23 Pet Peeves About RUDE PEOPLE

If you are reading this article, chances are you know some rude people, but you probably are not one of them (and if you are, I hope you recognize yourself from the brief descriptions below):

People Who Swear In Public

If your point is to make the public think that whoever you are swearing at is at fault, think again. The public thinks you are defective.

Spouses Who Belittle Each Other In Public

Nothing says, "I'm an idiot!" more than a spouse who insists on degrading and humiliating the other spouse. This pet peeve falls WAY beyond rude, WAY beyond inconsiderate, and WAY beyond insensitive.

Spouses Who Think They Are "Babysitting" Their Own Children

This one is from personal experience. Very annoying. Very rude. And very stupid. If the child is yours, you are CARING for your child, NOT babysitting for him or her.

Smokers Who Think That Standing in an Open Doorway Keeps The Smoke Out of The House

If you stand in an open doorway of the house without closing the door, the air will blow inside. The same works for smoke. Has the smoke mottled your brain?

Smokers Who Stand at The Entrance of Businesses

If you see me coming, please move to an area where asthmatics won't have to die from inhaling your smoke.

Ungrateful People

You do things for them. You help them. You give them things. They NEVER say thank you. They NEVER act appreciatively and instead EXPECT you to help them AND condemn you for being nice.

You expect nothing in return except a simple "thank you," but these ungrateful people don't know how to pronounce the words. Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that you are being taken for granted.

People Who Leave Their Incessantly Barking Dogs Outside All Day

If you work all day, don't get a dog. If you get a dog and you want to work all day, train the dog not to bark in your absence.

People Who Ask You How You Are, Then Leave In The Middle of Your Story

Don't ask somebody how she is unless you really want an answer. How rude is it to walk away in the middle of a sentence when somebody is telling you something important? Why did you bother asking if you didn't want to know? Think of a different salutation.

People Who Text While Driving

OK, maybe these people aren't rude. Maybe they're just stupid. Texting while driving has been proven to be dangerous and is now outlawed in several states. If something is so important you HAVE to know the answer to your question NOW, turn on your signal and pull over!

Drivers Who Play Games When They Drive

The title of this section explains it all, but those "games" include people who cut you off, people who race past you then slow down and drive along with you as you drive (to the annoyance of drivers behind them). I explain one such game in this blog: Drivers Who Annoy Me - One of My BIGGEST Pet Peeves.

People Who Write Television Commercials That Include Crying Babies

Commercials that annoy me will NOT convince me of any product's worth. I will never buy your product even if it is something I have wanted my entire life.

People Who Talk During Movies and TV Shows

The reason I am sitting in this theater or on my couch in front of my television set is because I want to watch this program. Wait for the commercials with the crying babies.

Men Who Splash Pee All Around The Toilet And Never Clean It Up

This is DISGUSTING! Nothing is more repulsive than going to the bathroom and finding yellow hardened stains all around the toilet. If you are not a child and your pee pee is not hanging directly over the seat, assume you will splash and CLEAN UP after yourself!

Women Who Splash Pee All Around The Toilet Seat And Never Clean It Up

This is DISGUSTING! What are you doing - standing on the toilet tank to urinate? CLEAN UP the mess YOU made!

People Who Don't Flush The Toilet

Do I even have to discuss this one?

People Who Don't Change The Toilet Paper Roll After Using the Last Piece

Would be nice to think of somebody else for a change.

OK, enough about bathrooms.

People Who Miss When They Throw Garbage in The Bin

How difficult is it to bend down to pick up garbage you've dropped? So many people toss garbage without watching where it lands. Do you think others want to pick up your trash? Would you want to pick up theirs? Unless you're Michael Jordan, consider the possibility that randomly tossing garbage in the vicinity of the container doesn't necessarily guarantee a slam dunk.

People Who Don't Tell You You Have Makeup Running Down Your Face or Spinach In Your Teeth

Personal experience: I was sixteen years old and walked a mile to school every day - rain, snow, sleet, or hail. When I arrived at school one rainy day, I met my BOYFRIEND at my locker, who never said a word about my new Dracula look (and this was LONG before New Moon or Twilight).

It wasn't until several classes (and hours) later, after walking through the halls of my HIGH SCHOOL, that I found a mirror and noticed the mascara running down my cheeks. Throughout the day NOT ONE PERSON mentioned the black drippy mess that cascaded down my face.

People Who Bring 87 Items to the 12 or Less Register

Why is the sign up there if nobody adheres to it? Even the people behind the register say nothing. Can nobody count anymore?

Customers Who Visit Establishments Just Before Closing Time

When I worked for a newspaper, a couple of rude people always made it a point to come in at exactly one minute to five. They knew the place closed at five and deliberately showed up just before closing. My explanation is that these people are starving for attention and showing up at closing time is the only way they can get it.

Yes these places are open until they are closed, but unless you expect to take care of business in less than a minute, don't show up at closing. You never know when an employee has an important appointment after work. I'd like to give an example of why I think people who show up at closing are rude.

One of my daughters works for a consignment shop that closed at 5 on New Year's Eve. I had just finished a chemo treatment and was waiting for her to pick me up at the hospital when a woman walked in her consignment shop at two minutes to 5.

Perhaps she was partially blind and didn't notice the 5 foot sign telling her the store was closing at 5. Perhaps she knew the store closed at 5 and she wanted the whole store to herself. In any event, I sat at the hospital for over an hour waiting for my daughter to show up.

People Who Drive With Babies On Their Laps

Are you kidding me? (This is a philism - click the link to find out what a philism is).

People Who Bathe in Cologne

Believe me, if you wear that much cologne, chances are you shower a lot too. Don't knock me senseless because you are paranoid.

While the first person listed in this next section falls only into my pet peeve file, she would not be considered to be rude. The second person falls into a category I call the crude rude.

People Who Make Up Words and Expect You To Start a Trend

A woman I once met really wanted to start a trend using her made-up word for what I would call condescending, irrational, thickheaded, nonsensical, and insensitive people. To make sure I wouldn't forget her terminology and with hopes that I would begin using this new word, she repeatedly mentioned all the people she thought were "hinders." Oh, he's such a hinder. She's such a hinder. I counted close to fifty mentions of the word in my brief conversation with her, but I could never imagine myself using it.

I mean, why not refer to her hinder as a butt if she didn't want to offend me with other more "colorful" language, but, seriously, hinder?

Worse than that, actually way worse than that, was a man I met many years ago when I was seeing his nephew. Away from his nephew one day, the uncle told me he was attracted to me but that he couldn't ride me because I was his nephew's bicycle and only he could ride me. Ride me? Insert finger in throat.

Final thoughts:

i thought I had a lot of pet peeves until I visited the getannoyed.com web site. For even more pet peeves, visit Get Annoyed.