Pet Peeves

TunicaTraveler · Pet Peeves

People who don't wash their hands.

Pedestrians walking while talking on their cell phone and hoping I won't hit them. (Sure wish I could sometimes)

Shoppers with their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle (I really lose my cool with this one.)

People walking their dogs and on the cell phone. (what is more important? the phone or the dog?, come on people!)

I know there are many more.

Bobbie

LA

Bobbie - I agree with the person at the store with the cart in the middle of the isle. The only thing worse is one cart going way, another one going the other way and stopped right beside it.......... and both shoppers are taking their long slow time reading labels. Drives me crazy!

Another one that irritates me is when I'm driving along at a decent speed and the car behind me speeds up and gets in front of me, drives about 100 ft and makes a right turn. Geez! What a great way to save 10 seconds.

Jean

People that write checks at checkout and then wait until the end to write the check, log it, and balance their checkbook all while 10 people wait.

People on cell phones in the restaurant talking louder than anyone there.

Women searching the bottom of their purses for a penny at check-out....grrrr.

Can you tell that I hate check-out lines...

WILynn

I have so many of them, it's hard to list them. LOL.

Yeah, the people that don't wash their hands.

The people who meet in the aisle going opposite directions with their shopping carts blocking the aisle and chat, and chat, and chat.

And, like, Jean, the worst is when you get behind someone in line at the store and they just stand there while everything is being rung up. My luck is that once everything IS rung up, THEN they hand over a stack of coupons, half of which are expired and the other half they didn't get the right item. Once that is all straightened out and they get their final total, THEN they pull out the checkbook and begin to write out the check. If you're going to use coupons and write a check, get it together first!

Thankfully this one has past its time, but when the kids were little and I used to have birthday parties for them we'd send out invitations with RSVP on them. I would need to have an approximate total for wherever we were having the latest extravaganza. I couldn't believe how few people would respond one way or the other. I'd end up calling people to get some kind of a number.

Yeah, and since I'm being crabby...tell those pesky neighbor kids to stay off my lawn. ROFL.

LA

Lynn, I'm with ya on those coupons that they throw out after all the groceries have been checked out. That, and the price matching thing where they have to flip through about 6 newspapers to find each item. I'm all for saving money, but it sure can be a big irritation to those in line.

ontheopenroad

OK, here are mine:

People who are sitting at a full bank of slot machines, but are not playing. Then, if you ask nicely "Are you playing that machine?", they look at you with the power of 100 daggers.

People who are sitting at a machine that plays up to like 100 lines and 5 per line and are playing 1 line/1 per, and people are lined up behind them waiting for a machine.

WILynn

Oh, yeah, Jim. Those people who play 1 penny one line on Stinkin Rich drive me crazy. Play a game with fewer lines if that's all you're going to play! I can see playing 50 or more, but when you're playing 1-10 lines, it's a little ridiculous.

ontheopenroad

Oh, thought of two more (from our last trip, Lynn):

People who play 2 or 3 machines, when there are no open machines on that bank.

People who request the casino to disable the machine so they can leave for a while, and no one will play it while they're gone.

slimster

In line with what ontheopenroad listed, one of my pet peeves is when the whole row of slot machines is empty except for one person, and no matter which one you start to play, they're like "I'm playing that one" and them not even be near it. Thankfully that doesn't happen a great deal, but I have had it happen.

I started to play one a while back, and someone two or three machines down said "Someone is playing that one!" in a crabby voice. Seeing no one at the particular machine, as well as no credits on it, I replied back just as crabby, "Well, it must be Claude Rains, the invisible man then" and then I walked on off.

LA

Good reply on the invisible man Slim.

Here's another peeve. When a person at the ticket redemption machine cashes a large ticket. Then breaks it down to twentys. Then breaks the twenty's down to fives. Then breaks one of the fives to ones.

And one more. When I'm playing multi game VP and someone sits down beside me and tells me why I should play a different game that pays better. The only revenge there is when they play out their credits and I'm still playing.

Brianzz

Lisa you need to tell them you just hit a royal playing that game so there's nothing left to win so you had to switch games.

My favorite, I see it everyday, is people wait in line till they get up to the cashier, all the stuff is rang up and they discover they don't have a wallet or they dig around in every pocket, checking each twice for money, then discover they don't have any money so they have to use a card and they don't remember the PIN or it's declined over and over and over so they put this and that and the other back until a time the card will go through.

WILynn

Brian, I was behind a similar experience this last time at GS. The ticket redemption machines at GS also function as ATM's and for cash advances on credit cards. Well, there is one guy in front of me at the machine and he is apparently trying to get money out of his account. Problem is, his balance is insufficient for his withdrawal. This didn't deter him, as he tried over and over and over again. I finally got disgusted and went to another machine. For all I know, he may still be there.

Slim, I love the invisible man response. I don't mind so much if someone saves a machine for a couple of minutes while someone runs to the bathroom or to cash a ticket or something, but some of these machines are being saved for 1/2 hour or more. That's just ridiculous.

ontheopenroad

Oh, here's a big one from a recent trip:

I walked up to a machine and stuck a ticket in and started to sit down. A woman said "someone is playing that machine--she just went to the bathroom". Sure enough, there was about $100 worth of credits in the machine, but no card in the machine, the seat wasn't turned or flipped up, or any other indication that it was "occupied".

Luckily, it was only a $2 ticket, so I told the woman, "Next time, tell her to mark her machine somehow.", flipped the chair up, and walked off. If it had been much money, I would have gone off on the woman!

Beverly

Wow! I have to agree with all of you! You guys didn't leave any for me! I think all of you hit on at least one of my pet peeves! I know when Buffy and I went to Biloxi last January, her favorite game is Pinball and Top Dollar. We were at the IP and they had a bank of the quarter pinball machines, which we had only seen at Harrahs and Isle of Capri. They were 3 in a row. She thought she was going to get to play one of them but when we got closer...there was a lady at the middle one playing all 3 of them! Needless to say...she was still playing all 3 when we decided to leave, but she did get a chance to play when we went to Harrahs!

slimster

Lynn, did the guy who was trying to use the ATM at the ticket redemption machine happen to be a slender Oriental guy wearing glasses? If so, I got stuck behind him Saturday night as well!!!

He was doing the very same thing you mentioned.

I don't mind someone saving a machine for someone either, but as was stated earlier, when you go back by the machine anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes later and there's still nobody at it, it gets a bit irritating.

And my biggest pet peeve...when I'm playing a machine and constantly losing and someone comes up, sits down beside me and starts playing the machine next to me, and gets a big hit about 3 or 4 spins into it!

WILynn

Slimster, I really don't remember. Were you there when I was there? Wish I'd have known! I would have loved to have met you.

slimster

I was there this past Saturday night.

WILynn

Guess I beat you by a week. Hope you can be in Tunica for the next meet. We'd love to meet you!

slimster

I hope so too. I'd love to meet all y'all as well!