Pet Peeves!

[Myra]

The things that are bothering me right now are generally related to the fact that I am visably pregnant. I am 34 weeks along (8 months) so it's obvious that I'm not just fat...I'm expecting. Now, a lot of strangers will ask when I'm due, and congratulate me and the like, and I don't mind that. Mostly it's well-meaning customers, so it's not a big deal, and I appriciate it.

However, some people leave their brains at home or lack common sense. And these are things that complete strangers feel compelled to do/say to me. It's one thing if you know me, but when strangers do the following, I'm highly annoyed. Here is a list of what will absolutely and positively anger me:

1. Touching my belly. Just because I'm pregnant does not make me public property. If you aren't related to me and don't even KNOW me, respect my personal space. Being with child doesn't mean I don't have that space anymore. I don't know where your germy funky hands have been, and I cannot get sick right now. So keep your hands to yourself. It's not hard.

2. Telling me your horror story. Hey, I'm sorry you were a million weeks overdue and had a 57-hour labor from hell. I'm sorry your kid was the size of of toddler and I'm sorry it hurt and you had to have surgery and it was just so traumatic. I do know many things can happen in labor, but I don't need your story on top of it.

3. Telling me how LUCKY that I am to be so skinny. Once again, sorry you gained 300 pounds while pregnant. But I do not FEEL skinny. I've gained 35 pounds, my back hurts, my feet hurt, I can't breathe most of the day because of the baby, he also likes to hit my ribs which HURTS so yeah. I don't feel skinny. My body isn't used to this extra weight.

4. Don't want to hear about how horrible your sons are after you hear I'm having a boy. The fact that they are running all over my store like drunken circus monkeys is not because they are male. It's because you haven't mastered the art of disipline. (Cannot spell, sorry.) If you'd have said "NO" to them once in a while, you wouldn't be this nice doormat they call "mommy." Now please clean up the mess they made.

5. Telling me "Oh you'd better get all the sleep you can NOW!" Duh. I am not a complete idiot. I realize that having a newborn means you won't be sleeping for pretty much the next 18 years. It's not news to me. It's not like I'm gonna go "Oh really? Why's that?" You are not the first moron to utter that phrase at me.

Anywho. Feel free to share your pet peeves here!

[tropicsgoddess]

My Pet Peeves

• People that interrupt/talk over me while I give them advice. YOU called to get my advice, and if you want it so bad just STFU, listen and follow directions.
  
  
• Spoiled/Bratty kids and the parents that don't discipline them.
  
  
• Cheapskates. There's a difference with being thrifty versus being downright stingy. If you can't/won't pony up the money, save yourself (and everybody else) the trouble and don't go.
  
  
• Slackers. Get off your ass and do it! I'm not taking the bulk of the load because you're too damn lazy/irresponsible to do it.
  
  
• Procrastinators. Lack of your planning does not equal an emergency on my part. You have only yourself to blame for doing something at the last minute. Deal with it.
  
  
• People that say something when I want to dress up and go out in heels and a cute girly outfit. Just because I want dress like that doesn't mean I want to impress a guy. I want to go out and look nice and it's only because I want to.
  
  
• Bossy people, especially the ones that have no authority over me.
  
  
• Freeloaders. 'Nuff said.
  
  
• Sue-Happy-People. Our country has been turned into a litigious country thanks to these assholes. Because of them, we can't do anything without fear of being sued, even for something trivial!!

[AFPheonix]

I have several, but the one that's annoying me at the moment (because my BIL wandered in and out of our room) is open mouthed chewers. Gross, I really don't want to hear that.

[Slytovhand]

Blamers and whiners. It's not how you want things to be, but instead of trying to actually fix the situation, just whinge and whine about it - and it's always someone else's fault! The icing on that cake is those totally self-absorbed that they don't even see any problem that might involve themselves (as in - they are the core of the problem).

"But no-one told me....!!!!" I loathe that one. When someone goes and does something just expecting it will work the way they want it to, and then get a big surprise to find out it doesn't - and then expecting someone else to pick up after them, or let them off being responsible, or some such similar. Hey.. did you bother to find out first?? No - then sod off! Actions have consequences - accept them, or get out of life.

[DesignFox]

Perfume. For the love of the gods can we just make it illegal? Seriously.

Perfume gives me the WORST god awful debilitating sinus headaches. I want to do physical harm to people who shower in perfume. It smells bad, ruins my dinner (cause then I can't smell my food), stuffs up my sinuses, makes my head ache...and ick when it smells so strong I can taste it...!



