Wikipedia explanation is that a pet peeve is a minor annoyance that can instill great frustration in an individual.
I wont say that I don’t have any pet peeves nowadays because that would be untrue but what I can say is that I’m trying to not let a minor annoyance instill great frustration in me and then make me lose sleep over it
Few of my all time great pet peeves were
Traffic jams and reckless rickshaw drivers (I was a bubble waiting to burst) until I got my bubble busted once, my wife preeti and I were on our way to watch a movie when a rickshaw suddenly cut in front of us with me almost colliding in the rickshaw, I lost my head and showed my middle finger and kept hurling the choicest abuses, the rickshaw guy did not see me but there was an innova behind us and all of a sudden the person in the innova started honking continuously asking me to take the car in the side , I was already angry now I was confused wondering what’s this person’s problem , I took the car in the side , the innova came next to me , a huge person screaming at me asked “ kisko ungli dikharaha be ” I realized that my finger salute that was meant for the reckless rickshaw driver was seen by the innova person and he thought I was instigating him , I told him that the rickshaw out of nowhere just cut in front of me causing me to almost collide and that the salute was meant for him , he did not believe me , it could be seen in the way he glared at me but since my wife was also with me , he just moved on , my wife preeti told me then and still does “ control your emotions Sheldon , don’t let things affect you so much , its not worth it ”
The other pet peeve of mine was that when a person with you is continuously talking over the phone totally oblivious to the fact that a human is in company, I used to often get annoyed when that happened, now, not so much
People coming from back and hitting me on the head saying “ kya chote ”that was my all time high pet peeve that would convert into an exploding volcano … now I guess since I’m old that doesn’t happen no more :-) thank god for that
SMS's : people not making any effort to even check that the short - ultra short msg's that they have typed could be deciphered by the common man who does not know the language , morse code :-) or anything thats plain wierd .. that sms thing used 2 annoy me a lot , I always wondered how come people cannot even take a few seconds out to type a little more so that the text makes a lil' sense ... i'm not disturbved by that anymore .... sort off moved on as somethings just dont change
No Common Courtesy : people who take everything for granted , dont say thank you , your welcome , sorry , excuse me , believe it my friends this used to annoy me a lot as to how people can be so indifferent but now I dont let this affect me nomore
Well basically to make the long short there are a billion reasons that may annoy us or increase our blood pressure but it’s up to us how are we going to react? Sometimes ignoring works, sometimes taking things in a light manner or in our stride works or sometimes counting 1 to 10 ….. :-)
