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Ok trying to post something pretty light, since it seems like everything is so serious lately (plus I am still braindead from all the flu drugs I am hyped up on). Here is a list of some of my weird pet peeves/behaviours:

- I can't stand anything on the kitchen stove. I have a tiny kitchen, but if someone piles anything on the stove, it drives me nuts. Some kind of fear that a burner could be on and everything will catch on fire.
- In a bathroom, if there is a paper towel dispensor that dipsenses individual towels, I must take three before wiping my hands. Not two or four, just three. Not sure why.
- Toilet paper must be loaded correctly (over the top) and not backwards (hanging down "behind" the roll). This is a pretty minor one, but it bugs me.
- I pat myself down (front pockets, back pocket) to make sure I have my keys/cell phone/wallet before I lock my front door. I also never put my keys anywhere except in my left front pocket (not on the counter or anywhere else). The upside of this is I never lose my keys. It used to be my right front pocket until I got a cell phone which now resides there. Wallet is always back right pocket (left back pocket gets an occasional recipt or list). And no, if you saw how I live I am certainly not anal retentive.
- I pick my cuticles. I need to use lotion, because I can't stand loose skin or scabs, which get picked off. A weird weird nervous habit. Not good for the fingernails either (but biting them off just grosses me out). If I didn't carry fingernail clippers everywhere my hands would be a bloody mess.

I am sure there are more that will pop into my head later, how about everyone else?

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  • is people posting pet peeve lists. Just kidding. :-)

    Uh... I'm anal retentive, so anything being out of place freaks me out. The biggest thing is bad driving habits. People who don't use turn signals, don't turn their lights on when it's raining/foggy/dark/etc., and anything that makes driving dangerous. Another is people borking their/there/they're and then/than. Ok, I just don't like people in general. :-)

    • I knew other people would remind me of others: people who say pitcher when they mean picture. That just sounds so damn retarded. Or exspecially instead of especially. Sheesh.

    • People who drive behind me for ~60 miles on a 2-lane road with their brights on.

      I took the 'back roads' home last night (83, for those interested), and the asshat behind me had his brights on the whole way. I even slowed down to let him pass me when the double-yellows died. :(
      • Not really a peeve, since what the person is doing is just dumb :-) For people like this I always envisioned using a laser pointer to burn their eyes out, but that probably wouldn't be good. Or maybe one of those really bright lights you plug into your cigarette lighter. Or maybe a sign with a button I can press for the back window that lights up saying "YOUR BRIGHTS ARE ON". Then again I drive mostly in the city these days and this isn't an issue (only on those long lonely back roads) but yeah I hate that
        • When I had my Jeep, someone followed me for *miles* with their brights on. Tailgating, flashing their bright on and off. There was just nothing to do, plus I was already speeding. When the opportunity arose I pulled off into a turn lane let them pass, and then pulled in behind them, they then got my brights plus my fog lights, PLUS 1 million candle power worth of KC daylighters :-D I only did that for less than a minute. They probably thought aliens had landed to take them away. Whenever I did that ever
    • Argh!! I HATE is when people say that something "needs fixed". What the hell ever happened to saying "needs to be fixed"???!!! WTF!!!?? I used to think this was a southern thing, but it's spread up north as well. It REALLY bothers me. Other similar examples: Needs warshed. Needs repaired. Grrr!!!
    • there are two things i hate: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the dutch.

      i always put CDs back in the cases right side up and straight.
  • The pat down before you leave isn't weird. At least I hope it isn't.
    I do the same thing before I leave for work every day. I have 6 things I check for(7 if I am on call). I pat each one to make sure they are there.

    1. Wallet
    2. Keys
    3. Cell Phone
    4. Work badge - RFID
    5. Watch/Wedding ring
    6. Work Laptop (can't forget that since I do not have a desktop at work)
    7. On-Call Cell Phone

    Does that fact I have a numbered check list that I must physically check before I leave the house mean I have a touch of OCD?
    • I seems weird to me, like I am frisking myself or something :-) But if you don't carry a purse (or manbag) everything has to go in your pockets. I also hate locking a door without a key (say for example a car door). I figure if I have the key to the last lock I locked I can never lock myself out of anywhere.
      • It's only weird if you enjoy it. winkwinknudgenudgesaynomore. I do the same thing. Since I forced myself to do so, I have cut way down on the number of times that I have had to go back for things and waste trips. The door doesn't get to close unless I am physically in contact with the key, too. I'm slow sometimes, but I do learn....

        I changed which wrist my watch goes on (current = right), and it took me over a month to get used to it.

  • - I can't stand people/cars in the bicycle lane. It makes my blood boil (and just ask boyfriend of tuxette about my temper - he calls me "fugu"). It makes me want to do them serious damage. Keying, running them over, whatever. Serious damage.

    - Along the same lines, I can't stand cyclists who don't follow traffic rules. It screws things up for cyclists who do follow the rules. I always want to topple over a cyclist who whizzes by me when I'm legally crossing a road.

    - I have a nervous habit of plucking the
  • Hmm, I consider myself to be extremely AR and compulsive, many similarities yet some not so...

    Stove is horizontal space that cannot be wasted for storing dirty pots & pans. Even after washing and drying, pans and cookie sheets lay on top of the burners for days before being put away (or more often used). Crap in the kitchen does not bother me.

    TP - yep there is one right way to hang a roll of paper, so it unrolls from the top. I have actually "fixed" rolls of TP at other people's houses

    -quick quest
  • I do the pat-down, too. I've locked myself out often enough that it is now engrained. Nothing like trying to climb through the only open window in a house - a bathroom window 10 feet up from the ground - to make that clear.

