How about some pet peeves from here in Japan?
-Sitting on the train between two older men who just put out cigarettes and smell like ashtrays. I bring filtering masks in my purse just for this purpose.
-Young people who walk down the stairs looking at their cell phone screens and block everyone behind them.
-Old women (with all the time in the world) who stop at the top of the staircase and start chatting, thereby causing the people behind them to almost fall down the stairs.
Now some quilting peeves:
Japanese quilters usually tell me that hand quilting is the only authentic way to make a quilt. And I reply that my great grandmother had a sewing machine and my grandmother made quilts both ways.
Quilters here also tell me that American people used to make pieced quilts from their old clothes. I tell them that they made quilts from the scraps left from making clothing. A hundred years ago, clothing was discarded when it was virtually in tatters- no good for quilting!