Pet peeves...................

jbeish · Post by **jbeish** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:06 pm

Getting hit in the ankles with a shopping cart.
People that do not pick their feet up when they walk, just slide 'em...
Mouth breathers.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:09 pm

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:03 pm

Mojo workin' wrote:
Americans' sense of entitlement about everything.

People who reap the benefits of the hard work and sacrifices Americans have suffered and then complain about Americans

People who have knee jerk reactions when any criticism is levelled at Americans.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:27 pm

Tim Wilson has a pet peeve song that pretty much says it all ("R" rated lyrics).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5d5IfdYK4

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:44 pm

String players who think it is beneath their dignity to move a music stand or a chair in an all volunteer orchestra. Good string players are a precious commodity in the south, but for goodness sake, get over it already.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:14 pm

I searched your list, Doc, to try to find any I could disagree with. I was unsuccessful. Damn.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:19 pm

windshieldbug wrote:

Ah, yes. Our little Sign of the Impending Apocalypse.

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:23 pm

Doc the master of the universe wrote: People who actually believe Bud, Miller, and Coors products resemble beer and actually have body and flavor.

Amen brotha! PREACH ON.

Tom Mason · Post by **Tom Mason** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:52 pm

Let me add my appreciation at seeing Doc back on the board.

Now, back to pet peeves................

People who act like they are above you when you are doing them a service. (Too good to talk to musicians, ministers, or police officers).

People who throw cans out of their vehicle window and onto my yard.

Students who mistreat the school owned instrument that I allow them to use out of the goodness of my own heart.

Tom Mason

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:14 am

Phil, *sigh* how are these two things related? I hate people who like to generalize the observations of others in order to whine about something else that is not really even related. That was so far off target â€¦

I am hated. Woe is me. The Elephant hath deemed me a whiner and a generalizer. The great and powerful Oz has spoken.

I'll just sit back and lurk while the real players of tubenet post brilliance and reason. Patsies like me are just a hindrance to all that is informative, relevant, congenial, and worthwhile on The Elephant's discussion board known as tubenet.

Wow...I'm so obtuse. I'm so obtuse. I'm so obtuse.

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:22 am

Repair Tech doing sloppy soldering, so he cleans off the solder by carving it down with 60 grit sandpaper.

People who feel the urge to speak in a public restroom.

People not flushing in a public restroom.

People not washing their hands.

Toilets with auto flush that flush 4 times before you need it to flush

Sinks that when you press the button you get 3 seconds of water.

Bathroom stalls with huge gap between door and other stall wall.

Food makers choosing health over flavor.

Hippies burning SUVs because SUVs cause too much pollution.

Poorly played French Horn and Oboe.

Graffiti

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:40 am

I have quite a long list, some of them driving issues, (from living in the town with quite possibly the worst drivers in the world, Decatur, IL,) and some of them people issues, (from living in the town with some of the worst people.)

-people who get on my tail, even though I am driving at or above the speed limit
-people who force me to merge into the right lane in a right lane merge road
-Curry Company truck drivers; they pick the bottom of the barrel for the most part, and get some of the worst
-people who don't pay attention to "Right/Left turn only" lanes, especially in congested downtown areas
-people who don't observe yield signs

-those annoying little quips I get at seemingly every community band concert: "Don't you wish you played piccolo?", "I bet that thing is heavy" (yeah, no sh!t, sherlock), etc...
-people who throw things into the bell of any sousaphone I might be wearing
-politics
-political phone calls
-from my first semester in Iowa, I know I never want to hear the word caucus ever again, (especially from someone who's trying to get me to vote for their candidate, even after I repeatedly tell them I'm from Illinois, and thus not able to caucus.)
-bad book endings
-people who make a point of telling me they hate something that I have said I like
-that amused/vague/pitiful look I get when I tell people I'm a music major, as if it is something to be amused by, (my oldest brother got the same looks when he told people he was a math major)
-people blaring bad music, with their room door open, (why people do this on a dorm floor supposedly filled with studying students I will never understand.)
-Nascar
-people who take sports too seriously
-snooty rich people
-hippies!
-silent protests
-that weird look I get when I tell most other music majors, or musicians in general, that I like John Cage, (I do, so back off!)
-sugary tasting fruit drinks
-school rivalries
-show boaters
-cockiness
-preempted t.v. shows; honestly, if football always runs over by about a half and hour, then schedule the game a half-an-hour earlier!
-people who call themselves artistic, when they clearly are not, (case in point, the legions of people my age who think having a digital camera and a black-and-white lens setting automatically makes them a photographer. Seriously, taking photos of sad looking people and "artfully" posed sticks and garbage does not make you a photographer!!!!!!)

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:40 am

bloke wrote:
Tubaing wrote:Food makers choosing health over flavor.

What? No more potty complaints?

No, I have more...

Single ply toiletpaper.

People who brag about how big their poop is.

People who insist on showing pictures of it.

People who pee on the seat rather than lifting the seat.

Short Urinals

People who smoke in bathrooms.

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:03 am

spilled beer

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:59 am

People who keep bumping their posts to the top

MartyNeilan wrote:People who hold a door open for you, BUT stand in front of the door in your way, while you try to squeze through with a huge tuba on your back and one or both hands full.
They are then expecting you to thank them, when in reality they just made it a whole lot harder; I usually wind up clipping the bell on the doorframe in an effort not to clean their clock with it because they are directly in my way...
The day I can't negotiate my own instrument completely on my own (often while carrying a 22 pound baby, dragging two other kids, and carrying a ton of other stuff) is the day I stop playing it.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:18 am

Senator Larry Craig

Tom Mason · Post by **Tom Mason** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:54 pm

People who keep bumping their posts to the top

Surely you don't mean me

Students who don't think that the instructions that I give are not meant for them.

Students who will annoy others in rehearsal.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:06 pm

bloke wrote: Short Urinals

My pet peave is people who leave the kitchen sink full of dishes...AM I EXPECTED TO PEE ON A BUNCH OF DIRTY CUPS & SAUCERS...!??

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:10 pm

bloke wrote:My pet peave is people who leave the kitchen sink full of dishes...AM I EXPECTED TO PEE ON A BUNCH OF DIRTY CUPS & SAUCERS...!??

THAT'S why they want you to wash your hands after you pee... to get them dishes started...

Tom Mason · Post by **Tom Mason** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:19 pm

Teacher in-services that are required attendance, but offer nothing that applies to your teaching area.

Administrators that require your attendance at those in-services.

Lecturers at the inservices that say absolutely nothing that will help, and take 4 hours to do it.