- People who actually look at the menu board at a McDonalds. Are you freaking kidding me? You dont know what they have??
I’ve looked at the menu at McD. Simply because at the time I am fed up with the usual crap. I want something different for a change.
And also - they regularly change the ‘special’ items.
(but 9 times out of 10 I just get a large quarter pounder meal, and a big-mac)
Rhetorical lip smacking. This isn’t noisy eating, which is worse, but just that habit some people have of emitting a little smacking noise every time they open their mouths.
(smack)
I think that program will take to long to finish that way…
hmmmm…(smack)
unless you change the indexes on the table…
Even worser yet: Crayons. Sure, they don’t do much damage in the washing machine, but you should see the havoc they wreak in the dryer. I wiped the drum with WD-40 and it still has blue and red smears. The clothes were ruined. Anyone want a 7-year-old? 
I’ve never encountered that phenomenon Spectre of Pithecanthropus but it does remind me of another anoying thing…
That way some people’s mouths have of amplifying the sound of eating. Even if they have their mouth closed I can HEAR what is going on inside!
I’ll see your lip smacking and raise you teeth sucking, with or without the sigh on the end.
I’ll just mention things people do that annoy me.
People who make all sorts of slurping noises when they are describing the good taste of a meal. I understand you really liked the meal but please keep the sound effects to yourself. Worse still are the people who compliment the test of the food then start to make motions like they are eating and combine the slurping noises.
People who move into the unoccupied lane at the traffic light and keep inching up to the light waiting for it to turn green. Of course, once the light turns green, that same person is the last to go. Are you in a rush or not goddamnit because I am and thought your sorry ass was going to get moving. Damn traffic light tease.
People who hawk their kids candy/GS cookies/whatever else. First, no, I do not want to buy any of that shit because it’s overpriced and “World’s Greatest Chocolate” is not, by a longshot. Second, stop teaching your kids the lesson that anytime they have something to do that may require work they should give it to their parents. Third, I still don’t want any of that stuff.
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[li]Virii, and the clueless, careless, patently stupid Outlook/Windows users who propagate the damned things.[/li][/QUOTE]
For a moment I thought that you were going to pit people who for some reason believe that the plural of “virus” is “virii”, but no. That’s what you should have pitted. One virus, several viruses. No such word as virii.
I haven’t eaten at McDonalds in about a decade. In the event that I go into one again, would you recommend that I order the McDLT or the McRib?
Or maybe you’d prefer that I take time to check out the menu first?
Let us find a happy compromise on this McDonald’s issue. By all means, look at the menu board, but for the love of all that is holy, who are these people who look at it only when they finally reach the cashier? And why are they always the people who are ahead of me in line? By their responses, you would think they didn’t know what they were waiting in line for, they seem so surprised when the cashier asks for their orders. “What would you like?” “Oh! Well, let’s see … hmmmm… let me think … hmmmm …”
Exemption is offered to those people who have a hard time reading the menu board from a distance at the McDonald’s that have the “swimmer’s lane” type individual lines,* but there is NO EXCUSE for this behavior at a McDonald’s with with the switchback type lines, where you spend much of your wait alongside the counter, and hence the same distance from the menu board.
*but rather grudgingly offered, because in most cases it is possible to step slightly out of line to position yourself closer to the board while the person in front of you is placing his order.
Ooh, that reminds me of a couple more Annoying Things:
When I walk into a fast food place, stand way back from the counter, stare at the menu board, don’t make eye contact with the cashier, and indicate with all the body language I have at my disposal that I am not yet ready to order, and still they ask, “Can I help you?”
When I pull up to the drive-thru, and the first thing they say is, “Would you like to try our [whatever the hell they’re pushing that day]?” Uh, I thought I was supposed to tell you what I wanted. How am I supposed to respond to that—keep answering “yes” or “no” until you’ve guessed my order?
After seeing the flood I’ll see your teethsucking and raise you “Pretentious Sniff as Punctuation”.
Yeah, you’ll have to restart the server before the changes are picked up (sniff)
I could have finished that in 15 minutes (sniff)
"To this brit it sounds wrong. It should be “A couple of beers” and “Write to me”.
