Personal Preferences, Quirks or Pet Peeves??

like no one uses my toothbrush, or it would be garbaged
have a friend who said her husband uses hers,no way ugh!,
I don't care if I do kiss him,he is not using my toothbrush,
no one drink out of my glass or eat out of my plate
don't use your fork to take food off of my plate,
I'll put some on a small plate for you.
some one wanting a taste off my fork or spoon.
or they just pick up your glass and drink out of it,
I tell them it is your's now.
children fingering food left out for snacks,if you touch it, it is yours.
people letting their dogs lick their dishes--YUCK
nothing more aggravating than seeing someone pat their pet and then start to serve you without washing their hands.
I can live with the seat up or down but it better be flushed and no dribbles left.
maybe no one is like this but my daughter and I
we go out to eat and if they take our glasses we say make sure you keep mine on the right or left whice ever she put it in,but we have fun
let me know if any one else is like this,
oh yes my friends use to make fun of me because I would not eat after my kid's, I would dump it,
Mary_Mi

Mary,
I am like you in some ways. Don't drink out of my glass, don't use my toothbrush, don't like to be talked to when on the phone but one of the worse is people that say like you know at the end of every thing they say. Sorry if this upsets anyone it is just the way I feel. We all have quirks.

This message was edited Saturday, Apr 6th 10:36 AM

Don't use my toothbrush, the toilet paper has to be on the roll with the paper going over the top. The seat needs to be down, drives me crazy but I'm beginning to become more lax about that one. Put a towel or something on the floor when you get out of the shower. I can't stand to go and step into water especially since I always run around in my socks. Nothing worse than a wet sock. I'm sure there's more, just can't think of them right now :)

'Call waiting' on the telephone - rude, rude, rude!
But that's just me!

What gets me.. is someone taking the last slice of bread,the last of the milk(leaving empty carton)or soda and not getting out more or putting things back. walking over something in the floor,instead of picking it up.burping/belching on purpose,and laughing about it. Blowing nose at dinner table,picking teeth,using the same utensil for every dish,leaving without at least offering to help clean-up. Well, guess you'll think i'm too picky so will give others a chance to speak up.

I have 3 much older brothers and the eldest we nicknamed Lightning Fork. He eats slow but if you were ever distracted from your meal a good portion of it was gone. Needless to say a big pet peeve of mine is food stealing. A college mate pointed out to me that I shielded my plate if anyone was near me when eating, I don't anymore! Bad manners at the dinner table really get me going, eating with the mouth closed is a must and never ever speak with your mouth full at my table!!! LOL.

Poor hygiene and animals are also another of my pet hates. I've been surrounded by animals all my life, I wash my hands so often I'm surprised they haven't worn away or at least shrunk. I particularly dislike animals taking from human mouths! I know all too well what animals and humans can pass to each other and I'm sure I've swallowed several sackfuls of things I really don't want to think about on the farms, it makes no difference it's still a pet hate. I also don't like to see dirty animal bowls/bottles or old water standing for them or dirty bedding, shelter etc.

My 3rd dislike is people who won't say please and thank you, especially children and adults old enough to know better.

This message was edited Thursday, Mar 28th 5:16 PM

You all forgot double dipping! That is truly the worst most disgusting!

I'm with ya Mary!!! When it comes to anything that touches my body, it's off limits to anyone else!...lol Don't touch my stuff! hehe My in-laws eat off of each others plates when we eat out and I feel like a big hillbilly! Keep in mind, this family is definitly not in need of any financial assistance and we all can eat what we want, but they insist on doing that...it aggrevates the heck out of me! lol

So you know, I don't throw around the term hillbilly and apply it to people from any certain area. I put the hillbilly label on people who ACT a certain way...lol It's all in good fun, so don't anyone go getting mad about that :)

All of the above...except the part about the "hillbilly" and HC better be a Georgaphical Hillbilly! (It's like family....I can talk about and fight with my family....but YOU better NOT!) LOL

One of my biggest pet peeves is to have someone add dishes to MY dishwater! I hate that. When you come visit me...I'll do the dishes....when I visit you...then YOU do the dishes.

Proud to be a WV Hillbilly LOL
Jo

I'm in KY roadrunner...close enough huh? lol

THANK~YOU NOTES!!!!!! How rude some people are! Have manners gone totally out of style??? I gave the MINISTERS wife a baby gift when they had their child in JUNE 2001!!!!!! She lives right next door! WAKE UP HONEY!!!!!Too cheap to buy a stamp? stick it in the door!

