I have several pet peeves. Among them are:
*Everybody in my neighborhood smokes and drinks big time. Yet the mainstream news media constantly reports on how there's "less people smoking". WHERE are there less people smoking? What's worse is that many of these kind of people are so much healthier than me or my mom, despite the fact that neither of us smoke or drink alcohol.
*Kids who think they're so much better and smarter than I am, especially when they bully me. Everybody around my community thinks I'm this stupid r-word that doesn't know when I'm walking into danger. On the flip side of the coin, random people like to stop in the middle of the street when I'm walking to ask me for directions. Often, they ask for places that I don't even know exist or are well out of their way (such as requiring turns down several different roads, etc.)
*When we get strange calls on our home phone. Lately, we've been getting a lot of calls about a claim number that we should follow up on. When I answered one of these calls, it was a recording saying they were calling for my dad, who never associated himself with our current landline number. We've also gotten calls that claim that they're following up on information that "my mom requested about a back/knee brace" (even though my mom never requested information about such things in the first place). Recently, we've also gotten several calls with messages left on our answering machine claiming that
"the IRS is filing a lawsuit" against us. What did we ever do to deserve getting sued?
Also, to add to this list those random calls telling us that we've won a free cruise/vacation. All of these calls have spoofed the Caller ID to claim to be from Detroit (area code 313).