To all grumpy old men and women - what's your pet hate?

And what do they have to talk about all the time? I guess I'm missing a gene or something - I don't want to be connected to other people all the time. I guess that's where I get my aversion to "social" sites.

I think it's sad when I see a woman with her children (and it usually is a woman doing this) in a store talking on a cell phone the entire time. I wonder if it makes the kids feel invisible and unimportant.

kay

...and I'm not grumpy!

Yes, me too and me either.

(hate addictive cell phone behavior, not grumpy).

Ok here is one sorta related. I absolutely hate telemarketers. In that I am on the 'Do not call list', I expect not to get a lot of calls. While it helps, apparently charities are exempt.

So, I have an old-fashioned answering machine and caller ID - if I don't recognize the number I don't answer. Simple, right?

No, because lately what that causes is for them to call at a different hour almost every day to try to figure out when I am 'home'.

I thought ok, just pick up the phone and say 'no thank you' and they will check me off the list.

No, because they just keep calling and I suspect it is that they don't want it on their record that they had a 'no' so they just keep me as a 'no answer'.

It really takes answering the #!@$%% phone and saying outright - 'Please remove me from your list and stop calling me'....

(I know this is only logical because how do they know I am purposely not answering and really not just always out) - but I feel like I am being harassed. Not the right mood to get me to feel like giving them money.

Further I once gave money to some police fund and I was glad to do it. However since then I have every law enforcement agency in the world calling me at least once a year. I feel like I was pimped.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Cell phones drive me nuts.......or I should say that they are driving the people who use them nuts. I don't plan on being road kill because someone can't pull over to use theirs and I even take license plate numbers if someone is being dangerous because they have a phone in their ear while driving.

People that HAVE to have dogs but don't know or don't care to take care of them properly drive me crazy, too. What the hell are they thinking? A dog isn't property, it's a life - complete with needs and feelings. Dogs don't need licenses, owners do.

Last (for now) people who throw trash. I am so disgusted with seeing people's trash laying around when I go out to the woods, mountains, lakes, and rivers that I am starting to think that we'd be better off if we just shot these environmental demolition units on site as soon as their garbage hits the ground. There's no excuse for being so irresponsible and drooling stupid. If you can't pack your crap out with you, you shouldn't even be allowed off your own property. The earth is not your private landfill.

When I'm driving on I-95 near Philly, and someone passes me and
cuts loose with automatic weapon fire. Annoys the hell outta me.

Peter,

Maybe you should consider switching to a popular decaffeinated brand or
start rolling your own.

WHile given time I could come up with a whole list, but for now I will second cell phones and cell phone usage in general.
Fast food joints and 1/2 the line is yakkin away ,and they don't have enough manners to put them down when they get to the front of the line to order.

The next step up would be a sit down place.
Your sitting their trying to eat your meal and almost every table has both adults and kids talking away.

But you can't blame the kids because they were raised without manners.
As they saying goes, monkey see monkey do.

Another pet peeve is seeing people out running around in there pjs.I don't know who and when this started, but I think people should put on real clothes when they go out in public.

Which made me remember something I saw yesterday.WHat is it about wearing your pants down to your knees and letting your underwear show? And I dont mean just pants waistline is a bit low, I mean literally the pants are hanging on the knees?

As I said, I could go on and on, but that's enough for now, and YES, I am a grumpy old man.

Im not particularly old (31) and I'm not that grumpy either but, what really really annoys me is when I'm in a shop getting served and the member of staff, despite the fact that they are actually serving me, does not look at me or even aknowledge me because he / she is too busy talking to a co worker on the next till. They hand me my change but don't even say thanks because they are too busy talking. It's sheer ignorance.

Iv'e lost my rag a few times, the most recent was just last week. After the kid on the checkout handed me my change without looking at me or saying a word to me because he was too busy talking to a co worker i simply said "thanks a lot you ignorant spotty little ****" and do you know what, he still didn't look at me, i guess he pretended he didn't hear me but the people behind me waiting to be served certainly did

As far call centres, oh do they annoy the knockers off me. As soon as you make it clear you aren't interested they just hang up without saying a word and i hate it hate it hate it.

Wow, maybe i am grumpy lol, i better crack open a guinness in the sun here in the UK

Okay my pet peeve is the group of individuals who sit at lights and do not put their blinkers on until they are starting to turn.

I am the only person who uses the signal light ahead of time?

Part two is also driving and turning related. The drivers who turn when pedestrians have the walking sign and are in the walkway.

Kindness and manners in the car would go so very far.

Thanks for the opportunity to share!

Telemarketers don't bother me in the least.

I usually don't answer, but when I do, I like to play with them a bit.

