What's your irrational pet peeve of the moment?

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here we pay 5 cents for crappy plastic bags from the store that rip on the way to the car. In Cali you pay 15 cents for a bag is extremely durable and last for a minimum of 120 uses. I brought them home with me from a trip a year ago and they are still going strong. Why can't we have nice things here?

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Anonymous wrote:None. I'm ovulating, and always happy at that time. It's nice to have at least one day a month when everything is awesome.

People who think it is acceptable to tell you about their cycles. Gross!

People who think periods are icky. What are you, a 12 year old boy? Grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse comes into rooms I'm sitting in and turns off the light, then leaves. He thinks the room is bright enough, but isn't actually using the room. Makes me crazy.

I could be your spouse! I think people who rely on overhead lighting in the evening anywhere but the kitchen are soulless monsters. If DH is sitting in the living room past 9 pm with a bunch of overhead lights going, I dim them. We don’t need our house lit up like a cheap apartment late at night.

You're a control freak.

If your DH doesn't turn the overhead lights off b/c he's merely not paying attention, so be it. But if he has ever expressed to you that he prefers the lights on while he's in the room and you keep changing them, then you're really messed up.

I didn’t say I wasn’t a control freak and not really messed up! Just that I hate tacky too-bright overhead lighting.

I never realized the brightness of lights had a value.

I need more tacky overhead lighting. A dimly lit room is maddening. Need more recessed lighting. But I do go around and turn off lights obsessively in rooms nobody is in!

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I hate being in a dimmed room or a dark room. Need all the lights on in the room or area I am.

I like dimly lit rooms except when I am reading. My husband doesn't understand this because he has good eyes. Mine are bad and getting worse!

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My coworker who keeps responding to emails that have nothing to do with her.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate tinted driver windows. We both get to the stop sign at the same time- I can't see you to gesture so I just go.

Basic driving 101. The person on the right goes first when 2 people arrive at a stop sign intersection at the same time.

Everyone is on someone's right

You want to think that one through again? 2 cars arrive to a 4 way stop, and you think everyone is on someone's right?

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Bikes and scooters on the sidewalk. Drives me nuts.

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Men who show their junk by wearing tight pants or spandex

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There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.

"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.

And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?

Makes me think less of anyone who does it.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a whole slew of words that got picked up by dumb people or people trying to sound smarter than they are that are now infiltrating regular use.

"Gift" as a verb. It sounds SO stupid coming from a native speaker. Like how do you speak English as a first language and not know that verbs and nouns are different. Do you gift a gift? OMG my DH gifted me a gift of a gift card! Adult is headed that way too. "Yay for successfully adulting." This one at least is still a little tongue-in-cheek, but people will talk about gifting someone something with a perfectly straight face; I don't think they're trying to be silly. I think they honestly don't know how wrong and dumb it is.

And "comfortability." Especially since the pandemic. "We need to assess everyone's comfortability with indoor events." Do you mean... comfort?

Makes me think less of anyone who does it.

Add "prideful" to this list.

It's slowly replacing "proud" and it drives me crazy

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When we start Netflix my husband has to mimic the “Da-Dum” every single time.

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse comes into rooms I'm sitting in and turns off the light, then leaves. He thinks the room is bright enough, but isn't actually using the room. Makes me crazy.

Oh, he can F right off. What a jackhole

I'm shocked you haven't put him squarely in his place yet

Turn off your lights.
The party's over!

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Anonymous wrote:When we start Netflix my husband has to mimic the “Da-Dum” every single time.

Whenever the HBO fuzz sounds starts before the show/movie, DH starts doing the into to Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Anonymous wrote:Men who show their junk by wearing tight pants or spandex

I like this, but only if he’s semi hot.

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Anonymous wrote:When we start Netflix my husband has to mimic the “Da-Dum” every single time.

Whenever the HBO fuzz sounds starts before the show/movie, DH starts doing the into to Curb Your Enthusiasm

It’s Sex and the City for me!

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Anonymous wrote:here we pay 5 cents for crappy plastic bags from the store that rip on the way to the car. In Cali you pay 15 cents for a bag is extremely durable and last for a minimum of 120 uses. I brought them home with me from a trip a year ago and they are still going strong. Why can't we have nice things here?

I always have my own bags in the trunk and I don't pay five cents and I don't get more plastic for our environment. Win win my favorite bags for grocery shopping are from Food Lion. They have stiff backs and a bottom and I use those bags in every single grocery store