Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

[RealHousewife]

4 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

x 1000!!  Or the now permanent "If this is an emrgency, hang up and dial 911". 

Arggghhhh!!!

For real? Who doesn’t know to dial 911 for emergency? 

[SuprSuprElevated]

21 minutes ago, PRgal said:

They're supposed to say that for liability.  

I realize that. No less annoying.

[SoMuchTV]

57 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

x 1000!!  Or the now permanent "If this is an emrgency, hang up and dial 911". 

Arggghhhh!!!

In my experience, that has replaced the whole answering service/doctor on call system. For, you know, the large variety of issues that fall somewhere between “this is a full-blown 911 emergency!!!” and “it’s Friday evening but this can wait until the Tuesday after a long holiday weekend to even get through to the office and leave a message for the receptionist to pass on to the nurse.”  Thank dog my kids’ pediatricians still had a doc on call, back in the day. 

[KittyMom4]

1 hour ago, SoMuchTV said:

In my experience, that has replaced the whole answering service/doctor on call system. For, you know, the large variety of issues that fall somewhere between “this is a full-blown 911 emergency!!!” and “it’s Friday evening but this can wait until the Tuesday after a long holiday weekend to even get through to the office and leave a message for the receptionist to pass on to the nurse.”  Thank dog my kids’ pediatricians still had a doc on call, back in the day. 

You are so right, back in my day (lol!), when I called my children's pediatrician I would get an answering service that would take the information and forward it on to the on-call Dr who would then call me back.  I think with the prevalence of Urgent Cares all over the place they no longer utilize these types of services though. Heck, just 2 weeks ago I sat in an Urgent Care facility for 2 hours to get treated for conjunctivitis (lucky me!) and it never crossed my mind to call my doctor's office. 

Edited January 19, 2023 by KittyMom4

[SoMuchTV]

2 minutes ago, KittyMom4 said:

Heck, just 2 weeks ago I sat in an Urgent Care facility for 2 hours to get treated for conjunctivitis (lucky me!) and it never crossed my mind to call my doctor's office. 

Don’t worry. If you had, you would have gotten a recording that said “If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911.”

[ginger90]

Back in the day…. I worked at an answering service. The majority were doctors, but also included funeral homes, oil companies, cable companies, and a couple of limousine companies. The answering service is still in business.

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by ginger90

[EtheltoTillie]

I heard you could watch the Sundance Film Festival on line this year.  I thought that would be fun.  But it's sold out already.  Why?  Why can't they just sell unlimited tickets?  Must be some rights issues. 

[SuprSuprElevated]

2 hours ago, KittyMom4 said:

it never crossed my mind to call my doctor's office

GPs, in my experience, are merely screeners, gathering information to determine which specialist to send you to.  Healthcare distributors, managing insurance and medicare requirements; document managers.

[Browncoat]

Damn you, Krispy Kreme, and your Biscoff cookie butter iced doughnuts! (They're too delicious!)

[EtheltoTillie]

10 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Damn you, Krispy Kreme, and your Biscoff cookie butter iced doughnuts! (They're too delicious!)

Biscoff Cookies are the Devil's Candy.  They're very much as addictive as Beaver Nuggets.  I happen to have a package calling my name here in the office. 

[oliviabenson]

I can eat a pound of chocolate nothing happens to my skin. My weight though lol is another story.

[Bethany]

People who say like all the time.  I was in a meeting earlier and one of the participants was going "Like I really don't agree with this proposal, like I am not saying there's like anything wrong with it but like it just doesn't work for me".

The worst thing for me when someone does this is, like, I end up doing it too!

[ABay]

I've given up a few podcasts because the hosts say like like every like 5 like words.

[PRgal]

57 minutes ago, ABay said:

I've given up a few podcasts because the hosts say like like every like 5 like words.

Are they millennial females?

[SuprSuprElevated]

3 hours ago, Elizabeth Anne said:

"Like I really don't agree with this proposal, like I am not saying there's like anything wrong with it but like it literally just doesn't work for me".

ftfy

Edited January 20, 2023 by SuprSuprElevated

[annzeepark914]

2 hours ago, ABay said:

I've given up a few podcasts because the hosts say like like every like 5 like words.

My stepdaughter, a medical professional, uses "like" ad nauseum. She's in her 40's, not a teen. But I've seen videos of her appearances on TV and she never has used "like", thank goodness. I'm not sure which is worse--"like" or "you know".

Edited January 20, 2023 by annzeepark914

[rcc]

29 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:

My stepdaughter, a medical professional, uses "like" ad nauseum. She's in her 40's, not a teen. But I've seen videos of her appearances on TV and she never has used "like", thank goodness. I'm not sure which is worse--"like" or "you know".

