My pet peeve right now.
People , like my family, who are on break or vacation all week, sitting around all day at home, playing golf on playstation, dirtying dishes, complaining about the lack of food.

and leaving all the friggin dishes for me to do when I get home from work.
I need a night out, bad.

__________________
Mary Kay
2009 WW - 228 / 199

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

Noel-you said it best: PEOPLE WHO DO NOT THINK BEYOND THEMSELVES!!!

AND: it's more about carelessness than the actual cigarettes. I agree. Carelessness with anything can cause destruction. I left a candle burning all night one night when DH was out of town. Yikes!

My best friend smokes, but she goes to great lengths as Katie does, to not be a cigarette "butt" (the folks I referred to in my earlier post). She never smokes in my house or my car and uses ashtrays. (I keep one here just for her to take on the patio with her.)

The big difference between people (no matter WHAT they are doing!) is whether they have any consideration for others or not. Some folks think it's their planet and they are just letting the rest of us live here. LOL!

__________________

Ha! I'm glad I checked out this thread. Do we all feel better now? My two cents: ALL OF THE ABOVE...plus...

--magazine inserts, the loose ones and the bound-in ones. Rip! Rip! Rip!
--(in addition to the loose/lose problem--arrrgh) the misspellings of Atkins/Adkins/Akins/etc. and people who ask questions because they HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK.

__________________
Barb L.
Atkins since Jan 2003
Maintenance as of 4/05


My Fitday Journal

Oh, right on, Barb!

I hate those packaged items that come with a "handy zip closure" that never, ever, ever works! I just use a clip clothespin for all those, or repackage the stuff in something else.

__________________
Nita

Oh, I thought of another peeve. People who leave their shopping cart in the parking lot, usually in an empty parking spot, so if you want to park there, you have to get out and move the cart. And the cart corral is usually just a few steps away. No wonder this country is getting so out of shape, it they are too lazy to walk a few steps to put the cart back. (With the exception of the women with little ones. I wouldn't want them to leave the little ones in the car to return the cart. Too dangerous.)

__________________
Nita

That's my hubby's number one peeve although I don't know why, seeing as how I'm the one who hops out and moves the darn thing. My parking lot peeve, especially at Wal-Mart, is all the people jamming up the traffic lanes close to the store in an effort to get a really close parking spot. Why not just install moving walkways from the far reaches for all those folks who don't want to walk more than a few feet and be done with it?

__________________
>^..^<
Esther

LOL Barb!!! The misspelling of Atkins is a major one for me! I'm sometimes tempted to deliberately misspell the person's name who does it... but they wouldn't get it...

People who haven't read the book, or at the very least the darned sticky posts for newbies!!!

Sorry y'all... I wasn't really offended... it was PMS... at least I can still blame PMS for stuff

Now that it's been reworded to rude, inconsiderate, careless people... I totally agree!

I agree with the shopping cart one too. I'm the one who rounds up all the carts around my car after I park and put them all in the corral so that no one can bump them into my car.

__________________
Katie
275/238/150
Restarted 01/08/2007
37 pounds lost!
http://justanotherfatgirl.blogspot.com

Besides words that are spelled totally wrong, how about the ones that are mispronounced all the time?
Nucular for nuclear
Jewlerry for jewelry
Realator for realtor
And one that is just a wrong word - irregardless for regardless. There is no such word as irregardless. But with people using it all the time, it will eventually get in the dictionary, like dove being the past tense of dive. When I was in 8th grade, it was drummed into us that dived is the past tense of dive, that dove is a bird. And if you looked up dove, it's definition would be a bird. Now it is officially ok to use dove instead of dived. Now they are using pled instead of pleaded. It has already found its way into crossword puzzles and computer word games. Oh, well. Sorry about the rant.
I just love words, and hate to see the language butchered.

__________________
Nita

LOL, girlfriend, you and I are kindred spirits!

Misspelled words and mispronunciations are like flashing neon signs to me. Poor DH always has to listen to me rant about the misspellings on TV and in printed media, and lord help the poor sot on TV who mispronounces a word or uses poor grammar - I'm always yelling at the television! LOL!! Can't help it. I should have been an editor or proofreader I suppose.

Here's another - FINGER-DRUMMING! Drives me nuts when somebody drums their fingers on my countertop at work. AAAACCCCKKKKKK!!!

Char

__________________
Veni, vidi, velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.

Save the Earth - it's the only planet with CHOCOLATE!

How about people who, when you ask how they are, they proceed to tell you in full detail. I really don't care to know about their bowel movements, thank you, just a quick "I'm fine" or "Not too good" would be adequate. (I get this a lot with a few of our elderly tenants, one in particular. I have learned to never ask how she is when she calls, I just ask what I can do for her.)

__________________
Nita

I hate to see the language butchered as well, and I just about lost it when I saw that ain't had made it into the dictionary.

__________________
Katie
275/238/150
Restarted 01/08/2007
37 pounds lost!
http://justanotherfatgirl.blogspot.com

Pet Peeve....people who get on the freeway in their beat up, rattle trap, s-l-o-w moving cars and hold up traffic. If your car can't get up to speed, stay on the side roads, for Pete's sake!!! There, I feel better now

__________________

I'm right with you, Vickie.

How about coffee carafes from your coffee maker that drip and dribble every time you pour? Can't they make one that works?

__________________
Nita

"Sorry, we don't GOTS it"

Unfortunately i'm hearing this more & more in So.Cal.

__________________
Cindy

Sept 2003 248 lbs :( 5'3"
June 2004 190 :hot:
July 2005 208.6
March 2006 220 (damn) :crying:

striving to be a loser.....

I heard the other one today: the butchering my DH does to common words....when DD asked if she could have something out of the freezer, he said it would have to "dethaw" before we could cook it. Dude, where do you get this stuff?

__________________