Flap Off: Pet Peeves
In which I flap off about a stoopid question and you: a.) Weigh in. b.) Tell me to F*** off. c.) Ignore me completely. d.) All of the above.
Question: Do I have a right to my Pet Peeve?
I can honestly tell you that I’m the type of person that doesn’t bother getting upset about things I can’t control. What for? To me, it’s just kind of pointless.
Go ahead, cut me off in traffic without signaling, bring your baby to the next Saw film on opening night, chew like a cow, talk loudly on the phone while taking a dump in a public restroom, or wear cowboy boots to the gym. I don’t care. I’m not gonna worry about it.
BUT… I’ll tell you about the one pet peeve that really boils my blood. Ready?
People who take the elevator one flight up or worse! One. Flight. Down.
Gah! Why? If you’re able bodied and the stairwell is right there, why the heck not exercise your legs a bit? How could it hurt? Honestly, I’m the laziest, most out of shape person I know, and even I don’t do this.
Think my peeve total b.s.? Let me explain further. On Wednesdays, I have class from 4:30 to 7pm on the second floor of pretty old building that has the slowest moving elevators in the universe.
I get out of class mind numb, starving, and really needing to pee (usually). Still, I try to move quickly, racing to the stairs as fast as my full bladder will carry me, but the problem is, 20 other classes have just been dismissed. So by the time I reach the exits, stairwell in full view, I’m hit by a Gandalf the Great force field of people standing in front of the elevators, waiting to go D.O.W.N. and pointedly ignoring my pleading face to let me pass through to the stairs.
Need a visual?
Like my little thought cloud? I know. I know. My mad Paint skillz are to die for.
Back on topic. I promise you that I’m not exaggerating. My drawing up there an accurate rendering of the scene I face every time I try to get to the stairs. Needless to say, it’s a nightmare of epic proportions.
And while I do feel a bit revealed that I’m finally getting my secret, yet highly disturbing pet peeve off my chest, I can’t help but think that out of all the pet peeves in the world, mine has the least amount of merit. I mean there are people out there who spittle while they talk, say right when they really mean left, wear their pants below their ass, and/or feel the need to make stupid, pointless blog posts, complete with craptastic diagrams, such as this one!
In other words, there are more important things to worry about. Right? I guess I just fail to understand the elevator logic. It takes 2 minutes to walk down (4 min. to walk up) the stairs and out of the building vs. the 10 minutes it takes waiting for the elevator to come up.
P.S. This post is totally going to come back and bite me in the ass when TMZ catches me committing my own pet peeve.
That drives me crazy. Especially when you are in a 2 story building and people are crowding in an elevator. I mean my library isn't even 2 full stories yet people are always using the elevator. It is just nuts, its there for people who can not physically use the stairs.
But more then half of your others that don't bother you drive me nuts.lol
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LOL. Love this post and the drawing is a masterpiece ~goes and sticks it on fridge~.
I think you do have a right to your pet peeve and everybody should at least have one. We all need one to rant about, as it is good for you.
I never have to use an elevator but I am sure this would annoy me. My pet peeves are more driving related and people cutting in line. I am going now before I start to rant about those!
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I TOTALLY SYMPATHIZE WITH YOUR PET PEEVE!!!! OMG! < ------ caps lock = my frustration! I live on the 11th floor of my dorm (out of 13 + mezz, which is between 1 and 2) in a super-crappy building where I'm lucky if all three of the elevators are working - but they usually aren't.
Being on the 11th floor, I think I'm not out-of-line in saying I basically always need to use the elevator. So in the morning I get on the painstakingly slow elevator on my way to class … and it stops at EVERY SINGLE FLOOR. seriously! so by the time it gets to a floor like mezz, I'm fuming at the people who can't walk down ONE flight of stairs!!
But you know what's even worse… when the elevator stops at mezz but NOBODY IS THERE BECAUSE THEY GOT TIRED OF WAITING AND DECIDED TO WALK AFTER ALL! what a waste of my time!! I hate it!!!
okay, rant over!
=)
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LMAO I was laughing all the time I was reading your post
I can totally sympathize with you. I don't see the point of elevators when you are physically fit enough to use your legs!
P.S The drawing is my favourite part of this blog post.
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I am completely and totally in agreement with you on this pet peeve.
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I agree! I work on the 36 floor of a building where the two floors below us are one company. We constantly have to stop on 35 for people going to 34 and vice versa. It drives me nuts (especially down — sometimes I understand the not walking up stairs). I get it!
