I'm talking either pet peeves, or full-on fury inducers.

I have my minor annoyances, for example when a person writes "your" instead of "you're" (and "ur" is even worse), or when they approach an elevator and push several times on a button that's already lit up, like this is going to make the elevator get there faster.

But if you really want to make me see red, here is what you do: Assume, before I've even had a chance to try something, that I'm going to mess it up. I remember our family going to Disney World, and we're standing in line for Space Mountain. The whole family kept talking on and on about how I'm just not going to be able to handle it. I'm going to lose it. I'll freak out. That ticked me off! Well, as it turned out, I handled it just fine. Didn't utter a squeak.

Had my eyes closed the whole time, but still....

Just don't ever say in advance I'm not going to do well at something, before I've tried.

This can also take the form of not letting me struggle and learn, but just seeing one mistake and concluding I can't do it. I've had people actually grab something out of my hands and do it themselves, because I was just learning it, and they thought I was too slow. I'm going to be all kinds of angry in a case like that.

[BlackHoleKid]

ARGH, "you're" and "your" issues might actually just make me angry. It depends on the day. xD

Something that gets my goat is when somebody abruptly changes plans on me, or when somebody else isn't doing their job. Especially the latter. I always work super hard since I'm have a definite pleaser personality, but when somebody else won't haul their own weight, HULK SMASH.

[di meliora]

Waking ....

[ladyjane4rent]

I have little pet peeves such as: someone slurping their drink too loud, chewing to loud or with mouth open or while talking, the moment where one sees you approaching the same door as they are and stand their holding the door open while you are still 60 feet away [lol, absurd peeve I know], when someone talks to themselves but only enunciates the 'S' and it sounds like they are calling a cat over, and so on.

My biggest life-long, all time fury maker is when someone laughs at me getting upset. My siblings used to do it to me when I was a kid and sometimes my boyfriend laughs at me if I get upset at something stupid, but grrrr that makes me even more upset!

[Justme_55]

Not putting the toilet seat down; no please or thank you's or my absolute WORST piss me offer if you will: opening a door in a public place & not getting a thank you...a walk thru. I respond with a loud WELCOME'!!! Lol

[BlackHoleKid]

Politics. That's all I'll say.

[O-Dawg]

When people are made fun of for their weight
Healthcare, period.
Logs - don't ask me why. I just can't stand them!
electric shocks (trust me, I know!!)
The town I live in!!!!!

[BlackHoleKid]

Some goofy pet peeves!
Youtube commenters. I hate Youtube comments so much. I can't read them.
I hate it when people who are clueless about goth slap a goth label on everything remotely dark.
On the same note, I hate it when bands/musicians like Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, and My Chemical romance are refered to as goth. THEY AIN'T!
Getting one of those screens on the internet that asks if I'm over 18. For some reason that drives me crazy, because all you have to do is click "yes!" I am over 18, but if I wasn't, I could just as easily be scarred for life by whatever is behind that warning! Give up on having morality, Internet!
People who walk around with designer handbags, but the rest of their outfit is terrible. No, spending a load of cash will not make you look better! You have to make an effort to look good, whether you're buying at the thrift store or buying from Saks. Nobody cares if you had enough money at some point to buy a Coach bag or a Bebe t-shirt, or whatever. BLAH.

[-jimi-]

When people are clueless about everything around them. And unfortunately that is most people. Most people don't seem to know the difference between a planet and a star, they don't know where Iraq is on a map, they think meds cannot be dangerous because meds are there to help you, they are lousy at their second language, they laugh at people with any knowledge because that is geeky and ugly, they buy brand name food because otherwise people would look at them funny in the store, they don't know how cheese is made, they think cleaning a fish is disgusting because it is dead but they can eat cleaned fish, they don't want to hear meat is muscle tissue, they think all slaughtered animals had a really great life, they think everyone can walk into a welfare office get help and come out semi rich, they cannot bake bread, they cannot walk past a shelf of candy without getting something then whining about how bad it is, they have vague ideas about things they read or see on TV, then they distort and simplify it and tell everyone they know.......

Yea... people... sometimes annoy me.

[BlackHoleKid]

I hate people being classified by their race or ethnicity, and I REALLY DETEST being asked what my race is on job applications, scholarships, surveys, etc. It's one of the only things that downright offends me.
Aren't we all just people?
Can we move past this whole "race" business?
Will my race affect my ability to do a good job, or will it just determine how much of a kudos you'll get for being "diverse"?
Aren't people tired of just being "the black guy" or "the white girl" or "the Asian chick," or whatever?
How does having a certain set of ancestors determine who I am now?
I'm proud of my heritage, but I don't want special treatment because of it. Whenever I'm asked on paper, I refuse to answer that bleeping question about my race, because it's a backwards, infintile way of thinking, and really makes me see red.
RANT OVER.

