What's your pet peeve???

[Sandee]

Don't flame me with this one,
But, my biggest pet peeve is the early 20 year olds who think they know just about everything. After all they are now adults and fresh out of shcool. Their little bit of book knowledge seems to make them feel they do not have to learn anything more, as they know it all........

This doesn't stop at 20 yr olds. My daughter is in her 40s and for reasons too long to get into stayed with us for a year. She wanted to help show the horses and immediately (after a few lessons and one show) began telling me and other people (which was the really embarassing part) just how to do things.

My pet peeve however is people who bring dogs (and children) to shows and let them run unsupervised without leashes.

 

[Riverdance]

Don't flame me with this one,
But, my biggest pet peeve is the early 20 year olds who think they know just about everything. After all they are now adults and fresh out of shcool. Their little bit of book knowledge seems to make them feel they do not have to learn anything more, as they know it all........

This doesn't stop at 20 yr olds. My daughter is in her 40s and for reasons too long to get into stayed with us for a year. She wanted to help show the horses and immediately (after a few lessons and one show) began telling me and other people (which was the really embarassing part) just how to do things.

My pet peeve however is people who bring dogs (and children) to shows and let them run unsupervised without leashes.

I guess I have seen that too. I know some people in Mini's who are in their 40"s + and call themselves "trainers" who think they know everything. You can not tell them anything.(of course when they hung their "shingles up" saying they were trainers, they were showing poorly turned out horses or in the case of driving horses, poorly trained ones)

The interesting thing is that there is always something new, another way to try something, another way that someone has found to do something. Be it clipping, shaving, bathing, training, conditioning, feeding etc.

I am always learning and always asking questions. Every year at the AMHA World show I learn some new ways to condition my horses, or products for sweating my horses or new ways of feeding them, or clipping and shaving them. I go home, try them out and keep what worked for me.

Asking questions shows a sign of maturity. Those that always have the answers---- or contradict others who have the experience----well, I question just how much they really know. Book knowledge just goes so far. It is amazing how often the Mini's do not follow the book.

Experience is often the answer and we all have some kind of experience we can share. Just the youngsters in their teens and 20's have less in the experience market and more in the book department. This is not to say they do not have something they can share, but please, you do not know it all!

 

[user 488]

I'm sure I could come up with several pet peeves, but one near the top of my list is people who advertise with a sob story that they have to sell because of medical (or other) problems and there is no way they would be selling otherwise. Then, before they hardly get them sold, they've bought more and are offering some of them for sale. I have no problem with a person buying and selling, just the phoney sob stories.

Amen to that.

People who don't have enough money to take care of themselves and wondering how they are going to make it from month to month yet they still go out and look for a horse to buy! How in the heck do they think they can take care of a horse properly if they can't even afford to take care of themselves and pay their bills?

These are living breathing creatures who deserve the proper care and sometimes that can become overwhelming even to those who have money.

 

[anoki]

[SIZE=12pt]I learned a long time ago to be a GOOD listener. You can hear what's not being said by doing so....[/SIZE]
Kimberle Young

Allure Ranch

http://www.allureranch.com

What a great saying!!!!! And something I have always done or at least try really hard to do....

As for pet peeves....with me right now....it's 'friends' who are only friends as long as they need your help/support/encouragement. But when you are down in the dumps, they don't do anything to make you feel better and can't stop talking about themselves for 2 seconds. I learned last month who one of my friends wasn't....and it upset me greatly

~kathryn

 

[alphahorses]

- People respond to every post, even when they have nothing to say

- And I agree with most of the others too! LOL

 

[Reijel's Mom]

I'm sure I could come up with several pet peeves, but one near the top of my list is people who advertise with a sob story that they have to sell because of medical (or other) problems and there is no way they would be selling otherwise. Then, before they hardly get them sold, they've bought more and are offering some of them for sale. I have no problem with a person buying and selling, just the phoney sob stories.

Amen to that.

People who don't have enough money to take care of themselves and wondering how they are going to make it from month to month yet they still go out and look for a horse to buy! How in the heck do they think they can take care of a horse properly if they can't even afford to take care of themselves and pay their bills?

These are living breathing creatures who deserve the proper care and sometimes that can become overwhelming even to those who have money.

These are EXACTLY the types of things I was thinking of when I saw this post! You see a post where a person is saying they have no money for themselves, kids, etc, can't find a job, have been ill, what have you - and then a short time later they are posting about a new animal they acquired or plan to acquire. . .makes NO sense to me!! I work a couple of different jobs to afford my lifestyle, and it bugs me to hear about people that are living off of my tax dollars and acquiring more "things" than I can afford

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[SampleMM]

I don't like negativity. I always try to be upbeat and friendly and find the good in people.

