What's your biggest pet peeve? - Page 6

KSUViolet06 · #1 03-07-2011, 08:37 PM

Being invited to any sort of "home sales party."

Mary Kay, PartyLite, Pampered Chef, Creative Memories, you name it.

Do not want. So don't invite me. If you invite me, I will say "no thanks."

christiangirl · #2 03-07-2011, 10:35 PM

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Interrupting people or talking while someone else is talking.(specifically in class towards professors) You may not find what they're saying interesting or valuable, but I do.

Me at work: "So like I was saying, I really think it would be helpful to just--"
New supervisor: "ABSOLUTELY, I completely agree, you don't have to sell me on it because I've been in this business for a long time and I totally get it."

Translation: I don't really care about your ideas so I'm going to interrupt before the sentence is finished and proceed to talk over you, making it obvious that I'm not listening.

SMTTT · #3 03-07-2011, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

Me at work: "So like I was saying, I really think it would be helpful to just--"
New supervisor: "ABSOLUTELY, I completely agree, you don't have to sell me on it because I've been in this business for a long time and I totally get it."

Translation: I don't really care about your ideas so I'm going to interrupt before the sentence is finished and proceed to talk over you, making it obvious that I'm not listening.

Exactly.

A new one I've found today. I hate it when people won't let me put their drink down on the counter. They're always in such a rush that they have to grab it from my hand which could make them spill and burn themselves.

Please, give me 2 seconds to put his down so you don't have to sue me.

Jen · #4 03-07-2011, 10:48 PM

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

christiangirl · #5 03-07-2011, 10:52 PM

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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.

ADqtPiMel · #6 03-08-2011, 07:56 AM

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.

MysticCat · #7 03-08-2011, 10:02 AM

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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.

ADqtPiMel · #8 03-08-2011, 03:12 PM

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

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.

Alumiyum · #9 03-08-2011, 10:07 AM

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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.

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.

ASTalumna06 · #10 03-08-2011, 10:16 AM

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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.

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.

Alumiyum · #11 03-08-2011, 10:29 AM

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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'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.

IrishLake · #12 03-08-2011, 10:21 AM

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.

SMTTT · #13 03-08-2011, 02:29 PM

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.

TPA85 · #14 03-08-2011, 03:52 PM

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

cheerfulgreek · #15 03-08-2011, 04:14 PM

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.