# Little things that bug you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187 "2015-04-21T14:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/61 "2015-04-22T05:43:40Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Smokers who leave their bar seats to smoke outside for long periods of time, wasting bar seats that could be used for someone else. OK, I’m trying to get the logic of this one. If they weren’t smokers, they would presumably stay on their seats the whole time instead of going outside. What do you mean by “could be used for someone else”? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/62 "2015-04-22T06:31:49Z")
People who don’t know the difference between “its” and “it’s”. It’s not rocket surgery. People who don’t know the difference between “I”, “me” and “myself”. People who use quote marks for emphasis. People who write “no one” as one word. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/63 "2015-04-22T08:29:52Z")
Other people bug me. Every damned one of them. I guess that’s not a little thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/64 "2015-04-22T10:10:44Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Just as tasteless IMHO is when schools plant a wrecked car in front of the school on Prom Week. Surely there’s more tasteful ways to get home the message of the ills of drunk driving to teens. Reminds me of an annoying announcement at a high school I heard over the PA about the prom trip. “You can only board the bus if you have milk breath.” I had never heard the phrase before, so I assumed it meant you had to be alcohol-free. Then they repeated the phrase slowly: “_ **Milk. Breath** _.” Then I adjusted my perception “Gee! They really emphasized the milk in that! It must mean something different than alcohol! Do you have to literally spritz your mouth with milk or what?” Actually, googling this doesn’t make it any clearer. Maybe it was a local phrase that meant non-alcoholic breath back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/65 "2015-04-22T11:20:36Z")
The woman I work with who drags her feet. Pick up your damn feet! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/66 "2015-04-22T11:57:26Z")
Websites that pop up “subscribe to us now!” as soon as you arrive. I don’t even know what site this is, I just want to read the article somebody linked to! And why would I subscribe to a site that behaves so obnoxiously? Argh! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/67 "2015-04-22T12:20:48Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > MS Word will correct you if you spell it _judgement_ (as I’ve been doing for the past 30-odd years). :mad::mad: Mr. Webster declares for judgment; judgement, judgment being listed first as the prferred spelling. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/68 "2015-04-22T12:27:27Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > People saying the name of a restaurant to represent food from that restaurant kinda bugs me. You ate food from Taco Bell. You didn’t eat Taco Bell. You didn’t eat an entire restaurant. I dunno, have you _seen_ people who eat at Taco Bell a lot? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/69 "2015-04-22T13:02:42Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Road construction crews that dig a big hole in the middle of some city street, put up barricades around it, and then…leave it for 4 months with no work whatsoever being done on it or anywhere near it. WTMF is that about? :mad:😕:mad: I believe that a contractor can have several jobs in progress, and get paid for them, with too few workers to work on them all. Work a couple of weeks on Pine street, move everyone to the Cedar street job for three weeks, move everyone to the Harrison street job for a couple, and then back to Pine, making money for all of them at the same time. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/70 "2015-04-22T13:10:49Z")
I He gave the book to Tom and I. She invited Mary and I to the party. I always want to scream it’s ME ME ME! The latest that bugs me though is getting calls from a bill collector for whoever had my phone number before I got it. They always say the message is for so and so and if I am not so and so I MUST hangup immediately. I am NOT to listen to the message. Well excuse the crap out of me but you call _my_ phone and think you can tell _me_ NOT to listen to the message? What are you going to do? Have me arrested? Sue me? Don’t tell me what to do with my property, it’s my phone and I’ll listen if I want to. ---
**Author:** ![Fossil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@Fossil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fossil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/71 "2015-04-22T13:59:14Z")
People who say “I could care less”. I want to take them by the shoulders and tell them its couldn’t ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/72 "2015-04-22T14:43:45Z")
