For many, many years my pet peeve has been people who don't use their turn signals to indicate to the cars behind them, that a turn is going to be made. For goodness sake, when I learned to drive, we had to roll down the driver's side window and give a hand signal. Traffic tickets were given to people who did not use a hand signal to signify a turn was going to be made. Now all that has to be done is a lever pushed up or down. It is not a safe practice at all to not use turn signals.

I heard the Dean of a local, small college give a speech on a local PBS station a few years ago. I was so ashamed and embarrassed by his multitude of grammatical errors and mispronunciations; it was horrifying. I had to turn the radio off.

Georgysmom: “People
in the left-hand lane that won't move over for faster traffic.” I totally agree.

I have more then a few pet peeves people who lack patience, those who attack first and won't admit to being wrong. People who dismisses another with one hand and steal their ideas with the other claiming it to be their own. And lastly those who put down people who are not as

"smmarrrttt" as them. First poster to correct my grammar gets a big fat raspberry :)

Frogged: I really get your comment: "People who dismisses another with one hand and steal their ideas with the other claiming it to be their own." I had a boss who did this to me all the time, and got awards for "her" ideas. I used to get so mad, but there wasn't a darned thing I could do.

JoAnn_Fla. I think you mean that the fowl ranch has a foul odor.

Frogged, I second your thoughts on those who think they are too smart/too good for some of us. Raspberries doubled, here!

Spee-cees for species which should be pronounced Spee-shees. Neanderthal is NeanderTALL. The Lord's Name in vain, OMG, people who slow waaaaaay down when they see a red light. They do NOT have the right to slow down the whole parade. They're making a decision for everyone else.

Either pronunciation is correct on species: /ˈspēsēz/ or
/ˈspēSHēz/

It still bugs me. It's what I was taught. Maybe spee-sees is new?

Deeby, your preferred pronunciation is the British pronunciation.

The word is "Probably", not "prolly".

I don't like being referred to as "you guys". I worked with a woman who, when registering patients would ask "What is you guyez address?", "What is you guyez phone number?". I didn't say anything to her. My mom was the grammar police and I guess I may have been, too, because my son is the grammar police now. I can't stand to hear someone put "At" at the end of a sentence but I don't correct them.

Drives me nuts when someone writes,
"I want to sale" this or that.
Or this is "for sell."

Deeby said "people who slow waaaaaay down when they see a red light. "

Really? Isn't that the idea of a red light?

People who sit at a green light for a count of 5 seconds before starting to move. Even when they just saw that the total duration of the light is 8 seconds when the bozos in front of them pulled out so slowly that only three people made it through the intersection, the third of whom was well after the light turned yellow.

People who don't know how to open feed sacks correctly. If you stand in front of the bag, the string to pull to open it, is always on the right. Well.....you asked.

Thank you Marilyn. I fight like crazy trying to unzip the string on a bag of potatoes. I ultimately grab the scissors and cut the top of the bag off.

Yea 5 seconds is a little long but defensive driving suggests looking both ways to the count of three before proceeding through that light that just turned green from red. Keeps you from being t-boned by that yahoo who has decided to run the red light.

Slowing down when coming up to a red light instead of going full blast up to it and then slamming on your brakes saves your brakes. We live in a very hilly area and go through brakes fast enough - taking your foot of the gas when you see the light turn red and slowing down early is one thing we are taught to save our brakes.

The kids in this area are taught to do both of these pet peeves.

Well said blfenton....on both points.

I always wait a few seconds as well and them accelerate slowly through the intersection until I can see everyone has stopped at their red light. I am sure people get annoyed but I have seen too many accidents. My husband was in a bad one where a driver ran a red light and t-boned him. Safety is more important than convenience.

