You know what really grinds my gears?

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#421

This thread seems perfect. I could write a novel describing every pet peeve I have in full detail, laboriously listing each one as it’s own chapter, but I’ll keep it short and sweet.

-When kids in class randomly ask for gum. Specifically when I make it a point that I don’t buy gum, and never have any.
-On that note, the overall obsession with gum. It’s not so great you have to keep disrupting my learning regimen, is it? I’m not saying anyone who likes gum is bad, it just gets rather disruptive.
-People who think their opinion over rides everyone elses. AKA People who think highly of themselves and lowly of everything else. In the end, all opinions are equal, as they all stem from a human being, and no matter the age or position of the person it is just an opinion, and there is nothing that makes it better or worse than others.
-Loudly played rap music through ear buds. I don’t like the genre, yet I believe everyone has the right to listen to what they want, since we all like different things, and I don’t look at a person any differently dependent on their music choices. However, turning the volume on their handheld music device up so loudly that everyone is forced to listen to it doesn’t sit well with me.
-When it comes to online social networking sites, things like “pc4pc” (picture comment for picture comment), or getting messages all the time sent to every friend on the friend list just saying random two word things like “text me =]]]]]” can also be bothersome. If they at least bothered to make it personalized per person I may bother to answer back.
-Which brings me to texting. Like the aforementioned rap music, I have no problem with the act itself, just the manner in which some people perform it. Constantly being nagged during class about “Cover me, make sure no one sees me texting” and what not gets annoying. At our school, electronic devices are forbidden from being out during the school day. Just the fact that people text during class gets annoying.

Eh, I’ll leave it at that for now. I

#422

In addition to that: Twitter.

Why? I tell you: If you follow me on Twitter, I’ll follow you. If not, I’ll un-follow you. Serves you right!

WT*?

#423

Oh my God, thank you. Texting in class annoys the heck out of me! I mean, what could be so important that you have to risk getting your phone confiscated and/or detention that you have to tell whoever your texting?

#424

Wow, this thread hasn’t been replied to in a while.

I find it EXTREMELY annoying when I’m reading a fan fiction, and the author puts little “author’s notes” in the MIDDLE OF THE STORY. Put them in the beginning and end, stupid!

#425

Yeah, that’s getting on my nerves too. It’s like they would suddenly interrupt the sotry for just a little sentence or a smiley. Really annoying :unamused:

#426

I’m annoyed with parents who say that they don’t mind gay or lesbians in their country, but if one of their own children turns out to be homosexual, then they won’t allow it. They’ll pull out the “But then I won’t be a grandmother” or the “It’s a distortion and a crime against God.” Way to be a hypocrite.

#427

That’s sad. )-: I guess they really do mind, just don’t want to admit it.

#428

Hmmm… What ticks me off…

lizardgirl - I assume you have a hard time reading my text. Even though I use a spell checker on the forums, I can’t on Skype or IM, and because of my Autistic and ADD dis-functions, I have a hard time spelling things correctly, even though I can clearly say the word and know what it means.

Now, on to an actual list. Please note that I think most of you have already said a few of these. :stuck_out_tongue:

  1. I dislike cursing and swearing. It doesn’t make you cool or anymore of an adult, it just makes you sound like a jerk. Of course, I’ve had to get over this when I went to Middle School. :confused:
  2. Little brothers who always want to know what your doing. (*Chem… my brother)
  3. People who expect you to do all the work for them.
  4. When someone takes out there phone while a movie is going (UGGGG someone did that on my 4th Up showing…)
  5. Know-It-Alls. I had one in my science class, and she’d always tell me what a idiot I was and now I’d never become anything more than a Berger boy. No wonder she’s in the Cheer-leading team. At least there she gets all the attention she needs.
  6. People who don’t accept my generosity. I’m extremely generous, I’ll do most anything you’ll ask me to do and often times do things for others that they didn’t even ask for. Like one time, I was holding the door open for the students getting off of the bus, and approximately 200 kids came though that door. But there was this one guy - Arg. He called me a “F***ing idiot”.
  7. Food that’s gone past it’s expiration date. Won’t eat it. Period.
  8. When I put days or work into something and than lose it all. Had that happen to The Wall-E Fangame on the first few days working on it. As well as my first animated piece and a few other games. It makes me not want to press on because now I have to do everything I just did… again. XP
  9. When someone becomes the scape goat. I’ve had this happen on numerous occasions to myself. They do something, I take the blame. Nearly got sent to the principals office for it a few times.
  10. People who use me to there advantage. They know I’ll go pick up that eraser for them, so they ask me to, and than next thing you know they are on top of my, committing Assault. I actually got the guy suspended I was so mad.
  11. People who use “your mama” jokes all the time. It’s not amusing.
  12. People who inflect pain on you because they can or it’s fun. Someone who was sitting next to me in Social Studies was constantly hitting me in the head with an empty water bottle when the teacher wasn’t paying attention. I got mad, took it from him, and hit him back. And than I got in trouble. :cry:

There’s more, but those are the main ones. I think. XD

#429

Ah, but that’s fair enough, Mygames19 as you have reasons for sometimes using incorrect grammar. It’s just people that have no reasons at all that bother me.

