Pet Peeves that make you seem like a crazy person

[Kraco]

I don't like it when people leave their greasy fingerprints on computer screens. It's not like they absolutely need to press the screen surface to point out something. It would be quite enough to point in the general direction from a few of centimeters off.

[The Heretic Azazel]

...or large enough for them to get distracted while they natter away on their cell phone, and they don't notice the stop sign you are both approaching. They rear-end you, and then blame you.

Using the insurance money, they purchase a large SUV, and then inadvertently kill the next person they are tailgating, or pedestrians.

The only way to deal with these people is to piss them off more by going the speed limit, or slower. I happily move out of the way on the highway, unless I'm already going 75mph, they *really* piss me off, and no one is behind them. Then I slow down to match speeds with a large truck.

I've literally had to go about 5 miles an hour in a 55 mph zone sometimes before people would get off my ass. Especially those with their brights on. Yeah, flood my fucking car because for some reason you can't see the road ahead of you thanks to my headlights. BUT DON'T PASS ME OR ANYTHING. Now I tailgate with my brights on for people such as those.

And weed scavengers are the worst. They have a better nose for it than I do, for some reason they can smell me smoking it from the next town over.

[XanBcoo]

I don't like it when people leave their greasy fingerprints on computer screens. It's not like they absolutely need to press the screen surface to point out something. It would be quite enough to point in the general direction from a few of centimeters off.

Oh man, yes.

Also similar, when people double-click on everything. It's usually older people who do this, and I guess maybe it's just because they haven't grown up around computers. But still, I just hate that sound when it's unnecessary.

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[saman]

when you're talking to a customer while at work and someone comes up to you from behind and interrupts you in mid-sentence to ask you where the goddamn pencils are. didn't your parents ever tell you it's rude to interrupt people when they're talking? and i'm a computer associate, you retard, hence i'm standing at the very end of the computer department. try asking someone who actually works in that department where the pencils are.

[Hikyuu]

Along with all those computer hates.. I HATE IT when I let people borrow my laptop and they slam the screen down.. In fact, I am pretty sure that my screen is loose from this ...:/

[Turkish-S]

If for example i say: "hey dude don't buy that its a bit expensive, you can buy it over there for half the price". And they reply: "i don't care i'm not paying for it... my parrents do."
I fucking hate this... so what your saying is that you like to screw your parrents?

[David75]

Oh man, yes.

Also similar, when people double-click on everything. It's usually older people who do this, and I guess maybe it's just because they haven't grown up around computers. But still, I just hate that sound when it's unnecessary.

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That reminds me of the sound of the scroller on top of mouses.... and people who instead of using sidebar to move text in a blink of an eye, use this very noisy scroller for 10 seconds or more... At work and at home, I had to dismantle every mouse, get rid of the tiny metallic bit reponsible for the noise, reassemble the mice. Ok, the feel is not the same, but they can't do anything about it and I don't hear that sound anymore.

...or large enough for them to get distracted while they natter away on their cell phone, and they don't notice the stop sign you are both approaching. They rear-end you, and then blame you.

Using the insurance money, they purchase a large SUV, and then inadvertently kill the next person they are tailgating, or pedestrians.

The only way to deal with these people is to piss them off more by going the speed limit, or slower. I happily move out of the way on the highway, unless I'm already going 75mph, they *really* piss me off, and no one is behind them. Then I slow down to match speeds with a large truck.

Well law system in France is a tad different, you can not win on anything..
Plus I did this only on highways... limiting the risks (turns, stops and so on)

[Iridani]

I get this all the time at work. But I don't work at the checkout, one of the service counters with no registers, so it's not nearly as bad. My biggest work pet peeve is that people don't read! They ask me the dumbest questions, and everything they wanted to know is right on a sign. Or ask if I work in the department next to mine (despite the fact that I'm standing behind my counter and don't really leave it). I understand that old people can't read small print, so they're generally not a problem. That's what I get for working in a nearby town full of white trash.

Finally someone who knows what I'm talking about. Usually the dumb questions I get are "How much is this with the sale price?"... as they hold up the item off a pile of them riiiight there with a BIG sign face level. Or a fun one, "How much is this?" without even giving me the item to do a 'no sale' scan to find out... do I look psychic? I'm a cashier. I check your things through and stuff em into bags. THAT is my job. Not memorizing the price of that specific brand of juice that no one's heard of :P

[ChaosK]

When you meet a jackass idiot of a cashier that doesn't understand the concept of not wanting loose change. It comes out to like 19.01, and I hand them a $20 with a penny and what do they do? "What you trying to pull?" They hand back the fucking penny that I won't ever use elsewhere, and give me 99¢. What the fuck am I gonna do with that?

When people try to give you advice on shit they clearly know nothing about.

And finally, when people try to bother you about gas prices. You go into a station for a fillup and some asswipe who may be in your car will go "dude, the station at *obscure place* is like 5¢ cheaper." Well that's great, I'm gonna go 5 miles out of my way, burning up gas on the way, to save 5¢ per gallon of gas.

[Kraco]

When you meet a jackass idiot of a cashier that doesn't understand the concept of not wanting loose change. It comes out to like 19.01, and I hand them a $20 with a penny and what do they do? "What you trying to pull?" They hand back the fucking penny that I won't ever use elsewhere, and give me 99¢. What the fuck am I gonna do with that?

