What is ONE thing that is a pet peeve or annoyance to you?

reading btwn the lines wrote:

Walking while texting/e-mailing/otherwise staring at your phone

I love "accidentally" walking squarely into them and then saying "hey sugarcakes, wake up and smell the coffee"

annoyed as pie wrote:

This is probably my biggest pet peeve.

Here's the scenario: imagine you're a day after a KILLER workout, and then the day after you run into some familiar faces on a trail. You don't notice each tree per se (2, 4, 5, etc.), but you keep with the group just to be with them. You can see them way ahead of you, and you're struggling to keep up, meanwhile your watch is telling you that you are going like 10 minute mile pace. You try to push the pace in the hopes they'll speed up, but you just can't reach the guy at the back -- he's just too far ahead.

Okay, maybe I am simple-minded, but I still find this really funny.

+10

While driving a car with a clutch and stopped on a hill at the traffic light or stop sign, the driver behind you pulls up close. The action of swapping feet does allow for some rollback and proper spacing between cars is beneficial to both parties.

Yes, I can heel-toe and use the hand brake and do most times. But a driver shouldn't crowd the car in front of them.

A Ham wrote:

Not necessarily related to running, but what is something gets you annoyed or is a pet peeve of yours? I am sure we all have plenty, but start with one each.

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One more please, may I have another:

When they play "Alley Cat" over the loudspeakers again and again here at the mental institution. Makes me wanna do what I did to get here.... again.

Make it stop! I hate Alley Cat.

People who remember to put their turn signal on about half-way through the turn.

Would have been nice 50 yards back,.. I understand that you are turning now.

3 Pedal Pete wrote:

While driving a car with a clutch and stopped on a hill at the traffic light or stop sign, the driver behind you pulls up close. The action of swapping feet does allow for some rollback and proper spacing between cars is beneficial to both parties.

Yes, I can heel-toe and use the hand brake and do most times. But a driver shouldn't crowd the car in front of them.

You don't need the parking brake, just ease the clutch until it catches and holds you still.

White Southern Christian Male wrote:

Evil bigots.

thanks for noticing.

Neighbors who let their dog bark nonstop outside. That they don't notice or care that it may be annoying to others pisses me off.

Great responses all. Funny how a thread born iut of bathroom frustration has gotten so many great responses.

Here is another of mine that i experienced on Friday....

Those people who takes the elevator down one level.

A Ham

Many many years ago, long before the famous Harvard Business Review time management article, when I toiled in the corporate world my office was just a few steps from the elevator . The path to stairs took me through the general work area. To avoid the "get rid of the monkey' mindset of many coworkers it was at minimum 20 minutes quicker to wait the couple of minutes for the elevator.

Not all elevator rides are motivated by an avoidance of exertion.

sense of gravity needed wrote:

Abortion wrote:

Abortion is my pet peeve. .

Pretty heavy topic for a pet peeve wouldn't you say?

I don't think he understands at all what a pet peeve is.

I mean what is his other pet peeve, the thousands of people killed by terrorists on 9/11?