Little things that bug you are...

[bif]

My pet peeve is parking meters. I hate paying money to park my car, so I can spend money at a store. And now, you need an app to pay for parking. How irritating is that?

I think I'm turning into that cranky old man!

What stuff irritates you?

[IA8IT]

1. The many different parking meter cashless pay systems bloody hell.....Yes cranky old man too.

[El-Capitan]

22. Makes me miss the parking meter!

[Jeebo]

2. People who wear their baseball cap backward.

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I always want to tell them, Hey, that bill is the FRONT of that cap, not the back!

Another thing, it is like fingernails screeching across chalkboard to me when I hear somebody say "aks" instead of "ask". It just sends chills down my spine. It offends the copyeditor in me. (I was a newspaper copyeditor for 45 years.) I know, it's the spoken word and not the printed word, but still, that mispronunciation is an offense against the English language to my ears. I am a bit of a grammar freak and I have quite a few grammar and pronunciation pet peeves.

— Ron

[True Dough]

4. I read your post

and I promptly turned my cap so that the bill faces forward!

[bif]

10. There's a lot of things...

NOPE! There ARE a lot of things. Retired copywriter here. Hate hearing that!

[Different Drummer]

15. The backward baseball cap thing is a *huge* pet peeve for me!

Like you, I am a grammar freak and have numerous peeves surrounding misuses of grammar.

[JoseBalow]

17. Ya, step off with that backward cap

[BOSSHOG]

24. I do wear a baseball cap backwards

When I’m taking pictures. I wear a baseball cap all the time. It’s like a thermostat. Regardless of weather. I take it off I start sneezing.

Grammar. How bout, “I COULD care less!

[Aristus]

33. Anyone above the age of thirteen or so who wears

a backwards baseball cap. A fashion sense stunted in adolescence makes me wonder what else about them is stunted.

[True Dough]

3. Little things that bug me?

Ticks!

Useless blood suckers! Dangerous too!

[Niagara]

43. Those too!

I keep telling you to keep your pests out in the yard where they belong, True.

[hunter]

5. I resent that I'm forced to own a car.

We ought to be rebuilding our cities, turning them into places where car ownership is unnecessary.

The people with the smallest environmental footprints tend to live in cities, don't own cars, and enjoy mostly vegetarian diets.

I bought a new car once in the mid 'eighties. I'll never do that again, it only encourages them to make more.

[Jeebo]

8. I knew a woman who lived in London in the 1970s.

I worked with her for several years. She and her husband and family lived there for a few years while he was there working for Time magazine. She said they never owned a car while they lived there. She said every once in a while they would rent a car for a day or two and drive out into the English countryside and explore. She said they sometimes drove to Stonehenge and spread towels/blankets out on the stones and had picnics there. Can't do that any more; Stonehenge is shut off now to tourists except for guided tours. I visited Stonehenge myself in the late 1990s; they have a path around it but you can't approach the stones themselves closer than 10 or 12 feet. Still, an amazing place. Sorry about getting off on that tangent.

— Ron

[CTyankee]

14. We lease a new car. When the lease is up, we go into the dealership and lease another one.

that way we always have a new car that we know from experience is not prone to breaking down. We keep it in great shape, taking it to the dealership for regular maintenance (tire rotation, oil change, etc). But we are old and have been retired for years and don't drive much anyway.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Radio commercial disclaimers.

[duncang]

7. Last second lane changers and

Grocery stores that do the quarterly moves on inventory. One item I buy regularly the store I visit has changed where it’s at 4 times this year.

[Hotler]

12. King Soopers (Kroger)? nt

[duncang]

13. Kroger

[Probatim]

9. You asked for it, so here you go...

People taking lunch breaks in their cars - with the engines running.

People who drive diagonally or across parking lots to save 4 seconds.

My Pyrex measuring cups that pour more liquid down the side than in the pot/mug where I'm pouring it.

People who can't finish their turn in the lane God gave them.

