Pet Peeve Venting

ARGH!

Just got back from my afternoon walk.  And I am annyoied.

1.  I work on the 6th level of my building.  This would be awesome to walk up instead of taking the elevator but because of terrist acts all the doors on the floors to the stairs are locked unless the fire alarm is pulled.

2. to get to the elevators there is a set of escalators.  Just because the bloody stairs are moving doesn't mean you can't walk up them!   I have found that to be so irritating when you are stuck behind people that refuse to walk up.. or down them!

*sigh*.. I think I am better now..

What are some of your pet peeves that could help your health?

The absolute WORST for me is anyone who is condescending. My dad will talk to waiters as if they're stupid, and I hate that. If people treat me like I'm 5, I resent them forever. Generally, anyone who is in any way condescending pisses me off.

I hate bad drivers (esp. those who don't use turning signals), people who blow their nose in public (esp. at a restaurant, gag), oh god. I better stop. My list could be pretty long.

I hate when coworkers give you a hard time about choosing not to go out to eat for lunch with them or if you do wondering why you eat something so "light" and (to them) unappealing. Ugh.

When people judge you for everything you do, and are so busy doing it that they never take time to look at anything they are doing wrong.

I have a couple.  People who can't close their damn mouth when they chew, and decide to put an entire chip or cracker in their mouth and make a HUGELY loud crunching sound with it.  This lady I work with likes taking chips, crackers, nuts, ANYTHING crunchy and just chomp no them all day with her mouth open.  It's obnoxious.

I also hate people who are rude to waiters or clerks.  As a bank teller, I'm just doing my job when I ask for your I.D.  I don't need any crap about how long you've had your account at the bank.  If I don't know you, I'm gonna ask for it, so take the damn 5 seconds it takes to get the thing out of your wallet, and give it to me.

And don't get me started on people who tell you a story, and repeat themselves a million times during it.  My one friend has a habit of it, it goes something like this : "oh my god, we went up to the mall, the mall in muncy, ya know, the one in muncy that's a mall.  so we went up to the muncy mall and walked around it, and since we were at the mall in muncy, we went shopping, cause its like...we're in a mall, the mall in muncy, so we shopped."  That's just a small sample of what I have to hear.

OH!  And when someone asks what you did the night before, and you say "eh, went out for dinner." and they have to ask a million questions!  "where'd you go?  What did you get?  who went with you?  how much did it cost?  how big was it?  was it good?  how was the waiter?  you get bread with that?  you get a soda?  how was the salad bar?"  this is why I don't talk to my one friend about where I go...cause "I went to olive garden" turns into a 15 minute conversation about their noodles.

Ok, I'm done venting.

Okay finewine, that was hilarious. I almost fell out of my chair because I know exactly what you mean. I have friends like that too who repeat everything in a story like 50 times and you just want to like strangle them or something.

Anyway, I have to say that my pet peeve is definately hearing other people chew. Growing up my brother would always smack his food at the table and it makes me like, physically ill and I can't eat. Now I'm married and my husband eats fast and also smacks his food. He gets mad when I call him on it too, but I told him, you know if you allowed yourself to eat that in like 20 bites instead of 5, then maybe you wouldn't have so much in your mouth and you could actually chew decently like you're supposed to.

I used to work in food service and in retail and I know how hard it is spending all of your workday trying to please customers. I feel like every single person should have to spend a month of their lives working in food service and a month, preferably during the busy Christmas season, working in retail so they appreciate how hard it is and the fact that you should treat those people better.

My pet peeves are as follows:

1. People who lie. Sorry, I have an internal lie meter. My poor kids.

2. People who drag their feet. That's like nails on a chalk board for me.

3. Bad grammar, spelling and punctuation.

4. And most importantly, PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS LATE!!!! (My dear hubby has 2-4 covered) LOL

Hmm.......
I hate the constant "*sniff**sniff* Damn I need to blow my nose *sniff**SNIFF*I am just *SSSNNNNIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFF* lazy....*sniff*" [*blows up just thinking about it*], but other than my sanity, thats not health related...i guess...
Um...........

People dieting on TV. Like whatserbucket trying to give up meat.....if she gives anything more up, she'll die...grr... and it kind of triggers a binge for me. Or at least thats my excuse....