Be careful of going by what you were taught! My pet peeve is teachers who can't model correct English. (Thank goodness for foreign born teachers who have actually learned good grammar!). Even though I AM the grammar police, or, more correctly, served on the grammar hotline while I was an undergrad, I've had people try to shout me down about the correct use of "whom". What their teachers taught them is that "who" is for when there's a specific person at question, and "whom" is for when it's indefinite, as in, "To whom this may concern." This is what has been taught in school! (For those unsure, "whom" is a fairly new word (barely being used by Shakespeare's time), which is used as the object of a verb or preposition. You can substitute "him" to see if it sounds right--assuming you don't think "Him and me went to the store," or "That's between he and I," sound correct.)

BTW, "youse" and "you guys/youse guys" are versions of "y'all" from other regions. They all serve as the second person plural, since we've dropped the second person singular (thou/thee/thy/thine) and the second person plural nominative (ye), in favor of the all encompassing "you". "Youse" is a direct translation from immigrant languages that have a you plural, being literally "you" plus the plural "-s" sound. The others have been used by immigrants, as well as more generally by people who feel the need to differentiate a second person pronoun as plural and signifying the whole group. Another bugaboo of mine is people who use "y'all" to address one person. :)

When it's a left turn on a green arrow.....traffic is stopped in all directions.....yet people will hesitate and leave 5 car lengths in front of them....move along so more cars get through the light! There's no danger of getting hit...you're the only lane with a green light!

When there's a broken down car or something and people won't let you merge over into their lane, pretending like they don't even see you or your signal.

The person behind you who honks their horn the second the light turns green.

People who just breeze on through and don't say thank you when you hold the door for them.....uh no, I am not the paid doorman for Macy's!

People wait in long line at drive-up ATM machine, then when it's their turn, seem surprised that they have to get debit card out and proceed to rummage through their purse to find it. The search could have been done while waiting.

This drives my husband nuts is when a news reporter ends a sentence in a preposition. He is always correcting him and that drives me nuts too. lol

The two big ones for me are intellectual dishonesty and moral cowardice.

To expound on JoaniePoanie's door example: When you let another driver go in ahead of you, and they don't even look at you and smile, let alone give you the expected "thank-you" wave. AKA: Common courtesy

"I don't got no…" and its equivalents

The word "Disorientated"

People who don't pick up after their dogs in public places

When the bagger at the grocery store & the clerk are too busy discussing what party they are going to or how hungover they are from last nights, to even acknowledge you. I have been known to remain in place after receiving my reciept & just stare at the clerk....waiting for "have a nice day" or something....ugh, what ever happened to customer service?

YIELD signs seem to be invisible in my town. STOP signs here mean look left and right and if it's clear, roll on through.

And the idiot who believes the car length between you and the other car was left for them to fill.

Ah, and to expound on lisaw's:

When people just stand there at the grocery store while the cashier is ringing up their items, rather than making themselves useful and keeping things moving by bagging their groceries instead of waiting for the cashier to do it for them.

People have decided that a direction signal is optional.

I'm in the don't-call-me-hon camp. Makes me cringe.

Bad grammar seems to be the latest thing, even among those who should know better. I'm afraid some of these faux pas will become the accepted thing soon. I hate the 'him and me' thing, but even read it in a book written by a prominent author recently.

Tibberix ... I too hate the word "disorientated". Where did that come from? I also cringe when I see "that" used when referring to people, instead of "who", such as in "the man that drove the car" rather than "the man who drove the car".

Barking dogs, on and on and on.

"I ain't got no…"

SO many problems with that one!

Dexx, there's another example of the same sort of thing, and I can't think of it right now, despite it being pervasive, including by people who are supposed to be experts at language, like journalists. I'll try to think of it.

I have a new one, which, I'm sure, will make me sound 'over the hill'. Halfway through Family Dinner on Sunday (capitalized because it's a regular event for the whole family), my pre-teen niece and nephew whipped out cell phones and texted/gamed, while everyone else finished eating. Except my SIL, who also used her phone to look up a question about a topic being discussed. Neither she, nor my brother, said anything to the kids about using the phones, so I'm assuming that's normal mealtime behavior at their house.

