Pet Peeve(s) Of The Day
I haven’t done one of these in ages! It’s high time for another Pet Peeve(s) Of The Day post, don’t ya think?
Do you have pet peeves? I certainly do! And apparently, they are many.
1)Have you ever met someone who’s circumstances/life/tragedy/situation is always worse than yours?
For example, a few years ago I had an acquaintance who had one child and I had none. We liked to hang out occasionally but she was always complaining how hard it was to do anything with a child and “I would see how hard things could really be once I had a child”. Then she got pregnant with her second child, had her second and I got pregnant with Katelyn. We lost touch for a while and then got back in touch again. I now had Katelyn and she had her two children. Well, suddenly, I had it easy because I only had one child and she had two. If I heard ” Well, I can’t do this or that or the other because I have two kids!” or ” Wait until you have two kids” I was going to scream. Then I had Madelyn, and she had her third. You can guess what her favorite phrases were then. Her life was crazy and hard because she had three kids. And I only had two. I got tired of hearing ” You trying doing this or that with three kids” or ” Try being sick with three kids!”
Sigh. Do you know anyone like that? Whatever it is you’re going through is not as bad as what they are going through. If you have a ingrown toenail, there’s is worse. If you have had a rough time during pregnancy, the other woman was bed ridden for nine months and almost died.
There’s sharing your story and just plain being annoying and trying to one up the other person.
2) Another pet peeve of mine is when people pronounce common words the wrong way and aren’t interested in saying them the correct way. Or, they don’t even have to be common words. They can be not-so-common words. This also applies to people’s names. I listened to a discussion a while back on the pronunciation of the band that Chris Daughtry leads. Girl #1 was pronouncing the band’s name as “Daw-tree” but you could tell she wasn’t real sure if that was the correct way to say it. Girl #2 went on and on about “Doh-er-tee”. So girl #1 also started saying “Doh-er-tee” . I wanted to stand up and shout ” It’s Daw-tree. DAW-TREE!!!!”
When you consistently pronounce words the wrong way you sound ignorant. Cut it out.
Same goes with spelling and grammar. Use spell check. Look it up. You look ignorant on paper when you spell every other word incorrectly. Good grammar makes you looks smart. There’s a difference between your and you’re and their/there/they’re. I’m certainly not an English major and sometimes I’ll go back and read a post and be horrified at my grammar or spelling. That usually happens when I’m blogging in a hurry or while watching t.v. Not a good combo.
3) I HATE it when people write me on Facebook or in an e-mail and use texting lingo and spelling. Its so annyg wen ppl rite me a note n don’t use prper spelln and punctuation do u see how annoying this can get when a whole note is written this way n has no commas or periods so I dont no where the sentence begins or ends or what is a quest or a statement do u get that? Save txting grammar for txting n rite properly when writn a reg email or msg.
And stop using ‘n’ for ‘and‘ and ‘ing‘. PLEASE.
This does not apply to Twitter. Twitter doesn’t allow for a lot of characters so sometimes you have to use texting grammar and spelling.
I apologize if I’ve offended any of my friends who write me this way. You don’t have to stop writing like that just for me. Just know that I’ll cringe every time I read something from you.
Wat abt u? Do u find n e of these annyg?
