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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

People who are trying to hold more then one conversation while on the phone. (i.e. talking to me while talking to someone else on the radio/another phone/that's in person with them)
 
people who leave voicemails, lol
i know its unavoidable sometimes
i just hate listening to them and I hate having the icon on my phone
I used to have google voice transcriber but idk I think it expired or something
 
rangrz said:
People who are trying to hold more then one conversation while on the phone. (i.e. talking to me while talking to someone else on the radio/another phone/that's in person with them)
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addictivepersona said:
That's a huge peeve of mine.
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I hate hate HATE this. I had a b/f once years ago, who used to phone me then proceed to talk to other people in the room and ask me to wait. I used to hang up. I also dislike call waiting although I don't think people use that anymore, it drives me nuts. Again I'd hang up if somebody used to ask me to wait while they checked who it was.

I think some people just like to feel important or something ...
 
^ Being asked to hang on for a minute or two (for call waiting or for an in-person chat) while on the phone with someone is fine. Once. Being asked repeatedly to hang on (or not being asked) while a person chats away with someone in person is where I draw the line and am prone to getting rather irritated and potentially hanging up.
 
I know I'm awful ;) I mean I wouldn't hang up while they were talking, but I'd say, I'm hanging up now and friends would get the message.

Call waiting is so pointless to me but then so many people use it or used to. It's not like it's an emergency with my friends, they're just fickle! Plus if you're in the middle of a conversation and then interrupted I mean come on, that's a bit rude, or it would be in person.

This is turning into more than a pet peeve with me clearly! :X :D
 
As for the sudden in-person conversation that happens while you're on the phone, this happens to me frequently (where I have to juggle the in-person conversation and the phone one). Someone is always walking into my room to talk to me at my house because we're a very close family. I do not find it rude when my mom walks in to say "I love you" or "dinner's ready" or to tell me a quick story. Sometimes, depending on who's on the phone, I'll put them on speaker so we can have a three way conversation.

What do you think of these scenarios?
 
^^ oh totally different! That's really nice to have a chat with someone else as well as the initial person on the phone and I've done that heaps of times. And it's different if it's your mum or whatnot and she's wants to have a chat with you. The b/f I was talking about and a couple of other people, would phone me from work or home, then initiate conversations with other people. There was a sort of self important vibe which annoyed me.

There's ways of doing it for sure.
 
Oooh. I don't like the phrase "drank the Kool-aid" (signifying "became an uncritical true-believer) or the rhetorical question, "[X] much?"

ebola
 
^ Or apostrophes for other characters they couldn't figure out how to type. There's an entire recipe book at a long-term care facility with degree signs as apostrophes.

Bake in oven at 350'F

8)
 
^ It was for oatmeal cookies. :D

Peeve that has been done to death: People in their cars who get too f'ing close! Nothing like sitting in a car with someone driving who keeps inching up, inching up, 'til they're nearly bumper to bumper with the car ahead. If this type of driving is mandatory in the city, as I have been told a few times ("that's just how we drive"), I'll stay away thank you very much.
 
It is sorta just what happens in the city though. Everyones trying to get to their next destination in under an hour (the standard time for driving to the other part of your section of town), and we dont waste space. I get it, like its annoying, I hate getting tailgated, and I dont enjoy doing it to others, but in city traffic its needed to get anywhere. If you dont inch up, youre just telling the person next to you "ok sure cut right in that two inch crack between me and the car in front of me".

As dicky as it is to say it, its not something youll understand until you live/drive in the city.
 
^ Yeah, I guess you're right. I lived in a small city for a year but did not drive during that time, nor did I really drive with anybody (mass transit / walking / biking for the win!).

I noticed something similar a few weeks ago, now that you mention it: I was driving on a city highway that is rather busy in the morning (it was the 33 for anyone in the Buffalo region). Posted speed limit is 55 but everyone does 60+ despite the twists and turns and overall busyness. I was driving in the right lane keeping pace with traffic and left about two car lengths between the person in front of me and myself (I usually leave much more, but couldn't really), and sure enough, somebody squeezed in there.

All of this just cements the fact that if I ever live in a city (which is highly doubtful), I won't be using a car as my primary method of transportation.
 
addictivepersona said:
All of this just cements the fact that if I ever live in a city (which is highly doubtful), I won't be using a car as my primary method of transportation.
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Good luck, there arent many metropolitan cities with proper public transit systems anymore, save for New York and San Francisco (at least in my experience).

Many metropolitan cities, which you would think would have the best public transit, often have the worst. Lack of a subway system, or a subway system that goes nowhere important (as in LA's case), and the lack of quick busses or proper bus routes. Here in LA there are certain busses which come every 15 minutes, and some that come once an hour. It makes traveling via bus or subway so annoying and such a hassle that driving is the only option left.
 
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