Pet Peeves Archives - Patrick’s Place

When Neighbors Play Loud Music Into the Night, How Do You Respond?

PatrickApril 28, 2018

If you're 'fortunate' enough to live near neighbors who don't mind rattling your windows with loud music past 2 am, what do you do?

Tech & The Web

Google Chrome to Tackle Autoplay Videos

PatrickSeptember 16, 2017

If you browse as I do, with multiple browser tabs open at the same time, one of your biggest frustrations surely must be autoplay videos.

Life

Floss Picks: Please Leave Home Without Them!

PatrickAugust 21, 2016

I don't know why or how it became fashionable to use floss picks in public, but it's time this little custom disappeared. Sometimes, I just don't know what's wrong with people. I mean, really, where's the home training? You may have heard of “floss picks.” They're those little plastic things...

Life

7 Ways You Can Celebrate Cell Phone Courtesy Month

PatrickJuly 6, 2016

The supporters of National Cell Phone Courtesy Month may have created for themselves an unwinnable battle against people who refuse to be polite.

Life

Hey, Cashiers: Remember Me? I’m the Customer!

PatrickOctober 25, 2015

They don't seem to teach cashiers one of the basic tenets of customer service these days: paying attention to the customer. I stopped by the grocery store last night and had just enough items in my shopping cart that I didn't want to deal with the self-checkout counters that have...

Life Pet Peeves Tech & The Web

Is Your Device’s Volume Speaking Volumes About You?

PatrickAugust 8, 2012

At lunch, I couldn’t help but notice a young couple a few tables away whose attention remained focused on an iPad. It was something we had in common. I wrote this post on my own iPad while I ate. But no one could possibly have been disturbed by what I was doing. I was quiet. They weren’t.

Grammar

It’s An Exception to the Possessive Rule

PatrickJune 19, 2012

When you make something possessive, you need an apostrophe. Most of the time. There’s one notable exception that seems to trip people up all the time.

Grammar

Fighting Grammar’s ‘Terrible Trio’

PatrickJune 18, 2012

hen you ask the average reader what his biggest grammatical pet peeves are, a trio of words generally always appear near the top of the list. So here’s a simple way (I hope) to tell the difference easier.

Pet Peeves TV & Entertainment

To Tie or Not to Tie: the Game Show Question

PatrickJune 5, 2012

When it comes to game shows, I’m pretty old school. Not that this is a bad thing, mind you, because I grew up watching the best of the genre, produced by big names like Goodson-Todman, Barry & Enright, and Bob Stewart, just to name a few. In the 1970s, a...

Grammar Pet Peeves

‘Of’ What Were They Thinking?

PatrickDecember 28, 2010

Okay, grammar fans, it’s time for another quick lesson. Remember back to your grade school days when you learned all about these neat little things called contractions. There was don’t instead of do not. There was they’re instead of they are. And there was could’ve instead of could have. Could...

Hot Topics Pet Peeves

A Sign It’s Time to Quit?

PatrickDecember 17, 2010

There are times when I genuinely feel sad for smokers. It’s not often, but it happens occasionally. The other night, I was at a restaurant for dinner and I found myself sitting next to a table of three women who were asking the waitress about locations where they could smoke....

Grammar

No, He Isn’t Really ‘Sir Ann’

PatrickAugust 23, 2010

A quick pet peeve: I just heard a commercial about a phone company that promises to reduce your bill, and one of the first soundbites comes from a customer (or actor portraying a customer) who says he is “sir ann” he pays too much for his service. He’s who?? It...

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