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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss their pet peeves, those little annoyances in life which drive us all crazy.
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host social. And today we have a topic talk and today’s topic is pet peeves and social. Maybe people, maybe our students don’t actually know what a pet peeve.
00:00:23
Jack
Is it’s kind of a weird word or kind of a weird phrase. What is a pet?
00:00:27
발표자
Mm-hmm.
00:00:28
Jack
You’ve.
00:00:29
Xochitl
A pet peeve is something that bothers you. Kind of like in modern slang you would say like an ick. It’s something that like, bothers you but not to an extreme extent. It’s not like something necessarily bad or like.
00:00:46
Xochitl
Objectively bad or horrible about someone or the OR a habit that someone does, but it’s just something that irritates you.
00:00:54
Jack
Yeah, like if you have a friend that lies to everybody and they just lie.
00:01:00
Jack
That’s not really a pet peeve that’s more like, uh, a character flaw. Exactly like everybody hates that because everybody hates lying, OK?
00:01:02
Xochitl
No, that’s.
00:01:03
Xochitl
You said your boss.
00:01:06
발표자 3
Right.
00:01:12
Xochitl
But if you have a friend.
00:01:12
Jack
Yeah.
00:01:13
Xochitl
Who doesn’t push their chair in? That’s my one of my pet peeves is people like you go to a restaurant with people and they leave their chairs on, pushed or whatever. I don’t like that. That’s a pet peeve. It bothers me when people leave their chairs on push and I might go and push everyone’s.
00:01:30
Xochitl
Then.
00:01:31
Jack
Ohh, you’ll actually go and push in all the chairs of.
00:01:34
Jack
Like your family members.
00:01:34
Xochitl
Depends if if people have gone on and I have like an extra second back then I’ll do it. I just don’t like leaving it for the servers to like have to push everyone’s chairs back in or whatever, you know.
00:01:46
Jack
Yeah, it is kind of rude to like, you know, push your chair out to get up and just walk away.
00:01:52
Jack
OK, it’s like push your chair in. It’s. Yeah, it it’s just a common politeness, right?
00:01:53
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:01:59
발표자
Hmm.
00:02:00
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:02:02
Xochitl
And what’s a pet peeve of yours, Jack?
00:02:04
Jack
UM, I don’t know. I’m trying to think of like, what are some?
00:02:07
Jack
Of my pet peeves.
00:02:09
Xochitl
Oh, another way to explain this to our listeners as well is that it’s something that bothers you about other people.
00:02:19
Xochitl
UM, it’s not like a habit of yours, if that makes sense.
00:02:25
Xochitl
It’s kind of like something that bothers you that other people do usually.
00:02:28
Jack
Yeah. Like let’s say that like you have a friend.
00:02:34
Jack
And she likes to.
00:02:36
Jack
Eat baby carrots in like tiny little bites. You know, she takes like a little bite of a baby carrot, and then she’s like, and then she’s and then another bite and. None. None. None. None. None. And it’s like it’s it’s just like her habit is annoying to you. Other people might not care at all. They’re like, oh, that’s OK that’s how she eats, baby.
00:02:42
Xochitl
Done.
00:02:44
Xochitl
Like a rabbit.
00:02:46
Xochitl
No.
00:02:59
Jack
There it’s, you know.
00:03:00
Jack
It’s fun, but for you it feels like someone scratching their fingernails on a chalkboard, you know?
00:03:00
발표자 3
Right.
00:03:08
Xochitl
Right. It’s really irritating.
00:03:10
Jack
Yeah, it’s really irritating. Yeah. One of my pet peeves is when people say, you know what I mean.
00:03:19
Jack
You know what I mean, you know?
00:03:20
Xochitl
Ohh that bothers you interesting.
00:03:23
Jack
Yeah, yeah. When people say that to me, I I’m. And especially when it’s like something really obvious, you know.
00:03:31
Jack
It’s it’s like, you know, like the Earth rotates around the sun. You know what I mean? It’s like, yeah, I know what you mean.
00:03:42
Xochitl
Wait, Jack, let.
00:03:43
Xochitl
Me. Give this to you from the perspective of someone who who does this, who says like?
00:03:46
Xochitl
You know what?
00:03:47
Xochitl
You know what I’m talking about? I don’t mean it because I think you or the other person is like, dumb or doesn’t get it. I say it.
00:03:54
Xochitl
Because I don’t.
00:03:55
Xochitl
Know if what I was trying to explain came out of my mouth and made any sense, even though it’s really simple if.
00:04:00
Xochitl
Like I just.
00:04:01
Xochitl
Missed the ball or over, explained it to the point that it doesn’t make any sense, so I’m like. Ohh did that make sense? You know what I mean? It’s not like I’m questioning the other person. I’m like questioning myself. So maybe that’ll make you feel better about people asking.
