PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive

People who do not remove their sunglasses indoors.
There's just something dodgy about someone who stands there, inside, out of the sun and elements, with their eyes hiding behind tinted glass as you count back change to them. Its even worse when they wear a hat with their sunglasses. You just sit there, hoping to God they don't hold you up.

— Rachel from slc utah | Clothing | 5.27.2010 | Comments (1)

Wobbly uneven table legs restaurants.
This is just irritating especially when its more of an upscale restaurant � you can't exactly stick some sugar packets under the leg like you would at a diner.

— rachel from chicago | Dining | 2.4.2010 | Comments (3)

Grubby, tangled haired children.
Are you in a war torn country without running water or spare clothes? No? Then wash you kids faces, and change their clothes. God, what kind of parents are you, letting your kids look like street urchins!

— Rachel from SLC, Utah | Hygiene | 5.7.2010 | Comments (8)

When strangers try to touch my children.
He's cute, he's adorable, I know, with his curls and dimples, but for the love of god, admire from a distance! If you want to touch a baby, go make one, and keep your mangy paws off mine!

— Rachel from SLC, Utah | Etiquette | 12.23.2009 | Comments (1)

People apologizing for things they have no control over.
This woman I work with apologized for it being cold today. Then I came home and that guy Dick Cheney shot in the face was on TV apologizing to DICK CHENEY for being shot in the face.

— Rachel from scamptown | Conversation | 7.5.2009 | Comments (1)

Office formalities which require me to thank a superior for giving me an assignment.
My boss gives me a pointless, time consuming and brutally boring assignment that I simply don't want to do. Yet I find myself thanking him afterward. Like I am just so grateful for being given more work.

— Rachel from ny, ny | Self | 7.21.2009 | Comments (3)

Single = Anomaly? » You forgot the cats in that litany of cliches. Even if her only standard is having mutual lovey-dovey feelings with someone, this either happens or it doesn't, there's no forcing it. Those who spout "you're not trying hard enough" and "you're too picky" does not seem to understand this. Maybe she simply means that she would be settling if she married just to meet people's expectations, since she hasn't met someone she loves who loves her back. NOT that everyone who is married is settling. – B. Alexander 8/27

On a coat, or a skirt, with a slit, the manufacturer will sew the slit closed with a small X of thread, and people are too stupid to realize they're meant to be removed. So they walk around with their vents sewn closed, and I want to run up to them and snip the threads off and then loudly shame them in public. I don't know how I've managed to restrain myself. » Hee, seems like some people actually don't know they can snip those. If you approach them nicely, maybe they will let you snip it for them. – B. Alexander 8/27

Hugging every time we see each other. » There is a definitely a too-many hugs problem, and another peeve: when someone hugs everyone a group except YOU, or you don't feel lik hugging one person but don't want to be exclusionary. – Biffy 8/27

When pregnant women complain about being pregnant. » if you have a kitten is it okay to be pregnant ? – kylie 8/25

The use of the word addicting. It's not a word! You mean "addictive"! » THANK YOU. – Nancy 8/24

People who ask me to burn them a CD. » Surely they're asking you to burn it because they don't have the files they want to burn onto it, but you do? – Rosie 8/24

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.