My Pet Peeves

I hesitate to write this blog entry because the last thing I want to do is have someone worry about if they are being annoying to me. So I will start by saying that I don't really care if you do these things. Keep doing them. It's what makes the world go around and what not. I just want to share some things that annoy the heck out of me and probably annoy others as well.

The other day, something happened to me that I didn't really even know was a possibility because I didn't actually think that someone would actually behave like this in actual real life. But someone was obviously channeling their movie-life or video game-life when he did this. Ok, brace yourself for this:


SOMEONE PASSED ME ON A SINGLE-LANE MERGE RAMP TO THE INTERSTATE.


Really person-who-is-way-too-busy-to-drive-like-a-normal-human??? How big of a jerk do you have to be to pass me while I'm actually driving at a normal speed to merge on the the interstate where NO ONE IS EVEN MOVING BECAUSE IT'S RUSH HOUR???? This behavior has now made it on my list of pet peeves. A lot of times the person behind you on the merge ramp will drive really close to you or they will move over slightly indicating that they wish they could pass you. I just never thought someone would actually just do it.

Here are some other things that annoy me:

1. When the passenger in a car sits in the middle front seat just so they can be closer to the person driving. I mean, can you really not stand sitting an extra 2 feet away from the person?? You tend to see this more in the South so it hasn't really annoyed me as much lately.

2. The phrase, "I was just going to say..." You don't really need to preface what you are going to say with this phrase. Just say it.

3. Gum Poppers. It's just kinda gross people and there is no real need to pop that gum so the person in the other room can hear you.

4. When someone wants to continue a conversation with me after we have walked into a bathroom. Yuck! I just don't want to talk to people in the bathroom so please don't be offended if I act like I don't even know who you are if we happen to cross paths there. Nothing against you, I just don't like to linger there...

5. When people take their shoes off in public places where it's not acceptable. GROSS! People walk around the library in their socked feet or barefoot all the time at school and I have major issues with this. It's disgusting. It's even more disgusting when they go sit with their bare feet on the couches provided in the library and hang out for awhile. You couldn't pay me to sit on those couches after seeing this. Yet some people sleep on them..... (Just in case you are wondering, acceptable places to be barefoot in public are pools, yoga studios, dance classes, and a nail salon or spa.)

Of course, if you know me then you know there are many more pet peeves that I have. I just don't want to put them alllll out there to give anyone more ammunition to use against me at a later time.  :)

What are some of your pet peeves? I love hearing them; I think that a person's pet peeves tells you a lot about that person just like the kind of car they drive!