# I feel the need again - Return of tiny things that irritate you all out of proportion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940 "2012-09-17T04:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/121 "2012-09-20T14:59:12Z")
The way Tosh says “BRI-CKLE-BERRYYY!!” when talking about his stupid-looking new cartoon show. (oh yeah, you heard it that way in your head, didn’t you.) ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/122 "2012-09-20T15:17:02Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Or they leave one or two squares left on the roll so they can say it wasn’t empty. They’re the same people who leave 3 ounces of coffee in the coffee pot so they don’t have to make a new pot. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/123 "2012-09-20T16:36:35Z")
When I think I see an empty parking space toward the front of the lot\*, but when I pull up to it, there’s one of those tiny little wind-up cars in it. \*I’ve got a bum knee, but it’s not bad enough to need the handicap parking spot–just enough to make me want to spare myself a really long walk. ETA: Bum knee or not, I still don’t s-a-u-n-t-e-r through a crosswalk. I _hate_ when people do that! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/124 "2012-09-20T17:01:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > **Seanette** reminded me of another one - people taking phone calls instead of serving the person standing right in front of them, waiting to pay for their stuff. In my world, the hierarchy is, “People who have taken the time and effort to come to your place of business and want to give you money right now” over, “People who dialled a phone.” I once went into a Supercuts (my first mistake) to get my son a haircut, and was told there would be over an hour wait, even though nobody there was waiting. Because some people had called and said they’d be there. Oh, haaay-ul nah. You’re going to tell me that I’m standing here, in person, with money in hand for a service, and somebody that has called to say they’re coming gets precedent over me? Those bitches were re-trained in some customer service by corporate. And I have never set foot in Another shittycuts again. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/125 "2012-09-20T22:56:22Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > Around here at least, their selection isn’t bad. It’s comparable to the grocery store closest to me, but with a slightly smaller produce section. I can see why they do it and I can see why people buy food there. At least it’s not Walmart. I think our Target is one of the earlier, smaller stores. Their grocery section is about the same size as the health & beauty department, which means a half dozen aisles of chips, candy, and convenience foods, and a cooler or two of milk and lunchmeat. Yours must be a Super Target so they probably have a better selection. We had to stop at Walmart a couple weeks ago in a different town and just looking at their grocery department made me feel a little nauseated. I don’t even let my chicken coop get that dirty. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/126 "2012-09-21T01:27:14Z")
People who bump me with their shopping carts while standing in the check out line. Even the slightest little tap makes me want to start screaming at them. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/127 "2012-09-21T02:08:17Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Radio or TV ads that start with an alarm. Drive-time radio ads that feature sirens or car horns. Should be illegal. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/128 "2012-09-21T02:15:16Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Litter, especially cigarette butts. Is it really that hard to not throw shit on the ground? > > Booming car stereos and super-loud headphones. If you think about it at all, I bet you think it’s awesome to share, but forcing anyone to do something involuntarily is kind of mean. > > Parking across two stalls. There’s usually plenty of room, I just don’t like cheating. [Or I should say “the appearance of cheating,” since I don’t want to rehash the arguments of those who think it’s a legitimate practice.] It is like you are in my head. And who thinks parking across two spaces is legit?:dubious: That is obnoxious:mad: ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/129 "2012-09-21T02:44:54Z")
> [@grude](#): > > If I need to fix something so I grab my tool case and settle down only to discover…my tools have been fucked with! Half are missing if I am lucky, I’ll just walk the fuck away from the job. Fuck it no I can’t take that. > > Same thing for hunting for every piece of clothing and toothbrush and blah blah blah, it drives me absolutely batshit insane when stuff is moved around from the place I left it. > > Don’t have toddlers. awwww, LOL. They don’t do it intentionally to piss you off 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/130 "2012-09-21T02:49:37Z")
When people sign their name at the end of a post. You aren’t writing a letter, you are posting on a message board with a clearly labeled username you chose, so if you wanted us to know your real name every single time you posted you should have included that in your username, and if you already included it in your username there is no blasted reason why you have to sign it at the bottom of every single GD post. