Pet Peeves
 

Ok, this has probably been done to death but the escalator issue and Stephanie's response brought this to mind: What are your pet peeves (and since this is suppose to be travel related, what are your travel pet peeves)?<BR><BR>One of my major pet peeves, be it traveling or anywhere, is people's lack of a sense of space (I guess that is the way to state it). This comes in many forms: 1) the people who stand in the middle of a hallway carrying on a conversation. They see you walking up but don't get out of the way until you ask them to move aside; 2) Those who walk 3+ abreast down a sidewalk - and they always walk slowly; 3) when your pulling onto a two lane road and an approaching car refuses to move over and let you on; 4) etc. etc. etc.<BR><BR>This just irks me.

people who have be the first to get their luggage off of the luggage caroselle like it's going to fall off the face of the earth if they don't get it then and there!

OK, here's mine: at airports, people who jump up and stand around the attendant at the gate the minute they announce they're going to start boarding even though their row hasn't been called - seems like it's just so they can jump on that line the minute their row IS called. And meanwhile the people who are supposed to be boarding have to work their way through the crowd.

I HATE it when I am standing at the luggage carousel making sure there is plenty of room for those around me to get to their luggage and some jerk pushes in front of me to stand there, blocking everyone's view, before they even see their luggage. Then THEY WON'T MOVE so I can get to mine. I don't get it and I never know what to do about it.

The thing that really ticks me off are the people seated in the back of the plane that put their carry on bags in the overheads in the FRONT of the plane and then when you get on the front the bins are already full. If it's such a hardship to stow them in the back where you're seated, don't bring any!

The fact that everyone has to stand up the moment the plane stops, and mass together in the aisle and then stand there and wait 10 minutes for the door to open.<BR><BR>People who won't share the armrest!

Travel pet peeves???? Lets see, how about people that get all worked up about trivial things they have no control. <BR>Reminds me of my dad who'd get livid about the silliest things, sulk and complain and generally make everyone around him uncomfortable.<BR>If you get no joy out of travel, stay at home and keep your bad vibes there.

What are you talking about when you mention Steph and the escalator? Did I miss something here?

Hey quit, are you my sister? Didn't know you were posting stuff about dad here!

I have a problem with people who have no sense of hotel etiquette. The ones who let their doors SLAM closed rather than support it until it closes quietly. The ones who talk in animated fashion as they return to their rooms late at night rather than use hushed tones.

Lori, good ones. That door slamming is unbelievable. Do they not notice?

How about this one: The TAX that only you have to pay that we never told you about. Ever rent a car in Boston? If so, you know what I mean. It's the 'since you are a visitor and don't live here, you get the shaft tax'.<BR><BR>Or the $9 per minute local phone rates at most hotels. Cripes, why don't they slap us with an oxygen tax while they're at it. <BR><BR>Hey quit, this is a real travel concern/topic so take your negative attitude, and blow away!<BR><BR>

People that complain about airline food, I mean c'mon, they take you up in a huge metal tube, fly you to where you want to go, and you land alive. Unless you die in a fiery crash, who gives a damn about the food? I don't get it, it's like that's one of the highlights of their trip!<BR>Also, people who will tip someone who brings a bottle of wine to their room, but won't tip the maid that cleans up after their human functions day after day. I'd rather clean up after a dog any day of the week before I'd clean up after a human being!<BR>People who are rude and obnoxious to natives of other countries. They are an embarrassment to all Americans. If ya want everything to be like home, then for godsakes, stay the hell home!!!

Hahahah! Marty, clearly you missed my point or is it that you're so wallowed in your personal me/my/mine anger that you just don't get it at all.<BR>Lighten up. Learn to laugh and you'll live a lot longer.<BR>I got robbed on vacation last year and while I was INITIALLY very angry, I made a very concious effort to get over it so that it would not destroy what will remain one of the best vacations I ever had.<BR>Its always surprising to me how many people totally miss out on what a vacation is supposed to be by searcing for things to get upset about. This thread is the perfect example.

quit:<BR><BR>How did Marty miss your point? That is, assuming that you actually had one. You're just another of the socially handicapped who post here that have nothing relevent to say or add to a particular string. The tax peeve is a perfect example of someone adding content to a thread, while some misfit misconstrues that content, and resorts to personal attacks due to their lack of interpersonal skills. Go back to your video games.

People (on an airplane, in a line at an amusement park, etc.) who feel the overhwleming need to go on and on and *on* about their lives to a total stranger. Do they really think we care?! Thank God for Walkmans! ;-)

Wouldn't that be WALKMEN? Just curious.

I believe Walkmen is the correct plural form of Walkman.<BR><BR>And, Mr. Quit, for your edification, the definition of a peeve is a personal vexation. We all have them. Perhaps yours is manifesting itself right now.

Here's mine:<BR>Restaurant staff who sit down at the table with you while they take your order. Who invited them anyway???

I hate people who talk in movies, plays, etc...seriously, I think they should be wiped off the face of this planet. I cannot stand paying 8 bucks to see a flick, only to have some idiot act like he's in his own living room, talking freely. I want Nazi stormtroopers walking down those aisles!<BR><BR>Off with their tongues!!!!

My pet peeve is when you stay at a hotel with a bidet in the bathroom, but there's no mitt!

