What is your Pet Peeve

[MattClyn]

I have two bothering me

Mini van's or any cars that drive side by side in the fast and slow lane and have no idea that they are causing people to want to smash into the back of them

People who don't let their sneeze go. I never understood why people hold a sneeze in when it feels so so good to just let it go.

So what do you got?

 

[canker2323]

People standing on the left side of escalator, blocking others from passing.

 

[Acylum]

People standing on the left side of escalator, blocking others from passing.

I hardly ever get on an escalator and just stay on that step. I’m not sure why.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

Cars that have a “baby on board” sticker on their back window and then when you pass them they are chain smoking with the window rolled up.

 

[cedarstrip]

Bicyclist who pedal with their heels on the the pedals really piss me off.

 

[Dopey]

A very specific coworker.

 

[swiacy]

The Open Container law. Has zero effect on drinking and driving. Has unintended consequence of increasing highway litter. Those that indulge just drink as usual and then quickly pitch it out the window. We have a neighboring couple who routinely enjoy going “on a beer cruise” in the evening and casually slow cruise the neighborhood & pitching the cans. We also live on a gravel road between two towns and the bar hoppers avoid the highway and down a six pack along the way which get chucked out the window. It’s really frustrating. I rate litterers right up there with liars and thieves.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

People who put their license plate registration stickers all over their plate instead of in the corner where it belongs.

 

[CoachKM]

Discarded chewing gum on the ground!

 

[exCYtable]

Too many to list! Nosy people. Drama queens. Hawkeye fans. Hawkeye media. Obnoxious people. Female voices that only have one volume: loud. People that talk too much. People that talk too close. People who wear ear buds at work and you need to have conversations with them. That's just a few....

 

[Nader_uggghhh]

People who drive in the passing lane.

People who turn on their turn signal well after they slam their brakes.

 

[ISUKyro]

People

 

[isucy86]

Cigarette Butts discarded in public places. Really ticks me off smokers who flick butt out car window. I'd love to have super soaker with some odorous fluid in it, pull up to the person and douse them.

#2 Joe Lunardi

 

[2122]

People standing on the left side of escalator, blocking others from passing.

I'm from a small 'one-escalator' town. The Herberger's Dept. Store had both an escalator and an elevator with an old-lady attendant. For my siblings and I, it was like a trip to the amusement park, esp. running down the escalator.

My pet peeve would be US media having become largely propagandist. Cheerleading/distorting rather than reporting.

 

[Rabbuk]

People who fill silence with inane chatter, rather than just letting it be quiet.

 

[MeanDean]

Websites cluttered with pop-ups that won't close or continuously pop up again. If I don't want your product or service after seeing your ad the first 12 times, the 13th is not going to do the trick.

 

[SaraV]

Lose v. Loose

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

People who drive in the passing lane.

People who turn on their turn signal well after they slam their brakes.

Since it's (expectedly) come up twice already. My pet peeve is people who tailgate and road rage as I'm passing a line of cars in the left lane at a normal rate of speed. I should not have to increase to 100mph to save you 5 seconds. This goes x10 if there are more than two lanes.

 

[matclone]

People who sit in their cars and leave their car running--and it's not really cold or super hot outside. I see it all the time. Polluting the air because they can't stand even a moment of temporary discomfort or silence.

People who talk in the middle of a concert.

 

[Frog]

One is when drivers pull out in front of you on a two-lane road, even though there is clearly no one behind you or coming from the opposite direction, only to then slow down or stop to turn at the very next intersection. This happens more often than I would expect, and it perplexes me. I understand the need to pull out in busy traffic or when visibility is limited, but it is bothersome when it happens unnecessarily.