Wednesday, March 19, 2014

OMG Pet Peeves!

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This week we are talking about our pet peeves. I thought this would be an easy topic for me considering how often I’m irritated (just about every day it seems), but I had to think long and hard to come up with some specific pet peeves.

First and foremost are people who don’t use their turn signals. I know that’s probably a common one, but I get so road ragey anyway, when I come up against someone who is turning (and taking their sweet ever-loving time about it) without a turn signal on, what comes out of my mouth would make a sailor blush. It’s not healthy.

Bending the covers or pages of books. It makes me want to stab someone with an ice pick. Most of my books like they’ve never been read, even though many have been read more than once. I refuse to let my husband read any of “my” books because he rips covers or dust covers, he cracks the spines. He has learned not to dog-ear pages because that means instant death.

I don’t know if this qualifies as a pet peeve, but it’s something I deal with regularly. I’m not quite sure how to word this succinctly… People who behave one way part of the time and then change their behavior 180 degrees the rest of the time. I’m not talking about anything as serious as bi-polar. I’m talking about someone who is a witch to you most of the time and then every once in a while will be super nice so that you are constantly on your guard waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s exhausting to be constantly vigilant. It sounds dramatic, but those “nice” periods make me think something is being plotted behind my back.

Okay, this one tends to be mostly work related for me, but people who don’t read past the first line of an email. I mean, I went through the trouble of typing it for a reason and if I type a longer email it’s on purpose. It’s because whatever I’m trying to convey is easier to get across in writing than on the phone or in a voicemail. Read it! Don’t then come back and ask me a question answered in the third line of the email!

Deep breaths, deep breaths.

One more and then I’m going to stop, both for the sake of my blood pressure and for the fact that if I don’t cut myself off I might go on forever. Once I opened the dam it doesn’t seem to want to close.

This one I get a lot from one particular person. I’ll get a text message that says, “Call me as soon as you can.” The person never tried to call me. Just sent a text. And then, I call and the reason for the request was either something totally not important or can’t be remembered by the person who wanted me to call. Those always give me the urge to chuck my phone across the room.


Those are some of my pet peeves, just a taste. How about you? Everybody has them. What are some of your pet peeves?

5 comments:

  1. Oh, I think the Jekyll/Hyde behavior definitely counts as a pet peeve. There's just no stable footing with people like that. :(

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  2. OR what about those folks (you know the ones... the older folks with those big freaking hats) that leave the damn signal on... for miles and miles past fifty damn turns. I never trust anyone with a turn signal on if I'm turning left in front of them.

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  3. Oh yes, the email!! I've even taken to numbering my specific points/ questions. It works about 50% of the time.

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  4. Oh the emails!!! That makes me so mad! Just read it! I read everything so when people don't read stuff I go crazy.

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  5. The email thing...It drives me insane when asked something and I *want* to answer, if you'd take the 2 minutes to actually read my email, you'd have your answer. Now, to be fair, I usually end up asking because my brain is a sieve that cannot contain information, but I read my emails and people know this about me .

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