I went to the doctor's
office yesterday... and wow! It is
disgusting. People just sit in a circle in the waiting
office
and cough on each other! This must be the most unhealthy
place in the world!!! I go in with a sprained ankle and
come
out with the plague! There ought to be some other way to
handle people rather than keeping them in that little room.
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From Delores...
What is with the commercialization of EVERYTHING???
I just heard that they're going to make a sequel and a
prequel to the Blair Witch Project. The good thing about
the BWP was that it was an independent film, not loaded
with big budget special effects! Now they're going to
poison the concept by making it a Star Wars sized
hunk of crap... why do they do this to the public???
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A long one from Ellie...
I know this is about neighbors, but if you think they're bad,
remember back to your good old college days and your
freshmen year roommate. Now feel free to feel sorry for me.
The problem with college roommates is usually that they do
things that individually aren't that annoying, but when you
add them to all of the other idiotic actions they perform, you
start thinking about what their head would look like on a stick.
And what are you supposed to do then?
My roommate, for example, was Mummy and Daddy's little
princess, and has never had to work a day in her life. I don't
really give a crap, except she brought some applesauce
back from her "Grammum's" house, and it proceeded to
spill
all over the refrigerator. She could not clean it up, she claims,
because it will make her gag? She can eat it, but she can't
clean it up? Oh, and to make this story even better, she left
a bowl of rotting tuna sitting on a sunny window sill before she
left for her little five day vacation, so the room smelled very
lovely upon our return.
The stereo is mine, the TV is mine, the phone is mine, and
yes, we agreed to share these things, but does that really give
her the right to walk around with the cordless and two remotes
shoved up her butt? And is it really that hard to return a CD
to its case before putting in her Brittany Spears crap?
And phone message - I received a very important call the
other day about a summer internship at a bigtime New
York-based magazine, and luckily they called me back,
because I never would have known about it. The nice lady
claimed she left a detailed message with a number on my
voicemail, but funny how I never got it. I wasn't around, but
Satan's Sidekick was.
Carelessness, messiness, and just a lack of social skill
I can deal with, but now the bitch is going out of her way
to damage important aspects of my life. No wonder my
boyfriend hasn't called lately! She probably told him that
I was running a brothel out of our dorm! Who knows what
else she's messed up?
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I just bought a bottle of
the "NEW" Diet RC Cola. Yikes!
They switched from their old sweetener to this new crap
called "Splenda" or something! Gag!! It's
horrible and
it leaves a metallic aftertaste in your mouth. Ewww...
My peeve, I guess, is the way companies change around
good products and turn them into crap! Coke
learned
from its mistake, hopefully RC will as well. And if anyone
from RC is reading this... Splenda sucks!
[I didn't even know RC Cola still existed.]
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From Marley...
My peeve is 0.5 lead in mechanical pencils. It really
pisses me off when I am trying to do my algebra problems
and my lead breaks on me a million times. I would buy 0.7
lead but the pencil I like doesn't make it. It is the most
annoying thing in the world!!!!!! UGH!!
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From Alissa...
What really bothers me now is this trend back towards
female-bashing humor I've seen on TV. The worst example
being "The Man Show" on the comedy channel. This
is
the most sexist, disgusting show ever seen on television.
Why do men feel the need to bash a belittle women in
this manner? C'mon guys... have some respect!!!
[It's funny, though.]
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From Mark in Muncie...
Our local libraries have recently instituted a policy of not
allowing people to check their e-mail from the public
computers. What is up with that? I'm often required
to
do a lot of research at the libraries and sometimes I'd like
to check my mail to see if anyone sent me anything.
They're just trying to make people's lives difficult by
creating this regulation.
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From Jerry...
My peeve relates to the cold that I currently have. Every
single
time I talk to someone, and they ask if I'm sick... I say yes.
Then, she begins to explain all the problems they've had in the
past with being sick. Hello!! I'm the one with the
cold, I don't
want to hear how miserable you've been in the past.
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Rosemary has a good one...
My pet peeve is radio commercials that include car horn blasts,
and or sirens. I don't know how many times I have been in
rush
hour traffic, or just traffic, and have a commercial come on that
will include a horn blast. I have nearly lost my cool
trying to
find out what is going on. Sirens are really scary.
You're
looking all around trying to find out where they are coming from.
I cannot believe I am the only person behind the wheel who finds
this not only dangerous, but annoying.
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Katie from Chicago sends this peeve...
My pet peeve is those stores that give you one of those bags
with no handles. They are not only hard to hold for a long
time
if you plan to do a lot of shopping, but they are also annoying!
If stores only handed out shopping bags with handles, my life
would be so much easier!
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From Lea...
My peeve is the drop down list of states that has become
the norm for Internet forms. Do these companies think it is
helpful to me to have a list of state abbreviations in case
I forget mine? OK, so there's a handy shortcut ~ to type
the first letter of my state then scroll through 5 more to
actually get to it rather than just letting me type that second
letter ~ "handy" is right. I live in New Mexico so by
typing N
I have to scroll through NE, NH, NJ, NY, NV (and I probably
even forgot some)! I don't understand why companies trust
people to enter all sorts of personal information, passwords,
credit card numbers and yet we can't even type our own two
letter state abbreviation. Then once in a while I click on the
wrong one and have to start the whole process over again
just because I can't be trusted to get that second letter right.
I am so grateful when I actually see a state field without an
arrow indicating I have to scroll through 50 or more
states/territories/countries etc. to get those two letters in
the box.
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This peeve sent in by Donna...
I am not one to be a whiner but I have a serious pet peeve
that has to do with Washington State. People are driving
25 miles per hour on the freeway in the fast lane when
it rains. My gosh, where do these people come from?
Did everyone move here from Florida??? Or maybe they
are just learning to drive?? Whatever the reason, if you
live
in WA... it is gonna rain. Learn to drive in it or get OFF
THE FREEWAYS.
[Hehe... Florida drivers aren't as slow as you might think.]
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Angie's peeve...
My biggest pet peeve (and I have several) is the way
that today's newspapers only report the bad stuff. I
live in a small town and our local newspaper is filled
with things that really should be no one else's business!
Things such as: who filed for divorce, who is late on their
property taxes, a complete list of all tickets issued by
the police (with names, ages, and addresses), everything
that is filed at the courthouse can be found in our paper.
Recently, they started publishing pictures of local yards
that need cleaned up.
Why don't papers publish the good things people do...or
does no one do anything good anymore?? Don't
they have any idea that they are creating discord by
exposing people's personal information to their friends
and neighbors?
[I thought all small town papers were nice and fluffy.
Guess not!]
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From Peter...
My peeve has to do with bumper stickers! Why do people
put these things on their cars? I went shopping for a used
car the other day and the one I wanted had these stupid
stickers on the back window! Aren't there enough
advertisements in the world without sticking them on the
back of cars, too?
Also... I saw now that they're actually putting ad stickers
on fruit these days! Some Internet company actually
paid to put them on apples! C'mon!!!
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Mark's peeve...
Why do computer disks have to have stickers on them to
be labeled? Hasn't anyone thought of a better way to do
this? Maybe a dry erase surface or something? It's so
annoying to buy a whole box of disks and then have them
labeled for things that I did months ago. You can't peel
the
labels off, and if you put one on top of the other... you can
still see through it! We've made so many advances in other
areas of computing. Why not a better way to mark disks??
[That's actually a good idea! There should be another way
of doing that.]
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From Kelley...
My peeve has to do with commercials that some people are
airing that make stupid "Y3K Compatible" jokes.
It ain't funny!
I don't wanna hear about Y2K, or the even lamer Y3K!!! Stop
it, it's not cute!
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This comes from Debbie...
My peeve is that while watching the ball drop in Time Square
on Friday, I hated seeing all of the advertisements under it.
Just under the ball was a gigantic cup-a-noodles cup!! That
is just so tacky and it takes away from the actual event.
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A peeve from James...
My pet peeve is in the summer when all the people cut
their grass at different times. There isn't one day of
peaceful bliss. Why can't they coordinate a couple of days
and time slots that everyone can go out and cut away. Then
we all can have some peace and quiet once in awhile.
[That happens all the time around here, too.]
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From Johanna...
My peeve is that I don't know what to call this new decade
we've entered. We've left the 90's behind and entered the...
what's? 2000's? Zero's? Oh's? Has anyone
come up with
what to call this decade yet??
[I think there was a group that had wanted to go with the "Oh's"
but it's going to be a little while until something catches on,
I think.]
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Leah's peeve...
I hate that in the back seat of cars, the window goes only
half way down... or it goes 3 inches from the bottom. I mean,
if someone is going to jump out the window they can still do it.
It makes no sense and is so stupid!! Why do they do this?
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A friend peeve...
I know that everyone (or almost everyone) has to have
a friend like this. My best friend, for 11 years now,
lives
a fantasy life. She works in a gas station and thinks that
she can afford to buy a house. Keep in mind, that she has
2 kids and she's single. I don't think so! Every
story that
she tells is exaggerated beyond belief. She tried to tell
everyone that her oldest son was walking at 6 months.
NOT! Then she told me that cuz my son wasn't speaking
like you or me at the age of ONE that he wasn't doing
good enough. So now, her second son is nearly 3, and
still can't talk. He points and grunts. Before all of
you
jump on me for this, I will say, that I have told her this,
too. I'm not talking behind her back. She is such a
bad
mom too. Curses at them and hardly ever sees them.
The oldest goes to school all day, then she works all night.
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Jennifer's shopping complaint...
Let me start by saying I hate Christmas shopping during
the actual Christmas season because of all the hordes of
people and all the lines, so I have ALL my shopping done
by November AT THE LATEST. (Mostly, I do my shopping
on the net.) Anyway, what I hate is all those last-minute
and very-last-minute shoppers who clog all the damn
check-out lanes with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff when
all I want to buy is Q-tips or something else I innocently ran
out of. (Granted, I still order stuff like this on the net,
but sometimes you have just GOT to go to the store.)
Okay, you might say, use the express lanes. Yeah, right.
In most places, express lanes are a joke because you have
everyone and their brother trying to check out--so you have
a lot of people who shouldn't be in the express lane at all or
people who are pushing the express lane limit, so me, with
one item, is screwed waiting in line behind 20 people.
Yes, I also do know that I could go to an out-of-the-way
drugstore or convenience store that wouldn't have the long
lines, but why should I be forced to do that (and spend more
money) because of all the last-minute shoppers? It's my
peeve and that's that.
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Brett's credit card difficulties...
My peeve is the idiot clerk at Staples who forgot (or
intentionally failed) to give my Visa card back after the
purchase, and anyone else involved in the fraud that
followed. I bought some stuff on sale, totaling less than
20 bucks. I got lots of coupons handed back to me
along with my receipt, but in the hustle-n-bustle of the
line and getting out of the store (it was a big sale day)
I didn't realize may card was missing until I tried to use
it two days later at the university bookstore. I returned to
Staples, but of course they didn't have it. So I called the
Visa company and reported it. They said that in those two
days there were 5 gas station charges made on the card.
They didn't know the total yet, but I'm guessing a few
hundred dollars. Of course I don't have to pay for it (thank
GOD), but I have to deal with the hassle of an account
change.
What really pisses me off about it all is that this type of thing
is what drives up percentage rates above prime because the
credit companies know that they have to cover their hineys
and eat the cost of fraud out of their profits. If people were
HONEST (what a concept!) then maybe we wouldn't have
to pay so much FRIGGIN INTEREST!!!
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Fiona's peeve...
At my university at the moment we are having elections
for positions in the Student Association like media officer,
overseas student officer, etc. So everywhere we go we are
confronted with posters stuck everywhere, even on the ground,
along with chalk messages. Also there are leaflets
scattered
all over the university - which is not so bad cause I can use
them to make paper cranes in boring lectures... but no one
reads them, they all just make darts. What a waste of trees...
As well as all that, before every lecture we have at least 2 or 3
people come to persuade us to vote for them. And everywhere
we walk people harass us and shove leaflets into our hands.
Only about 10% of students even vote - they just don't care.
I think these wannabe politicians should get a life, or maybe
do some study for a change.
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Here's a funny Pokemon peeve...
My peeve is one word. Pokemon. My fiance is so enthused
about it, he drives me crazy. He's 20 years old, about to
turn
21 for Pete's sake. We live together (as of recent) and I
was
very excited to think that, "Wow, I can spend all the time I
want with him, whenever I want!" But NO!!! 4:00 p.m.,
Mysti goes off and Pokemon goes on. Our whole day
revolves around POKEMON. Well, I'll tell you what... when
he
comes home tonight he's gonna find a pokemon sitting on the
pillow and blanket I've placed on the couch for him!!
[I'm not sure I should be giving advice, but... I'd dump
this guy if he's more concerned with Pokemon than with
you.]
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From Debbie...
Generally I have no problem with trash collectors, it's a hard
and
dirty job and someone's got to do it. I do however hate
when
I see trash collectors working with no gloves on! I'm not
going
to say I would never do that job like or it's beneath me or
something, but if I had to do it I certainly would wear gloves!
Also, the guys that do my area always park the truck diagonally
when loading so you can't drive around it. Every other time
I see trucks working they pull over to the side but it never
fails
that on trash day I have to sit and wait three houses down from
mine because the guy parked sideways. Last time the driver
finally woke up and moved the truck over. That's not too
bad,
but am I alone on the glove thing?? I doubt it...
[Is she?]
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A peeve from Benji...
State troopers really bother me. I was caught in what
should
have been an illegal speed trap the other day. I've never
gotten
a ticket in my entire life... and as I'm going down a hill,
towards
a sign that says "Speed Limit 65"... which is within
sight, this
guy (there were 2 other card which were hiding at the base of
the hill) pulls me over. Now, the speed is
about to increase
and I probably jumped the gun a bit, but I was going down a
hill for Christ sake!!! He wasn't even reasonable about it.
He said
all these goofy, cliche cop things (like he was auditioning for
a part in a movie) and wrote me an outrageously high ticket!!!
Now I have to go to traffic school or have 4 points on my
license just because this IDIOT, this STUPID IDIOT, had to meet
some quota and decided to hit people in an easy spot. There
were cars all around me going as fast or faster than I was!
It just pisses me off so much!!!
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I wasn't sure about printing this one, but it just seemed so
bizarre...
My father just past away. Our phone will not stop ringing
and I would not mind it but NO ONE is calling for me.
People keep coming and bringing food our refrigerator is
PACKED no more food can fit and people still keep
bringing food. How bout something sentimental like flowers?
I want flowers!!!! Here is a perfect chance for me to get
flowers but I haven't gotten any!
[I won't put a name on this, as I don't want to embarrass her
in her time of loss.]
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Cough medicine peeve from Debbie...
Can someone please explain to me just exactly how a cough
medicine
can be both a cough suppressant AND a cough expectorant?? A
suppressant prevents the cough and an expectorant makes that now
prevented cough more effective. I had to read through about
five
labels to find one for my son that is JUST an expectorant.
Hey
cough guys... pick a market and run with it!
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Peeve from an AOLer...
Well, I just started at Wal-mart. Just Monday to be exact.
I got
so jumped because I sold 8 cans of spray paint to a guy who I
knew
was over 18 and I didn't card him. I went to school for 2
years
with this guy and he turned 18 the second year I knew him.
He even
looks well over 18. So why did I get jumped? Don't ask me
the
only thing I could guess is that there are security cameras
catching
that I "ignored" the register warning about under 18. I
mean it
wouldn't be obvious that I gave the guy a hug, and totally acted
like I knew him. Oh well i guess the ignorance of some is
the
frustration of others.
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From Shirley...
Something that has always bugged me about people who do the news
and weather, be it local or national. Why is it, when one leaves
and is no longer seen on the show, it is never explained where
they went? Do the stations and networks think we will
automatically jump to the other station? I hardly think so as
I am sure most who were local are now working somewhere else
in the country.
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Finally, something a little different. This is a list of
"pet
peeves" from pets. It's a little jokey thing submitted
by
Nancy. I thought it was cute. :-)
Pets' Pet Peeves:
* Dog: They keep putting the lid down on the big water bowl.
* Goldfish: "Just because I have a three-second memory, they
don't think I'll mind eating the
same fish flakes ... Oh
boy! Fish flakes!"
* Dog: "Man, why do they keep rubbing my nose in it? I
already
KNOW whose it is!"
* Goldfish: "The wimp-ass knight never comes out of the
castle
to fight me for dominion over the
fish tank. So I must continue
patrolling, for I am lord and
master!"
* Parrot: "Tease, tease, tease! But do those greedy
clowns ever
really give me a cracker?
HECK, no!"
* Dog: Human legs that just tease.
* Cat: "Why are these people in my house?"
* Dog: "What the... HEY!!! Where are my balls?!?!"
* Goldfish: "Oh, tap-tap-tap! There's a new one!"
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