It bothers me to no end when the first thing someone does upon getting in their vehicle in cold weather is turn the heater on full blast. I mean, come on, its just going to blow out icy cold air for 5 minutes so why not just wait for the car to warm up a bit?
Also, when someone pronounces “hamburger” like “ham-booger”. AAARRRGGHHHH!
Sometimes, that’s intentional - saying “hambooger” or “sleaze booger.” 
All those slowpokes using my freeway in the morning.
I am a woman, and I am over 6 feet tall, it bugs me when people assume I’m a man just because I’m tall. Not that long ago I was in a department store and I was idly flicking through a sale rack (none of the clothes would have fit me) when I heard a voice behind me say “oh, this must be the men’s department” a second voice said “Is it?” the first voice said “Well that man’s looking at that rail” I turned around to find two smaller-than-me women standing there looking/pointing at me. :rolleyes:
OT - I haven’t been here since before Christmas - love the new look! 
One of the things that bugs me is when somebody (who you know quite well) leaves a Voice Message on your mobile phone service - and then, after ringing your Voice Mail service (which costs money of course) you only get a message saying something to the effect of “Hi… it’s so and so… just letting you know I rang and could ring me back when you get this message?”
I mean… come on… it’s 2004. We all have phones nowadays which show you whose calls you missed. If it’s somebody who you want to call back, you’ll make that decision when you see their name on the list. But don’t leave a message for someone which doesn’t tell them anything they don’t already know. It just forces the recipient to waste money and an extra phone call to eventually ring you regardless. If you must leave a message, make it a message which serves a purpose I say.
I hate when I’m writing a post and the browser takes me back when I press the backspace. And then when I click forward, my whole post is gone. I’ll hate that till the end of time!
This is silly, really.
I hate when I’m walking toward a set of doors - especially when it’s an entrance to a large building and there are multiple doors there (the university library, for example, has about 8 at the main entrance). Then someone sees you walking toward the door and stops, waits for me to go in/out (whichever) so they can go through the open door. Drives me batty, especially if we’re the only two people near the doors with 8 to choose from. One of these days I want to stop and wait to see if they break down and open the door if I don’t.
Now, I accept that some people may have something wrong with their arms. Most of these people don’t appear to, and if they do, there is a button on the doors that can be pushed to open the doors automatically. Plus, there are two rows of doors creating a sort of vestibule - they always seem to open the second set just fine.
Also related to the door opening thing is that MANY people who are perfectly capable of opening the door press that damn button and every time I’m behind this type of nitwit I feel angry because it would take a lot less time for them to just lean on the damn door and let their lazy body weight push it open but once they’ve pushed the button I have to wait for it to open and for them to walk through before I can leave so now I’m standing there like an ASS waiting for the magical door to open magically to our astonishment at the wonders of this modern George Jetson millennium and I’ve got nothing to do but think “Holy crap, you are a grown adult can you not pass up an opportunity to use a button just because it’s there YOU IDIOT!?” And I think it’s giving me a bad wrinkle between my eyebrows.
Also related to the voicemail about nothing post is the person who listens to the whole damn voicemail including the tone before deciding they will not leave a message. YOU COULD NOT DECIDE ONE SECOND EARLIER??? You know the tone is about to come so hang up quick before you leave a damn hangup message you idiot! I just picture these people sitting there with one finger up the nostril thinking, “hmmm not there what do I do do I leave a message OMG it’s beeping what do I do??? QUICK HANG UP!!” click so of course I am compelled to press 5 to see what asshole did that and then I have to wait and wait while she tells me not just the number but the exact second of the call and the length of the message (robot voice: “one… sec-ond”) which only adds to the amount of time I’m spending checking the voicemail that doesn’t exist and in the end I never recognize the number and my eye is twitching. What a mess.
And yes I do think that people who hang up on the voicemail use AOL acronyms in their private thoughts.
It’s little, it’s definitely petty, but I hate when I’m sitting at a table with other people and there’s always that one person who can’t sit still. They have to continually jiggle one leg. Just sit still. It’s not that hard.
StG
Message pacing. You take 10 minutes to say “This is Bill, call me back, my new number is” and under 1 second to say “555-1212”
I used to play the message back enough times to get the number. Now I just delete it.
