To start off I'm just going to say this is not my biggest pet peeve. The one thing I truly hate is knuckle cracking. Yes I do try to stop you. No it is not just because I want to go around ridding people of arthritis in their old age - apparently it doesn't effect that at all and to be honest I couldn't care less. I hate it because it is physically painful to me.
I have broken my left pointer a couple times including almost taking the tip off when a car door (a cool x-ray if nothing else) and jarring it in netball so badly that I couldn't play for about 3 weeks and it took about 4 months to stop hurting (probably would have been quicker if i'd taken more weeks off netball). Now I have a sensitivity to finger injuries. Not to mention I don't crack my knuckles and so when I do accidentally it hurts like a SOB. All in all the sound of knuckles being cracked is the most infuriating thing...
That however is not a weird pet peeve. While not, in most cases, as extreme as all that there are a lot of people out there who hate knuckle cracking. Basically you either do it... or you hate it passionately.
Anyway to find my weirdest pet peeve I am going to have to run through a few of my pet peeves to find a good one. The irritation of people who don't text back with confirmation - this is because I'm from a really 'lucky' area which despite being in the middle of town has very poor reception (its a literal hole) so if I don't here back I am going to have to expect that you didn't get it. How about people who run late - now there is about as most unweird a pet peeve as you can get - I am military standard meticulous for timings and hate when people around me make me miss them.
I have worked out that pet peeves are surprisingly hard to think of when they are not actively happening... but I think I have it. My weirdest pet peeve is girls who don't do their hair correctly. This is perhaps one that you have to be military to understand. I am not talking about being able to do really great up do's or self-dye your hair to perfection.
Basically girls who don't put their hair net in or use a wrong colour hair tie or simply don't have the pride in their uniform to put a BRUSH through their hair while they are putting it up. Girls get away with all and sundry it feels like because our superiors and in fact our entire service are mostly men.
Men couldn't give a rats ass about the girls hair. The boys on the other hand will generally get in trouble for theirs as soon as it touches the very tips of their ears. Something I also happen to agree with. I have a secret desire to walk along a civvie street and simply chop the hair of every shaggy headed youth. There is nothing wrong with a neat short hair style - in fact on may it looks much better. The point here being that the boys have a lot more influence placed on their hair maintenance than girls.
At this stage of my career I'm too low to say much. The only people who aren't above me are my peers and they really wouldn't take to kindly to me trying to tell them something isn't right... certainly not something as 'unimportant' as their hair. Otherwise they would surely have gotten in trouble by now... right... that is not how this should work. However in the not too distant future I will start to have some authority - even if only minor... Lets just say I already know my 'she's such a bitch' trait - all superiors seem to have one.
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