Not Just A Mom-- My Pet Peeves

It's time for another Not Just A Mom link up and today we're talking about some of our pet peeves.  Oh boy, do I ever have so many!! I'm sure I'll forget 1/2 of them... but I'll list all those I can think of. 

I hope you'll join us this month (or next time!)! It's always the 2nd Monday of the month. 

I put off typing this post for as long as I could.. mostly because I think I didn't want to admit just how much I nit pick everything.  I know I often come across in my blog as very go with the flow (and that is a REAL portrayal of what I have been working on for years and years-- pretty much since the moment we had kids and perfection had to go out the window).

BUT while I may not voice them out loud very often I still find so many little thing drive me up the wall.  I have gotten much better at realizing I don't need to tell my family or sigh or jump up and intervene so much as live with that *ugh!* feeling in my head and then just breathe in and let it go.

But these are the things that make me grit my teeth...   

Around the house/ with family & friends:

• When someone leaves a near empty (or completely empty!) box of food/ jar of juice in the fridge.
• When anyone tracks in dirt/sand/mud on the very same day I just cleaned whatever area they are now getting dirty again.  
• When people in our house don't load the dishwasher the right (by which I mean MY) way... and then the dishes don't come out clean and we have to put so many dirty dishes back through. 
• That no one in the house can find anything without first asking me where it is (now, in all fairness there are times they leave things hanging around and I put them away where I think they should be and not necessarily where the owner of said item believes it should go but those times I just remind them they should have put them away to begin with).
• Leaving shoes, coats, etc. hanging around in the way-- shoes right in front of the door or on the stairs, coats on the couch so people can't walk in without tripping and have nowhere to sit. 
• When I fill the dishwasher and turn around just moments later and someone has put their dirty dishes in the sink instead of just putting them in the dishwasher.

• Whenever a package of gum or a pen or a marker makes its way through the washer and dryer-- or anything really that can ruin clothes or my machine.  (You would not believe how often this happens!)
• Having to remind everyone every single night to just do their assigned chores. 
• Large group texts. 

• When people in my family misspell my name (mostly this pertains to my father so that's an ever bigger peeve)-- I know there are a million ways to spell Joanne and I get it when someone who doesn't know me can't spell it right but really if you know me you should remember how to spell it; it's really not that crazy or complicated.
• We also get Christmas cards/gifts each year with the wrong address-- we've lived here for 20 years; no one should be THAT disorganized.  
• Being on your phone or texting for the majority of the time we're spending together-- especially if we're at a nice meal out somewhere. 
• Unmade beds-- I am the only one in the house that seems to think you should make your bed in the morning (in fact my husband will argue that it's unnecessary since we'll be getting back in it later that day-- um no!... well, yes we will BUT it needs to look neat and clean in the meantime). 

In the car:

• My husband is the only other driver in our house "allowed" to use my car and I completely understand why he moves the seat and mirrors... but he also feels the need to play with other buttons and likes to turn off my interior lights and things like that but never ever sets them back. 
• When other drivers drive with their directional on--- and yet never seem to turn!
• I really hate when people get into a large parking lot and just drive THROUGH and across all the parking spaces like there aren't aisles for them to drive down. 
• People that don't ever use cruise control on the highway and are driving slow so I move to pass them and then they speed up and I give up and fall into line behind them only to have them slow right down again.  Pick a speed people!

• When someone honks their horn at me for not turning right on red. 
• Those people that ignore everyone merging on the highway during construction or for a very crowded off ramp and then try to merge in at the very last second. 
• Litterers- we've seen everything from an entire take out bag of trash, a lit cigarette butt, and more come flying out of car windows (or one time at a stop sign in the city a guy actually opened his car door and threw his trash out!).   Just NO!  Wait until you get to your destination and use a garbage can.
• When I move over to let someone onto the highway and then they either hang around in my blind spot or get right behind me on my tail like I'm holding them up being in the passing lane and they didn't just see me move over for them. 

Around town:

• When people do not pick up after their dogs in public or they bag the poop and then leave it near the parking lot or side of the hiking trail. 
• People that don't leash their dogs, say they are friendly, and then apologize when the dog tries to jump on me or starts barking; I don't care how friendly you think your dog is, if it's not trained to stay at your side quietly then don't unleash it in public. 

• People who eat out and leave a lousy or no tip at all for waitstaff or blame the waitstaff for something that is not their fault or out of their control. 
• Stopping suddenly in the middle of a crowded sidewalk/park/ public area-- or even walking really slowly but taking up the entire path so people behind you can't walk around.  I think we've all done this a time or two but there are some that never even seem to notice, care, or apologize. 
• Smoking/vaping in public or on nature trails/hikes, etc. Some of us have VERY sensitive noses and the smell really ruins the whole experience. 

Just in general:

• Grammar mistakes-- though I get the occasional misspelled one in a blog or Facebook post, the ones that occur on signs and things not only drive me nuts they make me wonder how many people proof-read that before turning it into an actual sign. 

• People that complain about EVERYTHING
• We constantly get UPS/Amazon packages for a house that is one street over... we have similar addresses so I get it but at the same time they'll leave their packages mixed with ours ALL the time!  However, with GPS technology and stuff I just do not understand how they mix them up so frequently. 

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