Your travel pet peeves.

[Nr1Humanoid]

The rush to get off planes. It only increases your time spent in lines.

Use of selfie sticks. Just ask someone to take a picture of you and your friends. I have literally never been turned down.

The high toilet stall doors. I hate public bathrooms enough as it is, I do not need a door people can crawl under.

[Bo Rida]

A major site being closed/covered up due to renovations.

Oversized cruise ships in small locations.

People with window seats shutting the blinds when its not sunny.

People that don't try to be considerate of others in hostel dorms. We all come back late and drunk but at the very least don't put the light on.

[Paul]

Take it away, George Carlin!

(LANGAUGE WARNING).

[dirtyoldman]

Airports in general although Funny enough I'm ok with them coming back home. Maybe cause the holidays over and I'm all relaxed.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Scams and people hassling you for money.

It ruined India for me. I'd loved India were it not for a bunch of people following you around all day trying to sell you absolute crap and not taking no for an answer. f*** off. I don't want to buy a cheap, plastic snowglobe with a model of the Taj Mahal in it. I just want to walk around the old fort and enjoy myself.


Manilla in general. The entire city is just one massive pet peeve.

[The Ichi]

I swear everytime I'm in line at the check-in someone pushes in. And they do it right before being called forward so that I'd look like an asshole if I raised an objection.

[dirtyoldman]

Jun 27, 2021 11:13:30 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

Scams and people hassling you for money.

It ruined India for me. I'd loved India were it not for a bunch of people following you around all day trying to sell you absolute crap and not taking no for an answer. f*** off. I don't want to buy a cheap, plastic snowglobe with a model of the Taj Mahal in it. I just want to walk around the old fort and enjoy myself.


Manilla in general. The entire city is just one massive pet peeve.

Amsterdam was bad With it with the aggressive begging and the guys trying to sell you drugs.its been a while since I've been back so I don't know if it's still like that.

[Doctor Of Style]

People leaning their seats back too far on a plane, I don't want you practically in my lap. After a couple inches, I just push my knees up against the seat and block it.

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

Jun 27, 2021 11:13:30 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

Scams and people hassling you for money.

It ruined India for me. I'd loved India were it not for a bunch of people following you around all day trying to sell you absolute crap and not taking no for an answer. f*** off. I don't want to buy a cheap, plastic snowglobe with a model of the Taj Mahal in it. I just want to walk around the old fort and enjoy myself.


Manilla in general. The entire city is just one massive pet peeve.

Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam has scams every five feet. People there are always hustling you for something or other.

[Zombie Mod]

I travel a lot by bus to and from work(cheaper the a car for the moment.) but one of my pet peeves is people on their phones having loud conversations or blasting music for the whole bus to hear for the entire journey.

not sure which was the better conversation the whole bus had to endure, the lass who went into detail of her exploits the night before and why she couldn't sit down or the guy broadcasting to everyone that bailiffs were going to knock on his door in 20 minutes and they shouldn't be let in until he was there "to do 'em in" only for the bailiff to answer they'll be waiting with the police and hearing him practically shit himself at the prospect.

bonus points to a (different) lass silently getting herself off on the bus, looking around and going back at it (was well dressed and not something you'd expect.) after about 2 minutes looking around. (and nope, wasn't a porn set or being recorded by anyone, was just sat towards the back of the bus hand in skirt and enjoying life.)


**edit** also people putting their feet up on seats opposite them, that one really annoys me.

[DiBiase is Good]

I fly to and from Houston and London a couple of times a year so I have several pet peeves about flying.

People who don’t check the person behind them when putting their seat back on a plane. I’m not saying you have to ask permission but at least make sure they’re not eating or leaning forward to grab something from their bag.

When I fly, about an hour before you land they will announce over the PA that when there’s twenty minutes until landing the seat belt sign will be on and the toilets will be closed. They remind you again about twenty minutes after that. Yet there is always some cretin who decides to try and get up and go to the toilet when there’s ten minutes until landing.

People who think because they’ve spent a lot of money on their tickets, that gives them the right to treat the Cabin Crew as some kind of personal servant. There’s a couple of hundred of us in the cabin and we’ve all paid for tickets too.

Opening your window slide near the end of an overnight flight and blinding the entire cabin with sunlight.

People who are just generally inconsiderate towards their fellow flyers and Cabin Crew. We’re all in a pressurised flying metal tube thousands of feet in the air, it’s not pleasant and it’s boring and we’re all going a little bit stir crazy in here. Just deal with it!

