a good friend of mine. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

I am the self appointed apostrophe Nazi. I hate it when people do not know the difference between plural and possessive.

For example, you see things like "Your friend's love you!" It never ceases to amaze me how people dont' realize that this should be PLURAL, not POSSESSIVE, people!

I've decided I'm going to start carrying around a red marker and correcting all the signs I see in public that are incorrect http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif

And I need to show this post to my mom!

I so agree with EVERYTHING here! I am a very annoyed person in general, I think. It takes very little to annoy me. Not patient at all!

But, after all the talk about highways and turn signals, here's one that I didn't see often enough (just once from hootie!) USe your turn signals! They are there for a reason and no, they are not an optional instrument on your vehicle, like the 6 CD changer!

I am always driving and behind some slow driver and suddenly they start putting on the brakes and slowing and slowing down to like 10 mph. I'm like WHAT? Is there a dead animal in the raod? Is there an emergency of some sort? No, the person just wanted to turn onto a side street. Thanks, pal. I coulda passed you long ago if you had put the turn signal on!

Or, when you are waiting to turn onto a major street, but a person is coming, so you wait. Oh, but all of the sudden!! My goodness, they turn onto your street! Again, I coulda turned long ago if you had used your turn signal, pal!

And finally, as far as grammar. I hate it when people say things like could of or would of when they really mean could have or would have. I Know, I just wrote coulda myself, as a sort of shorthand, but really, I think this just shows sloppiness in pronunciation, since people always slur it when they say it. That's fine, but when you type it, you should know what you're writing!

Arrrrgghh! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif ha ha

People who get on the elevator before the people getting off are off.

People who pass a parking space then try to back up into you when someone they've just passed decides to pull out--move along buddy--ya missed it!

People who, when I am hunched down over my desk with a look of concentration on my face and papers strew everywhere, say-- are you busy? and proceed to tell you about a broken finger nail or some such trivial detail in miniute detail before you growl I AM BUSY.

traffic in general. if everyone is moving, why does it stop.

Leaving the toilet seat up-- and by this I mean the cover. I don't want to look in the bowl, it was down when you went into my bathroom, leave it as you found it.

Shoes on the floor. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Yeah this is a REALLY picky one, but they MUST go back into their box in the closet when they come off my feet.

SUV's and other monster sized trucks that park in a COMPACT space. What is that anyway--??!!

OK, I better stop--I'm really not THAT bad. haha

Amy

People who call Alpha Chi Omega "A-ChiO", instead of "Alpha Chi". Members do this, and it drives me batty. There is a "Chi-O", and then there's us. Grrrr...

Hypocrites. I dislike people who don't live by their own standards greatly. I had/have (?) a friend who told me for months how I needed to set limits with my boyfriend, how I was going too fast, etc. Then, she starts practically living with her boyfriend of 4 weeks...did she set those "limits"? Like I said, I hate hypocrites.

Oh yeah, I had to add my two cents on the speed bump thing! I thought I was the only one! You don't buy a 4 wheel drive vehicle to go over speed bumps at 2 mph!

I especially hate it because on my residential street, there are little dips that kind of serve the same purpose, but also divert water. So, people in SUVs and trucks almost come to a complete stop on those dips that are actually depressions of about 2" into the ground! GRRRRR! And then I, in my little tiny hatchback drive over it at 15 or 20 mph. You are not going to damage your Ford Excursion by driving over a 2" depression at 10-15 mph!!!

Good call, fellow USC Trojan. My office building has quite a few of these SUVs, trucks that park in compact spaces.
I've taken license plate numbers and called our building security office to report improperly parked vehicles.
One GMC Yukon owner got a warning that the vehicle would be towed -- that car was parked in the proper space the next time. Heh, heh.

There's a lot of highway stuff on here so I'll add one more: The brake spaz! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

You know those people who's approach to highway driving is to get really close to the car in front of them and then hit their brakes every ten seconds!! It makes me really nervous when the brake lights in front of me are going off constantly. For god's sake - back off a little and learn to anticipate the appropriate speed using your gas and gears.

PET PEEVE:

1)People who yell at me about things I can't change

Example: I work in my schools library and up until Monday we've had shorten hours. So one day dude comes in and starts asking me work related questions(where things are, how things work ect) so when he found out that we closed at 6 instead of 10 he went crazy saying that if he had his way the library would be open 24/7. So he leaves and comes back and says that we need a sign posted so that people wouldn't get upset about the library closing early


2) People who don't say excuse me when they bump into you. I was about to cut people at Jazzfest over this.

2a)People who don't say Thank you after you have held the door open for you or let them pass

3)People let the door slam in your face when you're behind them

It annoys me when people call my sorority "Tri Sig." I don't blame the people, because they don't know better, but it still gets on my nerves! I'm sure that even a lot of Tri Sigma sisters do it. My chapter does NOT, however, and I'll tell you why. There is a gay fraternity (not that there's anything wrong with that) that calls itself "Tri Sig" (Why? I have no idea). Being a sorority that was around long before this organization was, we don't really like being confused with that.