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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 498
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:35 am: |     |
I don't think the operative word was "petty" for the person who started the thread. "Pet peeve" is a complaint, a grudge, something we actively dislike.
Many of us might think our pet peeves are petty, but that's another story.
One of my pet peeves is when people think God talks to them through their pop-up toaster. Now that really ticks me off. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 704
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 9:51 am: | |
On the automated voice phone systems, the ones I can't stand are the ones that require you to speak into them. They can never "hear" me and I end up shouting into the phone. 'MAPLEWOOD!!!!' I SAID 'MAPLEWOOD!!!!' |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 503
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 10:25 am: | |
Sgt Pepper:
Then the automated voice says: "You said Maplewood. Is that right? Say yes or no, or press 1 for yes or 2 for no..."
It's like being bitten to death by ducks, every day. |
bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 996
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 11:48 am: | |
Hypocrites. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 705
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 11:54 am: | |
Innisowen -- more likely than not it says "You said "Englewood....." and I have to repeat AGAIN.
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argon_smythe
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Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 538
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 1:05 pm: | |
Well first the title of the thread is "Petty Pet Peeves" and second I believe the "pet" in the phrase is actually a derivation of "petty" anyway.
Another very petty one for me is when people use the word "nautious" when they mean "nauseated." And yes I know it is now accepted usage -- but to me if you say you're nautious, you're saying you make others nauseated. Which is kind of funny.
Yet another one is when people say they will "try and do" something. It makes no sense. You try TO do something. Like God for instance would not try AND talk to you through your toaster, he would try TO talk to you through your toaster!
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buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1650
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 2:33 pm: | |
I get upset when the weather people get you all nuts over snow and it never snows. Look...outside...there is no snow. NONE.
And when it does snow an inch, NJT will be so messed up I will end up blowing off work on Friday.
Then - soon enough - the tempature will rise. At that moment a weatherman will get credit for bringing on the good weather.
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Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1408
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 2:35 pm: | |
Snow started! |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2992
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 2:57 pm: | |
where are you Wendy? |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 707
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 2:59 pm: | |
Not in Livingston, that's for sure. |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1651
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 3:23 pm: | |
the sky's falling the sky's falling |
ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 210
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 3:34 pm: | |
SUVs (= drive as if road rules don't apply to them; assume they are entitled to 2 parking spaces; blow through crosswalks while women & children are waiting to cross)
Cell phones (= loud, obnoxious blabbing in public about absolutely nothing = "I am SO important! Just listen to me!") |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 141
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 3:40 pm: | |
A Better system to locate new posts, as it has become difficult to locate what is "New" and what isn't. Somtimes the sight reads "new entries" and sometimes it doesn't
( for eg, have been trying to locate the section to send this email, but have had difficulty locating where it belongs) |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 512
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 4:44 pm: | |
Argon:
I agree with you on the language usage you cited.
However, I am willing to accept "try and do" (pronounced tryn-do)in colloquial speech. I don't like it at all when people write "try and do" when they mean "attempt" or "try to do."
And, by the way, if God speaks to you through your pop-up toaster, that might be a "trying" experience. |
Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 699
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 6:55 pm: | |
Re left turns into parking spaces in the village:
Once, I turned right into a parking space in the village. Apparently, some b**** was waiting to turn left into this spot. (I didn't even see her waiting while the previous occupant of hte spot pulled out - and I guess I assumed that people would follow the law, right?)
She peeled out, honked at me, gave me the finger, AND shouted an obscenity at me out the window. Wow. Guy standing on the sidewalk saw the whole thing and laughed - that made me feel a little less shaken! I was actually a little worried that she'd key my car - I seem to remember this happening to somebody on MOL a while back.
Sooo ... I guess you'd call turning left into a parking space in the village a pet peeve of mine, too. :-) |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 4673
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 9:00 pm: | |
People who stop in the middle of Maplewood Ave in case a car in the next two blocks pulls out of a space.
It's particularly pleasant when the traffic backs up two blocks behind them.
These people are so selfish and lazy I can only laugh as I grit my teeth. |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 64
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:27 am: | |
People who get to their cars parked on Maplewood Avenue and then take five minutes to put everything in, get in and pull out. After all, I'm sitting there waiting for the space and mem is right behind me plotting I don't know what dire revenge on my car as traffic backs up half a mile.
I mean c'mon, toss the kid in back between a couple of big shopping bags and go. This whole safety thing is overrated. |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 3920
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:51 am: | |
Some where some time ago a study was conducted and I cannot remember where I heard this, in Boston I think, that when people know someone is waiting for their space they take, on average, 7 seconds longer to pull out than people who have no one waiting for their space.
Being in a state of excess that time is multiplied in our quaint little area.
Oh and ANOTHER car blocked my driveway yesterday afternoon when Clinton was letting out. Penn plates. I am starting to take pictures, repeat offenders will be noted and the photo's taken to both the school and the cops.
(rant over)
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Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 704
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:59 am: | |
OK - this one is very petty, but very annoying ....
In one of the offices I work in, we're in cubicles, with very little privacy.
Guy in next cube eats all the time - sounds like potato chips, with his mouth open.
