another thing that really irritates me..

[chief]

is how people throw their trash, drinks, etc on the street, when there are plenty of trash cans on the streets to put them..

i mean, why litter when you have to live or work in some place!

throwing gum on the streets is really irrirtating too!!

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[mr john]

Even if there aren't any recepticles.'Pack it in,pack it out.' I once flipped a cigarette butt into the face of an unobserved passing motorcycle cop.

[Byzantine]

If you ever figure out how to make people stop doing this let me know. In my neighborhood we have one family that just throws their garbage in their yard. Even dirty diapers! The stench gets so bad that we have to call the health department every month or so. Their reason? They don't want to ‘pay extra' for garbage pick up. It is billed along with the water and sewer and is payed for by the landlord but they JUST DON'T GET IT!!!!

Every morning I go on trash patrol and pick up all the pieces that have blown my way in the night. I'm six houses down and still have to do this everyday. Beyond this my other pet peeve is when my neighbor, right next door, dumps his car ashtray into the street when his garbage can is less than 10 feet away! I've often wanted to go over and make him EAT them. I smoke too but I don't dump my butts all over the world!

[ChiefScott]

Pure and unadulterated apathy. Someone else will pick it up. Everyone else is doing it. etc. etc.
If anyone can ever come up with an effective way to discourage this behavior, I'm sure there are several city planners who'd like to get in touch with him/her.

[dougie_monty]

Something ELSE that must irritate people:
WHY on Earth do people cluster in hallways--or doorways--where others have to get through? This is maddening when they keep an automatic door open, especially during inclement weather. And if you ask to be allowed through they act with the utmost indignance--as if you had asked them to shoot themselves!!!

[Byzantine]

God, yeah, that bugs me too. Especially when to be polite I find myself saying, "Excuse me" when I feel like screaming, "Excuse you!" We call those Charley Foxtrots which is our code for Cluster Fuck. What I like to do is try to float an air biscuit as I pass by. Let them think someone in their little group did it!

[Gilligan]

Thanks for the excellent suggestion, Byz. Doorway converstaions have been one of my peeves for years.

[Harmonious Discord]

I hate going to a mall and a group of people are walking 5 people wide, taking up the whole damn 10 foot corrador.

Stupid neighbor dumps her about 40 to 50 butts on the road. The butts end up in the yards of the next three neighbors.

I spent 2 hours cleaning up a local park by a river. I was walking by the bridge to the parking lot to leave, and an asshole of a guy just threw his garbage into the river. He was an asshole! He was telling his wife to just shut the hell up bitch, and yelling at the two kids. I almost pushed the guy into the river.

[ruadh]

How about people that refuse to stand to the right on escalators.

It's bad enough coming out of the subway, but last year I was in an airport (Vegas or Phoenix, can't remember) where the moving walkways not only have signs telling you to stand to the right, but they play a recording over and over again asking you to do so. And people who speak perfectly good English STILL stretch out like there's nobody who has to catch a plane behind them.

Drives me up the wall, that.

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Never regret what seemed like a good idea at the time.

[ChiefScott]

Charlie Foxtrots, Cluster Fucks, Army Musters. A rose is a rose...

How about people waiting for food in fast food joints who don't step aside so others can order while they wait?

[Satan]

You could have a garbage can on every corner and in between every block. People will still not put refuse where it belongs a lot of times.

Why? I can only guess that they're lazy, inconsiderate assholes, but I have yet to do any polling on the subject...

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[Pickman's Model]

Re: people standing in doorways.
There are two approaches I use, both of them in loud voice.
A) Say, "Excuse me, I'm not in your way, am I?"
B) Say, "Y'all remember Moses? Well PART, like the Red Sea!"

[ruadh]

"Move it or lose it" always works for me

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Never regret what seemed like a good idea at the time.

[the first supraliminal]

I can't stand people who spit in public. What's the reason for this?



