Biggest Pet Peeve

[Doomtown]

I don't mind when someone tries to haggle a bit, it's when it's glaringly obvious they have no interest in paying what's fair. "I see you listed it for $300, any chance you'll take $25?" I've seriously received messages like that and I can't imagine the fella who would say "you know, yeah I'll take the 25 bucks."

 

[oldsweng]

I don't mind when someone tries to haggle a bit, it's when it's glaringly obvious they have no interest in paying what's fair. "I see you listed it for $300, any chance you'll take $25?" I've seriously received messages like that and I can't imagine the fella who would say "you know, yeah I'll take the 25 bucks."

Those are the people I block whenever I am able.

When my ad says "cash and local only" and I get a message of "I can send a check for half the asking price and you can send it to me in New York".

 

[teflon6string]

Using the Internet as a Scrabble (or UpWords) dictionary.

Teflon: "Challenge! That's not a real word."

Opponent: "Well maybe it is."

Teflon: "See? That's what I mean. You can't even use that in a sentence, can you?"

Opponent: "Oh hell no! But Google says it's a word - it's mid-14th century Chinese slang for moth toenails. I win!"

 

[MannyGlocks]

'Internet Influencer' - A term only the insipid find appealing.

Equally shallow - 'Lifestyle Influencer'

The worst of the bunch - 'Life Coach'.

What sort of adult finds these terms agreeable and gag, think them...worthy?

I ask him/her: "For the future, what occupation have you in mind?"

She/He smiles/sniffs and with pursed lips and in an imperious manner replies:

I'm going to be a 'Life Coach'.

I reply O.K., but first you'll have to bus tables 5, 6, and 8...chop, chop!

And tomorrow don't be late or you'll never reach your 'dream job'...(whispers, the highest you'll ever arise to is coffee clerk, oh wait, I meant to say 'barista'...pardon my faux pas.

My 'euphemism' I.Q. is suffering....

 

[MannyGlocks]

"Thanks in advance" - No need for 'in advance' - 'Thanks' is adequate all by it's lonesome.

Or this one: 'At this point...in time'. At this point works fine without adding 'in time'.

Here another: 'Free gift' For crap's sake if it's free you have no need to add 'gift'.

Or stick with 'gift' and leave off the word 'free'.

 

[Doomtown]

I just found this on the internet, but guys who do this to their trucks and jeeps. One or two subtle things I get, but the need to advertise to this level really throws me off. No offense to those of you on here who might be in this group

 

[Kruel J]

I just found this on the internet, but guys who do this to their trucks and jeeps. One or two subtle things I get, but the need to advertise to this level really throws me off. No offense to those of you on here who might be in this group

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That's just to divert the attention away from their small weiner.

 

[Mikej]

That's just to divert the attention away from their small weiner.

Yeah butt, if you have a small bun, a big wiener can be a problem. All the onions fall off and mustard gets all over you.

That's why I always try to match the bun to the wiener.

 

[CountryGent]

The fact that once going FFL dealer on Gunbroker I receive 1,909,100 spam emails from them every day. OK, that's a slight exaggeration. But for ever legit message (e.g., someone bought a gun and selected my FFL), there is like 20 bulk mail crap messages. Enough already.

 

[teflon6string]

Slivers. @#$% slivers! Not the big ones, those are easy.

It's the tiny invisible ones that piss me off. I dig 'em out but they're still in there. I try tweezers... still there. Needles... still there. And then X-acto knives... sometimes leaving a hole where the sliver was. Finally, with no further trace of it, I go get in my car or truck, grab the wheel and THERE IT IS AGAIN!!!

Bonus annoyance points for slivers in the right hand since my left is about useless for performing surgery.

