My Pet Peeve
Posted By: LinK on 2007-01-18
In Reply to: Pet Peeves - Sara.
People who leave their turn signals on while they drive with no intention of turning for miles and miles. Drives me crazy.
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I hate walking into a store and having the salesperson attack me the instant I step foot inside before I even get a chance to glance around, asking if I need help!!! I HATE that! It makes me want to turn around and walk right back out.
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The colon key . I think it needs it's own key, or at least not to have to shift. I can't tell you the probably thousands of times i have put a semicolon instead of a colon and had to go back and change it. Maybe it's just me but I think the colon key and the semicolon should be reversed on the keyboard.
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Know what I hate? E-cards! I mean if someone can't bother buying an actual birthday or anniversary card, don't bother sending some lame e-card. I'll stick with the post office on that one.
As far as cell phones, I don't know of ANYONE whose cell is better than their land line! I'd love to get hold of that Verizon Can You Hear Me Now guy - I could drag him around to a dozen areas near me where he wouldn't be hearing anyone!
New pet peeve!
When did hooks for your purse become obsolete in public bathroom stalls even in nice restaurants and hotels? I refuse to place my purse on the floor, so there I squat with purse strap in mouth!
Yield signs have long been a pet peeve of mine. Believe
me, they don't observe them any better here in PA. 
My biggest peeve!! Hind-site is 20-20 - live and learn (sm)
I have been in similar situation is the distant past and not said anything and felt awful later for not saying anything. Now if it involves a child absolutely I will say something. I learned my lesson. I won't let another opportunity like that slip by without voicing my opinion. I figure even if the parent was so bad they ended up hitting me it would be worth it! At least the child hears someone sticking up for him or her (not at the age you saw of coure) and knows that what is happening to them is wrong. I have led small children to their parents in stores, brought them over to their parents in parking lots when they were walking alone, etc. I once found a 3 year old child wandering around my apartment complex (years ago) alone. I asked him to show me where he lived and he did - way, way, way across the complex. His mother would not come out and talk to me but hid in the apartment and just yelled out "okay, thanks." I was in my 20s then - if it was now I would have done more than just take him home - I would speak face to face with them mom and maybe even turn her in. Anyway...got me ranting..sorry...but just learn from this so that next time you know you did the right thing and you won't feel bad. Those children you saw will be talking soon and they will tell mom what is going on. If he doesn't want her to know, it means she will defend them. It is still sad, but it is hard to make a snap decision about what to do if you have never thought something like that through. now you have and next time can be ready to speak up :-)
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