HAT on BACKWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were made to be worn front ways. Get a grip! I can not WAIT till that fad is OVER!!!!Sorry.I had 2 peeves

People cutting into line ups....WOW!
People eatting their childrens played in food...oh SOOO gross!
Smelly people sitting next to me...PHOOOEY!
Men who spit on the sidewalks or grass...SPLAT!!!
Chewing gum dropped on the sidewalk...SHOEGOOGUCK!!!!
People who make racket all through a movie...SHH....!
Telemarketers who call again and again after you decline...BLAH!!!
Parents who think it's charming and cute to have their children disrupt an eattery, shopping center or church....GRR....!
Loose cats all over the neigbourhood....PSFFTT!!!
People who use linen table napkins for handkies....EWWW!
People who resuse bathwater for the next bather....YUCK!

I'm quite sure I do many peevish things but like it's been said we all have our own list of quirks...;)

HC...accepted! You are allowed to Hillbilly me! LOL Jo

The only real pet peeve I have is that when someone uses the last of the toilet paper, please replace the roll. At the very least, if there's not a package in the bathroom, bring another roll INTO the bathroom. And that doesn't mean leaving the last little square on the roll just so you don't have to replenish the supply. What can one do with the last little square anyway? Replenish it from the pantry! Please!

this has really been a good turn out,
thank you all,
and I also have to have the toilet paper with the paper coming over the top, sometime I go in the bathroom and some one has put it on wrong,so I put it on right,
and to me a hillbilly is not where they are from,
but how they act,do they clean them self up,
soap and water is easy to come by,we have them here in Mi and they were in Okla where I grow up,

hope we all feel better,I do
Mary_Mi

If I list all the things that bother me, irk me, irritate me, gripe me, infuriate me, hit my hot buttons, or annoy me, you will think I am a terribly intolerant person. I might be. But it aggravates me for someone to tell me I am just because I don't want to eat with them because they spray and smack and chomp and clatter. It is repulsive to sit next to a person on a wide-body plane on an early morning flight all the way from Munich to New York, when that person has such foul breath you almost lose your freeze-drieds. It sucks to be stuck in a meeting in the chair next to a person who keeps yakking to you about any and everything until break, so you gain nothing for the fee of $247 you paid to attend. It drives me nuts to go to a movie with someone who feels the need to talk, laugh too loud, keep turning around to see who is behind them, and in general miss the point of attending the movie. I detest people who think I have an obligation to allow their children to climb on me, smear their grubby little mitts on my white blouse, plant sloppy wet kisses on my clean face, tug on my hand and clothes for attention and otherwise treat me like a human pacifier. I resent being talked down to by people who are a fourth my age and know everything. I become dangerously physical when a male assumes it's his place to drive my new Lincoln just because he is a male. Nothing in my psyche compels me to answer a door or phone when I am not in the mood, and I abhor those who look for tricks to force me to respond to their invasions. I have a genuine contempt for people who make a strong statement or toss out criticism, then weasel out with "hehe, just kidding". No, you weren't, you are just too wimpy to stand up for your beliefs. If you try any of these things with me, I won't be responsible for my actins. (Just kidding)

If I list all the things that bother me, irk me, irritate me, gripe me, infuriate me, hit my hot buttons, or annoy me, you will think I am a terribly intolerant person. I might be. But it aggravates me for someone to tell me I am just because I don't want to eat with them because they spray and smack and chomp and clatter. It is repulsive to sit next to a person on a wide-body plane on an early morning flight all the way from Munich to New York, when that person has such foul breath you almost lose your freeze-drieds. It sucks to be stuck in a meeting in the chair next to a person who keeps yakking to you about any and everything until break, so you gain nothing for the fee of $247 you paid to attend. It drives me nuts to go to a movie with someone who feels the need to talk, laugh too loud, keep turning around to see who is behind them, and in general miss the point of attending the movie. I detest people who think I have an obligation to allow their children to climb on me, smear their grubby little mitts on my white blouse, plant sloppy wet kisses on my clean face, tug on my hand and clothes for attention and otherwise treat me like a human pacifier. I resent being talked down to by people who are a fourth my age and know everything. I become dangerously physical when a male assumes it's his place to drive my new Lincoln just because he is a male. Nothing in my psyche compels me to answer a door or phone when I am not in the mood, and I abhor those who look for tricks to force me to respond to their invasions. I have a genuine contempt for people who make a strong statement or toss out criticism, then weasel out with "hehe, just kidding". No, you weren't, you are just too wimpy to stand up for your beliefs. If you try any of these things with me, I won't be responsible for my actions. (Just kidding)

