What are your people pet peeves?

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Mine are when people sound angry or impatient when correcting others, when people condescend to others, and know-it-alls.

when people ignore me.

In conversation when people make 'judgement statements', directly or indirectly meant as a commentary on ME. I hate that, because they don't know what they are talking about, and I think it is unjust for such delusional prejudice to be judgementally inside another person's head....to the point where they make decisions related to me, stir up trouble, lie, exaggerate,... etc, etc.... which have a 'real world' impact on me......once again.....all based on their myopic!! ! one sided, biased, and most of all self justifying and selfish delusion....

...Other people problem......power-seeking manipulative lying snake people bother me. I can't stand to even THINK about them. They are often the biggest FAKES AND LIARS.

People who intentionally invade my personal space when they know I don't want them to.

It has not been much of an issue in a while, but at my old venue we had a neighbor who I did not like, and because I did not like him, he would hang around me just because he knew it made me uncomfortable and intimidate me just for fun.

Another kind of example was the girlfriend of a guy who worked for us. Making smalltalk with her really had a tendency to stress me out. I did not want to be rude to her, but she happened to have this way of setting me off, and i avoided her the best I could. Sometimes I could not help it that I had a really hard time answering her questions and whatnot...But she would take offense to it and get all huffy and offended.

I hate it when whenever I state a fact that is to be taken literally and informatively, the person takes the fact and misinterprets it.
They put all this meaning into it that it never had, turning it into something that I never said, and then getting all offended at their own misperceptions.


A very simplistic, though slightly exaggerated, example:

Me: My favorite color is purple.

Person: (*Thinking*: Purple symbolizes envy, sensuality, wealth, royalty, nobility, wisdom, arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, profanity, exaggeration, confusion, homosexuality, and pride.)
Oh, so you're saying that you are a manipulative lesbian whore who craves attention and likes to start drama. And you think you're better than everyone else!
F**k you, b***h.

Last edited by CleverKitten on 26 Jan 2009, 7:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

All of the ones that have been posted so far.

Also, when people don't buckle their seat belts when they get in the car. Don't ask why.

Yeeek.

I guess people do do that, don't they?

There are a lot of things about people that are scary that I tend to try to tune out.

I hate having meanings imposed upon my meaningless actions. There will often be very little thought behind my various gestures, looks, words and facial expressions. I am often very out of touch with my facial expressions and body language.
It is scary that I might be observed and have people think otherwise, or that it is directed somehow towards them.

Another pet peeve I have is when people get offended by things I say that were not meant in offense.
I enraged a friend once when i pointed out that my $500 Trek was a fancier bike than her Pawn Shop Huffy. I forget why I brought it up, but it was not intended an an offense.

i cant stand people who smell bad. Fart breath is a major pet peeve. I also can relate to when people take my blunt statements as an attack.

Me too. I especially hate know-it-alls.

Well, I must say it's to be ignored, and If I get hung up in a topic no one else seems to care about at all. That sucks big time.

A sort of related one is people (especially family) who think they have an absolute right to come round my place any time they like. Or hint at doing so when I haven't invited them and have good reasons for not doing so.

See, our place is old, we have a bunch of maintenance/decorating issues, and hubthing and I have had a duff couple of years and are way behind on dealing with all that stuff. Plus, we don't at the best of times maintain it like a show home, because it's not - it's where we live. Plus, we have a mishmash of old furniture, much of it cat-ravaged, odd tastes in color, and some unusual interests which are obvious to anyone perusing our bookcases. And also...we're private souls. We don't want people round unless we're in the mood. When we feel sociable, we'd rather meet them for a meal or a beer out somewhere.

I'm OK with friends who, being friends, know what we're like and don't give a flying monkey's tits what our home looks like. But when relatives (who are much better off, further up the housing ladder and who do, effectively, keep show homes) start asking what's the place look like, do we have photos etc, I feel kind of...poked. Like a zoo animal. Like they want to come round and gawp at the weirdoes and then go away congratulating themselves. This may be based on a bad experience with one particular relative, who doesn't visit any more, but it feels like an invasion of privacy. I would never demand to come to someone's home if I thought they didn't feel comfortable, so why do other people try and do it?

A "Lads lad" who's all about muscles, drink and ego, bitchy girls who spread rumours, and just anyone who's constantly 2 dimensional.

- Insincere people who act at appearing concerned, caring and kind in order to feed their own egos or gain social kudos. Luckly, I'm very good at spotting them!

- People who pick on others to hide there own insecurities and inadequacies.

- Fickle, superficial, trivial, shallow people.

I can relate to most of the above posts. One thing that I really cannot tolerate are people who smoke in front of me, especially in the car. The smell for me is nauseating. Smokers in general who do their smoking in private or amongst one another I have no problem with.

People who look down their noses at others.

- Being ignored
- People who can't admit that they did something wrong when it's clear to everyone that they did