Open Peeve Friday: Tuesday Edition

I would blame the extreme tardiness of this post on my sick baby (she had a virus!) or on the dead battery in my laptop (it died!) but the truth is I was just lazy.

We had lots of submissions for last week! (If your peeve doesn't appear here, please resubmit and I will post it on Friday. It might have gotten lost in my mess of an inbox. Also, please include titles and, if you want me to link to it, the URL for your site.)

Another Amy is a longtime fan of the Peevery and has this to peeve:

Dear Coworker,

If you want to keep at least one of your lungs, then I suggest you
stop coughing. And while you're at it, stop sniffling and snuffling
and generally repulsing everyone around you. We all know you went to
the doctor to get medicine for your allergies. So when you admit that
you do not take it, we can take no pity on your condition. Especially
when that condition also includes yellow-toenailed, nasty-ass feet
that you stuff into sandals that do not fit.

Sincerely,
Your Co-Worker Who is Extremely Grateful to Have an Office with a
Door She Can Shut

Andrea peeves in the classic Poop Etiquette category:

To My Office Cleaning Staff,

Please stop refilling the bathroom soap dispenser with dish washing soap. It takes far to long for it to rinse off and I fear I may be blacklisted for a possible breach of Poop Etiquette because of the length of time I must spend in there to rinse.

-Andrea

MamaKaren, longtime Peevery reader had a few peeves:

I’ll Check Out the Freezer-cam

I’m at the office, in a cubicle.   Hubby is in our living room, talking to me on the cordless phone.  Yet he still asks me what we have available to cook for dinner.

Pot, Meet Kettle

I would be rolling my eyes significantly less upon receiving an email boasting about this reviewer’s life-long devotion to being picky about accuracy if his message noting my errors (an extra space between words on page 2, and the use of the hyphenated spelling of a word instead of the more commonly used non-hyphenated form) had not included him incorrectly spelling the title of the document itself.

Diet Police

I joined Weight Watchers so that I could continue to eat the same foods as my family.  Hubby and the kids don't need to lose weight, and I refuse to cook two sets of meals each day.  Also, I don't do well on any plan that tells me that something is off limits; that only makes me want to consume more of the offending food.

The next time Hubby sees me eating a piece of pizza or a cookie and asks "Do you have enough points for that?"  my response is likely to be "Not yet, but the activity credit I get for giving you a beat-down will add enough."

Erin had a few peeves, too:

While I understand Twitter is asking, "What are you doing?" I really don't need to know your daughter just took a huge dump in her diaper and it smells "really stinky." Oh, and "she also just turned off the computer, when did she learn how to flip switches?" Thanks for making me lose brain cells for having to read this drudge.  Why don't I block you? I'm just waiting for a really good Twit so I can ridicule you without you realizing it.
----

Dear Mr. Garbageman,

I appreciate you taking my trash today.  I understand it smells really bad, but come on, I'm sure your olfactory is used to it by now.  I'm sorry you have to get wet and have a pretty good possibility of getting struck by lightning.  But seriously, is it that hard to flip the cover back on it?  I am sure to embarrass myself when I try to empty it from the inches of rain and quite possibly have to live with fetid feet the rest of my natural life.

-Erin

----

What is up with celebrities who think I am going to vote the way they do just because they're "celebrities"?  Seriously, Daddy Yankee, you had one good song even though I had no clue what you were saying, and you think your endorsement is going to sway me?  Maybe Chuck Norris, yeah, because he could roundhouse kick me into submission, but I wish everyone else would shut the heck up.  I'm not as dumb as you look.