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[bantmof]

WHY on Earth do people cluster in hallways--or doorways--where others have to get through?

Ooooh! I hate that too!

I think there's something genetic about Americans that makes them come to a complete halt in the location that will maximize the inconvenience to other people. Almost every time I walk into a local store, there are at least 5 to 10 people just standing around right inside the entrance.

Now, I admit I don't alway know immediately where I'm going when I enter a store, but I try to stop and get my bearings in some location other than just inside the front door where everybody else has to pass by to enter the store.

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[Sylence]

What bugs me is when I'm in the grocery store trying to decide whether I want brand X or Y of something, and someone plants their cart right in front of where I'm looking and spends five minutes trying to decide what THEY want.

-Sylence

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[Doobieous]

I have gotten so tired of having to say "excuse me" politely to people who block hallways that i just say it harsh and firmly while i keep moving. I say it loud enough so they hear it. Fortunately im big enough people see me coming .

Some of my annoyances are:

-People who dont use their turn signals.
-Pedestrians who in the middle of the street, see a car comming and run back to the side of the street they started. Or theyre at a crosswalk and dont take their turn.
- people who act like all bitchy because someone stepped on their shoes (i say, move your ass, dont stand in the middle of a crowd!)

[wireless]

re: people who stop just inside doorways...

How about people who stop just as soon as they get off an escalator, trying to figure out which way to go. Never mind that there's a conveyor belt dropping people off just behind them with nowhere to go. Then you bump into them and they look at YOU funny!

And how about the people in the car in front of you who stop right in the street to let someone out right in front of their house/store/whatever, thereby blocking traffic, when if they pulled up and over (i.e. into an empty parking spot or bus lane) they could avoid inconveniencing everyone. But NOOOOOOOOO, being 10 feet closer is soooooo much more important.

[ChiefScott]

In the tight quarters found on U.S. Navy ships, we often face the problem of sailors congregating in passages and doorways effectively blocking them. Three phrases make it easier to pass:

"Gangway!" -- Officer coming through.

"Make a hole!" -- I need to get by, so move. My personal fave.

"Watch your back!" -- Move it or lose it! If there not out of the way by the time you reach the knot of folk, you keep your speed, don't break your stride, and muscle your way through. This phrase is used a lot when sailor are moving towards the scene of an emergency (fire, floding, etc.).

[ChiefScott]

Sheesh. "If they're not out..."

[Byzantine]

I'm going to throw another one (two) out here since my neighbors do it all the time:

People who pull up and HONK and HONK at a house at some ungodly hour (4 am, 1 am, whatever) I mean not just a toot no, no a whopping WANK like they think this will make the person they want MATERIALIZE in front of the car! I wish they'd materialize in front of my car...

Last night around 10:30pm they decide, of all things to do at this hour, in a neighborhood of people who WORK for a living, to go out front and play soccer. Yep. It's night, it's dark and this assmunch is out there with his kid who can't be any older than seven, screaming, yelling and kicking. It went on until midnight! And they wonder why no one on this block likes them...

[UncleBeer]

Yeah, people blocking doorways and aisles. You always seem to be inconveniencing them when you try to pass by.

People who stick their head in my office and interrupt another meeting. These clowns just seem to assume that their problem is more important than anyone else's.

People staring over my shoulder while I'm trying to type. I'm a poor typist to begin with. I don't need them to watch me.

Turn signals, turn signals, turn signals. Up for left, down for right. What's so hard to figure out?

Bad grammar and spelling in advertising.

I could go on, but then you guys would just add my name to your list of irritating things.

When you're having a bad day and it seems like people are trying to piss you off, just remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pullthe trigger of a decent sniper rifle.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce

[StStella]

Here in Pennsylvania we have a litter bug hotline. If you see someone throwing trash or cig butts out of a car you just take down the license plate, model and color and give 888-litterbug a call. Let them know date/time/location and they send the owner of the car a nasty letter. How embarassing would that be??