 

[Allure Ranch]

[SIZE=12pt]I learned a long time ago to be a GOOD listener. You can hear what's not being said by doing so....[/SIZE]
Kimberle Young

Allure Ranch

http://www.allureranch.com

What a great saying!!!!! And something I have always done or at least try really hard to do....

As for pet peeves....with me right now....it's 'friends' who are only friends as long as they need your help/support/encouragement. But when you are down in the dumps, they don't do anything to make you feel better and can't stop talking about themselves for 2 seconds. I learned last month who one of my friends wasn't....and it upset me greatly

~kathryn

[SIZE=12pt]I personally have some of those same friends and family members and I've always tried to look at those circumstances in a positive manner. You just have to realize how to categorize them (acquaintances, good friends or great friends); they exist for all of us. There's obviously, something that you're able to provide them with emotionally by being a good listener. So therefore just remember giving is always better than taking and forgiveness is the ultimate sacrifice... [/SIZE]

Look, you were just heard....

Kimberle Young

Allure Ranch

http://www.allureranch.com

 

[stormo41]

I guess my pet peeve would have to be people who smoke around kids, or smoke and have kids. I have a cusin who has a little baby (just turned one year old) and she and her boyfriend smoke, they have no concept of second hand smoke at all. I feel really bad for the baby....and i don't even like kids or babys that much.

But, my biggest pet peeve is the early 20 year olds who think they know just about everything. After all they are now adults and fresh out of shcool. Their little bit of book knowledge seems to make them feel they do not have to learn anything more, as they know it all.

I'm 20 and i know i have been like this sometimes

but it's also a pet peeve of mine when people older then me think that i don't know anything. I get it a lot because i work in a photography studio i do all the digital imaging stuff, and i also work the front pf the store. Every day I get people who just brush me off and ask for my boss after i answered their question becuase they think i'm wrong and don't know what i'm talking about, or sometimes they don't even bother asking me they just ask for my boss

my boss will give them the same answer as me but only my boss has the right answer

 

[Charley]

I don't like negativity. I always try to be upbeat and friendly and find the good in people.

I think this way also. Some tend to worry about things that just don't matter and that we have no real control over anyway. I do listen and try to help where I can, but I don't dwell on trivial things. I let them go and move on.

 

[Riverdance]

I'm 20 and i know i have been like this sometimes

but it's also a pet peeve of mine when people older then me think that i don't know anything. I get it a lot because i work in a photography studio i do all the digital imaging stuff, and i also work the front pf the store. Every day I get people who just brush me off and ask for my boss after i answered their question becuase they think i'm wrong and don't know what i'm talking about, or sometimes they don't even bother asking me they just ask for my boss

my boss will give them the same answer as me but only my boss has the right answer

I am not saying that people in their 20's do not know anything, I have to ask my nieces all the time for help with the computer. I also do not have a problem asking people in their 20's with help with things that they do know.(especially electronics) My problem is when they act like they know just about everything and you can not tell them any different. There are some who get on the forum and contradict just about everyone who has actually had experience with things, like perhaps 30+ years experience. Not everything is learned by the book and as I said before, many Mini's just do not read the books.

 

[stormo41]

I'm 20 and i know i have been like this sometimes

but it's also a pet peeve of mine when people older then me think that i don't know anything. I get it a lot because i work in a photography studio i do all the digital imaging stuff, and i also work the front pf the store. Every day I get people who just brush me off and ask for my boss after i answered their question becuase they think i'm wrong and don't know what i'm talking about, or sometimes they don't even bother asking me they just ask for my boss

my boss will give them the same answer as me but only my boss has the right answer

I am not saying that people in their 20's do not know anything, I have to ask my nieces all the time for help with the computer. I also do not have a problem asking people in their 20's with help with things that they do know.(especially electronics) My problem is when they act like they know just about everything and you can not tell them any different. There are some who get on the forum and contradict just about everyone who has actually had experience with things, like perhaps 30+ years experience. Not everything is learned by the book and as I said before, many Mini's just do not read the books.