Cheers,
Vega
StG - I am one of those foot jigglers. I don’t even think about it, I just do it. Everyone in my family does, I’m sure we drive lots of people nuts.
The ‘Insert’ key is too close to the ‘Backspace’ key. When I’m erasing, I usually manage to hit both of them, and I start typing again to find myself overwriting stuff I’ve just put down. Then I have to go back and change it again. Sheesh, if every keyboard manufacturer has to come up with his own design for a keyboard, why did I get the one designed by robot monkeys from Planet Ten? Why is there not an ‘Insert Lock’ key or a light that indicates you’ve switched modes?
The threads—and I’ve participated in my share of them—that ask for ‘The All-Time Greatest of XYZ.’ You know the threads I mean. ‘All-Time Funniest Jokes of the Simpsons During The Fifth Season as voiced by Hank Azaria, Not Including Lines by Prof Fri [truncated due to length].’ ‘All-Time Greatest Rock-Pop Songs of 1982 That Don’t Have A Video.’ ‘10 All-Time Best Documentaries About Alcatraz.’ ‘All-Time Best Caper Recipes.’ ‘All-Time Greatest Missouri Senators.’ ‘The Stupidest Movies Named After Pop Songs From Ten Years Ago.’ Please, can we get rid of the pretense that these threads have any point? They’re ubiquitous and annoying and yet oddly satisfying, like French fries. They’re bad for us, bad! Mmm. I mean, bad.
Hi Opal. Will you consider asking people to stop taking your username in vain? I know it’s not your fault that newbies latch onto inside-joke cult slogans, but someone in authority should exert some pressure to make this particular joke stop, and I think most posters would respect a ban on it if it came from you. 
People in movie theaters:
Doors:
Parking:
Driving:
I’ll think of more …
…cant stand the sound of people eating. No really, it drives me nuts. I bring earplugs with me to the dinner table because my family is unfortunately not that big on the dinner conversation and so there is nothing to mask out the sound of everyone chewing and stuff.
You know that scene in ROTK where Denethor is gorging himself? That scene made me SICK…ugh I almost threw up listening to it.
OOooooooh, I HATE these people. But you know who I hate more? People who call and then won’t leave a message. And then call right back. I had someone call my cell phone three frickin’ times in a row a few days ago, then not even bother to leave a message. Meanwhile, I’m sitting in class, jumping every few minutes cause it feels like a crazed squirrel is going bonkers in my pocket (cause my phone is on vibrate) and they DON’T EVEN LEAVE A MESSAGE ON MY VOICEMAIL! IF IT’S IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO CALL ME, IT’S IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO LEAVE ME A MESSAGE!
More:
Meanderers. The people that can go sauntering at half a frickin’ mile per hour. Especially when they get in their idiotic herds and swerve all over the hallway and block everyone. JUST MOVE! And I’m not even a fast walker, I’m a Southerner, I’m prone to a mild saunter at high speeds, but by JAYSUS, some people can take up three times the space of a fat guy like me by just meandering along and swerving all over the place.
People who haven’t figured out that sometimes, when the train goes belowground, your cellphone is going to stop working. Christ, I got it the first time it happened, but they persist in staring at the phone, shouting “Hello?! Hello?!”
I also hate it when people speed up when they see you want to change lanes. I had a friend who insisted this was proper procedure because you were in the lane first and they should get in behind you. He watched a lot of auto racing.
This happens more rarely, but there has been a couple times when two people in different cars decide to have a conversation. They go 20 MPH on a 45 mile road talking back and forth.
You know, maybe this should be in the Pit. I have a few choice words to say about people like that.
I think that, if the eaters keep their mouths closed properly, there’d be much less noise.
It pisses me off to no end when people have to back into a parking space. Because, inevitably, it takes them two or three tries backing up, going forward, backing up, going forward, backing up, to get in the space right. All so they can just get in their car and zoom out when it’s time to go. Meanwhile, I’m sitting in my car seething, because i can’t even get past them to find a parking spot. I could’ve already found a spot, parked, got out of the car and into the building in the time it takes them to back up, go forward, back up, go forward, and back up and park.
Do those people not see that it would be a time saver to pull into a spot quickly when parking, and then when it’s time to get back in the car to go, look behind them, back up and go? Why do they need to be facing out??? WHY???