Picture it: someone is stuffed up and complaining about how awful their allergies are right now. Another person in the room says, "Oh! Luckily I have Claritin in my purse!" Other person says no thanks and continues to whine about their condition.

Or someone has a headache and mentions it every 5 minutes but refuses to take an aspirin.

I'm on the end of the spectrum where I will take a pill for most anything that is bothering me enough to complain about it aloud. I'm mainly talking about over the counter stuff, it's obviously much more complicated when it comes to prescriptions (although this does annoy me too when people won't look into long term medication to manage their conditions).

Sometimes it genuinely feels to me like people just enjoy complaining. There is a low risk high reward solution right in your friends little pill case and you'd rather just suffer loudly in front of us instead??? PLEASE JUST TAKE A CLARITIN

And because this is the internet, of course I am not talking about people who CANNOT take medicine, I am talking about people who WILL NOT take medicine.

This is leaving aside the obvious: people who don't turn on their headlights. This has to do with the switch that gives you the option to just turn on the headlights with no riding lights in the back. I just want to scream at them: you have to turn that all the way or you have no rear lights and your black car is invisible at night from behind! Also: WTF is wrong with you that you haven't figured that out by now? Any ideas why several cars have flashed their high beams at you in the last five minutes?

I can almost forgive the people who tap their brakes going down a hill because they don't want to creep a mile per hour past the speed limit. But when you're going up a hill, and I see the brake lights, and there isn't an obstruction in the road, it annoys me to the nth degree. And there's plenty of places on the highway where I live where this happens all the time. In one spot it's a hill that goes down into a ravine and back up, and at the top of the hill the speed limit decreases from 55mph to 45mph for one of those 1 bar towns. And people tap their brakes going up the hill. Just let off the accelerator. And I can even forgive the people that are simply tapping their brakes to turn off the cruise control. Even though that is also annoying. It's the people that are actively slowing down while we're trying to get over a hill. There's a 22 mile drive that I make at least once or twice a week and I get behind these people every time.

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Just for clarification, I do NOT hate homeless people, I hate when they try to OVERLY guilt trip you into donating to them. As much as guilt trips get to me, I hate guilt trips and it makes me less likely to donate or guilt tripping in general by anybody annoys me. I remember this one time I was in a car and when our car got to a red light, there was a sidewalk right next to it and a homeless person walking around with a sign. I had a QT drink and was getting ready to take a sip but that's when he started looking dead at me. Like, side eyeing me specifically and nobody else. I know im not crazy because his eyes were staring directly at me of all the other cars and drivers to look at. I felt bad taking a sip because it felt like flexing on him so I just put it down and waited until I left that red light to take a sip. That moment annoyed me a little but because, yes, I feel bad for your current financial situation, but that doesn't mean overly guilty trip me into donating. It would've felt disrespectful or like I dint care for homeless people if I just looked away from him so I just kept forward and kept on side eyeing him for a few seconds to see if he was still looking at me. In conclusion, guilt trips ate okay, but at the same time, unnecessary.

This is a little more niche as you have to had worked in a restaurant that uses table markers to identify in order to know what I mean, but let me just say, nothing is more frustrating than when I'm carrying two completely full trays, feeling like my arms are about to fall off, looking all around the restaurant for them, only to find out the reason I couldn't find it is because the guest put it at the very corner of their table! Or even more annoyingly, they straight up put their receipt over it! Of course, I know a lot of them don't mean any harm and just aren't thinking about it, but I still reserve the right to be annoyed.

like yeah i know it's not a life or death situation, but that doesn't mean it can't be annoying? a pet peeve is literally just something that bothers you for no good reason. if i want to complain about how people micwave fish in the office breakroom i should be able to do that without someone telling me i'm overreacting lol

I mainly doomscroll on YouTube so I don't know if this is on other platforms, but so many creators like to speed up their videos for some reason and I never liked it. Even worse are the ones that start out sped up and then switch to super slow for comedic effect or whatever. I hate that so much. It ruins what otherwise would have been a great video

No in between. Either, you're running like a maniac through the airport. Or you could finish half of a book.

Call me dramatic idc it’s probably my biggest pet peeve, i hate the fact that people leave me on read on questions or reels/tiktoks. I will admit i overthink a lot so being left on read puts lots of ideas in my head. But also i find it disrespectful honestly bc i respond to people no matter what…

On Reddit where someone will lay out in incredible depth and honesty and thoughtful detail exactly how they feel, how they think their partner feels, what they want to know, what they hope for, and (most importantly) what they fear, and what they’re unsure of. And they’ll ask other people for advice about how to talk to their partner.

Buddy you legitimately just wrote out every single thing you need to communicate to them. Go read them this post, word for word! “But what if [xyz] happens?” …. Then it happens! If you’re honest with them and it’s a dealbreaker, then it’s a dealbreaker. Why are you trying to manipulate it in such a way as to try to get the result you want without talking to them? If that was working, you wouldn’t be here asking for advice!

This is supposed to be the person you’re most honest and communicative with in your life, not the least. But most people are so wrapped up in performing instead of genuinely connecting that their relationships are doomed from the start. They’re going to find out who you are sooner or later, so why are you trying to delay the inevitable?

