The fact that the signs so often say "10 Items or Less" when they should say "10 Items or Fewer" is actually one of my pet peeves. My biggest pet peeve is people who aren't on time. I make it a point to be on-time everywhere I go. I dislike it when others don't respect me enough to be on-time with their meetings with me (unless they call first and let me know they'll be late, as long as the reason is a good one).
By this point, I could already tell you must go to UT. Unfortunately, (speaking as a former undergrad and former TA) most TA's are jerks. It's a shame, especially when the professor isn't going to give you the time of day. Many TA's skip their classes altogether, don't really know the material, and try to avoid contact with students. They forget their office hours, and are completely unavailable outside of the office hours. They just don't want to be there. (in which case, I wish they wouldn't be kept on as TA's. Let them pay for their own grad school.) I tried to be nice and go above and beyond for my students... but, of course, it's the people with all the right political connections who get all the teaching awards. (like one who later got her own class: she put on a nice face for her students, but was mean to the TA's who worked for her) Anyway, that will be my pet peeve for the day.
Yeah I do that too. I either do the brake check, or I just slooooow down and really piss them off. If they get really annoying sometimes I wont let them pass me either.
Numerous ones that have already been mentioned, as well as... 1) smackers 2) people who talk in movies (already been mentioned, but I just wanted to point out that these people should be shot) 3) people who drive slow as hell, then when a light turns yellow, they suddenly speed up....that's great that they make the light, but I'm behind them and I don't. If you had just driven that ****ing speed the whole time, we would have both made the light. *******. 4) people who live in Austin, and don't respond to the Austin Rocketball threads. **** you. We don't need you anyway.
People who refuse to get in line when lanes are merging. They've just got to ride that shoulder untill they see someone has left a little space between him and the car in front of him and jam their car in there. Those people should be drug out of their car and shot.
People who use the words "***", f*****" or "gay" as a pejorative. That pisses me off to no end. People who drive slow in the left lane. The left lane is for people who have places to go, if you want to drive slow, let me introduce you to the RIGHT lane. People who don't use turn signals. People who come up to me at red lights, rev their engines, and then take off . . . all while driving a Honda Civic. No, I don't want to race, that would be why I ignored you at the light. People who don't let you merge into the freeway. People who accelerate to keep you from changing lanes into their lane. People who run red lights, and the police cars I see right next to me WHO DON'T EVEN BUDGE. Hello, this guy just ran the light, and not close either, because my light is green - pull his ass over, goddammit!
-People who see traffic is backed up because a lane is closed, but they cheat and go around, then expect someone to let them back in the line. -Those people at the intersections near the freeway who try to come up to your car and sell you stuff, even when you're trying to ignore them. -People who drift across about four lanes of traffic at once, especially without signaling. -Drivers who take forever to realize that the light has changed. -Anyone who doesn't maintain a proper following distance. Or jumps between you and the car in front of you when you're trying to maintain a proper following distance.
People that like to have twelve car lengths between themselves and the car in front of them, and then every time that someone pulls in front of them, they have to slam on the breaks and re-establish that following distance. I am convinced that it is people like this that cause rush hour traffic. Wouldn't it be great if everyone would just cooperate with my desire to get where I am going as fast as possible. Two possible solutions to this are the a$$hole stickers that Dennis miller suggested (you can stick these on the cars of ******* drivers and once they pick up five they are not allowed to drive anymore) and making a new lane where people are jailed for slowing traffic below the speed limit, you following distance people need not come over here.
When I open a banana and the top doesn't come off right - you know - it kind of splits and the actual banana gets all bruised. Dog owners who do not clean up after their pets. I live overlooking a park, and the park is rendered virtually useless to me by ignorant pet owners. It is not safe for my kids to play there.
People who pour thousands of dollars in crappy, crappy cars thinking they are cool. There is no such thing as a cool Honda Civic. You buy a Civic if you want a reliable, affordable car. If you want a fast, cool car, take the money you would have poured into your Civic and buy a car that is already fast. Also, putting those mufflers things on your car that make it sound like a lawn mower. If you want your car to sound cool, make it sound like a deep rumbling sound, not some high pitched, whiny sound. Those thing also don't make your car fast, so don't try to make me think that it does by reving it at the intersection. Also, people who put little wheels on trucks. That is dumb. Don't do it. Anyone with neon or blacklights on their cars. Also stupid.
Yeah. A long time ago when I was staying with my parents, some of the neighbors' dogs would come into our yard and take a dump. And then when I'm mowing the lawn and unknowingly run over the dog%*@, cutting it up, unleashing the putrid stink....ugh.
Official sign that I am old: People who have Ted Nugent's Wango ze Tango Tour '79 PA speakers in their Ford Festiva and want to rock the party at 8am are one of my great pet peeves. Yo, Axl: the only thing worse than your brother's hand-me-down car is that crap bumpin' out of your $5,000 system. I also hate people who yell out obvious song requests throughout a concert. Yeah, I'm sure Lynard Skynard are going to forget to play "Freebird" or Tom Petty won't play "American Girl." Shut up! On the flip-side there are also those geek-assholes who request songs so obscure that the band doesn't even remember them. "Hey, play that unreleased demo that was intended as a b-side for your third single that the record company decided not to release! Play that one!" Since we mentioned "Freebird," can we retire this as the universal between-song joke request?! Yeah, yeah...hillarious. It was funny for a few years after the song came out in 1276 bc. Let it go. I think heckling is a noble pursuit (especially when concerts now cost the same as rent), but I wish America's drunken louts would be more creative. Yell out a request for a Lionel Richie, or Train song, or something. Just no more "Free Bird" (except the fine burrito)
* People who stop on an entrance ramp of a moving freeway. * People who use their speaker phone to get there messages at work.
I agree with so many already listed, here are a few more. 1. dog's ( untied ) in the back of pick-up trucks. 2. hearing the bass from some disrespectful persons automobile, while I’m inside my home. ( with windows & doors closed ) ( I had a stereo like this when I was younger, but I always turned is down in neighborhoods / subdivisions. ) 3. dirty dishes in the sink that have not at least been rinsed. 4. door to door sales people. Especially news paper ! “ No thanks, don’t want the paper ” salesperson “ What ? Don’t you like news ? “
I don't know if this is considered a pet peeve, but it sure annoys the hell out of me: I encountered this 3x on my lunch break alone... Parents (or whoever is putting them up to it) who put young children out on street intersections in order to solicit "donations" from drivers for their sports team, church, or whatever cause they are supposedly pushing. I can easily ignore people asking for money without regret; the problem I have is that these children are learning a terrible thing: "If you want something, don't work for it. Just ask others..." Tell me this won't stick with them later in life... x34
exactly... also, people who leave their phenol waste in the hood and then i get b****ed at by the health and safety inspector for it not being disposed of even though i dont use that hood and im 10 years younger than any one who works in the lab...