00:04:12
Jack
Right, right.
00:04:14
Jack
No, no, no, no, I’m. I’m not. And I wasn’t. I’m not. I’m not pointing the finger at you. I’m everybody does this and I think that I think you’re right. Like the generous interpretation is that people are just trying to be clear. They just want to be understood.
00:04:31
Jack
Right. And so one of the ways that you are checking in with the other person to make sure to make sure that you’re making sense is to say, do you, do you understand what I’m saying? Like, do you know what I mean? And I do it too. Like I. I’m. I’m. I’m guilty of my own pet peeve, you know. But it’s just that sometimes.
00:04:51
Jack
It just feels like.
00:04:53
Jack
You know people, it feels like someone’s asking me like like.
00:04:57
Jack
You know, because you know Jack, you’re so slow. I just want to make sure that you’re, you know, are you able to understand what I’m talking about? You know, like 1 + 1 is 2. You know what I mean? It’s like.
00:05:03
Xochitl
Hey.
00:05:11
Jack
Yeah, yeah, I I know what.
00:05:13
Jack
You mean I I I know simple math, you know?
00:05:13
발표자
No.
00:05:16
Xochitl
Yeah, I was. I was more kind to reassure you that it probably has more to do with the person second guessing themselves than like guessing you. But I get it. It is your. It can be irritating.
00:05:21
Jack
I think so.
00:05:25
Jack
Yeah. And again, pet pet peeves can be.
00:05:26
발표자
OK.
00:05:28
Jack
Irrational like mine.
00:05:30
Xochitl
Yes, they often are, or they often make you like way more annoyed than you have any right to be. That’s kind of why it’s.
00:05:31
Jack
You know.
00:05:37
Xochitl
A pet peeve.
00:05:38
Jack
Yeah, I have another. I have a lot of driving pet peeves, you know, like.
00:05:44
Xochitl
Ohh, I’m interested to hear these cause since I don’t drive.
00:05:47
Jack
Yeah. I I I really another pet peeve of mine is like when people must back their car into a parking spot.
00:05:57
발표자
You know.
00:05:57
Xochitl
Ah, my dad always does that. He he does. He’s easier to drive out. And I’m like, well, you’re taking as much time backing it in as you would backing it back out like just.
00:05:59
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:07
Jack
Exactly. It’s like, what are you doing? It’s it’s like, are you a bank robber?
00:06:09
Xochitl
It’s so annoying.
00:06:15
Jack
Are you? Do you need a fast getaway? I mean, from the grocery store, you have to.
00:06:21
Jack
You know.
00:06:21
Xochitl
Even way like you’re gonna take you, you would have just taken as much time backing it out when you’re leaving as you did, backing it in when you get there. So you’re not really saving time unless, like you said, you need to fast get away like a bank robber or something. But for other people, it just doesn’t make sense. It’s.
00:06:36
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:38
Xochitl
Not a time saver at all.
00:06:40
Jack
For bank robbers out there, those of our listeners that are bank robbers, I forgive you. You that’s. You’re not included in my pet peeve. Yeah, it makes sense that you would back into a parking spot. Another one is another pet peeve is scooters.
00:06:47
Xochitl
That makes sense.
00:06:59
Jack
They’re everywhere, these electric scooters.
00:07:03
Jack
And people just leave them lying. They have a lot of like, I I don’t know if this is just Korea or if this is in your countries as well.
00:07:14
Xochitl
When I hear this, I’m I’m like it sounds like Korean to me.
00:07:18
Jack
Yeah, because what you can do now is you can rent these electric scooters and basically you just scan your credit card and then it activates this, the electric scooter. And then you just drive it around. But wherever you stop, you can just leave it.
00:07:37
Jack
So they’re just all over the street. They’re all over the ground. They’re they’ll leave it in front of our building. Some people will leave it in front of a driveway and they’re just everywhere.
00:07:50
Xochitl
Well, why? Why can’t they just leave it everywhere? Like doesn’t the company expect them to leave it so much?
00:07:55
Jack
The company has a has a tracking device on them and so they’ll drive around in a truck and they’ll put that in the truck and recharge it.
00:08:03
Jack
And then just dump it back on the side sidewalk again somewhere so that somebody can walk by and pick it up and drive it. And so they’re just littered everywhere, not to mention very dangerous because they’re, you know, they’re they’re riding in front of us, you know, in front of your car.
00:08:22
Jack
And and and just it’s. It’s a real problem here in Korea, the electric scooters.
00:08:28
Xochitl
Yeah, that’s definitely.
00:08:29
Xochitl
A Korean thing we don’t really, at least where I’ve lived in the US is not a thing in in Mexico is not a thing. But yeah, that I I know that I know what you’re talking about. And yeah, that is a very common problem. But I can see why it would be irritating. I am.
00:08:42
Jack
It’s more common in big cities like New York, Chicago.
