PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

Telling me I'm defenseless because I'm a female.
Eg. Don't go in that gas station because you're a female and might get raped.

— Haley from SC | Relationships | 3.5.2010 | Comments (0)

Friends that constantly complain about their weight or flaws, but balk at common sense solutions.
Friend: "oh my ass is soooo huge, yuck" Me: "you look okay to me, but if you are concerned let's go for a walk tomorrow, or maybe have a salad" Friend: "nah, walking hurts my legs and salad gives me migraines" Also called " complaining for attention" or "fishing for compliments" and " not willing to cut down on big mac's"

— Personaldecay from BC Canada | Relationships | 5.8.2009 | Comments (2)

When people try to turn rejection into a noble gesture done for your benefit.
You invite your boyfriend to come with you to an event and he doesn't want to go, but, instead of saying, "No, thanks, I don't want to go," he tries to make turning you down sound like a noble gesture: "You'll have more fun without me." I wouldn't have invited you if I would have rather gone by myself.

— Tara from Fort Collins, CO | Relationships | 1.28.2009 | Comments (1)

Couples who claim they don't fight

— Prue from Melbourne, Australia | Relationships | 11.28.2008 | Comments (2)

Everyone wondering when we'll get married.
So, we've been together for years. Our relationship tends to move in glacial time. We're okay with it. So why does everyone from friends and co-workers to the deli-counter guy and complete random strangers want to know when we'll get married? What, do you have a bet riding on it or something?

— Betty from New York | Relationships | 11.10.2008 | Comments (0)

Long wedding engagements
The longer you are engaged, the more you-centric my life becomes: engagement parties, bachelorette parties, bridal showers, the wedding itself. It's not just the thousands of dollars I have to spend to go to all these events and buy you crap for them, it's that now instead of having delightful conversations about the Holocaust and puppies, we are only allowed to talk about the decisions agonizing you: whether you should change your names, whether the tablecloths should be mauve or a heathery pink, what will happen when Jimmy and Tammy are in the same room at the reception. I mean, it's nice that you found somebody to fuck on a regular basis and all, but why does it have to so inconvenience me?

— Vagina Jones from Aberdeen,WA | Relationships | 11.7.2008 | Comments (3)

Relentless pursuit of a lent item after breakup or fading of a relationship.
Is not having that copy of Atonement really driving you nuts, or are you just antagonizing me? When you lose a relationship, material objects go along with it. Make copies!

— Charles from New York, NY | Relationships | 3.15.2009 | Comments (2)

When people you aren't interested in think you're interested in them and let you know by saying they have a boyfriend or girlfriend.
I ran into a girl who I recognized from college at the Super Market. We talked for about four seconds before she made a point of bringing up the fact she has a boyfriend. Can't I make polite conversation with out it meaning I want to fuck you? Is the only way to prove that I'm not some desperate loser harboring a crush for almost a decade to pretend I don't recognize you?

— Matt P from New York, NY | Relationships | 10.27.2008 | Comments (6)

Significant-others automatically riding shotgun.
I will be there after he or she is disposed of. Equality among those you are close to.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Relationships | 10.7.2008 | Comments (8)

When people arbitrarily try to set you up with someone else, citing your shared singleness as your common trait.
Please put a little more thought into who you think I might spend the rest of my life with!

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Relationships | 4.4.2009 | Comments (4)

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)

Recycling of a term of affection from a previous relationship.
I was, early on in a relationship, called "sweetie" when I clearly didn't deserve the nickname. I knew it was meant for someone else. But for whom? When an ex-boyfriend's answering machine message was broadcast through her apartment, starting with the word, I had my answer.

— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Relationships | 10.7.2008 | Comments (7)

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.