Well I sure have my fair share of pet peeves too, so here goes. I am a smoker(yea yea I know it's bad for me) but I hate when someone half way puts a ciggy out in the ashtray there for letting it smolder and burn the stinky filter..I have to have a ashtray that has 2 sides to it and I keep my butts on one side and the ashes on the other..(yea I know that is a weird one LOL) and if you put a butt on the wrong side, I will gladly put it on the other side hee hee
Now I also hate when my dh uses the shampoo bottle and squeezes the bottle flat, then he closes the lid before it pops back out..there for leaving the bottle all dented up.
O and the toilet paper rolling off the right way is a must!
O and one of my worst ones is, a barking dog!! I mean late at night and all night long!! and the dog owner doesn't even come out to shut the dog up!! I have a dog myself(St. Barnard) and she sounds like a foghorn when she barks and I always check to see why she is barking and make her be quiet! But for the owner to pretend they don't hear the dog barking?!! Give me a break!! how anyone can sleep with their dog yapping is beyond me!!
I am sure I have more peeves, but I will at least give someone else a chance.

Lack of common sense!!

- Leaving hair all over the bathroom sink and counter.
- Opening up a new jar of food rather than using what is already open in the fridge. As a result there are 3 bottles of ketchup and mustard, 5 bottles of salad dressing, 2 jars of mayo, 3 jugs of milk, etc... open in the fridge.
- Parents who yell at or smack their children in stores.
- If you want to crack your neck, then do it in private. I don't want to hear the disgusting crack of your vertebre as you wrench your neck from side to side as though you were trying to detach your head.
- Say you will call right back and never do.
- Toilet paper does not go over the top. If you put it that way, a kid can spin it so fast and easy that a full roll will be carpeting the floor in no time. But paper towels do go over the top; otherwise, the pictures will be upside down.
- People who litter. Is is really that hard to throw it in a trash can?
- Getting in a car with the gas gauge setting on "E" because the last person that drove it didn't feel like stopping for gas.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop now.

People who have 20 items in the 12 items or less express line at the grocery store...DOH... can't you count or read???

Also people who have a basket full and won't let someone with 1 or 2 items go in front of them. (I always do)

I agree with the hats on backwards whats the deal with that?? worse yet men who don't remove their hat when the national anthem is being played.

Paul

I think some of us need a valium. :)

I work in a retail flower shop/gift shop and my biggest pet peeve is people who expect to be waited on ie: holding their hand as they browse but they don't have the courtesy to remove the cell phone from the side of their face!!! They whisper to you "how much is this?" and still continue talking to the person on the phone, then they have the nerve to whisper "just me let look". The last straw for me was when I greeted a customer and he waved me away because he had a little earpiece in with a small microphone talking to someone!!! From that point on if someone comes into my store talking on a cellphone I just let them come to me when their ready to be helped. Some people won't even get off the phone when they are placing an order, I have to ask for all the information in between the conversation, then they get mad at me like I'm interupting them!!!! It's just amazing how absolutly rude some people can be.

Becky

MEN DO THIS>>> DIG IN THEIR EARS WITH THE CAR KEYS! and CLIP THEIR FINGERNAILS IN CHURCH!
and PLEASE...everyone. lets pick our noses at home. In a closet.

This message was edited Friday, Mar 29th 7:10 PM

BJT72...I had a man tell me JUST THIS WEEK how at his fathers "calling hours' at the funeral home someones phone was ringing. And He flipped out on them! No one will answer the phone at home. but. as soon as they are in the car,or in the store,,,its like HAY> LOOK HOW IMPORTANT I am..I have a Phone. WHO CARES>>> PLUS . they have to talk Louder than before ..incase you didn;t notice they have a phone...So you look at them.

oh oh oh oh oh...it is the truth! I once saw a woman take the bubble gum out of her mouth and stick in in her kids mouth!

my main pet peeve is DON'T SQUASH MY BREAD. i hate maving a fresh loaf of bread squashed. nothing irritates me more.

I feel the same way about everything mentioned,but one of my pet peeves is scratchy labels they sew into clothing now.Used to be they were cotton labels and cotton thread..no problem with those,but now just about everything is sewn with metalic or nylon thread that rubs the neck. I have ruined so many things trying to get the labels off.Why can't they put them on the bottoms of shirts and sweaters????

lets see
toilet paper over the top
and DON"T use the last of it and not get out a new roll
bf and i only use one glass (at home)
dog pre washes (what the heck there is dish soap and hot water)
don't mess with my desk i know where EVERYTHING is
bf who puts stuff away and i have to spend a half hour trying to figure out where away is
oh and i can't stand to hear the phone ring and not pick it up unless except when ######

Ginny...that is soooo true!...and JFC...OHHHH how I hate that...I've taken bread back to the store because the bagger put it in with other things that would smash it! Jo

Well, I'd have to say being left "in the lurch" without any TP is a big bummer for me. But since half the time it's my own fault, and the other half, it's who knows? it's hard to get too worked up about it.

