Pet peeve thread?

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Pulled the curmudgeon card yesterday.
Wife and I were in a restaurant for lunch. It was moderately busy- not empty - not full. We were shown a seat by the hostess and then no one came to serve. Prices were slightly higher than I wanted to pay for a lunch, nothing on menu really appealed, and we were in a cold drafty area of restaurant. Not huge biggies, but at those prices, service becomes expected.

After some time, it was evident no one was coming to help. The hostess was on her smart device across from us at the bar texting away. The busser had cleaned several tables around us, giving inquisitive looks, yet did nothing to alert the wait staff that we needed service.

"Let's just go somewhere else" I suggested, thinking my wife would call me out on being a jerk. "Sure" she replied.

As we left, the hostess opened the door for us and stated she "hoped we had enjoyed our meal." She really had no clue.

[billybek]

I have done that many times when travelling for work. Walk out and try somewhere else. When you are by yourself, it is obvious (or should be) that you are there to eat and to GTFO....

Another thing that gets to me in restaurants is when the server doesn't clear your plates after your meal is finished.
If the bill is brought with the dishes still on the table, the tip automatically is reduced.

[Evans, Marv]

A couple of pet peeves related to restaurant wait staff are getting a "No problem." after ordering or a request. The other is when a waiter or waitress comes by and asks, "Are you still workin on it?"

[scottmandue]

I may have already posted this but it happened to me again recently...
Four lane freeway speed limit 70 and you roll up on a person in the left lane doing 60 {wait for it... this is not about the slo-mo's in the left lane}
So I slip to the right and try to pass... and as I pull alongside slo-mo... and sure enough they stomp on the gas petal... I hate to road rage but sometimes I stomp on the gas and often get up to 80 just to pass some dufus that was content at doing 60 until someone tried to get in front of them.

[ckelly78z]

I get the same thing on a State Route 2 lane road. These idiots will be tooling along at 45-50 mph (probably on their phones) so I go ahead and pass them and run about 65 MPH....for some strange reason, they always seem to keep up with me after I pass them.

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

What really pisses me off is when someone starts talking over the top of me. A long time friend of mine is married to an alpha b1tch who just cuts me off mid sentence .

I've ended a friendship due to this very thing. Worst of all was the woman cutting me off in my own home.

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Was at a store. A boy was sitting in a lawn chair that was on display just swinging his legs. The Dad, in line in front of me yelled at the kid to get off the chair and come to him. No response. The Dad then yelled, I'm going to count to 10, then started counting getting angrier with each number. Again no response, until the Dad got to 9, then the kid hopped out of the chair and came over. I asked the Dad what would have happened if he said he was going to count to 2? He told me not to tell him how to raise his kids. Told him I was never given any sort of time to respond. When my Dad told me to do something if I didn't respond immediately I got in trouble.

You hit the nail on the head with this one.

There is a family that attends the same church that we attend. They are always late and go to the front row. One Sunday they actually made people move as if it were their reserved seat. They have 2 young boys under age 4 and a newborn. Those two boys are wild animals. I've seen them actually hit the dad when things were not going their way. The mom usually brings a bottle of water for herself in case she gets thirsty.

One time when the kids were off the chain, I ssshhhed them from about 5 rows away. I got some looks from other people as if I were in the wrong. The dad actually took the kids out. Miracles do happen...

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Baz

Back to grocery stores......

The older folks who come in pairs.

Female uses her cart to block you while gent stands to the side to run interference.....she's intently concentrating on what to purchase (or just 'browsing') while he's off in la la land - neither of which is paying attention nor caring about traffic flow....sheesh....

Not only older people, soccer mom with three kids in tow who spread out to block the isle. Young lovers who walk side by side with the cart in one hand blocking the isle.

I have taken to parking my cart on the end of the isle, scoot down the isle weaving through the browsers, grab what I need and return to the cart.

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Not only older people, soccer mom with three kids in tow who spread out to block the isle. Young lovers who walk side by side with the cart in one hand blocking the isle.

