Author Topic: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.  (Read 12202 times)

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I think that today, here and now, the biggest thing that irritates me, that just makes me feel superior to the rest of humanity, is the latest fad of holding the door for a person.  I have walked up to a restaurant and opened a door and been rushed by a half a dozen people all smiling and saying thank you as they enter ahead of me.  Then when I get in there, they of course are ahead of me in the line.  Grrrrrrrr.

Another version is as I approach a building, somebody coming out will stand there holding the door for me.  That could be considered nice, but if I am, say, 10 feet away am I expected to rush so they aren't holding the door too long.  I feel like I should and it bugs me to no end.  I have left my gas pumps and as I approached the building, 40-50 feet away, somebody is standing there holding the door, smiling away.  I have started to do things like walk slower, stop and fidget with my cell phone, start to turn, as if to say something to somebody, but keep walking slowly so the person has to stand there longer holding the door. 

I recently had a guy with 4 coffees and a bag of doughnuts tucked under his arm, pushing the door open with his shoulder, stand there holding the door for me.  I slowed way down and thought, "you are stupid."

Where did this all start?  Is this the sign of a polite society?  Aren't these the same people that will curse and yell at me if I don't quickly accelerate from a light that has just turned to green?  Or that pass me with an attitude if I am simply doing the speed limit? 

My solution has become simple.  I hold the door for those that I want to.  I do not hold the door for somebody that I would have to stand and wait for them to get to the building.  I will let a door smack somebody that tries to enter ahead of me, if I didn't offer it.  I will not hurry, and in fact as I explained above, I will slow down for anybody that holds a door for me that would require me to hurry to get to it.  Probably rude, but my life just got less stressful.

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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 11:40:47 AM »
I only hold it for women or someone who is "right there"

I do it because nobody expects me to, when they look at me.  I like to be the "anti-stereotype"  ;D

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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2008, 01:09:37 PM »
I have no problem holding the door for some people and yet for others, I don't - like they are on the wrong side of the door.  The most confusing doors are the double doors - what the?!! do you do when you are opening one door and the person going out the other door holds the door?  Do you try to quickly catch the door and say "Thank you"?  What is going through the other person's mind if you don't say anything?  Are they thinking, "Bastard!"?  Sometimes, I just don't understand the door hold rule(s) and, honestly, I don't think I ever will.

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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2009, 11:59:44 PM »
One of my pet peeves is when people leave the water tap running and are not using it. It doesn't matter where I am. If I am at a friends house, my own place, or if I am a guest at my boss' place, if the tap is running and isn't being used, I turn it off. It irks me to think how our nation takes our precious natural resources for granted. Many countries do not have the luxury of rain let alone running water.
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 07:02:42 AM »
I'm not sure where you are from, Truthsayer, but in Michigan water isn't precious commodity because it is everywhere around us and we probably are wasteful here.  I remember when the droughts out west were first getting a lot of attention, a few years ago, we were in a restaurant in Traverse City, MI, a very nice town that sits on Grand Traverse Bay which is connected to Lake Michigan and the restaurant even looked out onto the bay.  The waitress hadn't brought us water and I asked if I could have a glass of water.  She said, "Sure," and brought me a glass of water and didn't bring my wife one.  I asked her why she hadn't brought a glass of water to my wife and she said we are in a drought and so we don't bring water unless somebody asks for it.  It floored me.  Michigan literally touches four of the five Great Lakes and has thousands of inland lakes and rivers.  This was the first and only time I had ever heard it. 

