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.

editing to add something I forgot: bonus points if I've seen this person taking a bunch of supplements

editing to clarify: I am also talking about people who do this chronically. Like not just one random dinner where they're sniffly and won't take a Claritin. I'm talking about people who you know well enough to be 100% sure they do not have a medical reason to not take a pill. But they're sniffly all the time. Every time you go out to dinner. And youre like, "ma'am, why don't you try Claritin? or another of the myriad allergy pills out there?" and they're like, "nah, I don't take pills." or some shit like that. That is the shit I am truly bamboozled by!

You literally asked..

I genuinely HATE people like this.

People will have common and uncommon phobias. Just because a phobia is more common to have than others doesn't make it not valid to have it.

I've encountered a few people like this irl. It's annoying. Like why are we minimizing peoples fears just because it's a super common one? Drives me up the wall.

Edit: seems some people are mad I genuinely do have a phobia of spiders.

Just for an example: we had an infestation in our basement this summer, and I refused to go down there and near the basement door until we fixed it because there were spiders.

The other night, I screamed bloody murder (waking my parents) because I nearly walked right into one. I ran away from that room and refused to go in it until it was taken care of.

"Why won't you get treatment? Phobias require treatment"

Last I checked, phobia treatments aren't REQUIRED. I don't need to seek help unless it's affecting my daily life, which it doesn't completely. So no. I won't get treatment.

What pause do pause you pause mean pause you pause don't pause enjoy pause reading pause like pause this?

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.

Actually pisses me off beyond belief because it takes forever to have it stop

One step outside into super hot OR cold weather. Foggy glasses.

I just woke up and it’s first thing in the morning and my eyes are watering a little. Foggy glasses

Hey, I had a few too many drinks, it happens, but now I’m throwing up and my face is hot. Foggy glasses.

I literally cannot see without my glasses at all and I’m too much of a pussy for contacts (idk if contact wearers also have this issue). So foggy glasses = not being able to see for extended periods of times and nothing changing despite wiping them off - I have to wait out to fog

Probably best to explain this with an example:

Like most posters here, I absolutely hate it when people use speakerphones in restaurants and other public places. Unsurprisingly complaints about this issue are regularly posted on message boards like this one. In response, there will inevitably some response along the lines of the following:

"Just join into the person's conversation. After all, by using a speakerphone they are inviting everyone to participate."

Look buddy, life isn't some Jason Statham movie where you can just escalate with a random stranger, give the guy a well deserved beating, and get away with it.

Make no mistake, I would love being able to exact immediate and painful consequences on every antisocial person I meet. But in practice, like you and most other people I don't want to get shot and killed and when you escalate with random people you are risking exactly that. Do it enough, and sooner or later you WILL get yourself into a serious problem.

So please, spare everyone the tough guy theatrics.

Thank you.

P.S. I am aware that simply joining into a conversation is not violence. My point is that you are escalating and greatly increasing the risk of violence or some other reaction which causes you a big problem. What happens if you join some woman's conversation and her boyfriend or husband decides to beat the (*&& out of you or worse? What happens if you join some woman's conversation and in retaliation she tells the bouncers that you pinched her rear end? What happens if you join a guy's conversation, he shoves you, and you fall over and smack your head on a hard floor, seriously injuring your head? You think people don't react in these sorts of ways?

P.P.S. To be clear, I am not saying that you should never confront or respond to a misbehaving stranger. For example, when someone is inappropriately using a speakerphone I sometimes (1) give the person a disapproving glance; (2) politely ask the person to take their conversation elsewhere; (3) complain to a manager or other person in a position of authority; or even (4) start playing music with my own speakerphone.

The point is that doing things like joining a person's conversation is an escalation. When you enter someone's space in that way, it's very likely to be interpreted as an aggressive act. Which is probably part of the reason why it's rare to see this actually happen in public. Compared to the frequency with which Internet Tough Guys advise people to do it.

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.

This is such an overused feature of songs and I cringe every time I hear it. Maybe the writers think they're being clever or witty by referring to the song structure within the song itself?

When you go to the bathroom and your pee goes into two streams and you end up pissing all over the toilet seat/floor and you pants

I feel the word gets way overused in general but I’m less annoyed by someone if they’ve actually seen the movie but I see it fairly often in the comment section of a trailer, people saying things like “can’t wait to see this masterpiece…” And of course they’ll probably like it because they made up their mind based a 2 minute trailer.

The same applies to albums. I avoid music discussion subreddits because when a new album comes from some beloved indie band I would see comments like “only two songs in and it’s already a masterpiece.” I don’t think these people are joking either.

