Here is your chance to enter for the day! Just leave a comment on this post and tell me: What is your pet peeve? You know, that thing that annoys the heck out of you no matter who is doing it and why? My major pet peeve is bad manners! Please, thank-you, you're welcome... these are all such easy things to say and mean, yet everywhere I turn, people forget them. (I would like to say, however, that my fans amaze me daily with their excellent manners!) I am doubly-frustrated by children who lack manners altogether and often find that their parents will say, "Oh, I don't think that's important - they're kids!" I often receive compliments on my childrens' manners and that makes me proud! They may be 2 and 4, but they are growing up knowing that manners ARE important. Okay, I'll get down off my soapbox now LOL.
I will have to agree on the manners. I drill please, thank you, excuse me, all of that stuff into their heads daily, and I also get compliments regarding their manners. I have a huge pet peeve about grammar when I see teenagers and college students write. It is awful. Even the basics have been ignored. There, their and they're. You're and your. Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteMy pet peeve is people littering. I'll see people walk right by a garbage can and then toss their garbage in the street or sidewalk. Cigarette butts are the worst - yuck! People throw them everywhere. People always leave garbage in shopping carts. Drives me crazy.
ReplyDeleteMine is towels. I have a certain way towels are folded and put on shelves. If they are done wrong it will drive me crazy and I have to go fix them. If I walk away and don't fix them in the back of my mind is always thinking about how those towels look. I know its a real problem. I get made fun of it by people but its my thing. I have met one other person that has this same pet peeve and him and I talk about towels a lot now :)
ReplyDeleteAnne I agree with you about the written language -- deplorable! You are entered :)
ReplyDeleteFirst Light I agree on littering and what people leave in shopping carts is disgusting. I never put my kids in a cart without wiping it down first! I get laughed at but that's okay -- you never know what was in there before. You are entered!
ReplyDeleteLOL Elainea -- that is SO you! I will remember to never let you see my towels. I roll mine, since my kids are forever playing in them and unfolding them. One day my towels will be all nice and neat again. You are entered.
ReplyDeleteOh God, can I name a couple?
ReplyDeleteMy real world pet peeve- smoking in public places/around children!
My online pet peeve is the chain letter/email. I could go on and on about them! (you should see the nastygrams I send to people when they send me one :) ) I think it's safe to say that people don't usually send me more than one...ever, lol.
Hmm... I probably have a few too..
ReplyDeleteTo add to smoking.. Why do they have to do it right at the entrance to a store? Like I want to walk through a haze and destroy my lungs to get inside.
Manners is tops too.. I hate sitting in a restaurant and the language (profanity) teens (& adults) use today is disgusting.
Rude smokers really get my goat too -- I don't mind if people want to smoke, but I'd think they could at least manage to stay out of the flow of traffic to do it. And don't even get me started on chain emails! Arrrrggghhhh! You are entered Maria :)
ReplyDeleteI so agree Bette -- the things I hear teens and young adults say in the course of conversation just blows my mind. There's a young man on our street who can't complete a sentence without using the f-bomb -- to which I calmly reply EVERY TIME, "Do not use that language around me or my children." His Mama got upset by this and came to speak to me and was shocked that I thought it was inappropriate for her 13 year old to speak to adults with those words. "It's how all the kids are these days." she said. Nope, not my kids... not ever. You are entered Bette :)
ReplyDeletePeople who have no consideration for anybody!!!
ReplyDeleteusing the F word , like it is nothing.. I went threw a drive in window for food one afternoon..
"Checker's" thank goodness I didn't have my grandkids or mother with me. The whole time I waited for my food at the open window, the 4 employee's were using the F word left and right !! After I drove off, i made a call to another Checkers' and asked to speck to the manager. she took all my complain and name a number. Later the district manager , who was in FL, called and talked to me, appoligized for the store I was calling about. Said he would send me free meals coupons...a couple days later, they arrived, so I went and told them at the speaker I has FREE coupons. When I drove to the window, a new girl asked me about the coupons, she said.. "OH, the district manager came in the next day and fired all 4 of them on the spot".
and guess what... I didn't feel bad at all !!!!
