Other People's Bad Habits! What Annoys YOU?

I know this is kind of old, but I ran across my pet peeve the other day. When people make noise when they eat. Friday is potluck day at work and I tell ya what. This person smacks their lips. It's like fingernails down a chalkboard ya know.

Tell her what I just read this morning. that is: bananas should be separated from eachother and when opened shoud be opened on the side opposite the stem. Then you don't have any of those little stringy things. This is the way monkeys do it!

My sister. Her couch has pillows on both ends. If you touch the pillow, she gets a look on her face. She'll get up, and push the pillow higher on the side of the couch becaus she says we squish it. It's a couch, but we can't sit close to the edge because she doesn't want her pillows to get flat. And she won't move them either. She said they are for the couch, and thus they should stay there. Just don't touch them.

Where oh where did she hear that about bananas? I would think they would turn bad faster that way. Anyway, my mother is no longer alive but one thing that drove me absolutely insane??? She had a habit of after putting about six pounds of sugar into her cup of tea (okay not that much but she did use a LOT of sugar)---she'd sit there stirring, stirring, stirring the tea about a hundred times, making that god-awful clinking sound with the spoon against the tea mug...like yikes...I think after the twentieth time the sugar has blended into the tea...LOL

The habit that annoys me the most, is when someone says they are coming over, or that you are to meet them some where, and they are and hour to 1 1/2 hours late. This is always, you can set you watch by them. And they never call to say they will be late.

i had someone stay with me who was a friend of my husband and myself. now i like my house to be clean but lived in so am not to over the top. anyway this person would make food in the kichen and wipe the crubs on the floor, i8 seen her coming her hair and pulling out the lose one and putting them on the floor. also i found a finger nail on the coffee table. thank god i did not have guest. i would think that when your in someones house that you would not do that sort of thing

I have this college friend who states herself as a "close friend" of mine.. although I don't feel the same for her. Her bad habit is sometimes she becomes very stubborn and expect impossible things.. She can't see the head or toe of a situation and just wants things to happen just like that. Well Ok her actual habit is she keeps on saying please please please like a stubborn a$$... until I surrender and do what she says. I think it will be very cruel of me to make her beg in front of me all the time. And yes one more thing she is very careless about time and on the other hand I just hate late comers This time it was my birthday.. I told them to inform me before hand about when they are getting free from there class so that I can leave from my house a little earlier so that I could reach college on time.. (though I tried to plan this out a week ago but every thing fails in front of her and her carelessness!!) She didn't bother to tell me when they were getting free and .. boom she calls me right after she got free and commanded me to be there in half an hour. Ok the distance including the traffic the place was quite far from my house but she kept on saying please .... please and please oh a gazillion times to make me come there!! So that I could come there on time.. how could I ?? She didn't tell me the time beforehand and I wasn't prepared and it takes more that half n hour to reach there!!! I really hate it when people doesn't see things with practical mind. There was no way I am gonna reach there on time and probably there next class could have started till I reached there to give them treat on my Birthday.. There are many more bad habit that I can't stand.. Like my father who talks very loud on phone and he has to make a phone call right when there is my favorite show's going on in TV. He will keep on shouting on phone leaving me hell annoyed!! I can't even increase the volume or he will get angry.. instead he makes me decrease the volume. Can't he just go in another room!!! Second is my dearly beloved brother.. who has to stand in front of the TV while I am watching it. He is 22 years old!! He forgets that someone else is also watching it from the sofa behind him. He will never move unless and until you shout .. and IF you SHOUT... oh then he will start dancing in front of me after learning how annoyed I am!!! I don't know what pleasure people get in annoying me. One of my friend actually admitted it that she actually felt very good after annoying me...

I hated it when my ex husband used to put his dirty clothes on top of the hamper or put them right next to the hamper instead of taking the time to lift the lid and place the clothes inside it. LOL I could never understand that.

"odd" habits don't usually annoy me much. Except for ice chewing. Something about the sound of crunching ice, just irritates me. What does really get to me, is less of an "odd" habit and more about bad manners or just plain being mean. Constant criticism and complaining are the things that really get to me.

What annoys me most about people's bad habits is littering and spitting in public. It seems that nowadays, more people are acquiring this bad habit and they have no qualms about throwing out their litter, phlegm or saliva in full view of others. To them, spitting is socially alright and they don't feel at all embarrassed by their action. It is the same for littering. People litter everywhere, even if there is a waste bin nearby, even within ten or twenty feet from where they litter. There was once I saw two workers going into a van, and as the van was driven off, the guy sitting next to the driver just unwinds the window, throws out a drink can which he just emptied, winds the window up and off the van went. I was just standing behind the van, and it appalled me when I saw the littering offense committed right before my eyes. Some people feel that since they pay taxes, and tax payers' money is used to hire workers to do cleaning, that gives them every right to dirty a place for others to clean up after them. That just disgusts me sometimes.

What annoys me is when I call someone on the phone and after I say hello, that is the end of my conversation. they take over the whole conversation and I can not get a word in edge wise. I just sit on the other end thinking of a way to end the call. Spitting is another thing that annoys me. My husband and son does it. It seems as soon as they get outside, they have to spit. I find that so repulsive and gross. When my husband brush his teeth, he spits so hard it gets on the fixtures, I complain all of the time. YUCK!!!!!!!!

uh, i can't bear people smoking around me, talking loudly on the phone on buses, saying dirty words, talking big. good discussion there.

well, the worst habit that i ever seen is with my buddy.. he got a habit that whenever we are playing mahjong, "a traditional Chinese gambling game that requires player of 4), he would fart.. LOUDLY.. and say, opps, sorry, i didn't mean it.. he didnt have the courtesy to move away from the table for a slight while? oh.. it smells... .

one my biggest pet peeves ever is when you leave somebody a message and they dont get back at you and you just wait and wait and wait hoping they'll remember to call you back. I dont know, it just irritates the heck out of me. I mean, I think it's basic decency to get back to somebody who was trying to reach you.

Lots, but we won't go there, as I probably have annoying habits myself. In the case of the unpeelable banana, you should just start from the other end. I have done that when the banana is so green the top will not snap. Do you know how many people find it strange for you to eat a banana from the wrong end?

my son plays his games online and he gets annoyed and is always humming and hawing and it drives me batty.

This is a different kind of habit. I have relatives who will go out of their way to make sure everyone knows what is going on in their lives...either by putting it on their myspace page or anyway they think people will find out about it. That is exactly what they use the page for to spread info about themselves to make others jealous. They inflate everything. They make it bigger than it is. For example the part where Myspace has you check off what you make for your salary..they check off $250,000. They will never make that kind of money. They brag about the house they bought. I don't even think they bought it. I think a relative bought and they are paying rent. I remember a time when the one person was not even getting married but wrote that she was. Now she is throwing hints out that she is having a baby. This part of the family is very competitive. Everyone else is less and they are more. They are annoying. They live in a dream world. And they lie to no end.

The one thing that annoys me to no end is spitting. It's a nasty habit that mainly men do but there are women who do it too and it just grosses me out. To be walking along and just spit, why is that? I'll never understand but having to walk around that spit is VERY annoying!

kareng, the bad habit that gets my goat is gum popping, very loud and continuous gum popping; it drives me crazy!!!! I cannot think of anything that annoys me more. Okay, I feel better now....

Yeah... I know sommebody who likes to rub the gap between the toe and peel the skin and throw them on the floor... hmmm maybe it is gross more than anything.