Do you have any pet peeves?

[cantdrv55]

I just had to start this thread because these really bug me.

A cashier at my local Safeway always says, "Have a nice day", even when it's 10PM!

How about when people say "aks", instead of "ask".

Lastly, "where you at"?

[slodave]

My pets pee..... Oh wait, WaRshington, waRsh the car. People(cars) who stop in the cross walk at a red light....

Dave

[aways]

Yes. When I'm at a supermarket checkout and a woman (and it's always a woman) has to use her check-card or write a check for a single $1.98 item... or when she fumbles through her purse for several minutes looking for that coupon to save her 10 cents, or when she has to find that last penny in change to pay that 97 cent purchase in coin, rather than grabbing a dollar bill and getting the hell out of my way. Yes, I'm kinda intolerant, impatient, and always in too much of a hurry.

[HardDrive]

As above.

People who let the guy ring up their grocerys, wait for the total, then proceed to open their checkbooks and start filling it out. Hey sport, how getting a f*cking check card, or a least filling out the goddamn thing while he's scanning the stuff. Intolerant, impatient, and proud of it.

[dd74]

Cashiers not counting back change.

"Where's it at?"

The lazy overuse of "all" as in "Who all was there?" "What all is the book about?"

"Like" - I've disliked the word since Moonbeam Zappa beat it to death in the song "Valley Girl."

"You know." I celebrate athletes such as Tiger Woods, Rhonde and Tiki Barber, and Lance Armstrong, who while giving an interview, do not use the phrase "you know."

But most of all, what I truly hate are HUGS. When did the hug replace a simple shake of hands (which I also hate because one never knows where another's hand has been)?

Simply put, I prefer a nice head nod or humble bow.

Okay, Andy Rooney-type rant over. Thank you.

[HardDrive]

How about morons who freak out when getting on the freeway, and SLOW DOWN. I have seen people STOP at the bottom of on ramps. Slowly reaching for the Sig under the seat.....

[dd74]

Originally posted by HardDrive
How about morons who freak out when getting on the freeway, and SLOW DOWN. I have seen people STOP at the bottom of on ramps. Slowly reaching for the Sig under the seat.....

No, it's the idiots who slow down to allow a car coming onto the freeway who incite me. Talk about the potential to cause a pile up.

[slodave]

"FOR free"

It's just "free".

[Moses]

Waiting. Waiting drives me outa my f**king mind. I'm fine waiting in a line or a crowded freeway. I'm talking about waiting when you have a scheduled appointment or meeting. Makes me NUTS!

If I attend a meeting that's scheduled for noon and we can't start the meeting without everyone present, I get real pissed off when people stroll in late as if our time has no value.

If my dentist keeps me waiting for more than 30 minutes without an apology or explanation, I'm shopping for a new dentist.

When I was a chief resident, we couldn't start 6 AM rounds till all 12 docs showed up. If some lame-ass walked in 15 minutes late I would inform him that he just wasted 15 minutes multiplied by 12 people. That's three hours. They were generally shocked when I informed them that their 36 hour shift just became a 39 hour shift. People were rarely late to my morning rounds twice.

[HardDrive]

Originally posted by Moses


When I was a chief resident, we couldn't start 6 AM rounds till all 12 docs showed up. If some lame-ass walked in 15 minutes late I would inform him that he just wasted 15 minutes multiplied by 12 people. That's three hours. They were generally shocked when I informed them that their 36 hour shift just became a 39 hour shift. People were rarely late to my morning rounds twice.

LOL. You would just LOVE my wife. Shes that attending who always manages to show up 10 minutes late to the morning lecture she is giving. The residents don't complain.....to her face anyway.

[Moses]

Originally posted by HardDrive
LOL. You would just LOVE my wife. Shes that attending who always manages to show up 10 minutes late to the morning lecture she is giving. The residents don't complain.....to her face anyway.

My wife is late for everything. Has a constitutional aversion to punctuality. I'll never understand it. Oh well!

[M.D. Holloway]

Moses - you mean to tell me that your patients get in to see you the exact time of their appointments? I see my share of docs from time-to-time and I do not think I have ever started the appointment at the time that was the appointment. I don't really mind - gives a chance to read People mag in the lobby.

Pet peeves - nope, none. But I am sure that I do things that piss off the majority of folks so in a way I am my own pet peeve!

[red-beard]

hair on soap

[tinkerbell]

Slackers at work.

[livi]

What Moses says. Donīt waste my time. People executing their inborn trait of time optimism on my expense. Drives me crazy. I am the opposite - always want to be there in good time, not to let the other party wait on me. Its about respect, but some people seem to have a personality that just wonīt allow them selves to be even 30 seconds too early for an appointment.

And yes Mike, my patients often need a good portion of... patience. But I tend to blame that on the patients before them, ruining my schedule.

BTW, how is my Swenglish coming along ?

[VINMAN]

People that eat or drink stuff while they are waiting on line, before they pay for it. That totaly irks me.

[Paul T]

Lack of response to email or vm - just drives me insane. I'm awaiting a call now from someone I'm trying to get a commercial lease from...left him 3 voice mails and 3 email over the past 4 days and NOTHING (this after he promises to call me first thing Monday morning). Just freaking call and say your busy and you'll get back to me in a week, that's all! Drives my nuts when I just get ignored, I'm getting fired up just thinking about it! Ahhgggg!

I don't understand how people can be so unprofessional and still be in business. That and crappy customer service, which seems to be everywhere (except Pelican!).

[cool_chick]

If someone behind you in the left lane on the highway, MOVE to the right to allow them to pass!

[slakjaw]

For me,

When you are in the middle of a line at the gas station and the guy in front of you is buying something and being kinda slow. BUT, the girl behind you is saying things under her breath like its about time, hurry up, loud sighs.

After I payed for my pack of smokes I even stoped to watch her and see what she did. She bought a pack of smokes and then payed with a check.

She was cute too I thought about trying to talk to her but all I could think about was if we were in bed she would just be all like "hurry up" or "its about time"

so I passed.

[Christien]

Originally posted by Moses

When I was a chief resident, we couldn't start 6 AM rounds till all 12 docs showed up. If some lame-ass walked in 15 minutes late I would inform him that he just wasted 15 minutes multiplied by 12 people. That's three hours. They were generally shocked when I informed them that their 36 hour shift just became a 39 hour shift. People were rarely late to my morning rounds twice.

I wish the rest of the world worked this way. Really - I'm not being sarcastic. The thought process seems to be their time is more important than anyone else's.

In a similar vein, the phone rang the other day, I picked it up, said "hello?" and heard "please hold to be connected to a TD Canada Trust [bank] representative". That pisses me off to no end. The bank, whom I'm a customer of, is more or less telling me 'we don't value your time, so you can sit on hold when we tell you to'. I hung up. When the same thing happened the next day, I actually waited for the 'representative' (maybe 3 minutes) and let her have it, politely but firmly. I made reference to "miserable customer service" and said don't ever do that again because I'll just continue to hang up. Grrr, I still get angry thinking about it!!