Subject for today: Pet Peeves. I have a few pet peeves that are annoying, but only a few really drive me nuts. Those would be:
1) Smacking or chewing with your mouth open. Also included in this one would be slurping hot coffee or soup. Makes me want to kick something.
2) The sound of sharpening knives just kills me. Similar to the nail scratching on a blackboard
3) Interrupting a conversation. A lot of people I know do this...and it's not the casual interruption with agreement to what's being said, it's the blatant interruption with new ideas without letting the speaker finish the thought.
4) And similar to #3 is what I call "the overlook." When someone, as described in #3 is waiting to interrupt, they frequently point their eyes over your head or somewhere else in the room waiting for you to take a breath so they can interrupt you and change the conversation. annoying.
What are your biggest pet peeves???
3 Comments:
Crazy, lazy drivers. I usually go the speed limit and it drives me crazy when someone in front of me is going 15 miles per hour slower than the limit and there is not one in front of them! If this is an old person, I understand, and just calmly pass them, but all to often if is someone on a cell phone, or talking to a passenger, or something and just not paying attention!
Hmmmm. Regarding driving, I can't stand people who go the speed limit in the passing lane...see that a lot here. Lack of turn signals (or the use of them after they've initiated the turn) is another big one. Otherwise, people who insist having a conversation with me when they can see I'm deep into a book is a big one as well. Last one I'll mention are commercials with crappy jingles or personalities that would make me want to run them over rather than buy the product they're pitching.
It has to be the talk-over. I have found in my relatively short (2 year) span in New York that this is a commonplace and natural occurrence for New Yorkers. If you don't like the conversation you're currently in, start a completely new one with the person right next to you, so that you have to speak louder to hear yourselves over the other conversation. An example: four people sit at a table. Person A begins to discuss the latest auto body trends with Person B. Persons C and D listen politely. Then Person C, fed up with being unable or unwilling to participate in a conversation about a topic that he knows nothing about, turns to Person D and loudly starts up a conversation about cheese. All four persons get louder so as to hear themselves over one another. Headaches ensue. You also get bonus annoying points for then jumping back INTO the prior conversation by asking "What did you just say?"
Post a Comment
<< Home