20 of My Pet Peeves

 I try to keep it light and cheery and positive on my blog but the other day I hit send on a comment and noticed yet another typo... and I realized that drives me crazy! Then I started thinking of some of other weird and oddly specific things that drive me crazy and thought I'd share them. I hope you realize this is supposed to be more humorous and fun than griping but sometimes tone is hard to get across. 

 

1. Finding a typo/grammar/spelling error after publishing a post or comment-- at least with a post I can go back in and correct but those comments are often just left out there and I always worry that someone will think I don't know I made that error!

2. Someone who clicks a pen over and over while thinking... the sad part I hate to admit is that I DO THIS! LOL.. but it only bothers me when it's someone else making the noise. Why is that?

 

3. Litter! I get why sometimes there is trash on the side of the road; like if you didn't know you had trash in the bed of your pickup and it flies out or if a trash bag falls out and you clearly don't want to stop in the middle of the highway to get it. That's dangerous and I understand but I can not tell you how many people we see hiking that leave trash on the side of the trails or the one guy we stopped behind in the city that opened his driver's door at the stop light and threw an entire day's worth of garbage out of his car on purpose!! I bet you anything there was a trash can where he was headed!

4. Dog owners that don't clean up after their dogs. If you want to leave their poop on the ground keep them in your own yard! There is nothing I hate more than being out hiking and stepping in dog poop... expect perhaps for seeing that the person put the poop in the doggie disposal bags and then leave the bags on the side of the trail. Who do they think is going to come along and clean that up for them?

5. Airlines that keep changing the times of my flight/ my seat assignment! I get that sometimes an airline needs to adjust it's schedule and I tend to book air travel far in advance but sometimes I've had a flight change 3 or even 4 times and why bother having me pick seats if you're just going change up where we all sit?

 

6. Drivers that don't use blinkers/signals or drive erratically. I feel like more and more lately drivers are just getting worse and worse; they drive so fast, pass in no passing zones, never seem to use their blinkers, and are often on their phones (and I don't mean talking! I see so many drivers looking at their phone screen instead of the road). It scares me!

7. Lights left on. So when I first listed this I was thinking of in my own house when someone leaves a room and the lights are still on but I realized that it drives me nuts that all the car dealerships, stores, and businesses leave tons of lights on all night long too. I get that some of the lights are for safety and security but I don't think any store that is not open needs to be as bright as day! 

8. People who cut in line-- no one likes waiting; just wait your turn like everybody else.

9.  People who push the elevator button repeatedly. Guess what? That isn't going to make the elevator arrive any faster. 

 

10. People that flood the aisle of the plane the moment the seat belt sign is turned off. I've even seen this when we've been asked to remain seated and let those with short connecting times go first-- and the people in front of us were talking about picking up their rental car and getting to their hotel. That's just mean. 

11. Group chats-- I get that they're necessary but that endless chiming on my phone drive me up the wall. I end up leaving the group 98% of the time!

12. Traffic (and those cars that think they don't have to merge!)-- Honestly is there anything worse than those people who wait until they are literally going to hit the traffic cones of the shut down lane on the highway before cutting you off despite the 10 or 12 "road construction ahead" signs they ignored?

 

13. When takeout food orders are wrong or undercooked-- I get it happens. At least when I'm eating at the restaurant I can get it corrected but once I'm back home? There really isn't much I can do (we live a good 20 minutes away from our closest take out places).

14. Slow moving people (when it's crowded)-- Busy sidewalks, in the airport, at Disney world at the end of the day... whenever there are large crowds and MOST people are moving swiftly I seem to always get stuck behind the slowpoke in the middle of the crowd that everyone is trying to get around. I get you might not be in a rush but please move over to the side and get out of my way.

15. Public restrooms without toilet paper-- I swear I am the worst at picking stalls that have zero toilet paper in them! 

16. People that are rude to waitstaff or tip poorly-- I particularly hate when people get mad at or don't tip waitstaff for under-cooked or poorly flavored food because newsflash your waiter/waitress didn't go back there and cook it! Honestly if we just gave them all a living wage and did away with tips that'd be great (and don't come at me with higher prices-- several restaurants in our state manage to do just this and their prices are well within the range of everyone else).

 17. Getting honked at for NOT turning right on red-- You may turn right on red but you don't have to and don't honk at me for not wanting to!

18. People on the plane that recline their seat fully-- I honestly sort of blame the airlines for this one; my seat space is small enough please don't make it any smaller. I get that a slight adjustment might be needed to get a bit more comfortable but make do with a nap sitting upright and not in my lap. 

*all photos for this post courtesy of Pixabay

19. When you buy ultra deep pocket sheet sets do they not make the flat sheet larger as well.  If I have a deep mattress and need a special fitted sheet to fit the whole thing... then I probably need a larger flat sheet in order for it to tuck in too (the same goes for blankets that I don't reach to tuck in).

20. Nail clippings-- yes, please trim your nails and toenails but also? make sure those clippings make it into the garbage can. I DO NOT want to find random nail clippings anywhere... mostly I say this because I find them all over my house and it drives me up a wall. In fact I was struggling to come up with this last one when something happened at the end of last week that had to do with nail clippings (I'll spare you the details) but my husband rather cheekily informed me I had just found #20! 

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