Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Because I'm bored at work...

Pet Peeves (a work in progress):


1. The misuse of the words "your" and "you're"

2. People who text constantly while hanging out with other people, especially in the middle of conversations

3. Dumb people on Yahoo! Answers

4. People who are insensitive to others

5. Proposed changes without any forseeable/plausible solutions

6. Very slow responses on AIM

7. People who think life is a game

8. People who amble slowly in areas of high traffic

9. Reckless/clueless drivers (especially Asian ones in parking lots)

10. Giving up too easily when an easy solution is to pick up a bit more responsibility

11. People who are too lazy to take on responsibilities yet have unreasonable demands on people who step up

12. One-word answers

13. Crocs

14. Those who push their religion onto others without any abandon

15. T-Pain, Lil Wayne

16. Being judged for being human

17. Power complexes

18. Being so impulsive as to never think ahead 

19. Objectification

20. Not appreciating the selfless generosity of others

21. Twilight

22. Bill O'Reilly & all of FOX News

23. Using "Umm" too often instead of just pausing, thinking, then speaking

24. Being two-faced

25. Never making time for people who matter

26. Having to fight for attention

27. Golddiggers 

28. Heavy Metal/Screamo

29. Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana

30. Overpriced clothing

31. Assuming a guy is gay because he happens to be selflessly nice and considerate, a good listener, and just not being a jerkwad

32. People who say "aww" to everything, especially every couple in existence. A "cute couple" has lost its significance because of this, since it doesn't really matter if the couple is indeed adorable, others just feel compelled to say it.

33. People who don't know how to juggle their relationships with their lives. Your relationship is NOT your life, it's merely an important part chunk. Don't forget the little people...

34. Cell phones that go off during exams

35. Annoying people who disrupt lectures by talking abnoxiously loud

36. Roommates stealing your food

37. Annoyingly short texts that didn't need to be sent

38. High School Musical

39. People who begin speeches with "I'm not very good at speaking..."

40. Retainers

41. Little dogs that keep jumping towards my crotch

42. Judging people for being/writing emo things (essentially for being human), even though everyone does it

43. Joining organizations not because of motivation to better the group itself, but because a boy/girlfriend is in it

44. Extreme indecisiveness

45. Extreme feminists

46. Extremes in the political field

47. Human rights abusers/dictators

48. Creepers

49. Those tops that hang very, very loosely on girls' shoulders that remind you of maternity clothing

50. Eating with your mouth open

51. Insanely hard RPG bosses

52. Overly competitive people. It's just f#%&ing Taboo!

53. Shitty restaurant service

54. People who don't respond to texts, especially when they asked a question first

55. SPAM in my inbox

56. People who use others

57. People who only talk to you when they need help/want to copy your homework

58. Snoring in class

59. Pointless demonstrations in lecture

60. Professors/TAs who try too hard to be funny

61. Girls who constantly think they're fat when they're sticks

62. Ginger & cilantro

63. People who say "things could be worse", as if it were a form of encouragement

64. People who never check their calendars about events/times

65. Being consistently, significantly late

66. USPS & their tracking system

67. Girls' obsession with K/J/Cdrama guys and their many more-than-ideal traits

68. Oversized, wasteful cars (SUVs, Hummers)

69. Pointless surveys that circulate e-mails and Facebook

70. Shitty Wi-Fi

71. People who don't know when to quit

72. People who stand too close behind you at the ATM

73. Rain and overcast days (unless I'm indoors or wanting a natural diffuser of sunlight for shooting, respectively)

74. Fighting for hours for the check

75. Cars that look like boxes on wheels

76. Irresponsible people whose loads have to be picked up by others who are already swamped with their own stuff

77. Debates that go in circles because no one has said anything with substance for the last hour

78. Every printer my family has owned

79. Selfish people

80. Clueless asshole guys who give the rest of us a bad name

81. People who try selling things on eBay or Craigslist for prices higher than the MSRP

82. Jerks who buy concert tickets for the sole purpose of selling them to others at 5x the face value

83. Linguistics

84. Whoever thought that 

85. "Your mom" remarks

86. People lacking common sense (I mean, seriously, how'd it ever occur to you to think you needed to restart the computer after turning on the printer to print something??)

87. People who go away from their computers without bothering to put up an away message. for hours.

88. Windows updates that automatically restart your computer

89. People with cars that aren't willing to step up and drive others

90. People who ruin surprises

91. Drama queens (guys and girls)

92. The Heart of Darkness

93. Having to buy extra shit (course readers, clickers, a crappy no-function $5 calculator from a stats teacher who probably bought them in bulk for 50 cents each) for classes

94. A total screw-the-law mentality

95. Lindsay Lohan

96. Gossip

97. Stubbornness

98. Ignorance

99. People who never seem to have any money because they don't know how to control their spending

100. Guys in college who still don't know how to tie a tie

101. Overly baggy clothes

102. Wangsters

103. People who mistake satire for seriousness

104. Printing jobs that go to one more page because of one more sentence.

105. Really cold weather

106. Friends who forget close friends' birthdays

107. Games like "Bobby's World", "Around the World", "Black Magic", etc.

108. Silence

109. Side/partial hugs from people you care about

110. People who feel the need to drink/go crazy as their only escape

111. Flyering

112. Torn-up jeans

113. Leaving a room but not turning off the lights

114. Child-proof caps

115. The plastic sealing that's impossible to cut through without cutting yourself

116. People who can't seem to take proper care of themselves despite their age

117. Using the word "gay" as a synonym for "stupid"

118. Not being ready when told well in advance to be ready

119. Complainers who don't seek solutions

120. Senses of entitlement

121. PDA

122. People who use periods at the end of every sentence in IM conversations

123. Unnecessary capitalization/caps locking

124. People with expensive camera equipment who couldn't operate them properly if their lives depended on it

125. straight bangs

126. Too much post-processing on pictures

127. Feeling unproductive

128. Not being able to feel happy for someone else's happiness

129. People whose Facebook statuses aren't grammatically correct. (You can delete the "is"!)

130. People who pretend to be innocent

131. Overly happy people

132. People who speak on their cellphones in overly loud voices in public

133. Headphones that leak sound

134. Not paying attention during important conversations

135. Materlism

136. Stereotypical middle school screennames

137. Fidgeting/shaking your leg, causing the entire row/table to shake

138. Insecurity that inevitably causes drama

139. Pimples on pimples

140. Pimples on the ear

141. Windows Vista

142. Snoring

143. People who don't know how to say no

144. Having too many thoughts at one time

145. Wet shoes

146. Pounding rain

147. Nagging

148. Littering

149. Not flushing the toilet

150. Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon interface

151. Half-assing

152. Having to take notes during videos in class

153. Flaking out

154. Parking in LA/Pasadena

155. Stuffy places

156. Sideburns

157. Really crappy handwriting

158. Cute, taken girls

159. Non-intuitive software for slideshows/video editing

160. Bitches

161. Apathy

162. Hard asses

163. Bureaucracy

To be continued.

1 comments:

Mary Bo Berry said...

NO! not twilight! (its a love hate relationship for me... more love than hate usually.. hence the haircut actually)

Umms are hard to cut out if you do it all the time. :(

sending you love... that cant possibly be a pet peeve.