Purposefully loud cars. I don’t know what it’s like in other places but in many places I’ve been to in the U.S. over the last ~5 years there has been an increasing fad of what I would broadly categorize as either “rednecks/militia dads” or “waifu hunters” who drive extremely, purposefully loud cars.

The first group is rednecks with severe trauma and dirty ass trucks with huge wheels and Instagram tags and rainbow colored undercarriage lights, or alternatively suburban dads with giant expensive overly manicured trucks they’ve never used for anything a day in their life but projecting their insecurities about; these two groups overlap in many places. They fly giant MAGA related flags, sport varying degrees of Punisher skull stickers and get those shits lifted into the stratosphere. Their cars are just extremely loud like a roar.

The second group is descendants of the (excuse the potentially racist slang) “ricer” cars of the early 2000s+ IMO. They are more internet-addicted and are what I call “normie weirdos.” They soup up any car under the sun, from sports cars to Priuses, get the windows tinted and plaster it with inside jokes, anime softcore porn, and other cryptic + hypebeast aesthetics, often also with their IG tags. Their cars roar but they also make sounds like damn gunshots.

Either way it’s ear splitting and I feel violent toward them when it’s. Obviously there is more important things to feel violent about but that’s why they call it a “pet peeve” eh? Luckily these have declined in frequency as I see it the last ~9 months, I wonder if it’s due to the pandemic, to winter, to the recession, to cops actually enforcing noise laws on rich white assholes? Who knows

Two things: people who talk loudly on the phone in public spaces like the bus or train, and people who won’t or can’t keep their dogs under control.