PeevePile • A Pet Peeve Archive » Scouring a packed movie theatre for 3 seats that are together, only to notice each couple/family/single has left a seat between them and the next couple/family/single, thus rendering half the row useless to anyone.

Scouring a packed movie theatre for 3 seats that are together, only to notice each couple/family/single has left a seat between them and the next couple/family/single, thus rendering half the row useless to anyone.

— grrrr from NYC | Public Places | 3.18.2009 | Comments (5)

Whine... you should arrive earlier or submit to the consequences of arriving late. Take a seat, shut up and watch the movie

— Jen posted 3/22/2009

Whining is the whole point of this site!

— Biffy posted 3/22/2009

This happens at a perfectly reasonable arrival time in NYC. To leave a seat is selfish and socially/spacially retarded. Just move down. Take one for the team and don't be that entitled asshat everyone secretly loathes.

— Oh god. posted 3/23/2009

I ask people Is that seat taken? Sometimes if it's really crowded, I will have the gall to ask someone to move over. It works, they are shocked that someone actually mentioned it to them!

— Lorraine posted 1/3/2010

When parents start voicemail messages with "hey [name], it's your mother/father." » My husband does this with his kids! It never fails to drive me bugshit! – Mindy 7/26

Grubby, tangled haired children. » Keeping clean is one thing; the kids I see don't even start out clean. Parents and kids both seem to roll out of bed and go to the local WalMart (where else?) without so much as running as hairbrush through their hair or taking a bar of soap to their bodies. I think we can be quite sure they don't know what a toothbrush is for! The trend of wearing pajama bottoms in public needs to stop as well. – Mindy 7/26

When strangers try to touch my children. » Good god, it's like you read my mind. I absolutely hate it when I'm in the grocery store and people touch my son's feet or poke his little cheeks. Yes, I know he's the cutest thing on this earth but THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN TOUCH HIM – CakeThief 7/24

Air quotes. » use shocker quotes instead. form shocker with fingers, bend to mimic quoting action. – kn obel 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » I always want to know if people would feel equally as badly if the opposite were true. Like, if you only gave money to non-white street beggars out of guilt/fear of being perceived as racist. That's racism, too, right? Right? No one complains about that one... – Chelsea 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » Ugh. This happened to me when I declined to sign a petition without even hearing what it was about (I was also not a registered voter in that state AND was in a hurry). Jeez, I'm not racist! I hate all petition signature gatherers equally. – Kate 7/21

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01.18.10

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