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To ask whats your biggest pet peeve

138 replies

TheLoneWolfDies · 20/03/2019 22:04

Just curious to see what really gets on peoples nerves?
Heres just a couple of mine..
-Loud chewers.
-People who are rude to anyone working in customer service.
-Mopeds.
-The fact that DP rolls his socks off his feet and everytime I'm doing the washing i have to go through it and open out the socks (this is a big one)
-The colour yellow 😂

OP posts:
MissLadyM · 21/03/2019 01:32

Posters who can't do paragraphs

LimeKiwi · 21/03/2019 01:57

Not RTFT
"Animals dressed as humans"
Sorry, big Friends fan lol

givemesteel · 21/03/2019 02:27

Yes, loud chewing definitely, I've got one in my husband, I could definitely gag him with gaffer tape sometimes.
Drivers who use their horns over the slightest thing, makes life so unpleasant
Smug vegans/vegetarians /low carbers/dieters espousing wisdom
Errant / misused apostrophes or you're / your type mistakes
Political hypocrisy, do as I say not as I do, especially over either the environment (looking at you, Prince Harry) or private school
Bothering to go high Street shopping then never finding the right size and reminding myself that this is why online shopping is easier and the high Street is probably doomed
Bad child behaviour in soft play
Parents not telling their kid off when at my house for a playdate so I have to

UnfinishedUsernam · 21/03/2019 02:37

Posters who can't do full stops.

Monty27 · 21/03/2019 02:42

They miaow too loudly Bear

Redrupunzle · 21/03/2019 03:03

Lateness. A valid excuse is okay but someone who is just late as a person really drives me up the wall. Dr/dentist being late infuriates me. My mum who is always 15mins late but then uses the excuse of "the traffic on X road is horrendous".

"Grr it always is mother, you know that but in reality it only delays you by 2 mins, why you're 15mins late is you!!"

And people using their kids as excuse to be late. Again a couple if minutes i can just about bare but when it's every bloody time, start getting a them ready sooner!

Sorry to rant, lateness is my biggest peeve. If I'm not 5 mins early I'm late (although I don't expect others to be 5mins early)

lboogy · 21/03/2019 03:10

People who stand very close to me in a queue

People who eat chicken while walking and throw the bones in their wake

Litter bugs

Street drinking

Brilliantidiot · 21/03/2019 03:38

People who order a Guinness last, after a mammoth round, and drink it themselves, so know how long it takes to pour a proper pint of it, and then moan because they're kept waiting.
(Mainly MC) Men who hit on me at the bar when I'm working and think it's acceptable to touch my arse, comment on my weight, boob size and shape. And then accuse me of bad customer service and being rude when I ask them to fuck off not.
The fact trip advisor and the like publishes names on reviews without consent. It may only be first names but I live and work in a small area, and have an unusual name.
And I'll add to those that have said people who don't indicate - those that don't indicate they're turning into a road I'm about to cross, and start crossing because they're not indicating, and then get almost flattened, huffed at and beeped at. Indicate then you fuckwit, I'm not a mind reader.

Plump82 · 21/03/2019 05:48

People who barge on the train despite being the last one on the platform and turning up seconds before the train arrives.

FraggleRocking · 21/03/2019 06:00

I’m quite easily peeved but some top ones are:
Slow walkers,
Drivers not indicating,
Littering - all bothers me but I get particularly riled when someone throws litter out of their car window. There must be a bin at your destination - just wait.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 21/03/2019 06:02

People who are rude at checkouts. There are so many ways to stand in a queue and wait your turn, none involve huffing and puffing because you think you're more important than the other people there.

People who see no wrong with their darling children and never accept their precious is in the wrong. Their darlings will be the next generation of entitled arseholes standing behind me in the checkout queue.

People who push in at the bar. They really, really don't like being called out on it, but the older I get the happier I am to say "er, you weren't next mate" and point to the person who was while the pusher-inner huffs (in fact lets just accept that everyone who huffs and puffs is an arsehole).

Anyone who drives like an arsehole deserves to have their car removed and a Smoby red and yellow foot-powered car to replace it. Especially people who don't indicate.

Snugglepiggy · 21/03/2019 06:09

Fly toppers.
Litter louts .
People who speed up and overtake a row of parked cars forcing you to slow down,or stop,when it's your right of way.

burritofan · 21/03/2019 06:24

Counter-service shops, eg bakeries, with no clear queuing system

People walking/stepping backwards – as in they're saying goodbye to their friend but start walking in the opposite direction, with their head still on backwards, and go barrelling into you

Idling car engines

People who use the "needs verbed" construction, as in "baby needs changed, cat needs fed, dog needs walked" Angry

My local post office

The postman who rings our doorbell than immediately starts hammering on the door. The bell works, you fucker, I just can't teleport!

