I have many pet peeves.
1. Being lied to. Just level with me. Just be honest.
2. Businesses that have answering systems that never give you the option to talk to a person. You know, "Press 1 if you want to...; press 2 if you want to..." but none of those lead to anything but more automation. Dialing 0 no longer gets you to a person in these systems. Pressing nothing gets you "We are unable to direct your call." and the call is disconnected.
3. Overseas customer service and tech support. They are fantastically polite, but they have no understanding of how to help for more than the most routine inquiries - and I don't need to call for routine things. Hey, I paid an American price for an American product - so I want American service. Can't "vote with my feet" if every company's doing this.
4. Those grocery baskets with the car attachments for kids to ride in. They take up a ton of space, and parents seem to feel they have a special right to make 180 (or 360) degree turns in them and everyone else should stop what they're doing and move their own carts out of the way so they have more room...
5. Being unable to find 100% cotton clothes. I don't like stretch fibers woven into everything I wear. Underwear was stretchy where it needed to be before Spandex was ever invented. Denim doesn't feel like denim with the 1% stretch fibers in it. On and on.
6. Which leads me to my quilting peeve: It's very hard to find 100% cotton thread, and the good brands are ridiculously expensive. How hard is it to make decent quality all-cotton thread?
7. On the English language front, I so hate it when people write "alot." It's two words - "a lot" = and we all learned that in first grade!
8. Employers who give you their full contact information at the nterview, invite you to call to follow up, and then won't take your calls or return them. Hey, just tell me you hired someone else. Or have the secretary or HR say the job was filled. And don't invite me to call in the first place if you're not going to talk to me.
9. Twentysomething interviewers who "love" my skills and experience, but hire some other twentysomething for "fit" meaning they found the younger person someone they'd rather hang out with after work.
10. Smokers who hang their cigarette arms out of their cars so I can't open my car window to enjoy fresh air.
11. Smokers who litter their butts. There should be some equivalent of pooper scooper laws for this.
12. People who stand in the doorway while they're holding the door open for you, so you have to squeeze past, then get angry when you suggest they just go through.
13. I was just about to write one last peeve, and it slipped my mind. No, it wasn't forgetfulness, though.... <sigh>