I'm with you, I keep pressing O until an operator conects me to a live person.

I call it pacon.

Misprononcing names here is how we know news,traffic, ad people are not from this area.

I am with you on the second one also, be it sew machine or computer, or new digital camera.

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!

Sometimes it cause the kid isn't getting what they want... which yeah, let them cry... but still find something to shut them up!

I saw something that was disturbing though... this baby was in the cart but not in a car seat... this little one was flailing all over the place! It was so sad... I wanted to smack the parents. The child was barely old enough to be sitting up.

I have another one....ladies at the perfume counters pestering me to try this and that when I walk by.

I fast pace it because of my alergies to the stuff!

My biggest pet peeve is...

People who think Jethro Tull is a just a person in the band.

I love this! Do people commonly use filtering masks to filter out smoke? I no longer regularly take the train, but when I am in a situation where someone is reeking of smoke, I get up and move. And if they think I'm rude for doing so, well, I think they're ruder for exhaling the smoke from their lungs into my airspace. (And this can go on for quite a long time after they actually took their last puff.)

Gaijin, I really liked all the rest of your post, too.

I have the same problem. But I also hate being accosted by people wanting to sell me things. Major peeve!

Maybe I should change my username to "Peevish." I seem to have so many peeves!

When my boyfriend sends me a message on facebook telling me to get on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) ASAP so that he can find out if i'm going to some convention with him. (He did that yesterday to me. If I'm not on AIM when I normally talk to him... it means I'm not on the computer!)

Oh, that drives me kind of batty too, lol.
I often get 'oh that song drives me crazy, Led Zeppelin has such a strange voice, change the channel' Uh, Well, it's Robert Plant singing, the BAND is Led Zeppelin-and I like Led Zep, so don't touch the radio!

Quoting lyrics from one of their own songs, ' your band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, oh by the way, which one's Pink?'
(Pink Floyd)
I guess it bothers a lot of people, lol!

Oh, I just thought of another one that drives me up the wall.

I HATE it when people fiddle with the dials in my car. It's usually Sasha, and it's usually the heater. He's in the passenger seat, and I don't always notice him lowering the heat but a little while later, I'll be cold again and then I'll see that he's turned the heat all the way to cold.
It's MY bloody car, and if you don't like it, get out and walk.
Or, worse, when it's -900 degrees out and before going to work I'll crank the blowers way up, hit the defrost button and then leave the car. 15 minutes or so before leaving, I'll remote start my car, but when I get back in my car, it's not even hot yet because the little bugger turned the heater way down last time he sat in my car. ARRRRRRGH!!!!
Plus, I paid extra to have the remote started put in my car, and it's a pain in the butt to figure out because my car is a manual transmission, so the clutch had to be by-passed... anyway, so in the winter when it's really cold out, we take my car so we can start it before we leave wherever we are, but it seems like every time we do that, he's fiddled with the heater and blowers again, so when I get back to the car, it's not warm yet.
Ok, I'm just going on for nothing anymore, but it's really cold here right now, feels like -30, so it's hitting a nerve, lol!

"Thought we only used numbnuts here."

When our sons did something wrong, my dh used to refer to them as "numbnuts." Unfortunately, one of our sons began using that term at school when visiting with his friends. One day the teacher said to him, "You know, that really isn't a nice term to call someone." My poor son had heard it so much he'd turned it into a form of endearment.

As for all those PPs I've been LOL about, I don't think there have been any mentioned that are missing from my collection. However, I think the spoiled, unruly children top my list. Half of my grandchildren fell into this category - especially the oldest and the youngest group. The inbetween groups had more sense. When asked for advice, I've told both sets of parents that what their children really needed was parents who parent, not pals.

Lastly, but not least, I cannot abide people who tailgate. It is an extremely dangerous practice and causes horrendous accidents.

I knew I liked you, Baren*! Let me commend you on your excellent taste in music. :D Led Zeppelin is my lifelong favorite band, and Jethro Tull is also way up there on the lists. (I recognize the excellence of Pink Floyd, but their lyrics creep me out.)

LOL, when I was a kid, I did much the same thing with the Jewish (Yiddish) word "schmuck." I thought it just meant "hopeless loser" or "jerk." In fact, I'd heard others use it affectionately, as in, "He's such a schmuck, ya just gotta love him." Was I surprised to find out it meant, uh, dick.

Ha ha, yeah, well, I'm sure they were on drugs when most of the lyrics were written, but they really are musical geniuses.
I think the early works with Syd Barrett were much weirder, in the sense that even with the lyrics in front of you, you STILL can't figure out what they're trying to say! I much prefer the years with Roger Waters and David Gilmore... not that I understand much more of the music, lol.
I have my father to thank for my musical taste and interest. The music that my generation listens to is garbage, for the most part, there's nothing original anymore.

OMG, I did not know that!
I've never used that word, but I have heard it used... I thought it meant something along the lines of hoser or something like that, lol!

This irritates me to no end too! I had a guy who persisted in tailgating, didn't matter if I sped up, he seemed to be having an ongoing affair with my back bumper. After an hour of this he finally signaled to turn into a service station and I was just hot enough under the collar by then that I turned in too! I jumped out of my truck and marched up to him and told him, "If you are going to ride my butt, the least you could do is pull my hair!!!"