Having to show your ticket to buy stuff in the airport shops. I can understand having to prove it on items which you’re getting duty-free where the tax largely affects the price but when I’m buying a bottle of water at the newsagent ,there’s no tax or duty on it so I don’t legally need to produce a boarding pass.

And most of all…. People who complain about security bring strict. They literally exist to make sure your plane doesn’t explode, show them a bit of f***ing respect and be thankful they are there.

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

Jun 27, 2021 14:34:37 GMT -5 Zombie Mod said:

I travel a lot by bus to and from work(cheaper the a car for the moment.) but one of my pet peeves is people on their phones having loud conversations or blasting music for the whole bus to hear for the entire journey.

not sure which was the better conversation the whole bus had to endure, the lass who went into detail of her exploits the night before and why she couldn't sit down or the guy broadcasting to everyone that bailiffs were going to knock on his door in 20 minutes and they shouldn't be let in until he was there "to do 'em in" only for the bailiff to answer they'll be waiting with the police and hearing him practically shit himself at the prospect.

bonus points to a (different) lass silently getting herself off on the bus, looking around and going back at it (was well dressed and not something you'd expect.) after about 2 minutes looking around. (and nope, wasn't a porn set or being recorded by anyone, was just sat towards the back of the bus hand in skirt and enjoying life.)


**edit** also people putting their feet up on seats opposite them, that one really annoys me.

Slightly offtopic, but why is the older someone gets, the less private their conversations are? Whether I'm traveling or standing in line I REALLY don't want to hear a middle aged woman talking about her Great Aunts impacted colon.

[Nr1Humanoid]

Jun 27, 2021 15:12:28 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

When I fly, about an hour before you land they will announce over the PA that when there’s twenty minutes until landing the seat belt sign will be on and the toilets will be closed. They remind you again about twenty minutes after that. Yet there is always some cretin who decides to try and get up and go to the toilet when there’s ten minutes until landing.

What a pisser!

[Cyno]

Rest areas being few and far in between on major highways or exits not having anything that resembles civilization for several miles. Sometimes you gotta stretch your legs, take a piss, or eat something.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Basically everything, I hate traveling.

I don’t mind being at places necessarily, but getting there and back is just hell.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Stopped in La Guardia for two hours on my way to DC four or five years ago.

Sliders and two beers, close to 70 bucks.

[G✇JI☈A]

Topics I’m thinking pretty much covered .

Would like to add… lack of facilities at major airports.. this is for LAX.. just got off a 14 hour flight, about to get on 4 hour connecting flight…. Why no showers!? I think they have some, but at United’s dedicated terminals they didn’t even have showers in the lounge. Had to get change and have a hobo shower (just soaping the armpits in a sink) in a restroom.

Also.. after all the shit we endured over the last year. I hope Airlines start boarding the planes from back to front instead of front to back… like it always should of been.

[J. Hova]

Service animals.

Obviously, if you have a legitimate need, that's fine. I haven't flown in about 18 months, but it had gotten completely out of hand.

[The Thread Barbi]

The rush to line up at the gate from the waiting area.

Plane's not going to leave without you if you're in the vicinity of boarding and not immediatelylined up.

Is it a need for overhead compartments real-estate??

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People who declare, "This is MY seat, I've paid for it". Nope. You've been allocated a seat by the system, either automatically or by your choosing. You paid for a place on the aeroplane. You'll land in the same place regardless of where you sit. Just tell the steward and they update their seating plan ìnflight for regulation.

This comes from an experience where a bunch of us single travellers agreed to move seats so a young family could be together, except some stubborn ass had paid for his seat and scuppered that plan.

[Push R Truth]

People who clap when the plane lands.

People whose carry-on is massive. These people also never use the space over themselves, instead they devour 3 seats worth of overheard space in the row in front of them. These people normally have a second carry on but HOLY SHIT IT'S JUST A PURSE YOU GUYS CHILL OUT (it's not a purse, you could fit 2 bowling balls in that thing)

The "I'm an American, why do I need to go thru security/customs on the way back home" type.


Often times you'll see somebody with the full trifecta.


Bonus points to the "This is my therapy animal!" And it's obvious the owner is lying and has a scam certificate because the poor animal has little to no training. Maybe I'm just a dog hater, but when your dog takes a Grown-Ass-Man-Sized dump in the aisle when the plane is still on the tarmac and barks the whole flight... I doubt it's a real therapy animal.