# Really mundane stuff that shits you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578 "2013-04-13T06:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/21 "2013-04-15T00:17:12Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Idiots who walk slowly in the hallways and leave no space for passing when I am in a hurry. I usually walk fast, but if I do happen to be walking slow, I stay to the far-right leaving plenty of passing space, just like when you drive the speed limit or less, you drive in the right lane. When I was in college, it wasn’t the people who walked slowly that bugged me, it was the ones who walked slowly and at an angle so I couldn’t get around them that bugged me. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/22 "2013-04-15T02:52:26Z")
People who just stop in the middle of a walkway. Seriously, you were just walking along, you don’t think there might be someone right behind you, also walking along??? Pull over to the side numbnuts, then apply the brakes! Special mention re: ramps at train stations. There’s a good 200 people pouring up or down that ramp right behind you. If you need to stare at the platform display for half an hour to make sense of things, move aside first, then gaze uncomprehendingly at the pretty scrolling words. I can’t decide if it’s a lack of awareness of their surroundings (i.e, a lack of a brain), or if they just do not give a shit about anyone else and the world exists for them, so no need to think of others, since they don’t matter (i.e, a lack of courtesy). Maybe it’s both ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/23 "2013-04-15T03:13:00Z")
> [@Essured](#): > > People who just stop in the middle of a walkway. Seriously, you were just walking along, you don’t think there might be someone right behind you, also walking along??? Pull over to the side numbnuts, then apply the brakes! > > Special mention re: ramps at train stations. There’s a good 200 people pouring up or down that ramp right behind you. If you need to stare at the platform display for half an hour to make sense of things, move aside first, then gaze uncomprehendingly at the pretty scrolling words. > > I can’t decide if it’s a lack of awareness of their surroundings (i.e, a lack of a brain), or if they just do not give a shit about anyone else and the world exists for them, so no need to think of others, since they don’t matter (i.e, a lack of courtesy). Maybe it’s both My husband does this. For him, it’s mostly a lack of awareness. When I’m with him, I usually have to (figuratively) hit him over the head. “Hey, Buster, you are blocking the ENTIRE AISLE, and there are people here who would like to finish their shopping and go home”, followed by a sincere apology on his part. He really doesn’t mean to inconvenience anyone, but my Og, it seems that he can’t wrap his head around the fact that if he’s annoyed when other people do it, then quite probably other people are annoyed when he does it. It’s like his brain can only manage one train of thought at a time, and if he has to talk to me, or decide which brand of beans to buy, he can’t move out of other people’s way. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/24 "2013-04-15T05:37:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > There are some people in my neighbourhood who pulse their gas pedals for no reason when driving along - RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr RRRrrrrr - I want to run out to them and drag them out of the driver’s side window and start punching them in the head. Don’t know if this is the same thing, but I do rev the engine sometimes at people. Standard transmission, Mustang GT. I usually do it as a slightly gentler alternative to a honk - as in, there’s a green left-turn light, you’re taking a bit long to see it. Please, look up from your phone and move that thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fossil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@Fossil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fossil)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/25 "2013-04-15T05:47:20Z")
People who whistle, I don’t like superfluous, noise particularly body function noises such as sniffing and loud chewing and swallowing, but whistlers have NO excuse for it! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/26 "2013-04-15T11:05:00Z")
I start to twitch and melt down when I see professionally produced signs with spelling and/or punctuation errors. Seems to me if your job is to help others to advertise their business, it would be a point of pride that it be done correctly. Is it really a big deal when a client comes in and says they want a sign that says _Two “large” boxes for the price of “one”_ for you to point out that they might want to emboldenate or italicate rather than “quote” for emphasitical purposes?? Would a client be insulted if you assured him that the apostrophe doesn’t belong in a plural? Of course, I’m assuming the sign maker is just doing what the client asks for and not that said sign maker is equally stoopit… faulty assumption, I know. The one that I had to fight not to laugh at - we were at a motorcycle show recently and this big, bad motorcycle gang was walking around sporting patches declaring them to be _Pagan’s_ - yeah, guys, you’re so bad-ass, you don’t care about that spelling thing. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/27 "2013-04-15T11:46:52Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Fills me with the urge to strangle them while repeating BLOW…YOUR…NOSE. …but not in front of me, especially while I’m eating. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/28 "2013-04-15T15:21:54Z")
