I might just name my next dog "Peeve"....now how do ya like them apples? :D

Hearing a singer that sounds like they are gasping for air when they sing. Is this a hip thing now or am I just tuning in to it?

You are listening to the wrong music.....stick to the vintage stuff - can't go wrong.

I work at a museum, we all wear the same color polo shirt with the logo, I have a name tag-key card clipped to my shirt, I carry a radio and a huge key ring... and people walk up to me and ask "do you work here?"

I always thought that was a hore that was really good at her job?

My pet peeve (probably has already been mentioned but don't want to dig all the way back into the thread).

Rolling road blocks, I commute on a four lane freeway... three or four people buzzing down the freeway door handle to door handle.

Selfish drivers. Almost scored a triple play today.
1). Pulled into gas station, but stopped short of pumps.
Some Jetta was backing out from four rows over next to the door, as if to turn around and leave. Backing. Backing. I'm waiting. Plenty of open space to turn around and the whole place is clear. Backing. Backing. I'm waiting. Then if looked like the driver is trying to back into the pump right in front of me. What the ****? Is it a confused senior citizen? It wedges in front of me and stops between my car and the pump.
A guy is leaned over on the phone. White playa gold-watch one-arm stance. He glances over, grins, then takes off at full speed.
I swear his glasses looked white rimmed.

2). I'm pumping gas. Lady in a Cadillac SUV opens her door and begins to have a few minute conversation with her girlfriend through the speaker system at full blast. Stadium level.

3). Later I stop for a pedestrian in the crosswalk. The car pushing from behind almost makes my crappy day complete. Full lockup and ABS chatter. Couple of girls.

I hear ya John.

That is my world as well.

We may as well just rename this the "Clueless Drivers thread"!

Every time (90% or more anyway) I notice someone holding up a line of traffic....or weaving back and forth.....as I eventually pass them - they are on their phone....either talking....or looking down at it....or texting while looking up and down over and over.....this happens every day...wtf?

Recipes. What the he11 are they thinking?

ingredients:

5 large tomatoes
1 oz kumquats
1 quart vinegar
1/2 pound onions
1 gram special powder
1 cup apples

C'mon. Pick a measurement system and stick with it.

With that gram of "special powder" I don't think it really matters if you're off on the measurements a bit....;)

I have it on inside info...that "special powder" is Horny Goat Weed.

All of these pet peeves related to driving make me remember why I park the Porsche and drive the commercial truck as personal transportation. Wanna tailgate? Go ahead, if you dare. Door dings? Go ahead, ding your door. When I want to merge, you'd better merge. I have really few pet peeves left. I save my energy for big fights, huge fights.

This is one drives me nuts (a short trip):
There has to be the usage of the word bespoke in EVERY STINKIN Excellence magazine. Usually 2 or 3 times in different articles. After a while it gets as annoying as the teenager that says "like" in every other sentence.

Tailgaters with bright blue lights on, and additional driving lights blazing away while on a heavily traveled, straight and level road. My commuter car has the ability to aim the drivers side mirror down and out enough to reflect thier glow back into thier eyes....you should see how quickly they back off to a respectable distance. (where they should be anyway 5-6 car lengths back).

The 'monetizing' of language! Bespoke = $$$! "Provenance" is sexier than something's past ownership! The smarmy term "well-bought" makes my skin crawl when watching car auctions.

Any schlub can have a tailor measure him for a suit but it takes a truly elite individual to have a bespoke suit.

Think of it as seduction. Language that's supposed to make you feel better about spending your hard-earned money. Puke.

Oh, and "sourced." No, you didn't find that rare part in a dealer parts department, you "sourced" it. Puke, puke, puke.

^^ Agreed. Sadly Excellence is going down the tube. Trying to be upscale with classy words is fine but find a different word rather than the same one over and over in every issue.

Notice: this is a bespoke response.

I can't stand this word when it is used a question and has a condescending tone - Really?

For a new breed of owners. I pick it up off the rack, I just don't buy it any more.

Coming to a four way stop and having the other guy wave you through like your the idiot when he has the right of way. I'll just sit there and let them wave frantically until they decide to go.

Guys on forums who correct your grammar and say things that you know full well they'd never say in person. I noticed on my local scca forum members are polite and courteous ...because you'll see him at least once a month and being a douche really doesn't feel so good in person.

Selfies

That guy Captain obvious

Texting what you think is important wondering why I didn't respond right away....Frickn call me then!

For me its "Whatever" - when one has the temerity to point out another's error.

