People who don’t dim their brights for oncoming traffic. Being able to hear your (general “you”) chewing or swallowing noises. That LOOK that my teenage son gives me. Bad customer service. Being called honey/baby/sweetie by the drive thru workers (is this a southern thing?). Improper pronoun usage: Here’s a photo of him and I. I had better stop before I have to go locate a Xanax.

Okay. So, Oxford comma. I am inclined to use it, unless the style guide I am using doesn’t. In that case, obviously, I have no choice. (Chicago manual and Strunk & White say yes; AP says no.)

But I LIKE an Oxford comma. I feel like it serves a purpose at times to clear up ambiguity.

Take, for example…this sentence:

I would like to thank my parents, Richard Gere, and Dolly Parton.

If you don’t use an Oxford comma…then sentence looks like this:

I would like to thank my parents, Richard Gere and Dolly Parton.

And then…this could be taken to mean that Gere and Parton are the writer’s parents, instead of him or her thanking those three sets of people.

Which, obviously, I will be laughing about all day.

I am not a big fan of the smiley, really, um, ever.
I do use it on occasion, but I don’t love it. So…a backward one? forgetaboutit.

My mind has officially been blown – thanks for keeping me up to date on the new one space! My pet peeve is people chewing gum like a cow (and I should know I live in a place where our tagline is more cows than people).

I am so WITH you on the double space after a period. I work in technology, and as editor of our department’s blog I constantly have to fix the dang extra spaces.

My other pet peeve of this nature is when people feel the need to “dress up” their flier’s fonts … drop shadow and emboss FTL.

I of course watched Temptation Island. And even tried to watch the second iteration of it, but it was way too bad.

Most of my pet peeves are all covered here. Although, I don’t get the TP thing. I don’t have to have it a certain way. I incline towards your “wrong” way because it is really easy for a cat to unravel a TP roll when you have it the other way.

I also hate people who stand on escalators and moving walkways.

Pants too short is my number one pet-peeve. I even dislike capri’s because I think they just look like short pants, which drives me nuts.

**I went back and removed the extra space in the sentences above because I didn’t want to make the hairs on the back of your editorial neck bristle. I’m a huge double-space offender, taught by my editor-mother who learned on a typewriter. Sigh.

xox

I’m with you on most of the those, I even watched Temptation Island, too, but I have to say I much prefer the “wrong” way to install toilet paper. I think it looks better and my kids are less inclined to unroll it all if it’s not there in front. I mean, they’ll still unroll it anyway, it might just take a few extra seconds until they remember oh, hey yeah, toilet paper, this is fun!

I have recently noticed a handful of people that have made the effort to use their turn signals but have actually used the WRONG signal. Like, they have their left indicator on and then turn right. WTF?

Also, I hate when people open the door of their parked car into traffic when they are parallel parked. Or just blindly step out from in between cars to get IN to their car. I’m so confused why it doesn’t occur to them that this might be EXTREMELY ALARMING to the people coming at them at 30 mph.

Aside from not caring about Bachelorette and a die-hard double space after the period fan, I loved all your other pet peeves because I’m THE SAME EXACT WAY.

I am SO with you on using the Oxford comma. It makes lists make sense.
My major pet peeve is people who are completely oblivious to others around them in public situations. For example: people who stop at the bottom of a stairway to check their phone, not realizing that there are others behind them also wanting to get through to their destination; people who walk in trio’s (or more) down a busy sidewalk, preventing anyone from passing by; smokers who smoke right outside the entrances of buildings; and oh how I could go on…
I guess it all comes down to common courtesy for me!

I use the Oxford comma always.

I cannot stand: eachother (two words, isn’t it??), should of, would of, could of (it’s should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, people! ), and people who don’t RSVP.

1) Windshield wipers that are not going the correct speed for the amount of rain. Or worse, still on when it’s not raining.

2) When people forget to turn off their turn signal.

3) clingy people

4) When my dog follows me incessantly around the house.

5) When somebody asks me a question and then doesn’t wait for the answer. Don’t ask me how I’m doing today if you don’t want to know.

6) When people slow down to merge onto the interstate…use the gas pedal, go the speed of traffic.

Totally with you on the double space issue, hallway traffic flow, and the toilet paper installation diagram. My top peeves: when I see a foot mark used instead of an aphostrophe in advertising or signage; when my mom says “I saw (fill in the blank) and she looks great. She’s so tiny.” (ok, Mom, I get it… I need to lose weight. Noted.); hearing anyone else smack or snap or chew something such that it makes a sound that I can hear (OMG this is huge for me), and when people type in all caps. And I’m in agreement with some of your other commenters with the smokers smoking and capris that look like floods,outside the doorways.

I don’t watch Temptation Island,so I know nothing about JP, but was busy nodding my head about everything else EXCEPT for the double spacing issue. How can I get out of that habit that has been built in for around 30 years?