# Stupid things that bug you, or something. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314 "2011-07-17T03:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/161 "2011-07-31T17:44:45Z")
> [@](#): > > guy in a pizza parlour near where I used to live who got arrested for masturbating with the dough :eek: ---
**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:** [July 31, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/162 "2011-07-31T18:01:43Z")
> [@YoSaffBridge](#): > > \ > Do we really need this shit? I know they have to do it, as a CYA thing, but to my way of thinking, if you’re stupid enough to think you can do a triple gainer off your balcony into your car’s sunroof, then it’s probably best that you remove yourself from the gene pool anyway. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/163 "2011-07-31T22:10:32Z")
(For the record, I’m in my early fifties myself.) Narrator on the Hartford auto insurance commercial: How long have you had your insurance policy? Upper fifties-ish guy filling up at the gas station: I don’t know, but things were sure a lot less expensive back then. With some important exceptions, that just isn’t true. The minimum wage in 1975 was about $1.90. If you made just $20K annually, you were above the 77th percentile in terms of average family income, according to [these figures](http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-110.pdf) (table 1a, page 9). From the same source, if you earned $25K annually you were in the top 16%. Sure things were cheaper, but that’s largely offset by the fact that most people earned far less money in nominal terms. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/164 "2011-07-31T22:26:02Z")
For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno… ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/165 "2011-07-31T23:37:20Z")
> [@RoeCocoa](#): > > I watch a lot of videos online; from video to video, the audio levels are never consistent, even when it’s a series of videos uploaded by the same person to the same host. So I’ll start the first video, and the sound is so low I can’t even hear it. I turn the volume up and re-start the video so I can hear the part I missed. The video ends and I load the next one (or it loads automatically, which is an annoyance about half the time). Only, this video had its sound mixed at **EAR-SPLITTING LEVELS** and I scramble for the mute button. Wait for the ringing to stop. Re-adjust the volume and restart the video. And then the video after that will be too quiet again. Rinse and repeat. > > I believe this is the very definition of a first-world problem. THIS ^^^^ There is this thing called dB recording levels…NO ONE USES THEM. There is also a little thing called a compressor that can and will adjust volume levels after the fact…NO ONE PUTS THEM IN DEVICES THAT NEED THEM. Like Audio Players and Television Audio Processors…which would make the master volume a nominal level across the board. I like sleeping with the tv on…adjust volume to a whisper…then get awakened by someone screaming… HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON… HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD HEAD ON…:mad: ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/166 "2011-08-01T00:22:08Z")
Another one: if you’re going to go camping, go camping. Staying in a big ass Winnebago at a “campground” where you’ll have electricity and running water is not fucking “camping.” You may as well go stay in a fucking hotel. Get real, jackasses. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/167 "2011-08-01T01:37:53Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno… While it bugs me, too, it’s irrational that it do so. There’s a lot more visibility when backing _into_ a space than there is when backing _out_ of one. I was about to say that although I drive a large truck at home, I never back into spots, but then I realized that I actually did so for about a year and a half when I lived in Mexico City. My company car was an extra-long Expedition, and it had to fit into a tiny, subterranean parking lot parking space. Much easier to back in than out. So I guess it only bugs me when I see _other people_ do it! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/168 "2011-08-01T02:30:23Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > While it bugs me, too, it’s irrational that it do so. There’s a lot more visibility when backing _into_ a space than there is when backing _out_ of one. > > I was about to say that although I drive a large truck at home, I never back into spots, but then I realized that I actually did so for about a year and a half when I lived in Mexico City. My company car was an extra-long Expedition, and it had to fit into a tiny, subterranean parking lot parking space. Much easier to back in than out. So I guess it only bugs me when I see _other people_ do it! :smack: It’s also a winter thing. If you’ve ever needed a jumpstart and parked head-in somewhere, you find out you never want to have to physically push your vehicle backwards to get close enough to the donor car’s battery. Especially if there’s snow. Learned that one the hard way. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/169 "2011-08-01T03:12:32Z")
> [@Parenchyma](#): > > It’s also a winter thing. If you’ve ever needed a jumpstart and parked head-in somewhere, you find out you never want to have to physically push your vehicle backwards to get close enough to the donor car’s battery. Especially if there’s snow. Learned that one the hard way. The corollary to that is places with plugins for the block heater you always drive into. Winter should just be outlawed. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/170 "2011-08-01T03:21:03Z")
