More Pet Peeves

Grocery Store Peeves

People in a cash only line who write a check.

People in a 10 items or less line with a fully loaded grocery cart.

Getting behind someone in line who needs a "price check".

How you always pick the slow line.

If you move to another line, then it becomes the slow line.

Pennies

Getting a fifty cent coin in change

The grocery clerk who puts the receipt in your hand, along with your change. I don't want to fumble separating it from my money, nor do I want to put it in my wallet, and I certainly don’t need to hold it.

Paper grocery bags that rip, sending your groceries rolling down the driveway...in the rain.

Getting a grocery cart from a stack of carts and you choose one that is mated to the one behind it and can’t be separated.

The next one you choose will have a wobbly wheel.

“Buy One, Get One Free” sales where they make you take both items to get the sale price, rather than allowing you to take only one at half price.

Grocery stores that make you sign up for a stupid “Bonus Card” in order to take advantage of their sale prices.

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Cop Peeves

You stop a drunk driver and they insist, "I only had two beers, occifer!" Yes, but were they in two 55 gallon drums?

Every suspect, even if you found them standing over a corpse holding a smoking gun, will insist, "I din' do nothin'!"

Stopping a speeder who indignantly informs you, "My taxes pay your salary."

You arrest a man for beating his wife. She beats you down to the jail to bail him out.

People who think cops are clairvoyant.

Rich parents of snot nosed teens who think they should be above the law.

Parents that tell their small children to be good so that the big, bad policeman won’t lock them up.

Lawyers

Obnoxious bail bondsmen

Paid informants

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Phone Peeves

Calling a number and getting consistent busy signals. Finallly, it rings...and rings....and rings...and rings. No answer, ever.

Being put on hold and left in phone limbo indefinitely.

Being disconnected after being on hold for what seems like hours.

Calling right back and the number is busy.

People who promise to return your calls and never do.

Getting stuck in an endless labyrinth of phone menus when calling a business. "If you are calling from a touch tone phone, press 1"......

Hearing the phone ringing when you've got an armload of packages and fumbling to unlock the front door. You reach the phone just in time to hear the caller hanging up.

People who call you and demand, “Who’s speaking”. I usually say, “You were, just then” or “Who did you want to talk to ?” If I’m not the person you want to talk to, then it doesn’t matter who I am. I was taught that it’s up to the caller to identify themselves and get to the point of the call right away.

The fact that they can put a man on the moon, but they can’t make a phone with a pleasant sounding ring.

Answering machines with cute messages

"Wrong numbers" who argue with you after being informed they've dialed the wrong number.

The same "wrong numbers" who call right back. Several times.

Phone calls at inappropriate times: you're in the shower, on the toilet, having sex, etc. Getting out of the shower, toilet, bed, etc to answer the phone and you get to the phone just in time to hear CLICK!

Bill collectors

"Junk" phone calls

People who drive while talking on a cell phone.

People who use cell phones at the movies.

Cordless phones that don't work during a power outage.