I vote you know. I hate it.

[Annber03]

27 minutes ago, rcc said:

I vote you know. I hate it.

My dad told me about how he had a tendency to throw that phrase into conversations as a teenager, to the point where, one day, he did it when answering a question in class.

Finally his teacher snapped at him and said, "No, Mr. _____, I don't know!" :p. 

Edited January 21, 2023 by Annber03

[supposebly]

'like' has been around for hundreds of years. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/like-don-t-blame-like-on-kids-these-days-says-sociolinguist-1.3992564

[partofme]

38 minutes ago, supposebly said:

'like' has been around for hundreds of years. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/like-don-t-blame-like-on-kids-these-days-says-sociolinguist-1.3992564

Yeah I was gonna say I’m Gen X and like was really big when I was in junior high. 

[PRgal]

1 hour ago, annzeepark914 said:

My stepdaughter, a medical professional, uses "like" ad nauseum. She's in her 40's, not a teen. But I've seen videos of her appearances on TV and she never has used "like", thank goodness. I'm not sure which is worse--"like" or "you know".

If your stepdaughter is in her 40s, she was probably a teenager when Clueless came out.  And that likely influenced her.  But the "valley girl" voice existed long before that.  

 

[annzeepark914]

6 hours ago, partofme said:

Yeah I was gonna say I’m Gen X and like was really big when I was in junior high. 

"Like" may have been around for a couple centuries. But it wasn't used over & over & over again as (like!) it has been since Valley Girl lingo was created in the '70's or '80's. We just got off the phone with our daughter. She was talking excitedly about something and I lost track of the number of "like"s I heard. Oy vey!

 

 

Edited January 21, 2023 by annzeepark914

[Anela]

1 hour ago, rcc said:

I vote you know. I hate it.

This is one that I'm guilty of.

This reminded me of when I was waiting in the B&N in Buffalo, waiting for my dad to bring my sister across the border, just before Thanksgiving 2016. I had a pile of books on a small table, and a mother and daughter sat next to me at another table, catching up. The daughter kept saying, "like this, and like that, and like this" for the entire conversation. After maybe two hours, I got up and walked over to Panera, and vented to my dad about it on the phone. 

[PRgal]

Vocal fry is worse though.  

[peacheslatour]

24 minutes ago, PRgal said:

Vocal fry is worse though.  

Oh god, it is. My DIL is a really intellegent, creative, very bright woman but that vocal fry...

[Caoimhe]

Today's peeve is meteorologists gushing about how wonderful it is that we are getting more snow, which makes me so upset I have to leave the room if I'm not in control of the remote. Yes, I am living in the northeast and it's winter (though I wish I could change that). Yes, in the northern part of the state the snow is very important for tourism-related businesses, plus there are outdoor people and children who truly love this frozen white evilness. And yes, it's their job to be pleasant and positive on-screen. But as long as I have to shovel the crap I will continue to flee when they appear to joyously announce yet another storm bringing "plowable snow" in this "active weather pattern".  

[Yeah No]

1 hour ago, Caoimhe said:

Today's peeve is meteorologists gushing about how wonderful it is that we are getting more snow, which makes me so upset I have to leave the room if I'm not in control of the remote. Yes, I am living in the northeast and it's winter (though I wish I could change that). Yes, in the northern part of the state the snow is very important for tourism-related businesses, plus there are outdoor people and children who truly love this frozen white evilness. And yes, it's their job to be pleasant and positive on-screen. But as long as I have to shovel the crap I will continue to flee when they appear to joyously announce yet another storm bringing "plowable snow" in this "active weather pattern".  

Oh man, I was just thinking about writing a similar peeve!  In CT we've had little to no snow this season (yet anyway) but if there's even a remote chance of it the weather people drive us nuts teasing us with the possibility of some "mood snow" (a new phrase they've coined for a dusting that doesn't amount to much) primarily in the Northwest corner of the state but also "maybe elsewhere".  We know you feel like your job is more meaningful when you have more interesting weather to report but please just stop over-exaggerating the likelihood of snow or at least make it clear that it's going to melt and not stick.  A lot of us have PTSD from past horrible Winters and wince every time we even hear the word.  Teasing people to get them to watch just to see if in the next 15 minutes you'll get more definite about whether there will be snow is very annoying.  But of course getting more people to watch is their goal.

And they always feel the need to apologize to those people that love snow and are disappointed that there hasn't been more of it.   They are a smaller but vocal minority.  The vast majority of us are far from disappointed at the lack of snow.  Snow causes accidents, wrecks travel plans, can cause power outages, and is costly and/or a lot of work to remove.  Why aren't they apologizing to those of us that hate snow when there IS snow?  It bugs me no end!

