# The worst things in the world **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849 "2010-09-06T22:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/21 "2010-09-07T04:09:49Z")
People who stand there while everything is rung up (clerks bag your stuff here as they ring it) but look so surprised when they hear the total due, then start looking for their money, checkbook, or credit card. It’s as if they didn’t realize money played a part in the transaction. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/22 "2010-09-07T07:05:01Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > π) People - they’re the worst. And irrational to boot. Now I want pie. i) People who don’t bring pie. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/23 "2010-09-07T07:47:06Z")
Chicken-shit oozing through your toes when you took your chances going barefoot to the coop to collect the eggs on a wet day. That’s gotta rate up there as _one_ of the worst I reckon. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/24 "2010-09-07T13:15:50Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > STFU and tell some jokes 1. Oxymorons. Things that are awesome: 2. People who get numbering conventions back on track. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/25 "2010-09-07T14:28:37Z")
1. I concur! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/26 "2010-09-07T14:58:18Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > [@friedo](#): > > > > I don’t even have a lawn. I live in an apartment. If I did have a lawn, I could probably take out my frustrating by digging some holes or something. > > I have a lawn, and I dig in it ALL. THE. TIME. That’s probably keeping some Calgarians alive. I have 2 lawns, and there’s some kind of invisible animal digging holes for me. I appreciate its help. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/27 "2010-09-07T18:02:46Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > > [@Askance](#): > > > > π) People - they’re the worst. > > And irrational to boot. Now I want pie. > > i) People who don’t bring pie. i[sup]i[/sup]) People who don’t keep it real. But I also know what’s one of the best things in the world: quoting someone else and having nested quotes automatically turn out right. When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/28 "2010-09-07T18:19:17Z")
People who go just slow enough that they’re in your way and just fast enough that you can’t get around them. Extra hate points if they had to rush to get in front of you. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/29 "2010-09-07T18:26:03Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > 1. …THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY… > … > **7. For that matter, professors who assign shit to groups. I made it to college. I don’t need lessons on how to make friends…** > > 2. When some jackass gets on the subway and decides the best place to stand is right in front of the fucking door. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE UNIVERSE. WE’RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY, HERE. > > 3. The guy in front of me paying for $13.56 in groceries with spare change. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE…ah fuck it. If only those people at the tops of esscalators and standing in front of subway doors had been part of some college work groups they wouldn’t be so damned self centered. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/30 "2010-09-07T20:14:39Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > 1. For that matter, professors who assign shit to groups. I made it to college. I don’t need lessons on how to make friends. It has been 27 years since I last attended school, and the flame over this still burns as if it were yesterday. God, I fucking hated group projects. > [@Jeff Lichtman](#): > > 1. People who get to the register at a store only to discover once they’ve been rung up that they don’t have the money to pay for everything, and proceed to figure out what they do want to pay for while people wait in line behind them. Oh come on, if nobody ever did this we wouldn’t have had that great commercial from a few (all right, more than a few) years back where those bozos were deciding between toilet paper and beer. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/31 "2010-09-07T21:11:43Z")
What a bunch of wimps! A crushed beer can is just as good as a wad of Charmin! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/32 "2010-09-07T21:20:22Z")
XXI. People who cannot tell the difference between crushed beer cans and Charmin. ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/33 "2010-09-07T21:35:32Z")
27 -The small stone at the center of the ball of your foot as you step from a gravel drive to concrete when barefoot. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/34 "2010-09-07T21:36:32Z")
> [@](#): > > XXI. People who cannot tell the difference between crushed beer cans and Charmin. I suppose its different for chicks, and those that may as well be. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/35 "2010-09-07T21:39:20Z")
(N+1)[SUP]2[/SUP] Math ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/36 "2010-09-07T21:49:18Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > 1. Speaking of iPods: earbuds. Listen, people, you’re sticking those _in your ear_. Didn’t you pay attention to Mr. Rogers? You’re not supposed to shove stuff in there! Fucking gross. Earbuds obviously aren’t ideal headphones, but it’s pretty fucking inconvenient to carry around a pair of ginormous noise-canceling headphones everywhere you go, as you apparently do. Most of us just can’t carry that shit with us but still like to be able to listen to music on the go. Hence, earbuds are the solution. They fit in your pocket. And yeah, they get nasty wax in them but at least it’s only _your_ earwax. It’s not like I share them with anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/37 "2010-09-07T22:06:32Z")
42.5 Squatters - I’m looking at you **Mr Bus Guy** ---
**Author:** ![Terra1041](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Terra1041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terra1041)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/38 "2010-09-07T22:58:40Z")
1. People who stop, talk, loiter, or do anything stationary _in the middle of doorways_. 2. Pairs of doors for which 1 door is always locked. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/39 "2010-09-07T23:08:34Z")
> [@Terra1041](#): > > 1. People who stop, talk, loiter, or do anything stationary _in the middle of doorways_.\ And then stare at you like a cow in a field when you walk right up to them - hello, you’re standing in front of a door. I know expecting you to extrapolate from my actions and chew your cud at the same time is expecting a lot, but you are standing in a doorway - it’s not a really big leap to assume that I walked up to you to USE this door. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849/40 "2010-09-07T23:09:12Z")
> [@Terra1041](#): > > 1. People who stop, talk, loiter, or do anything stationary _in the middle of doorways_. > > 2. Pairs of doors for which 1 door is always locked. 1338a. Especially if it’s not marked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-things-in-the-world/552849.md?page=3)