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Some of my pet peeves: Bad spelling and occasionally bad grammar, particularly messing up they're/their/there. I don't mind typos (such as adn instead of and), but failing at English is really annoying, whether it's deliberate or through ignorance.
Example: ooooomg whyyy r yu thhheir? du youu wnt me to cum?
Honestly, wtf? Okay, you're writing something online, not something academic, but either way you still want people to be able to READ what you're writing, don't you?!
Every time I see it on here, a little piece of me dies.
Profs not ending class on time. Sure, 10mins is *usually* more than enough time to get anywhere on campus, but if you have to make your way through a huge mob to get in/out of class (BSB 147 or JHE 376 are particularly bad), that can eat up 3-4 mins, and if the prof runs 2-3 mins ahead of time, suddenly you have between 3-5 mins to get to your next class. That is NOT enough time for me to get from the basement of TSH to ABB for my lab, particularly when I've already had two hours of class, will be in the lab for four MORE hours, and would like to use the bathroom. If all the prof has done is talk the whole time, and it's not students asking you a ton of questions that's making him/her fall behind, then they should plan their lectures better. Not everyone has a break after class and can afford to dawdle.
On a related note, people who CAN afford to dawdle preventing those who need to be somewhere from leaving. For example, sitting in an aisle seat and then taking a solid 5mins after class is over to leave, particularly if that aisle is the only way out and there is no room to go around you...at least move your effing body for 10secs to let everyone else out! This also applies to groups of people walking very slow in the hallways, and taking up the entire space so no one can pass them.
Last pet peeve that I can think of for the moment: people not taking seats on the bus when it's standing room only. Seriously, just take the seat! The person beside you won't kill you, and since other people likely can't physically get to the seat, you're preventing a person from getting on the bus, and no one likes it when a bus drives by them because it's full, especially if there are 4-5 seats that haven't been taken that people are just standing in front of! On a related note, people who are standing see that the bus is getting packed, and will not move all the way to the back. Gah! It's especially bad if the bus driver has to ask multiple times.
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