Can't resist, and travel-related peeves too!<BR><BR>To follow on x's original irritations while driving: how about the utter lack of concern for others that quite a few drivers exhibit?<BR><BR>1. Driving well under the speed limit in the left/fast lane of a multi-lane highway--especially where signs clearly say *slow traffic keep right* and where the driver is not in the left lane because he or she is turning left (at least not in this century). Do they not see the line of cars they are holding up?<BR><BR>2. Lack of acceleration when starting after the light changes to green (especially on a left turn arrow)--wouldn't it be nice if everyone tried to accelerate at a reasonable rate and not leave huge gaps between his car and the one in front of him? Imagine how many more drivers would be able to proceed through an intersection.<BR><BR>3. You see me coming, and you pull into my path anyway--obviously deciding that if one of us is going to be inconvenienced it has to be me, even though I have the right of way.<BR><BR>My wife has convinced me that when these things happen it is probably not an intentional and pervasive conspiracy to anger me while driving. Her theory is that many drivers simply don't pay that much attention to other drivers. While she's probably right, that's hardly comforting.<BR><BR>Do these incidents bother anyone else?

chuck, you wil be pleased to hear that my son has invented a revenge machine that sprays paint onto offending vehicles. Still in the development phase, unfortunately. The advanced version will apparently stencil terms like a****le onto the offender.

My pet peeve is the person sitting next to me on the plane asking how much I paid for my ticket! When that happens I usually say a ridiculously low figure and it usually shuts them right up!

xxx, you'll find that exaggeration works well in any case where an iprertinent question is asked. For money, you can either exaggerate the amount (as in when someone asks your salary) or, as you suggested, deflate it (when you want the offender to think they paid too much). <BR><BR>Variations also work well when people ask other impertinent questions. I have a lot of fun with health-related questions; you can convince people either that you're dying or that you're in training for the Olympics.

People who will not, cannot, or are unable to control their children in public venues.<BR><BR>If you're gonna have 'em, control 'em. <BR><BR>

A peeve is a minor vexation, and therefore we who travel are allowed to talk about them, as I spend about a nanosecond fussing over mine when I travel. The rest of the vacation is laid-back time. My pet peeve? The people who travel with incredibly heavy/oversized/etc. luggage and who expect OTHER people (total strangers,BTW) to haul their stuff off carousels or up into overhead bins for them! These offenders seem to think that it's their right to expect others to be their beasts of burden. Okay, nanosecond over. Have a nice day, everybody.<BR>ja

I have never posted that I was British. Obviously you don't read the threads, you pick up key words and make false statements in your own threads.<BR><BR>My pet peeve is cell phone etiquette. Why is it that people have to talk so loud when using them? Do they think I really want to know anything about their lives? I have also noticed that people love to talk really loud. Do they crave the attention they didn't get in childhood? I work with doctors and they are so soft spoken and it is pleasant to work around this level of volume.

I second the pet peeve about waiter staff who sit down at the table. Even worse, are those who "commit everything to memory" without writing down your order. I have NEVER gotten what I ordered and usually have to send everything back. It might be trendy but it is a pain in the ....

"Departure" taxes in countries like Mexico, and Canada at the Vancouver airport. Note it seems politically impossible that these would ever be "Entrance fees" Certainly unexpected in Vancouver. I wondered how they were going to pay for all those fancy glass jetways. Beautiful, but you have no choice; someone else has made it for you.

OK....how about the children who continuously kick the back of your chair/seat with the complete disregard or approval of their parents????? I am reallllly fed up with that. It sure makes for a long flight!

My pets peeve is when I yell at him for sniffing someones crotch.He says he still hasn't gotten the handshake thing down yet.

Mine is people who stand right in front of the elevator doors and try to get on before the people can get off!

Definitely people who take 10 minutes to figure out where their seat is on the plane. Hellloooooo--The aisles are numbered so if you are row 35 it's probably not in the first ten rows. People spend some much time staring at their ticket then the row, the ticket then the row again. JUST MOVE!!! These also seem to be the people who stand up the second they say they are boarding even though their row won't be called until the end. Good topic for a Friday!!!

I have another one (I have millions but I'm trying to control myself), people sitting behind me who get up out of their seat by grabbing hold of my seat, which then catapults me out of mine.<BR><BR>Just one more and I'll hush, people who stand and lean across the top of my seat while they are talking to someone sitting behind me, and bump my seat.

<BR>When you reserve a &lt;rental car, hotel room, or airplane seat&gt; and you don't really get it when checking in. <BR><BR>

Asking for decaf and getting leaded coffee, and then being treated like a annoying freak when you ask for decaf. I always want to ask for the server's home phone number so I can call him/her at 2:30 am when I lying rigid 5" above the bed and staring at the ceiling from the caffeine.<BR><BR>

My pet peeve is tourists in New York who block the sidewalks in midtown when the rest of us are trying to go about our workday.<BR><BR>Please go home!

anniehall<BR><BR>Is this the same NYC that really wanted people to go on visiting?

"Your lap-top, CD-player or portable game-player should now be placed in the off position, and it should remain in the off position until you are well inside the terminal."<BR><BR>What position is the "off position"? Is it upside-down, right-to-left, lying on top of my head? WHY can't they just say "turn it off, leave it off"!!!