Edited January 21, 2023 by Yeah No

[ABay]

How long "like" has been around is irrelevant. Using it every few words is still fucking annoying.

[RealHousewife]

20 hours ago, ABay said:

I've given up a few podcasts because the hosts say like like every like 5 like words.

I have too. Also stopped listening when it's a constant giggle fest. 

[Blergh]

4 hours ago, ABay said:

How long "like" has been around is irrelevant. Using it every few words is still fucking annoying.

Which reminds me, one time I came across a freshly mopped floor with another person and they said 'Did they have to mop the whole fucking floor'? To which, I replied, ' I've never actually seen a floor fool around!'

P.S. No, this person didn't laugh, chuckle or even smile.

Oh well.

Edited January 21, 2023 by Blergh

[Bethany]

Today's peeve (definitely not a seriously big thing) but when you are messaging with someone and you can tell they are writing to you and you wait and wait and then the message is "ok see you" or something equally short.  It took them minutes to type 3 words???

[Bastet]

4 minutes ago, Elizabeth Anne said:

Today's peeve (definitely not a seriously big thing) but when you are messaging with someone and you can tell they are writing to you and you wait and wait and then the message is "ok see you" or something equally short.  It took them minutes to type 3 words???

I have an old flip phone and hardly ever text.  When I do, I sometimes wonder if the person on the other end is looking at their smartphone, seeing some indication I'm in the process of replying (a function I find creepy, BTW), and wondering what in the world I'm typing that it's taking so long.  But, virtually every one of the small number of people who has my cell phone number knows it's something I rarely use and that I'm texting old school, so they probably at some point remember Oh, yeah, she's pecking it out on numbers using predictive text.

[peacheslatour]

2 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I have an old flip phone and hardly ever text.  When I do, I sometimes wonder if the person on the other end is looking at their smartphone, seeing some indication I'm in the process of replying (a function I find creepy, BTW), and wondering what in the world I'm typing that it's taking so long.  But, virtually every one of the small number of people who has my cell phone number knows it's something I rarely use and that I'm texting old school, so they probably at some point remember Oh, yeah, she's pecking it out on numbers using predictive text.

My smart phone does the same thing.

[Spartan Girl]

Post nasal drip coughing. I’ve had it for a fucking month now. I don’t cough when I’m sleeping, but it’s annoying nonetheless. The infuriating thing about it is that I’ll have a day it so when I don’t cough at all and I’ll think I’m finally over it, only to have it flare up again. I just got prescribed a new azaleas time and fluticazone nasal spray by my divot who told me to give it time before expecting any changes, but I have no time for this when I’m already paranoid enough over the possibility of covid. It doesn’t help that nothing else I seem to do—my humidifier, cough drops, vapor rub, shower soothers, etc—helps for very long.

Edited January 21, 2023 by Spartan Girl

[peacheslatour]

22 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Post nasal drip coughing. I’ve had it for a fucking month now. I don’t cough when I’m sleeping, but it’s annoying nonetheless. The infuriating thing about it is that I’ll have a day it so when I don’t cough at all and I’ll think I’m finally over it, only to have it flare up again. I just got prescribed a new azaleas time and fluticazone nasal spray by my divot who told me to give it time before expecting any changes, but I have no time for this when I’m already paranoid enough over the possibility of covid. It doesn’t help that nothing else I seem to do—my humidifier, cough drops, vapor rub, shower soothers, etc—helps for very long.

I feel you. I have the same problem - have for years.

[Spartan Girl]

4 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

I feel you. I have the same problem - have for years.

I really hope it doesn’t last that long for me.

[peacheslatour]

10 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

I really hope it doesn’t last that long for me.

I've always had sinus problems. You probably won't but I finally went to an ENT specialist and he told me I have a "condition" whatever that means.

[Annber03]

7 hours ago, Caoimhe said:

Today's peeve is meteorologists gushing about how wonderful it is that we are getting more snow, which makes me so upset I have to leave the room if I'm not in control of the remote. Yes, I am living in the northeast and it's winter (though I wish I could change that). Yes, in the northern part of the state the snow is very important for tourism-related businesses, plus there are outdoor people and children who truly love this frozen white evilness. And yes, it's their job to be pleasant and positive on-screen. But as long as I have to shovel the crap I will continue to flee when they appear to joyously announce yet another storm bringing "plowable snow" in this "active weather pattern".  

On the flip side, I always get a kick out of the weather forecasters who are all, "Yeah, we've got more snow and cold coming, no spring weather coming anytime soon., sorry, viewers." 

