What are your pet peeves

[LogDog75]

I’m sure everyone has some pet peeve. I have a couple but my biggest pet peeve are drivers who “dive bomb” for the exit. These are people on the freeway who cut across one or more lanes in front of other cars at high speeds to get onto an exit at the last seconds instead of planning their exit earlier.

What are some of your pet peeves.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I got a menagerie. Don't get me started.

[Coventina]

2. People who crowd you in a line, like it will make things go faster.

Drives me NUTS!

Especially in grocery stores.

If you have your spot in the line, breathing down my neck doesn't help.

[Xavier Breath]

18. The same can be said about tailgaters on the road.

[get the red out]

3. I could write a book of them

But the acceptability of people using the word "seen" in place of "saw", It is so popular I wonder of the word "saw" will become the name of a cutting tool only.

[Grim Chieftain]

11. I am a retired educator who has taught everything from Head Start to grad school

and poor grammar drives me nuts.

[k0rs]

34. I seen what you done there

One of mine is people who don't understand the difference between then and than. Also inverting sell and sale. Well OK, that's two. Which reminds me, to, too, and two. So I guess that's three. And one that's ubiquitous here on DU: misuse of apostrophes. Oops, that's four.

[BuckIowa]

4. Restaurants that call chicken nuggets "boneless wings"

[doc03]

5. Telephone texts in movies too small print and/or too quick to read. Many times I have

to pause or back up the video and get closer to read them.

[Shermann]

6. I hate when drivers block me from dive bombing my exits. nt

[Luciferous]

17. 🤣

[markodochartaigh]

7. I seem to be collecting more pet peeves as I get older.

But very few are likely to get me killed, so I'm going to second your dive bombing the exit pet peeve.

And stopping for no reason on on or off ramps. I was exiting I35 in Dallas when a vehicle two cars up suddenly stopped for no reason. I stopped in time as did the car behind me. But a few cars back we heard a horrible crash. My sister was with me, we are both registered nurses so we looped back. By the time we got there police were on the scene. We passed the vehicle that caused the accident, they had no clue what had happened. They were from Indiana. I understand that the DFW Metroplex has more people than your whole state, but if you can't handle the traffic just stick to the side roads.

[TommieMommy]

8. Rude inconsiderate people.

[CanonRay]

9. People who walk in a doorway and just stop

So nobody else can get in.

[anciano]

10. People who take advantage, such as users and moochers

[subterranean]

12. Dirty street signs and signs blocked by foliage.

Also, people who write "loose" when they mean "lose."

[Iggo]

13. People who use the subjective form of a personal pronoun as the object of a preposition.

Not the usage.

The actual people.

[debm55]

14. People who are snobs and have this sense that it is their way or no way. Thank you , LogDog75,

[Rizen]

15. Similar to yours,

When you're behind a driver who's going really slowly when you're about to merge onto the freeway. You have to merge into 65mph traffic and they completely screw you over.

[LogDog75]

19. A similar pet peeve

When you're merging onto a freeway and there are cars behind you on the entrance ramp, some joker behind you crosses over the solid line into the lane you're merging into and speeds up causing you to hit the breaks.

[electric_blue68]

16. As a NYC'r on very crowded streets - tourists walking 3 to 4 abreast, usually more slowly, too. Arg

People who get to the bottom of the Subway stairs and stop!
I'm still agile - but I've always hated having to go around them w/o a raling.
I usually in a loud voice say "please move!" They do.
.
So gentle DU'rs you now know what Not to do when visiting NYC!

[LogDog75]

20. I live in a small beach city in California

and during the summer we get a lot of tourists. I like to take walks along the street adjacent to the beach or downtown and they're usually busy. I'd get caught behind a family of four who have to walk four abreast, taking up the entire sidewalk, oblivious to those behind or in front of them. The thing I've noticed, especially among young people, is they'll walk four abreast and you can tell the pecking order of the group because the ones on the outside are not the leaders of the group.

I'll admit, I've been to places as a tourist but I'm mindful of my surroundings. I've been with groups and we would walk two abreast because we out of consideration for others.

[electric_blue68]

21. Oh, pecking order! I always try to be mindful as a tourist. Usually successfully....

I read up on places, and people before I visit.

[LogDog75]

23. On the pecking order

When three or four people walk side-by-side, those low on the pecking order don't want to give up their outside position (third and fourth) and walk behind the other two.

[electric_blue68]

24. Ah, got it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Failure to put a question mark

at the end of a written question.

[Jeebo]

25. People who wear their baseball cap backward.

That bill is the FRONT of that cap, not the back!

Just one more: People who say "Me and him went to the store." Do they say "Me went to the store."? or "Him went to the store."? That is like fingernails screeching across chalkboard to me. PLEASE, people, say it correctly. "He and I went to the store."

I have quite a few grammar pet peeves. I was a newspaper copyeditor for 45 years. This one probably is the one that REALLY makes my skin crawl, though.

— Ron

[3catwoman3]

28. Fingernails on a chalkboard, crawling skin. I grit my teeth so hard...

…I’m afraid they’ll crack. If people do it right in the singular, why can’t they do it right in the plural.

Even though I spent 45 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner, I’ve often wondered if I were an English teacher or editor in a previous life. I’m definitely a grammar, spelling, and usage nerd in this one.

[Skittles]

26. people not returning shopping carts to their proper place

people who litter

people who cannot get off their phones long enough to be polite to clerks, wait staff, etc.

I have a......lot of pet peeves

[NJCher]

27. Negative, hopeless people

They post “We’re screwed.” Or they attribute powers to trump that he does not have.

I’m not saying one has to be happy and positive all the time, but saying such negative things doesn’t give the discussion anywhere to go. These people want to use DU as a therapy session and forget its purpose as a discussion forum. Selfish.

Furthermore, there is the matter of emotional contagion. Name a battle that was won with low morale. We are going to win this thing, but people like this are a drag on our momentum.

[dlilafae]

29. Talking with a mouthful of

Food. I don't wish to wear it! Shut up for two minutes.

[Emile]

30. Tailgating

[catbyte]

31. People who drive slow in the passing lane. THIS IS NOT THE UK, PEOPLE. GET IN THE RIGHT-HAND LANE

Sorry for yelling. And incorrect or missing punctuation is another one.

[no_hypocrisy]

32. Selfish, illogical, and mean narcissists

Especially if related by blood.

[subterranean]

33. One I think most of us can agree on: "Democrat Party"

I know the cons use that term to "own the libs," and also to mark themselves as a member of their tribe. What really annoys me, though, is when I see it written that way in serious news articles or reports (when they're not quoting someone), as if that's the actual name of the party.

[k0rs]

35. Instructional books...

...that are titled: (insert subject here) for Complete Idiots. Or similarly: (insert subject) for Dummies.
WTF? Is this any way to sell a book, by calling people idiots or dummies just because they haven't become subject experts yet? Admittedly there are many things I don't know, but that doesn't mean I'm an idiot or dummy. GFY, keep your book. I'll not be purchasing anything so insulting.