What's your pet peeve?

[Guest JD]

RE: Pet Peeves (the original subject)

 

Ready,

 

One of my pet peeves is people who DO change the subject line in a thread. My belief is that if you have to change the subject line, then you should be posting a new thread because you're off the main subject.

 

Can we agree to disagree on this one and remain friends? :-)

[Guest cp8036]

RE: People who don't change the Subject line ...

 

<If you are gonna take the time to write a response, take an extra few seconds to change the subject -- if you do so, more people will read what you wrote.>

 

Isn't a response usually related to the subject somehow?

If you change the subject, wouldn't it be better to start a new thread?

[Guest Zach DC]

Any movie starring Julia Roberts.

[Guest Zach DC]

Any movie starring Julia Roberts.

[Guest N]

Let us not forget those who may be, arguably, the rudest group of all.....

 

....Bicycle riders

 

who:

 

1. ride on the sidewalk

 

2. ride the wrong way on a one way street

 

3. do not stop for traffic lights

 

4. ring their bell at you when they have no business riding where they are

 

5. think they have the right to bring their bicycles into your home

 

6. wear spandex when their bodies were made for mumus (sp?)

 

 

 

6. ride two abreast when on a busy street

 

N

[Guest N]

Let us not forget those who may be, arguably, the rudest group of all.....

 

....Bicycle riders

 

who:

 

1. ride on the sidewalk

 

2. ride the wrong way on a one way street

 

3. do not stop for traffic lights

 

4. ring their bell at you when they have no business riding where they are

 

5. think they have the right to bring their bicycles into your home

 

6. wear spandex when their bodies were made for mumus (sp?)

 

 

 

6. ride two abreast when on a busy street

 

N

[Boink]

Most of my pet peeves revolve around retail shopping, and I feel a whole lot better to see I'm not alone in my feelings on some sore spots I've seen listed here. Especially being "put on hold" - in person - while your cashier interrupts your transaction by answering the phone and addressing THEIR needs.

And I always thought I was a real bitch because I HATE it when they hand you a big old receipt along with your change as if it's another dollar bill!! Whatever happened to the old fashioned custom of putting one's receipt in the bag with the merchandise? NO ONE does that anymore!

 

Now I know that good help is hard to find, but I KNOW that these retail clerks are being trained wrong through no fault of their own. When I walk into a store, be it a clothing store or a Baskin-Robbins, and everything in between, please give me two seconds to browse around!! While I don't mind a quick nod of hello, I DO mind it when you POUNCE on me immdeiately upon putting foot in the door and demanding "Can I help you?" I know how it works, you see...if I need assistance, I am smart enough to ask you. Especially the clothing stores - I no sooner explain to one clerk that I'm only browsing, when I take ten steps away and I have to explain my presense to ANOTHER clerk, and then another and another! But, of course, when I am ready to check out, there is no help to be found.

Then I get in line behind some circular check-out counter. A small congregation is gathering, somewhat like a line. Magically another cashier will appear and say "Can I help SOMEONE?" It's never "Can I help THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE?" This is an invitation for the LAST person in line to run up to the new cashier and get waited on FIRST.

AND THEN...I'm on a roll here...you await the clerk to tell you what the total is. WHILE YOU ARE GETTING CHANGE OUT OF YOUR POCKET, or money out of your wallet, the clerk will look at the person BEHIND you and start ringing THEM up!! I know this is coached to them as a way to keep the line moving, but all it creates is chaos. It's as if they're saying "I'm too busy to wait until you find the correct change - while you're doing that I'll start the next customer." Of course you quickly get the money into their hands, at which point that SECOND customer's transaction is put on hold. UGH! Doncha just HATE that?!

 

Whew! That felt good to get off my chest!

[Guest 90069]

>6) People that IM you with an opening line wanta fuck?

 

Well, yes, but I have to say that two of the hottest times I've had were with guys I was cruising back in 1977-78 in Dallas around the "cruise route" area of Brown/Fairmount/Welborn Streets after the bars closed. Both times I saw wonderfully hot guys walking around, rolled down my window, said "Hi! Wanna fuck?!", and they climbed right in and off we went!

 

It may not be "correct" when done as an IM, but it sure worked in person!

 

-- Ron

 

(OK, it was the 70s...)

[Guest biga]

Will and Grace -can someone explain why this show is popular-please !

