Pet Peves
The cartoon characters on generic kids' cereal. 

Hippies

Retail packaging and/or instructions printed in multiple languages

Those generic cheapo Taiwanese batteries that they ship for free in stuff you buy. 

Slip covers

Generic Crayons

Mass Turnpike Authority, Weld, Cellucci and anyone or anything related

Business owners who put their pictures/image/likeness all over the place.

Fake “funny” Boston accents, both oral, but moreso written: Words like “Chowdah” and “Gahlick”.

Babies with crap (ribbons, etc) taped/strapped/glued/stapled  to their heads.

Tatoos

“Misusing Quotes”

The last season of “The Dukes of Hazard”

Spelling “Ketchup” as “Catsup”

People/companies who trademark/patent/copyright the stupidest things that no one else would ever want, or things that are completely obvious and commonplace.

Gigantic grill utensils

Resturaunts that either give you your own to-go container to pack yourself, or pack it at the table.

Wilfred Brimley

Hot dog machines at Seven-Eleven

Fractals

No-clean Flux

People who pronounce “potatos”, “bah-DAY-diz”

Verbage they use to describe everything at fancy resturaunts

Mixed Vegtables

“Wine People” (For example: Their insistance on the neccesity of corks because its SO importiant that a wine be able to "breathe" - then - oh, wait - no all of the sudden "high-tech" screw tops are all the rage. Do you know what your talking about?!?!)

Ponchos

Dog-shows and the people at them

Waiters who insist on NOT writing things down, and then have to come back 20 times to ask you things about your order - or just totally screw it up.

Public restroom sinks, with so little water pressure that its like someone pissing on your hands

Electronically controlled paper towel dispensers that don't give you more than 6 inches of paper towels, after flailing you hands over them to get it to turn on.

Plastic soda cup lids that have the little push-in tabs to describe what kind of drink it is - but only have ones for “cola”, “diet” and “other”.

Women who think that by denying that they have a moustache, and not dealing with it, no one will notice they have one.

Tubless tires (except on cars)

Nonsensical abbreviations on elevator buttons.

Resturaunts/stores that feel they have to call their different sizes something confusing, as opposed to "small", "medium" and "large".

American Cars / American Car Companies

Blinking LED tail lights in cars

Sears (more of a hatred than a pet-peve)

Raritan Products

Changing the names (or terms of) "bad" things to make them more palatable. (Eg "punishments" become "timeouts")

Crappy fly-by-night 50's-style dinners that are just excuses for making a cheap resturaunt - and wind up going out of business as soon as they open.

Things that are made specificaly to be "keepsakes", "collectors items" or  "collectables"