I didn't mean that you cam off that way at all i was just pointing out how it can work both ways. I'm sorry you got the wrong impression

 

[Riverdance]

I'm 20 and i know i have been like this sometimes

but it's also a pet peeve of mine when people older then me think that i don't know anything. I get it a lot because i work in a photography studio i do all the digital imaging stuff, and i also work the front pf the store. Every day I get people who just brush me off and ask for my boss after i answered their question becuase they think i'm wrong and don't know what i'm talking about, or sometimes they don't even bother asking me they just ask for my boss

my boss will give them the same answer as me but only my boss has the right answer

I am not saying that people in their 20's do not know anything, I have to ask my nieces all the time for help with the computer. I also do not have a problem asking people in their 20's with help with things that they do know.(especially electronics) My problem is when they act like they know just about everything and you can not tell them any different. There are some who get on the forum and contradict just about everyone who has actually had experience with things, like perhaps 30+ years experience. Not everything is learned by the book and as I said before, many Mini's just do not read the books.

I didn't mean that you cam off that way at all i was just pointing out how it can work both ways. I'm sorry you got the wrong impression

Sorry,

I was not implying that you were coming off in any way, I actually agreed with you that there are times when a 20 something knows a lot (especially when it comes to electronics).

Sometimes people read into what is posted wrong, only because the written word is so impersonable.

So we are fine with each other and respect each others information and points of view

 

[River Wood]

Hmmm

A few of my pet peeves....

People that are conceited

Anyone trying to sell something that do not list prices

People who do not listen

Websites with music & Websites that I have to scroll all the way back to the top to choose another page to look at

Automated phone service

Negativity

Telemarketers

People that are not truthful

Immaturity

Ok I'll stop... don't have all night to type LOL

 

[ruffian]

My pet peeve is people who can't spell or use the wrong words. My biggest is "infamous". This is NOT a positive description! Bonnie and Clyde were "infamous." Unless your horse is a 3 legged, bad mouthed, kicking, biting and attacking shrew, it should not be infamous!!

 

[Minimor]

Mine..especially on the internet forums...is misuse of the word loose.

You can turn your horse loose, or perhaps he will get loose on his own...but if he dies of colic then you LOSE him...you do not LOOSE him. Mares lose foals, they do not loose foals. People may lose their minds, but I'm not sure what is going on with the person who says she is afraid she is loosing her mind.

There are other words that are misused as well, but 'loose' has to be the most common one I've seen.

pet peeves...I have a few others but I won't go there tonight. It's too late at night to start typing out such a long list!

 

[kaykay]

My biggest is "infamous". This is NOT a positive description! Bonnie and Clyde were "infamous."

I have seen this on so many websites and I always giggle. Infamous means of ill reputation. Not the way I think most want to describe their horse.

My other pet peeve would have to be people giving show or breeding advice that have rarely shown or bred.

 

[Shortpig]

My pet peeve is people who can't spell or use the wrong words. My biggest is "infamous". This is NOT a positive description! Bonnie and Clyde were "infamous." Unless your horse is a 3 legged, bad mouthed, kicking, biting and attacking shrew, it should not be infamous!!

ROFL sorry but this one just got me. Out of everyone you pick Bonnie and Clyde.

Well for my pet peeve it is those who attack others for the way they do things rather than try to calmly explain a better way to do it.

Everyone has their own way of doing things it is probably how they were taught by someone else. I admit I don't know everything not even close but I certainly wouldn't want someone to attack me for it. My critters are loved, well fed, kept warm and as clean as possible in the wet, muddy Pacific NW. I try to help others when I believe I can and other than that I just stay quiet. I also want everyone to appreciate what other forum members do for them and the mini's of the world, not to mention their other companion critters.

Oh and for all of you who have one "Hug a Pig today" and I don't mean a pkg of Bacon.

Oh this is Marie aka Shortpig in good ole Scappose, Oregon.

 

[Maxi'sMinis]

I love him to death but my pet peeve is my husband puts his dirty clothes on the floor BESIDE the clothes basket. Lol.

Another one is ALL the horses like to go through their grain picking out the good stuff and pushing the rest out of the feeder. But then I eat the good stuff on my plate before the not so good stuff! Go figure.

Oh yeah I feed the wild birds when there isn't forage. I park my car a half acre away from the feeder but some how after everytime I wash the car it is covered with bird stuff. What the *ell is this the way they pay me back!

Oh just one more when people expect you to agree with them. If I have my own opinion no amount of shoving it down my throat is going to change my mind, so say it once and let it go.

 

[Birchcrestminis]

Ok, this is pretty minor, but it is a pet peeve of mine -

when people refer to their PINTO miniature horses as PAINTS.