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I used to go through the same thing at UTB. But what also got me was that there were people standing in front of the stairs. UGH! I wanted to tell them to move!! At first I was polite and ask them politely to move. Sometimes I was ignored and other times they would look at me badly them move. I got to the point where I didn't care and just shoved my way through.
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I agree with this pet peeve. At my work we have a two story building and people always take the slowest elevator in this history of them. I swear it's really a hampster doing his best. I am lucky enough that the elevator and the stairwell are not next to each other.
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Your paint skills are fierce!
Hey, anyone's pet peeve is worthy of peeving about. I would be angry too if I had to pee like a racehorse and those oblivious, obnoxious peeps were in the way of my release.
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Missie, you are my favorite person ever. The brilliance of your diagram is astounding and just makes me happy:) I fully approve of and agree with your pet peeve, I've always been a stair person myself. Let me amend that statement, I've always been a stair person for 5 flights or less. Anything above 5 and I transform into a lazy shell of myself and only can physically move enough to lift my finger to hit the elevator button:) But one flight? That I can handle. Go me.
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Your paint skills are mad-fucking-tastic! That diagram made me laugh so hard. LOL
I'm the same way. I hate waiting for the elevator so I use the stairs often at my school.
I have a feeling that the stupidity shown in your diagram of the people trying to get on the elevator affects the same person who designed the library at my school.
There are four floors with one set of stairs that leads to the second floor. That's it.
Weird right?
Turns out there is no way to get passed the second floor without using the elevator. It makes it to where you are required to wait and use the elevator, which I HATE.
That's scary seeing as how it almost broke yesterday when I was riding it. :/
~Kelsa
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HAHA- Oh Missie you crack me up. The vater thing really has never peeved me, but people who smack their food or even worse blow their nose while Im eating…ARGGGhh I cant take it, if I even hear the word booger I cant eat anymore. HMMMM I should invent the booger diet for all of us who need to shed some pounds. You know start making a delicious lunch eat half of it and then pull out the box of boogers..Youll be sick for a week and shed those pesky pounds. Im not sure how I got off on this but…oh well..
Debaters ROCK!!!
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Please tell me this going to become a new weekly feature. I am totes on the same page as you. I've given people ***looks*** for doing just this. Actually, my HUGE pet peeve is when a person RUDELY shoves into an already overcrowded elevator, only to take it up or down one floor! I try to take the stairs when possible – I figure I don't get enough exercise as it is.
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hahaha. Oh man, I love your writing. Too funny! Sorry you have to go through that with a full bladder!!!
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LOL! Oh my gosh Missie, you are ADORABLE. That picture is fantastic and made me laugh out loud!
Normally I don't have much of a problem with people taking the elevator for one flight up or down. I prefer to take the stairs, so I like it when everyone crowds into the elevator and leaves the stairs nice and empty for me.
What makes your situation horrible for me is that they're blocking your ability to go to the bathroom. That's just not acceptable. There will be trouble if someone blocks me from food when I'm hungry or the bathroom when I gotta pee. Hell hath no fury and all that.
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You're so funny! I always take the stairs and I don't see why people won't take the stairs. Guess that's why we're the fattest nation on earth! They could at least get out of your way!
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Everyone has the right to a pet peeve…especially a funny one like yours…
Hmmm…I hate to say this but I don't think I have a pet peeve…that is not related to my husband…hee hee hee…
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Aaaah!! The elevator thing! It drives me crazy too. It happens to me all the time when I'm going to class. My personal rule is this: I always take the stairs when I'm going down. If I'm going up, then I take the stairs if it's three flights or less. If it's four flights or more, elevator it is. I think that's reasonable. But one floor down definitely isn't! Lol.
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Well, I admit to doing the one floor thing, but in my defense I was lugging several large paintings. Yea… that's it… large. paintings!
Otherwise, you'll be happy to know, unless I'm totally lost and all the directions point to the elevators and the stair door is locked… I do take the stairs. If it makes you feel better… all those stick figures will die early of lazy-ass disease.
My pet-peeves lately are pets… or more specifically other people's pets. Ah, I could go on for pages, so I won't. Hey! You weren't supposed to look grateful! ;D
Love the post!!
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I LOVE PAINTS!!!! I demand every blog post now have a paint in it, especially for me. In fact, it should just be a picture of me with a heart around it that says “Logan is mad awesome and this goes out to her.” Ooh, and now I have an idea for my blog header!
Poor elevator etiquette is a huge pet peeve of mine as well. I mean, if you have to cram in with a bunch of strangers, at least be nice and considerate. I used to share a building with this law firm that was on two floors and they ALWAYS took the elevator between floors, which annoyed me to no end. They would also hold the doors for each other for a really long time. I hate that!!
