Along the same line, the double door where one side is locked but nobody bothers to put up a warning, they just let you think there’s a door for entering, and one for exiting LIKE THE SIGN SAYS. I swear I think the cashiers at Family Dollar do this just to amuse themselves.
Epic quote is epic
Something I hate the most is when I’m start saying something and somebody cuts me off. I don’t know if I’m just not aggressive enough in conversation (sounds silly) but it seems to happen to me a lot. I’ll get about a word and a half out and they for some reason decide that what they have to say is so much more important and cut me off. By the time I actually get a chance to say it it’s no longer relevant to the conversation and threes no point :>. My mother is terrible for this although I suspect it’s because she’s starting to lose her hearing and can’t hear me properly. Still annoying though.
Also I use an asterisk to make a correction if I missell something
*misspell
I haven’t noticed this, but maybe it’s a reality TV thing. Are there dramas or sitcoms that do this too?
Or when you begin to say something to someone and they interrupt you to either agree or disagree, before you’ve even made your point, based on what they anticipate your point to be. Um, hold on, you haven’t even heard what I have to say yet…settle down spaz. :dubious:
I have a new one that’s starting to bug me. It’s probably cultural, but it still drives me nuts.
When going to a restaurant, the waiter won’t take our drink order and then go away, unless we shoo him off. And then he won’t go away when we order and app, until we shoo him off. And then he doesn’t come back to see that our drinks are empty and offer us more.
If it were only one or two restaurants – including western-owned restaurants – I’d attribute it to bad service. But it seems to be universal.
I have a few coworkers who do this and really bugs me. They wear glasses. I’ll show them something. They take their glasses off to look at it. It makes think they’re faking and don’t really need glasses or something.
Because the glasses they’re wearing are likely only reading glasses, and you can’t clearly see things, like people’s faces, or a cute puppy pic, with reading glasses on. I don’t know how or why they work that way, they just do.
I wear reading glasses most of the work day. I usually take them off when I get up from my desk, but sometimes I just push them down on the tip of my nose to get up and go get coffee, get a copy, or what have you. And I always take them off when one of my coworkers is talking to me, otherwise I look as if I’m giving them this “cranky” look over the top of my glasses, not to mention their faces are a bit fuzzy.
I wear contact lenses, and only recently have started to wear over-the-counter reading glasses at a very low strength (1.0) to work on the computer or see things close up. I will often need to adjust the distance from my hand to eye (if I’m holding something) if I don’t have the reading glasses on.
It’s likely that your co-workers actually DO need the glasses that they are wearing on a daily basis, but might need to adjust based on distance and size of object. I’d assume that, rather than start with a suspicion that everyone you work with is a liar.
I hate when you’re paying with Visa or a debit card and they wait to give you the receipt and your card back together. Great. Now I have my wallet in one hand and my card & receipt in the other. I have to jiggle everything around to separate the card from the receipt so I can put the card back in its home. If you’d have just given me back my card when you were done with it I could’ve put it away first while we’re waiting for the machine to print the receipt. THEN once the receipt prints, give it to me. ARRRG!
I watch a lot of food shows, and it drives me crazy when the purported experts can’t pronounce the food they’re talking about. I’m sick of hearing about “habañero” peppers and “turbo” fish. 
My #1 pet peeve is standing in line at the concession stand when going to the movies. Inevitably, I get stuck behind people who order multiple items and want to pay for the snacks in pennies (slight exaggeration). I always have to wait at least 5 minutes to get my soda. I think from now on I’ll just load up on smuggling snacks in my large purse.
Another one - people that congregate in the worst possible places; in front of doors, intersections of aisles, pinch points, etc.
I bring reusable bags to shop for groceries and often show up to the cashier with a basket or bag filled with groceries. Inevitably I will be greeted with the bagger I loathe because he simply cannot believe that I can handle all of my groceries packed in one or two bags; I have to tell him every single time every week that I can handle it and to not underfill the bags. Yes, I know there are old people here, but when you see me walk up with a manageable amount of groceries, don’t start tossing my stuff into plastic bags because I am female. I avoid him most of the time, but somehow he comes running every fucking week to bag my groceries. I would have complained to the manager by now, but 1) I’m often not interested in staying behind to do so and 2) I feel bad for him because he seems a little slow. He still annoys the shit out of me.
Apparently I’ve been approved for the 15th year anniversary gift of Giant Metal Chickens. Thanks for the link.
I really hate when people refer to “chiPOLEtee” peppers instead of chipotle peppers.
Don’t do what the clueless lady attending HP7.5 this weekend did: she bought a fountain drink from a less expensive vendor, then smuggled it into the theater in her purse. Upon trying to get seated in the dark, she managed to whack her purse against the seat and get soda all over the inside of her purse.
Ripped cereal box tabs; every darn blessed cereal boxes I have taps are taped up so they stay closed.
Cooking show hosts constantly licking their finger to taste then wipe on the same damned spit soaked kitchen towel they wear on their waist that they wipe everything with then lovingly fondle ingredients with the same hand. All I see is spitty food and feel bad for the production crew having to eat them. Emeril used to be real bad. There seems to be way less of this going on nowadays.
You ought to be able to open public restroom doors without touching them. What’s the point of wash your hands if you can’t get out of the restroom without grabbing the door handle? If I have to I use my pinky.
I plug in the iron and somehow the cord always gets all twisted as if I had picked up the iron and turned it around and around and around, twisting the cord. Why does it do that? (the old fashioned long telephone cord on the wall phone did the same thing). I had to wrap the butt end of the cord, against the iron, with black electrical tape, the cord was so jacked up.
I hate going to the register and being asked if I want to sign up for some club card so I rack up points or save X% every time I shop there.
“No motherfucker, I just want to fucking buy this shit and get the fuck out of here!”
Extra points when I decline and they ask me if I’m sure.
“You really want me to pull a gun out on your ass, don’t you?”
I think it’s pretty much a reality TV thing.
They tell you in seven different ways what they are about to do, then they tell you what is “coming up next” and then they retell half of the story as soon as the commercial break has passed.
Between all of the “coming up next…” and “earlier we saw…” bookends around commercial breaks and the retelling of the same story five times from five different angles, I figure that an average one-hour reality TV show has about 20 minutes of original content. That is out of 41 or so minutes after commercials are cut out.
I understand that the bookends around commercials are both a defensive maneuver against channel surfers (Look what you’re going to miss if you leave us!), and an offensive maneuver to capture surfers from other places (Let us bring you up to speed so you will stay). Somehow that makes it more annoying.
I’ve never understood this hangup, to be honest.
So grabbing the restroom door handle squicks you out, even though most hands touching it have just been washed, albeit sometimes half-assedly. Okay.
But are you squicked out when you exit the restroom and start touching all the myriad surfaces that have come in contact with even dirtier hands? I’m talking about handrails, elevator buttons, door knobs, and ATM keys. Why should there be special accomodations for restroom doors but not any other public surface?
At least in public restrooms only half the population is going to come in contact with those surfaces. But everyone and their booger-eating cousin touches the handle to the grocery cart or handhold on the train.
I get really tangled up when my earphones get annoyed, too.
The exit point of an escalator. :rolleyes: