I need pet peeves

[ericcoleman]

Ok. I'm asking everyone here.

I'm working on a new song ... it's about those people ... you know ... the ones who piss you off everyday just by being jerks.

I need examples ... something to fuel my brain here.

I'm not talking about something personal, the way someone laughs. I'm talking (since it's the 1st verse of the song) that gerbil who is driving 45 MPH in the far left lane during rush hour chattering on their cel phone ... things like that ...

gimme

Comments

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

Really - I wrote mine before I read others

[ericcoleman]

Well, I wrote a verse. So I blame both of you.

And it's rare that I laugh out loud at something I write.

Now the question is ... will anyone else laugh ???

[liana]

People who can't figure out how to split a tab at a restaurant.

[fallenhero143.livejournal.com]

People who write in l33t-speak / text-messaging on message boards, in online games, etc. As a corollary, people who knowningly mispell common words and think they're above proper use of language.

People who think that because they have more money than you they are therefore superior to you. Give triple extra stars and negative kudos to the ones of these that are staunch church-goers and think that their money shows favor from God and my lack of money shows that I am less godly/holy/righteous/etc.

People who speed through neighborhoods, uncaringly endangering or even hitting pedestrians, people walking their dogs, cats, children playing, squirrels, and even birds. Double-points to those that actually pass someone in a neighborhood that is driving at a sane speed.

People who lack the competence to even park their cars and hit mine and then leave without leaving a note. By extension and by personal experience, hit-and-run drivers.

Drivers who honk at you or flash their brights to make you get over... even though everyone on the road is going the same speed you are. Or... people who do the same when there IS only one frickin' lane.

Drivers who honk at you to make a right-turn on red (here in Michigan) when they can't possibly see and/or there is a sign making it illegal.

People who block an entire road to talk to a driver coming the other way down the road.

Anyone who thinks common courtesy and politeness is obsolete.

Parents who drop their kids off at malls or stores for hours and hours at a time. Store employees and mall security are not free babysitters.

Anyone that thinks the incredibly random occurrence that they have more money than me means that they have the right to tell me how to run my life.

Poor losers. Poor winners. (When they lose it's because you cheated, the game is flawed, the dice weren't fair, etc. When you lose it's because they rock, you suck, etc.)

People who bitch too much. :)

[fallenhero143.livejournal.com]

Oh, and public cell phone users in general, but most especially the knobs that use speaker phone because they're too frickin' arrogant/lazy to move the phone 6 more inches against their ear. Double-points to those that swear and argue over the phone in public places.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

Drivers who honk at you to make a right-turn on red (here in Michigan)...
Today I had someone honk because I wasn't turning right (I was going forward) and I wouldn't turn right on red or run the light so they could turn right on red.

OH and those stupid walkie talkie phones with the twirll-chirp sound each time someone talks

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

just today in fact, there was a little old lady who took the turn right in front of me at like an entire mile per hour. My annoyance phrase for people like that is, "wouldn't wanna flip that [in this case] oldsmobile."

there was also the time the homeless guy at the train station who wasn't doing so hot begging and finally just started blaming everyone at the train station for his being homeless and his inability to find work and a home and stuff. i mean, he was screaming at the top of his lungs.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

kiss kiss on the cheek, Oh how have you been, lets do lunch...

So are you married yet? Any kids?

Why do people bring screming children to movies? To nice restaurnts, and change them on the table? That has to be a health code violation

You don't have to play your stereo loud enough to rattle my teeth, when it is winter and we both have our windows up

You mean like those?

Car stereo story.

[liana]

Overheard a young woman in the cafeteria telling her co-workers how she was in big trouble when her boyfriend got back in town because he lent her his car and she forgot to roll the windows down before starting it up and the music broke a window.

I was biting my lip to keep from howling with laughter.

Re: Car stereo story.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I dont' think I would be able to hold back, or if so my lip would have been bleeding

[petdance.livejournal.com]

Yellow ribbon magnets.

Saying "No problem" instead of "You're welcome."

Street spam (See streetspam)

Talking with nothing to say.

People who say "Where's your coat?" if they think it's cold enough out for me to wear a coat, but I don't.

[xap]

People who will READ you something that tells them X is not an option, then ask you why X won't work...
Double points when they explain/define the terms first

Bosses that publicize policies in multiple formats and then freak out when someone follows them.

People who make a production of counting items others put on the belt in the '10 items or less' lane, and then play the "whoops! i forgot this" game until their order is double the limit when it's their turn.

People who look at your child and comment on the coat being unzipped, right before their UNjacketed child runs up...

heh - more when i'm awake? (people who post half-incoherent LJ comments while sleep-deprived? *grin*)

[alymid.livejournal.com]

people who test out their new phone ringtones in public, especially in closed spaces like train cars.

Internet troll and others who just do things because they get enjoyment from screwing up someone elses fun

[alicebentley]

Riders who furiously berate the bus driver who won't let them on the bus - because the next stop is the bus yard two blocks away.

I can just imagine his response if she had let him get on, and THEN he figured out it wasn't going where he needed to.

Now, how you could possibly put that into some snazzy scansion is beyond me.

[appleboy]

The annoying psychotic guy who has to sit next to you on the bus.

Those women or men who have no life of their own and speak every sentence "My husband this.." "My wife this.."

Coworkers who have free access to the web who ask stupid questions that are all answerable by saying "Google.com"

Joke spam.

"Oh, a Sci-fi convention? Are you one of those Star Trek people?"

[bobolium.livejournal.com]

people that constantly say to their kid 'Stop that or we are leaving' when they know that they are not going anywhere, as does the kid who continues to beat the crap out of his sister or (TRUE) run around in a china shop with his hands out while singing some kid song. The 'If you stop that I will buy you something nice'people come in second because these people are bribing their kids to stop thus making the behavior acceptable. Gah.

Parents that let their kid cry at the top of their lungs in a store and do not do anything about it (if my kid is screaming I first assess the situation and try to calm him (he is 3 months old, when he cries it is either for food, a change, or a burp), and if this doesn't work I will take him to the car, or to another room, etc. so as not to ruin somebody else's day.

Also hate people that chew tobacco, and then spit it in strange places, like this one kid I used to know in high school was chewing tobacco on the bus on the way home from school, and he took the clear cellophane wrapper off of his cigarettes to spit into, so that you could see all of the chaw-ey goodness. YUK. (in hindsight, I really believe that this kid was on the fast track to cancer, considering he smoked and chewed tobacco - his thought for chewing was because there were no rules against it in school, and they were sticklers for smoking, I dunno where the hell he was lighting up that they caught him, I never got caught and was constantly smoking)

Inconsiderate smokers - bu this I mean the smokers that are rude and blow smoke in people's faces just for the hell of it, without provocation, who smoke in the foyers of shopping malls, in bathrooms, in subway cars, in NY there is no smoking anywhere unless it is outside, unless you are home or in your car. Also they do not care about the mess they make, littering the ground with butts when there is a canister handy, GRRR. When I smoked I did not do these things out of respect for others, and I think that others should be taken into consideration.

People that throw used gum on the ground - even in winter - cuz when it warms up it sticks to your shoes, and EW.

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

People who throw their Cigarette butts on the ground as if the world were their ashtray.

People at work who insist on checking their voice mail using the speaker phone.

The people at the cafeteria who use a credit card to pay for their 79 cent bagel.

Those coworkers who are too laze/incompotent to do their jobs correctly, who then get mad at you for not doing it the way that it should have been done, or how they would have done it.