PEEVE

 I used to read both tabloids "The Daily News"  and "The Mirror" every day when I was a child.   One or other of the papers carried anecdotal accounts, i.e.:   "My most Embarrassing Moment"  and "Pet Peeves."   They were my favorite parts of the newspapers, and I particularly liked to read about what irked other people, thinking it kind of odd that adults would express their personal peeves.  The peeves, though, had  rules.  They could not fall in the category of actual complaints, nothing serious, and preferably at least slightly amusing. In those years, people tended to keep their private thoughts and feelings to themselves, but it was becoming okay to vent a little.
    When I became an adult, I'm sure I developed many peeves, but since the newspapers went out of business, I've waited until now to express a "pet peeve" in print, and one suitably minor in nature:   I am irked when someone says "Long story short."  It's okay as a headline or caption, or tweet or text, but when someone speaks those 3 words, I think, okay, you want to spare your listeners from a long detailed account, but can't you say the other 3 little words?   "To make a"  wouldn't take that long to say, and besides when someone prefaces their remarks with that statement, you can be more certain than not that their story will not be short.