Missie, I hope these posts are a regular item, because my crush on you just went full-blown fangirl.
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Ugh, I hate that too! I actually don't take the elevator often because I have elevator phobia. Whenever I get into them, I feel cramped and when they start moving *shivers* I feel like it's going to crash or I'm going to get stuck in it:P
-Danna
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I'm totally guilty of this, but not when the elevator is busy. Laziness is great and all, but a crowded elevator isn't worth it, LOL.
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I totally agree with you on this one! I think what adds to the awfulness of this situation is the fact that the students stand in front of the stinkin elevator for nearly five minutes because the elevator takes so gosh darn long. It would have taken them less time to walk down the stairs! The logic of it all just doesn't compute.
- Jackie
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Greetings, Missie! Stopping by for CFB FF, and imho I think everyone's entitled to a rant every once in awhile lol While I agree that many things are not worth getting upset over because they don't impact our lives in the long run, there are occasionally times when it's ok to let loose
Hope you have a great weekend!
darkeva
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Greetings, Missie! Stopping by for CFB FF, and imho I think everyone's entitled to a rant every once in awhile lol While I agree that many things are not worth getting upset over because they don't impact our lives in the long run, there are occasionally times when it's ok to let loose
Hope you have a great weekend!
darkeva
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Ha ha…the elevator things drives me crazy too! I work on the 6th floor of my building – the top floor. I don't mind having to stop at the 4th or 5th floor, but it drives me crazy having to stop at Floor 2.
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TOTALLY understandable.
My pet peeve? People who stop to have conversations in the middle of doorways or hallways. Makes me absolutely crazy!!
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LOL! Totally agree! I think your pet peeve definitely has merit.
My pet peeve is people who get crumbs from their toast/other food in my margarine container… heh, I don't know if that has merit.
Love the diagram!
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bahahaha YES. I agree.
Here's my philosophy, for what it's worth (aka very little)…I have a handicapped friend who is in a wheelchair and there are able-bodied people who wont't get off the elevator to go one floor up at the dentist where she works. If karma doesn't come and bite them in the ass, then I'm a moron.
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LMAO! I meant to read this the other day, but I was so tired I decided to come back to it. I'm glad I did! I have mad Paint skills, too. But shh don't tell anyone. I also have pet peeves. Bad driving, nose picking in public, talking loudly on cell phones cause I like don't care what your conversation is. And it's usually unimportant-uninteresting. Why have we become a world with a phone attached to our ear at all times? Anyways…have I ever used the elevator to go down one floor? Only if I have an elderly person or someone with me who can't go downstairs with me. But alone…don't think so! Unless I'm on crutches, which I never have been. You know what I always think is funny (hope you don't do this), but people continually pressing the up or down button. Like that's going to bring the elevator faster? Btw…I have TMZ on speed dial…
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Hahaha, LOVE that drawing and this post! sometimes it just feels awesome to rant a tiny bit :p I've got way too many pet peeves to name xD great post!
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I think what it boils down to is people are lazy fucks. They would rather wait 10 minutes for the elevator than take less than half that time walking down the stairs. There's just no other way to look at it.
Or at the mall. People will cluster fuck around the elevators and leave the stagnant stairs empty. Wherein I say peace it, take the stairs and meet them at the top. Physical exertion? What's that.
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HAHAHA I think the best part of this was your awesome freaking drawing – love it! I won't rant about my pet peeves as they could fill a book but I totally get what you mean – get off your lazy ass people or just MOVE.
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I understand your pet peeve hon, but in my case I would need to use the elevator even if it's for one flight of stairs.
Because of my arthritis, I have difficulties taking stairs =/
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OMG
I totally feel ya.
That totally bugs me!
People go to gyms for exercise and then skip the stairs.
PS Psst you wrote “one. fight. down.”
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I hate that too! While I was in college, I had this class in the ninth floor of the Medical School Building. There were only two elevators for that building and every morning, I would try to fall in line with those riding the elevators, but the problem is the whole lobby is already crowded with people wanting to ride the elevator to THE SECOND OR THIRD FLOOR. It's really irritating because I had to wait a long while for my turn and I might be late for class so I just usually use the stairs to climb the whole nine floors when I didn't have much time to spare to wait for the elevator. Most times, I get to the ninth floor faster than those who used the elevator
And by the way, thanks for visiting my blog! I could imagine how you looked like to that co-worker who caught you…A pretty funny sight definitely!
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