Perfume/cologne bugs me the most. I’d rather smell a smoker anyday than someone with a lot of perfume. Not that I really want to smell smokers, but that strong perfumy scent is about a billion times worse. Do you bathe regularly and use soap? Do you put on deoderant? THEN YOU DON’T NEED PERFUME! Attenttion ladies – guys don’t care if you smell like flowers, so cut it out! Attention men, it’s even more ridiculous for you!
Also bad. When I’m in a movie theater, there’s hardly anyone in there but me, then someone comes in and sits directly one seat in front of me. THERE’RE ABOUT A BAZILLION EMPTY SEATS WHY MUST YOU SIT SO CLOSE TO ME AND PARTIALLY OBSTRUCT MY VIEW!?!?!?!? I mean, it’s one thing if the theater is packed, but please, buffer zone, people!
Even worse, the person in the theater is wearing FRICKING STRONG PERFUME/COLOGNE!!! ARGGH I WANT TO STRANGLE YOU!
Well, I never say anything to people wearing stinky perfume, I mean what am I gonna say that’s not just gonna make a bad situation? “Hey stinky, go wash that stink off, you bother my nose!” So if the theater’s not full, I’ll move, if it is, I’ll try to breathe through my mouth for the duration of the movie and be miserable doing it.
People who bring babies to movie theatres and it’s not a kids movie!!!
GET A BABYSITTER!!! Your fellow theatre goers paid the $8.75 too, and would like to watch the ENTIRE movie without a crying baby.
And NO, it doesn’t count if he’s sleeping when the movie starts and only wakes up toward the end. And he fusses and cries, but you give him “a chance” to settle down (so here we are trying to watch the end, and not only is the baby crying but the mom is bustling around making annoying “soothing” noises), and then you finally get up and take him out of the theatre with him crying and fussing the whole way!!
It’s rude and inconsiderate to your fellow theatre goers, and it’s mean to your baby.
If you ABSOLUTELY have no one, and are that broke, and MUST see the movie then for PETE SAKE have mercy on your poor child and your fellow citizens, and go see it during an early showing, NOT one that let’s out at 11:30 pm.
YES!!! Oh GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, I used to live in an apartment building where someone in the next building over used to do that. I didn’t have to be up until later in the morning, but this guy would pick up his friend at 7am and blow the horn for 10 minutes until his friend came out. (oh yeah, and WITH the stupid rap bass going too).
I finally got up early one morning and watched which apartment the guy came out of, and went and complained to the apartment manager.
Who said anything about hate? The thread is about annoying things, not things you hate. I don’t hate you, Dave. I pity you. Is that better?
My poli sci teacher in college comes out with this gem. “Everyone in Canada should learn French to make them feel more included”. He even said we should make a new language that combined the two together, Frenglish or something equally stupid. Just because our largest trading partners, the US, speak almost exclusively English was irrelevent I guess. I said in response that there are millions of people in the world that speak English. There is not a chance that I could meet everyone of them, so why would I waste time better spent learning something important on a dead language like French just so I could speak to someone so ignorant as not to learn English in North America. Yeah, not very tolerent, but there ya go. It was a long time ago.
Now Dave there are many people out there that are stinky and there are many more who are not. You only have one chance at making a good impression on someone and if your odour arrives before you do what do you think that impression will be? But, then maybe you don’t want to get to know them better either, right?
TBG, I agree with you about theatres. Also, parking lots. Anyone notice how cars get clumped together? I purposely park out of the way at the far end of lots because I don’t want people opening doors, or ramming their buggies, against my car. Yet, I inevitably come out of the store to see some old beater parked right next to me when there are oodles of empty spaces all over the place. I know people must be thinking when they pull in, “Wow! I’ve never seen such a perfect parking job. I’ll park right next to him, so that people will think we are best buds. Maybe I’ll get the girls, too”.???
Now, mind you I only wittnessed this once in my life, but I thought it was the rudest thing I ever saw in public.
While at a concert at the Florida theater, (yes I was seeing O-Town) the person in front of me, who was a girl the same age and height as myself, stood up on one of the seats in theater.
now mind you, the girl 's view was not impeded in anyway , she was in the 4th row, center. BUT NOW HER FATTASS WAS IMPEDING MY VIEW AND SHE WAS GOING TO DIE FOR THAT MISTAKE!!!.
The little old man the the flashlight,told her to get down, she did not,so I did the meanest thing I ever remember doing in my life, I started blinding her with my camera flash, and I pushed her off the chair. She was not hurt, nor did she actually fall off the chair, but she certainly stayed down forthe rest of the show. I’m not proud that I pushed her, but I’m glad she moved her ass off that chair.
I just dont understand how someones train of thought can stray THAT far from any common curtesy, the person next to me actually thanked me for getting her off the chair because she was blocking her view as well. I Payed just as much for my ticket as she did for hers, I wanted to look at Dan Miller just as much as she did,HOW DARE SHE EVER IMPEDE MY VIEW OF DAN MILLER!!!
Perhaps I was in the wrong, but i still thought it was incredibly rude.
God, Davebear, get over yourself. This is a thread about annoying behavior.
Smoking smells bad. It causes the smoker to smell bad. It is annoying to smell cigarette smoke in public, and it is annoying when smokers come into the office smelling like an ashtray.
Ummm, about babies in the theatre. I wish they’d have baby night where parents can bring infants!!! I haven’t been to a theatre for 8 months! Some theatres do, but none in my province!!
AND She won’t ‘let’ anyone babysit her. She’s quite attached to me and won’t let anyone else hold her…and noone else can nurse her, and I can’t express enough milk for a whole bottle…ughghgh…it’s harder than you can imagine!! Seeing “Die another Day” on my TV probably can’t compare to the theatre!! It sucks!
But yeah, I hate when parents bring babies…this one let her baby cry through the whole movie!!! I think everyone wanted to strangle that mom!!!
Oh! So much worse being the person on the other end. I hate when the person I’m talking to starts talking to someone else, and you’re stuck listening, cuz it’s not like you can do anything else. Even worse in long distance calls…
This one theatre in a tiny little town in which I used to live (pop. 20,000 for two little cities) had what they called a “cry room” it was a soundproofed glassed in booth at the back of the theatre with the sound piped in. What an AWESOME idea, when my son was a baby I used to go to the movies with him and my 12 year old daughter all the time.
There were only 2 or 3 seats in the room, so you had complete privacy and could nurse or whatever you needed to do with the baby without bothering anyone.
For people who really CAN’T afford to get a sitter, or whose babies won’t let anyone babysit them? Go to an early show. I don’t know about other towns, but ours start at about 11am on Sat and Sun, and there are usually very few people in the theatre at that time.