And when people lick their fingers after eating...its like they need a room.....its gross... I don't mean just licking their fingers a little...I mean the people who proceed to cover their hand in spit. its a CRUMB. it wont kill you to wipe your hands off.
ew.

I have a ton of pet peeves.... speedos on old old men...ok any speedos really but that one is worse.

stopping in the left lane to turn on a blinker to turn into the TURNING lane....YIKES (florida living for ya)

the dunkin donuts that opened up the road precisely the time I decided to lose weight.

the all time winner.....the moron who apparently believes his/her sweat is less gross than anybody else's and does not wipe down gym equipment.  EWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Health reasons in order....gag reaction set off, blood pressure, empty calories and finally blood pressure and germs all in one.

I love bran muffins...Trader Joes has a wonderful large bran muffin with 5 grams of fat and 250 cals.

My pet peeve is when they package something that looks like one serving but all the nutritional information is for only 1/2 of it.

I drive up and down the highway, pet peeve "Am I invisible?" Why do people cut you off when clearly that lane is occupied, in close second, traffic, and close 3rd, getting cut off, only to see brake lights seconds after.

Not really health related, but still crazy making

Cell phones in a restaurant.

I think cell phones in public, in general. People always have to scream on them (and usually I can hear the person they're talking to). If I have to answer my phone in public, I keep my volume level to a minimum.

I agree.  Cell phones in public places drive my crazy.  Especially people driving while talk on their cell phones.  Or while checking out at a store.  Which brings me to another pet peeve of mine... People who treat clerks or people in retail, etc. like shit.  Have a little respect, they are humans just like you.  And they are the ones that have to put up with you and thousands of other bitchy customers like you. 

And then those customers where nothing I mean nothing will satisfy them.  You could go to the moon and back and they still won't be happy.

Smoking in public areas can really get to me too.  Especially where it says, "No Smoking".  I don't really feel like getting cancer today, thankyou.  Can you keep your poison to yourself?

1) Rudeness

2) People who lie

3) Snobs

And last but not necessarily least:

4) People who are in such a hurry and want me to be in a hurry too just because they are.  One day they may learn to relax, but either way, I'm not going to let my blood pressure go up simply because they don't have the time or desire to do just that.

Oh I hate when people walking talking to some one else stop right in front of a doorway or elevator when they know other people need to get by them to use it. Same thing with shopping carts, block the whole isle like they own the isle. When you ask them to move they make like it is out of their way to move just a little...ugh...

my Uncle, whom I currently live with, making comment on my dinner 'oh that's a plateful'  ya it is, so what are you insinuating?! it's almost all veggies and a helluva lots less calories than the crap you just ate matey!  He says it numerous times throughout any given week and it's a wonder I have any tongue left (from biting it so much) 

or the people at work who comment on all the stuff I have on my desk to eat......which is tomatoes, cucumber, apple etc and they are munching away on freaking chocolate bars and crisps from the vending machine complaining they've gained 7 lbs since Xmas.......Struth.

i think my greatest pet peeve at the moment is finding things when im shopping that have the nutritional info on the back, fine, but not the actual weight on the packet, so you have no frickin idea how much is in there. or having a random "1/8th of this mini cheesecake has 164 calories" when you could probably fit the entire thing in your mouth, whose going to split it up into 8ths?!
    also another blood pressure riser are packet pizzas, which say "1 slice has (blank)calories" well how big is the slice!

people eating a large slice of pizza folding it in half and just shoving the whole damn thing in their mouth, cheese and dough all over the chin and you can see the pizza in plain veiw hanging out while they are trying to choke it down. yuck,gross.

I'm a very picky eater and my pet peev is when I tell someone I don't like something they go "Really, why not?"  What does it matter to you?  I don't like it and don't have to explain my reasoning to you.  Especially with coffee, hate the smell of it, hate the taste of it and people just can't accept that.  They're like "Oh try this coffee, it's the best".  NO!  You don't have magic coffee, I just told you that the smell repulses me but you think that you have the best coffee in the world and for some insane reason I'm going to all of a sudden get over the fact that it smells like ass and love it.  Good luck!  It's better for my health that I don't drink it and become an addict like 99% of my office.  There was a day when the coffee machine was broken and they had the secretary go to Dunkin Donuts and get like 50 coffee's for everyone because people were going nuts.  I don't get it.