Pet Peeves

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People who use innocent people as weapons

Shameful practice

people who sit on equipment at gym for ages scrolling on there phone or talking to another person on equipment

The world's obsession with social media

I'm literally being forced to start using social media because if people can't find you online they assume you don't exist or you're a psychopath or something. I don't want to be posting pictures of myself and sharing my life story for the whole world to see, but apparently I have no choice. Why couldn't I live in a time when people got to know each other by talking instead of sneaking behind each other's backs?

I hate it when I go in a toy shop like the gadget shop and there's no batteries in the things on display

People who take forever at the checkout making a big production like they're buying a house or something. And or yamner with the clerk like they're old friends having lunch together. Just buy your stuff and leave without all the time consuming nonsense, as if there weren't other people waiting in line to do just that.

^ That drives me nuts sometimes too, especially if I have to order something from the cashier because I'm rehearsing the script in my head while waiting. Let's get going before I forget why I'm in even in line.

When you're talking on the phone and your own voice echoes back to you, so you can't hear what the other person is saying. It's very frustrating.

Is that when it's on loud speaker

I don't put mine on loud speaker but I think my aunt does because she's not very good at hearing. I hate talking on speaker though because I find it sounds too distorted. And when the other person is on speaker I find it picks up every background sound and amplifies it.

Do you find that it sometimes sounds like they're talking under water

Yes.

I think my aunt just needs to turn the volume up on her phone that controls how loud the speaker comes through (when not on speakerphone). I have mine on its loudest.

One time I had a panic attack over something private, and I phoned my aunt to unburden myself, but she was out at a restaurant at the time and had her phone on speaker, so basically the whole restaurant could hear my crying and all my personal business. I didn't know she'd had it on speakerphone until I next saw her. I told her off, and she sheepishly apologised but said she was deaf so needed to have speakerphone on.