Let's all list the things that peeve us:
1. Women who hover when they pee in public restrooms: They spray on the seat like overexcited Schnauzers. Ladies, most of us have relatively clean hindquarters. If you were to actually TOUCH the seat with your buttocks, your chances of catching some strange disease are relatively low. Even so, most restrooms have ass gaskets that cover the seat. By peeing on the seat, you make things gross for the rest of us.
2. Homeowner’s Association lawn Nazis: I have a desert landscaped front yard. The plants are freeform, not malleable into fun circus animal shapes. They grows how they likes. My yard will never look like a trimmed poodle. Get over it.
3. Large SUVs that are capable of fitting into one parking space, but pull in at a precarious angle so the rear fender sticks into the next space, making it impossible for my little Passat the fit next to it.
4. In the express grocery checkout line, 12 items or less means just that. 14 items I can let squeak by. 25 items will get you flogged. Oh, and by the way, splitting your 48 items across four family members doesn’t count, either.
5. Please don’t talk on your cell phone while in a stall in a public restroom. You give me the willies. Are you talking to your boyfriend, or are you involved in a one-way conversation with your poopies? And why do I feel awkward peeing, thinking that your conversant may be disturbed by my noise?
Okay, let’s see if we can get the list to #20 or so…
1)Whew! Finally I can read your blog at work again! It's bad enough when the Vargas pin-up girl flashes onto my screen, but then when it said "Gratuitous Pussy Shots", well it made my supervisor demand to know what website I was visiting so he could put it in his favorites.
2)I'd think if women were going "hover" they'd raise the seat so as not to spray it. But, since women need a man to lower the seat for them, I guess that would be impractical ;-D
3) Peeve: people driving in the left lane right next to and at the same speed as the car on their right, ESPECIALLY if they just moved over from behind that car, right when you were approaching on the left, about to pass them.
Posted by: John at July 7, 2004 10:36 AMSo I guess that makes eight...
9) The pop-up ads that appear under the screen you're looking at. If I see another American Express pop-up......
Posted by: Jen at July 7, 2004 10:47 AM10. People who sit right in front of me in a practically empty movie theater.
Posted by: susan at July 7, 2004 12:30 PM11. opening food and eating it before you've paid for it. that's STEALING, folks.
Posted by: kat at July 7, 2004 1:30 PM12. People who take phone calls during the movie. 12 1/2: People who check their voicemail during a movie and have lighted keypads bright enough to distract me from watching the movie.
Posted by: Jen at July 7, 2004 1:45 PM13. people who work 8-5 and who tell 704 people to "hang on, i'll be right back" at 3:58pm. it's now 4:08 and i have to go grocery shopping before eveyrone else gets there.
Posted by: kat at July 7, 2004 4:08 PMthat's 7-4 people, not 704
Posted by: kat at July 7, 2004 4:08 PM14. People who stop their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle when a bunch of people are tying to pass.
15. People who congregate at the foot of a busy staircase or right outside a busy doorway, oblivous to the scores of people trying to pass them.
Posted by: Jen at July 7, 2004 4:44 PM16. people who hit your car and LEAVE THEIR BUMPER TOUCHING YOURS when they put it in park. um, yeah. i can see you hit me (and are still hitting me).
Posted by: kat at July 8, 2004 8:03 AM17. Bath towels not big enough to wrap around you. A Superman bath cape just doesn't work.
18. People who use the last of the toilet paper and don't change the roll. (Of course, I never realize this until the WRONG moment).
Posted by: Jen at July 8, 2004 8:11 AMpeople who throw burning cigarettes out of car windows. litterbugs who want me to explode and i follow in my gas container.
Posted by: kat at July 8, 2004 12:55 PM20. People who hit your heels with their shopping cart. Apparently I'm not shopping fast enough for their taste. Oh and one more......people (husbands) who put the roll of toilet paper on upside down. Wait just thought of another one. People who come to my house and leave the top lid up on the toilet seat. When they come in the toilet is all the way closed so you would think they would leave like they found it.
Posted by: Jen at July 8, 2004 1:12 PMPeople who don't number their peeves.
Posted by: susan at July 8, 2004 1:36 PM