Comments on: An Eight-Step Approach to Coping with Pet Peeves http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/ Simple paths to positive change Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lynda http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/comment-page-1/#comment-11832 Lynda Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:59:55 +0000 http://www.thenext45years.com/2008/06/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves.html#comment-11832 You are correct about venting and how it only allows you to stay in the "negative" frame of mind for a longer period of time. Something I need to work on. A few of my pet peeves - those who only pretend to listen when they are really just waiting for you to finish talking so they can tell their story; people who talk over you; people who linger around expecting you to start, and carry on, all the conversation when you really just want them to leave; and when people talk during movies. I'll stop there. Thanks for the advice. You are correct about venting and how it only allows you to stay in the “negative” frame of mind for a longer period of time. Something I need to work on.

A few of my pet peeves – those who only pretend to listen when they are really just waiting for you to finish talking so they can tell their story; people who talk over you; people who linger around expecting you to start, and carry on, all the conversation when you really just want them to leave; and when people talk during movies. I’ll stop there.

Thanks for the advice.

]]> By: Alex Blackwell http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/comment-page-1/#comment-11737 Alex Blackwell Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:47:24 +0000 http://www.thenext45years.com/2008/06/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves.html#comment-11737 Glad I could help <b>Marquita</b>. Chickens? Really? No doubt this is a pet peeve. Hang in there. Glad I could help Marquita. Chickens? Really? No doubt this is a pet peeve. Hang in there.

]]> By: marquita herald http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/comment-page-1/#comment-11733 marquita herald Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:19:54 +0000 http://www.thenext45years.com/2008/06/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves.html#comment-11733 I wish I'd seen your article before I screamed to out my backdoor (followed by the loudest slam I could muster) a couple of hours ago. At the moment my pet peeve is my neighbor - a lovely older woman who has chickens running around loose in her yard - she talks to them and coos at them ... and in turn they dig holes in the garden all day, clucking and crowing. Then around 5pm every afternoon the voluman rachets up to ear splitting level. Oh, and I really hate it when you're on the highway and you see a driver on a side road waiting to pull out ... but he just sits there, until just before you get to where he is and then he pulls out and you have to slam on the breaks - happens all the time here in the boonies. Thanks! I feel better already. I wish I’d seen your article before I screamed to out my backdoor (followed by the loudest slam I could muster) a couple of hours ago. At the moment my pet peeve is my neighbor – a lovely older woman who has chickens running around loose in her yard – she talks to them and coos at them … and in turn they dig holes in the garden all day, clucking and crowing. Then around 5pm every afternoon the voluman rachets up to ear splitting level.

Oh, and I really hate it when you’re on the highway and you see a driver on a side road waiting to pull out … but he just sits there, until just before you get to where he is and then he pulls out and you have to slam on the breaks – happens all the time here in the boonies. Thanks! I feel better already.

]]> By: Alex Blackwell http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/comment-page-1/#comment-11725 Alex Blackwell Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:02:28 +0000 http://www.thenext45years.com/2008/06/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves.html#comment-11725 And I have done that a million times, too <b>Raquel</b>. And I have done that a million times, too Raquel.

]]> By: Raquel http://www.thebridgemaker.com/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves/comment-page-1/#comment-11724 Raquel Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:54:10 +0000 http://www.thenext45years.com/2008/06/an-8-step-approach-to-coping-with-your-pet-peeves.html#comment-11724 I hate having to repeat myself a million times to my child. I hate having to repeat myself a million times to my child.

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