Do You Have a Pet Peeve? More Than One?

I knew a girl in college that used to put ice in her beer and drink it through a straw.

She was actually a pretty hard hitter as far as the booze.

People (in this case I only know about women) who wash their hands in the rest room, and then thwomp thwomp thwomp thwomp thromp pull out 5 or more paper towel to dry their hands.

Even if it's an automated dispenser, they will keep putting their hand under the beam until they get at least 3.

Then they do a half ass drying and toss out paper that Maybe has about 15% of its surface wet.

Impossible as this is to believe, ONE paper towel will dry your hands. Yes, the paper will be completely moist, but you will have used all of it, and your hands will be dry.

I also have a suspicion, not a peeve really, that 80% of men don't wash their hands after just peeing in a public rest room.

I have to confess, I usually take two towels but I also wipe around the sink after I've dried my hands.....force of habit...

Yeah, but did she drink thru a straw or a swizzle stick....swizzle sticks are too short to be called straws.

Well then that's understandable.

It's the mindless waste that kills me.

In the same vein, I really don't get why women use so much toilet paper, and I'm a woman.

I'm not talking about when you have your period or something.

But come on, it's just some urine, which is sterile when it leaves your body.

Now for wiping yourself after peeing, I'm not advocating the 1 sheet thing. I mean, you're not washing, and there are some nooks and crannies.

But it's same thing. A woman goes into a stall next to me. She pees. That's all. Then you hear, roll roll roll roll roll.....rip.....roll roll roll roll roll roll roll....

WTF?

I'll confess, it was a regular straw.

So as long as I'm on this jag with women and public restrooms....

Ladies, have you not ever heard of a courtesy flush?

When you know you're going to download, as the stinking crap starts coming out, reach behind you and flush! If it's gonna be a long one, flush again!

Don't just take a dump and leave it to stink up the entire bathroom, while you sit there for 5 more minutes sending texts, or contemplating how good you feel now.

Christ almighty.

It peeves me to admit that in my super hero guise as Constable Plod of the wc pc police I like to frequent public places in full regalia handing out pieces of phillumenistic paraphernalia from my extensive collection.

I just thought of another one. Spitting, freeping spitting or hocking out a large loogie on the sidewalk, or while shooting the breeze with your neighbors grandmother. Bleech, it's disgusting. What's next, I'm a little congested so I'll blow my nose on the hem of your jacket? Just pack your pockets with tissue and dispose of your nasal and throat mucus in a sanitary fashion.

Stepping in. Quietly backing out.

Don't leave Edgar!!

Peeves are not for the faint of heart.

oh thank goodness. I do this too. Mentioned it to somebody and they thought it strange.

Regarding swizzle sticks, I know someone who sips their coffee with one.


Paper towel waste? This one guy comes by and spills something. First I had to tell him to clean it up. (He did a piss-poor job of it). He Used a half dozen sheets of paper, some only had a spot of damp. None were even a quarter used! I hate waste!

Pet peeve? Low-lifes who stop in the middle of a sidewalk (grocery aisle or other spaces) to text. Don't care for those who walk and text either while bumping into people.



As winter approaches, the annoying habit of jerks who think an inch wide winding path on a straight sidewalk constitutes 'shoveling and clearing the snow '.

Not to be forgotten, the ones who toss the snow into the freshly cleared crosswalks!

I just get frustrated seeing people holding their drink like they are toddlers....Whoever you know who drinks coffee thru a swizzle stick....please ask that person why??? I kind of understand if that person is in a movie/film and the makeup was applied by an artist..for a hefty fee...........but ask them this "have you ever seen your face with lips all puckered up sucking fluid thru a swizzle stick? If not, you really need to see a pix of yourself....

Ill wash and dry my hands with 2 towels. I then toss those and take a fresh towel with which to exit using the door handle and lock. Rest room door handles , according to the mythbusters who cultured a whole bunch for one of their shows. They found all sorts of pestilence was on them rest room handles, both hims and hers.

Also, do thy still make matchbooks ?? Do they still have the warnings on the cover? I use flint , steel, and a charpatch to start fires.


I saw a bundle of (plastic wrapped) firewood that bore the warning "CONTENTS FLAMMABLE"

I use more paper towels than people with normal-sized hands ought to. It's better than walking out with dripping hands or wiping on your pants.

Another peeve I have is green hair. It really doesn't look good on anybody regardless of complexion....plus it usually looks dusty. Oh, and those spacers young men seem to like to have planted in their ear lobes and contort their lobes into a huge hole and then insert a jaunty black disc....it's incredibly distracting......its even more distracting when the disc has been removed and the skin is hanging and swinging.

Yes to both. And don't they kind of make you wonder what all else they might be doing to their bodies? You know, how else do they broadcast their high self esteem?