Can’t stand it if someone watches me eat. Even a quick glance will piss me off.
People who think the world is prettier with their used-up cigarette butts in it. God damn this pisses me off. People toss them out at traffic lights (still burning). They toss them on the ground in the parking lot where I work. They empty their ashtrays outside their car doors.
I wish there were a way to make people eat all of the cigarette butts they’ve tossed out of windows and dropped on sidewalks.
I have some more.
Elevators-Look, people. The building is 9 floors high. If you’re going up to 9, please go to the back of the elevator. Don’t stand by the door like you found some kind of special spot. People who are getting off on the 8 floors preceding yours will just have to shove by you. Or, if you’re going to 9 and INSIST on standing in the front, please have the decency to take a step out of the elevator, so the rest of us can get off, alright?
The grocery-Look, if you’re going to use the self-checkout, take the time to follow the prompts. If you can’t handle basic grocery store technology, please stick to the cashiers. I just want to buy my Claritin, but you’re standing there, farting around with 6 different items and getting more and more confused. Just stick to the cashiers and quit peering at the screen like a caveman confronted with a computer. I know the SCAN ITEM-PLACE IN BAG-PRESS PAY-PAY procedure that’s written in BIG LETTERS that guide you through every step seems complicated, so just stand aside and let us technology moguls through, alright?
People Who Can’t Handle Modern Technology-ATMs, Pay at the Pump, Self-Checkout, etc. If you can’t handle pushing a few buttons, please just find another way to do it.
It sounds like your workplace stole the sensors from the library on campus here. You literally have to be 1/2 an inch away from the first door, with your nose practically touching it, to trigger it to open. You have too many, and we have too few.
Hmm, what else…
*The noise my pipes make when the people above me take showers.
*The way that anyone going up stairs in this building sounds like a herd of elephants. Between this and the pipes, this place is louder than my freshmen dorm even though no one’s throwing parties.
*People who don’t use all the space on the grocery conveyor belt, even though they have a ton of groceries. They just line 'em up, one item at a time, so it takes forever for you to be able to start setting yours out.
*People who don’t respect personal space, especially in lines (most especially in ATM lines).
*The aforementioned slow-walkers and stopped-right-in-your-way, talking-and-rolling-their-eyes-at-you-for-your-impatience people.
*People who think that college works like Walmart, you’re paying me (via tuition) so I should give you the A you want.
Little things associated with specific people:
*The way the new German grad student in my department (all around asshole, btw, but that’d be a Pit thread) snorts constantly in derision when the rest of us try to translate Latin and Greek, or whenever the professor expresses a scholarly opinion not in line with his extremely narrow worldview.
*The student in my class this semester who so far has shown up half an hour late for an hour long class 3 times (out of 5 total meetings) and is always wearing headphones. So far, I haven’t called him on this part, on the assumption that no one would be rude enough to actually be listening to music while the teacher is trying to teach. But that’s probably my naïveté showing.
OK-here’s the why.When you pull out of your parking space facing front (backing in parking) you get to see oncoming traffic in the lot sooner than backing out,esp.when you invariably get stuck between 2 SUVs,possibly saving yourself from a collision by one of those 50 MPH drivers in parking lots (one of **my ** pet peeves.
Bonus points.In at least one incident some fool’s toddler was saved from a premature death when I spied him toddling around in front of my hood.Had he been doing those moves in back of my rear bumper if I had backed in,he’d have been a goner.Check it out sometime and see how high and close to your bumper you can see out of your rear view mirror.
Every driveway run over baby kid news story I’ve ever read was when the driver (frequently the parent) was backing out of the driveway.
Can’t help you out with the takes time thing,tho.One pass and I’m in.A lot easier to make a 45º turn backing.You know, the rear wheels remain stationary so you can swing in an arc.Like those lifts they use in close quartered warehouses.
A few of my peeves in traffic situations.People pulling into parking spaces frontways,then having to back out numerous times to finally get the car in a somewhat straight alignment with the parking stripes (hey the back wheels don’t pivot-what makes you think going in frontwards on a angle will let you compensate for that angle in the roughly 3 feet or so you have to manuever when you’re pulling in that way?)