And I have an expiration date thing too! Even if it’s out by one day, I won’t eat it. :laughing:

I annoy myself when I procrastinate during the summer and then realise I have a whole pile of biology stuff to do that I should’ve started weeks ago.

I also get annoyed by customers who take too long to decide which pair of shoes they want to buy, especially when it’s obvious that it’s really busy and I’m being timed. Sometimes I feel like choosing for them and then just chucking them out of the shop!

#430

Fanfic writers who are rude to people who offer them advice boil me up. Just because you’re doing this for fun doesn’t mean you should avoid improving your work at all costs. To me, a horrible writer with a good attitude is better than an OK writer who thinks they’re better than everybody else. D<

#431

When people put their dirty dishes IN the sink, without rinsing all the crap off them or ANYTHING, instead of to the side of the sink where they should be. Because when they leave it in the sink like that, the little plastic bowl I wash them in gets full of floaties from food that hasn’t been rinsed off, and I have to stick my hands in all that gunk and cold water with floaties to move them off to the side of the sink so I can wash them. :angry: Annoys the crap outta me, plus it’s just plain gross!!!

little chef

#432

When you’re told that you can’t board a plane, and actually, you’re now going to have to wait another five hours in this tiny airport before flying to Kuala Lumpur randomly, even though that’s not really where you want to go, and then being told at Kuala Lumpur that what they told you at the previous airport was all lies and the next flight to your final destination is another six hours wait, not just one hour, and that your insurance doesn’t cover these kinds of mix-ups.

#433

Oh boy… don’t get me started! I will, however, say at least one… or two… maybe three. I’ll try to stop with just three.

I hate it when Sid the Science Kid comes on the channel PBS EVERY STINKIN’ DAY… :angry:

I hate it when people don’t think about others. Like, say you’re in a meeting and a couple are sitting in a row of chairs. Then a family with kids walks in and they need a place to sit and the only place for their whole family is the row that the couple are sitting in (in the middle of the row, btw). But instead of moving to another spot where there’s two chairs, the couple sit there and stare while the family has to separate and sit in different spots in the room. That makes me SO mad! :imp:

I hate it when I’m pushed to do something. I play the piano, but performing under pressure is torture. Whenever we have company over, my parents say, “Go and play us something!” and I’m totally unprepared! Then I get up there and mess up over and over because I had to play out of the blue and now I sound like a horrible player to the people! :blush:

And I hate… oh wait. I said I’d only list three things. Okay, I’ll stop. But that’s only the beginning. I’ll probably write more later on. :smiling_imp:

#434

Peter: DO YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS AMERICA?
lol! I love Family Guy!

EDIT- Please mind your language on the boards, thank you!

-lizardgirl

#435

What really grinds my gears is the way people treat love and relationships, especially at the young teenage age. I don’t care so much for adults and young adults, because they’re older and more responsible (well, at least they should be :unamused:). I just hate how the word is thrown around without any meaning, and how all these thirteen year-old kids find out “oh omg theyy liek me, tooooo!” and think that’s love, then consider themselves “boyfriend and girlfriend” and “in love” when all it is is a whirl of emotions and the rush you get from being liked by someone outside your family or close circle of friends. It’s no wonder they break up two days later, and now you’ve got a bunch of boo-hooing girls who get all depressed over something that could have totally been avoided if they had been freakin’ wearing their head on straight and realize, “I was made to feel this way, but not over every single guy who likes me”!!! I get so sick of hearing about “all the drama” in middle school from a few friends on Facebook, it’s like, okay, seriously? Do you honestly believe that this new guy is “the one” and that you’ll last “forever” when you’re only 14, and you’ve said this about five other guys over the past year!!! I’m sorry. I don’t think so.

