What are Your Pet Peeves?

My sister in-law wrote a blog post today about her pet peeves and it got me thinking about mine. If you ask my husband, he’d probably tell you that I have A LOT of pet peeves, but in reality, I really have an “I don’t care” attitude. Sure I have those things that really irritate me, but other than that, I don’t really care.

So what are my pet peeves? In no particular order, they are:

1. Bullying. I don’t care what the situation is, there is NEVER a need to bully another person. I hate when we are somewhere, like a play area and I see a kid being a brat and bullying other kids and then I look over at the mom and she is either obnoxious too or she is not paying a single bit of attention to her child, so no wonder they are the way they are.
2. Rude Waitresses or Waiters. Whenever I’ve said this before, I’ve had people say to me “do you know what it’s like to work in the service industry? It’s hard work”. That logic doesn’t fly with me for two reasons, 1. they chose that job so they knew what they were getting into and 2. Your job should be hard work. This business of people thinking they should be able to get paid for a job, but not put the effort into it, is annoying to me. And nothing annoys me more than being at a restaurant and having a server treat you rudely.
3. Clothing options for plus size women. It is beyond frustrating to walk into a store and see nice, trendy look clothes for skinny women and then get to the true women’s section and find stuff that I would see on a grandmother. Or everything has an elastic waist. This gets me madder than anything. Just because I am overweight, it doesn’t mean I want to wear elastic waist pants.
4. Slurping soup or cereal. This is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I cannot stand it. If the darn soup is hot, blow on it! Slurping it in slowly is just going to make it burn more. Sorry hubby, but I am forever telling him to stop slurping his cereal. Just stick the dang spoon in your mouth like you would a fork, for Pete’s sake!
5. New Age Math. I think I’m an intelligent person, but nothing makes me feel dumber than trying to help my son with his math homework. I went to college…I even took some master’s classes…why can’t I do fourth grade math? Math is math. Teach it the way we learned it, a.k.a. the right way, and be done with it. If at that point you have a kid struggling, teach them the alternate way of doing things.
6. My Neighbors on the right of me (if you’re facing my house). They park their car in front of my house, while the street in front of their own is empty. There are so may times I want to put a note on there and tell them to park in front of their own house. I park in my driveway, but darn it, there are times I need the street to park and I don’t feel I should have to park away from my house. Now if they had guests over and the spot in front of their house is full, fine…I get that. Oh and I can’t stand garbage day when all of their recyclables are blown all over my lawn because they can’t contain them in their overflowing box. Get another box.

What about you, what are some of your pet peeves?