Pet peeve #2.
If there was a Pet Peeve #1, there’s bound to be a second one, and then a third… forth and so on, you get the drift. So here’s the second.
Pet peeve #1 didn’t really matter — in most cases I would just forget it because there’re so many reasons why people would reply to messages slowly and you can’t blame them because they have a life and can’t attend to you. Besides, most of the times I’m guilty of commiting my own pet peeve #1 too (ya-da ya-da I have a life too!); so to be fair, usually I’ll just whine a little and a bit more before I decide to get on with life.
Pet peeve #2 is rather serious. It’s somewhat related to pet peeve #3 (lying) but not entirely — it’s the failure to comply with what ownself had said or promised. If it happens once in a while, it’s still acceptable, but if it’s alot of times continuously then it gets fucking irritating.
If you said that you will do something, and then do it for fuck’s sake. Say, if you have forgotten clean about it, then so be it — everyone has a memory that can only do so much, I know! Beside forgetting and perhaps some other really urgent matters that one has to attend to, I don’t see why anyone would want to say one thing, and yet do another. And some have the cheeks to deny right in the face, contradicting what they had said — how cool is that?
If saying and not doing isn’t bad enough, one has to promise something and then forget clean about it. A lot of times. Why would anyone act so cool about promising/agreeing to something and then actually forgetting the deal? I don’t know about others, but do I look like I’m some kind of human entity that is easily appeased with an empty promise? Well if I do, I’m sorry but I am not. Get that in mind. At any rate, I figured forgetting or breaking a promise is a very bad thing to do (of course!), and not that I hadn’t committed it, but doing it too often is utterly disappointing.
And I have not even touched on the more solemn vowing/swear issue — “I swear I didn’t/will do it!” sort of stuffs to convince people. But whatever, it only gets more whiny, trust me.
Going against your own words without a very valid reason(your discretion) too often make people lose trust and faith in you anyway. Some people can tolerate but what I’ll do is to turn a deaf ear to things said by people who commit the above mentioned so very often. When they say things, I’ll just listen for the sake of doing so. If they promise something, I’ll put it at the back of the mind and if it happens, it’ll be sort of like a surprise; if it doesn’t, then I wouldn’t be too disappointed I guess. Well, their words are only worth that much, until they can once again prove me that they’re worth the time to listen to then will I pay true atttetion again. :)
No expectation means no disappointment, remember that folks!
Disclaimer : And I know I’m not perfect and I’m guilty of the things that I hate. But I don’t do them all the time, and most of the times I have a very good reason for doing so. So don’t judge me, I’m only being explaining my pet peeve and not pointing fingers too. And if I know it’s something not good, I’ll try my best not to do it because if it pisses me off, I’m very sure it pisses everyone else off too.