Dogs

HarrysOwl · 21/03/2019 06:40

People who don't pick up their dog turds.

People who don't say thank you when I hold open a door for them.

Football. Anything to do with football.

The way my DH drops his boxers NEXT to the washing basket, clearly it's impossible to put them inside the basket.

The loo roll facing the wrong way.

Cyclists that don't stop at red lights.

WoogleCone · 21/03/2019 06:46

Drivers who don't indicate.

Vapers who leave a stinky sweet smell in your face, I find it worse than actual smoke. no you can't get away with it in my venue sir, it's still classed as smoking dickhead

People complaining to me that I don't update Facebook. If you want to know whats going on with me, pick up the damn phone or text me, I don't need to announce it to the world everytime I'm ill or post a new DD picture everyday.

Rudeness in shops/hospitality settings (agree wholeheartedly to everyone who's said that here).

Children running wild in shops while their parents chat on a completely different aisle. After working in retail for many many years it astounds me how people don't see this as dangerous.

Dogs off lead in non dog off lead places.

I'm sure there are plenty more, I'm easily irked 😂

FrozenMargarita17 · 21/03/2019 06:48

People who use iPads to take photos at attractions or landmarks or important events. Just fuck off with your view blocker!

JenniferJareau · 21/03/2019 06:53

Even after all these years, the BBC still pander to football and change the time of my favourite TV program.

People who walk slowly in the middle of the pavement / staircase in rush hour.

People who try and jump the queue. 'Oh, are you waiting in line?' No shit Sherlock, of course I am, wait your turn!

People who post in AIBU and make it sound like an interesting thread then you find out it is about Brexit etc when you click in. You have your own fucking board, use it! Angry

Thanks, I feel better now Grin

LostPlatypus · 21/03/2019 06:59
  • People not saying thank you when you've done something helpful for them.
  • Inconsiderate neighbours (either being loud late at night or smoking right outside my window).
  • People who ask your advice but then don't take it, and keep moaning about the issue. (It's usually a simple thing like how to find a certain PC part so don't moan at me if your PC is still broken when I've told you what to do.)
  • Autocorrect.
  • The fact that the app will probably smush this into one big long sentence instead of the nice bullet points it's in.
  • People who moan about rubbish on the street but then don't pick it up (it's a common thread on my local FB group and I think they just expect certain people will fix it if they complain).
Mirardosa · 21/03/2019 07:04

@TheLoneWolfDies THE SOCK ROLLS!!! I thought I was alone in this problem!!!

Theunreasonableone · 21/03/2019 07:16

Dropping things, especially top from a bottle. So irrational but it makes me so mad!
People that stand at the top or bottom of staircases, in doorways etc to have a conversation or answer their phone.
A man on my train who has a fold up bike and leaves it in the exit door of the train but makes no moves to be the first up to retrieve it when the train gets to the station. I regularly have to step over it and I’m worried it might snag my tights Angry

Clover1981 · 21/03/2019 07:21

People at concerts/gigs who film everything on their smartphone. You’ll never watch it back- just enjoy the moment.

People who ‘save’ their space on the checkout while they quickly run around the store for the bits they have missed and don’t come back for ages while the checkout person and you just wait there. Also people behind you in the queue who stand right next to you as you’re paying and entering your pin- back of you twat!

Loud chewers, people chewing gum loudly, sniffers who need to blow their nose but don’t, sweet/crisp packet rustlers.

Being able to hear music out of someone’s headphones or even worse, people who just play their music out loud from their phone on the bus/train.

At work: people who bring their leftover fish dinner from the night before and heat it up in the microwave. Women who piss on the seats and don’t clear it up.

Theunreasonableone · 21/03/2019 07:22

Also, drivers who don’t acknowledge you when you have given way on a narrow two way street. So fucking arrogant and there are loads of them where I live.

Clover1981 · 21/03/2019 07:25

Also ‘staircase chasers’ -(usually male) who will pelt it down the stairs behind you and force you to move over to let them go by. Always seems so unnecessary because I’m never walking that slow, just seems that the stairs bring out some kind of racing instinct in some people

beenhereages1 · 21/03/2019 08:45

On the subject of socks- inside out muddy rugby socks!! They go through the wash, I go to turn them the right way round when it comes to hanging, and all the sodding mud falls off .. quite often onto the clean washing Angry

woodcutbirds · 21/03/2019 08:58

People who stand still at the foot of escalators to decide where to go next. As if they alone exist and the world will hover in aspic until they choose to let it move on again.

Even pettier: crumbs! I don't eat bread very often but spend my life wiping up crumbs, emptying breadboards, emptying the toaster crumb tray. I hate the gritty feel of them and how they catch in a damp cloth. Why can't the bread eaters see the crumbs and clear them away?