He kind of smiled and introduced himself...he was the new Pastor of one of the churches where I lived!!! Boy did I feel like an idiot!! Now I just find a place to pull off and let anyone tailgating me go ahead... LOL

OH THE COLOR RED SHONE ON THY FACE !!!!!!!!!!!

Funny thing, I went to look up the exact meaning of "hoser" and double-checked "schmuck." Was highly amused at the second definition and also got yet another clarification on the first def.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmuck

I don't actually get this. Pastor or not, what was his justification for tailgating you? And did he apologize? I don't see any reason for you to feel like an idiot, even if he was charming and humble and had a perfectly good reason. (Was he driving on fumes of gas and afraid he'd run out before getting to the gas station? Still not a reason to at least allow a car length or two between your cars. Still no reason for you to feel bad at all.

Funny thing, I went to look up the exact meaning of "hoser" and double-checked "schmuck." Was highly amused at the second definition and also got yet another clarification on the first def.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmuck[/quote]


I bet google had a rush of inquiries with that last one !!!!!!!!!

OMG! I didn't know that's what that word meant either, but my best friend growing up is Jewish and I don't think I've ever heard her use that word - gee, I should have know it wasn't nice. She always called me a mentsh, which if you're jewish you know means nice things about you as a person.

On the other hand, Shadow - you had absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about - that minister should have practiced what he preached - as a "driver," he definitely falls under the category of sch---- not mentsh! Shame on him!

Hope he's a better pastor than driver.

How about the drivers who cut in front of you, causing
you to hit your brakes, then they slow down. Or the
morons making a right turn from the far left lane. Not to
mention the morons running red lights. Or the ones with
their turn signals on and never make a turn for 10 miles.
ARGGGGGH.

I have to shop in a wheelchair because of polio. People act like I'm not even there. They reach over my shoulder or knock me in the head trying to reach because I'm going too slow to suit them.

That's just not nice Mary. Sorry for all those rude people.

This is my pet peeve also. If I see a business with a misspelled word or improper grammar on a sign, I DON'T want to do business there. Nowdays people think if they just use "spell check", they are fine. I've gone so far as to go in and tell the business owner!

And where on earth did the term "baby daddy" come from??? It irks me everytime I hear it. It seems to be everywhere. I always wonder how stupid stuff like this gets started.

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Haven't had time to read through all of the posts yet, but I need to vent!

We have two bathrooms in our house. Kids are gone, so works well - one for each of us ;)

The one that is "mine" is off of the kitchen/family room. DH sometimes uses it if closer. Okay, I can handle that. But he puts the darned lid down every single time, and has only started that in the last year. I HATE it. We never put them down before, not when the kids were tiny (I watched them, so nobody ever got to play in it or be in danger), cat doesn't drink out of it.

He does not put the one in "his" bathroom down. Just mine. I've asked him not to, I've made him go back and put it up, I've slammed it up myself... Why does he do this when I am at a point in my life when my bladder is a little, um, weak? Getting in there can be a real emergency sometimes, having to bend over and put the lid up wastes a valuable nanosecond - not to mention the bending...

Sorry, it really PISSES me off (pun intended).

I think we all know the feeling......
or should I say, the little "advanced in age ones"

ROFL!!!

[quote=Baren*eh*ked_canadian][quote=peaceandjoyI am at a point in my life when my bladder is a little, um, weak? .[/quote]

OMG! I am sooo glad I'm not the only one who can't hold her "own" any longer. Obviously, dh isn't hearing you or rather, listening, :roll: to you. So, tape a big sign on the inside of the lid in big bold letters and make sure you address it specifically to him. Hopefully, his vision is better than his hearing. My dh is wonderful about not leaving the seat up, which is positively one of his best traits. However, when I visit my kids I've been known to fanny fall in the bowl when I'm rushing and forget to look.

You have my sympathy.

The comment at the bottom was inserted into the quote of my post. I assume the tags were just forgotten, because I didn't say that.

Jingleberry, if that was you asking that, maybe you misunderstood? I don't smoke. The peeve is that secondhand smoke is constantly forced on me by smokers who have a lot of smoke still in their lungs long after they finish their cigarette and continue to exhale it out into the airspace of everyone around them.

Or actually, I guess in that post, the peeve is that smokers think I'm rude for moving away (without fuss) from their carcinogenic pollution of the air I'm breathing.

What amazes me about cigarette smoke (other than that people are that rude) is when I'm behind a car with a smoker in it. Windows are up (winter, or summer w/ ac on) and you can still smell it. PEEEUUUU.

Okay, the other thing that amazes me is that people think they either don't smell like smoke :shock: OR that they can cover it up by spraying on lots of ... something -usually something cheap and bad.

One of the upper level admins in the district I work in smokes. Smoking not allowed on school grounds. But she smokes while driving to meetings at other buildings. Then sprays on the old cologne. Literally old, I think.

One day she was waiting in our office for a meeting and one of the other secretaries said, "What is that smell? Have they been spraying for bugs?" :XD:

Windows are UP???? One of my peeves is that even in the dead of winter, most smokers keep their windows open so they can hang their cigarettes out the window and give the bad air to the rest of us rather than keeping it in their cars.

LOL, I love that! I so wish people would recognize that a strong smell doesn't usually cover up another one, whether it's breath mints or cologne. It just adds another odor. And frankly, strong cologne makes me just as sick as cigarette smoke, even if I like the scent of the cologne.