Drinking out of each other's glasses? To be honest, I'm glad my kids feel comfortable sharing a Coke. It says two things about them - they're all old enough to not put too much "backwash" in the bottle, and they think of each other as family. And that's a good thing in my book.

Sharing toothbrushes with DH or one of my kids? In a pinch, you betcha. Rather do that than not brush (you just have to block out that it's somebody else's, and toss it when the emergency is past.)

I look at many of these things as signs that my kids are young, somewhat boisterous, and perfectly normal. And for that I thank God every day of my life. Some day I'll have the luxury of peace and quiet, and order again. But for now, chaos reins at least half the time.

Belching and nose picking? Yeah, with two teenage boys, we got that. They know better than to do it in public. My shining moment this year was when first-grader daughter had a note sent home: she was caught making farting noises, much to the amusement of her tablemates. I did have to laugh, while I cringed with embarassment. But that's what she (and I) get with two big brothers. Life goes on, and may I always see the sunnier side of their faults and quirks.

Fortunately, they seem to share their worst behavior traits at home. Most people comment on how well-mannered they are. (Which usually gets puzzled looks from DH and me.)

And in fairness to my mom, no I wasn't raised to share a drinking glass, toothbrush or food off another's plate. Or to think body noises were okay. Blame that on...I dunno. Me? DH? Having more kids than parents? All of the above???

EEEEEWWWWW Gross to hear all that,,, that so disgusting EEEEWWW so not here everyone we do own toothbrush and own earrings and own shave all that also own brush and comb also their own after bath towel and rags all the time so, always think about when go somewhere to go bathroom have to worry about what people use it after bathroom with out wash hands at door knobs????.... EEEWW and under the table snots or gums eeeewww hate to touch things which you don't know what so dirty is.... also who sick rubbing nose oh gosh eeewww. We always think about this to be more careful not to touch things what it has so nasty things.

Too many to list but I have this thing I do when I use public toilets! I wipe the seat first (even though I don't sit down) - I use toilet paper to operate the flush and toilet paper to open the door. I wash my hands, twice, dry them on the paper towels and then have a stack of them in my hand to operate the door and get the heck out of there - untouched by other human contact and oh yes, if I could dip my shoes in disinfectant on the way out that would be even better!! BTW if there are no paper towels, I use toilet rolls and if there are no toilet rolls I pull down the sleeve of my shirt or whatever over my hand before I touch the door knob!! Stupid really, because then I push the shopping trolley and pick up items that most people have touched already!! But once back in the car I use clean moist wipes!! I've seen women use gloves when pushing shopping carts!!

Louisa, same way I do like u about the toilet never sit on it and when finsihed use always paper towel to open the knobs and forgot to said I always use clean moist wipes when I push the cart to go shopping so scare what kind people's hands germs??? I always have kleenex in my purse incase the bathroom not have paper towel or toilet paper many time not have any good thing I have with me all the time.

People who tell me things like..."Oh you shouldn't feel that way" or "you don't mean that" I feel what I feel when I feel it! And I rarely say something I don't mean unless it is an obvious joke so of course I meant that!

I really don't care who uses my toothbrush anymore since I got my false choppers I just use it for cleaning around the fixtures anyway...so help yourself!

lol Zany I second your post and my DH has a habit of repeating the last two words of nearly every sentence I utter - it drives me crazy!! As for old toothbrushes, I too use them for cleaning but I will let you keep yours!! Redrose I usually do carry Kleenex with me, no I lie - I like Puffs best because they have less lint than Kleenex. First time I used Kleenex over here and wiped my reading glasses - heck that was the wrong thing to do - they were impregnated with cream or something!!

Go vols - LOL! Being an empty nester - I sure miss some of those "lighter moments".

My pet peeve - drivers - people who drive toi slow, too fast, pass on hills, back up in parking lots and don't look where they are going, people who don't use car seats for their children, people who don't have their children in the back seat or in seat belts......

My biggest pet peeve - people who have negative attitudes and never look at the positives!

This message was edited Friday, Apr 12th 12:28 PM

I've really hesitate to add to this thread, since I'm really not too irritated by anything most of the time, but my DH brought up something that is directly related to previous postings, and I have to agree with him on this one.

I completely respect anyone's need to not sit on a toilet seat, but it would be nice if they had the respect to lift the seat before they hover over the toilet. My DH has swamped a women's bathroom or two, and I've had occasion to sit on a seat or two, so I can tell you that the overspray from a dubious doer who does not seat themselves is pretty horrendous.

I would suggest that those who will not seat themselves should lift the lid, saving those who dare to sit from sitting in the leavings.