I must confess I've used this a number of times and always have a pen and paper ready in the car. Unfortunely this happens all the time and it really irks me.

Another pet peave: people who don't clean up after their dog takes a dump! I have two very large dogs of my own and I ALWAYS clean up after them. Keep 'em at home and let 'em crap in your own yard if you don't want to bother with the mess!

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[Oblio]

- People greeting each other at the airport by Charlie Foxtrotting just outside the gate. See also Escalator CFing.

- People who use a their own personal substitiute for the ICAO phonetic alphabet. "See as in Cat, Eff as in Frank" Sheesh !! I have even heard Flight Attendants do this !

- People that pull out in front of you when there is no one behind you when all they had to do is wait 4 more seconds.

- Said before but again for emphasis: Chewing gum littering, tailgaiting.

Most of annoyances here belong to the YMFU Yea Me, Fuck You (Pronounced 'I'm Foo') class of folks.

Oblio

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[Shirley Ujest]

When you are considered anti social because you really don't drink and everyone around you is getting hammered. My response usually, " I' m on the wagon."

People who ask you a personal question that is none of their friggin' business and then get their noses bent out of joint when you tell them to MYOB.

And my final beef, of ten thousand 9 the list is shortened: Perpetually perky people. someone should sterlized them.

[torq]

When traffic is backed up, and you decide to be nice and let someone who's been waiting a while pull out, and the jerks behind them think that means you've decided to permit the entire parking lot to empty in front of you.

When the traffic is backed up so badly that you're not sure you'll be able to clear the intersection while the light's still green, and some moron on the cross street decides this is a justification for him to turn right on red (thereby blocking it even further).

[topolino]

When you are considered anti social because you really don't drink and everyone around you is getting hammered. My response usually, " I' m on the wagon."

Wow, I thought I was the only one. I'll be having a perfectly good time not drinking until one of my drunk coworkers comes up and picks on me for no reason other than the fact that I ordered a 7up/Sprite instead of something alcoholic. Maybe they don't mind mixing alcohol with the particular anti-depressant they're on that week but I'm not taking the chance of mixing my particular prescriptions with alcohol. Besides, my stages of intoxication go:
1. Abnormally warm
2. Unimpaired mental ability but decreased ability to control my motor movement
3. Migraine

Not much fun.

Anyway, I could see them getting upset if I was chastizing them for drinking but I don't. I don't care what they drink (unless they're driving but I've never had to say anything since I haven't caught one trying to drive drunk). Why do they care so much what I drink?

[Persephone]

People who are not handicapped parking in handicapped spots. I'm talking about eh folks who have no handicapped plates or markers on their cars whatsoever. I know that some handicaps are not visible (i.e heart & lung problems that make walking difficult), but these people usually do get handicap plates. The ones that really cheese me off are the ones that just aren't handicapped. I personally will drive around a parking lot for a freaking hour before I'll take one of those spots. I'd love to use one, since I'm about 7 months pregnant, and walking from BFE into a store is difficult now, but pregnancy isn't considered a handicap. I do like what our local Farmer Jack's has done, though...thoughtfully provided parking spaces marked with a little stork, especially for pregnant women.

[Shirley Ujest]

Christi, I am with you on the schmucks who park in the handicap spot who aren't handicapped. Although the only time the offense is really noticeable is at Christmas. It's like " Gee, grandpa one leg, can I borrow your handicap sticker to get a good spot at the mall?" It's the only time the spots are all full.

I've locked one guy out of his car because he 1) was phsycially fit 2) had no sticker and there was about 3000 other spaces for him to chose, like the one next to the H-spot. I told him to move his car over one spot ( explaining that my 4 brothers are all disabled, mom's disabled and father in law is paralized, etc) He ignored me and went in to order his sandwich. I went to his open car window, (keys in ignition) locked the doors with the power locks and went back inside that sub shop using the payphone to call the cops to report him. God, was he pissed, and the cop showed no mercy. I just sat inside eating my sandwich, watching his misery with glee.