Reading the comments section on any article. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Cutesy little advice signs, live love laugh, life is not measured by…stfu! How much time I spend in line at Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/73 "2015-04-22T15:04:26Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Road construction crews that dig a big hole in the middle of some city street, put up barricades around it, and then…leave it for 4 months with no work whatsoever being done on it or anywhere near it. WTMF is that about? :mad:😕:mad: I always assumed it was due to passing the job off among agencies. Hole digging crew digs the hole, now the project is passed off to the underground gas pipe fixing crew who is still working on the Elm Street project. Then when they fix the pipe, the hole digging crew is scheduled to come back, but their schedule is booked until June so the hole sits blocking traffic for 2 months. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/74 "2015-04-22T15:12:51Z")
People who mispronounce mischievous. There’s no freaking I after the V, people!!! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/75 "2015-04-22T15:20:25Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > That’s just regular, everyday [metonymy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy). The White House didn’t announce a decision on this or that, either. It was a probably the people working there. And I probably didn’t buy a new set of wheels. Most likely, I actually bought the whole car. > > I mean, you’re allowed to be bugged by it. But it’s a perfectly normal way to use language. You bought a new set of wheels, then bought a new set of wheels for your new set of wheels. [Sidebar] Did anyone see the vanishing post last night? I was composing the Godzilla comic post and in the space below, there was a post (I didn’t catch who it was from) declaring his/her hatred for the word “stabby.” I AM NOT CRAZY! Maybe a little bit.[Sidebar] ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/76 "2015-04-22T16:00:51Z")
**Linguistic hypercorrections.** Like when someone complains about the term _football_ to mean the American variety: “It should be called a handball, ha ha!”. The [etymology section in the Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)#Etymology) debunks this in the first couple of sentences, but why spoil a good rant? :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > Although the accepted etymology of the word football, or “foot ball”, originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. An alternative explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. Even more egregiously, a colleague mocked the usage of the word _issue_ to mean offspring, e.g., in the phrase “died without issue”. “Ha ha, what does it even mean? That they died without any problems?” :smack: Apparently, he has encountered the word only in the context of customer issues (for example). In his defence, apparently the usage is [steadily dying](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=die+without+issue&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdie%20without%20issue%3B%2Cc0). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/77 "2015-04-22T16:14:38Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Road construction crews that dig a big hole in the middle of some city street, put up barricades around it, and then…leave it for 4 months with no work whatsoever being done on it or anywhere near it. WTMF is that about? :mad:😕:mad: Heh. I HATE it when they leave up the lane closed merge stuff when the lane is not actually closed any more. I actually pay attention to those signs. Should be a stiff fine for leaving those signs up when they don’t apply, say when work is over for the weekend, and the lane is open again. They pick up the cones and barriors, but leave up the signs. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/78 "2015-04-22T16:21:14Z")
Food being labeled healthy/unhealthy. First, and most mild, by the time of the eat/noeat decision making cycle food is dead or facing serious health risk when I cram it in my belly. Second the binary labeling at the individual food level obscures overall dietary issues and makes me think of the picky eaters thread. Kale may be awesome but I could eat a huge chunk of it and still have serious dietary issues. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/79 "2015-04-22T18:22:39Z")
With the topic of roadside memorials, the ones where a small child has died and there are old soggy, moldy stuffed animals nailed to a wooden utility post for months on end. It’s sad enough a child has died, but absorbent cotton material in the shape of Spongebob Squarepants left out in the rain is even more depressing. Similar to that, on the news recently, they filmed the front of a house where a family was murdered. Behind the reporter, you see bereaved neighbors laying stuffed animals on their front porch. Yes, everyone grieves in their own way, but someone from the suffering family is going to have to clean all those up eventually. Personally, i think some of them just want to be on camera looking like the concerned and caring neighbor. Seriously, if a neighbor has suffered a major loss, cut their grass, take in their mail, offer to care for their pets, make a monetary donation. Don’t bother with water logged stuffed animals. It’s just a hassle in my opinion. This is just one of thousands of things that bug me on a daily basis and make me the crabby person that i am. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bug-you/718187/80 "2015-04-22T18:34:10Z")
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