Ever since I responded a few days ago to Johnjzokovitch over at Stories in the Struggle with my own list of things I love and hate, I’ve had this hankerin’ to do a little challenge on PET PEEVES! Today’s the day, by golly! I’m going to do it! Here’s my list of my Top 10 Pet Peeves. Anyone who would like to play along feel free to leave yours in a comment, or ping me! I’d love to see what drives everyone else nuts.
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1. When people with a cart full of groceries park themselves in the express lanes at the grocery store.
2. When his lordship insists on turning into the FIRST driveway at the store thus having to bulldoze his way through all the people going in and out instead of turning into the SECOND driveway (which is a straight shot to the pumps, no people) to get gas. It’s like begging fate to let you run over someone!
3. When these two guys here leave trash on the kitchen counters rather than walking the extra two feet to the garbage can. (I am NOT a maid service!)
4. People who sneeze or belch without covering their mouths. (Ick!)
5. People who park in handicap spaces with no visible handicap signs on or in their cars. (In my fondest dreams I buy these ALMOST windshield-size stickers that say something really pithy to plaster in the middle of their windshields! 😡 )
6. Cupboard doors (or other doors) and drawers that get left open. (Again, it’s a maid thing.)
7. People on their phones in restaurants. (I’m often tempted to take them away and throw them in their soup — even my own son’s!)
8. Lights left on in vacant rooms. (I’m resigned to being a maid… 😦 )
9. Phone systems you have to wade through to speak to a human.
10. Having my Saturday mornings disrupted by life.
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I would have added this one, but since TP manufacturers are making the rolls narrower, the whole bloomin’ roll ends up unrolling on the floor anyway. We don’t even bother to put it on the holder half the time…
Ok, your turn. What things set YOUR teeth on edge?
Impromptu Promptlings 
When there is only 1 line open in a grocery story where there is a cashier.
When baggers put bread in with anything else.
When the other person in the house have the nerve to remind me to turn off the hall light when they won’t ever turn off the two lights on their own desk, when they get up to go downstairs.
People on their phones in their cars!
People who let their dogs run rampant through surrounding yards (like mine) to do their business!
When doctor’s take personal calls while they are examining you.
When people leave shopping carts in parking spaces
When doctors don’t really listen to what the problem is.
[personal peeves]
When I get up to go to the kitchen, and forget what I wanted to do in there.
When I leave the house to go shopping without my shopping list, and can only remember the least important items.
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Love the getting up to go to the kitchen one! Me, too! You’ve got some I hadn’t thought about on your list!
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Oh #9 is one of the top ones for me. You are right about that why cant humans answer the phone any more.
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1 – People using cell phones while driving.
2 – People checking out at any register while talking on a cell phone (it’s just RUDE to do that!)
3 – Hubby asking me to get him a bottle of water from the fridge when he was just standing by it.
4 – Coming home from and there are no lights on in the house even though hubby is home. (he’s on his PC back in the back bedroom with only that light on.)
5 – People (including hubby) playing with their cell while eating out.
6 – People who ride motorcycles and split the lanes. (You’re just begging for someone to open a car door and taking you out!)
7 – Co workers that sit in their cube all day watching Youtube and leaving others to pick up the slack for them.
8 – Cat barf left on the floor to be cleaned by me when I get home from work. )Really? You just step over it and leave it for ME?)
9 – If you want/need something done ASK ME to do it. Don’t say “You should (insert whatever here).” And then say “OH I didn’t mean you had to do it now” when I get up to do it. (If you didn’t want it done now, why bring it up now?)
10 – Don’t say to me “I bet you didn’t do (insert stuff here) did you?”Just ASK me if I did it.
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Oh man! I forgot about the cell phone and driving! That’s one of my big ones, too. I know you don’t like coming home to a dark house. We’ve talked about that. How about putting one of your lamps in the front of the house on a timer? Be a good idea whether C is home or not. People talking on their cells while checking out is getting to be a big one with me, too. In fact, I think cell phones are one of the biggest causes of angry stress in our society these days!
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