PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Bathroom attendants at restaurants/clubs.
Thanks, how about wiping my ass or even taking the shit for me?

— Petes Pet Peeves from Brooklyn | Bathrooms | 1.5.2010 | Comments (2)

Water on the counter at a public bathroom such that when you lean over to wash your hands, your stomach and crotch area get all wet.

— aleks g from brooklyn, ny | Bathrooms | 5.27.2009 | Comments (2)

When a co-worker talks to me while going to the bathroom
You walk into the ladies room at the same time, say hello, and then your co-worker (or boss) continues to talk to you about work while going to the bathroom. It's called a bathroom "break" for a reason. Please don't speak to me while you're peeing.

— iSarah from Manchester, NH | Bathrooms | 2.20.2009 | Comments (1)

Having to get up to pee
When it is cold and you're warm in bed, everything is perfect except for the bladder you have to empty. And you have dreams where this is somehow done for you, only to drift out of them and realize you have to do it yourself.

— M. Chavez from | Bathrooms | 10.7.2008 | Comments (1)

Being ignored by motion-sensor devices in public bathrooms
Toilets, faucets, paper towel dispensers, they all treat me like I'm invisible or motionless, when I am actually standing in front of them, flopping my hands around trying to trigger them so I can get the hell out of there.

— Vagina Jones from Aberdeen, washington | Bathrooms | 2.17.2009 | Comments (2)

A bar of handsoap sitting in a pool of water.

— Nebert Rodriguez from Lunch, Nebraska | Bathrooms | 3.9.2009 | Comments (2)

A warm toilet seat
Although not on par with the offensiveness of hair, piss, menstrual blood, or feces on the toilet seat, warmth is nevertheless an unwelcome indicator of the prior user's leisurely experience. It's doubly gross because usually a warm seat is paired with stink/skid marks from the prior user. The combo of tactile, visual, and olfactory proof is all too sensually overwhelming.

— Hairnette Funicello from aberdeen, washington | Bathrooms | 5.12.2009 | Comments (3)

Auto flush before poo inspection.
When the auto flush in a public bathroom flushes and sucks your poo away before you've had a chance to look at it. There might be some clue that you're deathly ill, but you'll never know it thanks to the auto flush.

— jmc from san francisco | Bathrooms | 11.28.2008 | Comments (4)

Disappointingly small bowel movements.

— vagina jones from | Bathrooms | 8.24.2009 | Comments (4)

Doorknobs in public bathrooms.

— Jesse Ball from To the Moon | Bathrooms | 10.22.2009 | Comments (5)

Women who sit stone still, quiet as a mouse, for excessive periods of time waiting to be the only person in the bathroom before taking a dump.
Is this intended to prevent the rest of us from discovering that she too has bowel movements? I was never fooled.

— j-mac from san fransisco | Bathrooms | 6.1.2009 | Comments (8)

Gender identifiers on the exteriors of bathroom doors that by virtue of being in a foreign language or too artistically drawn provide no guidance whatsoever.

— carrie g from | Bathrooms | 8.18.2009 | Comments (0)

When someone takes the urinal next to you, despite any number of other urinal choices.

— Jesse Ball from 23 Rue De l'Amandier | Bathrooms | 7.20.2009 | Comments (2)

Talking to me while I'm taking a dump.
I'm taking a dump, can we talk later? You walk in to the men's room, see someone you know and exchange pleasantries. Ok fine. Once I enter the bathroom stall to drop a deuce, please, I'm begging you, STOP TALKING TO ME. You can't ignore the person or hide. All you can do is sit there, feeling helpless and awkwardly responding to their inane thoughts and questions.

— Guess from | Bathrooms | 1.1.2010 | Comments (3)

Constant belly-rubbing by pregnant ladies » When you're used to being SKINNY, and all of a sudden you have this HUGE belly.... it's kind of hard to keep your hands away from it. Not to mention, I seem to hit my belly against things (since I'm not used to having it) and keeping my hands there, reminds me to pay attention to it. – Jami 3/20

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » i think for me it's just family/cultural practice. my dad's from guam, and that whole side of the family doesn't think twice before taking off shoes at the door. – whothegoods 3/17

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » They startle me in public too, when they suddenly start talking LOUDLY to themselves...while they are alone...in the middle of the supermarket. I think "crazy, or Bluetooth?" – Ami 3/17

I hate it when people stick their Bluetooth headsets in their ears and walk around when they're not using them. It just looks really, really stupid. » I call that look "business douche". 50% human, 50% robot, 100% asshole. – Brandi 3/16

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I have to side with the poster on this one. I think if you have guests over, you should just deal. It's not an every day thing. – jmc 3/15

When people make you take your shoes off before entering their house/apartment. » I agree with the two other comments before me. It's actually much more cleanlier to take them off. It seems to be more of an American ritual. (Canadians by the way tend to take off their shoes always) – Kara 3/15

02.11.10

Send in your mobile phone pet peeves for the week of February 15th! Perhaps the simplest and most common generator of peeves, the mobile phone prods and pricks us in all places, public and private. With skull phones just around the corner, it’s likely these peeves will soon become irrelevant—so let’s spray them across the galaxy while we still can.

01.18.10

For the next week or so, the pictures for peeves will be of Peeve Pile’s national spokesperson, Rob Grace, and his special person, Shana, enacting various peeves. Please feel free to make such pictures yourself. Just include a link to them when submitting a peeve.

01.02.10

Hello. I’ve added a voting feature, so you can vote as you assume that you would – just click on a one-to-five star rating (it will tell you your vote has been recorded); five indicating that you completely agree with, or find the peeve amusing, one meaning the opposite.

Once a bunch of ratings are in, I’ll add a worst, and best rated area to the right column.