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bif

(25,041 posts)
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 02:03 PM Nov 2024

Little things that bug you are...

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?

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Little things that bug you are... (Original Post) bif Nov 2024 OP
The many different parking meter cashless pay systems bloody hell.....Yes cranky old man too. IA8IT Nov 2024 #1
Makes me miss the parking meter! El-Capitan Nov 2024 #22
People who wear their baseball cap backward. Jeebo Nov 2024 #2
I read your post True Dough Nov 2024 #4
There's a lot of things... bif Nov 2024 #10
The backward baseball cap thing is a *huge* pet peeve for me! Different Drummer Nov 2024 #15
Ya, step off with that backward cap JoseBalow Nov 2024 #17
I do wear a baseball cap backwards BOSSHOG Nov 2024 #24
Anyone above the age of thirteen or so who wears Aristus Nov 2024 #33
Little things that bug me? True Dough Nov 2024 #3
Those too! Niagara Nov 2024 #43
I resent that I'm forced to own a car. hunter Nov 2024 #5
I knew a woman who lived in London in the 1970s. Jeebo Nov 2024 #8
We lease a new car. When the lease is up, we go into the dealership and lease another one. CTyankee Nov 2024 #14
Radio commercial disclaimers. Sneederbunk Nov 2024 #6
Last second lane changers and duncang Nov 2024 #7
King Soopers (Kroger)? nt Hotler Nov 2024 #12
Kroger duncang Nov 2024 #13
You asked for it, so here you go... Probatim Nov 2024 #9
Won't be long until Festivus. Different Drummer Nov 2024 #16
The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe' JoseBalow Nov 2024 #20
Upspeak. and Likespeak. bif Nov 2024 #11
"When people go up at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question." Different Drummer Nov 2024 #18
Wow! Whoever made this really hates that commercial. El-Capitan Nov 2024 #23
Christina is from California, so the "Valley Girl" characterization makes sense. Different Drummer Nov 2024 #25
A gorgeous woman, by today's plastic standards, but not someone I'd ever want to meet. El-Capitan Nov 2024 #26
UPSPEAK Skittles Nov 2024 #35
what is "upspeak"? CTyankee Nov 2024 #39
ending a sentence sounding like a question Skittles Nov 2024 #40
OK, got it. CTyankee Nov 2024 #46
Pharma commercials Different Drummer Nov 2024 #19
when my English brother was here Skittles Nov 2024 #41
I don't consider this a little thing, but my biggest peeve is LED headlights that nearly blind you. Sogo Nov 2024 #21
TV shows and movies Diamond_Dog Nov 2024 #27
I agree! That is why I watch reruns from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. FuzzyRabbit Nov 2024 #28
Closed captions help a lot! Diamond_Dog Nov 2024 #29
I thought I was the only one who had a problem wryter2000 Nov 2024 #37
The new Target ad on TV featuring Wicked Ilsa Nov 2024 #30
the phrase "One of the only" Seriously? yellowdogintexas Nov 2024 #31
Drivers who dash crazily out into traffic from a side street Aristus Nov 2024 #32
Do you live near downtown San Jose? That's how people around the college drive. lark Nov 2024 #45
right now it is seeing the word CAUSE replace the word BECAUSE Skittles Nov 2024 #34
People who say wryter2000 Nov 2024 #36
All those ED cures commercials, madamesilverspurs Nov 2024 #38
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. CTyankee Nov 2024 #47
Ants, yellow jackets and stink bugs Niagara Nov 2024 #42
People not parking within the lines - they're too special and cut off spaces. lark Nov 2024 #44

IA8IT

(6,114 posts)
1. The many different parking meter cashless pay systems bloody hell.....Yes cranky old man too.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 02:37 PM
Nov 2024

Jeebo

(2,405 posts)
2. People who wear their baseball cap backward.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 02:40 PM
Nov 2024

Last edited Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:33 PM - Edit history (1)

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

bif

(25,041 posts)
10. There's a lot of things...
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:27 PM
Nov 2024

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

Different Drummer

(9,079 posts)
15. The backward baseball cap thing is a *huge* pet peeve for me!
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:22 PM
Nov 2024

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

BOSSHOG

(41,821 posts)
24. I do wear a baseball cap backwards
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 10:54 PM
Nov 2024

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

(69,538 posts)
33. Anyone above the age of thirteen or so who wears
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 01:08 AM
Nov 2024

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

Niagara

(10,416 posts)
43. Those too!
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 07:51 AM
Nov 2024

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

hunter

(39,439 posts)
5. I resent that I'm forced to own a car.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 02:47 PM
Nov 2024

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

(2,405 posts)
8. I knew a woman who lived in London in the 1970s.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:14 PM
Nov 2024

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

(65,912 posts)
14. We lease a new car. When the lease is up, we go into the dealership and lease another one.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:03 PM
Nov 2024

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.

duncang

(3,767 posts)
7. Last second lane changers and
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:12 PM
Nov 2024

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.

Probatim

(3,109 posts)
9. You asked for it, so here you go...
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:17 PM
Nov 2024

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...

bif

(25,041 posts)
11. Upspeak. and Likespeak.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 03:31 PM
Nov 2024

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

(9,079 posts)
18. "When people go up at the end of every sentence as if they're asking a question."
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:47 PM
Nov 2024

This commercial comes to mind.



 

El-Capitan

(88 posts)
23. Wow! Whoever made this really hates that commercial.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 10:47 PM
Nov 2024

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

 

El-Capitan

(88 posts)
26. A gorgeous woman, by today's plastic standards, but not someone I'd ever want to meet.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:10 PM
Nov 2024

That voice makes me cringe.

CTyankee

(65,912 posts)
46. OK, got it.
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:31 PM
Nov 2024

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

(9,079 posts)
19. Pharma commercials
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:51 PM
Nov 2024

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

(163,100 posts)
41. when my English brother was here
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 02:46 AM
Nov 2024

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

Sogo

(6,163 posts)
21. I don't consider this a little thing, but my biggest peeve is LED headlights that nearly blind you.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 10:28 PM
Nov 2024

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

(36,477 posts)
27. TV shows and movies
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:28 PM
Nov 2024

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

wryter2000

(47,793 posts)
37. I thought I was the only one who had a problem
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 02:00 AM
Nov 2024

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

Ilsa

(62,668 posts)
30. The new Target ad on TV featuring Wicked
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:51 PM
Nov 2024

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.

Aristus

(69,538 posts)
32. Drivers who dash crazily out into traffic from a side street
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 01:06 AM
Nov 2024

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

lark

(24,779 posts)
45. Do you live near downtown San Jose? That's how people around the college drive.
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 11:33 AM
Nov 2024

It's terrible!

Skittles

(163,100 posts)
34. right now it is seeing the word CAUSE replace the word BECAUSE
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 01:49 AM
Nov 2024

it really fucking annoys me

madamesilverspurs

(16,204 posts)
38. All those ED cures commercials,
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 02:09 AM
Nov 2024

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


.

CTyankee

(65,912 posts)
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.
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 12:33 PM
Nov 2024

and that's what is important.

lark

(24,779 posts)
44. People not parking within the lines - they're too special and cut off spaces.
Fri Nov 22, 2024, 11:31 AM
Nov 2024

Pisses me off!

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