Pet peeves

I was thinking about how many things I get annoyed with this morning and I realized that I’m pretty easy to annoy. Then I thought that maybe that’s a bad thing, but maybe it’s a good thing too, I don’t know. But, anyway, I decided to make a list of my pet peeves, the things that really get under my skin. See how many you agree with, and then maybe we can be annoyed together!

Marty’s Pet Peeves:

1. Bad grammer/spelling. When I see this, I have an irresistible urge to fix it, no matter what. Frequent annoyances include not including the proper pronoun in phrases, i.e. “I’m going to the movies, want to come with?”, not knowing the difference between affect/effect, usage of “leet-speak” like “1337-pwnage!”, and unnecessary bad spelling like “kewl” instead of “cool”.

2. Waitresses who don’t refill drinks at restaurats, especially if I’m at a restaurant where the food is expensive, like Outback. Erin and I were there once and our waitress only came to our table 3 times. Once to take our order/return with our drinks, once to bring out our food, and once to take our check. Pitiful service yields pitiful tips from me.

3. People who don’t use turn signals. I don’t have the time or the words to comment on this one.

4. The Free Credit Report.com song. All my teenagers know all the words and some even have it as ringtones on their phone!

5. People who start to say something and stop mid-sentence and never finish.

6. The fact that I have the ability to start a book and never finish it.

I’m sure there’s a lot more but typing out this list really made me annoyed, so post yours and maybe I’ll add more later!

~ by Marty on June 25, 2008.