Anyway, it is good to have a pet peeve. ln fact two or three is probably good for you in some way.  Wasting water in Michigan, though, isn't something we think about.
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2009, 10:52:35 AM »
Hi Misfitguy, I live in Vancouver BC, but I am from Halifax, NS. The harbour in Halifax is so full of mercury from years of oil spills, ships carrying dangerous chemicals, industry and the nuclear power plant which gives Nova Scotia its power, that the marine life is actually disintegrating! It is no place to fish if you are hungry. The great lakes are used much as a venue for shipping and industry also. They are crowded by industrialized towns and cities in both the US and Canada. After many years of industries, ships and city sewer systems dumping toxic chemicals in the Great Lakes, would you dare to drink the water or eat the marine life? The Great lakes are the greatest waste of fresh water.
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2009, 11:41:01 AM »
I'm originally from Muskegon, MI.  The lower peninsula of Michigan has two major rivers that drains about 70% of its watershed and Muskegon River is one of them.  At the mouth of the Muskegon River lies Muskegon Lake which then connects to Lake Michigan through a channel.  Muskegon Lake is 2 miles north to south and 7 miles east to west. When I grew up there in the 50's and 60's, Muskegon Lake was a cess pool.  Even though the Muskegon River flowed into it with fresh water, the industry on the banks of the lake was dumping so much effluent into it, there was literally an oil film on much of the surface of the water.  Our fishing, at that time, was mostly in the rivers, streams and inland lakes in the area.  Well the 60's passed, legislation was passed and industries went out of business and this whole watershed recovered to the point that Muskegon Lake is pristine and one of the great walleye and smallmouth bass fisheries in the Great Lakes. 

We do eat a lot of fish from the Great lakes, but I can imagine that as you go further down the watershed, it could get pretty ugly.  Lake Erie was once considered dead and, today, through legislation and policing, it has recovered to the point that the fish in the lake, and there is a lot of them, are safe to eat.  Since there is a constant flow into and out of the Great Lakes, there is always the potential of recovery.  Thank goodness that we, Americans, had finally decided to reduce and in some cases eliminate pollution.  I live on the Straits of Mackinac, where the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula are the closest (5.2 miles) and are connected by the Mackinac Bridge.  I am 1 city block from Lake Huron and 5 city blocks from Lake Michigan. As I said, I can imagine that in many places water is considered a more precious commodity than what most of us in Michigan consider it.  We are surrounded by it and most of it isn't polluted. 

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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2009, 08:40:25 AM »
I could make a long list of pet peeves sorry to say. For now I give you this one, tailgaters.   #@&%
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2009, 10:22:29 AM »
Another pet peeve that comes to mind are Ultimatums. If one is willing to compromise, I'll meet you in the middle, but don't hand me an ultimatum. Someone did once. He said, "My way or the highway". Being the multitasker I am, I opted for both. So I hit the highway and am doing it "my way".
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2009, 11:08:46 PM »
Truthsayer is not without her pet peeves. Some other things that irritate me is when someone takes something out of the refrigerator and doesn't put it back. Or when they drain the milk or water jug and put it back in the fridge empty.  >:(
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 06:48:43 AM »
Think my biggest pet peeve has to be the Government deciding the know best how to guide me morally!

I vote so my local services will improve blah blah blah

Not to have some social half wit who probably didn't manage to get a girlfriend during his entire time at university tell me what is "Politically Correct" and what is not. Controlling what I can hire and can't hire blah blah.
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2009, 11:14:02 AM »
Having our government being involved in moral issues is simply wrong.  On the other hand, we can't confuse, racism, ethnicism, etc for morality issues.  Wealth is the result of the use and distribution of natural resources.  These natural resources belong to eveybody while dormant and only become possessed after they are processed.  Most employment is derived from the use of these natural resources and we, meaning every breathing human on the face of the earth, should be able to share in some part of that wealth that is derived from the use of our earthly resources.

Or, anyway, that is how I see it.

Mick
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Re: Pet Peeves. The place to list some of those things that irritate you.
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2009, 06:27:44 AM »
Because my first marriage was to a woman who was insanely and violently jealous, jealousy just irks the hell out of me.  I'm lucky now to be married to a very secure woman.  My first wife would ask me about ex girlfriends, people I hadn't seen in years.  At first I answered her questions but then found out that just set her off.  So then I just stopped answering her questions, but that didn't work because her assumption was if I didn't answer then I must be hiding some very intense feelings, and then the hitting would start again.  When she was ready to have a jealous fit there was nothing I could do to stop it.  She was even jealous of my family.  She came up with all kinds of stories to try to keep me from seeing them, but I knew my folks well enough to know that they weren't like that.  For example, she claimed that she spoke to my mother one time and my mother had said that my son should not have been born and I knew instantly that that was a lie, but most of the time I just humored her like you would any other lunatic.

I sure am glad I'm rid of her.  I just don't have the energy to deal with the constant hassle any more.  Plus, I'm now married to the best gal in the world (but I may be a bit biased).  d(BD)b 

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