1. Throwing cigarettes (or any garbage) out of car windows.  If you want to smoke and pollute your lungs, I have no problem with that.  Why do you have to throw the butts out the window of your car and pollute the earth?  Put them in your damn ashtray and contaminate your own car.  NOT the universe that you are sharing with the rest of us.  I have nothing against smokers; I used to be one – but I used an ashtray.
2.  How many people smoke and then put it out right where they are standing and leave it there?  I have seen it on golf courses, outside workplaces, and restaurants.  There may even be a large ashtray that looks like a garbage pail three feet away, but they can’t see it?  WTF is that?  If you smoke, carry a portable ashtray.  If not,  put a little baggy in your pocket and put the butt in there when you are done. Not under my feet or where a little one can pick it up off the ground and put it in their mouth.  DO YOU HAVE A CONSCIENCE?  Oh, that’s right – it’s the sense of entitlement.
3. Men who take off their t-shirts to mow the lawn.  Most of the time, people who take their shirts off in this situation have no business doing it.  I do not want to see your hairy chest or large woolly belly or your man boobs.  Nobody does!  Put on a tank top … anything … please!?  Unless, of course, you look like this:   
4.  My latest pet peeve is people walking behind my car when I try to pull out of a parking space.  You see me pulling out, yet you still think to speed up and make sure you squeeze by between my car and the one I am trying not to hit.  Am I the only person that happens to?  Remember when people would stop and help direct you to get out of that spot?  Now they seem to like to play chicken and blame you even though they weren’t even out of the store when you started backing out.
5.  Strangers who put their bare feet or dirty shoes up on the seat next to you in a train, at a ballgame, at the movies – wherever!  Please stop! I don’t want to see them or smell them.  It isn’t polite. (thank you for reminding me of that one, Roberta)
6.  People who stare at my son because he has Down Syndrome.  These folks look at him like they have never seen a human being with a disability.   Do you not realize how obvious you are being?  He sees you, and so do I.  Just say “Hello”  or “Hi Handsome.”  He will smile, shyly put his face in his hands and be thrilled for the acknowledgment.
7. When I still have 1/4 of a bottle of lotion and the pump isn’t working.  I shouldn’t have to turn it upside down and bang it or dig my fingers in there.  Why can’t they make a pump that works until the bottle is empty in this day and age of technology?
8. I am in a grocery store looking at something, and somebody walks in front of or reaches around me to get something … what comes out of my mouth?  I think the words that escape you are “excuse me.”  What the heck happened to those two simple little words of politeness? Is that too much to ask?   It is that sense of entitlement again!
9. Whiners – from 2 years old to 80 years old.  At 2, a toddler doesn’t know any better, but if they are still whining at 3 – I blame the parents.   For adults, it is always the people who wouldn’t know a real problem if it bit them in the ass.  The people who have difficulties don’t complain – they pray for the less fortunate.
10.  People who say that God only gives us what we can handle … said no God ever.  That is not why bad stuff happens, so please stop blaming him.

Grocery Store Pet Peeves

1. When you get in an express lane with 25 yogurts and ten different kinds of fruit and claim that’s only two items … yogurt and fruit.  Really?
2. When the lines are long and a perfectly capable person can’t seem to bag their own groceries to help.
3. Even better is when they not only don’t help, but they stand there and complain about the way the cashier is doing it.
4. I always pack my groceries because I prefer it, but that doesn’t mean the cashier shouldn’t say thank you.
5. One of my husband’s pet peeves:  We run into the grocery store for a few things, and I see a friend I haven’t seen in a while.  20 minutes later, we still only have two of the four items we went to buy.
6. When people drop something or their kid breaks a jar of peaches, then proceed to leave it there and pretend it never happened.   Get somebody!  This also goes for the movies – throw your garbage away on the way out.  It’s your mess, and you aren’t leaving the movie guy a tip for cleaning up after you.

Sandy

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