PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

The stench of other people's phones
The germ-y pungency of that warm vomit/chewing-on-diarrhea smell could just kill me.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Hygiene | 1.5.2009 | Comments (1)

Toilet seats that decide to fall as soon as you start pissing (for guys only)
Some toilet seats/lids just refuse to stand up on end vertically so that you can take a piss like a man. Then you're forced to grab it or or kick it up or just generally spray piss everywhere!

— My Jaw from Long Island CIty, NY | Hygiene | 11.30.2008 | Comments (0)

Paper towel dispensers that are above shoulder height so that when you go to get a paper towel, the water on your hands rolls down your wrists and up your sleeves.

— Mediocre Fred from Washington, DC | Hygiene | 10.29.2008 | Comments (5)

When a dentist or dental hygenist asks you questions during your cleaning when they clearly realize they have both hands stuck in your mouth and you can't respond.
And the weird part is that every single dentist/hygenist does this and none of them acknowledge that you are unable to respond. So instead they pause and you are forced to mumble out some sort of incoherent response which they can't possibly understand.

— Onie from Los Angeles | Hygiene | 6.12.2009 | Comments (2)

When people cut their finger nails on the subway and allow them to just fall on the floor of the train.

— Rebecca S from New York, NY | Hygiene | 4.6.2009 | Comments (2)

Farting in overalls and a well insulated jacket.
It just hangs around and is slowly slowly squeezed right into your face by various positional shifts. It can last minutes.

— rebecca from brooklyn | Hygiene | 6.3.2009 | Comments (2)

When someone with a cold sore offers you some of their drink.
Some people with herpes symplex B like to imagine that everyone has it and it's no big deal. I feel like they want to spread it on purpose ... really, it's not cool. You should warn people.

— rebecca from woodbury | Hygiene | 10.7.2008 | Comments (2)

Discontinuation of relied-upon cosmetic products
When Revlon discontinued making their SkinLights foundation, I thought I was going to die. There ought to be some sort of due process clause written into the US Constitution or one of the Int'l Human Rights Conventions requiring that cosmetic companies provide notice-and-comment proceedings and hearings to the public before removing a product from the shelves.

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Hygiene | 1.8.2009 | Comments (4)

People who claim that the only reason they get bikini waxes is because shaving causes them irritation.

— carre g from | Hygiene | 9.2.2008 | Comments (7)

Failure to pop ripe zits.

— carrie g from | Hygiene | 10.5.2009 | Comments (0)

If you wore those pants on the train, don't sit on my bed!
I have a "bed thing," or a "CLEAN bed thing." The clothes that you wear out and about, those pants you wore on the bus or while you sat on the curb waiting, or that shirt you wore while you leaned on that TRASH CAN or dirty wall, CANNOT be worn when you sit on or in my bed. EW.

— Peeve Me Baby, One More Time from san francisco | Hygiene | 7.25.2009 | Comments (15)

Irrational hygiene proclivities.
One time I went on a date with a guy who chastised me for double-dipping, after which he shoved his tongue down my throat.

— Jessica from Brooklyn | Hygiene | 7.2.2009 | Comments (4)

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.