Another little thing that annoys me out of all proportion, and I’ve mentioned it before, is when I see ‘‘every day’’ spelled as ‘‘everyday.’’ About 2% of the English-speaking Internet population knows when to use ‘‘every day’’ and when to use ‘‘everyday.’’ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/29 "2013-04-15T15:30:08Z")
I love my husband, and it’s nice sometimes to go to the grocery store with him, but he WILL NOT LEAVE THE CART. Wherever I go, whatever I do, he’s right behind me with the cart. Like, you don’t go through the whole produce section with a cart! Park that shit! But he is determined. This is his cart. There are others like it but this is his. And he is not leaving it ANYWHERE. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/30 "2013-04-15T15:35:48Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > People who don’t the proper way to close a door. > > You twist the handle, close the door, then release the handle. > Quiet, just a tiny click, instead of a SLAM! > > . Especially people who let the door slam in hotel rooms. I was going to say “very early in the morning,” but really anytime. People should assume some rooms are occupied by people trying to sleep and not make a whole lot of unnecessary noise in the hallway. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/31 "2013-04-15T16:08:39Z")
People who enter a doorwayat a store, restaurant, etc.,…and stop. I see this behavior all the time, everywhere I go. It’s like a genetic disposition to stop just inside a doorway and – actually, I don’t know what. Or why. They just stop. Um, there are likely other people behind you trying to enter the door. At least go in enough far enough that others can move by while you do whatever it is you do just inside a door. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The one that I had to fight not to laugh at - we were at a motorcycle show recently and this big, bad motorcycle gang was walking around sporting patches declaring them to be Pagan’s - yeah, guys, you’re so bad-ass, you don’t care about that spelling thing. Obviously, they all belonged to the Pagan. There is only one, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/32 "2013-04-15T17:01:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > \ > My turn. I don’t know why, but for some reason it always bugs me when people gesticulate…out their car window. I don’t know why, there’s no reason for it, but for some reason it always bugs me when the person in front of me is gesticulating so wildly that their left arm keeps flying out the driver’s side window while they’re talking to the passenger. I have an idea why that might bother you - because arms sticking out the left side of a car are supposed to be for hand signals. If I see someone sticking their arm out of the driver’s side window, I’m going to wonder if they are trying to do a hand signal, or just drying their nail polish. Either way, it’s diverting my attention from the rest of my driving. > [@GameHat](#): > > Don’t know if this is the same thing, but I do rev the engine sometimes at people. Standard transmission, Mustang GT. I usually do it as a slightly gentler alternative to a honk - as in, there’s a green left-turn light, you’re taking a bit long to see it. Please, look up from your phone and move that thing. 😃 Nope, that’s not the same - these people are pulsing the gas like you would at a stop light, except they’re doing it repeatedly, driving down the street. Every 50 feet - RRRrrrrr, RRRrrrrr. Either their vehicle is working very badly, or they are driving very badly - my money’s on the second. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/33 "2013-04-15T17:06:51Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Obviously, they all belonged to the Pagan. There is only one, you know. Of course! How silly of me not to realize that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XRaeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f14d63/32.png) [@XRaeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XRaeth)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/34 "2013-04-16T03:03:07Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > People who sniff instead of blow their nose. > Sniff sniff sniff It makes me queasy to hear that snot going back up your nose and probably down your throat. It’s not our fault. When you have allergies you can’t stop every 30 goddamn seconds to blow your nose. Not to mention how sore your nose would be after a day of that :(. Also I’m sure you would be delighted to know that plenty of mucus naturally drains down the back of your throat every day whether you sniff or not. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/35 "2013-04-16T03:16:30Z")
