# The non-political things I really don't like thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639 "2017-08-02T17:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/61 "2017-08-03T19:23:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Where does this happen? I have never seen it in the DMV ARCO stations in California, for one. I hate people who stop at the end of moving elevators after they step off. Get out of the way! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/62 "2017-08-03T19:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I realize this is irrational, but I will avoid places that charge for transactions (thankfully becoming rarer) and that charge for shipping, even if I could potentially get it cheaper if I did pay these. Credit card transaction fees are a part of doing business, and charging is a sign that you have a bad business. Yeah, but ARCO stations are soooo much cheaper than every other gas station in the area. By ten to fifteen cents a gallon. I just use cash instead of my debit card. Even though that means going inside instead of just paying at the pump. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/63 "2017-08-03T19:26:25Z")
People seem to not have any clue how wide their vehicle is. Driving around my neighborhood most of the streets are wide enough for parking on both sides of the street _and_ two-way traffic, but I see everyone driving right down the center of the street and you basically have to pull over if there’s another vehicle coming the other way. Your POS Honda Accord is not 20 feet wide! Cars are only TWO people wide. Well, two _Americans_ wide. Maybe three Europeans, or four Asians, but their cars are smaller than ours. 😃 . ---
**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:** [August 3, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/64 "2017-08-03T19:40:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I hate people who stop at the end of moving elevators after they step off. Get out of the way! Or just inside a doorway. “Hey, we’re inside now, so let’s stop and chat here - no one else could possibly be coming in behind us!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/65 "2017-08-03T19:42:59Z")
I hate dirty towels being left anywhere that is not the towel rack (at home) or in the hamper (at the gym). Some of the other women at my gym apparently believe there are faeries in the locker room to clean up their crap. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/66 "2017-08-03T19:52:11Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > This is difficult to describe but I’ll try anyways: > > I’m driving along a two-lane-each-direction highway, with sparse traffic. Way up ahead I can see two or more cars keeping close together in the right lane. It takes a minute to catch up to them but as soon as I’m about to pass, the rear car suddenly decides that they need to pass these other people RIGHT NOW, jumps in front of me, then proceeds to slooooooooooowly creep past the other cars. They had miles and miles to pass but they waited, apparently, just to fuck with _me_. I can’t think of any other reason people do this; it would have only taken a second for me to go past, because I believe that when passing, you should do it with some urgency. This happens with inexplicably high frequency. I liken it to that other bizarre thing where someone always parks right next to you, even in a completely empty parking lot. This happens to me with semis all the time when driving I-70 across Missouri. Two semis one behind the other, and just as you are about to start passing the rear semi, it pulls out so it can pass the front semi. Except now we are going up a hill and passing semi is losing momentum, so they just drive alongside the other semi until, miles later, they finally regain enough speed to pass. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/67 "2017-08-03T19:53:23Z")
Scorpions. Killed 3 so far this week. There is no reason for these little fuckers. United Health care, my Medicare Advantage. They call me way toO often to offer things I don’t want. Please can you just pay the bills and leave off all the calls? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/68 "2017-08-03T20:10:20Z")
Another grocery store one. People who park their cart on one side of the isle and then start browsing the other side of the isle, and don’t notice or care that you’re standing there waiting to get by. And this: when you’re in a hurry and someone is browsing, reading labels, in exactly the place where your product is. “I just want to grab the damned mustard and get out!” Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/69 "2017-08-03T20:52:48Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I recently opened the door to a bathroom stall at work and saw that someone had smeared shit all over the seat. I really didn’t like that. Back in the day my partner booked bands and often hosted the poor touring ones, the ones who had basically made no money, no door draw, at our house. One morning I got up at 5 to go to work and there was a little perfectly spherical “ball of movement” perfectly at the 1 o’clock position of my toilet seat. Not the guest bathroom, but the one that was almost but not quite an ensuite. It had this lovely zen garden appeal, except you know, \*someone took a shit on my toilet seat. \* We stopped hosting touring bands for a while after that. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/70 "2017-08-03T21:06:49Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > . . . I’ve encountered, IRL and on SDMB, some of you weirdos who own a dishwasher but insist on washing everything by hand. I’m watching you. . . Jealous? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/71 "2017-08-03T21:45:17Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > One morning I got up at 5 to go to work and there was a little perfectly spherical “ball of movement” perfectly at the 1 o’clock position of my toilet seat. Not the guest bathroom, but the one that was almost but not quite an ensuite. Hee. It sounds like something from David Sedaris, with his mom pleading with him to find out which family member did it. > [@Drunky Smurf](#): > > I’ve tried a couple of those, and maybe I’m getting the cheap ones, but the sponges wear out and come of the stick too soon. If there’s one thing I never skimp on, it’s my sponges on the end of a detergent-filled stick. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/72 "2017-08-03T21:58:11Z")
Sorry, **Mona**. It was a real hard gig. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/73 "2017-08-03T23:58:58Z")
People, including little people, who scream, when they’re happy, excited, or for any fecking reason. I don’t need or want to hear EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! every time somebody does something. Really I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/74 "2017-08-04T00:22:33Z")
Khaki pants. I don’t understand why anyone would make that choice when there are so many other things to wear. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/75 "2017-08-04T01:22:47Z")
People who make sure by crowding me that they get on the bus before I do, and then don’t have their fare ready. Oh, and bicyclists on the sidewalk. Started a whole Pit thread about that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/76 "2017-08-04T11:20:54Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Khaki pants. I don’t understand why anyone would make that choice when there are so many other things to wear. If I’m not wearing shorts, I’m wearing jeans. My gf would love it if I’d buy a pair of khakis.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/77 "2017-08-04T12:12:36Z")
I don’t like guys that carry around a gallon jug of water at the gym. Douche-bag. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/78 "2017-08-04T13:07:20Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Some of the other women at my gym apparently believe there are faeries in the locker room to clean up their crap. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > I don’t like guys that carry around a gallon jug of water at the gym. Douche-bag. Maybe if the women at the gym took those gallon douche bags and used them for enema bags they wouldn’t crap on the towels. Two problems solved! Next! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/79 "2017-08-04T14:24:47Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Khaki pants. I don’t understand why anyone would make that choice when there are so many other things to wear. My “uniform” is khaki pants and a black shirt. I don’t have to think about it and it’s acceptable and unassuming. I just can’t care that much about clothes at this point. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639/80 "2017-08-04T18:12:59Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > My “uniform” is khaki pants and a black shirt. I don’t have to think about it and it’s acceptable and unassuming. I just can’t care that much about clothes at this point. If it’s a polo shirt, you’ve accomplished your goal. And probably get mistaken for a store employee (I make sure to wear jeans and a t-shirt when shopping-- for some reason, I have a “Big Box Store Manager Who’ll Be Glad To Listen To Your Long Question” look to me). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-political-things-i-really-dont-like-thread/792639.md?page=5)