Thursday Thirteen #57: Pet Peeves

I'm taking this directly from a thread at Romance Divas this week, Nitpicking Things That Drive You Nuts. Here are some of the things that bug me.

-- People who don't push chairs in, or who leave doors/drawers/box flaps hanging open, especially when they block narrow aisles.

-- People who blast their car stereos, especially those who sit in front of someone else's house and do this.

-- People who block store aisles. Pull your cart over to the side to look for the item you can't find, or to chat with friends. And don't give me a dirty look when I ask you to move your a$$ so I can get through.

-- People who don't pick up after their dogs. You put food into it, you clean what comes out of it. It's as simple as that.

-- People who are too lazy to take their garbage with them. I don't throw my garbage in your yard, don't throw yours in mine!

-- People who keep dialing the same number after being told they are dialing the wrong number, as if the connections will magically rearrange if they just. keep. trying. I actually had to leave an outgoing message on my machine for two months last year telling people the number they were dialing was NOT ABC company, and screen all incoming calls. They finally got the message.

-- On a similar note, people who argue with you when you tell them they've misdialed. One lady who called my home number actually accused me of being lazy and not wanting to help her. It was soooo tempting to "make an appointment" for her so she would look the fool when she showed up somewhere she wasn't expected.

-- People who leave long rambling phone messages and then suddenly hit warp speed when leaving their phone number. Sorry, but if I can't understand the number, I'm not calling you back.

-- People who do laundry after 10pm or before 6am. That may be fine if you own a house, but when you share walls with other people...uh-uh. Have a little consideration for the people around you, and they might have some for you.

-- And, as someone who does a lot of walking, drivers who refuse to stop for pedestrians at/in crosswalks, despite the fact that it's state law. This especially irks me at the mall, when I'm standing directly under the bright neon sign reminding them of said law.

-- People who continually forward emails that have already been forwarded a billion times. I won't even open them. If it's really so great that you have to share, then copy, paste and clean it up before passing it on.

-- People who hold loud cellphone conversations in public, particularly on the bus/train, or in restaurants. Newsflash: you do not live in a sound proof bubble, and no one wants to hear all the intimate details of your life. Except maybe the stalker sitting behind you.

-- People who don't control their children in public. It's a store or restaurant, NOT a gymnasium. Please do not inflict the children you refuse to discipline on the rest of us.

So...what's bugging you?

Links to other Thursday Thirteens:

Kaige * Adelle Laudan * Nina Pierce
Tempest Knight * Shelley Munro * Alice Audrey
Tara Nichols * Ms Menozzi * Darla
Debora Dennis * December * Debbie Mumford
Jennifer McKenzie * Paige Tyler * Lia Morgan
Gina Ardito * Robin Rotham
Gwen Mitchell * Brenda Davis * Chloe Devlin
Dana Belfry * Kat Oxley

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