Idiots who giggle after every sentence they utter - my sister-in-law and her first and second husbands do this, plus both her kids. (How are you? giggle giggle giggle.)

People who can't open boxes or bags properly - my wife does this and it makes me nuts. I've asked "did you force a rabid raccoon at gunpoint to open this box?" At least my kids thought that line was funny. I have a co-worker whose husband does the same thing - we commiserate with photos. It's a long running gag for us.

Improper use of apros'trophe's'.

I've turned into Frank Constanza...

[Different Drummer]

16. Won't be long until Festivus.

[JoseBalow]

20. The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe'

It should be easy to see!

(6:33)

[bif]

11. Upspeak. and Likespeak.

When people go up at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question. And people who lace every sentence with the word like at least once, but usually several times.

[Different Drummer]

18. "When people go up at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question."

This commercial comes to mind.

[El-Capitan]

23. Wow! Whoever made this really hates that commercial.

I know I do. I call it the "Valley Girl" jacuzzi commercial.

[Different Drummer]

25. Christina is from California, so the "Valley Girl" characterization makes sense.

[El-Capitan]

26. A gorgeous woman, by today's plastic standards, but not someone I'd ever want to meet.

That voice makes me cringe.

[Skittles]

35. UPSPEAK

yes, along with vocal fry, very annoying

[CTyankee]

39. what is "upspeak"?

[Skittles]

40. ending a sentence sounding like a question

[CTyankee]

46. OK, got it.

Ya know, I'm done with that. It sounds like asking permission to voice your idea or response. I'm the old person who just bluntly says what they mean. I do NOT punch down, however, and I detest people who do. But I've reached an age where I don't give a shit about opinions of my opinion and I don't wanna hear bullshit. Obviously, I don't want to be unpleasant but there is a line that I draw....

[Different Drummer]

19. Pharma commercials

I can't remember what products are supposed to treat what conditions, and I wouldn't presume to ask my doctors about/for any of them, anyway.

[Skittles]

41. when my English brother was here

he couldn't believe we had such ads, and that they were so cheesy and manipulative

[Sogo]

21. I don't consider this a little thing, but my biggest peeve is LED headlights that nearly blind you.

Whenever I meet a car with such lighting, I put on my brights and leave them on. I figure they might get the message.

Who approved these lights?!?

[Diamond_Dog]

27. TV shows and movies

Where the actors’ voices are practically inaudible but the background music is ear splitting. And the dark backgrounds so you can’t see anything.

[FuzzyRabbit]

28. I agree! That is why I watch reruns from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

[Diamond_Dog]

29. Closed captions help a lot!

[wryter2000]

37. I thought I was the only one who had a problem

With the dark background. I figured it had to be me.

[Ilsa]

30. The new Target ad on TV featuring Wicked

products and the customers trying to sing one line and the singer with no eyebrows or hair from the movie vocalizing Ahhhahahahhhh really, really loudly. I can't hit Mute fast enough.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. the phrase "One of the only" Seriously?

It is either "the only" or "One of the few"

[Aristus]

32. Drivers who dash crazily out into traffic from a side street

in order to get in front of me, then proceed to go as slowly as possible after that.

[lark]

45. Do you live near downtown San Jose? That's how people around the college drive.

It's terrible!

[Skittles]

34. right now it is seeing the word CAUSE replace the word BECAUSE

it really fucking annoys me

[wryter2000]

36. People who say

“Me and Jim” as the subject of the sentence.

[madamesilverspurs]

38. All those ED cures commercials,

including 'bent carrot' treatments. They even showed up during a program about St. Nicholas. Seriously.


.

[CTyankee]

47. Hubby and I think that's funny. Not the condition, the effort to be cute about it. But I think it gets the point across.

and that's what is important.

[Niagara]

42. Ants, yellow jackets and stink bugs

[lark]

44. People not parking within the lines - they're too special and cut off spaces.

Pisses me off!