It also makes it a lot easier to leave if there is a crowd, like after a concert. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/171 "2011-08-01T04:20:28Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Soft water. You never, ever feel like you’ve really rinsed off. (And suds are left in the sink etc.) I want hard water so when I rinse my skin almost squeeks. Argharghargh yes. It’s bad enough that my skin feels all slippery, but it bugs the everloving SHIT out of me when I can’t get my hair feeling rinsed. It’s not that bad now that I have short hair, but when it was longer, I’d sometimes climb out of the shower only to find that I hadn’t washed out all of my conditioner. Soft water made it even harder to tell, and it drove me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/172 "2011-08-01T14:44:35Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno… I do this, because when pulling out of the space, it’s far easier to check for traffic which has the right of way. Backing in, when done in a single motion, is simple. Backing out of a space, usually leaves me blind to perpendicular traffic for a while, especially if there are vehicles parked on either side of me. This means I have to inch slowly, and almost always, people will fail to care, and fly by, anyway. Though along the same lines, I don’t like when people take 4-5 attempts to back into their space, if they’re going to do it. That makes it no more efficient than just pulling in forward (which also seems difficult for people to do). So I guess I’ll just chalk it up to bad parking that annoys me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/173 "2011-08-01T15:17:20Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > And, lastly…_don’t touch my fucking screen!!!_ Ahhhh! You can very easily point to something on the screen without having to touch it. If I leave my desk for a few minutes, I am certain to come back and find a post-it about missed phone messages stuck _right in the center of the damn screen_! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/174 "2011-08-01T16:23:35Z")
> [@eddiec3434](#): > > Yeah, I wish I had a portable bio-hazard suit for public facilities. Im a non-paranoid germ a phobe. If there are papertowels available, use the fuck out of them. When opening doors, try to reach the top of the door and pull. Avoid handles. Learn the art of using elbows and feet to navigate through public restrooms, elevators and door handles. They should have haz-mat teams with those portable showers posted near the exits. “Showers…Showers here…Get your showers here!” What drives me nuts are public restrooms with doors that open inward, and air hand dryers only. That means if you want to avoid touching the door handle on your way out, it’s a choice between grabbing toilet paper from the stall, or waiting for someone to open the door on their way in. Less annoying but still irksome - public restrooms with paper towels available, but inward opening doors and no trash receptacles anywhere near the door.. In those, it’s a choice between throwing the paper towel in the general direction of the faraway receptacle after opening the door, or keeping the paper towel for disposal elsewhere - except that places without a convenient receptacle inside the bathroom tend not to have them elsewhere, either. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/175 "2011-08-01T16:27:39Z")
For some reason it really bugged me the other day when I asked for Fritos to go with my Togos sandwich and the counter person had no idea what I was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/176 "2011-08-01T16:35:13Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Things like listing ‘and love’ on the end of the ingredient list- just makes me think of the guy in a pizza parlour near where I used to live who **got arrested for masturbating with the dough.** This is why I never order sausage pizza. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/177 "2011-08-01T18:31:14Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno… I used to work in a building that was shared with a Sheriff’s office, and you could tell pretty easily which cars in the lot belonged to the cops - they were all backed in. Their personal vehicles, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/178 "2011-08-01T18:44:37Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I used to work in a building that was shared with a Sheriff’s office, and you could tell pretty easily which cars in the lot belonged to the cops - they were all backed in. Their personal vehicles, mind you. It’s about a quick exit and planning ahead, going to a little trouble now to save trouble later. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/179 "2011-08-01T20:11:32Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Argharghargh yes. It’s bad enough that my skin feels all slippery, but it bugs the everloving SHIT out of me when I can’t get my hair feeling rinsed. It’s not that bad now that I have short hair, but when it was longer, I’d sometimes climb out of the shower only to find that I hadn’t washed out all of my conditioner. Soft water made it even harder to tell, and it drove me nuts. We come from a place with very hard water, and when we drove over to Chicago, we ran into places with soft water. It freaked us right the hell out - why are the soap and shampoo acting like THIS?!? How do you know when to stop rinsing? AGH! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314/180 "2011-08-01T20:17:50Z")
> [@stegon66](#): > > For some reason it really bugs me when people drive their vehicles (usually large pick-ups) backwards into parking spaces, presumably so they can pull out without having to look behind them. But then they’re doing just that backing up into the space. What’s the point? Quick getaway perhaps? I dunno… I don’t drive a big vehicle, but I often do this. IMO it’s a lot safer. Particularly if the space is against a wall or similar barrier in a garage, there’s very little possibility of pedestrians crossing your path as you back in. Contrast that with having to back out when you leave, when every imaginable pedestrian that you want to avoid hitting may be passing by–families with little ones in tow, moms with strollers, small kids momentarily free of their parent’s restraints and running around. You get the picture. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-that-bug-you-or-something/589314.md?page=10)