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solicitors on my cell phone, even though it is on a no call government list

When hubby drives my car, blasts the radio, and turns off the engine without turning down or turning off the radio, so that I get my eardrums shattered when I get in and start the car the next time.

Anyone who says, "no offense but, ......" and goes on to say something offensive!

Anyone (husband, kids, boss) who stands right in front of me while I'm on the phone, sees that I am listening and usually taking notes while on the phone, and proceeds to attempt to converse with me WHILE I'M ON THE PHONE! Just because I have two ears, does NOT mean I can listen to and process two separate conversations AT THE SAME TIME! UUUUGGGHHH! Makes me want to scream and throw things!

Shuffling feet while walking.

People who leave about 4 or 5 car lengths between themselves and the car in front of them while in line at a red light, especially when you are now prevented from getting into the left turn or right turn lane because of the gap, and have to wait for the next light cycle!

Use of the word "goes" in place of the word "said" (he goes, she goes and I go); use of the word "seen" instead of "saw" (I seen your cousin the other day) and use of "me and so-and-so" instead of "so-and-so and I". Oh, I'm a real grammar hag, aren't I?

In fact, I must be PMS-ing, because reading these pet peeves (and this is just some, not all, I'm sorry to say) makes me sounds like a real witch, doesn't it? Oh, well, I'm old...I've earned the right to be crabby!

TripleAMom I am right there with you. As I have been reading everyones posts I hear myself thinking, "oh yea I hate that too!!" to everything everyone wrote!!

Here's one more (just happened): client walks into office and is on their cell phone conversing, and at the same time, is attempting to converse with me. Client says, "yeah, uh-huh, wait, no", etc. I don't know if they're talking to me or the person on the other end of the phone! CRAZY! Also hate it when clerks in the stores talk on the celly while I'm checking out. Cell phone drivers? Don't even get me started! Cell phones in general tend to drive me nuts!

Take to go take a Midol now, huh?

People who are in a meeting, work related, and keep talking to hear themselves talk......

My kids are terrified to not have their seatbelts buckled, "because don't you know that a policeman has a seatbelt radr and know exactly when you unbuckle your seatbelt, just like Santa Claus knows when your bad, and the policeman will come and pull over the mommies and give them a ticket and then send them to jail" YEAH, my kids never unbuckle their seatbelt

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Originally posted by Momma2dbest:
My kids are terrified to not have their seatbelts buckled, "because don't you know that a policeman has a seatbelt radr and know exactly when you unbuckle your seatbelt, just like Santa Claus knows when your bad, and the policeman will come and pull over the mommies and give them a ticket and then send them to jail" YEAH, my kids never unbuckle their seatbelt

PLEEEEASE don't take this the wrong way....I am married to a investigator with the sheriffs dept, he used to be an 'on the road deputy' years ago too. Be careful not to make your kids think police officers are mean or will take their parents to jail just for a traffic violation. Saying mommy or daddy will get a ticket is fine but to say the officer would take you away from them could install a real dislike of the police. My husband has to deal with kids all the time that have a genuine fear and/or dislike of the police because of things like that.If there is ever a real emergency and your child needs to trust an officer, to perhaps take his hand to get out of a burning or wrecked vehicle or a thousand other senarios(sp), you want to be sure that they will have the confidence to do so. Like I said please don't take this the wrong way...just trying to open up another point of view.

ps...we will be at the Backyardigans show tomorrow too...the 4:30 show...

Karen

I'm with klmorg. I worked in a grocery store and once heard a woman tell her kid that if he wasn't good she was going to call the police to take him away! How freaking stupid.

I can't stand people with no shoes in public. Jiffy store feet are disgusting, although I sometimes have them myself when I wear flip flops in a particularly dirty place (like the Kanapaha garden festival...)

True story. When I used to work Customer Service at a call center, I had someone call in and I gave them my welcome greeting only to have them snort phlem in my freaking ear!!! EWWWWWWWWW I may have hung up.

Bad grammar gets me too. I babysit a kid who says stuff like "hers hit me"....ACK!! I'm constantly correcting her.

And TripleAMom...I may be someone you hate. I read recently that if you leave a gap and keep rolling at the red light you save gas. I'm all about saving gas. If you're behind a white Venture van with a save the dolphins tag, I'm sorry in advance

These all crack me up! But now I'm paranoid that I'll perform some unknown pet peeve to other people!

One of my pet peeves is when my kids decide to walk/stand on my bare feet. It pinches and hurts! I tell remind them all the time not to do it, but somehow they seem to forget. Maybe it's my size 10 feet that get in their way....

Another pet peeve is when people cuss in front of my kids, or just in public when kids are around.

The term "all y'all". I don't get it. Wouldn't "y'all" suffice for more than one person? And how is "y'all" used for just a singe person? Okay, it's not really a big pet peeve of mine, but I do find it quite amusing, being new to the South.

Speaking of sayings in the south, one that amuses me is "put it up" in place of "put it away". My mother-in-law is a true southern lady and she has so many of these little sayings that really are funny.

my pet peeve is kids curseing and I know it happens I myself have said a few choice words in front of my son that I was like why did I say that.But I'm a young mom and have younger friends with kids and when thier kids say a bad word they laugh and I dont think its funny.So the kids just keep on saying it like it's a joke and it's just not okay.Also I hate, hate it, when people go on and on and on about something that happened in highschool I like to hear it the first time but after that I'm screaming for them to shut up in my head it's so aggravating.Were adults now bobby never loved you and popularity is not an acheivement just let it go.