People that don’t even know or care that their vehicle is parked on an angle where at least one of the wheels is parked on or over the stripe.This usually leads to the next car parking further over until the end result is you’re the schnook that spies the open parking space about 4 cars to the right of the original can’t park the car right and you find the space now has become a space that won’t accomodate more than a bicycle.
SUVs/big trucks are notorious for it.I say if you ** must ** drive one of those raodhogs you should be required to take a new drivers test-with emphasis on parking and taking corners.One cone dropped,you can’t own one.
People making a right on red when others are making Uturns (permissable from a green light or arrow.) Wake up you selfish bastards,green has the right of way in **any ** situation.Right on red means if nobody from the other direction has a green light.
Can’t tell you how many cops to the rescue crashes I’ve seen the last couple years.Now you’re not only not getting to the next redlight seconds before the guy you cutoff/clipped ,you’ve also endangered their life and backed up traffic in back of you for the next half hour or so since these types of accidents tend to tie up at least 2 traffic lanes.Not to mention the police doing the necessary paperwork until a towtruck finally comes to clear the whole mess up.
Thanks you self absorbed prick.
Yes it is. I do this all the time. Drives my mom nuts but I can’t help it…don’t even know I’m doing it most of the time.
I would advise against visiting Japan then. I picked up that habit while I was there…the best way to eat soup really.
People who have conversations while standing in doorways I think was mentioned by ccwaterback. This drives me nuts as well. In fact many of these selfish little habits that people have that inconvenience others piss me off. Standing in areas that block the regular flow of traffic and chatting away in their own little universe. grrr.
The thing that really, really, really bugs me though is slamming doors. I HATE when people slam doors. You really don’t have to crack the door jamb to get the latch to function, you know. ACK. This bugs me so much that I actually go to the opposite extreme and always hold the knob/latch and close doors quietly.
A thread in MPSIMS just now reminded me of something I personally find very annoying: people who must step into a conversation on UFOs to say that they always turn out to be mundane terrestrial things, while forgetting that UFO stands for unidentified flying object, not alien spaceship.
Christians/Mormons/Anyone else of religious faith who comes to my door and expects me to treat them with courtesy. If you’re at my door uninvited, I’m slamming it in your face
Spam e-mails
Message boards that don’t work (SDMB, I’m looking at you)
I have others, but I can’t think of them at the moment…
There’s a bit of twig or a leaf or something that has been stuck in my car’s heater duct for years. Whenever I turn the blower on I hear it: “tap tap tap tap tap tap tap…” Every once in awhile it gets hung up on something and stops for a day or so, giving me a brief respite, along with misplaced hope. It then unsticks itself and resumes its rhythmic passage through my heater duct. Drives me nuts.
Somebody mentioned squished-up TV pictures to fit in advertising?
I don’t see that very often, so it doesn’t bother me too much.
What I do see with increasing frequency is the animated “bug” in the corner of the screen. Used to be that the bug was simply a network identifier to prevent rogue networks from rebroadcasting stolen feeds. Nowadays, every time I turn on a program on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel, I get to watch silly little animations dancing around on the bottom of the screen while I am trying to enjoy the content that should already be paid for by the mind-numbing commercials in-between.
I was particularly annoyed last night when I was watching American Chopper and they were showing off a particularly well-painted gas tank, with lots of “oohs” and “aahs” – but the stupid cute animation advertising some other show was completely covering the gas tank on the screen. I hope this trend doesn’t continue to the point where we see advertisers products dancing around on the edges of our screens, like an ugly web page from 1996.
I agree. I’m a backer-inner, too, and I can do it in one pass. I often see people pulling head-first into spaces and it takes them several passes to get in straight, so it not just those who back in, either.
My parking lot pet peeve are people who walk to their car right down the middle of the lane. Do they not realize people are driving? Get outta the way! Move to one side, moron!
Loud gum chewers. Yuck. That constant “smack, smack, snap, slurp” just makes me sick.
This one will probably get me in trouble: People who wear their watches with the face turned in toward the inside of the wrist. Yeah, I know, it doesn’t affect me at all. But it really bothers me. I want to run over and turn it around so the watch face is on the top of their wrist. It’s backwards! Turn it around! Doesn’t it annouy them? That would drive me nuts.
