Is this the same NYC that really wanted people to go on visiting?

Traveler: Yes, but not the sweatsuit wearing, olive-garden eating, and sidewalk-hogging ones.

Mine is when you are walking with a crowd and the person in front of you just stops to stare at nothing with no regard for who may behind him or her.

And - when parents with strollers wheel them into the back of your ankles on line.

I have more, trust me, but I am showing restaint.

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Annie Hall,
My pet peeve is ungrateful New Yorkers with lousy attitudes. Guess that "moment" of civility is gone, huh?
We put up with NYC news for months now, enough already!! Your boorish behaviour is a perfect example of uncool, classless trash. I'll bet that the store and restaurant owners don't want the tourists to "go home", too bad they have creeps like you for neighbors.

Besides, the Annie Hall look is dead darling, as dead as sweatsuits!!!

Double-wide stollers!!!! I understand some people want to have children. I understand sometimes you get more than you bargained for, but for the love of walking lanes, get a stoller where one child is behind the other.

And those time-share telemarketers who call during supper and start off using my first name. It's Ms. ncgrrl, and don't ever call me again.

People who are afraid to fly, but will travel on the highway at 80mph with no fear at all! Get real, you have no control in either situation, it's an illusion. I cannot control if some drunk is going to cross over and hit me head on. If it's your time, then that's all there is to it!!!

Thank goodness others agree about the stroller thing! There is nothing more annoying than a stoller clipping your heels as you are walking and yes those double wides are cute and convenient but when walking down busy sidewalks in the city, they take up the WHOLE sidewalk, you can get around them! Last summer they issued a warning to parents for Taste of Chicago (a huge tourist event here!) that strollers would NOT be allowed into the event. Sadly, I still saw many and it was not enforced. The Taste is VERY crowded and there is just not room for stollers and they are pretty much on top of you. What really gets me is the peole pushing strollers who just kind of push everybody in the crowd around and pretty much barrel down the center or take out the poor person's toes who wore sandals.

Sorry to vent, but I got it off my chest and I'm happy again!

While the subject of strollers is up may I add all the damn strollers and motorized conveyances at WDW. I lost count of the number of times I was run into by them. Over my toes, up my leg,into my shins. If you're gonna push or drive, look where you're going.

Somebody had mentioned the decaf coffee issue on airplanes. Let me let you in on a little secret I recently learned.

I am acquainted with a few flight attendents and they have let me in on the secret known as "universal coffee", which is actually a combination of decaf and full-throttle caffeine coffee. If the flight crew is too lazy to make two separate pots, they will make what they call "universal coffee" and give it to passengers regardless. Thus, you may have ended up with caffeine when you didn't ask for it.

I asked if this was a frequent thing and they said if the lead flight attendant is up to speed, two pots will get made. But if the lead is feeling lazy, it's universal coffee all the way.

So if you really don't want caffeine, don't ask for coffee at all.

Standing in a long line at McDonalds, and having the guy in front of you, who has been standing in line as long as you, wait till he's at the counter to decide what he wants..

The rude ass pushiness of so many when they are grocery shopping.

1. The woman who has her cart parked in the middle of the aisle while she looks at something, sees me, and goes right back to looking without making any attempt to move her cart so I can pass. I return the favor by shoving her cart out of the way with my cart.

2. The people who just HAVE to be exactly where I'm standing. They must be there at the exact millisecond that I am, looking at the same item, reaching across me or in front of me for it, or breathing down my neck as I look. I try to emit some sort of noxious bodily gas at that time, if at all possible.

3. The people in the checkout line who seem to think that if they unload their cart, push it ahead and stand RIGHT beside me as I'm being checked out, it will somehow hurry the cashier and get them through the line faster. The Q-Tips (old folks, white hair, white sneakers) are the worst perpetrators of this. A few well placed elbows will usually get them to back up slightly.

4. The cashier who doesn't acknowledge me, then proceeds to whine to her co-worker about what a lousy job she has, how tired she is, how many more minutes until she can go on break, and the exact time that her shift ends. Common occurrence at Walmart.

Non-travel pet peeve: People in grocery store check-out lanes that wait until their entire order is rung up before pulling out their checkbooks and ever so s l o w l y filling out the check. DID YOU SOMEHOW THINK YOUR GROCERIES WOULD BE FREE!!!!!!!!????????
Thank you....I'm off to yoga class, now. Ohm....ohm....ohm...

