I don’t know why, but people who eat with their cutlery the wrong way round (in the UK, at least, I realise people elsewhere might use it differently). It’s especially bad at work (I’m a waiter) when I see someone with their fork in their right hand and the knife in the left, completely at odds to the other people on the table!
People who can’t spell. And I don’t mean people misspelling by dropping a letter, maybe spelling misspelling as mispelling for example, but when the word is completely fucking different, like it’s been spelt phonetically or something.
Letting people who can’t spell write memo’s that will be plastered all over the staff areas of the hotel I work at. I go around correcting them.
People who are too uptight. Just smile, just once, please!
People who have to be repeatedly told to do something, or ask me the same question twice.
People who won’t try and learn to do something by trial and error. Especially when it doesn’t matter if you get it wrong.
People who get offended at jokes, regardless of how bad taste it is, it is still a joke. Especially new parents suddenly deciding paedophile jokes are bad, when they would have laughed at them before.
What if they are just abiding by the law? Is that O.K. to you?
How unfair! Left-handed people are human, too.
Smokers who smoke are perfectly aware of the risks involved, much like a skydiver who skydives is aware of the dangers. It isn’t a moral issue, so why judge someone for it?
I do dislike smokers who blow smoke in your face after you tell them you don’t like them smoking near them, not because of a moral issue, but because you have asthma. Thank you, pals. :rolleyes:
Grown people who gush over a celebrity, especially if they start off by saying “Oh my God, [blank] is SOOO hot!” A flap drops over my ears when someone talks like this. Don’t know why exactly. It just pisses me off.
People who can’t go five minutes without checking their phone.
People who buy Blackberries when they don’t even know how to use a regular desktop computer and have never logged onto the email account they’ve been paying for for 10 years. My mother is the latest example of this insanity.
People who can’t see that they exhibit the exact behavior they constantly complain about. A coworker likes to talk about how self-centered another coworker is, about how awful it is that she only talks about herself. This is very true. The coworker does talk about herself a lot, often in TMI detail. But the other one, the complainer, is just as guilty. She’s always talking about her wedding, her fiance, her wedding, personal work drama, and her wedding! I swear, if I have to hear about her wedding one more time, I’m going to wring her neck. I don’t understand how people can lack so much self-awareness.
Although I try not to let these affect how I treat a person, I find myself thinking less of someone if:
-they have facial piercings beyond a discreet nose stud, especially the multiple ones that look like the victims of explosions at a nut & bolt factory.
-they have bright unnatural hair colouring.
-they have menacing looking tattoos that suggest how mean and tough they are.
-they like rap, especially if they are careful to roll down their car windows and blare it out so everyone can take note. You deserve your profiling traffic stop, punk, not to mention your hearing loss, if you live that long.
On a similar note, I judge grown people (mostly women) who collect movies just because a certain actor is in them. When I hear someone going on about how such and such a movie just came out on DVD and they’re going to go buy it right away so that they will have the complete Pierce Brosnan collection, I think, “What are you, twelve?”
Which leads me to: I judge people who have a massive wall of crap movies. I know so many people who will just go out and buy some crap DVD they have never seen and then add it to their wall of mediocre film. When I am asked if I want to borrow a move, there is not a single DVD on the shelf that is worth seeing. I look at their hundreds and hundreds of movies filling all the bookcases of their house and think of all that money wasted. At $15-20 per DVD, that’s thousands of dollars spent on crap.
People who don’t turn the headlights on when at dusk. People, they are not so you can see, it is so other drivers can see you.
My neighbor, who does not mow or weedeat her portion of the easement, in my backyard. I do as much as I can with my lawnmower, but I am not weedeating against her fence.
Same neighbor, who lives in a small house (~1200 sq ft) and has at least 7 large dogs. (Labs and similar). I can’t tell how many dogs there are, the fence is a privacy fence.
Young unwed mothers w/ multiple kids. I can understand one maybe two mistakes, but geez, 3 or 4 times?
People that walk and/or run for exercise, but have to park in the closest available spot at the grocery store.
Men with sparse, weedy-looking facial hair. Look in the mirror. Count the number of hairs within one square centimeter in the fullest part of your beard/moustache/what have you. If the number is smaller than 18, shave it off and keep it off.
Owners of noisy dogs. Also, dog owners who don’t pick up after their dog fill me with righteous outrage.
On a similar vein, people who don’t clean their hair out of the bathroom drain after they shower. There is NO REASON the person showering after you should have to deal with ankle-deep scummy water because you can’t be bothered to take ten seconds to dispose of the hair that came off your body in the shower. See? It’s even matted together into a convenient little sodden clump for easy handling. Just do it. Please.
People who deliberately sneak up and startle me and then claim they were ‘just joking’. Call me crazy, but I do not see the humor in being panicked, scared, and then annoyed.
Practical jokers in general. Being an asshole is not funny to me, with pretty much no exceptions.
People who can’t let silence hang for more than half a second. I’d much rather not hear anything than listen to more inane blathering, thankyouverymuch.
Ticklers: It doesn’t matter if the person laughs. That is just a physiological response. For some of us it is downright torture that stops you from normal breathing. I have come close to knocking people in the face because of it.
A plethora of spelling and grammar errors annoy me, but none as much as the use of “your” when “you’re” is the correct usage. You do it, I automatically think less of you.
Management types in any store or restaurant who come over to engage me in conversation during a meal or shopping. Trust me - if there’s a problem, I’ll let you know. If not, YOU are the problem, because you are interrupting my meal or shopping!
Cars with prolife stickers (very common in my county).
I once bit someone who tickled me. I was getting desperate and told her I’d do it if she didn’t stop - predictably, she didn’t. Couple years later she showed me the scar. I felt no remorse.
I have been grumbling about this for years on SDMB, but: Men with shaved heads. There is just something dehumanizing about taking off all your hair by choice.
People who don’t use “fewer” and “less” appropriately.
When I am walking, drivers who cheerfully wave me across the street when I already have the right of way, such as when the sign says “walk;” when the car is approaching a stop sign; or when the car is making a turn on to the street I am crossing. It is indeed surprising to me how seething I become.