To this Yank, it should be “I was in the hospital,” or “I was at the university,” but you Brits always seem to be forgetting the “the” (“I was in hospital” or “when I was at university”)
Switching cellphone providers.
fucking assholes…
I only have one major annoyance and it’s even message board based.
I’m annoyed when I type out a really long and great response to a post, then I go to submit it or something and for whatever reason it doesn’t go through, either because I run into the flood control or other reasons.
Anyway, when I go back and it’s NOT THERE ANYMORE! Man, I hate that. That annoys me above all else.
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Professors who give you the questions for the take-home exam two days late, but don’t give you two days extra to complete the essays.
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People who sniff and sniff and sniff, but won’t take a tissue when you offer one.
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People who moon you (inadvertently) for long periods of time while they’re filing in the lowest drawer. It’s even more annoying if they’re sniffing the whole time.
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People who tell me what we Mormons believe, and refuse to believe me if I correct them. (Let’s see, I’m LDS and you’re not, but you know what I believe and I don’t?)
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The woman last week who said our website was too difficult. When we explained that we’ve been making improvements, and asked what specifically did she find difficult, she told us that she had to read it. :smack:
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Answering stupid questions from CPS employees day in and day out.
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Listening to more stupid questions in astronomy class.
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People who say that there is no such thing as a stupid question. They’ve obviously never had to work with CPS employees and/or taken astronomy.
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Library fines
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The storage company I use, who didn’t tell me that the 10% discount I was supposed to receive each month did not transfer when they transfered me to a different space. Within the same building. ??
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Signs that say “your invited.”
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People who, when you tactfully point out that it should be “you’re invited,” change the sign to read, “y’all invited.”
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The ubiquitous apostrophe. As in Car’s sold here.
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Spam. Of every type.
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Insurance companies who appear to cover the surgery you want/need, until you actually try to get approval for said surgery. At that time, they will present you with 10 or more different requirements, all of which make it impossible for you to get approved for the surgery.
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Backaches and headaches.
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The inevitable fatigue that accompanies working full-time, going to school full-time, and being apparently the only person at home who is capable of washing dishes, doing laundry, and putting toilet paper in the bathroom.
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People who use the last bit of toilet paper and don’t put more tp out.
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Forgetting that I have to go to the bathroom until it’s time for class.
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Having to wear bifocals
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Getting huge zits/cysts on my face when I’m 40 and thought all that stuff was supposed to go away.
Whew! I feel better now!
As a side note to the lip-smacking and teeth-sucking, can I add gum chewing?
I hate hearing people chew gum; doesn’t matter if it’s someone chomping away like a cow or trying to daintily chew… it’s all gross! Just hearing that smacking and saliva - YUCK!
Even worse are the gum poppers - the ones who chomp and chomp and make the gum pop, on purpose, over and over. It makes me want to rip every one of their teeth out. Slowly. And without novacaine.
People who cannot walk in a god damn straight line. They magically know exactly when to slowly meander off course so that I cannot simply walk past them.
And the rest of their ilk: the people who walk precisely in the middle of a two-way walkway, the people who walk three abreast and will not make room for you as you approach each other (or worse, yield an insultingly useless amount of space for you to pass), and the “newcomers”, people who have just entered the main flow of your walkway, and insist on remaining on the incorrect side as they walk straight towards you, or walk directly through you in the act of merging onto the walkway.
Oh, yeah! I was commenting to my sister just the other day about the appallingly large number of people who prefer to walk right into you and knock you down rather than take one step to the side.
That reminds me of another annoying thing: drivers who refuse to stop for students who are in the middle of a protected crosswalk. I had a letter to the editor published in our campus newspaper last week, in which I prophesied my death because someone will refuse to stop for me and will, instead, slam into my poor defenseless body. I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m not. Tonight as I was walking to one of my evening classes, I was halfway through the crosswalk and a car approached at high speed and the didn’t seem to care that there was a pedestrian on the road. :rolleyes:
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People who talk with something in their mouth. Swallow Damnit!
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People who lie and say that there is nothing in there mouth when I can damn well hear that there is. Swallow already Damnit!
