Whenever anyone asks me my pet peeves I have a hard time answering. It is one of those things where you never remember it bothers you UNTIL it happens. So this one took a lot of thinking. Here are a few things that bother me.
1. Leaving the toilet seat up/peeing on the toilet seat. This is ALWAYS the first thing that comes to mind as a pet peeve. It is #1 on my list for a reason. Though I am happy to say that Rob is a perfect husband and isn't guilty of either. And for all you men who argue they should stay UP and us females need to get in the habit of putting them down and then back up, my question for you is, When you go to LOWES or Home Depot and you are in the toilet section, how are they displayed? Exactly, the seat is ALWAYS down!
2. WhEn PeOpLe WrItE iN bOtH cApS aNd LoWeRcAsE. It definitely bothers me on the computer, but is even MORE annoying when handwritten. Either write correctly (by my definition) or keep it all CAPS.
3. When you are already seated at the uncrowded movie theater, with your feet up on the seat in front of you, and someone STILL sits there. Yes, I know it is not polite to put your feet up on furniture, but I do it at my house and when I pay $10 for a ticket I feel entitled to put my feet up. And yes, I know it bothers me when others do it to me, so I will be the first to admit I am a HYPOCRITE, because I do it to others. But I HAVE to sit in the EXACT middle of the theater.
4. When people pronounce Illinois with an 's' at the end. The 's' is silent folks!
5. I don't have a category for this. But it annoys me when people use the words 'islamic' and 'muslim' interchangeably when talking about a country. They mean VERY different things. Or when people assume ALL Arabs are Muslims or ALL Muslims are Arabs.
6. Creating a familiar enemy in Hollywood. Have you ever noticed that in movies (especially James Bond type movies), more often than not, the 'bad guys' are often from countries that America has fought against or been opposed to at one time or another. The 'bad guys' are often Russians or Germans or North Koreans or Arabs (which is a newer trend since 9/11). For example, the bad guy in Ironman 2, Backlash, is Russian. Why? Is it that important to have a familiar and common 'enemy'? Why can't the bad guys be British? Or Israeli? Or Canadian? Oh wait, because we've always liked those countries.
7. I can only seem to pay my tuition online during business hours. How on earth is paying online anymore convenient when I have to do it between 8-4:30? Hello K-STATE! I leave for work at 7:00 am and don't get back till 4:30? And I can't do it at work. Am I really going to have to take time off AGAIN to pay tuition?
Ok, I know it said on 5 pet peeves, but I was on a role. I kept thinking of them.
What are your pet peeves?
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This was fun to read. Since becoming an instructor, my pet peeve is students emailing me questions that they could find the answer to in the syllabus.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all your pet peeves. I have a story about paying tution. Aaron tried to pay tution online on the day it was due. He tried to pay it around lunch time and the website said that it couldn't process the payment (for some unknown reason). So he went in that afternoon, around 4 pm, to pay it in person. The cashier said that the business day had ended and that his payment would be applied the next day - therefore making it late! And he got a late charge for paying his tutition on the day it was due! Why is K-State so retarded when it comes to paying tutition?!
ReplyDeleteOne of my biggest pet peeves is drivers who don't signal that they are turning and drivers who randomly cut me off. AND I also really hate all the students on campus who don't look before they cross the street and just walk out in front of my car. Don't they realize that I could cause seriously injury to them with my car? Drives me nuts!
Ditto the caPitAl letters in the middle of words. I have my students working on this one, given as "skill mastery" (capital letters only where they belong and complete sentences) which leads to my other "educational pet peeve". That would be the email stating that "my son/daughter can't explain the skill mastery grade of F you posted on .....assignment."
ReplyDelete"That would be writing conventions - correct form of letters and complete sentences."
"Oh, he/she remembered that when I reminded him/her."