Yea. I hate perfume/cologne.

[Greenday]

People who ask for advice, go and do the exact opposite of what I said, then come whining that things went horribly wrong.

People obnoxious enough to be loud during sex, KNOW their roommies can hear it, and still do it. My girlfriend's roommate does it. She knows she's loud. Alls you hear are tons of spanking noises and crap. One of the girls in the apartment next to her is loud and obnoxious too.

[blas87]

I hate whiners. I had a trainee once who whined so much she was pretty much crying while doing it. "But I didn't even DOOOOOOOOO anything.....WHY does this keep happening to MEEEEEEE?"

It feels so much better to rant and rave than to play victim and whine whine whine.

[Amethyst Hunter]

Perfume. For the love of the gods can we just make it illegal? Seriously. I want to do physical harm to people who shower in perfume.

I'll help you. *sharpens ax*

[anriana]

People who smoke where I have to breathe it.

People who call me ma'am or miss.

People whose response to "What's the phone number?" is anything other than "123-456-7890."

People who use "girl/s" to refer to women over 18. The only exception is when it is being used to point out women who are acting immature. This is especially annoying when the women being referred to are legally required to be over 18.

[McDreidel09]

When people touch one side of my body and refuse to touch the other when they know it bothers me. I have a thing about evenness on my body and I feel awkward when tapped on one shoulder and not the other.

People who come in and order at work, but repeat the damned order. Example :I want an Egg McMuffin. Egg McMuffin. Yes. An Egg McMuffin.
Ok. I got you. I put it in. The ones I really hate are the ones who do that even AFTER I give them their change.

People in my house who don't clean up. I stopped cleaning for a few days to see what would happen and guess what? Nobody else is cleaning! Guess what I will have to do tomorrow?

Whenever I comment on how I have nausea or cravings, I always get a look from my family members. It kinda peeves me that they think that I'm pregnant. I'm sorry. I'm not like the other 17 year old girls you hear about all the time. That was not meant to be offensive to any teen mothers. My mom was a teen mom.

That's just a tiny list of things, but I'll leave it at that.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Fanatical nonsmokers. Do not come and plonk yourself down next to me on a park bench or bus stop bench and make that stupid "Ahem" cough. If you really had asthma, you would be coughing your lungs out. In any case, you chose to sit your fat arse down next to a smoker, so suck it up or leave.

Noobs. Not to be confused with newbs, who make mistakes at first but are willing to learn from them and to abide by the rules. Noobs break the rules constantly, refuse to even read them and just will not learn, no matter how many times you tell them.

Invading my bubble. If you don't get out of my personal space I shall be forced to take immediate action, be it stomping on your foot or shoving you away. Do not invade the bubble!

Sniffing. For fuck's sake, get a tissue and blow your nose.


I'll probably add to this later.

[the_std]

Sniffing. For fuck's sake, get a tissue and blow your nose.

This, but taken to the next level:

Snorting that ball of phlegm OUT of your nose, INTO your throat and SWALLOWING it. Double points if you're in a restaurant or eatery.

Guhhhhhh... *twitch*

[Dreamstalker]

Things I hate:

The general f*cked-up state of the country.

Ye olde catch-22 for some employers; they require experience on some obscure program that the only way to ever learn it is to work where it's used. So they won't even look at your resume if you don't have experience in X...yet the best/only way to learn X is to work for a company that uses it in a production environment.

In keeping with the job-seeking theme, the fact that actual experience means next to nothing. I've seen brilliant techs who don't have anything past their A+, and others with certs out their ears who don't know what a USB port is.

People who refuse to even look for work yet feel justified in criticizing honest attempts *glares in the ex's general direction*. It's hard enough out there kthx, I don't need to hear your little conspiracy theories.

[AFPheonix]

This, but taken to the next level:

Snorting that ball of phlegm OUT of your nose, INTO your throat and SWALLOWING it. Double points if you're in a restaurant or eatery.

Guhhhhhh... *twitch*

Better swallowing it than hocking it up on the sidewalk to sit there in all it's gooey glory.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I have several, but the one that's annoying me at the moment (because my BIL wandered in and out of our room) is open mouthed chewers. Gross, I really don't want to hear that.

LOL my boyfriend chews with his mouth open, but mostly because he can't breathe(horrible sinuses).