Pet Peeves

Since I have been kept up through random hours of the night I'm a bit irritated and felt like writing a blog on my pet peeves. Somtimes it's kinda funny to actually sit down and think about these things because you can learn the funniest things...

-I hate to be called Lee...my name is not Lee. I can forgive for Lee-ah because thats how it's written over here but in fact my name is Lay-ah with European pronunciation...yes like Star Wars, I've heard that one a lot too, that joke is beyond ancient.
-I hate when people don't return crap on time. A family friend has had some of our movies for almost a year and STILL has not returned them. That is rediculous and a good enough excuse in my book to go for blood. Guarantee I could get them back real fast...
-I hate when my neighbors steal crap from my home garden. They find plenty of their things missing afterwards...and they will continue to find that for a while.
-I hate when people misuse the words "their" and "they're" or "its" and "it's".
-I hate poor grammar and poor english. "Ain't" is not a word, neither is "warsh" or my very favorite that just kills me..."axe" instead of "ask". Why?!?!
-I hate when I'm in the car and people leave their turn signal on after they've already turned. My mom will somtimes do this just to annoy me and everytime I feel horribly embarassed to be in the same car. I always make fun of people that do that and to be on the other end is just too much for me.
-I hate when people leave caps off pens. I'm not sure why this one is but I'm always walking around my house putting caps back on. That's why I love the click pens...no more cap, just click!
-I hate when random lights or tvs/radios are left on when noone is there. It's a waste.
-I hate bad fashion. IE: clothes that are waaaay too small for the person wearing them, socks with sandals, white socks with nice black pants, clashing color combos, or pairing 2 different prints and expecting them too mach no matter how bizarre they both are.

My biggest pet peeve however, is when people are late! That just sends me off the deep end. I absolutely hate to be late and if it's just me, I'm never late. It's when I have to start relying on other people to get me somewhere or I have to wait for them before I can leave, and then I become late. On my own though, I'm never late. If I feel that for some bizarre reason I would be, then I always call the person and say I'm runnning about 10 minutes late. I'd never be later than that unless some freak accident were to occur. I also expect when people tell me that they will be somewhere at a certain time that they will be there. Don't tell me one time, make me have everything together, and then decide the timing isn't good for you and that you're just going to push it back till it's conveniant for you. I had a friend do that to me this morning which is why I'm going on about it. I left something at his place and he told me he'd bring it to me this morning at 6 before he had to go to work. So, I get myself out of bed at 5:45 after less than 4 hours of sleep so that I can get dressed and meet him downstairs. I wait till about 6:10 (an eternity to me) and then call him asking where he is. He says hes sick and in bed but he'll still come and call me when he's on his way. Lovely. I wanted to scream over the phone but I was very good, although I'm sure I didn't mask my irritation very well. So I came back upstairs and just had to wait till it was conveniant for him to bother showing up. I went back to sleep for an hour, got a call saying he was on his way (big whoop), and then about 20 minutes later I got another call saying he was finally outside. So after almost an hour and a half from the scheduled time he finally showed up. The only reason I didn't blast him to kingdom come was because he was sick and I decided to show a little mercy. Had he not been sick, I would have been on him like white on rice. Nobody keeps me waiting for that long. The longest I wait is 15 minutes, then I call the person and inform them that I am leaving and they better catch up fast (assuming we're going somewhere) or I just tell them to forget about it and reschedule. However, seeing as my friend had something very valuable of mine I just had to smile and say thank you for finally coming. Don't keep me waiting...ever. I don't like it, it is my biggest pet peeve and I will not let you live that down for a while. I'd just keep reminding you, "don't be late like last time!!" It can get annoying real fast but it sticks with people. I don't make people wait so I expect that they won't keep me waiting. So there's my list...I'm sure there are more but those are the biggest ones that come to mind at this point...