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/131 "2012-09-21T03:45:06Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > When people sign their name at the end of a post. > You aren’t writing a letter, you are posting on a message board with a clearly labeled username you chose, so if you wanted us to know your real name every single time you posted you should have included that in your username, and if you already included it in your username there is no blasted reason why you have to sign it at the bottom of every single GD post. +1 _Bivvie_ ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/132 "2012-09-21T04:32:03Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > +1 > _Bivvie_ Hahaha, I see what you did there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/133 "2012-09-21T12:14:52Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I think our Target is one of the earlier, smaller stores. Their grocery section is about the same size as the health & beauty department, which means a half dozen aisles of chips, candy, and convenience foods, and a cooler or two of milk and lunchmeat. Yours must be a Super Target so they probably have a better selection. > > We had to stop at Walmart a couple weeks ago in a different town and just looking at their grocery department made me feel a little nauseated. I don’t even let my chicken coop get that dirty. Might be worth a Health Department call. The Walmart I go to is quite satisfactorily clean (as good as the top-end supermarket chain in the area, so far as I can see). ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/134 "2012-09-21T22:02:57Z")
Ooo, I was just reminded of this one as I was driving today. It really pisses me off when people get into the turn lane a quarter of a mile back so they can race up to the light like it’s their own private special lane. Look, you asshole, do you see the breaks in the lines of the lane? That is to signify that you get in there. I swear, the next dipshit that almost hits me because I wait until it’s legal to get in gets it. And yes, before some anal pedant chimes in about heavy traffic blah blah blah, if there’s heavy traffic and the turning lane is backed up to beyond the break lines, you get in early. I realize that! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/135 "2012-09-21T22:49:20Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > When people sign their name at the end of a post. > You aren’t writing a letter, you are posting on a message board with a clearly labeled username you chose, so if you wanted us to know your real name every single time you posted you should have included that in your username, and if you already included it in your username there is no blasted reason why you have to sign it at the bottom of every single GD post. I know people who do it with text messages, with all kids of cutsy scrolls and curliques. Annoying, I already know who you are. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/136 "2012-09-22T00:13:15Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > I know people who do it with text messages, with all kids of cutsy scrolls and curliques. > Annoying, I already know who you are. That is similar to a few message boards I used to frequent. I actually left them, not because I disliked the boards’ theme or topics, but because the posters had a bad habit of making every line or word a different color, size, font, etc. They also had HUGE signatures which included moving text, animated gifs, and gigantic pictures, so the ratio of post to signature was like 20/80. So frigging ridiculous. These also tended to be the boards where the majority of posters typed in abbreviated or nonsensical text slang or L33t and misspelled common words like “teh”, “probbably”, “exactley”, “freind”, etc.; and used “no” when they meant “know”, “weather” when they meant “whether”, or “their” when they mean “there/they’re” and vice versa. I just gave up trying to get anything out of those posts and left. I know I myself do not have the best grammatical skills and misuse punctuation or sentence structure more often than I should, but I have an unreasonable aversion to bad communication when it is done on purpose…😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/137 "2012-09-22T00:17:08Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > That is similar to a few message boards I used to frequent. I actually left them, not because I disliked the boards’ theme or topics, but because the posters had a bad habit of making every line or word a different color, size, font, etc. They also had HUGE signatures which included moving text, animated gifs, and gigantic pictures, so the ratio of post to signature was like 20/80. So frigging ridiculous. > > These also tended to be the boards where the majority of posters typed in abbreviated or nonsensical text slang or L33t and misspelled common words like “teh”, “probbably”, “exactley”, “freind”, etc.; and used “no” when they meant “know”, “weather” when they meant “whether”, or “their” when they mean “there/they’re” and vice versa. I just gave up trying to get anything out of those posts and left. > > I know I myself do not have the best grammatical skills and misuse punctuation or sentence structure more often than I should, but I have an unreasonable aversion to bad communication when it is done on purpose…😛 {Chanting}ONE OF US! ONE OF US! {/Chanting} 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/138 "2012-09-22T02:40:14Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Might be worth a Health Department call. The Walmart I go to is quite satisfactorily clean (as good as the top-end supermarket chain in the area, so far as I can see). Eh, I’ll leave that to the people who actually _buy_ the filthy food. If they’re okay with it, who am I to ruin their fun? We only stopped there for spiral notebooks during the $0.17 sale. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/139 "2012-09-22T03:08:12Z")
The logos on the backs of laptop monitors. Not only are the manufacturers using me to advertise their products, but when the laptop’s closed, the damn logo is upside down – to me. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940/140 "2012-09-22T03:28:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The logos on the backs of laptop monitors. Not only are the manufacturers using me to advertise their products, but when the laptop’s closed, the damn logo is upside down – to me. I totally just checked my laptop I am currently using to see if you were right. I am such a dork:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-need-again-return-of-tiny-things-that-irritate-you-all-out-of-proportion/634940.md?page=8)