CHOMP crunch munch crunch munch ...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!! |
gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 653
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 1:11 pm: | |
The woman in the office next door to me sings along with the radio. And she really shouldn't. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 710
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 1:44 pm: | |
A long time ago I worked with someone who snapped her gum all day. That may be one of the most irritating sounds on earth. It's one of the few annoying habits that can drive me to the brink of violence. |
Spare_o
Citizen
Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 200
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 2:45 pm: | |
I'm not sure this qualifies as a petty pet peeve but I've been holding this inside for days and now is my chance for relief...
Tuesday evening I got on the train at Penn Station. In the evenings, people move through the cars in both directions looking for a seat. I have always had an issue with people, mainly men, who won't yield their ground, even when they have the opportunity. I believe I read a study about this a few years ago. So, I'm walking in the aisle one direction and a man is coming at me from the other - about 10 rows away. I have my tote and another bag, he has a briefcase. Between me and about the halfway point between us, all the aisle seats are occupied so I can't step aside. He continues to come at me as I continue to walk toward him. I guess he thought this was a game of chicken. At the last moment, just before impact, I come up to an open aisle seat since it's clear to me he isn't going to step aside (he has passed other open aisle seats along the way). I step into the open aisle seat space and he bashes me on my elbow with his briefcase, unintentionally but hard, and I say "Ow" very annoyed because this is my sore elbow. He stops, as if awakened from a daze, and asks if I'm OK. I basically blew him off since I'm not sure I could have said anything truthful or polite.
OK, I feel a tiny bit better now...
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algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 3001
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 2:55 pm: | |
If you are the first to board the train (in the morning) walk all the way in to the middle of the car and take a seat. When you ask someone to stand for the FIRST seat you see you hold everyone up and it takes that much longer for the train to load. Also, the people boarding behind you are less likely to get a seat. DRIVES ME NUTS! |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 3927
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 3:01 pm: | |
Spare-O I feel your pain. Literally. When I lived in Boston I had knee surgery and was up and about fairly soon afterwards with either a cane or one crutch and the same thing would happen to me and Im a man for God's sake. People so absorbed in their days that they wouldn't even notice. And when you are my height where do briefcases hit....thats right...on the knee.
The funny thing I have noticed re train behaviour is that when my wife was pregnant it wasn't women or adults who stood and gave up their seats.. it was kids, teens early 20's. Often, dare I say it, ethnic, but almost always when a train or subway was stuffed and my wife couldn't sit, a kid would stand and offer her their seat. I always thanked them, usually loud enough for the other slouches to hear 
Which reminds me of another peeve. People, total strangers, who think it is ok to reach out and touch a pregnant woman's belly with no warning and then say something like when are you due??? It got to the point that when I saw it coming if it was a man I would reach for his testicals and if it was a woman I would reach for her breasts. It usually stopped the intrusion and often made the offenders realize how incredibly rude it is to do such a thing.
My wife wasn't crazy about my doing that but it really got on my nerves after a while. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5650
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 3:25 pm: | |
spare_o, read "Notes From Underground" by Dostoyevsky. He has a passage with that situation. |
bklyntonj
Citizen
Username: Bklyntonj
Post Number: 320
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 3:32 pm: | |
Duncan, you would really reach for another man's jewels?
That takes big jewels. |
SO Refugee
Citizen
Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 21
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2005 - 6:10 pm: | |
A week later, it hits me....
Why can't anyone seem to use their signals when making a turn or changing lanes? Throw me a frickin' bone when you want to come into my lane. I will withhold the finger if you are kind enough to feign being courteous... |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 258
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2005 - 11:09 pm: | |
Amen! |
Andrea Weisbard
Citizen
Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 67
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 1:21 am: | |
My pet peeve is when people help me without asking first if I need help |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 745
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 1:15 pm: | |
On turn signals -- the next worst thing is people who pull up to a light, let you pull up behind them, then wait for the light to turn green before putting on their left turn signal. AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5790
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 1:18 pm: | |
Speakinawhich, the NJ law says you should put your turn signal on 100 feet before your move. To that, I will add that you should do it in this counterintuitive order:
1. signal
2. look to see if it's safe
3. move
Most people tend to do 2, 1, 3, but if you've been signalling for a while, the chance of it being safe increases. |
redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 660
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 2:37 pm: | |
Sgt Pepper, right there with you I HATE that! |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 747
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 3:13 pm: | |
And it seems to be one of those "only in NJ" things. I can't recall ever seeing anyone do that anywhere else. That along with swinging out into opposing traffic to pass someone making a right turn, heaven forbid they should be delayed 1.3 seconds. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 190
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 4:24 pm: | |
More Petty Pet Peeves:
1) People who think they have all the right answers
2) People who blame everyone but themselves
3) People who are superficial,opinionated, and self absorbed
4) People who live on a soap box
5) People who make fun of others |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 101
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 4:53 pm: | |
Uh, Carrie...
What about people who post in the Soapbox?
It's not my fault I like to do it. It's everyone else who pressures me to do it. And besides, when you know everything you should feel obligated to share, so that's why I do. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 193
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 5:00 pm: | |
Bill P. : A very funny man. A man who knows what he speaks, shares what he knows, and uh...tells it like it is. |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 102
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 5:46 pm: | |
Knowledge talks, and wisdom listens.
Oh, were you saying something? |
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