Pet peeves

Firm handshake and eye contact. I get really disappointed in people that make me feel like I'm gripping a wet towel and on top of that they either look away into the distance or towards the ground...

Eye contact is a challenge in many cultures. It's probably why the British got into it with everybody back in the day.
 
People who let their dogs run loose.

That's me maybe ...Kevin has a collar but i dont make him wear it ,he has near perfect recall and is a great dog
He is fenced in during the day but when we go out he is somewhat free to do as he wants
We have a command ""stay close" that is similar to "heel" he knows to stay with a few feet of me
If i say "go play" he knows he's free but rarely goes out of my sight
He knows " watch for cars" and " wait"
He's my best friend i don't want to put a rope on him if he doesn't need it. :-)
 
Tailgaters, usually some young female in her 20's that has no concept of how far it takes for a vehicle to stop in an emergency situation.
 
I'm going to add people that can't maintain the speed limits on mountain two-lanes, but refuse to use turnouts to let traffic by.

Which is really an expansion on my original post.
 
I must have mellowed over the years - used to have a bunch, but they don't seem so important anymore. I still have the one that bugs me the most - canned laughter. I don't need prompting to laugh at something that's no even cute. Oh, one more - sick and tired of the non-stop media coverage of that golddigger and Harry . She's hired an agent to saturate the news trying to make her look like someone important. She'd be a failure even on a street corner.

Only because she's too good looking to be a real hooker, I'd think she was undercover sting. :)
 
How about the cheap paper towels that we felt lucky to even find to buy during this pandemic that don't tear well at the perforation ? I mean you grab an edge of the towel and yank expecting it to come off cleanly and it shreds the section. Then you have to try again.
Sometimes it's the little things that really get under my skin....
 
Filth...Plain and simple, there is no excuse today for anyone to be filthy. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with good honest sweat. Filth is another matter, filthy clothes, filthy hair, beard, skin. There is an understanding with people that have mental illness, but laziness is not an excuse and often even the mentally challenged are just lazy when it comes to keeping clean. I can let funky slide, no room for filth.
 
I really get annoyed when the person at the front of the line at a stop light decides to play with their phone. I usually miss the light because I was several cars back.

I really have a peeve with my dental hygienist who has a compulsion to make me wait 5 to 10 minutes before she is ready to seat me. All the other hygienists start on time. I've told her I'd appreciate a prompt start...Never happens. I even tried to outsmart her and schedule with someone different...nope she switched me back. She thinks she "owns" my visit. I hate that!!!
 
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Honestly, I have so many that I have to think the problem is me, not someone else. But I'll go with...

Driving while texting/talking/reading while holding your phone. You're driving a 3,000 pound deadly weapon, and you have no idea what's going on more than six inches from your nose.
 
I really have a peeve with my dental hygienist who has a compulsion to make me wait 5 to 10 minutes before she is ready to seat me. All the other hygienists start on time.

I very strongly suggest that you do not retire to Las Vegas. Appointments take place when the medical professionals finally decide that they are good and ready, and don't you forget it.
 
Firm handshake and eye contact. I get really disappointed in people that make me feel like I'm gripping a wet towel and on top of that they either look away into the distance or towards the ground...

I don't know how old you are, but in my case, as I'm sure with others, I stopped shaking hands over 5 years ago due to arthritic hands. It hurts when someone puts a "vice grip" squeeze into a hand shake.

Like so many others, I use the "fist bump".
 
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