    Pet Peeve #1 - people who get uptight over which way the toilet paper roll goes. :D Seriously, at my house we never bother to check before sticking it on and no one wants to bother changing it, so it is really random and none of us cares.

    Pet Peeve #2 - smokers who are belligerent abo
    • We're of opposite nature on Peeve #1, but every other thing until Habit #4 is dead on for me. I don't get through *nearly* as many books as you do, but I have been reading only nonfiction the past few years, most of it of the dense, heavy variety. And these days I do a ridiculous amount of my reading online, which is kinda hard to quantify. *gazes lovingly at 19" LCD*
  • - my nails that is.
    - Can't stand people who say "whole nother", it drives me insane.
  • Used to be, I only owned a motorcycle - no automobile (some twelve years duration). One of the fun things about them is driving them as adeptly as possible - pushing the momentum or traction envelope, as it were.

    So one day, I'm trying to fiercely concentrate on going around a corner as smoothly as I can, and I've run out of breath. Drats! I have to inhale, and now, thinking about that, I've lost the sway that would get me through the corner with grace. I wobble on the way out, and it was decidedly less tha

  • keys (Score:2)

    by mekkab ( 133181 )
    My usual pattern is: keys on right front pants pocket, cell phone in change holding portion of right fron pants pocket, wallet right rear pocket, hulking PDA of death left front pocket, left back pocket reserved for future use.

    However like Kahlil Gibran* (and by Kahlil, I mean Ralph Waldo Emerson) said, "a foolish consistency is 'teh' hobgoblin of little minds" and like my wife said, "your friggin' pants look stupid with that gigantor bulge in your pockets. Use a bag or don't carry it."

    So I like to switc

    • Re:keys (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      and like my wife said, "your friggin' pants look stupid with that gigantor bulge in your pockets.

      Get a fanny pack. A big ugly lime green fanny pack. She will never complain about your pockets again :-)

      load down one arm as much as possible because multiple trips are anathema.

      I do this too, and since I always have my keys in my left pocket you would figure I would load down my right hand but noooooo. And for others like us who would rather tear their arm from their socket rather than make two trips to the



      • Omfg I just hurled. ;)

        What I do have is a green canvas over-the-sholder messenger bag- looks good, lays flat when not laden down with stuff, expands when I really need to haul. In short, the mannish version of a purse; only its cool and not weak like those lady-bags. Or, put the big stuff in a winter jacket pocket.

        I'll keep an eye out for the plastic bag hanger thingies.

        • Re:keys (Score:2)

          by nizo ( 81281 ) *
          This [containerstore.com] is not like the one I have, but probably works like the one I have. Oh found another one here [seefred.com] that is closer to the one I have.
    • look... you are dangerously close to losing your "punk indy-rawk geek" badge... where the fsck is your messenger bag???? WTF???

      lappy, celly, keys, etc. go in the (canvas) messenger bag... flung over the shoulder. lets get wif da program right?

      hulking PDA of death

      LOL! i am still amazed that A. it still functions... and B. you manage to carry it around!

      • where the fsck is your messenger bag???? WTF???

        lappy, celly, keys, etc. go in the (canvas) messenger bag... flung over the shoulder. lets get wif da program right?

        Read further down in some of my responses. My messenger bag is army green canvas, and a gift from my ladyfriend, to boot. I fucking represent; never forget that!

        i am still amazed that A. it still functions...
        Its the gigantor titanium outer-wrapping. Despite countless drops, there is only 1 pixel line at the top that is damaged.

        B. you
  • Behaviors
    -Always have a visual confirmation that keys are in right hand before closing a locked door.
    -Always pat down pants pockets to ensure all other pocket transported items are accounted for.
    -Prefer to leave door passed through in the same state that I found them.
    -Prefer all door and windows between current location and the outside to be closed and locked and unlovable from the direction that I will be approaching them if heading outside.
    -Detest with all my heart drivers who do not signal, the second ca
  • My pet peeve: People who code like this:

    if (condition)
    { // do something
    }

    I don't know why, but I find that as annoying as anything I can think of.

    The following way saves screen real estate:

    if (condition) { // do something
    }
    • I knew I coded like that for a reason: just to annoy people like you :-) Actually I just like lining up the curly braces, so when I toggle back and forth in vi (sit on a brace and hit % while in escape mode) it doesn't go to the end of some line somewhere. Besides, extra whitespace is good right? :-) Oh and I have to always enclose if statements in perl with braces, even if it is just one line after the if statement. It bugs me not to have it enclosed.
    • That makes me your pet peeve.

      And no, I'm not litter-trained.
  • My petty peeves:

    1) Lane-hogging pedestrians. I drive a bike to work and back almost every day. I like to drive it fast because I hate those long straights and I'm just obsessed about covering that empty, ugly and desolate 9 km distance as fast as possible - even if my asthma would kill me while I'm doing it - because I really, really, really need to "go animal" before I get to work. Oh, and constant 160+ BPM is good for my 30+ year old heart, too, I guess. Anyway, the problem is that over here - unlike in

  • If i started listing all my weird habits, or the pet peeves i don't actually have (while some things do bother me, i wouldn't consider any of them my "pet peeves", as i already have two pets -- a cat and a dog -- and i really couldn't any more). So you'll just have to be content with this single thing i choose to reveal:
    I drink quite a lot of tea (mostly green tea). While this is considered to be something completely normal and socially acceptable, there used to be one bizarre thing about my tea habit for
  • Whenever I frisk myself upon leaving the (house|office|whatever), I tend to murmur "Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch" as I genuflect. What's even odder is that I only carry shades sometimes and don't use a wallet or watch.
    • Haha that is a great joke punchline :-) And yeah sometimes I think the same thing. It must work because so far I haven't ever left anywhere without my testicles.

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