Non-religious pet peeves

[The Magic Pudding]

I've just noticed this, and maybe it's incredibly petty of me, but people who over use their wiper blades. Three drops of rain on the windshield and your wipers are about to launch your car off the ground...it just makes me feel like you're emotionally unbalanced or something...    It only takes the one drop for me to switch on the wipers?

So do you don't deny your over use of wipers confirms your emotional wobbliness?
I think an over use of wipers leaves my windscreen kind of smeary.
(my spell checker hasn't complained about smeary or wobbliness)

[fester30]

I've just noticed this, and maybe it's incredibly petty of me, but people who over use their wiper blades. Three drops of rain on the windshield and your wipers are about to launch your car off the ground...it just makes me feel like you're emotionally unbalanced or something...    It only takes the one drop for me to switch on the wipers?

So do you don't deny your over use of wipers confirms your emotional wobbliness?
I think an over use of wipers leaves my windscreen kind of smeary.
(my spell checker hasn't complained about smeary or wobbliness)

Ah another pet peeve.  Spellcheck and grammar check are annoying to me, in computer or human form.  I can't stand a dictionary thumper any more than I can stand a Bible thumper.  The dictionary was never meant to be a rulebook for the use of the language, but rather to describe the language and its use.  This is why word definitions are updated and words are added every few years or so.  Ain't ain't a word because it ain't in the dictionary... that used to be true.  Now ain't is in the dictionary because of its common use, as is the verb google (which accompanies the noun, which is a number comprising of 1 followed by 100 zeroes) and the adjective ginormous.

So just because I can't speel doesn't mean I ain't smairt!

[Tank]

I've just noticed this, and maybe it's incredibly petty of me, but people who over use their wiper blades. Three drops of rain on the windshield and your wipers are about to launch your car off the ground...it just makes me feel like you're emotionally unbalanced or something...    It only takes the one drop for me to switch on the wipers?

So do you don't deny your over use of wipers confirms your emotional wobbliness?
I think an over use of wipers leaves my windscreen kind of smeary.
(my spell checker hasn't complained about smeary or wobbliness)

Oh I am definitely emotionally wobbly  

[The Magic Pudding]

So just because I can't speel doesn't mean I ain't smairt!

There's some talk about - "I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" here
 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/25/spelling/

[februarystars]

Immature roommates. -_-

[februarystars]

Also, every time I click on the "Getting To Know You" section of the forum, this goddamn song gets stuck in my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aVbJhg23Aoo

[Tank]

Immature roommates. -_-

Mature roommates -_-

[februarystars]

Immature roommates. -_-

Mature roommates -_-

Mine asked if she could borrow my only baking dish and bring it to her boyfriend's place so they could make brownies for her sister's bake sale. When I told her I needed it because I was also planning on making brownies today for my friends, she says "Ugh!" and walks out of our apartment, slamming the door.

My heart is oh so broken, but I'm sure these will fill the void.

[fester30]

Immature roommates. -_-

Mature roommates -_-

Mine asked if she could borrow my only baking dish and bring it to her boyfriend's place so they could make brownies for her sister's bake sale. When I told her I needed it because I was also planning on making brownies today for my friends, she says "Ugh!" and walks out of our apartment, slamming the door.

My heart is oh so broken, but I'm sure these will fill the void.

I'm running 5 miles a day, 5 days a week, and doing yardwork the 6th day.  I'm watching what I eat and really trying to get into really good shape.  Then I see the link you posted.  You're an evil heathen!  

[Twentythree]

This one may be a bit irrational but I’ve got some rational reasoning behind it. And it seems pertinent now as I am at work.

Pet peeve: Eating at your desk.

In my office there is one small kitchen and one giant break room/kitchen with tables, chairs, utensils, napkins, condiments and a door that will close. So why is it that at any point during the day I can make a lap around my floor and see people eating at their desk. Not just tiny snacks, which by the way I also find enormously annoying, but full bowls of cereal, leftovers from home, breakfast burritos and sorts of other meal scale food items consumed right at the work station. There are several multiple reasons that this makes me “peeved”, let me count the ways:

1.   It smells. No matter what it is, chips, popcorn, or a salmon fillet is smells. Not only while you’re eating it but it also smells in the open trash can by your feet where you throw it when your done.
2.   I can hear you. No matter how hard you try to be stealthy, I can hear you much, crunch, slurp and swallow. No matter what type of food it is in a quiet office like this it sounds gross. Again, there is a room with a close-able door designed to keep your food smells and sounds contained.
3.   You’ve had a lunch break! This one really gets me. Everyone here gets a lunch break of one full hour exactly at noon. This hour is designed to allow people enough time to eat, as a matter of fact our lunches are catered and delivered by various vendors everyday so there is no reason to have to leave the building to get food. Yet some people like to go run errands or take naps or jog during their lunch hour. Thus leaving them hungry and unfed after their allotted lunch hour and subsequently these individuals will consume their full meal of course at their desk. These people are getting paid to eat a meal they should have eaten an hour ago, and now I am forced to hear and smell it…

Ok I know I probably sound a bit crazy, but I’ve worked at this same place for over 5 years so this particular peeve has had adequate time to carve a sufficient rut in my psyche. I feel better just having typed this. Thanks for listening to my rant.

[Melmoth]

Ok I know I probably sound a bit crazy, but I’ve worked at this same place for over 5 years so this particular peeve has had adequate time to carve a sufficient rut in my psyche. I feel better just having typed this. Thanks for listening to my rant.

Yep, you do sound a bit crazy. But in a very good way.

I actually read your post aloud to myself in an angry, authoritarian German accent, which was brilliant fun. "Zer is a room vith a clozeable door dezigned to contain your food zounds!" "EVZYVAN here getz a lunch break of prezisely VON FULL HOUR, exactly at NOON! Zis hour is DEZIGNED to allow enough time to eat your foodz!" etc.

[Ulver]

I would be one of those people who would annoy you then  

[Ulver]

Ok I know I probably sound a bit crazy, but I’ve worked at this same place for over 5 years so this particular peeve has had adequate time to carve a sufficient rut in my psyche. I feel better just having typed this. Thanks for listening to my rant.

Yep, you do sound a bit crazy. But in a very good way.

I actually read your post aloud to myself in an angry, authoritarian German accent, which was brilliant fun. "Zer is a room vith a clozeable door dezigned to contain your food zounds!" "EVZYVAN here getz a lunch break of prezisely VON FULL HOUR, exactly at NOON! Zis hour is DEZIGNED to allow enough time to eat your foodz!" etc.

Funny, I just replied with a German accent and I didn't even read this haha!
I must admit, I eat at my desk. Mostly because I don't go out for my break because my supervisor gets annoyed when I leave. heh, but I agree with the peeve, food at work is gross.

[februarystars]

I'm running 5 miles a day, 5 days a week, and doing yardwork the 6th day.  I'm watching what I eat and really trying to get into really good shape.  Then I see the link you posted.  You're an evil heathen!  

Haha sorry! I'm also working out every day (not 5 miles, yikes) and eating (mostly) healthy to get fit. That's why I'm making the brownies for my friends. I just want one (ok maybe two) and then the rest of them have to get out of my house!

[proudfootz]

Smoking indoors. And I'm a smoker.

When I was a smoker I hated smoking outside.