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People who persist in lying about having something in their mouth thus talking even more with something in their mouth and then swallow and still persist in their lies about not having had something in their mouth even though I can hear the difference and I saw them swallow.
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Lovers that don’t get me a glass of water after I swallow.
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The assholes that speed up to close gaps when I try to merge.
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The assholes that speed up to close gaps when I try to merge and then slow down when I slow down and try to merge behind them.
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Users.
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Users who pop butterscotches into their mouths just before asking me a question. Couldn’t you wait until you uttered that sentence you utter asshole!
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Smudges on my glasses.
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People who reach up and wipe off the fog on the windshield leaving a streaked spot. Damnit! Wait a fucking minute for the defroster to work.
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People who reach up and wipe off the fog on the windshield leaving a streaked spot and then don’t clean my windshield at the first opportunity. Damnit! If you can’t wait a fucking minute for the defroster to work then clean up your mess.
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People who lie to me.
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My husband throwing away my purchases bag and all claiming he thought they were trash.
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People who drink the last cold soda and don’t replace it and don’t let you know so you can replace it. I drink a soda about every other month. I would like it to be there and cold when I want one.
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Anyone who can’t print and wants me to do something about it.
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Getting my hair caught under my breasts so that I can’t move without pulling it.
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Toll booths.
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Pants that fit in the store and then are mysteriously so big that I have to pull them up and tuck them under my breasts to hold them up. I am not losing weight. Why are my pants growing.
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Clippy
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Microsoft Help
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Wet socks.
- People who use quaint, colloquial, multi-syllable words when all they want to say is ‘pen’.
- Users who delete system files from their computers because they have received an email from someone they don’t know claiming said system file is a virus. They then call to ask if it was okay to do this after they have already removed the file from the trash bin.
- People who want to print everything.
- Shaking hands.
- Warm toilet seat.
- The old and infirm who always seem to get off the plane first, who then bitch at you for shoulder checking them out of the way as you rush to make your next connection.
- Canada customs.
- Upgrade certificates from airlines for which you never qualify.
- Anyone from Air Canada. The Air Canada motto, “We’re not happy, until you’re unhappy”.
- No ‘X items or less’ checkout lines at Costco (bulk warehouse store).
- Standing around in airports waiting for your next connection.
- Stone chips on your new windshield.
- Expensive DVD player that won’t play the second part of a two part movie because of some weird incompatibility with the menu system.
- Neighbours who leave their yappy dog out all day (and then forget to bring it in at night).
- People who write cheques in the ‘X items or less’ line at the supermarket.
- People who stand in line at the supermarket and chat with the teller.
- People who ask me to spend countless hours trying to improve the performance of their crappy reporting system and don’t understand that the reason people don’t want to use it is not because of the performance.
- People who call meetings requiring the attendance of 20+ SAP super users and IT technicians/Supervisors (one of which is me) that entails the use of world-wide teleconferencing and some attendees to travel hundreds/thousands of miles on their vacation time only to read from a multiple choice survey for 2 of the longest hours of your life. Ever heard of email you stupid bitch?
- Read 18…All in order to answer customer service complaints of the SAP technical services group and then to find out that the technicians in that group never actually talk to the clients!! Stupid bitch.
- The flight attendant who interupts my movie, requiring me to remove my headset and miss the important part of the movie only to ask me, “Is the anything that we can do in the future to make your flight more enjoyable?”.
- Forgetting the tickets for my flight to work. And the check-in drone saying that they can’t give me my boarding passes because it is a written ticket. This even though she can see my name in the system and I have my passport to prove who I am. Why? Because someone could cash that ticket in. Yeah, sure they could, if they had my name and you didn’t record the fact that I just used the ticket in the system. Uh, how about you just cancel it and issue me a new one? No, can’t do that. Okay, so what the fuck should I do? You can buy another ticket and get the first one reimbursed when you get back at a later date. Only $5000!!! I call the fiance. We race from one end of town to the other in rush hour traffic and with a half hour to spare I make it back to the airport. I’m in front of yet another check-in drone and he starts giving me shit for showing up at the airport a half-hour to spare!
(I fly alot as you can probably guess)