Natty Adams

My Biggest Pet Peeves

People changing plans on you at the last minute.

People who tell you to hold off on making any other plans until they know what time would be good for them (especially when they don’t know until the last minute.)

Hovering waiters.

Disingenuously over-courteous waiters.

People who never respond to a personal email or even acknowledge having recieved it. (This peeve of mind does not apply to responses to group emails or forwarded items.)

People who turn off the taps in the shower without turning off the shower itself so you get blasted with water from above the minute you turn the taps on.

People who say “I’m just kidding,” at the end of every joke. Especially because people who do that are generally not very funny.

People who walk down a flight of stairs and just stop when they reach the bottom so you run into them. The same goes for people walking up and stopping at the top.

People who enter a subway car with ample space in the middle but refuse to move in and just stand like a fucking menhir in the doorway not letting anyone get by.

People who walk three or four abreast on a sidewalk.

People who abruptly stop walking without first looking behind them.

People who talk loudly on the telephone (especially when they increase the volume of their voice based on how far away the person on the other end is, as though they have to shout louder through the wire in order for it to properly reach the other side of the world.)

I’ll think of some more…