What completely normal behavior just makes your blood boil? Everyday pet peeves that seem to always raise our blood pressure the most.
When the internet was asked, “What’s a seemingly small, trivial thing that makes you instantly burn with the rage of a white-hot sun?” people chimed in with the tiny pet peeves that upset them the most.
Keep calm—their answers might just trigger you:
1. Sidewalk blockers
“A big group of people walking really slowly in the middle of the sidewalk that look confused when you go into the road to walk around them.”
2. Left lane hoggers
“People who cut you off then drive slower than you. Or people that just hang out in the left lane with a line of cars behind them that want to pass but can’t.
“It’s the principle of it. The lack of concern for other people. The obliviousness and selfishness it must take.”
3. Listening to something without headphones in public
“It’s the complete lack of awareness of others that does it for me.
“I know headphones can be expensive, or we sometimes forget. It’s not hard to scroll silent media like when you don’t have headphones.”
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4. Automated customer service
“When I try to call an agency (think CVS, FedEx, etc) that doesn’t give you ANY chances to talk to a person and instead makes you pick from a drop-down menu, except none of the options apply to your situation.
“So you pick the one most similar and keep picking the option most similar as the requests get more specific, hoping that at some point they’ll be like, ‘Wow, you’ve gotten all the way here and still haven’t solved your issue? Ok, we’ll connect you to someone,’ but NOPE, they just kick you back to the main menu. 15 minutes of your life, and you’ve gotten nowhere.”
5. Being followed in line
“When someone is standing too close to me in line, so I inch away, and they follow me.”
From coffee shops to airport security, this is one of those pet peeves that can’t be escaped!
6. Getting yanked back by clothing
“When my clothes get stuck on a handle/protruding object as I’m walking, and I get yanked backward without warning. Perhaps the most provoking thing I’ve ever experienced.”
7. Accepting or denying cookies on websites
“Having to click accept [or] deny for cookies every time I visit a website. Can’t [you] just store a cookie that remembers my preference? That’s where they were made for. Not for the ad tracking.”
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8. Bright headlights at night
“It’s so dangerous. I can’t see at all! I have to move my mirrors so I’m not blinded.”
9. Needing scissors or a knife to open something
“Those innocent ‘peel here’ tabs on food bags never work and always require a pair of scissors to get them open. Ditto for packs of batteries and other items [that] are encased in NASA-grade plastic. But how are eggs, which actually are fragile, packaged? Thin, thin cardboard.”
10. Getting nagged at the wrong time
“Someone asking me to do something while I’m either in the process of doing it or about to do it. I’m not someone who gets annoyed easily, but for some reason, that has always gotten under my skin.”
11. Refusing to cover a cough or sneeze
“Disgusting.”
This article was written and syndicated by What the Fab.
Elise Armitage is an entrepreneur and founder of What The Fab, a travel + lifestyle blog based in California. At the beginning of 2019, Elise left her corporate job at Google to chase her dreams: being an entrepreneur and helping women find fabulous in the everyday. Since then, she’s launched her SEO course Six-Figure SEO, where she teaches bloggers how to create a passive revenue stream from their website using SEO. Featured in publications like Forbes, Elle, HerMoney, and Real Simple, Elise is a firm believer that you can be of both substance and style.
