What is your greatest pet peeve?

2016-07-24T15:33:46-04:00

The inability of oncoming traffic to merge properly is difficult for me to accept while I am driving. This observation is a main contributor for my justification to use profane rhetoric while driving in my automobile.

Response by SSG Stephan Pendarvis made Jul 24 at 2016 3:35 PM

2016-07-24T15:35:53-04:00

People living in fear

Response by SPC(P) Patrick Westbrook made Jul 24 at 2016 3:38 PM

2016-07-24T15:38:19-04:00

Proper grammar of you're, your, there, their, they're, to, too and two are my biggest

Response by Lt Col Jim Coe made Jul 24 at 2016 3:55 PM

2016-07-24T15:55:26-04:00

Sticking with the driving theme: perfectly health and mobile people stepping out of a vehicle in a handicap parking spot and walking into a store. (Yes, I know not all handicaps are visible. The person might have an artificial leg that is so well made I can't tell it even when they have shorts on. I'll also admit that some heart and lung problems might make it so a person can't walk very far.) Happened today at the grocery store. SUV with "temporary" handicap placard parked in handicap spot. Two thirty-ish men got out and strode into the store. No artificial body parts visible. Rate of movement belied any heart or lung problems. Just selfish I think.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 3:58 PM

2016-07-24T15:58:49-04:00

Where to begin...
1) people waiting outside an elevator, don't they understand I need to get out first to make room for them?
2) when I am waiting in a line and there is gap so as to not block the aisle, then some idiot comes along trying to get in line, what you thought I was just standing here with my crap?
3) people with more items than allowed in the express lane at the commissary, need I say more?
4) drivers who have not master the turn signal, actually almost anything involving idiots who can't drive.
This list can go on forever... OK, rant over, time to take my meds.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 4:13 PM

2016-07-24T16:13:44-04:00

People sitting on top of a desk or table.

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Jul 24 at 2016 4:23 PM

2016-07-24T16:23:30-04:00

As soon as I wrote one down for you, CPT Private RallyPoint Member, I'd remember another that bothered me more!

Response by SN Greg Wright made Jul 24 at 2016 5:06 PM

2016-07-24T17:06:20-04:00

Text speak. My kids learned long ago to not use it when texting me, because I won't answer. So I'm probably the last human on earth who knows that they're actually educated.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jul 24 at 2016 5:08 PM

2016-07-24T17:08:39-04:00

People who cannot answer a simple question, or give you a 10 minute explanation as to why they can't answer your question, or whose answer has absolutely nothing to do with your question. If you don't know the answer to my question just say so. I have other means of finding the answer, sometimes I may ask you the question first just because I want a faster answer.

Response by Sgt Kelli Mays made Jul 24 at 2016 6:20 PM

2016-07-24T18:20:14-04:00

1. NOT using your Turn Signal
2. Littering
3. People always trying to text me instead of picking up the phone...Oh my GOD I hate Texting! Then I get...I've been texting you for hours...why haven't you responded...and I ask...did you call me? Call me and I'll answer.
4. People who say AX instead of ASK. People who ask "Where are you at?" when it should be "where are you?" you don't need the "AT." "At" and "where" are the same thing...double negative.
5. Going to the ATM or the drive through and the person in front of you is NOT prepared and takes for ever. UGH...especially when there was a line or long line already and while they are sitting there waiting, they should fill out their forms (deposit/withdraw) and be ready when it's their turn.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Jul 24 at 2016 6:22 PM

2016-07-24T18:22:03-04:00

Just one? You're kidding. Okay, under the category of driving, my greatest pet peeve is a group: Traffic Engineers. There aren't any. Well, to be fair, there was one, a long time ago in a city far away. Henry Barnes, the Traffic Czar of Baltimore during the 1950's. Those who pretend to be traffic engineers pale in comparison as I'm reminded sitting at a red light, watching the next one preparing to turn red before I'm released to go to it. Or when I find that no one can build a curve in a road with a constant radius forcing me to adjust my steering as I pass through it. And don't get me started on freeway cloverleafs, the dumbest interchange ever devised. I'm going to quit there before I have to down a whole bottle of blood pressure medication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Barnes_(traffic_engineer)

Henry Barnes (traffic engineer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henry A. Barnes (December 16, 1906 – September 1968)[1] was an American traffic engineer and commissioner who served in many cities, including Flint, Michigan; Denver, Colorado; Baltimore, Maryland; and New York City. Barnes was responsible for many innovations in applied traffic engineering, including the Green Wave of coordinated traffic signals, the application of actuated traffic signals (signals set off by the presence of an automobile or...

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 7:26 PM

2016-07-24T19:26:00-04:00

Bored and Fiefdom- seeking Good Idea Fairy CSMs and their unique SOPs like no bags and backpacks in the defec because they are afraid of a Jihadist coming into their dining facility at a secure base near you! This is not Mosul in 2004!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 8:43 PM

2016-07-24T20:43:20-04:00

My greatest pet peeves are, no turn signals being used. People driving slower than anyone else, causing back up. People who sit at a green light playing with their damn phones, or looking at their cell phone while on a highway, swerving over the lines. Inconsiderate drivers. Tailgating, that should be under no turn signals. I've figured out if you just let off the gas long enough, they go around you pissed off, but not on your ass anymore.

Response by CPT Catherine R. made Jul 24 at 2016 9:07 PM

2016-07-24T21:07:29-04:00

The exit I have to merge onto after I leave work is onto a 70 mph freeway. It's a super long on ramp and is only really used by the other people who work in the buildings by work. You have no idea how many people try to putz on to I5 going 50 mph and then just merging on to an interstate freeway! It's amazing there aren't more accidents. Bad enough they can't merge but they are impeding traffic flow too :(

Response by SrA Matthew Knight made Jul 25 at 2016 12:51 AM

2016-07-25T00:51:49-04:00

Outside of road related peeves (which is a list 30 miles long) I would say my biggest peeve is people watching over my shoulder when I am doing anything on computer. If I specifically called there attention for a reason then that's one thing but I don't like curious George hovering over me. I usually stop everything I am doing when someone does and either sit silently or turn and strike up conversation until they get bored and walk away.

Along the same lines is someone who is reading an article I am looking at on my screen who then tells me to, "Scroll up, I didn't finish reading that." I scroll at my pace buddy. You want to read the article slowly then fine but do it at your own computer.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jul 25 at 2016 1:34 AM

2016-07-25T01:34:17-04:00

Liberals.

Response by SSG Trust Palmer made Jul 25 at 2016 2:03 AM

2016-07-25T02:03:24-04:00

My my husband leave the toilet seat up during the night and I fall in. SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"

Response by CPT Pedro Meza made Jul 25 at 2016 3:03 PM

2016-07-25T15:03:01-04:00

Why can't marriages licenses be like driving licenses that are renew every five years?

Response by Col Dona Marie Iversen made Aug 2 at 2016 2:02 PM

2016-08-02T14:02:35-04:00

1. Liars
2. Tardiness
3. Trashy neighbors that flick their cigarette butts in front of my house
4. Dog owners not picking up pets poop on my lawns
5. People 'running' into a full elevator-wait for those to get out FIRST

For #s 3 & 4, in the middle of the nite I pick up the butts & poop and return to rightful owners front door!