Another irritant, I think its been said before, people who toss their cigerettes out the window. Use your ashtray!

[Mr Thin Skin]

I think the biggest irritant about people tossing their butts out is that the police don't give a good goddamn about it. I've seen many butts fly out of police cars. Elevator ettiquette (lack there of) bothers me also. The following rules apply:

1) People off before People on

2) Regardless of sex, closest to door out first.

[sunbear]

Those people that come out of driveways in big clunkers and pull out part way into traffic to get out of their place.Then sit there while people nearly scrape their cars on the car of this character and ignore him/her.

[dougie_monty]

Near where I live in Gardena, California, is a large store that has its trash dumpsters emptied by a big truck at 3:30 a.m. Imagine! This lot is surrounded by residential blocks and it must wake up a lot of people--including the sick, babies who muist start howling at the top of their lungs, people who need an hour more of sleep before they have to get up to go to work in the morning. etc.
The next time this wakes me up I am going to go out there with a camera and tape recorder; what I gather I will take to the Gardena city agency that issues business licenses and make a formal complaint.
After all, sound waves don't stop at property lines.

"The signs don't apply to illiterates." --Al Jaffee

My apologies if I repeat any mentioned.

People who don't leave messages on the answering machine. It's there for a reason, use it.
People who water their lawns with sprinklers when it's POURING rain! (Even if you have an automatic timed system, it can still be shut off manualy) This is basically because I HATE to see food, and water being wasted.

I swear I have a billion pet peeves, but these were the first off the top of my head.

Oh. And people who go to the "fast lane" in the grocery store and check out five-ten more items than you're supposed to. If it says 15 items, what are ya doin' with 30?

Ok, done ranting. Carry on.

Adam

[Sylence]

I can live with people who drive the wrong way down the rows in the parking lot.

I can live with people who refuse to back up when meeting someone going the RIGHT way down the rows in the parking lot.

But when you HONK YOUR HORN at me because I'm not backing up fast enough and you're going the wrong way down the row, expect me to sit there until hell freezes over!

-- Sylence

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"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here'." - Steven Wright

[Doobieous]

When you are considered anti social because you really don't drink and everyone around you is getting hammered.

You too? This usually happens when i'm at my friend Ann's house and our group of friends is having a small party. She's always trying to get me drunk. One time she had some of her high school friends (people she graduated with), there and they tried so hard to get me to get drunk. I really don't care what they think and refuse until they give up in disgust, usually i end it with "I have to drive home tonight". On the other hand, half of our group doesn't drink, so i'm not the only sober one at parties.

[OpalCat]

Littering: The place we first lived when we moved out here had a playground for the kids. It was one of those wood-chip kinda deals, so the kiddies wouldn't get boo-boos when they bit the dust while playing. Unless tenanus and serrated gouges count as boo-boos? It seems the entire freakin apartment community thought the really cool place to chuck all their beer bottle caps was into the playground. Nevermind the THREE HUGE GARBAGE CANS, just throw them in the wood chips where they can rust and injure the kiddies.

People who walk slowly in malls, alongside 75 of their slow-moving pals, and don't notice that you're taking little clipped steps a half a breath behind them and dodging back and forth trying to get around them.

Public spitting. Especially of mucous. If I have nowhere to spit, I swallow it. I've done this for 27 years and I'm JUST FINE. YOU WILL LIVE.

Smokers who don't ask before lighting up in your house, or coming inside with a lit cigarette. I had a friend somewhere once tell me that they had some relative who would smoke anyway, even when told to stop. This relative apparently would use a drink cup for an ashtray. This pissed me off, even though it wasn't me it was happening to! Shit, if someone did that at my house, I'd tell them to leave, and I wouldn't care if they were the Queen of England! If they wouldn't leave, I'd call the police.
I had one guy light up in my house, after being told he couldn't smoke inside, and he looked at me like I was a bitch and said "well I'm GOING outside in just a MINUTE" Guess who never ever ever came over to our house again?

