Pet Peeves - Don't you just hate it when...

What gets my goat is when some naïveté suggests that some newfangled invention, technology, or service is better than what came before it, by default.

The showing people things-you-love thing can be a bit annoying sometimes if they can't get 'on the train'. I remember playing "Will You?" from Grey Gardens to a car full of non-musical fans..I described it as one of the most beautiful songs I had heard. A big call but when the music started playing, and Ebersole's pristine voice started radiating the car I knew I hadn't oversold the song. By the end, I'm practically in tears and have had yet another life-changing epiphany, feeling so lucky I am able to enjoy the art that others have produced for us to consume.

At the end of the song, I asked what others thought and their response was "meh, sounds like generic classical music from the 60s". Ouch.

Don't you just hate it when.. Networks all program their commercials at the same time so when your show has a commercial break, flipping around the dial to see what else is on, all you see are more commercials.

Don't you just hate it when.. You've watched a show once all season and finally decide to watch another episode and the episode that's on is a repeat of the only episode you actually saw.

Don't you just hate it when.. Buses are supposed to come every 9 minutes but in reality they come every 25, 1 and 1 minutes.

Don't you just hate it when.. Someone in front of you at a sporting event constantly leans forward so their stupid head with their stupid hat blocks out 1/3 of the field/court/ice - also applies to people at concerts who have to stand from the very first song when no one else is standing and don't care if you can't see thru them.

Don't you just hate it when.. People start every freaking sentence with "So,..."

Don't you just hate it when.. People are in such a rush to be the one to start a thread, they can't take 2 minutes to reread and proofread what they've written so their post doesn't read like it was created with a random word generator.

Don't you just hate it when.. people think I don't hear enough complaining from family and friends in real life that I'd want to listen to strangers doing it.

Updated On: 3/12/17 at 11:43 PM

when....people abuse apostrophes. Just because it has an s added, doesn't mean it needs and apostrophe.

when...people type LOL when nothing they've typed is even remotely humorous. (And I'm not talking about a different sense of humor)

And I'll totally back up the above comment about "literally".

when....people abuse apostrophes. Just because it has an s added, doesn't mean it needs and apostrophe.

And if you point it out when someone does it around here? HOO BOY! Suddenly, you're told you "have no life" or that you should be commenting on "more important things" or how other message boards are better because they don't pay attention to grammar or some other ridiculous defensive remark.

You don't use an apostrophe to pluralize a noun. Why is that so hard? I mean, it's not like we're trying to break their brains over the advanced difficulties of "they're", "there" and "their".

LOL, literally.

blaxx said: "I thought this thread was about loud chewing, or chewing gum with your mouth open. You do that and I'll slap you hard.



Definitely my #1 pet peeve also, especially when I'm at work!

Why does it seem like I tend to double post more when I'm on my iPhone?

Updated On: 3/15/17 at 11:48 PM

People who don't let you get out of the elevator before getting on it or (when I lived in NYC) people who don't let you get out of the subway first.