What is your pet peeve of the day?

[ownyourfuture]

People walking on the street, when there's a sidewalk available ?

 

[redduck]

People referring to children as kids.
Kids are young goats.

Interestingly enough, it peeves goats when people refer to children as kids.

 

[GalaxyBoy]

Waitresses who refer to me and DW as "guys." Does she really look so butch to you? Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

[aja8888]

Lowe's lack of customer service.

 

[Nightcap]

Careful what you hope for. I guy in DC government correctly used the word "niggardly" a few years ago. He got fired after someone mistakenly believed it was a racial slur.

I would say niggardly use of the word "groom" might be in order when dealing with snowflakes requiring "safe spaces".

This reached its nadir when an doctor of paediatrics in Britain found her home spray-painted by local vigilantes who confused her specialty with paedophilia.

 

[MRG]

What picture?

The Oakland Raider girl in pasties.

 

[Montecfo]

This reached its nadir when an doctor of paediatrics in Britain found her home spray-painted by local vigilantes who confused her specialty with paedophilia.

Yes. And people demanding an end to women's suffrage.

 

[O2Bfree]

Lowe's lack of customer service.

It seems that in every hardware store I go into, if I know what I want and where it is, at least two employees stop me to ask if I need help. But when I have a question or can't find something, where are they??

 

[Sojourner]

That is a bit disturbing, "ex-specially" (especially) when the speaker is an educated person who should know better. Even some "reel-it-turs" (realtors) mispronounce the name of their own profession, and seem to think it has an extra syllable.

"Aks" instead of "ask" drives me crazy.

+1000

I was talking to a lady recently who repeatedly said "real-a-tur" during our conversation, and she said it so meticulously every time, as if she felt proud to be pronouncing it so correctly.

This reminds me of another huge pet peeve of mine, when people say things like "Me and Jill are going out to dinner later" or "The boys are going with Joan and I to the mall today." It's funny how so many people make these very basic mistakes of grammar, yet they would never say things just as egregious, like "Jill and I is going out to dinner later."

 

[Amethyst]

I just say "real estate agent." I consider "realtor" to be a made-up word - the house-sales industry's attempt to create equivalency with "doctor." In the UK, they drop the word "real" and refer to "estate agents."

+1000

I was talking to a lady recently who repeatedly said "real-a-tur" during our conversation, and she said it so meticulously every time, as if she felt proud to be pronouncing it so correctly.

T

 

[Puzzler]

"I seen that."

 

[HFWR]

I just say "real estate agent." I consider "realtor" to be a made-up word - the house-sales industry's attempt to create equivalency with "doctor." In the UK, they drop the word "real" and refer to "estate agents."

Indeed, "realtor" and/or "realator" are both marketing terms. In Texas, you have agents, who work for/under a broker.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/realtor.asp

 

[RetiredGypsy]

Lowe's lack of customer service.

 

[braumeister]

Being treated like a potential shoplifter every time I leave Costco.
I never go there more than once a month, but it bugs me every time.

 

[Nightcap]

Being treated like a potential shoplifter every time I leave Costco.

I never go there more than once a month, but it bugs me every time.

Is Costco one of those places where you have to show your receipt and submit to a search of your bags on the way out the door?

 

[braumeister]

Exactly.

 

[ERD50]

Being treated like a potential shoplifter every time I leave Costco.
I never go there more than once a month, but it bugs me every time.

They always check the receipt against the item count in the cart. Is that what you mean? That has no connection to shoplifting. How could it? Something shoplifted would be hidden from cashier and receipt checker person.

I always took it as a double check on the cash register person - did they get everything? Did you get double charged for something?

I've never been asked to search bags (or ever seen it happen to DW or anyone else).

-ERD50

 

[MichaelB]

They could be checking both cashier and customer.

 

[pacergal]

I have actually had the Costco checker find items I was charged for but were not in the basket (one was a double charge, one was an item I never even bought). I obviously wasn't paying attention those days! I immediately got 2 refunds. I no longer mind the check off list.

 

[Chuckanut]

I have actually had the Costco checker find items I was charged for but were not in the basket (one was a double charge, one was an item I never even bought).

+1


Far worse are stores whose policies severely restrict/complicate returns. I once spent 45 minutes returning a $10 item at a well known furniture store. Talk about feeling like an unwanted nuisance! I don't go back to those places.

 

[Dash man]

My pet peeve of the day is when customer service people say they'll get back to you by the next business day and they don't.
This particular incident began a week ago dealing with pre cruise accommodations in London before embarking on a two week Baltic cruise.
When they didn't call me back I called them again and was told "they're working it."
When I didn't hear anything in another day I wrote an email to the CEO's email address figuring I'd get somebody's attention. I did get a response from a Concierge in the executive offices saying they'd be in touch with me soon. With us departing a week from Monday, I was getting anxious to get things resolved. This morning, after not hearing anything, I wrote another email to the CEO. This time I got their attention.
Accommodations have been arranged with them footing the cost of the two extra nights we had wanted in London. They're also giving each of us $200 on board credit plus are paying for an anniversary dinner at their steakhouse specialty restaurant.
I think somebody must have looked up how many times we've cruised with them and were about to lose us.

 

[TromboneAl]

In the past:

Cashier: That will be $4.21. Out of Five? Here's your change.

Today:

Cashier: Enter your rewards number.
Customer: I don't have one.
Cashier: Would you like to set that up?
Customer: No, thanks.
Cashier: Would you like to put that on your store credit card?
Customer: No, thanks.
Cashier: Would you like to set that up?
Customer: No, thanks.
Cashier: It won't take long.
Customer: No, I'm fine.
Cashier: Would you like to donate $10 to the March of Dimes?
Customer: No, thanks.
Cashier: Here's your change.

More of a comment than a peeve, but I estimated that 80% of the checkout time was unrelated to just taking the money.

 

[FI by 2024]

They always check the receipt against the item count in the cart. Is that what you mean? That has no connection to shoplifting. How could it? Something shoplifted would be hidden from cashier and receipt checker person.



I always took it as a double check on the cash register person - did they get everything? Did you get double charged for something?



I've never been asked to search bags (or ever seen it happen to DW or anyone else).



-ERD50

I've never been asked to have my purse searched, but I will occasionally stop in on the way home from work. In those cases I am wearing my backpack and they search it every time, even if the item I purchased is in my hands. It's when that started happening that I realized it was, at least in part, an anti-theft function.

 

[imoldernu]

Let me be very clear

"Let me be very clear..."

finally..

a replacement for "like..." and "I mean..."

Time marches on.

 

[Nemo2]

"Let me be very clear..."

finally..

a replacement for "like..." and "I mean..."

Time marches on.

"Let me make one thing perfectly clear.." Richard Nixon.

What goes around.....