PET PEEVES

“People who sporadically sing entire songs a cappella, mainly for attention, in the office.” – Anonymous

“Passive aggressive behavior.” – Anonymous

“Mosquito bites.” – Brittany Jordt

“When someone calls and you’re really busy, so you ask them to please hold, but they keep talking and trying to buy tickets, and then you have to interrupt them so you can finally get them on hold, which all takes about as long as an entire phone call anyway.” – Katie Clark

“Falling Trees. Need I say more?” – Angela Sherman

“The leaving out of the “ed” at the end of adjectives. Those cinnamon rolls are old-fashionED, not old-fashion. Same thing goes for the iceD tea. These are things that keep English majors up at night.” – Katie Dahl

“OMG, ASIMPP. Don’t understand? Most times I don’t either. These letters stand for ‘Oh my god, abbreviated slang is my pet peeve.’ Everyday I hear more and more people using this type of slang in daily speech. It seems that many teenagers have gotten lazy as ‘Oh my god’ only has four additional letters than OMG. Is it really too hard to say the words? I can understand the use of this slang in text messaging and online chatting but now it is being used as vocal language. Reading and writing are important fundamentals in communication, and I hope that using abbreviated slang like OMG, LOL or TTYL will, like other fads, quickly regress and become obsolete.” – Advocate for better communication.

“Windshield wipers that snap off when you’re driving down the road at 60 mph. This happened to me recently on my way to work at the Pulse, and all I could do was watch as my wiper flew over the roof of my ’98 Chevy Malibu and landed on the road a few hundred yards back. Will have to look into getting that replaced.” – Andrew Phillips

“When you’re trying to explain something to a person, and they just keep cutting you off.” – Matt Fayfer