Biggest Pet Peeves

[exploited]

Well, let's get it off our chests.

1. Slow Turners

You are driving to the Beer Store (or for Americans, just about any store). It's a Wednesday. You told your parents you'd pick up a six-pack for them. On your way there, a young man in a giant, oversized pickup truck begins to turn into the parking lot of a grocery store. A good two hundred feet away, you release the gas, coast, wait for him to turn. He inches forward, tilting his neck so he can focus on the area of slightly elevated concrete that is going to come into contact with his massive 21” tires.

You realize he is taking more time than you anticipated, which is weird, because he first started turning literally five seconds ago. You slow down even more. Finally, he rockets himself over the hump, veering wildly into a spot. You continue on – beer is at stake. When you finally get to the Beer Store, after a stupid f**k pointless redlight, you see Linda, a cool girl who works there, turn the sign from Open to Closed.

Author's Note: My personal response to this has been to start screaming “EXECUTE YOUR TURN!” everytime I encounter a slowturner. It helps.

2. Women who can't walk in high heels, but insist upon wearing them.

Why are you doing this to your feet? Why? Anybody whose ever frequented nightclubs has seen at least a half-dozen wasted girls walking home barefoot. Because they wore those stupid heels. You look hotter wearing flats anyways, because your ankles don't look like they are breaking in a thousand places.

3. Bigots

If you're over the age of 65, you're allowed to be a bigot. I get it. You are old and won't change. If Louis CK can forgive Aunt June, I can forgive you. But if you are between the ages of 0 and 40, and a bigot, I don't like you. I don't care if some dude wants to chop off his dick and dress up like a girl, and then marry the love of his life (also a man). Whatever makes them happy. So long as you aren't raping, assaulting or murdering anyone, I'm a pretty understanding guy.

The worst thing about bigots is that they insist upon boycotting my favourite Sin City franchise.

4. Crappy cars with loud steroes

Don't get me wrong, I like loud music. I go into hardcore whiteboy mode when I drive to the farm – lots of heavy old-school rap, some Transplants, some heavy metal. It is a good way to wakeup.

I just don't understand why you would sink $800 into a system for your 1999 Pontiac Sunfire. It has visible rust, and it is held together more by luck than engineering. But you still foamed in a couple of 15” subs, a 6x9, and if you have any class, some tweets. But guess what? YOU DRIVE A PONTIAC SUNFIRE.

[OGPhilly]

people who chew gum too loud. like breh, you don't need to actually open your mouth to chew gum. keep your lips together while you chew your cud.

[Spider]

People who sit at a red light with their right turn indicator blinking...but refuse to turn because they are too stupid to realize that they are allowed to turn right on red.

People who don't yield the passing lane to faster moving traffic, being too f**k ignorant to realize that they are required to.

People who walk around with blue tooth earpeices on all the damn time.

People who write checks in the grocery line.

Dogs that bark.

People who speak in the movie theater should be gut shot and left to die on a salty dry lakebed.

Loud exhausts on economy cars.

Loud bass from any car.

If I'm sitting quietly, reading...leave me the hell alone.

No, Mrs. Spider. My ass is not your personal foot warmer. Me sitting on the couch is not an invitation for you to show up with your refrigerated-corpse temperature feet and stick them under my nice warm ass while I'm trying to watch Homeland. But you're cute so I'm not going to say anything.

[uebermann]

I hate people who ride my ass on the highway when I'm going the speed limit and there's 4 other f**k lanes they can be in.

I hate when I'm passing a slower car using the left lane and someone else has to ride my ass when I'm passing. This usually causes me to slow down then go the same speed as the person I was going to pass. Patiently waiting the 7 seconds it takes me to pass someone isn't the end of the world, I promise.

I hate when 18 wheelers use the high lane and it takes them over 5 minutes to pass a single person (if ever), causing a mile long line of cars behind them to pile up.

I hate it when people won't let you pass on 2lane highways. Speeding up to 70 finally after driving 50 the last hour so I can't pass you is a total dick move.

I hate it when old people get on the 2lane highways and go 15-30 MPH under the speed limit. If you can't drive 70, you shouldn't be driving PERIOD.

I hate it when people text and drive. Do one or the other, not both.

I hate it having to hear about our socialist Kenyan President on a daily basis at work.

I guess the majority of my pet peeves have to deal with driving =P

[Boris Johnson]

Old people(s) who walk slowly infront of you (fine your old, you got the rhematizm super soz), but do it in a manner that forms an effective blocking formation.

Sorry, but i'm young and have important shit to do.

Should work like on the tube in london (the one non sociopathic part of the entire experience) if your slow, move to the left

[OGPhilly]

everyone pretty much walks to slow. people in the midwest are always saying they went to visit nyc and omg you guys on the east coast walk so fast. I would hate to see how they walk out in the midwest.

[Boris Johnson]

[NAB]

Pet peeve threads

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[OGPhilly]

[jimmyz]

Can other members of PCF be "pet peeves"?