Friday MeMe: Sending Peevies Up My Spine

This morning, my co-worker mentioned that she is starting a "Pet Peeves " list. I don't know if this document will serve as a sort of warning to those of us who know her or merely something for her to think about on the T. I remarked that I was living one of my pet peeves at that very moment: my knee socks didn't reach above the tops of my boots; I hate the way boot insides feel against bare legs.

Turns out that my co-worker shares the boot peeve. I'm curious to know what else really gets under her skin because, to me, these little things that have the capacity to drive each of us silently crazy are a "tell' to the most secret parts of our personalities.

FRIDAY MEME: List your pet peeves (this may be a repeat topic, but one that's worth an update)

BLOGORELLI:
- Boot insides against bare legs
- Loud eating (mostly crunchy foods)
- Car dealerships putting their branding on cars they sell, usually a sticker or non-removable medallion
- Having my eye on some product and an acquaintance buying it before I can
- Sniffling but not blowing one's nose
- Talking on a cell phone in ANY enclosed small area
- Obnoxiously shameless self-promoters
- 'Lazy' walkers (you know them, the ones who meander left and right, go fast them slow and basically seem undirected in walking and life)
- Ridiculously loud sneezers

Comments

[matthew]

great topic.
here are mine.
in no particular order.

1. Left lane dwellers. The left lane is for passing, not for driving in light traffic.

2. Hipster uniforms. The times may change but "suck" remains the same.

3. Prevailing use of the term "contemporary".

4. Politicians. Of every ilk.

5. Anyone willfully inconveniencing those around them. Public cell phone users, slow turners, queue-holder-uppers, etc.

6. Leather car seats & swamp-ass.

7. The ongoing "sheeping" of America and a "victim-culture".

8. Hippies.

9. Broad and sweeping generalizations.

10. That boss that stands behind you without saying a word just to eavesdrop on work conversations that probably have nothing to do with them just so they can "own" the entirety of the project and maintain a facade of control...like the boss that is doing this behind me right now!!!

[General Disarray]

1. Painted toenails
2. Complaining
3. Heavy Sighs
4. Talking for the sake of hearing your own voice.
5. Being loud
6. Being slow
7. People in the room that are taller than me.
8. Cell phone rings. All the them.
9. ALL OF THEM.
10. Grey skies.

[p-natty]

I have no pet peeves because my heart is filled with love.

I am a ridiculously loud sneezer - it feels GREAT!

And I would write more, but I am in a big hurry to get to the really important place I need to be right this minute.

[Geoff]

So.... Can't you get shorter boots or taller socks? I don't know; those sound like pretty good solutions to me.

1. Hipster moms who make their 3-year-old boys grow their hair long.

2. Left-turners who risk their lives to steal my straight-ahead right-of-way at the signal.

3. Strangers who don't smile at my kid when he says something really cute to them.

4. Hands-free cell-phone talkers.

5. Cell-phone talkers whom you overhear describing where they are. (As in: "Yeah, I'm just by Starbucks, I'll be there in two minutes.")

6. Actually, now that I think of it: cell-phone talkers.

7. People who are in a big hurry to get to the really important place they need to be right this minute.

[the polish princess]

awesome. I love this topic. Here are mine:

1. loud talkers: I really hate loud talkers whether they be on a bus, walking down the sidewalk, or at the next booth in a restaurant
2. bad parallel parking
3. people blowing their nose in front of me...esp. at the dinner table!
4. the boot/sock thing
5. the flip-flop craze...esp. when on display at a wedding or at the office. nothing says tacky like a formal and a pair of flip-flops!