- People that try to pass you on the right as you slow down or stop. You are going to kill that pedestrian I stopped for, and I will have to live the rest of my life with the image of it happening. Just stop. Please. Stop.
- My inability to remember anything. “Mom, remember I told you yesterday about that?” No, sadly, I don’t.
- Misspellings on Facebook. I want to correct them, but it feels so rude to reply to your friend’s post about how unhappy they are with, “I am so sorry; but ‘your’ means ‘belonging to you’ and ‘you’re’ means ‘you are.’ Also, ‘riddens’ is actually ‘riddance.”’ See? That’s rude, right?
- When people tell me how incredibly busy they are, or how many hundreds of emails they get a day. Please.
- Employees complaining about their job either to me directly or while I am in earshot. You have a job. Remember? You are getting paid to bag my groceries? Let’s focus on that, ok?
What’s driving you nuts today?
Cheryl – love your blog – RE: Item 3 – The English teachers at my son’s school (Hayfield Secondary in Alexandria VA) got a special T-shirt to wear at a recent pep rally – it said “they’re there their they’re there their they’re there their….” all down the front of the shirt – wonderful – but probably wasted on the kids 🙁
That’s awesome! I have a few friends that would LOVE to wear that shirt!
Cheryl, I share all of you pet peeves listed in this post!!! I think Catholic school made grammar Nazis out of a lot of us. My mother drove it home to my siblings and me and we are all intolerant of bad grammar (which isn’t always easy to handle).
I would add that I can’t stand seeing people with metal detectors at the end of a wonderful beach day…. preying on the misfortunes those who came before them to enjoy the day.
Oh, that is a good one. I never understood why it bothered me so much; you have articulated it perfectly!