[Fullofanxiety]

I work in customer service and I am SO ANGRY today I can't tell you. Just because I wear uniform and have a name badge does not give you the right to speak to me like I am a piece of sh't on your shoe. I am a person how dare you whistle, click your fingers, woo hoo me, demand unwarranted apologies from me, not wait 6 seconds for service without being rude. Are please and thank you so expensive that you can only use them sparingly??? OMG I could just punch someone right now. Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh

[lost,in,rsa]

Jimrat we share so many peeves! Oh and lovebirds fly I'm sorry I'm a culprit of doing the your not you're thing, I didn't know that was wrong, I'm sorry. My pet peeves are getting teased because my english isn't very good, I am english speaking but I wasn't educated in it. I loathe it when new singers do covers of really good songs and ruin it ( a local band did a cover of " the vietnam song") it was sacrilege!! I go made if people chew gum or I can hear them eat ( crunch, crunch). When guys where their pants under their bottoms. Sniffing, people that are stuck in apartied (before 1994 we had terrible racism against non whites) pictures of people that have been air brushed and the top of my list are adverts of weight loss, I didn't need a magic pill to become a chubby bunny so how will a magic pill make me look like Kate moss in a week. Such nonsense.

[BlackHoleKid]

Originally Posted by Fullofanxiety

I work in customer service and I am SO ANGRY today I can't tell you. Just because I wear uniform and have a name badge does not give you the right to speak to me like I am a piece of sh't on your shoe. I am a person how dare you whistle, click your fingers, woo hoo me, demand unwarranted apologies from me, not wait 6 seconds for service without being rude. Are please and thank you so expensive that you can only use them sparingly??? OMG I could just punch someone right now. Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh

Oh, I hear you there. I was a sales associate at a big store in the mall for a while. HEINOUS. I had to quit because I think it was literally causing a mental breakdown. I get freaked out all over again just thinking about it...

Lost: Not being a native English speaker, or not educated in written English, you have an excuse for confusing you're/your. What gets me is when educated native English speakers do it. Here is the difference:

"You're" is a contraction for "you are." Example, "You're excused for not knowing the difference."
"Your" is a possessive pronoun. Example, "I share a lot of your peeves."
Saying "ur" in place of either one of them is just illiterate, in my opinion.

Oh yes, bad cover songs. Even good cover songs can annoy me in some situations. For example, Dolly Parton wrote "I Will Always Love You" and has been performing it since 1974. It has been a hit song for her twice as a solo recording, and once as a duet with Vince Gill. So why, now that Whitney Houston has passed, is everyone acting as if that's "her" song? It often happens that way when one musician records a song and has success with it, but then a version done later by a more recognized name is a *monstrous* hit. As another example, Gary Morris won Song of the Year in two different country music award ceremonies in 1983 for "Wind Beneath My Wings." Now, any time he performs it, he hears, "Hey, I like the way you did that Bette Midler song." This happens despite the fact that her version came seven years later.

Why does that piss me off? I don't know. Maybe because I know what it's like to do something first, but then somebody else gets the recognition for it later.

[-jimi-]

I don't get the race thing. I guess I live in a PC country, but if that would be on any form, man, people would rage and it would be all over the news.

Race, WHEN does it even matter? Maybe sometimes in health care (some genes make you more susceptible to different illness for example) and maybe when to describe what a criminal looked like.

Else... it has no purpose mentioning it.

Also I hear white people are called caucasians in USA. Why? Caucasia is like near Russia and the Black Sea. It has nothing to do with being white.

True, Jim. The word "Caucasian" comes from that region but it isn't about skin color. Many people from India have darker skin than a lot of Africans, but they are classified as Caucasian too. I think a lot of Americans confuse "Caucasian" with "Nordic." And race should not matter, except in matters of health history.

In the US, there is a lot of "Hyphenated-American" going on. I don't see the point. Our neighbors to the north point out that people there are simply Canadian, not Asian-Canadian, Hispanic-Canadian, or whatever. But sometimes there are heated discussions. A man my husband works with is from South Africa but is now a US citizen. Although he is white, he points out that if he wanted to, he has every right to call himself an African-American. That has ruffled a few feathers.

Again, what does it matter? I don't like flowery terms when a simpler term is just fine. I can see euphemisms when the original word is unpleasant, but there is nothing wrong with being black, white, yellow, or whatever a person is. Why dress it up? My cats don't do that. They know that being a cat is a perfectly noble thing. There is no need for them to call themselves Feline-Americans.

[BlackHoleKid]

^Hyphenation is ridiculous. I don't refer to myself as European-American, even though the majority of my ancestors were European. I am a human-American, thank you very much!

Originally Posted by jimrat

I don't get the race thing. I guess I live in a PC country, but if that would be on any form, man, people would rage and it would be all over the news.

Race, WHEN does it even matter? Maybe sometimes in health care (some genes make you more susceptible to different illness for example) and maybe when to describe what a criminal looked like.

Else... it has no purpose mentioning it.

Also I hear white people are called caucasians in USA. Why? Caucasia is like near Russia and the Black Sea. It has nothing to do with being white.

Huh. Where I'm from, white people are just "gringos." xD
Also, weirdly enough, it's in the name of being "PC" that they put questions like that on forms, because ALL minorities in America are supposedly underprivelaged and persecuted, so they get preference. Maybe. If some race quota needs filling, at least. It's messed up and it only adds to racial tension in this country. I've never seen people as obsessed with race as Americans are. I mean OBSESSED. We really need to move on.