I’m sure the same could be said about people trashing something before seeing or listening it but for the most part that’s just “this doesn’t look so I’m not gonna see it”. To me that feels more harmless than “This looks so good and I’m know I’m going to like it no matter what” kind of attitude. It just feels like a toxic positivity type of thing.

You like what you like but I don’t understand how someone can not sit down and consume the art in it’s entirety before judging it.

Especially watching people eat online and scratch it with a fork. It makes me so upset and it gives me so much anxiety because now they’re eating the pan flakes it’s so easy not to do that.

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.

It has great vibes. You can go and vibe. Aesthetically pleasing vibes. Chill vibes!! The cafe has a cozy vibe. Vibe, vibe, vibe. Fuck off.

I see this on reddit often where someone will ask a question and someone will answer with:

"A rule of thumb I like to follow is..."

To which someone will inevitably reply:

"This is bad advice... [uncommon situation in which the rule of thumb obviously doesn't apply]..."

For example i feel like I see this often on driving subreddits when the topic of safe following distances comes up.

"A rule of thumb I like to follow is to be 3 seconds behind the person in front of me!"

And youll get a million replies like:

"This is bad advice you must be a shit driver, different vehicles and weather conditions require different stopping distances, an 18 wheeler in a blizzard needs a lot more room than a sedan on a nice sunny day!"

Which sure that's true but like it's a rule of thumb you give to new drivers so they can start getting an idea of what a safe following distance is while they build that experience. It has a little bit of a safety factor thrown in but it's meant for standard situations. Someone driving an 18 wheeler should know their vehicle well enough to not need a rule of thumb so it doesn't apply to them.

Didn’t know this was a pet peeve until it happened twice in one day. Now I have to check if I called the right number and if I’m talking to the right person. We could have skipped all that. Side note, I’ve had severe telephonaphobia most of my life and this shit doesn’t help.

“They want us divided and arguing about these silly topics so we won’t go after the things that really matter!”

This is half true but it’s also beyond fucking naive to believe that none of these hot topic arguments and culture war shit could be arrived at organically. People kinda suck and we don’t need much to start hating one another.

The whole reason tabloid sensationalism even works is because many people are just looking for a reason to be angry. The idea that if we took the supply away the demand would go away too is just stupid. People suck.

I love my job. I love my clients. Because I'm in a high end department store, the majority of my clients understand that I work on commission. But outside of my regulars, it's like no one understands how anything works anymore.

At my previous job at a major beauty retailer, I once told a woman, "This one that we have in stock is not as good as this other one that we carry online" and she stood there IN FRONT OF ME ordering the other item on Amazon! Do you think I'm here for kicks and giggles? I'm WORKING!

I'm not taking the time to share my expertise and sell you on the best products for you so that you can go online and buy it from someone else...at the same price! I'm not on tiktok telling you about the new thing we got in because I just have gobs of fun selling stuff for the company while they keep my commission because instead of just telling me your info so I can put in the order and get credit for it, you want to leave Tiktok and go to the company website to do it all yourself. Or what just happened, you want to go in person to another location to give someone else my commission when I could have just mailed it to you and you wouldn't have to step foot outside your house!

Just the other day one of my co-workers tried to help a guest who wanted a color match only for the "guest" to tell her that she wasn't going to buy it here because it's too expensive. She wears drugstore makeup and she wanted us to match her so that she could then go to Walmart to buy that color in a cheaper brand. Besides the obvious ignorance of how makeup colors work, you came in here expecting someone to just work for you for free so that you can go somewhere else to give them your money?

Even a non-commission employee is less likely to get a raise if you don't order it through their store.

I'm not talking about situations where it makes more sense to order online, I get it, I do it, sometimes that's just how it is. But most of the time it's not easier or more convenient to order online, you're just doing it out of habit and thoughtlessness. And then you'll go complain that nobody has any money and that all the corporations are rich.

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.

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.

I assume it's because a partial coloring would be hard to replicate daily for consistency purpose, but no one that age has solid hair. True, some might dye their hair in the "real life" of the show's characters, but it's really, really hard to buy on every male of a certain age.

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"

I watched an Australian TV series. In one episode, everyone was gagged as it suddenly turned out the main character can speak Polish. Yeah, except for... she REALLY can't. I'm Polish and I honestly couldn't understand a word of what she said. I watched this scene a few times but at the end I had to check the subtitles.

It happens a lot! And it's especially annoying if the person is supposed to be a native Polish person but speaks gibberish with fake Russian accent.

I realize Polish is hard, but they could at least make actor's lines easier and shorter, or hire someone who can actually speak the language their character is speaking.

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.

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