People online who get miffed at me because I say "no thanks" when they offer to send me a photo of themself. Sorry, but I don't give a rat's ass what you look like if you're a perfect stranger!

People who drag their kids around, then don't pay any attention to them (like ignoring them when they say "mom?" etc...)

People who say the internet isn't "real life" (yeah, what are we, pretend? Sorry, but I'm a real person, and so is everyone reading this.)


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[Holly]

UncleBeer: "Turn signals, turn signals, turn signals. Up for left, down for right. What's so hard to figure out?"

Maybe my car is defective, but my turn signals work just the opposite.

I hate it when people drive past my house (or, worse, when my neighbors across the street who apparently don't own an inside stereo park their car in their yard and crank up the car stereo so they can hear it in the house) with that awful window-rattling bass thumping, especially when I'm trying to sleep and/or I have a migraine, and the bass is cranked up so high that all you hear is this bvvvvvfffft! bvvvft! bvvvvvvvvfft!

[Byzantine]

ARG220 Those people in the express line with too many items? They are called Expressholes. Check out the sniglet's post!



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[Persephone]

Thank you, Holly, for mentioning that UNBELIEVABLY LOUD BASS playing. I can't stand that (many expletives) stuff.

On that same track, what's with the huge pants that hang to the knees? Am I the only one who wants to just yank those suckers up, and say "HEY! You don't go out in public with your underwear showing!"

[dougie_monty]

Hey, Cristi: Do you remember Cracked mazagine in the 70s?
One annual had some do-it-yourself greeting cards stapled in. One was "To a Stereo Aficionado" and the message read in part:
"...your music couldn't be sweeter
But kindly turn your volume down
Or I'll kick in both your tweeters!!"

[Neenah]

I hate bad drivers. Hate. Hate. Hate. It's the little things that count. My fiance is really great at forgetting signals and such, or breezing right through stop signs and lights without a glance in either direction. The scary part is, when I mention it, he says he didn't even see the sign! If you choose to ignore these things, that's one thing....but when you're so oblivious you don't even know what you're not doing...

Neenah

[BoBettie]

Cristi,
In NY, (at least in my area) they are incorporating "Stork spaces" in our parking lots. They are "reserved" (but not legally) for expecting women or women with small kids. They aren't enforced by law, but most people seem to be good about saving them for the purpose they are intended for. They are right next to the handicapped spaces.


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[UncleBeer]

UncleBeer: "Turn signals, turn signals, turn signals. Up for left, down for right. What's so hard to figure out?"
Holly: "Maybe my car is defective, but my turn signals work just the opposite."

You know what Holly, I think its my car that's defective. The turn signal stick is on the right side of the steering wheel. I've asked several friends about their cars and they all have the sticks on the left side of the wheel. Hmmmm. Still waiting for the factory recall.


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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce

[cmkeller]

It drives me nuts to watch smokers just throw their used cigarettes on the ground.

Whenever I see that, I'd really love to pick up the cigarette, tap the person on the shoulder, and, when they turn around, say, "Excuse me, sir/ma'am, but you dropped something. Here it is." And then I'd shove the thing back in their mouths.

Boy, fantasy's got reality beat by a mile.

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ckeller@schicktech.com

"Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

[smilingjaws]

Women who wear tank tops and slip dresses with bra straps showing--for pete's sake go buy a strapless bra! They're not that expensive.
In re: bass players--don't you wish that one day someone would come up with a sound vacuum! Blasting them out with some gosh-awful chinese opera would be poetic but it would be mean to innocent bystanders! (I know it's politically incorrect to hate chinese opera but that is the worst music I have ever heard!)

Smart mouth kids who call me by my first name--I am 42, dammit, and I deserve a little respect!