Slow drivers in the fast lane (usually they are a. elderly, b. handicapped, or c. on the cell phone...Move over!

The bastardization of the English language: prayers that say just every few seconds, ending all sentences with a question mark (postmodernism in speech), whatever!

The reduction of Christianity to mere salvation!

Hate crimes (all crimes are hate....at least those Biblically proscribed), should be relabelled thought crimes

People voting for lesser of two evils (or is it evil of two lessers) rather than for Godly candidates: if none are available, write-in, vote 4th party, but please make your vote count, why choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledumber? To do so would make you Tweedledumbest!!! Don't waste votes on evil men.

I hate it when people are habitually late. Doesn't bother me every now and then, but when it becomes a habit it pushes me to the brink.

I also don't like waiters, waitresses, or sales people who chew gum while waiting on me - especially if they pop it.  A sure way to reduce your tip significantly.

Beth, sorry about going the wrong way in parking lots...I call it the shortest distance between two points.

I had a calendar from Scott Adams where he printed letters he got.  One was of a guy who was in a car with a woman who backed up out of her parking spot without looking in the mirror.  When he asked her why she didn't use the rear view mirror, she replied: "Oh that thing?  They only use those in the movies." 

My pet peeves:

The whole "Don't assume" thing.  Aren't you assuming that someone shouldn't assume?

There is no "I" in TEAM.  There's also no "US" or "WE", but there is a "ME" (albeit backwards).  And worse yet, there is "MEAT" which is typically what I feel like I'm being treated like when the first saying comes up. 

People who don't understand personal space and get within two feet of my face when talking.  

When you leave a pet peave like i did and no one comments on it.

The act of swinging a stick at an opponent in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

  i hate when people dress up there pets & when able body people park in the disabled parking

     and rich people with  there fancy cars think there king or queen of the road 

people who have watched a movie of a book without reading the book or planning to...

that just bugs me. 

Voice,  I am so with you on that one!  My husband and I used to both work in the restaurant business, so we do tip very well.  But when someone puts their tip on the check, I find that to be very insulting.  I feel like they are telling us that they don't trust that we will leave an appropriate tip.  So if that's all they want, that's all they will get!  We won't even leave an extra penny.  When they would have made out so much better if they hadn't passed judgement on us.  I have had it done with 15%, but never 20%.  I would think that would tick off lots of folks.  And when they don't even tell you, with the hopes that you will tip them again, that is just outrageous.

PsalmsGirl, only in a small town :)

Linda, I hate it when I walk into a room and can't remember what I went in there for.  I think that would classify as a pet peeve with yourself!  lol

Steve...better than sleeping maybe?

My boss LOVES to talk - there are times when she barely takes a breath. She also LOVES to eat, and eats several meals a day at work. By themselves, those two things are great! She's social, she enjoys food... hey! Me, too!! But what I REALLY can't stand is that, when eating, she ALWAYS (and I'm using an absolute on purpose) chooses to do both at the same time. She takes a fork-full, then begins chatting while her mouth is full of half-chewed food...every single time - never fails. It really turns my stomach. yuck.

And I have to agree with PsalmsGirl - the "forward or ultimate doom will befall you" is frustrating. I wonder how many people lie awake at night convinced that God will somehow "determine" their worth and fate via unsolicited emails full of untrue stories and veiled threats ("forward to 50 friends in the next five minutes or your engine will fall out while you're driving through a dark, wooded area, and angry squirrels descend upon you and ingest your car interior")? The whole thing is just rediculous. Okay, so was that example, but hey - you get the point. :o)

Oh, and one more, and then I'm finished - I promise. Goodness... I had no idea I had so many "issues"! I work for a university, and previously worked for a publisher for many years. I've noticed, despite the fact that we work closely and frequently with books, so many people still insist that they are housed in a LIE-BERRY. Well, I suppose that one makes me giggle more than anything... Like the time I caught my father-in-law talking about the "MIRROW" hanging in his hallway, and when I asked him to spell it, he actually said, "M-I-R-R-O-W"! I love that one. Or my mother-in-law's relaxing vacation at the "GOLF" of Mexico. Those I actually think are kind of cute. I am the queen of malaprops, so I have no room to judge (I once warned my hubby to "never look a gift-horse in the eye"), but it really does make me smile anyway.

Okay, that was it!       

I read through this quickly trying not to repeat, but I might repeat.  :-) 

I don't like kids on bikes and ATVs who ride out into the street from between cars and/or run stop signs and red lights without paying attention to other vehicles.

I don't like people on bicycles or scooters who come up behind me without warning when I'm walking on a trail.

I don't like to see guys spitting.  Ewww!  And having to breathe someone's cigarette smoke when I'm outside in the "fresh" air annoys me.

I definitely don't like the language that kids use these days.  I'd have spent my youth with a mouth full of Ivory soap, if I'd used any of those foul words.  

I think people who are glued to their cell phones are rude and disrespectful.  Certainly, they can go for a few hours without them.  Of course, there are circumstances where a person needs to keep in touch. 

Guess that's enough for the moment.  :-) 

I thought of another one - hope it hasn't already been mentioned.  I hate when people take up 2 parking spots, especially in a crowded area.  I think, if you drive a huge van, truck or SUV, you should learn to park between the lines. 

I don't mind allowing pedestrians to cross in a crosswalk, but why do people think they can dart out from anywhere - not even pay attention to traffic - and expect us to stop for them?  Perhaps they think they're safe because they push their babys' stroller out first!   

A huge peeve - people who see a yellow light in the far distance then fly to get through it, ending up going through a red light just as I'm going through my GREEN light!   This really, really annoys me!  Can you tell?   

I'm being very picky here, but it annoys me when people use apostrophes in the wrong places.  The days of learning punctuation, spelling and using the proper tenses are long gone it seems. 

I guess that's enough.  I sure seem to have a lot of peeves - but I'm really not all that cranky!  LOL