[Guest biga]

More seriously just been food shopping and something that bugs me and i would be interested to know if it is the same in the USA is that if you wish to eat FRESH food(e.g vegetables,fruit,meat,fish)etc rather than packaged,processed junk it costs about twice as much to buy and eat healthily than it would to eat crap,is this a european thing !Cheers Andy

[Guest Viewmaster]

1. People who get to the end of the escalator and stop dead in their tracks while everyone piles up behind them.

 

2. People who insist on trying to get into the elevator before people already on it are able to get off.

 

3. The lack of really erotic escorts. There are many great and sexy ones. But, as I recently read, "Erotic isn't a synonym for sexy. It's the deluxe, limited edition, the connoisseur's version. Erotic is hidden, personal, and private, while sexy is overdone, obvious, and everywhere."

[Boink]

Most of my pet peeves revolve around retail shopping, and I feel a whole lot better to see I'm not alone in my feelings on some sore spots I've seen listed here. Especially being "put on hold" - in person - while your cashier interrupts your transaction by answering the phone and addressing THEIR needs.

And I always thought I was a real bitch because I HATE it when they hand you a big old receipt along with your change as if it's another dollar bill!! Whatever happened to the old fashioned custom of putting one's receipt in the bag with the merchandise? NO ONE does that anymore!

 

Now I know that good help is hard to find, but I KNOW that these retail clerks are being trained wrong through no fault of their own. When I walk into a store, be it a clothing store or a Baskin-Robbins, and everything in between, please give me two seconds to browse around!! While I don't mind a quick nod of hello, I DO mind it when you POUNCE on me immdeiately upon putting foot in the door and demanding "Can I help you?" I know how it works, you see...if I need assistance, I am smart enough to ask you. Especially the clothing stores - I no sooner explain to one clerk that I'm only browsing, when I take ten steps away and I have to explain my presense to ANOTHER clerk, and then another and another! But, of course, when I am ready to check out, there is no help to be found.

Then I get in line behind some circular check-out counter. A small congregation is gathering, somewhat like a line. Magically another cashier will appear and say "Can I help SOMEONE?" It's never "Can I help THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE?" This is an invitation for the LAST person in line to run up to the new cashier and get waited on FIRST.

AND THEN...I'm on a roll here...you await the clerk to tell you what the total is. WHILE YOU ARE GETTING CHANGE OUT OF YOUR POCKET, or money out of your wallet, the clerk will look at the person BEHIND you and start ringing THEM up!! I know this is coached to them as a way to keep the line moving, but all it creates is chaos. It's as if they're saying "I'm too busy to wait until you find the correct change - while you're doing that I'll start the next customer." Of course you quickly get the money into their hands, at which point that SECOND customer's transaction is put on hold. UGH! Doncha just HATE that?!

 

Whew! That felt good to get off my chest!

[Guest 90069]

>6) People that IM you with an opening line wanta fuck?

 

Well, yes, but I have to say that two of the hottest times I've had were with guys I was cruising back in 1977-78 in Dallas around the "cruise route" area of Brown/Fairmount/Welborn Streets after the bars closed. Both times I saw wonderfully hot guys walking around, rolled down my window, said "Hi! Wanna fuck?!", and they climbed right in and off we went!

 

It may not be "correct" when done as an IM, but it sure worked in person!

 

-- Ron

 

(OK, it was the 70s...)

[Guest biga]

Will and Grace -can someone explain why this show is popular-please !

[Guest biga]

More seriously just been food shopping and something that bugs me and i would be interested to know if it is the same in the USA is that if you wish to eat FRESH food(e.g vegetables,fruit,meat,fish)etc rather than packaged,processed junk it costs about twice as much to buy and eat healthily than it would to eat crap,is this a european thing !Cheers Andy

[Guest Viewmaster]

1. People who get to the end of the escalator and stop dead in their tracks while everyone piles up behind them.

 

2. People who insist on trying to get into the elevator before people already on it are able to get off.

 

3. The lack of really erotic escorts. There are many great and sexy ones. But, as I recently read, "Erotic isn't a synonym for sexy. It's the deluxe, limited edition, the connoisseur's version. Erotic is hidden, personal, and private, while sexy is overdone, obvious, and everywhere."

[Traveller]

>My pet peeve?

>

>People who get all bent out

>of shape when I use

>the phrase "Screaming like a

>black lady in church."

>

 

Three F

 

You just put a smile on my face this morning. Keep up your cock and the fun.

 

Later.

[Traveller]

>My pet peeve?

>

>People who get all bent out

>of shape when I use

>the phrase "Screaming like a

>black lady in church."

>

 

Three F

 

You just put a smile on my face this morning. Keep up your cock and the fun.

 

Later.

[Will]

Until now I thought I was a pretty easy-going person, but now that I've read all these peeves, I find that I share almost all of them. It's sort of sobering to realize that I go through life getting ready to be pissed off.

