Pet Peeves, anyone?

too many peeves, couldn't prioritize them, but here's a couple:

plastic packages you can hardly open without using a hacksaw--they're known as clam packs, btw

"resealable" packages that hardly ever reseal

Drivers on cellphones are my biggest pet peeve.

HANG UP AND DRIVE!

I'm with yitwail here, but I'd expand it to include most packaging nowadays. I've been known to resort to screwdrivers, heavy shears, pliers and can openers just to get one single package open. And aspirin bottles are absoluetly impossible. I end up destroying the friggin' things and transferring the contents to a styrofoam cup because the cap stays neatly locked in place, no matter what I do. Maybe little kids know how to open those bottles, not an adult like me. Also, since pain killers are often taken by people suffering from arthritis, how in hell are they supposed to get that cap off, gnarled hands and all?

And I agree with Mac re: mobile phones. They should be banned in all public places, as I've already said on another thread. I believe the original idea behind the mobile phone was for use in emergencies where there are no public pay phones available. It unnerves me to see otherwise sane-looking people walking down the street, apparently talking to themselves.

There seems to be a theme developing here...

My pet peeve is that those of us who hate cell phones can never find a freakin' pay phone now.

Now, since every idiot has a cell phone, pay phones are disappearing.

Personally I think cell phones are from the devil. They may just be the "number of the beast" referred to in the Biblical book of revelations.

say it ain't so! how's superman supposed to defend Truth, Justice and the American Way if he can't find a phone booth to change into his cape?

I haven't seen a phone booth in several decades. I think they went out with hula hoops and saddle shoes. Pay phones today -- when and if you can find them -- are out in the open where every bystander can hear every word you say. And the person on the other end can't understand you anyway because of all the background noise.

I HATE it when someone driving 97 MPH comes roaring up behind you, rides your ass for a bit, glares at you angrily for not moving up to warp speed, swerves the car to whip around you and then cuts you off just in time to turn.

My pet peeve is coming up on someone in the passing lane on the highway who refuses to pull to the next lane.

And threads on pet peeves.

And mayonnaise. Stuff sucks hairy goat.

When there are 4 lanes you should be able to find your groove in the fast one if you want to go 100...not in the exit lane.

I'm with Slappy on all three of his peeves.

Seriously....I drive about 40-45 minutes to work every day. I am on either a 3, 4 or 5 lane expressway every day (I have to take 3 different ones). I cannot stand people who think that you need to get out of the way because they want to get through, to cut you off, to get off on the same exit you are going to, only about 2 seconds before you. That is what I am talking about.

And I am not one of those 55 in a 70 drivers. I am usually (shhhhh) speeding.

since the topic of drivers has come up, any agnostics, atheists, or even Christians get annoyed with all the fish symbols attached to the back end of cars? i know it's an icthus, but pretty ironic that what was originally a secret symbol among persecuted Christians is now used to publicly proclaim one's piety. some people go so far as to have 2 big fishes for mom & dad, plus little ones for the small fry, which seems almost disrespectful to me.

Well, that fish sure isn't a secret anymore i guess.
Yes yes yes, it is very annoying.
Now though, even more annoying are the darwin symbols others put on the back of THEIR care in retaliation.

Personally, I think ALL bumperstickers suck.
I would hate to think someone is making a judgement - good or bad - about me, based on some trite saying on my bumper.

Well, except Happy Bunny of course, he's cool.

I have a favorite bumper sticker. It says BUMPER STICKER.

When I had a nice yuppie car, I used to joke I was going to put a bumper sticker on it that said "my other car is a porsche" just to piss people off(talk about magnet to get keyed)....of course I'd never put a bumper sticker on a car.

I heard about the same thing online, someone had a Rolls with a bumper sticker that said "my other car is a Bentley."

That's funny stuff. But, uh, bumper stickers are a pet peeve. They're stupid, and leave glue residue on your car.