 

[CountryGent]

The fact the fax is still a technology relied upon. I had blood drawn as the last thing I had tested in the city, I was tired, and starving because the other tests required fasting, and they couldn't find the g'damn order from the specialist. They kept referring to it as "the fax", and at some point, if no other reason than morbid curiousity, I asked if they were literally talking about a piece of paper placed in such a device and sent a few blocks away from said physician, two weeks ago. The answer was an affirmative. Who the hell still uses a fax machine circa 2020?

(And, yes, I'm sure there is some reason why. Don't mind me, I was just cranky. )

 

[P7M13]

• 12:30 - order $150 of items from Midway.
• 16:00 - email from Midway saying my stuff has shipped.
• 05:00 next day - email from Midway, "Free shipping for all order over $49".

 

[P7M13]

That's just to divert the attention away from their small weiner.

Did a bunch of jobs with a guy, all of 5'4", drove a F350 with monster lift kit (and a ton of stickers), chip on shoulder type personality, stubborn and dumb like a box of rocks, and had an accountant wife as fine as a summer day. Always thought, this doesn't match up.
Years later, bump into his wife, ask how he's doing. "we split not long after you two were working together." I ask, what was it that attracted you two? "He was hung like a rhinoceros."
Just goes to show you, height, hand size, shoe size or truck doesn't mean doodly-squat.

Edit to add: wanna hear some screamingly funny shizzle? Get drunk with a bunch of women who used to do the bar scene, talking about their days of indiscretion. Women think way differently than men, and everything about how they re-tell the story is sooo funny.

 

[teflon6string]

People who whisper:

"Can you keep a secret?"
or...
"Dude, promise me, what I'm about to tell you has to stay between us."

I quit getting duped into that BS over 20 years ago. Got tired of assuring people their precious secret was safe with me, only to hear someone else flapping their gums about it an hour later.

Finally learned to just say, "Nope, I don't want to hear it." Besides, even if I am a little curious, the juicy "secret" will be well known by lunchtime anyway.

 

[Swiss_Cheeze]

I'm sure it's been covered. Multi tasking. BS
And hypocrite's. Which I am one.

Oh shoot and stuck behind people that I cringe every time they go over the yellow or white line or they ride along over or on the white line. When are the dummies going to understand people kill people not the instruments they use.

 

[madmax]

"Please delete if not ok" or "I know is not ......but"

Basically that tells me, you know your wrong and you are going going to do it anyways.

 

[madmax]

"What's the lowest you'll take" in a classified ad.

Seriously? Does this actually work for anyone? It's the equivalent of asking some gal at the bar how few drinks you have to buy her to get her in bed.

This flat piss me off to no end. I refuse to sell anything to a person that can negotiate with some level.

 

[CamoDeafie]

When people use the wrong words.

Elude
verb (used with object), e·lud·ed, e·lud·ing.
1. to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade:to elude capture.

2.
to escape the understanding, perception, or appreciation of:The answer eludes me.

Allude
verb (used without object), al·lud·ed, al·lud·ing.
1. to refer casually or indirectly; make an allusion (usually followed by to):He often alluded to his poverty.

2. to contain a casual or indirect reference (usually followed by to): The letter alludes to something now forgotten.

 

[Mikej]

When people use the wrong words.

Oo, oo...."Accept" and "Except" ??? Yeah?

And once again....It's "COULDN'T care less" NOT "Could care less"!

Thank you.

 

[MannyGlocks]

Endless survey requests from a variety of businesses I've done business with.

Won't I take a few minutes to answer their survey to discover their 'survey' is encyclopedic in it's scope.

A few minutes is 5 (at most) questions not 25/35.

Long ago I would participate, no longer.

Their insistence, almost like I have no choice, but 'must' take the time to answer their survey is what made me finally draw the line. Immediately now upon me seeing one, I gleefully hit 'delete' and poof they disappear...only to return, like I've hurt their feelings.

Why oh why won't I answer their survey?

You (me) will answer or we'll keep demanding until I relent.

Nope, I won't...I'm a grumpy old man and you people are disrupting my emotional feng shui...away with you and your pestiferous surveys...