Day 46 Pet Peeves

[tripperfunster]

Okay, not racism or really hurty things that horrible people do, but what are some teeth grinding things that you have to deal with on a daily basis?

Here's some of mine, categorized for your convenience.

Work
I own a pet store that buys new and used items. Often times people will bring in say, a ten gallon fish tank set up, with the lids and filters etc and I have to look through everything (and plug in the plug-inny things to make sure they work,) before I can decide what I can pay for the items. Now, this is not rocket science. I've owned a pet store for 15 years, I have a few more years experience at other stores, and an assload of my OWN experience too. Time after time after fucking time, when I'm going through these EXTREMELY MUNDANE AND TOTALLY BEGINNER HOBBYIST type things, the person selling the stuff feels the need to man-splain them to me. "That's the filter! It hangs on the back!" That's a siphon, you use it to drain the tank." and on and on. OMG!!!!!! This would seriously be like taking your car to the mechanic and saying "That's the steering wheel. You use it to steer the car. Those are the tires, the car ROLLS AROUND ON THEM."

There are certainly things I don't know, but chances are I AM FAMILIAR WITH YOUR SHITTY TEN GALLON STARTER KIT ITEMS. (can you tell that this happened to me AGAIN today???)

Home
Toilet paper. For reals. Am I the only human in this entire house who is capable of putting a roll of toilet paper ON THE ROLLER THINGIE? I think I am.

Out in public
Spitting. Gross. Unless a spider just flew into your mouth, you have no reason to spit in public. Ever.

fic
Kittens. I don't know why, but I've read enough bad "Harry and Draco get a kitten together" type fics (insert whichever characters here, but generally not kitten owning type people) that I just FLY BY that fic without ever clicking ever. I'm sure there are some GREAT 'kitten' fics out there, but I will just have to take your word for it.

Tell me what picks YOUR ass.

Comments

[leoparda.livejournal.com]

People like my mother in law who keep whining about shit that happened umpty-ump years ago. I swear, I can probably repeat word for word her whining about how her parents blamed her for everything when she was a kid, how her sister was their favorite, how my father in law was a jerk while they were married, waah waah waah waah. You're SIXTY YEARS OLD! You just REMARRIED! MOVE ON!

Micromanaging bosses. I may not be employed right now but I've had my share. I can't get shit done if you're constantly breathing down my neck! There was one real gem who wanted a blow-by-blow report of everything i'd done that day. When his business partner asked me why I was so unproductive and I explained it... well, their argument ended up with me out of a job. No big loss, really, but still...

Lousy grammar and spelling, especially from people over 30. How the hell you ever got through college is beyond me!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

OMG, THE GRAMMAR/SPELLING THING. I own a retail store, and it totally burns my ass when someone puts up a sign and it's spelled wrong!!!!!!! (in my store or anywhere else.) Now, I'm not the world's best speller, but CHECK IT THE FUCK OUT BEFORE YOU POST IT!

One of my grade twelve highschool employees put up a note on an item that was on hold, saying it was PAYED. *eyeroll*