KoachKrab127
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I love how “The Pub” is mostly for wholesome sharing. There needs to be more corners of this on the internet, but hey. We all need to vent every once in a while. So, what drives you crazy? Here’s a couple of my pet peeves.
1. Someone licking their fingers before turning a page. It’s so disgusting and unnecessary. Might as well just spit inside the book.
2. Apps that update and lose a very basic feature. For example, a few years ago after a Spotify update, and all the sudden, you could not sort your playlists in alphabetical order. I mean, updates are supposed to make the app better, but there’s always something very basic and user-friendly in the update that they eliminate.
3. A person who doesn’t take constructive criticism well about their manners, because “I’m very self-conscious about my faults.” It’s something I notice in a whole lot of people nowadays, and I find it annoying that people don’t try to improve themselves, but instead try to make others feel bad for pointing out their lack of manners.
For example, I have a friend (let’s call him Dave, but that’s not his name) who has a bad habit of interrupting people and derailing a conversation. Dave doesn’t listen and respond. He controls conversations. One day, another friend (let’s call him George) was in the middle of telling a story I was interested in, and Dave interrupted in the middle of the story with something completely unrelated and steamrolled George. I stopped him and said, “Dave, hang on. You’re interrupting George,” and George said, “Yeah, you do that a lot.” And Dave immediately got offended and said, “Guys, you’re making me self-conscious!” Well, maybe you should be self-conscious and work to be better.
This idea that being self-conscious is a bad thing is weird to me. If you are self-conscious to an extreme, that can be unhealthy, but having a minimal amount of self-awareness is a good thing.
So those are some of my pet peeves. What drives you crazy?
1. Someone licking their fingers before turning a page. It’s so disgusting and unnecessary. Might as well just spit inside the book.
2. Apps that update and lose a very basic feature. For example, a few years ago after a Spotify update, and all the sudden, you could not sort your playlists in alphabetical order. I mean, updates are supposed to make the app better, but there’s always something very basic and user-friendly in the update that they eliminate.
3. A person who doesn’t take constructive criticism well about their manners, because “I’m very self-conscious about my faults.” It’s something I notice in a whole lot of people nowadays, and I find it annoying that people don’t try to improve themselves, but instead try to make others feel bad for pointing out their lack of manners.
For example, I have a friend (let’s call him Dave, but that’s not his name) who has a bad habit of interrupting people and derailing a conversation. Dave doesn’t listen and respond. He controls conversations. One day, another friend (let’s call him George) was in the middle of telling a story I was interested in, and Dave interrupted in the middle of the story with something completely unrelated and steamrolled George. I stopped him and said, “Dave, hang on. You’re interrupting George,” and George said, “Yeah, you do that a lot.” And Dave immediately got offended and said, “Guys, you’re making me self-conscious!” Well, maybe you should be self-conscious and work to be better.
This idea that being self-conscious is a bad thing is weird to me. If you are self-conscious to an extreme, that can be unhealthy, but having a minimal amount of self-awareness is a good thing.
So those are some of my pet peeves. What drives you crazy?