I have taken to parking my cart on the end of the isle, scoot down the isle weaving through the browsers, grab what I need and return to the cart.

The people that get in the check out lane and send one of their lot off to get more stuff. Either you are ready to check out or you are not.

Then there are the old people that still write checks, which of course is still in the purse or pocket when the total is announced by the clerk.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Not only older people, soccer mom with three kids in tow who spread out to block the isle. Young lovers who walk side by side with the cart in one hand blocking the isle.

I have taken to parking my cart on the end of the isle, scoot down the isle weaving through the browsers, grab what I need and return to the cart.

I do the same thing....park my cart somewhere out of the way (unlike where everyone else parks their cart) and scoot around to get what I need.

I just had an idea - and I think it's worth further study - and perhaps implementation. How about bringing one of these with you in the store with a clamp you can attach it to your cart....



I'm tired of having to say "Excuse me - sorry to bother you - would it be possible for you to accommodate my needs to get by? Oh...thank you so much!"

With this you just give it a couple toots.....

[john70t]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

electric soap dispensers that do nothing when you wave your hands under them, and squirt when you finally just give up - right in the bottom of the basin.

Add to that the newer auto-flush toilets.
Sit down? It flushes.
Move around? It flushes.
Drop your car keys? It flushes.

That little 1.6gal ceramic thing ends up cycling about 30 gallons by the time I am done.
So much for ecological progress.

[RKDinOKC]

Just say "Beep Beep, vroom vrooooom" then grin really big. Everyone will give you plenty of space.

[Holger]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Pet Peeve:
People who use a speaker phone that sounds like crap but expect me to understand everything they mumble. Double bonus points if they have the TV blaring in the room or kids screaming.

Woah, woah, woah!
BIL and the inlaws are doing this.
BIL with his family gathered around the table.
I f**king HATE it!
The called like that to congratulate on my birthday. I did not understand 20% of what they where saying.

[RKDinOKC]

They put speakerphone option on cell phones so it's not obvious you are talking on the phone while driving by holding the phone up to the side of your head.

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by holger

woah, woah, woah!
Bil and the inlaws are doing this.
Bil with his family gathered around the table.
I f**king hate it!
The called like that to congratulate on my birthday. I did not understand 20% of what they where saying.

what??

[DanielDudley]

Darned Flu.

[Por_sha911]

^^^
Actually, I have a pet peeve with the medical world PUSHING the flu shot every year and then later admitting "oh well, we didn't expect that strain" and admitting that the shot they guessed at is only 33% effective.

So every year, public health agencies essentially make educated guesses on what strains and mutations will make the rounds...
Edward Belongia, a senior epidemiologist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in Wisconsin who has studied flu vaccine effectiveness, found that the combined vaccine effectiveness during H3N2 seasons was 33 percent, meaning getting vaccinated reduced a person’s risk of having to go to the doctor by about a third.

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/12/16882622/flu-season-epidemic-prevention-vaccine

[BlueWing]

For me the worst are the Bluetooth Ear Piece. In public can't tell if they are starting a conversation with me . Have a friend who in the middle of a conversation with me will start talking to his caller it takes a second for me to realize his conversation is somewhere else. So I just keep talking and when he hangs up and asks what did I say I just reply I just lost my train of thought.

Speaker phone - If it is someone with all that background chatter or have the phone too far away I will start using some profanities casually. A round or two of that and whenever they see my caller ID will always keep it off speaker.

[911 Rod]

The Bluetooth, or just talking on the phone, pi##ses me off from customers at work.
They walk in while talking on the phone and expect you to stand there like an idiot waiting for them. I just sit at my desk and ignore them when they do that and some expect you to know when they are off of the phone.

[Por_sha911]

Since we're on the work pet peeves, I have had customers that ask to put me on hold (sometimes for several minutes) but when they get back are upset that it takes time to finish things because they are in a rush. Really?
Along those same lines, customers that have a zillion questions but then huff and puff when I need 2 minutes to finish our transaction.