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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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Not being able to sleep on cue! I've been trying to sleep since 5.30 and now it's 8am dammit.

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^^ Good luck getting it in Australia though ;)
(it's called Stilnox here)

sa, try some herbal remedies like valerian root extract. That's what I'm currently using and it's working well so far!

My pet peeve of today is being indecisive about what I want to eat. It's caused me to not actually eat anything today, and now I'm so hungry but I don't know what I want dammit! :!
 
prayersfor.rain said:
It really fucking annoys me when someone points to a spot in an online form that says NAME and they're like, "Name. It says name. What do I put there?"
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Haha, this happened to me the other day. A new girl I was training was asking me about the contract, and she said 'when it says sign here, what do I put?'

Wait, what?! I didn't know people that dumb existed.
 
My pet-peeve of the weekend: Having to clean bits of hamburger out of the sink strainer. I'm Vegan and my omnivorous mother does not clean up after herself, lol.
 
PARKING FUCKING LOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMFGGGG I RAGEEEEE harder there than almost anywhere else in the world. Holy shit, I cannot fathom what happens to people when they are in a parking lot. All people, the drivers, the fucking MEANDERING pedestrians, the cart guys, THE CARS SITTING IN FRONT OF THE STORE. Someone should SERIOUSLY consider doing a study about this... because SOMETHING causes the vast majority of the population to revert back to 4th grade (at best) when they get in a magical parking lot.

There are ENDLESS number of types of complete idiocy in these lost:

1. The Oblivious: I 'guess' they're driving sorta normal IF THERE WERE NO CARS WITHIN THE ENTIRE PARKING LOT. These are the ones who drive through the 'empty' lanes and are CONFUSED when a person who is driving down the lane is hesitant to keep going. JUST STAY IN THE LINES!!! NOT HARD. These are also the people who are fucking with the kids in the back, eating pretzels, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW, but they're doing something else and assume everything will be ok just aimlessly wandering through the parking lot. 8(8(8(

2. The Idiot Backer Uppers: Cousin to the oblivious these are the people who start backing up without thinking OH SHIT MAYBE MY TINY ASS CAR CAN'T BE SEEN BY MY COUSIN THE OBLIVIOUS. Nevermind someone with a cart. Then, when they do see someone MASS CONFUSION. Oh WHO GOES??!?! This of course spurs the insufferable stop and go between vehicles and people. cart person barely moves, car backs up, brakes slam, more of cart, oh god thinking about this RAAAAAGEEEE. UGgghhhh this could be avoided!!!

3. The Wandering Children: I'm not actually talking about children because they're MORE responsible than these people. The people with a cart who walk in the WORST possible path for traffic. They seriously either 1. don't think or 2., and worse, think 'OH THOSE CARS, THEY'LL STOP'. Be a normal human being. Follow the rules of traffic, NO I MEAN COMMON SENSE!!!

4. The Idiot 'Waiters': The cars who park on the 'side' of the MAIN road of the parking lot because the other person with them will be 'in and out' (we all know this isn't true). Are you that lazy you can't park and go in with the other person???? The answer is clearly YES. That's pathetic and REALLY annoying.

Ok, the list goes on but I just HATE parking lots. I always feel I've got a 95% chance of getting hit by one of the above or endless other unimaginable IDIOTS. :X :X :X
 
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1)People who have VERY loud cell phone conversations in closed public spaces or even as they walk in the street.

2) Motorists who lean on the horn as a pedestrian is crossing or even motorists who do so in traffic. Unless you have a medical emergency, simply leave a bit earlier.

3) Parents who are oblivious to young children, letting them scream or run at random, especially when I see 2 or 3 women engrossed in conversation while their 3 year old child runs around a block behind them.

4)People who smoke toboacco in public.

5) Rude retail workers. If you are not a "people person" get another fuc*en' job.
 
Oooooh, have to add 2 huge ones, both inter-connected;

6) Voice prompted customer service lines. "Press#1 for English please...I am sorry. I did not understand your answer. Please press#1 for Englishhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

and

7) Call centres located in non-English speaking nations. Getting a problem with my cell phone in New Yotk City makes it difficult for "Bernie" in Sri Lanka to register my issue.

"Apu" from "Squishy Mart"very well may be the nicest chap in Colombo...or Chennai...or Cebu but I want someone that I, a non-native English speaker, can easily understand.

You get the idea.
 
Really, the amount of noise in my neighborhood lately. It's warm enough here to have the windows open all the time, so now I have to listen to upwards of 10 dogs barking AT NOTHING all day and night. And just today some child right across the street from me just got a drum kit which is set up outside, so I've been hearing a lot of loud, arrhythmic clatter since, oh, about 7:00 this morning.

It's enough that I'm considering moving across town to a quieter (and less expensive) location.
 
This one... is about cell phones, and the people who use them:

...If you have a cell phone, with a full qwerty keyboard...why the FUCK are you still so goddamn lazy, that you can't actually type words out? & for that matter, why the fuck can't you form actual sentences? I mean, seriously. I understand, you're trying to text because it's quicker. I really do. But, do you have to sound like a complete and total fucking douche bag, while doing it?

I mean, if you're not actually going to use the keyboard, what was the fucking point of getting a phone that has one? Why not just get a regular flip phone? You fucking aggravate me, and you wonder why I don't fucking text you back that often. "What doing?" is fucking stupid. "What are you doing?" would be better, and you'd sound a TAD bit fucking smarter, and maybe then, I MIGHT reply to your fucking texts. Goddamn, you fucking asshole.

Spell out your words, and quit abbreviating. How much longer is going to take you to actually spell out "you," seriously? 0.000002 of a second? QUIT BEING SO GODDAMN LAZY, YOU FUCKING DOUCHE BAG.

/rant.
 
rachamim said:
6) Voice prompted customer service lines. "Press#1 for English please...I am sorry. I did not understand your answer. Please press#1 for Englishhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
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I had an extremely amusing experience along the same lines the other day :D

I rang a courier company in the US (I had shipped a package from work to somewhere in Oregon and it was held up in customs), and I was connected to a voice-recognition thingy. The prompts were as follows:

Voice: "Do you wish to track a parcel already sent? Please say Yes or No now"
Me: "Yes"

Voice: "Was this parcel sent from within the United States? Please say Yes or No now"
Me: "No"

Voice: "I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear that. Please say Yes or No now"
Me: "No"

Voice: "I'm sorry, you'll have to repeat your answer. Please say in a clear voice either Yes or No now"
Me: "No"

Voice: ".....You are now being connected to an operator"


Clearly it couldn't understand my CRAZY Australian accent 8) :D
 
^Yeah, I especially loathe all the left lane cruisers on I-65. Do these fucking morons forget you're supposed to stay to the right? Nothing worse than being held up in a long line of cars only to get to the front and see some asshole just cruising away in the left lane. They should be thankful I can't incinerate anything with my mind.
 
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present with you while you are being questioned. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.”

It should be "can and might" instead of "can and will." Or "anything self-incriminating..."

If I get arrested for theft and then immediately say "I like long walks on the beach," then I expect that to be used against me in court!

I know that "say" probably carries this understanding, but still it's a pet peeve. Why not just phrase it slightly differently?
 
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