Pet Peeve(s) Of The Day
My pet peeve(s) today deal with social etiquette. Well, at least, in my opinion it has to do with social etiquette and plain ol’ good manners. These are things that drive me up the wall. Do they peeve you too?
*People who don’t RSVP.
This is a BIG one in my book. I hate it when I send an invitation out to people that clearly says “Please RSVP by this certain date” and people don’t RSVP! Whenever I get an invitation I always RSVP. It’s common courtesy, people! There’s a reason I put “Please RSVP” in an invitation I send out. I ask for a response so I can plan accordingly! I don’t put in on there for my health! If I’m having a party and I invite 50 people and 35 RSVP, that’s how many I’m planning on!! If 10 people who don’t RSVP show up then there are 10 extra people I wasn’t planning on feeding or including in the event I had planned. And when there is a date to RSVP by it’s because I need to know the amount of people to plan on so I can shop accordingly. I’ve had people RSVP the day of the event and that is soo annoying. Although I’m thrilled to have them come what I really want to say is ” Sorry! I wasn’t planning on you coming since, you know, you didn’t RSVP by the date specified so I have no food for you.” Humph.
So, can you tell that peeves me? Is this a petty thing or what? Do you guys take RSVP-ing seriously?
*Chronic Tardiness
Another thing that I think is so rude are people who are chronically late to EVERYTHING. To me that shows such a huge sign of disrespect and uncaring for the people who are waiting for you. And, actually, I read(somewhere) that being late to something all the time DOES indeed show a lack of concern for the people and event taking place. For example: In my opinion, barring emergencies, a bad morning or the occasional alarm- didn’t- go- off fiasco people who are consistency late to church every Sunday are showing exactly what they thing about that church. Now ,I’m not going to blanket everyone who is late to church in that statement. Again, there are extenuating circumstances that may cause some people to be late every Sunday. But, if you are just one of those people that can’t get up on time then that, to me, is a problem. (And I’m just using church as an example since it is a big part of my life. You can insert any kind of gathering or meeting in this scenario). Most people try to make it to work on time because they know their job depends on it. If you can make it to work on time every day of the week than you can certainly plan ahead enough to make it to church,PTA meetings, boards meetings, playgroups, parties or whatever else you are expected to be on time for.
Is this just me?
*People who constantly interrupt you when you’re talking
I HATE that. Nothing is more irritating than when you’re in a group of people, telling a story you find particularly enthralling and someone interrupts you, mid-sentence, to tell their story or to rudely start a different topic of conversation. This also goes for discussions or points trying to be made and one on one conversations.I think we all know people who are constant conversation interrupters.
*People who try to carry on conversations with your from another room
This pet peeve is two-fold:
1) I think we all know by now I have hearing problems. So, whenever someone tries to talk to me by yelling at me from another room and I can’t hear them this forces me to have to seek them out to have them repeat what they are saying. Very annoying. My stance on this is: If you need to talk to me, YOU come to ME. Don’t shout at me from another room and expect a concise, intelligent answer.
2) I also HATE being called to ” Come here” from someone else in another room just so they can ask me a question or tell me something. How rude is that? That is so lazy. Get off your butt and come find me if you have something to say. YOU come to ME. Common courtesy. Don’t tell me to “come here”!! I worked with someone like that and it drove me crazy. If I heard ” Hey. Melissa! C’mere” again I was going to scream. I had to stop what I was doing and go to them like some little child. Very rude. Stop it.
So, am I alone with these pet peeves? Do they peeve you too?