Cheers
JB

My son, who's attending junior college, says he's seeing people walking around with their phones blaring some song and the twits sing along at full volume. Not just quietly humming (which is irritating enough), but belting out Taylor Swift. I told him he ought to spike their phone like a volleyball.

Oh, and those little bastards on my lawn.

Or when an employee says "my bad" when they screw up.

"My bad" right to the f###g unemployment line!

It is pronounced:

Nu-klee-er

not

nuk-u-ler

ok I have one... two really.
Posting a car in For Sale section with the POS still on the trailer... really????
Just screams of - I just bought this car for 'X' that I found in a field somewhere and now I'm gonna sell it to you for 1000 x 'X'. The other is FS photos with the car washed 10 seconds ago... hose, soap visible & waterlogged driveway to boot. Both - instant disqualify (for me at least)...

How about a third... Hideous BBS wheels - instant pass.

ok, carry on.

Current pet peeve: greedy people who are upset that someone else besides them got a good deal.

I don't get it? You're upset that the guy with the car on the trailer is flipping the car for a profit? Get over it. If must REALLY make you mad that the store buys stuff for less and sells it to you for more than they paid. OMG the injustice.

Just look at the car and the price. If its worth it, buy it. Don't worry if he paid less. Sheesh. :rolleyes:

(disclaimer: this post is not directed at any one person in particular)

Washed cars are nice. I hate showing up to see a car and its trashed with crap.
It'll clean up nice he says. Why is it me that has to pull the French fries from the seats!

My current peeve:
The 1,000,000 political commentaries that my friends insist on posting on Facebook. "Trump is an idiot," "Hilary is a liar," "Bernie the Commie..." etc. Enough already - from both sides. Why do people insist on posting this drivel? Do they really think they will sway others with all the nonsense posting? Almost makes me long for the times when everyone just posted about their own miserable, pathetic lives.

I wish there was a PARF section for Facebook... Compartmentalize the Political nonsense

-Z

Tailgating, and bright headlights in my mirrors on the way to work @ 6:00 in the morning. If you are in that big of a hurry, to pass me and run right up to tailgate the car ahead of me.....leave home a few minutes earlier.

I-75 is under construction again (lane widening) and the concrete barriers are up on the white lines, but yet, these idiots still insist on tailgating and attemping to PUSH their way through traffic. All of the semi trucks are instructed to run in the median lane, and all the idiots who aren't tailgating, are too scared to pass the semis on the "wrong" side.

All of this makes from some impressive multi-car accidents at least a couple of times a day.

Negativity. Examples:

Let's meet for a canyon run. "OMG! You idiots. You're all gonna die!

Anyone watching Formula 1 this weekend? "Formula 1 SUCKS!!! zzzz zzzz zzzz"

Muscle cars are cool. "Muscle cars SUCK!!! Where's your gold chain and cigarette Corvette loser?" (I'm guilty as charged)

Which car should I buy, the BMW 325 or MB E320? "That's stupid...Buy a VW Jetta. Buy at Lexus. Buy a Boxster. My friend has a BMW 325 and his friend has a MB E320 and they BOTH SUCK!!!!

;)

I always get a kick out of the guy that wants to be reimbursed for his "Inconvenience" when a dealership doesn't have the part in stock that he wants to buy and install himself.

^ This + a megaton explosion. It annoys the hell out of me to hear educated people say nucular.

+1!

also unnecessary spaces between lines it posts SmileWavy

also:
1. "Begs the question" when you mean "raises the question."
2. "besides the point" vs "beside the point"
3. overuse of "restored" (1962 Chevy Impala, fresh restoration, 350/700R4, Ford 9" rear end)

^While on the topic of bad grammar....

"Would of"...."could of"....."should of" = NO! NO! NO!:mad:

It's "would have", "could have", "should have"......idiot!;)

Thank you!

(Please don't respond with "your welcome.") ARGH!!! It's "YOU'RE WELCOME!"

-Z

UR Welcome....:p

^^^Amen

Those who refuse commas, and run sentences together needlessly !

The improper use of their, they're, and there !

They're you go.

Supposably if you hit you're breaks you will loose some speed.

That would be: "a moot point"

:D
People who post song lyrics which have very little relationship to the words the artist actually sang. From time to time, when I'm trying to learn a new song, I will come across lyrics which have possible been posted by someone who either has a hearing impairment or speaks English as a second or third language.

That's one thing about writing your own stuff. If you screw up the lyric, you know who to blame.
Best
Les