That has never happened to me. I do that all the time, and the cashiers always know what's going on.

I guess the con artists are still so rare here that usually the cashiers don't even come to think of such a possibilty.

[complich8]

Con artists confuse things by making several transactions happen at once, while the drawer is open, causing the cashier to lose track of the transaction totals and start paying out. Smart cashiers can prevent this by simply refusing to do more than one thing at a time and making sure to put the money in, take the change out, and close the register drawer before being interrupted.

Stupid cashiers can't figure out that a penny and a twenty gets you a nice amount of change. There's several approaches you can take to inform them of such. The first is, give them the penny first. If they try to hand it back to you, tell them that they should just type it into the goddamned register and see what happens. If that doesn't work, then I suggest throwing every damned penny that they handed you back at them. Aim for the eyes. Amazing what five cents worth of copper and zinc in the cornea does to a person's willingness to listen...

[Iridani]

o.O; I'm suddenly thankful I'm one of those smart cashiers who take the penny... especially since I'm the customer usually doing that to get the even amount.

[el_boss]

I hate slugs, dead birds, ladders (especieally decending them) and when people treat me as if they think they are superior in some way.

It annoys the crap out of me when people dress in things just because they want to stick out. They don't even think it looks good themselves they just want to be "non conforming" or whatever.

I avoid talking on the phone as much as possible. I really dislike calling customer service and stuff like that.

Bikes in traffic. Those fuckers think that they're invincible or something.

Stupid people in general.

Fat ugly girls that think they're "all that".

When weird people sit next to me on the bus/subway.

[Assertn]

2. People adding movies they've just recently seen to their "favorite movies" lists on Facebook or Myspace or what-have-you. Damn people, stop saying Transformers is your favorite movie. It just came out! It wasn't even that great. This goes for a lot of movies. Recent ones I've seen: Knocked Up, Superbad, Spiderman 3. "Favorite movie" isn't supposed to be such a fleeting title.

Along that same vein....

I hate when people don't write their facebook status message in the 3rd person.
Nancy is doing homework so I can go to the party tonight!!!!

[ChaosK]

About the cashier thing, it doesn't happen a lot, just here and there you'll meet a retard.

[RedX1z]

1. Uninvited people overstaying their welcome. You just randomly bump into this one person you barely know and have a conversation for a few minutes, then when you say your goodbyes and think you're going to get back on schedule, the person just has to have a bright idea and fuck up the plans with his/her own plans.

2. Going to a restaurant and your friend says "I'm not that hungry", but end up eating their food, then eating yours. If you're hungry, just say so! I don't mind if the person wants to try it, but don't sit there and tell me you're not hungry.

3. Cashier problem would be the customer coming in, you tell them the price, they say it's cheaper over there and complain, then end up buying it from here anyway.

[David75]

1. Uninvited people overstaying their welcome. You just randomly bump into this one person you barely know and have a conversation for a few minutes, then when you say your goodbyes and think you're going to get back on schedule, the person just has to have a bright idea and fuck up the plans with his/her own plans.

Following this idea:
People who go on and on with the conversation, even when you have given clear hints
that you're in a hurry or the conversation is boring and you'd like to be free to do something else...

And for the cashier thing, when there are a lot of lines you can choose from, why is it in the one you choose there's someone before you with problems: ie no price for an article, the card system doesn't work, they need a very long time to find their change... or whatever.

[XanBcoo]

Along that same vein....

I hate when people don't write their facebook status message in the 3rd person.
Nancy is doing homework so I can go to the party tonight!!!!

Ah, that too. One of my old status messages was actually ragging on people for that because it happens so often. Especially if they don't use any punctuation or transitions whatsoever.

This fool I knew from High School recently had his status as "Nick is awww damn i fukked up my ankle again thats what i get for going to the lake two weekends in a row."

Christ. No one cares you retard.

Edit: lol, el_boss just outright hates strangers.

[NM]

The status feature on Facebook pisses me off also (same reason as Assertn and Xan). One of my friends ALWAYS updates his status every fucking day. And everytime its:

"Tim is going to work".

and once work is over...

"Tim is at home".

Seriously, nobody gives a shit about if you're at work or not.

Another pet peeve of mine happens at work. I work at a CVS in the pharmacy and what pisses me off the most is when customers come in hours early to pick up their prescription. Like a customer will say they'll pick it up at around 6:00 but instead come at 4:00. And it's already in the fucking system for 6:00 so I wouldn't have to fill it just yet because of all the other tons of prescriptions that need to be filled up. Granted it takes 15 minutes (thats the general wait time and filling medication does take awhile) to fill a prescription but still, stick to your word already. We have other prescriptions that patients are either waiting for or going to be picking up soon. Customers really piss me off...

[Ryllharu]

I have a pet peeve that's more of a personality trait. I hate being ordered to do anything. Doesn't matter what it is, could be as simple as going out with friends. If someone tells me I'm going to be doing something, I get pissed, obstinate, and definitely do not want to do it. Not simply not feel motivated, I mean stonewalled against it. I may even enjoy doing it under normal circumstances.

The flip side is that if you ask me to do something, unless I've already got something planned, or don't have the skill to do it, I'll do whatever it is far more often than not. I'll even go out of my way to get it done.

There's a big difference between asking and telling.