Or how people just treat it so cheap and take it for granted. That bugs me. “Well, that didn’t work out, I can throw out that relationship and find a new one.” That’s not love! That was just being careless and thinking everything was cool just because you had feelings for a person. Love is devotion (working out problems together and not breaking up because of one little problem), unconditional (you take the other for who they are, along with their faults), and guess what…? you have to work at it to keep it healthy and alive, omg! :open_mouth: Shocking, isn’t it? No wonder little 13 year-olds break up so often, they fail to realize that a relationship isn’t just a game, you’re playing with delicate emotions and feelings that were meant for when you’re more mature and can actually handle them.

I didn’t mean to rant, but that just really, REALLY bugs the crap outta me!! Why can’t people my age take this stuff more seriously anymore?! :cry: (And no, I’m not 13. I’m 17. :stuck_out_tongue:)

little chef

#436

Little Chef thats just called being young, nearly every teenager goes through a stage like this. It would be wierd if every 13 year old got into a serious relationship. At that age its more about holding hands and going out with whos popular.

#437

I’m very, very pleased I went to an all-girl’s school from the age of 11 to 16. Saved a lot of hassle with all of that kind of stuff. :laughing:

One thing that really annoys me is when you’re queuing up in the supermarket, and there’s the aisle that says ‘five items or less’. And you can CLEARLY see people with more than five items! Sometimes I feel like telling them to get out of the queue!

#438

St_Jons: Yeah, I understand that, but then why do they still mess with it in the first place? It’s just that dumb age where they think they know everything and stuff… and don’t even get me started on how much that grinds my gears!! :laughing:

lizardgirl: Haha, well I’m very fortunate to have been homeschooled right up until graduation because I didn’t have to get caught up in any of that at all. Although, since a few of my friends on Facebook are actively involved in that sort of thing, I hear all the woe-is-me almost on a daily basis. :angry:

Sometimes those “five item” checkout queues are the longest lines, and it’s almost easier to just take one of the regular checkout queues at that point! :laughing:

little chef

#439

I agree, littlechef, that really makes me mad too. But to tell ya the truth, I never went through that stage! I thought it was ridiculous to see my friends do it, so I made sure I didn’t act like that. And here’s a little secret (it’s not really a secret, but… anyway :unamused: lol), I’ve only had two “crushes” (I hate that word) in my entire life. My second “crush”, I was determined to get to know better and we got along better than my other “crush” did. Now, he’s my love! I can’t image how I’d go on without him!

So, thank you! You brought out my feelings as well on the matter. I always say that there’s no such thing as “falling in love”, you have to lear to love someone.

(oh, btw, I’m 15 years old ;P)

#440

Holy crap, that is like, me to a T!!! :open_mouth: I never went through that stage, either!! And the second real “crush” (I don’t like the word either :laughing:) I ever had ended up becoming the absolutely love of my life. <3

Well, I’m not sure about the whole “falling in love thing” that you’ve mentioned, because I kind of did “fall in love” with mo. It’s something that you actually can control, however, contrary to popular belief. Because if I hadn’t felt okay about getting together with mo, I could have just as easily said “no” to those feelings for him and slowly gotten over it. :slight_smile: But I didn’t; I felt the release to continue…

Dang, sorry for getting so off-subject!! Sorry guys, BOT now… :blush:

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God, another thing that seriously grinds my gears is when people write you and your family off because you’re going through a SERIOUS financial struggle, and they just can’t seem to grasp how difficult it is and that we’re actually having like, a really hard time with it. They automatically assume that my parents did something wrong and that’s why we’re here, but the thing is, my parents have never been negligent of making payments on things, and they never went out and bought stuff that we didn’t have the money for or anything like that… and yet, people STILL don’t understand. They don’t understand that my father works day in, day out and never makes any money because even though he owns his own business, he doesn’t make enough after a full WEEK to even pay himself.

I can talk about it all I want with people I love and trust, but in the end, I don’t really think they care. They just go back to telling me how awful their life is, and the entire time I’m thinking, “well, let’s see… your parents have a job, and they’re making a decent amount of money… you have a house to live in that your parents can pay for every month… what the heck are you complaining about?!”

And then people go and call you “spongey” and shallow because you “rely” on family members or other people to “get you what you want” for Christmas. As if I have any say in this!!! As if my parents are going to pull money out of thin air to pay for even ONE thing for each of my siblings for Christmas!!!

Guh, when will all of this be over!!! Seriously guys, what does it feel like to be a teenager and not have to worry about paying for new clothes, or going places with your friends and not having to worry about gas money… or not having to worry about whether or not you’ll be living in your house next month? What’s it like to be a freakin’ normal teenager without a care in the world? :frowning:

little chef