The next couple of days I am going to try to make the blog more interactive as I'd like to find out more about all of you that read the blog. The regular posters, the regular readers that haven't posted yet, or the new people that have found the blog through a search engine. I'd like to know a little about each of you.
Today it is Pet Peeves. What are you pet peeves?
Mine are:
1. People that don't use their turn signal. I often want to stop them and tell them that they have a beautiful new car but really should take the car back and have a turn signal installed.
2. People that don't turn on their headlights in what is called a "safety corridor." There is a sign when you enter a safetey corridor that says "lights on for safety." This means during the day too. Studies have shown that on two lane roads when people use headlights during the day it reduces crashes by 70%. The head lights are turned on so people coming the opposite direction can see you, not so you can see them.
3. Pro football stars that are college graduates using terrible English. Especially if they graduated from a college that I have some relationship with.
4. Young kids that are rude to senior citizens. I cannot tell you the number of times that Mom and I have been leaving a restaurant and high school kids almost knock her and her walker over getting out of the door before she does instead of helping her with the door.
5. Air quotes. This is really petty and should be a petty peeve but it does annoy me.
6. Those that try to get me to eat something after I've already said no thank you. Dieting it is hard enough without being tempted, especially when temptation isn't your favorite thing to fight. I've reached an additional barrier now and want to break it.
That is mine for now. It is your turn now.
About Me
- William J.
- First, I think the birth sign is wrong. 6-21, some papers say Gemini, some Cancer. Guess that means I have so many personalities that I can do group therapy alone. For those that don't know how to read Google profiles I have put what I really mean in ( ). Hot (Good looking enough to be in movies(if I buy at ticket). A body like a God (Buddha). Romantic (Thinks begging is foreplay.) Physically fit (Heart trouble. Put 911 on speed dial before we get initmate.) Good Provider (has good life insurance in case you forget to put 911 on speed dial.) Loyal (has reference letters from Mom and parole officer.) Intelligent (scored 1600 on his SATS but you have to total the scores of the four times that I took the test.) Looking for someone compatible (Be between 30 & 99 and not inflatable.)
17 comments:
Okay, I'll start off, in no particular order except the last:
Misplaced apostrophes. Notable: a local senior daycare place called "Daily Dream's". Their sign is very tall, very fancy, and I'm sure very expensive to correct, but still... I note their van has it sans apostrophe, so they have learned better.
Perfectly healthy people who park in handicapped spaces.
SUVs that take up two parking spaces.
Cell phone shouting in public.
And my Number One Pet Peeve:
People who pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular", notably the resident of the White house, who hasn't learned in 8 years. That or anything else.
Maybe some more will come to mind -- those are off the top of my head. Fun question.
Hi Pat
I'm glad you gave it a go.
The apostrophes thing bothers a lot of people including me. I bet the senior daycare center gets a lot of comments about the snafu.
I also get upset with people that park in handicapped spaces and the Suv's taking up two spaces.
The cell phone things doesn't bother me that much and I am probably as bad as George with the Nuclear as nucular. I am going to work on it now though.
Bill
Let's see...
Sheer stupidity. The kind where it makes me want to hand them the Bill Engvall sign.
People on cell phones talking loudly during checkout lines causing a delay.
People who are judgemental.
People that start out as your friend and then just quit talking to you.
Last but not least,
People on aol making references to all those "AOL people" when they are an AOL people too.
Dang, I didn't list my number ONE peeve!
People making "short bus" references or jokes!
Hi There Symply
I'm with on the cell phone not only in checkout lines but in lines at the bank or the dry cleaners etc.
Aol is free if you do right, seems to me that AOL people are as smart as anyone.
I also hate judgmental people. The short bus jokes I can go either way but promise not to make them if you are the same room as I am.
Bill
(I know about those football stars; I got many of them degrees when I was typing for a company that made a business of correcting the grammatical errors in the papers of the local "jocks." And yes, I often raised moral scruples about it...but was told that wasn't our concern and that business was business.)
My pet peeves include most of those mentioned by previous posters. Add to it friends who will not come to your daughter's wedding because she feels we are taking religion "too lightly."
What's a "short bus" joke? No, wait, I know because I just Googled it. Nasty. Never heard that one before. Good pet peeve.
Bev: That's a friend you can cross off the list. More wedding cake for your real friends.
Pat
I googled short bus jokes after you said they were nasty and my idea of what a short bus joke was different so now that I really know what they are they are on my list of pet peeves.
Bill
Mean people who think they can yell at other people when things don't go their way.
People who don't pick up after themselves.
People who get all their sleep when there's work to be done, and then get up and play computer games and turn on lights when I'm trying to sleep. And drop the cat on me. Grr.
And the IRS. I am very annoyed with them today as well. And sick of hearing Nutcracker Suite. I bet you can guess how I spent my day.
Bev
I wish everyone would have listened to you when you raised the moral scruples question about the gramatical errors of the football players. It just reflects so badly on both the player and the college when they can't string a three word sentence together.
As to you idiot friend I agree with Pat.
Bill
Mary
Sorry you had a bad day. If I can help with anything I'm happy to.
Is it the kids or hubby not picking up after themselves?
I hate snit fits by people who want to get their own way all the time too.
I didn't know you had a cat. Give your kids a hug from me.
The IRS can be very annoying and I hate the nutcrack suite, I try to avoid listening to it every holiday season.
Hope tomorrow is better
Bill
I'm pretty much a "grammar snob". Like Pat, the misuse of the apostrophe makes me nuts! I tend to make corrections - even in library books (I know - shame on me!)
It seems that nobody uses pronouns correctly any more either. They can seem to distinguish when to use "I" and when to use "me".
Then there's the unnecessary "at". As in "Where's it at?"
AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH! I'm sorry. You never should've gotten me started. 8^)
Mary Z
I'm fighting the urge to say being grammar snob is where it is at.
The other Mary was a journalism major and she is pretty grammar knowledgeable.
I don't know if I can find it but a couple of years ago a local columnist did a couple of columns about an apostrophe in Albertsons. There four retired folks that met for coffee every morning at a McDonald's (?) near Albertsons and noticed the sign didn't have a apostrophe and wrote a letter to them about the snafu. The got a letter back from Albertsons corporate attorney. The columns were hilarious.
I hate the I and Me thing too. That is one of the things the sports stars do regularly use me instead of I.
Don't be sorry I loved your message.
Bill
You know, with a little practice, you could get to be a real smart-ass! 8^)
Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss? It's about punctuation, and is hysterical. Try your library.
http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592400876
Mary Z
Sometimes the devil just makes me do things.
I made note of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves and will look for it when I go to the library or I will go to Amazon and order it. Thanks for the reference.
Bill
Mary Z said, It seems that nobody uses pronouns correctly any more either. They can seem to distinguish when to use "I" and when to use "me".
That's a good one, Mary Z! How could I have forgotten that one? It so often makes me cringe. So many think they're being super-grammatical by saying, for example, "to you and I". It's so common that when I say "(insert preposition) you and me", I feel a sneaking need to say, "that's really correct, you know", and explain why.
Pat
That makes a lot of us that don't like the same thing.
You and me think a lot a like, or is it you and I?
Bill
Post a Comment