I’m not even sure why this bothers me so much, but it’s people that park right in front of a store, in the fire lane. I see it all the time, much more so now that I’ve moved to the south. I see empty cars, and cars with the driver still in them, waiting for the passenger to come back. I guess the drivers think that if they’re still in the car, then they’re not really “parked” so it’s okay. A couple weeks ago I saw an on-duty firemen go up to one of these dimwits and ask them to move (there was no emergency, he just didn’t want them to park there) and it was very satisfying to me. Seriously, how much hubris do you have to have in order to park right under a sign that says “No Parking”?? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/36 "2013-04-16T03:52:07Z")
It annoys me to no end when I am wheeling myself down a hallway, aisle or other walk-way and I approach another person walking the opposite direction who, despite being _nowhere_ near me as we pass each other, can’t help but to “scoot” themselves laterally; as if they just avoided a sure collision with the oblivious handicapped guy. It happens _all-the-freakin’-time._ ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/37 "2013-04-16T04:13:47Z")
I can’t stand it when people just stop their cars in the aisle waiting for someone nearby to leave so they can get the parking space. Not only is this a passive, cowardly, un-american way of acquiring parking spaces, it also clogs up the aisles for the more proactive parking space hunters (me). When you are looking for a parking space, you don’t want to be some sessile road barnacle; you want to be like a shark. Because sharks never look back, because they don’t have necks 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/38 "2013-04-16T04:59:43Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > I can’t stand it when people just stop their cars in the aisle waiting for someone nearby to leave so they can get the parking space. Not only is this a passive, cowardly, un-american way of acquiring parking spaces, it also clogs up the aisles for the more proactive parking space hunters (me). > > When you are looking for a parking space, you don’t want to be some sessile road barnacle; you want to be like a shark. Because sharks never look back, because they don’t have necks 🆒 With much annoyance, I sadly conclude that you are wrong about this. Getting into the _absolutely totally indisputably uncontrovertibly closest parking space_ is _the_ all-time greatest all-time all-American activity. Major-league baseball and NFL are but distant runners-up. And as a matter of fact, I think those all-American drivers do, indeed, _want_ to become sessile road barnacles, as they are wont to do. (I’m referring mainly to activities in a parking lot. Finding parking spaces on the street is a similar goal, but with a slightly different dynamic, I think.) Ferchrisfuckingsake, just keep driving and take the first open space you get! There’s usually one within a reasonable day’s walking distance! Often just one aisle farther away! Are Americans so plumb fat-ass lazy that they can’t be arsed to walk a few car-lengths farther? Yes, I think we are. Myself, I’m so totally ungregarious that I generally park in some distant corner of the lot anyway. Even my car doesn’t like to be parked next to other cars in the lot, without being properly introduced. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/39 "2013-04-16T05:01:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > \< Entire text of above parking-lot rant accidently quoted in full here. \> ETA: I also wanted to ask: Is this really a uniquely American thing? Do drivers in other lands also act like this when seeking a parking space in a lot? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578/40 "2013-04-16T05:21:30Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I’m not even sure why this bothers me so much, but it’s people that park right in front of a store, in the fire lane. I see it all the time, much more so now that I’ve moved to the south. I see empty cars, and cars with the driver still in them, waiting for the passenger to come back. I guess the drivers think that if they’re still in the car, then they’re not really “parked” so it’s okay. A couple weeks ago I saw an on-duty firemen go up to one of these dimwits and ask them to move (there was no emergency, he just didn’t want them to park there) and it was very satisfying to me. Seriously, how much hubris do you have to have in order to park right under a sign that says “No Parking”?? That is very common here, too - if I went to my local Safeway or Superstore tomorrow, I can guarantee you that there would be one or probably two cars parked in the “NO PARKING FIRE LANE.” I also hate it - staying in your car (or your passenger staying in the car) does not equal not parking. Drive 20 more feet and park in a proper parking space, jackass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-stuff-that-shits-you/655578.md?page=3)