When people say reeee-diculous. It’s a short ‘i’. You can’t diculous again.
I am hooked on Diet Coke and drink around every day or two, usually in a plastic 20-oz. If I knock that 20-oz over, rage feature is instantly activated. It almost always happens before I’ve even opened it. I just feel like my whole coke is ruined then. I’ll look around for someone to blame (there never is anyone). I have even cried once, it was the last straw on a really terrible day.
Also, the sound of feet rubbing together will actually cause me to shudder and break out in goose bumps. It’s my nails-on-chalkboard sound.
The biggest one is burping. Multiple people in my life emit these loud, rumbling belches- as if they have no control over their own throats. Everybody burps, even me (especially after taking a big ole sip of just dropped Diet Coke!)- but do you have to open your mouth all the way and sing it out like that? Does it have to have syllables? Could you at least say ‘excuse me’? And does it really have to happen several times EVERY time we’re together? ETA: On second thought, I also hate it when people burp inside their mouths and then do the little “pfffooofff” thing to let the air out. I guess I just hate burping.
I do this occasionally too, when the person has been particularly bad about it, like a person lase weekend. They started following me as soon as I left the mall door and lingered there over my right shoulder as I walked to my car. Had the parking lot been full, I’d have gone ahead and left, but since there were lots of spots not far off, I let my inner bitch do her thing.
For a very minor thing that drives me batty, people in the grocery store who pull their cart from a front corner instead of pushing it by the handle. You’re taking up way more space than you need to, people, and the store is crowded! Stop it!
i thought of something and i was waiting for this thread to reappear i’m talking about those people who write things without full stops i mean, how do they think? if i see a paragraph without a single full stop i’m just going to skip it who do they think they are, james joyce?
And people who get onto the lift when it’s not traveling in their direction!
Also, people who leave their carts in whatever position comes to mind while they select items. Of course, their favorite position is diagonally across an entire aisle.
God, thank you. I get enraged every time this happens to me - so much so that I can’t describe it succinctly, so thanks for putting words to my RAIG!
I second Ambivalid on dropping things as well. Likewise, when my fucking goddamn stupid hands can’t work well enough to just open my damn purse and get out the (pen, credit card, whatever). The impotent fumbling seems to go on forever, resulting in INSTANT volcano tantrum blood-pressure spurting. :mad: Kind of embarrassing at the supermarket.
I just found another one - Turkey Day. It’s not Turkey Day - it’s Thanksgiving Day. Yes, we do commonly eat turkey on Thanksgiving, but calling it by the name of the entree just scorches my popcorn. It’s right up there with calling the remote control the clicker - yes, it clicks, but that is not its name.
I am disproportionately irritated by my neighbor’s five dogs. They are all toy-sized purebreds (a Jack Russell, a Pomeranian, a Chihuahua, a Pug, and what I think must be a Schipperke) and they seem to do nothing but bounce around their small backyard on the balls of their feet, barking, 24 hours a day.
In the neighbor’s defense, they do appear to be well-cared for (though they seem to spend an awful lot of time outside for toy dogs) and well-fed, groomed, and all that.
But WHY do they need FIVE dogs? And doesn’t it bother them that their dogs bark incessantly? They don’t bark, really. They yap. No wonder they don’t want the little buggers in the house.
YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP.
Shoot me. Seriously, I’m starting to become a dog hater and that is very uncharacteristic for me.
99% of the time, I’m with my inlaws on the 4th Thursday in November. I sure as hell am not giving thanks, so it’s Turkey Day. (And I’m a vegetarian too.)
People who, not exactly ‘shuffle’ their feet but make a noise with their feet as they walk. I don’t know why this drives me nuts but it does and we have a couple of people at work who do this. I want to yell at them, “pick up your FEET” but I just grit my teeth and try to ignore it.
It irritates me when nonmoderators post a reply on a thread such as “this thread was already done a few weeks ago” or “this topic has already been discussed”. If the topic is no longer of interest to you, just move on to another thread and let the participants have what may be a new discussion to them. If they want to view old threads, they can always use search, and then maybe revive a zombie thread from ten years ago.
I also don’t like it when people post a brief reply that’s simply a link to another webpage. I don’t like having to go to some unknown webpage to get their point, so usually just disregard it. I also don’t like links to YouTube because it slows down my computer.
With regards to the supermarket, it irritates me when there’s no one at the checkout lines and I have one more item to get, then when I return to checkout, everyone else gets in line before me and their carts are full with a month’s worth of groceries.
Yesterday I went to the grocery store. There were about 5 registers opened when we walked in but when we go to check out there are only two. That’s cool though because the store is pretty empty.
They had some great sales, so I bought way more than I intended, so my cart is piled high.
One express lane is open and one regular lane, so my son and I bop on over to the regular lane. Some man gets behind us in line and he has two items. Normally I would tell someone to go ahead in front of me but the express lane is open and not a person in it. He looks at my cart, looks at his two items and gives me a dirty look. I tell him the express lane is open and he just grunts at me, looks at my cart and looks at his two items and gives me a dirty look again.
WTF? It was too much for him to walk a few lanes over and use the express? Which didn’t have a single person in the line? I’m supposed to back my cart out and let him go ahead of me?
Don’t try to make me feel like I’m being rude when you are just being stupid.
On that same note: I hate it when someone violates a traffic law, and then honks at me like it’s my fault. Some idiot almost hit me when she ran a stop sign, and she honked and glared at me as though to say “how DARE you be in my way?!” Ugh.
Also, people who honk at me for refusing to block an intersection. Yes, I know it’s green, but I’m not moving forward until there’s room for me on the other side of the intersection. Deal with it.
I’m on an absurdly slow wireless line of sight connection, and I read a lot of music rec threads and they are filled with posts to youtube with no indication of the band or song, sometimes the youtube video is also unlabled.
So I can close everything and open the link and wait minutes.
Jesus would it kill people to type the band and song? I usually go through and copy and paste names for later investigation. Not everyone is on a fiber line.
Similarly when people wish you a “Happy Fourth of July”. It’s like wishing someone a “Merry 25th of December”. The 4th of July is a date. The holiday is Independence Day dammit!
