.Pet Peeves (Page 2 of 4)

People who always think that someone else is the problem. I have friends like this. I just want to tell them, "maybe it's you."

Neighbors who like to party waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay after curfew so I have to go tell them to quiet down. I had to deal with this for a couple years. Gets me heated just thinking about it. It's midnight, turn your crap music off and stop laughing at the top of your lungs. Move your dumb ass inside. Urghhhhhhhhhh!!!! A few times the guy told me that the party wouldn't start until 10 pm because his homies work graveyard. How does that make sense to you fool?

People who smack when they eat. Drives me bonkers!

I love this thread! Mine are mostly about driving, too. When you learn to drive over here, you are always taught "MSM" - meaning Mirror, Signal, Manouevre. This seems to have become - just Manouevre. Just pull out, or change lane whenever you feel like it, without warning. Also, people driving around in the gloom and rain (of which we have plenty), without any lights. This is bad enough on main roads, but on the tiny country lanes (with blind bends) that I often use - well, I've had some near misses. It's usually an old person wearing a hat, trying to save 0.0005% on their fuel costs, by not putting their lights on. That reminds me of another one - people who are "tight" with money. Not people who are this way because they are short of money - I mean the people who turn up at my house for a family party (ie free food & drink provided) in their shiny new car, and stroll into my house EMPTY HANDED. I feel like kicking them straight out the door again! They are always on Facebook showing off their new car/phone/watch/holiday, but they won't spend a penny on anyone else but themselves...

Having plans.  Clearly stating plans.  Writing plans on the calendar.  Describing plans again.  Having alternate plans made for you and the alternate plan-maker saying, "You never told me" or "I didn't know about that."  Or worse, being in the middle of something that takes a while to set up and another while to put away, and being asked if you could do something else instead.  "Uh sure, in 45 minutes after I put away all these tools I just finished pulling out and arranging."

With Zurf: People who slow down for T/C's on the freeway...on the opposing shoulder! Going on a medical aid to a low-income neighborhood (slum) and walking in to find a 65" TV, a gangbanger playing xbox, a huge stereo system and a poop hot computer and a wwlfare mother with six kids, two working cars and too lazy to take the child to the Urgent Care.

Getting medical calls to Dr's offices and getting the wrong info...from the MD! Going to the same MD office for a heart attack and being handed a 12 lead EKG that shows absolutely nothing to indicate a heart attack...then the MD gets mad because you are re-assessing the patient. Hey! If you did not want to be embarrassed by a mere paramedic then do your job right the first time!

Being on the ambulance and listening to the fire guys (not from my department) telling the patient with the gout pain in his big toe that if the pain was important enough to call 911 he needs to go by ambulance. Hey! I cannot help it if this 50 year old college grad is too stupid to know what a life-threatening emergency is. Don't take me away from running real calls because you are afraid of upsetting the stupid guy!

Calling tech support, having a tech come on and, in a heavy Indian accent, tell me her name is Brittany. Uh...Yeah, right. "Hi Brittany! My name is Samir and I need some help!"

My wife driving on the freeway, in the fast lane at...71 MPH (In SoCal), and telling the car behind that she is going fast enough and he can go around. Really? It is called the fast lane for a reason, pull the eff over and stop blocking traffic!

Supervisors (Chief officers) that think so much of their crews they never go to the stations to say hi.

Paramedic preceptors (those medics that take students to teach them how to be field medics) that think so highly of themselves they forgot they were once students themselves. Making the students life difficult is their way of toughening them up...even if it means not moving a bit when they arrive on-scene of a full arrest until the student tells them to do something. "Really? Ok...Step out of the way and me and the student will do our jobs while you tell yourself how good you are."

Stop me, I got tons of 'em!

16.  Rookie drivers who feel like they are qualified to critique the way experienced drivers drive.

HAHA!  Just kidding.  i saw an opening and had to take it.

It's these drivers that make the line go slower.  Yeah, that's another of mine.

Guilty as charged! Laughed a lot at that one! I tell my mom, "Mom, I'm the one studying this stuff--when was the last time you took a driving class, huh?"  She always says something like, "When you've given birth to FIVE children, young lady, than you can criticize your mother, who carried you in her womb for NINE MONTHS and then had a 40 HOUR labor, and . . . 2 A.M. FEEDINGS . . . SLEEP DEPRIVED . . . SPOILED. . . WALKED FIVE MILES TO SCHOOL . . . "

I am convinced that that most people who do this have no idea they are pissing people off and cutting in line.  That is what is really sad.

Servers in a restaurant saying "enjoy" every single time they bring something to the table.  First off, if you are a waiter or waitress you had darned well better hope that I enjoy my food and drink else I'm unlikely to return.  So don't TELL me to enjoy, just work to be sure that I do.  Second, telling me once is sufficient.  You do not have to tell me to enjoy my drinks, then my appetizers, then my entree, then my drink refill, and the mustard you drop off, etc.  It's fine to come by to check on whether I am enjoying it, nor do I mind your well wishes along the lines of "I hope you enjoy your meal" or even stating an expectation - "I'll leave you to enjoy your meal", but being given the one word command "enjoy" every time you drop anything as inconsequential as spare napkins by the table is extremely annoying.  If you have nothing to say, don't speak. 

- Zurf

When TV news create news where there isnt any. Theres lots of really important stuff happening out there that should be reported, yet some news channels will tell you  over and over that John Smith politician has changed the colour of his undies, and invent several reasons why, then analyse it to bits with mindless interviews and talkbacks, when really Who gives a flying fart...

I hear ya Zurf but it's our local paper that gets me. I have been interviewed by them a few times in the past handful of years and more times than not I am misquoted. I read them and thought, I didn't say that. How hard is it to write down what someone says and have it printed?

Yeah, every time something that I'm involved in is reported upon by The Washington Post, they've gotten it all wrong.  Simple facts like what town it's in has been wrong.