It's the middle of January. In Iowa. I think anyone who lives here is pretty well aware that they're going to have to deal with winter weather for at least a couple more months. This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. 

[annzeepark914]

21 hours ago, Annber03 said:

My dad told me about how he had a tendency to throw that phrase into conversations as a teenager, to the point where, one day, he did it when answering a question in class.

Finally his teacher snapped at him and said, "No, Mr. _____, I don't know!" :p. 

This reminded me of receiving a similar response to my casually saying, "I know". Years ago, when I first began working for a nonprofit health fdn, I was listening on the phone to the father of a child with the (eventually fatal) disease. At one point I responded, "I know".  His *thundered* response was, "No! You don't know!" I think I apologized but I was so rattled that I can't recall what we were discussing (something about the challenges of having to care for kids with this disease, probably) or what I said after that. To this day, I have never said, "I know" to someone describing something I've never experienced myself.

[Bethany]

15 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

It's the middle of January. In Iowa. I think anyone who lives here is pretty well aware that they're going to have to deal with winter weather for at least a couple more months. This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. 

I have had a few conversations over the years with people who do seem shocked that snow has been forecast.  This is Canada.  In the winter.  It snows.  I get not being  happy about it but to be surprised?  C'mon!

[PRgal]

Just now, Elizabeth Anne said:

I have had a few conversations over the years with people who do seem shocked that snow has been forecast.  This is Canada.  In the winter.  It snows.  I get not being  happy about it but to be surprised?  C'mon!

Where are they from?  Vancouver hardly gets snow and snow in Toronto isn't usually bad.  We don't know how to handle snow here in the 416!

[Bethany]

Just now, PRgal said:

Where are they from?  Vancouver hardly gets snow and snow in Toronto isn't usually bad.  We don't know how to handle snow here in the 416!

Good point.  Here in the Ottawa Valley we get snow.  Lots of snow.  Way too much snow!

[peacheslatour]

27 minutes ago, Elizabeth Anne said:

I have had a few conversations over the years with people who do seem shocked that snow has been forecast.  This is Canada.  In the winter.  It snows.  I get not being  happy about it but to be surprised?  C'mon!

Living in Seattle, it amazes me how many people don't know how to drive in the rain. 

[Bethany]

12 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Living in Seattle, it amazes me how many people don't know how to drive in the rain. 

Probably the same ones who, if they lived here, would wait for the first snowstorm before getting their winter tires put on.  And then complain because they had a long wait to get an appointment.

[Caoimhe]

45 minutes ago, Elizabeth Anne said:

I have had a few conversations over the years with people who do seem shocked that snow has been forecast.  This is Canada.  In the winter.  It snows.  I get not being  happy about it but to be surprised?  C'mon!

Every winter I live in hope that it will be a drier OR warmer winter but I’m disappointed rather than shocked or surprised by the forecast.  I think hibernation should be an option because the other three seasons here are lovely.

[Bethany]

2 minutes ago, Caoimhe said:

 I think hibernation should be an option because the other three seasons here are lovely.

Autumn here is the best but every year it seems to get shorter and shorter.  I don't know if this is just me (getting older and grumpier) or if it's actually true.

[peacheslatour]

Eggs! I was just making a quiche and I dropped an egg on the floor. I thought I could just grab a paper towel and clean it up. Silly me. It took a couple paper towels before I realized that just wasn't going to cut it so I grabbed some old towels we use for general cleaning jobs. That damned goo was all nigh impossible to get off the floor. Aarrgggghhh.

[EtheltoTillie]

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

Eggs! I was just making a quiche and I dropped an egg on the floor. I thought I could just grab a paper towel and clean it up. Silly me. It took a couple paper towels before I realized that just wasn't going to cut it so I grabbed some old towels we use for general cleaning jobs. That damned goo was all nigh impossible to get off the floor. Aarrgggghhh.

Household hint I learned years ago.  Dump a bunch of salt on the egg.  It becomes crumbs that are easy to scoop up! 

[RealHousewife]

Why are so many shoes either sexy but shaped in a way no one's toe box is or look like they're made strictly for comfort? I wish they made more shoes where the heel is thicker and the toe box is more wide, rather than getting further away from the natural foot with all the pointed toe styles. 

[SuprSuprElevated]

23 minutes ago, RealHousewife said:

Why are so many shoes either sexy but shaped in a way no one's toe box is or look like they're made strictly for comfort? I wish they made more shoes where the heel is thicker and the toe box is more wide, rather than getting further away from the natural foot with all the pointed toe styles. 

But then how would podiatrists eat?