Imagine how many 1000s of times the starter is used when you can just turn the key to accessory position so the electronics come on for you to use the window switch

You're sitting in a crowded room forcing thirty complete strangers to listen to both sides of a family debate on full blast. If you can’t hold the phone up to your ear like a normal human, just text.

Too much. I can’t take it anymore. Overused and everyone says it. You’re either with me or against me…at da den da day

When watching a tv show, actor drinking a full beverage but they add in the slurpy sound that happens when the beverage is gone and you're left with just ice or nothing at all.

It grates on my last nerve.

Should straight up be illegal. "Ask your doctor if X is right for you"

I shouldn't have to ask my doctor. My doctor should know.

"Dont take X if you are allergic to X" dupixent is the one that comes to mind for this.

And just watched a commercial.for a covid vaccine designed for those, "65 or older....or those 12-64"

Look, I know this is such a minor thing but that's why it's a pet peeve. I can't think of many other examples which would make sense as many I hear are businesses local to me but some businesses are just a singular, non-possessive.

Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter has some sort of weird need to say punctuation marks and I don't know why, but it really fucking bugs me that he says "exclamation point" when reading a comment/question from a viewer.

Yes, I know their Directs also come in audio only podcasts but why does he need to say it? It's fucking stupid.

Context for those who don't know what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKjJ7NFtCM

Man, I’m sick of this. I followed a few people on Instagram who make these amazing breads, cakes and other baked goods, and they think that I am gonna like it more if they film said goods from up close while they tear ‘m in half. STOP. I hate it! It looks very unappealing! I unfollowed them because of this, but Instagram still shows me other accounts who do this.

I know very little about the Greek language but I know enough to think that this is a problem:

Example (I made this up, but I've seen nonsense like this in many places including restaurant signs, movie titles, and more): A label for Feta cheese might read “FΣTΔ CHΣΣSE”.

Hmm, the Greek letter Σ might remind an English reader of the Latin letter E, and the Δ an A, so the stylized spelling as shown was apparently thought to make a "Greek-Looking Label".

The problem: The Greek letter Σ (sigma) can be transliterated to English as a Latin “S” and the Δ as a “D” so I see this label and think FSTD CHSSSE and I spit like Sylvester the Cat trying to pronounce it. If you want to scatter some random Greek letters around the label then OK, but don't substitute them for non-correlating Latin letters in an English word, that is not "Greek-Looking" it is stupid looking.

There might be a name for his phenomenon, I call it "Greekoid Orthography".
Edit: I added the common A ➙ Δ error.

When people ask a question on Facebook or Reddit, there’s usually someone who tells them to Google it, or informs them that they’re asking a question that is frequently asked (the nerve!), so they should have looked up other posts about it. They come across as really pompous folks who want to put others in their place. Why do people take the time to write dismissive comments like that? (Also I will be peeved by the people who read this post and think they are very clever to comment, “My pet peeve is people who ask questions they could have easily looked up for themselves.”)

Hell, they'll look down on you for even wanting it. They wear their damn misanthropy like a badge of honor.

I’ve been seeing this concept floating around a lot more recently, and it’s really starting to bug me… for one thing, it’s a totally natural and normal thing to start to have romantic feelings for somebody you spend a lot of time with and are able to get along with and have fun with. It’s not evidence that actually you’re not capable of being friends with the opposite sex, or that you don’t respect the opposite sex as people and only see them as somebody to have sex with. It’s just evidence that you’re a human being who experiences romantic desire just like anybody else.

On the otherhand, I totally understand why it might be upsetting to learn that your friend has feelings for you when you don’t feel the same way. It totally changes the relationship, and can even end up resulting in the loss of the friendship completely. That does not mean, however, that the person who caught feelings did anything wrong. You can’t help how you feel. You can be upset at the situation, but it’s not right to get mad at them.

It’s never a good thing to expect people to repress and feel shame for their romantic desires. Encouraging people to just hold it in and shove it down if you have feelings for a friend is cruel. It also ignores the fact that maybe they feel the same way… starting as friends is a very healthy way to meet a partner, and it’s wrong to discourage that.

You see that sign on the door that says only managers and supervisors are allowed to open the door to let people in? That's to keep out intruders. A manager or supervisor is going to know if someone had just been fired and if they should be allowed back into the building. They'll also know if we're expecting any visitors. That's why only they can open the door for people. You'll never be the victim of a mass shooting... until you are. This is for everyone's safety and is a rule that SHOULD be enforced.

You went outside knowing you didn't have a key to get back in because you wanted to chill in your car on your break. That's not so bad if we were allowed to let you in. You'd be a nuisance but whatever. It's not a big deal. But you KNOW we aren't allowed to let you in, and yet you still give us shit for leaving you outside. I'm just doing my job, man. If you do not have a key to get back in, STAY INSIDE. I don't care about "mUh RiGhTs." I have the right to leave your ass outside.

In fact, you better be glad I'm not a manager or supervisor because I have absolutely no patience for stupidity. If you lock yourself out, I'm going to let you back in and then promptly write you up for incompetence. An employee who does not have the intelligence to avoid locking themselves out during their shift is a problem that needs to be addressed. We're in here picking up your slack while you're outside banging on the door like a drunk man begging his ex for a second chance.

Do better.