 

However, here are yet more things that endanger my serenity:

 

1. After-hours telephone solicitations; actually, I don't like them 9-5, but evenings and weekends are beyond the pale.

 

2. Almost all cell-phone usage. Particular stimuli for hypertensive moments are matrons yammering away while steering their behemoth SUVs through rapid traffic AND men who talk at full voice over their cell phones on the airplane. Like I'm impressed that they're busy.

 

3. Service workers (insurance clerks, BMV clerks, etc) who call me by my first name as though we were friends.

 

4. Come to that, any presumption of instant intimacy, especially when there's a commercial transaction on the horizon (that does not go for escorts).

 

5. Drivers who move into the left lane and stay there, regardless of their speed or the amount of traffic or the number of impatient drivers trying to get around vehicles in the right lane.

 

6. Parents who turn small children loose in public.

 

7. Smokers.

[Will]

Until now I thought I was a pretty easy-going person, but now that I've read all these peeves, I find that I share almost all of them. It's sort of sobering to realize that I go through life getting ready to be pissed off.

 

However, here are yet more things that endanger my serenity:

 

1. After-hours telephone solicitations; actually, I don't like them 9-5, but evenings and weekends are beyond the pale.

 

2. Almost all cell-phone usage. Particular stimuli for hypertensive moments are matrons yammering away while steering their behemoth SUVs through rapid traffic AND men who talk at full voice over their cell phones on the airplane. Like I'm impressed that they're busy.

 

3. Service workers (insurance clerks, BMV clerks, etc) who call me by my first name as though we were friends.

 

4. Come to that, any presumption of instant intimacy, especially when there's a commercial transaction on the horizon (that does not go for escorts).

 

5. Drivers who move into the left lane and stay there, regardless of their speed or the amount of traffic or the number of impatient drivers trying to get around vehicles in the right lane.

 

6. Parents who turn small children loose in public.

 

7. Smokers.

[Guest TFNH]

>My pet peeve?

>

>People who get all bent out

>of shape when I use

>the phrase "Screaming like a

>black lady in church."

 

But luckily for you that there aren't that many people around with a strong social conscience.

[Guest TFNH]

>My pet peeve?

>

>People who get all bent out

>of shape when I use

>the phrase "Screaming like a

>black lady in church."

 

But luckily for you that there aren't that many people around with a strong social conscience.

[Guest Joey Ciccone]

>3. The lack of really erotic escorts. There are many great and sexy ones. But, as I recently read, "Erotic isn't a synonym for sexy. It's the deluxe, limited edition, the connoisseur's version. Erotic is hidden, personal, and private, while sexy is overdone, obvious, and everywhere."<

 

Will, I love your definition of erotic, but I think it presents a kind of catch-22 for escorts; How to entice a client to come experience our more private and secreted erotic facets without being overtlly "sexy" at the onset. I think it's tough to sell sex while keeping eroticism hidden. Certainly a fine line, especially when erotic is often in the eye of the beholder, but I'd take erotic over sexy any day.

 

My own pet peeves are insincerity, sneaky people, drivers who don't use blinkers when they turn, and an entertainment industry that assumes it's average audience is filled with idiots.

[Guest Joey Ciccone]

>3. The lack of really erotic escorts. There are many great and sexy ones. But, as I recently read, "Erotic isn't a synonym for sexy. It's the deluxe, limited edition, the connoisseur's version. Erotic is hidden, personal, and private, while sexy is overdone, obvious, and everywhere."<

 

Will, I love your definition of erotic, but I think it presents a kind of catch-22 for escorts; How to entice a client to come experience our more private and secreted erotic facets without being overtlly "sexy" at the onset. I think it's tough to sell sex while keeping eroticism hidden. Certainly a fine line, especially when erotic is often in the eye of the beholder, but I'd take erotic over sexy any day.

 

My own pet peeves are insincerity, sneaky people, drivers who don't use blinkers when they turn, and an entertainment industry that assumes it's average audience is filled with idiots.

[Guest Joey Ciccone]

I meant to reply to viewmaster with my post above, sorry Will and VM. But Will, after reading your list I definitely agree with your peeve about people shouting into their cellphones in public. Put a cellphone to someone's ear and suddenly they're Tom Hanks, talking as loud as they can (THERE"S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!) I was trying to get some reading done on a train yesterday, but instead I got the lowdown on the friends and associates of the woman sitting behind me (Brandon got a promotion, Trish and Tom had a baby girl, and Sarah, who's also up for promotion and is experiencing romantic difficulties with Bill in marketing, must have her report on her boss's desk by Friday morning. The gal behind me will be proofreading it.) From NY to DC this woman blathered so inanely, I almost threw her AND her cellphone off the damn train somewhere around Delaware.

Regarding smokers, I hope that you're only peeved at smokers WHILE they're smoking. I say that as a somewhat nervous type who lights up on occassion, but would never smoke around non-smokers.