Pet peeve one: freezing cold restaurants. Last night my family stopped for dinner at a semi-fast food chain for dinner. It was 40 degrees (F) outside, and the A/C was on! It was freezing in there. I do NOT enjoy my dining experience when I am sitting there shivering like a leaf at the table. This is the second location of this chain we have visited in the past three months. The other location was the same way. I wanted to go sit in the car, I was so miserable.
Pet peeve two: eating off of paper. Big, huge, oversized piece of paper getting food on it, and then getting food on me as I am trying to navigate around it. My husband, watching me get more and more annoyed, finally reaches over and folds down all the excess out of my way. While he's doing this, he asks me, "Why didn't you just fold it down like this before you started eating? I've seen you do it before."
My reply: "I'M TOO COLD!"
2007-01-17 02:17:11 · 11 answers · asked by jenn 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Although English isn't my mother tongue, I love to use some of these special and precise expressions such as the one we are analyzing.
Wikipedia says this about a "pet peeve":
A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that can instill extreme frustration in an individual. Typically each person has several pet peeves that aggravate her or him more than the average person. Another person may not react as negatively or at all to the same circumstance.
The term originated from the word 'peeve.' A 'peeve,' meaning something that is particularly irritating or annoying, is a relatively recent word. Its first printed usage was in 1911. The term is a back formation from a 14th-century word: 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered.
The phrase 'pet peeve,' a uniquely personal irritant, first appeared in print in the early 20th century.
Pet peeves are typically of common occurrences and a person may encounter their pet peeve very often. Pet peeves involve complaints about specific behaviors, rather than general complaining.[1] Pet peeves often involve specific behaviors of someone close such as a spouse or significant other.[1] These behaviors may include those of disrespect, those involving manners, personal hygiene, relationships, and family issues.[1] An example of a pet peeve involving disrespect is someone not using their turn signal while driving; while some drivers feel frustrated when another driver does not use their turn signal, other drivers do not care very much, or consider something else, such as cellphone usage while driving more annoying. Many pet peeves associated with driving can result in road rage, where the person who feels peeved seeks some sort of retribution for the action.[2] Road Rage itself is considered a pet peeve by many.[3][4]
Often a pet peeve will seem illogical to others. For example a supervisor may have a pet peeve about people leaving the lid on the copier up and react angrily, be annoyed when others interrupt when speaking, or by messy desks of their subordinates.[5] That same supervisor may witness employees coming into work late, and not feel any annoyance whatsoever.
Ah... Among others, these are two of my pet peeves:
- eating with the mouth open.
- leaving the w.c. tap up.
I guess there are many people who share mine. ;)
2007-01-17 02:27:28 · answer #1 · answered by Smurfette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "pet peeve" to me is something that doesn't make any sense...something that someone else doesn't take the time to think about.
Leaving the toilet seat up
Using the dryer as an iron
Putting a favorite sweater in with towels
U know these are things we communicate about or for some should start. Give up on the solution that people aren't responsible to think and others should just break that habit for them by either keeping quiet or just plain doing everything our selves. And then there is the childish concept a person should feel guilty for noticing these things are ridiculous. There is a clear difference between the habit of zero empathy and enabling and I think that is where the conflict lies.
2007-01-17 11:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by GoodQuestion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term originated from the word 'peeve.' A 'peeve,' meaning something that is particularly irritating or annoying, is a relatively recent word. Its first printed usage was in 1911. The term is a back formation from a 14th-century word: 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered.
The phrase 'pet peeve,' a uniquely personal irritant, first appeared in print in the early 20th century.
My Pet Peeves - 1) When the phone rings during dinner. 2) When a coworker tells me he or she has the flu and we are working together all day. 3) Rude elderly people in a grocery store.
I almost forgot - I HATE COLD RESTURAUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-17 10:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my pet peeves? heres a list:
slow drivers...no scratch that BAD DRIVERS!!! i hate it when those dumb people get on the side of you to pass through the light and just zip around you like you don't even exist. or when someone gets mad at you because you didn't run the red light. or what about slooooooooooooooowwww drivers who drive an mile an hour in the fast lane? grrrrr
pet peeve 2: cutting me off in mid sentence. i have a friend who does that too much. one time i was in the middle of telling her an amazing story and she just cut me off to talk about her. i hung up. was that rude?
peeve 3: self absorbed people no matter whats going on in the world, they always make it about them. i could be talking about MY hangnail that annoys ME and this certain friend (again) would sooo make it about her. i deal with her in moderation.
2007-01-17 10:27:18 · answer #4 · answered by kesha826 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Pet Peeve: 1) When people drive slow in the left lane..it's annoys the living daylights out of me. 2) When I order in fast food restaurant and the person behind the counter does not understand english and gets my order wrong...seriously people I'm from the minority circle myself but when I came to the U.S. I learned english..i didn't force everyone else living here to learn my language..it really bothers me.
2007-01-17 12:07:51 · answer #5 · answered by Luv Peace 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh jeez - pet peeves...
People who, when driving, pull out in front of you and then drive very slowly - and there's not a car in sight behind you.
People who cut in line.
People who won't let you go ahead of them in the grocery store line when the express lane is closed, all you have is a gallon of milk and they've got six weeks woth of groceries in their buggy.
People who don't know the difference between "your" (belonging to you) and you're (you are) - they're (they are), their (belonging to them) and there (not here) or who pluralize words by putting a 's on the end of it - and do so regularly.
SMS writing in e-mails. It's fine for text messages, but not for other correspondence. U nO WoT i MeEn?
Ugh. I could go on and on and on, but I'm making myself cranky!
2007-01-17 10:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by sylvia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know where it came from but here are a couple of mine:
Stupid people
People who talk on cell phones at registers and restrooms
Waiters who do not keep your drink full
Hubby's socks always on the floor
2007-01-17 11:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who say they are coming to your party and don't show. People who never rsvp for the invite... People who cut in line
2007-01-17 10:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by Kabu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one of my pet peeves is the term pet peeve
2007-01-17 10:24:43 · answer #9 · answered by Huh? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bosses who expect their employees to put in extra time without being paid for the extra work..
2007-01-17 10:28:13 · answer #10 · answered by Byakuya 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