More phone message crap: people who speak clearly about everything in their message except their name and number. I had an woman call and leave me a message once who, I swear to God, left an hourlong message that referred to a possible job, but I couldn’t understand her name and number. So, I had to call the company’s main switchboard and look like an idiot, saying, “umm…somebody called, but I don’t know who.” Which brings me to:
People who put their name/number at the end of phone messages. In the above case, I had to torment myself endlessly by playing the message over and over, waiting and waiting, feeling my hair turn gray, until the message got to the point where the name/number was, which I promptly couldn’t understand yet again. Put you name/number at the front of the message!
Another thing that aggravates me is people who are cluelessly in the way. Left lane drivers who won’t move the hell over. You can bet those people are conscientious about cleaning the moss growing on their gas pedal and the stains on their good eatin’ teeth, but why can’t they get out of my way? Right lane slowpokes clogging the right lane, and who won’t do drivers entering the highway a favor by moving over so that they can merge onto the main highway. People who clog hallways/stairs/grocery aisles by walking slowly and stopping suddenly. People at fast food places with self-service soda taps who stand right in front of the machine, instead of off to the side, so that only one person can use the machine. Why don’t these people seem to know how aggravating they are? Isn’t it obvious? Why aren’t they ashamed of their indolence and stupidity? For that matter, why aren’t they in a hurray? They don’t all look retired.
How about people who get into their parked car in a crowded parking lot (while you are waiting for their space) and have to adjust every goddamn thing in their car before starting it and pulling out. None of that stuff moved while they were out. WTF? Mirrors, seats, mirrors again because moving the seats throws off the mirrors, seatbelts, better turn on them headlights, it’ll be dark in 6 hours…
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I’m afraid to say that there is a particular breed of vicious persons out there in the wilds of the parking lots who do this on purpose.
Shocking, but true.
I had an acquantance who cheerfully admitted that whenever he saw anybody waiting for his parking place, he would take his own sweet time, sometimes just sitting there for many minutes until the other driver finally left.
I dispise folks who go out of their way to be irritating to others.
People that say stripe-ed. It is striped…no ed at the end, gosh darnit.
Also people that say warshed when they mean washed…there is nooooooooooooo r gosh doogely darn it and a half.
That is all.
Qburn mentioned celebrity worship. Good one! It always amazes me that people care about this dreck. There might be three famous people on the planet that I give two shits about and by give two shits, I do not mean I really want to hear about their day to day lives. I have my own, thanks.
Lateness.
People who call you on the phone and tell you long stories that end, “So that’s why I need your fax number.” Just ask for what you need, I don’t care why you need it!
This is going to make me sound like such a heartless bitch, but I can’t stand loud obnoxious sneezing. Being a pretty quiet sneezer, I can’t understand people who feel the need to put their whole voice into it and practically yell it out. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I don’t like when people do the silent sneeze thing, then add a little spoken “choo” at the end. WTF is that???
Not a peeve,but I’m amazed when I see one of those silent sneezes.Looks like it would blow your eardrums out,or you really didn’t need to sneeze.( I can stifle some at times but when a biggie hits that force can propel me across the room ) :o
I usually try to quell my sneezes, otherwise they are quite productive.
I know, WAYYYYY TMI. :eek: choo
Yah that seems strange to me too. Not so much an annoyance as a “why would anybody do this?” type thing.
It annoys me when people say “bless you” when I, or anyone else sneezes. This also applies to people who expect be to say it when they sneeze. You don’t say “bless you”, when I blink, breath, cough or take a dump, do ya? They’re all bodily functions, so why not?
People who say “recommend me a …” Some verbs just need the word ‘to’ with them. You do not say ‘Drive me a bank’ or ‘Fly me Mexico.’
I can recommend you to someone. I can recommend you for something, say a job at the fast food joint. But I cannot recommend you a book. I can recommend a book to you.
It is, as the OP states, a little thing that annoys the crap out of me. Of course, as I always say, if this is the worst thing that happens to me all day, then my life isn’t so bad.