Top Ten Pet Peeves

Top Ten lists are always sort of fun. I don't really get into David Letterman's Top Ten lists, but then again I don't get into anything David Letterman. But other Top Ten lists can be entertaining, and you can learn a lot about someone by their Top Tens. I decided to start with my pet peeves and soon discovered I had more than ten (OK, so I'm easily annoyed). So I picked the top ten most irritating and then added another list of ten honorable mentions. I should point out that neither list is in any particular order, and certain things might jump from one list to another at any given moment. (Seriously, do I need therapy?)

Top Ten Pet Peeves
1. Bad hygiene--this encompasses a lot of things: when people don't wash their hands before eating and after using the bathroom or working outside; I have family members who feed chips and crackers to their dogs and let them lick their fingers and then they put their hands right back into the bag or box that everyone else is eating from--GROSS!; when people stink like B.O. because they don't bathe or don't do their laundry or don't use deodorant
2. Noisy eaters--when people smack and slurp their food
3. When people (sometimes even strangers) come up and want to touch my baby's hands
4. Bratty children and the parents who won't control them
5. Cat or dog hair everywhere, and especially if it gets all over me, and to add to this one--when people let their cats or dogs jump on me or climb all over me or even worse, lick me
6. Long lines at a store and not enough checkers
7. When people use foul language around me and my family, especially my child
8. When people smoke in public places and I can't avoid it--not only that, but we have neighbors that go out into their backyard to smoke and it wafts over into our yard. It's so bad that can't even enjoy our own backyard because I am highly allergic. We can't even leave our windows and doors open because the smoke comes inside the house.
9. Girls and women who don't wear enough clothes in public. This also encompasses several things such as: when they don't (but clearly should) wear a bra in public; when their thong or other underwear is showing (some people actually intentionally show theirs--what is that about??)
10. Telemarketers

Honorable Mentions:
1. Spam email, particularly the ones that have porn in them or want you to enlarge some part of your body (usually a part I don't even have)
2. When someone spoils a movie I want to see by telling me about the ending or key scenes
3. When people don't flush the toilet in public restrooms, or they pee on the seat and don't wipe it off--or even worse, they leave their used sanitary products lying around
4. Littering
5. When guys leave the toilet seat up
6. When people walk down the middle of a road or aisle at the store and won't move out of the way--this is particularly annoying when there are large groups of people who are walking together and they stretch out across the entire aisle so there is NO way you can go around them
7. When people drive under the speed limit for no good reason, and when they drive slowly in the fast lane
8. When people put their little kids on the phone to talk to me for long periods of time
9. When people who are sleeping in the same room as I am set an alarm clock to wake up much earlier than I plan to, but then let the alarm go off for a long time before turning it off, or keep pushing the snooze button over and over again
10. When people put their gunky dishes that still have food on them into my sinkful of clean, soapy water