[O-Dawg]

Originally Posted by BlackHoleKid

I hate people being classified by their race or ethnicity, and I REALLY DETEST being asked what my race is on job applications, scholarships, surveys, etc. It's one of the only things that downright offends me.
Aren't we all just people?
Can we move past this whole "race" business?
Will my race affect my ability to do a good job, or will it just determine how much of a kudos you'll get for being "diverse"?
Aren't people tired of just being "the black guy" or "the white girl" or "the Asian chick," or whatever?
How does having a certain set of ancestors determine who I am now?
I'm proud of my heritage, but I don't want special treatment because of it. Whenever I'm asked on paper, I refuse to answer that bleeping question about my race, because it's a backwards, infintile way of thinking, and really makes me see red.
RANT OVER.

Oh man I agree! I'm native American and people ask me why I don't live on a reservation. Then other people of my race seem to have problems that I have white friends and a white girlfriend. I understand that some of us still have the anger inside about our land being taken away, but that doesn't mean we have to hate on white people! They're no different than us and besides the people that live here now are all descendants. It is fine to be proud of your people, but be proud of everyone. Everyone has something to tell. Every race should have pride just as every race has some shame. I wish that everyone could look at the person inside and not the color of their skin or the shape of their eyes. We're all human!

My daughter (of Hispanic ancestry on her father's side) states that the current issue with immigrants and Spanish-speaking people in the US is an artificially created problem. Nobody cared, until US bureaucracy decided to make "Hispanic" a separate race apart from "white." She says Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a separate race. I told her, I do remember that I was my teens the first time I heard someone say, "I'm white but my boyfriend is Mexican...." and I wondered why the distinction. Wasn't he white too? Unless he was black, or something else... but what does it really matter?

On the bad cover/Whitney Houston thing, I visited YouTube last night and watched a video from 1974 of Dolly Parton doing her original version of "I Will Always Love You." Just as I mentioned above, there were several ignorant people wanting to know why Dolly Parton was "covering" Whitney Houston's song. Apparently they hadn't noticed the date on the video. One went so far as to say, "F--- this white b--- trying to sing that Whitney Houston song." Never mind that Parton wrote it and was singing it for 20 years before Houston ever got a hold of it.

[-jimi-]

Oh well... I used to swear by Led Zeppelin writing Dream On and Aerosmith stole it.

Daughter tells me there are many who think Annie Lennox/the Eurythmics remade Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams." And that Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails covered Johnny Cash's song "Hurt." Other way around, in both cases.

Sexist humor also makes me see red. This is both a petty annoyance (if I hear one more "women in the kitchen" joke.....) and a full-on fury maker. But daughter (I get a lot of information from her) tells me the reason her generation finds it so funny is, they can't believe our generation and our mother's generation actually put up with it, for real.

[BlackHoleKid]

On a similar note, snotty entitled boys who think that they are superior to me for the sole fact that they are male hack me off. Most of these guys have mothers that dote on them religiously, too. Mrrgghh...

LOL, mothers that dote on their children religiously (especially after the children are grown) hack me off. I *don't* love Raymond, and I certainly don't love his mother.

I can see the point when someone says the object of sexist humor is to laugh at the stupid sexism, not to demean the women. But I have a real sensitive spot when it crosses into also laughing at domestic violence. Daughter says if we don't laugh at it, we'd cry about it, but I think crying (and protecting the victim!) is the more appropriate response.

(This can trigger.)

I've seen photos of bruised, cowering women, held up for laughs on HUMOR sites. The captions are usually something like, "I told you to make me a sandwich," or "Dishes. Do them NOW!" Then the comment section is full of, "Quite right. She shouldn't have to be told." Or the most disturbing comment I've ever seen, "Hit her again!" Occasionally I've seen men use those photos as a springboard to rant about how nice guys finish last, the women always go for the jerk, and if she's going to turn down the nice guy in favor of the jerk, she deserves what she gets. First off, for saying she deserves it, he is NOT a nice guy, but a jerk too. Second, so many abused women face attitudes of "Well, that crazy b---, she must enjoy getting beat up, or else she'd get out of there." They don't understand--the victim isn't choosing to stay. She is being held prisoner.

Daughter and I were discussing this, not long ago. She says she understands, I can't find it funny because I got it for real. I was part of the generation where I was looked at disapprovingly and told "Get off your lazy *** and help your mother with the dishes," by brothers and uncles who were themselves just sitting there. Why aren't THEY helping if they're so concerned? Just because I have a uterus doesn't automatically mean I'm the one who is required to do the dishes. My daughter's generation is joking when they say women belong in the kitchen. Mine wasn't.

[Open Eyes]

People who are negligent and lie and use and are disrespectful.

[Fresia]

I agree with many of the above posts but would add....

-Not being accountable and pushing the blame on to others, just accept and learn from it.
-Irresponsibility such as when people say they are going to do something and commit to whatever, then don't. If you can't, don't think you will, or need help, just say so.