I have several.
1. People who bring carry-on's with wheels on the plane. The term carry-on means just that -- something you carry on the plane. If you have to wheel it, it isn't a carry on.
2. People who have to have their seats pushed back during the entire flight including meal service.
3. People who have loud conversations on planes. I don't want to hear someone discussing their personal life.
4. People who board a plane in the winter and hold up everyone on the plane as they proceed to take off their coat and put it in the overhead. Why can't they take their coat off before boarding.
5. People who want to spend the flight standing in the aisle talking to friends. I just love having their rear in my face during the flight.

Let's hear some more!

TOP 10 DOG PET PEEVES ABOUT HUMANS

1. Yelling at me for barking... I'M A FRIGGIN' DOG YOU IDIOT!!

2. How you naively believe that the stupid cat isn't all over everything while you're gone. (Have you noticed that your toothbrush tastes a little like cat butt?)

3. Taking me for a walk, then not letting me check stuff out. Exactly who's walk is this anyway?

4. Any trick that involves balancing food on my nose...stop it.

5. Yelling at me for rubbing my ass on your carpet. Why'd you buy carpet?

6. Getting upset when I sniff the crotches of your guests. Sorry but I haven't quite mastered that handshake thing yet...idiot.

7. Dog sweaters. Have you noticed the fur?

8. Any haircut that involves bows or ribbons. Now you know why we chew your stuff up when you're not home.

9. Taking me to the vet for "the big snip", then acting surprised when I freak out everytime we go back.

10. The sleight of hand, fake fetch throw. You fooled a dog! What a proud moment for the top of the food chain, you terd.

Here is a semi-travel related one: You get somewhere way early to get a great spot up front - usually at the stage, fence, whatever. Then someone tries to worm their way past you. Sometimes they use the excuse, "Your too tall, I can't see!" My answer is always, well, you should haven't gotten here earlier!

Along the same theme, Parents who put their kids on their shoulders. If the kids can't see, they should have gotten there earlier and got closer to the front.

Also, when parents try to send their kids to the front. I iffy on this one, sometimes it doesn't bother me - especially if it only 1 kid - but when they send the WHOLE brood forward - FORGET IT!

Finally, I'm not trying to raise the smoker/non-smoker issue - but people who in the midst of a tight crowd who just feel the need to light up. Smoke if you want too, but be aware of your surroundings.

Not travel, but mine is people in the grocery store express lanes with more than 10 items. They are definitely "Expressholes."

JPB, I can relate to your beef about getting somewhere early to see something and then having people who show up much later expecting to get in front of you.

A few years ago, I was in London at Westminster Abbey and the TV crew nearby told us the Queen was due to arrive in a few hours to dedicate some new statuary inside. So we decided to find a good spot and wait for her arrival as I doubted I'd ever see her up close ever again.

We waited for over two hours near the fence and the crowds got bigger by the minute. About 10 minutes before her arrival, a group of teens began pushing toward the front, babbling loudly in French. Two of them kept shoving themselves into my back and tried to edge in front of me but I wouldn't let them. I'm only four feet 11 inches tall, so I knew I'd never see a thing if I gave them an inch. They continued talking into my ear and pushing me. My roommate (who is nearly six feet tall) finally told them to cool it and they at least shut up.

In my job, people from outside the company call in with questions. I provide answers and then the person says, "hold on, I have to get a pen." Please have paper and a working pen BEFORE you call.

Lisa, I think you have one or two things un-thought-out.

First, the rollaboard "carry-ons" were invented by pilots for crew members to be able to bring their stuff aboard without having to actually hold it against gravity above the ground while walking through the terminal. There's no reason why carryon luggage shouldn't have wheels if the size of the luggage is appropriate and if people can lift them into the overhead compartments.

Second, the reason I have my coat on when I board the plane may be that I can't easily carry it plus carryon luggage plus hand the gate people my ticket, and then later when I'm walking down the aisle of the plane, the heavy winter coat over my arm will probably slap some people in the face. Frankly, I would really rather not be wearing the heavy thing when I board the plane from a warm terminal but I do it for the above reasons.