Pet Peeves?

I know I have a few.....

People who spell my last name wrong - It's Starr not Star

Excessive Chatspeak - When people abbreviate everything....my brain starts to hurt after reading it.

Bratty out of control children - Bit and bridle I say! I know a few who need it....

People who do not know how to walk in Malls, Theme Parks, etc. - Everybody is going in opposite directions, they look like a bunch of panicked chickens!

You?

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Permalink Reply by YanaFunk on August 20, 2009 at 2:58pm

Pet peeves? When someone borrows my good pen, and returns it virtually dry. It drives me crazy. And when someone is wearing a watch, but asks you for the time. Especially when I don't have a watch on.

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Permalink Reply by Tegalto/Tess G. (Twin Phoenix) on August 20, 2009 at 9:42pm

Mixing up nominative and objective pronouns! Bah! (Using "I" in place of "me", "him" instead of "he", "her" instead of "she", etc.)

Also people calling me Tessa (Tess is my entire first name. Not short for anything) and spelling my last name with an E instead of an A.

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Permalink Reply by Kenneth Daniel on August 21, 2009 at 7:51am

My biggest pet peeve has to be when people block the grocery store isle while having a conversation and are oblivious to others that need to pass by.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy (Landshark) on August 21, 2009 at 1:25pm

OH! I'm a grammar nerd, so my biggest pet peeve is when people abuse apostrophes!! "I ate two taco's today. Tomorrow I"m going to have to have steak's." Seriously? Didn't everyone have the same basic 3rd grade English class?

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Permalink Reply by Julia Starr(Chocolate Jackalope) on August 21, 2009 at 1:42pm

My sister does that, it gets really annoying because I'm always saying "Channing that doesn't have an apostrophe" it really gets on my nerves.

MissElectricCompany said:

OH! I'm a grammar nerd, so my biggest pet peeve is when people abuse apostrophes!! "I ate two taco's today. Tomorrow I"m going to have to have steak's." Seriously? Didn't everyone have the same basic 3rd grade English class?

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Permalink Reply by Robin Dufilho (Puck) on August 21, 2009 at 4:01pm

My pet peeve is the misuse of the word "literally". It means something that is word-for-word true, it is not a word to be peppered into a sentence to make you sound smarter. I once heard someone say, "It's literally raining cats and dogs!" and I wanted to respond, "Really?!? Really, there are small animals falling from the sky?"

That's the English major in me coming out...

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Permalink Reply by Cara Canelli (CaraBarracuda) on August 21, 2009 at 7:16pm

When people spell my first name with a "K" instead of a "C" and when people use wrong grammer.