Pet Peeves - Page 4

mistriTsquirrel · ‎07-17-2010

When people open brand new cosmetics that are not labeled "tester," swatch them, and then don't purchase the items. They just put them back on the shelf. I saw people doing this at Ulta the other day. (Not just one person.) Then I saw a girl applying one of their eyeliners to her eye. Not sure if it was a tester or a new product she opened, but ew. And these people do this stuff shamelessly, out in the open.

When you open product that is not a tester and ruin it without paying for it, you are basically stealing. The cost of this theft is then passed on to the consumer. We all have to pay more for the goods we want and/or need because of thieves/vandals.

And the shopping cart thing mentioned earlier. I understand why there are shopping carts hanging around the handicapped parking spaces, but most people who leave stray carts in the parking lot are just too lazy to walk the extra 10-20 feet to the cart corral. I guess they figure, "well, it can't hurt my car because I'm leaving, so who cares?"

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MoJoV · ‎10-01-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
I rarely have a pet peeve but I do now. I am sick of hearing TV talking heads begin their comments by saying, "Listen, ..."

It comes across as an order to pay attention to what they are about to say.

That's one of my peeves too. But I hear "Look" much more than "Listen". Every stinking sentence starts with LOOK. I guess we watch different channels. My son's girlfriend is a reporter for a local TV station and said they have seminars to attend where they're taught certain buzz words to use.

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racada · ‎03-11-2010

@Puppy Lips wrote:
I have many. But the one bugging me now is not getting a written thank you note for a wedding gift. My nephew got married almost 3 months ago, and I have not received a thank you, neither has my Mom, Sister, or Son/Daugher in Law. I am about to send my brother, his Dad, a text to say WTF? There is no excuse for this.

I agree 100%.

In my family we were raised to write thank yous, to always acknowledge any gift received. I have one adult son, and will admit it was a chore when he was younger getting him to understand the importance of not taking someone's gift to you for granted.

My brother has 4 adult children and his daughter was married in early August. We received a thank you card from her less than 6 weeks later. The wedding was a five hour drive from our home and therefore did cost us more in travel and accommodations. Her thank you card also thanked us for making the trip to be with them on their special day.

"Thank You" to my mom for getting through to all her kids about writing personal thank you notes, looks like it took, and to our kids for continuing mom's teachings 😊

candys mine · ‎08-20-2012

Smokers who drop their cigarette butt on the ground and don't stamp it out. Excuse me, are you finished with that? I don't want their second hand smoke to begin with. For anyone to flick a lit cigarette away and leave it smoking is just RUDE.

software · ‎06-08-2016

Like @PlaidPants2 posted, just too many to mention!

for the most part, my life is fairly free of annoyances, but this website takes the cake! Search is awful.

I can search for the same item, using different search words and still never find my item. Then I'll find it randomly when looking for something else.

I work in a cube farm (for only 7 more months!) and my coworkers need lessons on cube etiquette! Loud phones, loud conversations, using speakerphone. And yes we have "rules" but no one enforces them. I deliberately ate fish for lunch last week in my cube, yeah I'm that petty. I waited for someone to complain.

As far as driving & how the public in general behaves or misbehaves, I try to avoid it.

Caligurll · ‎07-20-2014

I may or may not finish this reply because I think I need a drawing to explain it!

The parking lot at Whole Foods. It's a large parking lot, plenty of parking. There's also a Starbucks very close to the Whole Foods, and the street to enter the parking lot is very busy. There's a stop sign in the parking lot (at the intersection of Whole Foods and Starbucks) and it is close to the Starbucks drive thru line, so people who are in the drive thru line will not budge from the stop sign in the parking lot , meaning anyone trying to get out of the parking lot is blocked in one way or another by the Starbucks people who refuse to actually park and go into the store.

They will stay at the stop sign until there is movement in the drive thru line, and there are cars behind them also waiting in the drive thru line, meaning they are blocking in people already parked, or people trying to park can't. They are blocking the way of people trying too get into the parking lot from the busy street.

I have solved my problem by parking where I can back out and go the opposite direction, but it does bug me that I have to park far away from the store entrance to avoid the Starbucks traffic jam.

Hope this makes sense, happy I didn't have to finish my diagram. And this has been a minor irritation for a while, thank you for letting me vent.

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

Today's pet peeve is cars pulling out from side streets onto the main road. The speed limit on the one lane main road is 55. Stopped cars pull out from the side streets with very little room. Meanwhile there is only one car behind me, then they go a mile and turn off. I don't get why people decide to take that risk. It's not like it's an eight mile backup. They would have to wait maybe two minutes until there were no cars.

Twins Mom · ‎04-03-2016

In the process of receiving RSVP's. Enlightening. Very few people use return address labels or write it on envelopes. Don't they realize it presents issue if lost or illegible? Also having people add on guests when they weren't on invitation. I realize some may feel cheated out of escort but couple can't afford these add-ons.

GinzTonic · ‎10-08-2014

Tardiness

Hypocrites

Long lines

Social injustice

Caligurll · ‎07-20-2014

@candys mine wrote:
Smokers who drop their cigarette butt on the ground and don't stamp it out. Excuse me, are you finished with that? I don't want their second hand smoke to begin with. For anyone to flick a lit cigarette away and leave it smoking is just RUDE.

This reminds me of another pet peeve, not just that they flick lit cigarette butts on the ground, but that they flick any butt, lit or unlit on the ground!