Pet peeve... I missed the ones posted the other day

15 years ago

and too sore, lazy and in pain to go find it! lol

I really dislike it when you are grocery shopping, and trying to find the best deal, and checking the unit price, only to find that you should have brought your calculator to figure out the best unit price of the 3 you are comparing !

yeah, so much a pound.. check the other one, so much an ounce, ...etc.... what a pita... I forgot one was.. but there were three different unit prices.. sheesh!

oh, yeah, and Safeway isn't selling the 60 calorie hershey chocolate sticks around here anymore.. hershey didn't "bid" enough for shelf space, and theires ont a huge rush on them. Well, for cryin out loud! What's a sickly, fat old lady to do? lol

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FlamingO in AR
15 years ago
My pet peeve? People who are too goofy to go find the other pet peeve post. rofl (I'm sorry you're hurting.)

Seriously- this one kind of goes along with your peeve, bRAT Kat- two products, side-by-side at the store. Same size, one is a name brand and the other one is a store brand. Name brand price is blocked or missing. You would think the store brand container would be the cheaper one, right? WRONG-O! 2 days ago, Sunmaid Raisins vs Great Value, 24 oz. container, $1 different. Sun Maid was CHEAPER and the only way I knew was to kneel down on the floor, ick, to look at the covered up price which was being hidden by the protruding box.

That's not the first time I've noticed that, either. Also, larger quantities per package, not always the better deal. 18 in a box in a box for $2.50. 36 for $5.25. Cheaper to buy 2 smaller boxes, hmmmmph. HEY. Not right, that's just not right.
lunchlady1948
15 years ago
People who do not use debit cards and wait til everything is scanned through the resgister, then hunts for their check book and slowly does the check and then even takes the time to enter it in their registry!!

My BFF does all of the above but the registry part, makes me grind my teeth!

OHOH~~~~~~here is my biggst one since I was thinking of BFF's~~people who are ALWAYS late for everything! YIKES how do you deal with that:(
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kacram
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15 years ago
LOL

Yeah! I swear the larger sizes were ALWAYS cheaper, and when we caught on to that, the companies switched it on us! DH says.. wait.. buy the bigger one, nope, look at the unit price kiddo! I too, have gotten down on my knees to check prices!

ah, lunchlady, I was always stuck behind the peeps who waited till then end to scan their debit cards, fumble with the pen thingy, hitting wrong numbers for their pin and taking too long! All the while my check was already written out! lol I finally started using a debit card last year, but now may revert to old school and do checks again. I was spending too much money, cause every time the machine asked if I wanted cash back, I'd tap, SURe! give me twenty.. and then 20 bucks was gone in no time! lol
glenda_al
15 years ago
Mine is at the bank drive-thru, thoughtless peeps who wait to write their checks/deposits, etc, until they get to the place to put their business in, and people behind them wait and wait and wait.

I find that very inconsiderate.
Adella Bedella
15 years ago
Flamingo, I went into Wal-Mart the other day and discovered that the Great Value price was higher than name-brand also on a couple of different products. I wonder what that says about Wal-Mart.

I'm doing more cooking from scratch so I'm finding better deals at the local grocery stores than Wal-Mart. The quality is better.
lisa_fla
15 years ago
DH told me to use the debit card instead of credit cards because he's mad they all raised their rates. Little does he know I give myself a $20 'tip' each week when I grocery shop LOL. Glenda-those same people are extremely slow when the go to the ATM also. What could they possibly be doing??? grrr.
carol_in_california
15 years ago
I really get upset with people who will not or cannot keep their kids in control.
Or parents who resort to verbal or physical abuse to keep their kids in control.
stephanie_in_ga
15 years ago
I noticed one of mine the other day.
Peeps on the road who do not pull their car over for an emergency vehicle. It seems there are more and more people on the road who don't know what they are supposed to do. Get the heck out of the way! Is their radio too loud, they don't hear the siren... directly behind their car! Or they do know the ER vehicle is there, but they think they can beat it. WHY!!!??? Do they not have some compassion and respect for the situation?

Errr! Ticks me off! They would be the same person filing a lawsuit if they were the one waiting for emergency services... cuz some other nitwit didn't get out of the way.
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15 years ago
People breaking the law left and right on the road.

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People who stop right inside the door. Why can't they take two more steps and let someone else in?
Grocery carts left in parking spaces. I can't imagine being so important that you just don't have time to return the cart properly.
"Like, you know." Never fails to make my hackles rise.
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People driving with their windows open and their music turned up so loud I can't hear my radio with my windows up. Why do they think the entire world wants to listen to what they're listening to???!!??

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