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My pet peeve has to be those drivers that wait until the very last minute to change lanes when they know their lane is ending. The same is true for people that need to take an exit and just think that all of the cars that have been politely waiting their turn should accomodate them.
ReplyDeleteLisa White said.... all of the above comments are things that get me going too. I can think of another one not mentioned yet....What about when you have your blinker on, waiting patiently for the empty parking space on the other side of the road, a car is coming towards you so you have to wait for them to go past, and blow me down if the sods don't nick your park, right from under your nose!!! That one presses ALL of my buttons at once!! Road rage! LOL
ReplyDeleteManners, Littering and slurping
ReplyDeleteIt bothers me a lot when teenagers roll their eyes at adults if they disagree with them or if they're bored. So manners is a biggie for me too!
ReplyDeleteI also dislike it when I can see people's underwear. Thongs, boxers, etc.
And last one... I hate it when people eat grapes out of the bag they plan to buy at the supermarket.... even if it's a few grapes it's changing the weight which changes the $. Not nice!
Good for you Dora -- I'd have done the same thing! You are entered :)
ReplyDeleteOh man Jan -- those are the kind of things that make me crazy while driving. Dallas driving is bad enough without all of the inconsiderate drivers who want to skid across 4 lanes in 50 feet.... whew! You are entered :)
ReplyDeleteAck Lisa -- with my Mama in a wheelchair, its the able-bodied folks who use the handicapped spots who torque me. I've been known to wait patiently for them to exit the store so that I can tell them what I think. I'm also fond of reporting them to the store management. Try having a woman in a wheelchair with you in sub-zero weather and trying to find a handicapped parking spot around Christmas! Crazy! You are entered :)
ReplyDeleteAll good ones Dee Ann -- you are entered!
ReplyDeleteDeb I so agree on the underwear thing. I mean seriously -- whoever made it a fad to have them showing needs to be taken out behind the woodshed. And I guess it would be one thing if it were just the teenagers and I could blow it off as a kid thing... but no. Grown women and men too. You are entered!
ReplyDeletei like my towels folded a certain way, I can't stand it when the dishwasher is loaded wrong. yes there is a wrong way and my husband is good at it. lol and last but not least i cannot stand it when people LIE
ReplyDeleteMy pet peeve is basically what Dora said...except these people that have no consideration for anyone (the adults and the kids) happen to be our next door neighbors. They come and go and party at all hours, walk on our grass, throw garbage and cigarette butts in our yard, break our fence and tease our dogs. They are constantly swearing, using the 'F' word and they have a 7 year old grand child. And they deny everything...saying that 'their children won't do stuff like that'. Right now, that is a huge peeve! (Thanks for letting me vent!)
ReplyDeleteIntolerance is pet peeve for me..when people cant bear other people point of view and just defame them publicly,this is totally unjust. I love when people care enough for others and praise them over the top :)
ReplyDeleteRegina, Elaine and Mia, you are all entered.
ReplyDeleteElaine, I still have my ninja jammies ready to go if those neighbors need a visit LOL!
Karen I totally agree with you! My 2 year old doesn't know that thank you and your welcome are two different phrases. So she always says "sank you very much" and immediately follows that with "your welcome!" lol My 16 year old is also very polite, and we make sure to tell compliment him often for that!
ReplyDeleteOne of my many pet pieves is people who don't exibit proper driving etiquette (using turn signals, turning on headlights when it's raining/foggy/DARK OUT, etc.) I used to be a driving instructor. It drives me bonkers that people have become so lazy they can't reach over and work a simple switch/lever! Now I'll get off *my* soap box! lol
LOL Bev! I can't even imagine being a driving instructor -- that would surely drive me crazy. Since I drive with two kiddos in the car (and because my Daddy is a retired policeman and my Mama is a 911 dispatcher), I am a safety nut when it comes to driving. People who don't observe the basic safety rules make me CRAZY!
ReplyDeleteMy 2 year old just recently realized that "thank you" and "you're welcome" are two different things... and heaven help anyone who doesn't say them when they should. Twice now she's said "thank you" when complimented by an adult and when that adult didn't say "you're welcome" she said, "Where are you manners?" ROFL! You are entered Bev :)
Hehehe....you can bring your ninja jammies over any time, Karen! The neighbors are always at it!!
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