From outside the box

We all have our share of pet peeves and I'm sure that we have a lot of the same ones in common. I don't like to dwell on the negative stuff of life, so I try to ignore most of my pet peeves when they crop up. But still, I think it's important that we label and recognize them so that the perpetrators of these heinous acts will know that we know who they are and therefore we will know that they know that we know who they are. Some of these peeves that I am going to list are but minor infractions and temporary interruptions to our daily routines while others are quite worthy of the death penalty. These are my pet peeves.....

DRIVING PEEVES....

When people (usually older people) make a right turn off of the street, usually into a parking lot, and your right behind them thinking you've got it all timed to barely pass them as they make their exit from the street, and when they are halfway off of the street, for God knows what reason....they stop! They just stop!

When two cars "bottle neck", using two lanes they drive side by side on a highway or freeway. You can't pass and they don't care. I blame the one in the fast lane for this....usually there is a cell phone involved.

When somebody holds up a whole line of cars in a crowded parking lot, waiting for another car to back out of a space, especially when they start waiting while the people are still putting stuff in their car!

Parallel parkers who take up two parking spaces.

Students crossing the street, walking out in front of your moving vehicle on 2nd St. by the college without even looking up, and you have to slam on your breaks....to save them, not you!

Those 30 minute parking meters when your trying to have lunch at Tres Hombres without choking down your food.

SHOPPING PEEVES....

When a clerk asks you for your phone number to enter it into their data base.

Rebates

People who start looking for their checkbook AFTER their groceries are rung up.

Waiting in line at a gas station/convenience store to pre-pay for your gas and then waiting in line again to get your change.

No soap in the windshield cleaning water

Shopping carts left in parking spaces at grocery stores.

Waiting in the check out line at Costco while somebody has to run and do a price check for the customer being checked out because there was no bar code on the product.

RESTAURANT PEEVES.....

A hostess telling you there is only a 10 minute wait when there are 27 people waiting ahead of you to be seated. After waiting for 30 minutes there are still 12 people ahead of you.

Watching a party be seated 15 minutes after you and then get waited on before you.

Calling in an order, usually to a Mexican or Chinese food restaurant, and they don't start making it until after you show up to pick it up.

Your done eating and your wanting to leave but nobody will bring your ticket.

Speakers at drive thru fast food places that have way too low a volume.

After you get your food at the drive thru, you get home and the order is wrong.

MISCALLENEOUS PEEVES....

People who use credit cards to pay at the movie theatre.

People who use credit cards to pay for a cup of coffee.

People who ask to "work in" with you when you are using a weight machine at the gym.

Calling an 800 # about a bill and....Never mind, don't even get me going on that one.

People that take babies to the movie theatre.

People telling long stories about other people that you don't know.

People talking about their medical problems.

People engaging bank tellers in personal stories while your waiting in line.

And last but not least....smoke detectors that go off for no apparent reason, always at 4 in the morning, and there is no way to turn them off except to take a broom and smash them, and even that doesn't always work.

That's all I got. That's everything in life that bugs, me. Imagine what a lovely world it would be if nobody did any of these things. I never do....mostly