00:08:45
Xochitl
Yeah, I guess that. But I think in the US they probably expect you to park it in a certain location again.
00:08:46
Jack
Those places have them, yeah.
00:08:52
Xochitl
Like the next drop, the closest to your.
00:08:54
Jack
Yeah, I think. But here they just just you just stop where you are and you just put the kickstand up and then you walk away and then it’s done, your times up.
00:09:02
Xochitl
Why don’t I don’t think that’s a thing in the US? I’m pretty sure you have to, like, put it back at your next nearest location or something, because otherwise.
00:09:04
Jack
Yeah.
00:09:11
Jack
There is a parking spot in Seoul called the Han River. I would like them to park all of those scooters right there in the water. Just throw it off the bridge. Let it sink to the bottom and be done with this whole scooter thing. But that’s my again. That’s my pet peeve. So you know. Yeah.
00:09:26
발표자
And.
00:09:30
Xochitl
So you’re kidding, yeah.
00:09:32
Xochitl
I would be very irate with that as well. One of my other pet peeves is picky eaters. I’m not talking about people who can’t.
00:09:41
Xochitl
Try different foods because they have autism or some other kind of thing. Food for yeah, people who like refuse to try something new. They’re just like I just until I won’t like that. I’m like, just eat it. Like it’s just you.
00:09:45
Jack
Our allergies.
00:09:57
Xochitl
Didn’t know and I mean.
00:09:58
Xochitl
I get it. If it’s something like a something really sore.
00:10:01
Xochitl
You like a scorpion or a cockroach or something? You know, I wouldn’t want to eat that either, but if it’s just, you know, I had a friend in college.
00:10:05
Jack
Sure.
00:10:12
Xochitl
We’re actually still close friends. I love her to death, but this one really killed me about her. She was like, I think it was sweet potato or something that she wouldn’t try because I know I won’t like it in quotation marks. I like you. Won’t try it cause you know you won’t like it.
00:10:27
Xochitl
How do you know? You’ve never tried it? It’s detect your thing. I can just tell by the look of it and it just drove me crazy because I’m the type of person who will try something. I don’t like multiple times to see if.
00:10:39
Xochitl
I like it now.
00:10:40
Jack
Right. And your and your and your taste changes over time too. I didn’t like mushrooms as a kid. Now I love mushrooms.
00:10:41
Xochitl
It becomes.
00:10:46
Xochitl
Yeah, I hated sweet potatoes as a kid. Now I love sweet potatoes, but I just keep trying. Things cause things. Your taste changes over time. Sometimes you haven’t had it prepared a certain way and you actually like it better that way. Or sometimes you had a bad example of that dish.
00:10:50
발표자 3
Yeah.
00:11:04
Jack
Yeah.
00:11:05
발표자 3
And yeah, if you said.
00:11:05
Jack
It could have been prepared poorly.
00:11:08
Xochitl
Yeah, or poor ingredients or whatever. If you stopped and just did.
00:11:12
Xochitl
You try. It’s just you’re limiting your life for no reason and that just irritates.
00:11:16
Xochitl
Me, I I.
00:11:17
Xochitl
Am Mexican culture encourages people to be kind of like good eaters, quote UN quote, which I think Korea also. And so it’s very it’s like prized for people not to be picky like that.
00:11:22
Jack
Yeah.
00:11:28
Jack
No Americans tend to be they eat like children. When you’re older, you know? Ohh, I only eat corn dogs and French fries and you know Coca-Cola. You know, something like that. I know I’m going to like that. You know, it’s.
00:11:33
Xochitl
Yes.
00:11:42
Xochitl
Right.
00:11:44
Jack
Like it’s like you’re gonna eat. You’re gonna spend your whole adult life adult life eating like a child. You’re never gonna try feta cheese? You’re never gonna try. You know, I don’t know. Seafood. You’re never gonna try just. I mean, you’re limiting yourself your life experience.
00:11:51
Xochitl
Yeah, I like this.
00:12:04
Jack
So.
00:12:06
Jack
Such a narrow little track of of really of garbage food, you know? Yeah.
00:12:12
Xochitl
Right. Bland garbage food just cause, you know you won’t like something that is a huge pet peeve of mine. Anyway, listeners, let us know what some pet peeves of yours are. I would really love to hear you guys’s perspectives for sure. I’m interested to hear what.
00:12:17
Jack
Yeah.
00:12:20
Jack
Yeah, same.
00:12:32
Xochitl
Different pet peeves are what common pet peeves might be in your country.
00:12:37
Xochitl
Yeah. So leave us a comment down below at A-Z, englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at A-Z, podcast@gmail.com and join our WeChat WhatsApp groups. Join the conversation and we’ll see you guys next time. Bye bye.
00:12:48
발표자 3
Bye bye bye.
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