Pet Peeves X
November 30th, 2009 - A Million Peeves - 13 Comments »“I’m Just Sayin”
This is a distant cousin of “bless her heart”. I believe the thought process is this: As long as I slap this phrase on at the end, I can say whatever brutally honest and cutting statement I want without any repercussions. Well let me set the record straight. You just said it, and yet I’m still really bothered by what you said about the “enormity” of my Adam’s Apple. I’m just sayin.
Sticky Menu
I always thought the stickiness was from the last person’s food. But 96% of the restaurants I’ve ever been to have the same policy – waiters (almost forcefully) collect the menus as soon as you’re done ordering. So…why is this menu sticky? Is something– Wait. Never mind. I’d rather not know.
“TMI”
No commentary needed. Let’s all vow to never say this again.
Really Hidden Keys
If you think you’ve found the perfect hiding spot when hiding a key, you have. Not even you will be able to find it. Doesn’t matter if it’s raining really hard or if there’s something really important inside that you need to get. You won’t be able to. The hiding spot was too perfect.
Reply All
Hmmm. All I want to do is congratulate Derek for keeping his mass email update under 1000 words (and for breaking it up into paragraphs). Should I just reply, or reply all? I don’t want him to get the wrong idea. I mean, if I reply to him only, he might not comprehend how proud I really am. And doesn’t Susan also want to know (and Kevin and Rick and Jason and 91 others)? Of course! It would be a crime to keep this between me and Derek. Reply All it is!!
Your turn. I haven’t provided the Pet Peeves platform in awhile, so I know that you’ve got some building up.
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I can't stand when people file their nails in front of me. It's like that teacher got the chalkboard down and used it to file her nails. Seriously, can you do that at home?
Can I be wrong for a second? My pet peeve is when worship leaders talk in between verses.
I know the next verse begins with “take me as you find me”, it is tight there on that huge screen. You do not have to tell me.
I know, that was wrong.
"I know, right?" This makes no sense. I have said a statement to which you agree, hence the "I know." But then you seem to not be sure, so you ask me if your opinion is correct – "right?"
I think anytime someone says this to us, we should look quizzically at them and say, "Yes?"
Or "I'm just saying"s cousin "No offense but….." I think people should ether say it, mean it and stand by the consequences or not say it at all. None of this stupid trying to duck the consequences of saying something offensive by prefixing it.
+1 on guest's comment
Pumping my own gas.
Oh, wait. I don't think that's an actual pet peeve – just something I don't like.
We have a consistent discussion in my house about the true meaning of "I'm just sayin."
I think you are partially correct, but you've missed the other half.
It also indicates, "you may have shredded my argument and may logically be my intellectual superior by leaps and bounds, but I'm just saying that I'm right and you're wrong."
It's a subtle, passive aggressive way to always be right. About everything.
"Look, I know you got e coli from Shoney's breakfast bar last week, but I'm just sayin' it's still a good place to eat."
Towels that don't absorb…I want a scratchy towel that gets the water off me in one swipe of the body, NOT something that feels like you're drying off with a fluffy plastic grocery bag.
Screaming 14-year old girls- I didn't cry when I watched Extreme Home Makeover last night because of a teenage girls who tried to take all of the glory away from her brother with an extreme case of cancer. Every time I began to tear up, the girl made it known that she was more excited than anyone else by the piercing scream she let out. Thanks girl, I now know your annoying.
websites that automatically start playing music. ugh. i hate that.
People who ask me "What did you just say?" and when I refuse to repeat my last words, they say exactally what I just said aloud to prove that they heard me….why ask me to repeat myself if you already know what I said?
Also, People who do not repeat themselves if I did not hear them and ask them to repeat what they said
OK Tyler ~ We are Southern and saying "Bless Your Heart" is just part of who we are so be careful.