One of my favorites is to ask them if they've heard the good news of the Brotherhood Church of Eternal Salvation and Atonement.

IF they say "yes", then I go on to talk about how great it is (even though it's made up).

If the say "no", I give them a nice long-winded spiel about why they should join.

However, my all time favorite is when a phony disabled veterans "charity" called me. I knew they were fake before I laid it on thick. I asked for clarification by asking, "So, you are in support of disabling [sic] veterans?"

The guy said yes.

Then I let loose.

I read him the riot act and told him how I support our veterans, and the fact that he would support them being disabled was awful. I went on and on about how I don't think they should be injured at all, and if he was in favor of disabling them, then he could solicit donations elsewhere.

He had no idea what hit him.



All the best,
Michael

p.s. Remember, they are calling you. Make stuff up, play with them, just don't make any threats as that could get you into trouble - other than that, anything is fair game in my book.

Pet peeves?...I could be here a while....



Cops who flash their lights just to get through an intersection, then turn them off...

Waiting 10 minutes+ for "fast food"...

People who I have absolutely no friggen Idea who they are.....who want to be my friend on Twitter...

Teenagers who think they have all the answers & know it all...

People who park their shopping carts right in the middle of the isle so no one can pass....then act like they are so put out when you say excuse me...

Going to a store for an advertisied special (ex: sale starts monday, 10 am)....making sure I'm there no later than 10:05 am...only to find they are "sold out"...

People who are notoriously late then have some lame excuse as to why...

"Pork" in government spending...

Nancy Pelosi...

Oil companies who drill for oil without a major catastrophe exit plan...

People who do not run spell check before offering their eBooks to the public...

Warriors who quote an entire 8 paragraph post...only to leave a 3 word comment...

*I better stop before I waste all the chat ink...

~Ken

It's an oldie but goody gripe...people that won't shut up during a movie that you already had to pay too much to see.

Whilst you were saying that I was ponderinf the implications.

Without being "old and grumpy", I'd say when someone says that they believe one thing but then their actions tell you something completely different. For instance a typical church-goer who slanders their neighbor (gossips negatively about their neighbor).

Steven, it only seems like a spoiler. Once you've seen the rest of the season a discussion thread should be started. Lot's of Whovians here.

I hate when people drop their t's/d's. It makes them sound moronic.
Not using turn signals

A major pet peeve is not knowing how to use the friggen highway. Down here I drive on a lot of multi-lane highway. Usually atleast 3 lanes. Now unless something has changed that I havent been told about, you pass on the left. That means that if you are getting passed on BOTH sides, get the f@%* over to your right!

My ultimate pet peeve is texting and driving. You are in control of a 2+ ton steel missle that is doing 60+ mph and you're surrounded by other people doing the same and you're passing within sometimes inches of each other at speed. Put the damn phone down, there isnt anything that important going on. If you are that important or that much of a playboy that you need to be constantly available, buy a bluetooth or handfree setup for your car. The $100 bucks or less you spend on a good bluetooth earpiece that will work with most every phone is FAR cheaper than days/weeks/months of hospital bills or funeral costs.

The next time you all go for an enjoyable evening out, look around the restaurant or wherever you're at. You'll see hordes of people just sitting there, bored, because their dinner companion is ignoring them while they talk on the phone or text.

That's my pet peeve. Fortunately most of my friends are more courteous than that, but I feel for the people who thought they were going out for a nice evening... and instead they have to listen to their friend talk to everyone else on the planet.

Worse yet, if you overhear the conversations, it's stuff like, "omg, I can't believe Billy dumped Suzy because she wore brown shoes!" You know, the kind of stuff that can wait until later. Like, this gossip will still be juicy 30 minutes from now. LOL


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One more...

People who text at the family dinner table. Make that tenfold if it's a special occasion, such as a holiday or when you have guests.

Cheers,
Becky

Some of you people have WAY too much stuff to be getting worked up over.

I'm a little shocked at some of the stuff that you let into your mind that winds you up...

How on earth can anybody be affected by these quirky little things that other people do?.

Half the stuff you guys mention above, I wouldn't even notice myself. My focus is always on my own things.

And Peter:

Yes.

He is saying that.

Maybe your conversation wasn't as important as the one he was going to have on the telephone. It's a bit conceited for you to expect that somebody somehow owes you their time above all else...

Good manners haven't disappeared, I see them every single day. In people, adults and children alike, but most importantly, my own daughter.. so I know they haven't disappeared.

Good manners haven't disappeared.... you just like to think they have so you can moan and complain about it.

My "pet hate" is people asking other people about pet hates, as if to justify their own grumpy complaints....

Jay

Nuff said