PEEVES of LATE ››
November 20th,2008
Noticing that you repeatedly use certain phrases, but being unable to stop yourself from doing it.
I teach at a local college and realize that before each example problem I do on the board I say, "Let's say that..." I notice it every time I say it, and I'm sure my students do as well. However, somehow I can't stop doing it! (The sad thing is that this is only one such phrase.)
— Brooke from Florida | Self | 11.20.2008 | Comments (1)
November 20th,2008
Yet, there isn't a whole parking spot free, so you must circle for an hour.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Public Places | 11.20.2008 | Comments (1)
November 18th,2008
When people ask me "Where I'm from", when they actually want to know what my ethnicity is.
person a: Hey, so where are you from?
me: I'm from Washington DC.
person a:...no, I mean, *where* are you from?
— zoomusicgirl from Washington DC | Conversation | 11.18.2008 | Comments (1)
November 18th,2008
Forgetting to proofread something that you can't upgrade or edit.
Adding a peeve to PeevePile and not checking for grammatical or spelling errors before submitting it to the site, therefore, having your bad English displayed on the open wide Internet for everybody to see, even if the only one who cares is you and pretty much everybody else can reasonably understand it.
Man I hate that, and I couldn't find a way to add a comment to my peeve because it wasn't posted yet. Oh well, as long as both the previous one and this one is submitted.
— Trentdaddy from AL, USA | Self | 11.18.2008 | Comments (2)
November 17th,2008
When "me" means "me and a shit ton of people you don't know."
Being invited somewhere with some words that go something like, "I'm at ___. You should come meet me there," and taking the person up on his/her offer to find that in fact "me" means "me and several people you don't know and with whom I share many stories that we will refer to without explaining throughout the evening." There should be another pronoun that indicates not only the first person plural but also the feature of adversativity involved in this situation.
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Relationships | 11.17.2008 | Comments (2)
November 17th,2008
Perhaps they believe you will join forces with them and wage an attack on the cashier, or rise up against the management team at Wal-Mart. After all, why should a person have to wait more than 23 seconds to pay for their cat litter?
— KEGger from philly, PA | Shopping | 11.17.2008 | Comments (1)
November 15th,2008
People who look down on you for liking pop music because it's not deep and meaningful enough.
— Kelsey from Canada | Music | 11.15.2008 | Comments (0)
ASSORTED PEEVES ››
Cat litter box in the kitchen
Hey look! There's pile of poop right next to where you are preparing food for dinner! Bon apetit, people.
The fact that cats and dogs go out of their way to eat things that can kill them.
Even for a small brained mammal, eating a bag of tinsel or a box of snail poison is just stupid. It can't really be called accidental either.
Learning that a rock star has sincere religious convictions.
Beck, a Scientologist? Bob Dylan, a born-again Christian? If Janis Joplin and John Lennon were still alive, would they be converts to the Church of Latter Day Saints?
People who look down on you for liking pop music because it's not deep and meaningful enough.
Not knowing a song is a cover of another.
Let's say you like this band, and you really like this one song they do, and you might even love that song, and you might even have loved that song for years, marveling with each three minute spin at the genius, that face or faces, that produced this harmonious combination of sounds. Then, you discover to your amazement and disgust — maybe on the oldies station, maybe through a friend's knowledge — that you've been incorrectly attributing the talent to the wrong person the whole time.
When an aerobic instructor doesn't do each limb equally.
If I do 20 lunges with my left leg in front, I want to do 20 with my right. Otherwise, I'll have asymmetric buttcheeks. Often the instructor gets bored by the time they get to the second limb and only have you do about half as many reps.
When a cashier puts your change on the counter instead of into your outstretched hand.
Someone talking to me while I'm in the changing room.
My mother is guilty of this the most. She yells, "Biffy, are you doing alright in there, hun?" to me, thereby broadcasting my assumed need to shop with my mother for her express approval to the entire anonymous set of changers, in addition to the room attendant who I actually have to face on the way out.
When you are waiting in an obviously long checkout line and the person behind starts to sigh- LOUDLY, then starts to complain- LOUDLY, as if to draft you into their small army of self pity.
Perhaps they believe you will join forces with them and wage an attack on the cashier, or rise up against the management team at Wal-Mart. After all, why should a person have to wait more than 23 seconds to pay for their cat litter?
