Here are a couple of mine:
- People who blow their horn at you the nano-second the light changes to green.
- No toilet paper or paper towels in public bathrooms.
- Public bathrooms-especially when you just have to go
- People who pick their nose in public (GROSS!!)
- The way someone will pull out in front of you like they're in the biggest damn hurry then put-put. Grrr! I wish I was in a tank when this happens, they wouldn't do it again.
- "liketalk"... I don't know what else to call it. The faddish interjection of the word "like" into every single sentence -- has become so rampant it is a disease. Even thirty year olds and business executives talk this way! "Like" is used not only as "um" is used, a chronic and useless interrupter - it actually takes the place of adjectives, nouns, imagination, intelligence, etc. etc. etc.
For instance, you no longer have to say,
"She was furious at me.."
You just say,
"She was like "aaaaaghh!"
No need for such tedious sentences as "He said, I'll take care of it." Now it's "He was LIKE I'll take care of it"
So you see there's no past tense any more, there's just the pea-brained characterization of any event, any shade of meaning, past, present or future, relevant or irrelevant, as "LIKE"
Now when you combine that with the word "ALL" and the incomprehensibly ever-rising popularity of the word "shit", you have something approaching the deterioration of our daily discourse to the most atrocious and stupid sounding toilet talk: here goes!:
Instead of:
"Dan told me last week how much he enjoyed the cosmic jazz in Coltrane's "Love Supreme" He said he could listen to it all day and not get tired of it..."
We now can say,
"Coltrane?" "Dan was all like, 'he's the shit!"
lol...okay you gotta admit that last one is a little funny. Its actually not mine, but one mentioned to me and I just had to put it in. I must agree that that word like can become a bit overused!
So...what is your pet peeve?
