Big and Little Pet Peeves

[SundownWaterfowl]

today, when I was grocery shopping, and checking out, the cashier was slow, like crazy slow. It took forever.

Also, the lady in front of me had 2 boys. One was probably around 5-6, the other around 3 maybe. The little one kept crying and screaming, so she takes a pack of wipes off the aisle shelf, and gives it to the kid to chew on, then walks off without paying for it. Then the older boy was pulling on the pen that you sign when you use a credit card. It was so annoying.

I did feel bad for the mom though.



I dont like when your driving and theres and idiot behind you tailgating. UGH!!

 

[jnjross]

oh i feel your pain before we moved here we lived in the apartment atached to grandpas shop (own a construction comp.) the front is all concrete for so reason people thought that meant it was a public parking lot. one day i heard talking outside, after busi hours, i look out and OMG there's a "lady of the night" making a business transaction in the yard!! i called the police of coarse. people would always knock on my door even thou where were 2 signs that say do not use door... please use other door and the other door says please use this door , yeah right here. but they would ask stupid stuff like,, to use the phone? (it's 2007) to use a jack, will i air up there tires (it's not a tire store!)

my peeve - people looking at my 2 yrold then asking when i'm going to have other.. I'm not .. then they start in ...

 

[d.k]

*I do have one driving one in particular. People who make u-turns on the railroad tracks. Here we have a $1,5OO fine for doing that, yet I see it several times a day, one day 3 cars AND an 18 wheeler IN A ROW, and never once has a cop been around to give a ticket. You think for the price they'd do at least a dozen a week.

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

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Holy crap, I KNOW you can't mean this! Believe me, you'd have much more to be peeved with if I weren't sufficiently caffienated!

My pet peeve (this week, anyway) is people who take their concerns about the way I do mywork to my board of directors rather than addressing it directly with me. I generally have a valid reason for doing things the way I do, and if a contribution was made to a specific fund, I can put it into another fund just because that's easier for you to understand.

ETA: Hmm. cr@p is not allowed but poop is....Sorry, mods...I'll remember next time.

 

[Rosalind]

I am right there with you, Rhett&Sarah'sMom. Crappy parents so make me want to march over to their tantrum-throwing child, pick the kid up, announce very firmly, "You're obviously too tired to behave properly. You are going to go home and take a nap in your room NOW, because you can't behave." And carry the kid out to their car, hand 'em their keys and tell them to take Junior home and throw away every last bit of candy and soda in the house.

I'm not sure which makes me crazier--parents who bring their young children to places that are obviously not appropriate (such as a noisy bar with live music at 11pm) and expect everyone else to quiet down and stop smoking/drinking/cussing for their benefit, or parents who bribe their already-hyperactive children with soda and candy, then do that "Junior, don't do that, you're hurting Mommy's feelings, please stop, Junior..." Or then there's the parents who clearly don't want their kid, and are just sort of waiting for the kid to run away, get hit by a car, or get stolen by some evildoer.

I used to get stuck babysitting nieces, nephews, cousins, friends' kids, etc. and invariably they are shocked, shocked! that the kids manage to be polite and eat vegetables for me. It's amazing how well children will behave if you think of yourself as a responsible adult and realize that their intellects and emotions are not developed enough to be under control yet.

Sorry for the rant, it's a huge pet peeve. If you're having issues with parenting, get some help already! Talk to a therapist, pediatrician or a social worker. Don't just inflict little Damien or the Children of the Corn on the rest of us.

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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If you did that no matter how old the kid is they would start crying because thats how they were raised, with no yelling. And what happens when the kids are teenagers?

 

[Rosalind]

If you did that no matter how old the kid is they would start crying because thats how they were raised, with no yelling.

They're already crying and screaming and stomping and so one in the middle of a tantrum. I didn't say yelling, I said you tell them firmly. Yelling is wrong, you don't set an example by yelling, you just tell them how it is. When they are pitching a fit, they are out of control anyway--you give them some alone time to wear themselves out and wind down, and make it clear that they are not going to be rewarded for that behavior, most kids dry up and settle down. Unfortunately, I do know that is how they are raised--I'm saying, bad parents raise their kids that way, and that is why it's a pet peeve.

Teens are different. They don't throw tantrums. They get mad and emotional, but not tantrums. Sorry, I am slow--did you mean something different by the word "tantrum"? I mean the sort of thing that kids do when they are age 18 months till, oh, about 7 or so, where they start screaming, holding breath till they turn blue, incoherent, crying, throwing fists, fling themselves on the ground, howling inconsolably, throwing things, and basically hysterical. The sort of thing that, if an adult or a teenager did it, they would be on their way to the ER for a shot of Ativan.​

 

[SpottedCrow]

Don't just inflict little Damien or the Children of the Corn on the rest of us.

Fraid I do, Florida...I had a whole section of music and the player itself wiped out after some yutz parked her coffee on the top of it and knocked it off when her little dumpling started yelling for her...caused about a thousand dollars worth of damage...I asked her check or charge and she got po'd.​

 

[spook]

Want to hear a OMG moment? Well back a number of years ago now, we have a 75' up grade driveway, stone walls up the drive to hold the lawn level. Well anyways, it was strange this RV backed into the drive, got out (we thought he was going to piddle) instead we watched him dump his RV's waste. Pop turned the light on and asked him what was he doing, calling the police to let them know what happened and to find out it placed him at the scene of a hit and run. Needless to say, the man was arrested and ordered to clean up our driveway and the road! He drove off with his waste tank still unloading.
People are strange and slightly inconsiderate. I'd place a sign that says no trespassing, license plates will be reported to the authorities, even if you don't !

 

[LoneCowboy]

My PP, I have to drive a truck pulling a 20' trailer with a tractor on it, for our business. I'm driving along, and I take this off ramp off the freeway, and there is a car in front of me. I have just enough stopping room for the truck and the trailer. Some bozo, whips into that space and hits his brakes. IDIOT, it take a lot longer space to stop a truck and trailer than it does a little zoom zoom car. That really really bugs me. So I guess my PP is people who have drivers licenses but no brain.