And finally:

When people let emotion trump reason;

a cousin of that: people who create reality to fit their desired conclusion;

Not thinking and caring about how your actions might impact another.

Passive-aggressive behavior.

People who get young pets & love them to pieces until they are grown, become problematic or just get bored. Then they hook them outside, never pay any attention to them & let them freeze in the winter. I have recently reported this concern & I am looking forward to when they find out it was me that reported them...bring it on!

Good for you lisaw, my city is very strict about leaving dogs chain to long. The city asks anyone who sees this to report it.

No such law here...but there should be.

Jersey girl.....same thing with the grocery store.....they wait until everything is scanned, the checker gives the total, then they start to rummage through their purse/wallet for the checkbook, ATM card, cash, etc.

and let's not forget the nitwits who remain on their cellphones during checkout.

Tibbrix...I haven't seen a "thank you wave" in years!

People who believe they with that it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition or prepositional phrase. It is not. ;-) (Just kidding, this does not really bother me, but it is true!)

joaniepoanie - you'll have to let me in one day. You will get a big cheery thank-you wave.

Whether written or spoken, referring to a male criminal as "gentleman", even those accused of heinous crimes.

Clanging of silverware on plates or bowls! Some people sound like the are chiseling! I was brought up to be a quite eater.

I also hate the words "my bad"

Tibbrix, the reason I am not bagging my groceries as they are scanning the items, is I am too busy checking the prices. Sale items often scan at full price. Other items don't match the price shown at the display. Not long ago, a loaf of bread got manually entered by the cashier for $212.00. I caught that one immediately, but the cashier just kept on scanning other items and required multiple prompts to stop and review what they had entered.

Six or eight year olds with cell phones. Four or six year olds with pacifiers. Screaming kids in public (or any misbehaving) with parents just ignoring it. People who use the excuse "it's a cultural thing" when people use poor grammar and mispronounce things. (Lack of education doesn't have to be "cultural".) People who stop on the entrance ramps of the freeway. People who won't check for brake/tail/headlights out. Fat people who won't admit they're fat and their clothes look like spandex. Bald except a ponytail. The worst one? People who ask a question but don't want the answer, e.g. "Does this dress make me look fat?"

gyr, I watch it as I bag my groceries. Agree wholeheartedly that it is not uncommon for the wrong price to come up. The $212 loaf of bread is an easy catch, though, even after the fact, when the cashier tells you the total for the four items you bought is $236, right? It's the little differences that are harder to detect just from the total announced.

tibbrix, the way the stores are usually set up here, with card reader, check writing platform, then the change machine, you have to be at the far end of the counter run to bag groceries. Then the cashier is between you and the register display, and even when it isn't blocked, the tiny display print is not easy to read at that distance and angle. Yes, the bread was so off it was funny. But once the cashier hits total, getting the correction requires a manager. In some cases, they void that order and have to rescan the entire order. I'll take the bags and put them in the cart, but I wont bag in most cases. It ends up being quicker not to.

When someone lets me in front of them I sure do give them a big wave in my rear-view mirror. I like the same courtesy. It bugs me when I let someone in, not only do I not get a wave but they don't let anyone else in.

I haven't seen a store bagger in years. Either the cashier puts the items in the bags as she rings them through or we bag them ourselves. After trying to watch the price get rung up, then pay, we go to the end of the belt and bag the items.

What bugs me is when customers stand at the side, bagging their groceries, instead of at the end of the belt. They're completely in your way.

And yes, there is always someone who waits until the last item is rung up, gets told the amount, and then fumbles through her purse to find her wallet.

One I didn't even know I had. Today at a restaurant there were two women eating by us and one lady never stopped talking the entire time. We could hear every single word she said but that's not the worst part, EVERY OTHER WORD was "like". What a terrible habit. Funny part is she was talking about having a Journalism degree and was talking about writing articles for the local newspaper.