At least the ones that used to shout “This vehicle is protected by Viper! STAND BACK!” or have a female voice screaming “Help me! Please!” seem to be gone.
I’m surprised so many manufacturers have them as standard equipment on their cars now. As you said, no one pays attention (including the assholes who can shut the thing off with their keyfob, but are too busy loading bags of snack cakes into the back seat to shut it off), and it seems like an easy place for the manufacturer to do a little cost cutting.
Oh oh oh - you reminded me of another one - how we can’t go for a meal anywhere without the ubiquitous televisions. Remember when people would sit across the table from each other and talk without one or both of them staring at a tv for the whole meal? Yeah, those days are gone.
In the car alarm vein, it irritates me when I have my car fob in my pocket and I set off my own car’s panic button by leaning on something or bumping something. Could that be a little bit recessed or something so I don’t set it off that easily?
People who don’t know how to shut doors. You turn the knob, ease the door shut, release the knob and give a little push/pull to see if the latch had caught.
My son and I can get up in the middle of the night, use the bathroom, fix something to eat, let the dog out and back in and not one person will hear us.
The other people in the house slam, slam, slam of the doors, slam of the cabinet doors, and the worst the ice crunchers. They can not reach in and grab a few cubes. NO! They have to stir them around first and you hear *crunch, crunch, crunch. *
People who don’t pull forward at the gas pump, or worse the ones who pull in between the two stations. Do they think they are the only ones getting gas?
I know this one is so petty and so minor but it still irks the crap out of me. Bank tellers who give you money with all the bills facing different directions. Who trained them? When I was a teller we wouldn’t have dared give a customer money like that. I’m anal about it I know, but all my money has to face the same direction with big bills on the bottom and small bills on top.
Please could cashiers put the change in my hand first, then hand me the bills.
This typo. When other people do it, I just chuckle, because I know what she was trying to do, but when I do it, I get incredibly annoyed with myself for not noticing it.
Yes to TVs everywhere. And people who think it’s not rude to keep one eye on said TVs / cell phones / email / whatever while trying to hold a conversation with you.
Also, businesses addressing me by my first name or calling me a “guest”. If I am giving you money, I am not your guest. If we are not friends, please call me by my last name.
The tiny thing that irritates me all out of proportion is when people call any race a “marathon.” In their minds 5K = marathon, 10K = marathon, and so on.
Yes, I hate these two as well. I’d like to slap - *hard *- whoever came up with the idea of putting advertising banners for other shows across the bottom of the screen while I’m trying to watch a show.
I’ll also like to add local weathercasters who have to take up ALL the news time - both local and national - when there’s thunderstorms. Put it in a crawl, you stupid bag of buttholes. There is more going on in the world than a few storms in our little slice of paradise. I’d like to know what it is.
Oh, yeah. Forgot about this. “I’m running a 10K marathon this weekend.” :dubious:
I do agree that many of mine are noise related. I have a coworker who manages to reduce me to tears of frustration by the way she crunches pretzels. How anyone can get that much noise out of one snack food is beyond me.
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I don’t see how anybody who has been around running long enough to get in shape for a 10k doesn’t realize the actual definition of a marathon. What, to them, is a 1/2 marathon then? :moredubious:
Now, I have had exactly one (1) non-runner that I needed to correct.
Mine: ‘Anyways’ is not a word, folks. Stop. It makes you sound like a 15 year-old girl.
People using ‘reigns’ when they mean ‘reins.’ Usually in a phrase - ‘he was handing over the reins’, but I’ve seen it when talking about horses as well.
My sister. I know she means well. I know a lot of it is my own baggage from dealing with her. But she’s constantly controlling and annoying, which is why I only see her when she’s visiting our parents.
Radio commercials that include traffic sounds, like sirens or horns. The only time I listen to the radio is while I’m driving. I’m tired of panicking when these commercials are playing.
News people who mention an upcoming segment with “You won’t want to miss this.” Chances are, it’s something I do want to miss.
People who say words like “dimocrat,” “sinator,” and “mintion.” And people who say words like “worl” and “Egyp.” If your job includes communicating in English, use it.
Maybe it’s just a local thing but around here lately it has become S.O.P. for the weather to lead off every newscast. There could be a huge flaming bus crash on the interstate that should be the top story, “but first let’s check in with Nancy in the weather center!” Grrr…
People who get all excited about being able to eat a whole package or recipe of something for very few calories or points (WW). They post stuff like this:
Hey, here’s a great diet tip, take a package of fat-free, sugar-free cake mix, add a can of diet soda, bake. Top it with fat-free, sugar-free syrup and fat-free, sugar-free Cool Whip and you can like, eat the whole cake for 6 points! Everyone should try it!
This is not a great diet tip. This is crap. I want to scream and yell at them, How can you eat this crap? I want to berate them for not learning portion control and enjoying non-chemical laden foods in normal quantities. Instead they work so hard figuring out ways to stuff themselves sick without actually gaining any nutrition.
People who * stroll * across the street in pedestrian crossways make me cross. In Mass, the pedestrian has complete right of way once they step off the curb. And far too many people will just slooowly amble across the street, without a wave or acknowledgement. Most of them are oblivious, but a few, you get the feeling, are just trolls who enjoy holding up traffic for their royal selves.
When I’m in a crosswalk and a car has stopped for me, I’ll generally jog across, just to show willing.
Also, the right of way that a pedestrian crosswalk gives you? That’s a law, but not one of physics. There’s no Star Trek force shield that’s going to protect if you just lunge into traffic without looking.
