Okay.  Easy pickin’s. I am writing about pet peeves.  Mine.  But, if you have any that bear mentioning please pitch in.  Mine are pretty mundane.  On the other hand maybe they are yours as well and we can agree that some people just need to be taught how to behave. For instance, one of my peeves is a simple one.  I go to that place with the arches to get coffee. I like their coffee.  I used to love the one with the King when they had the Sarah Lee/Douwe Egberts coffee.  That stuff is the absolute best but I was in the minority and they changed it to an over roasted, far too bitter Starbucks wannabe.  Anyway, I go where I go and order the coffee the same way every time.  “Larger Black Coffee.”  Okay, sometimes I say, “Large coffee, black.” In any case I always say I want the coffee black. And, large.  Here is where the peeving starts.  Routinely the little person in the box asks me if I want cream or sugar.  The arches place makes a big deal of putting cream and sugar in your coffee for you and evidently wanting your coffee black is confusing.  I guess you could reasonably ask if I wanted sugar with my coffee but since I didn’t order “Coffee sweet” I would have to assume you were not listening.  Then comes the second coffee related peeve. The large cup is 20 ounces of coffee if the liberal arts major behind the counter fills it to the fill line embossed on the inside of the cup.  I cannot tell you how many times that happens. Well, actually I can.  It happens 1 in 4 times.  In 1 out of 9 times it is enough to complain about. Now, remember this is pet peeves.  I am not implying any large corporate coffee shorting conspiracy here but I invite you to infer as you will.  On average I pay $1.40 for a large cup of coffee and the top of the cup is far wider than the bottom of the cup.  The average shortfall is about an ounce.  At seven cents an ounce it isn’t grand larceny but seven cents overpay on 25% of all the cups sold on a daily basis and…?

But that is not nearly my most pet of pet peeves.