# Things that are really silly but make you twitch in a bad way **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090 "2010-03-11T08:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/21 "2010-03-11T16:06:41Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > My butt hurts. Please advise. Use a smaller ladle. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/22 "2010-03-11T16:24:35Z")
What really, _really_ pisses me off is people that park in non-parking spots, like along the red curb (fire lane) just in front of the door to the store. Hellooooo? What the fuck- are you the king of the world? Do you see the sign just in front of you that says ‘no parking at any time’? Why do I have to walk 20 feet like a chump, when you can park right in front of the door? Why do you think that laws don’t apply to you?! Oooo, it just irks me so bad, I had to stop going to the ghetto grocery store 2 blocks from my house and go to the nice one half a mile away, just because of that. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/23 "2010-03-11T16:32:04Z")
I HATE it when my husband uses the laptop until the battery is almost out, then closes it and sets it on the tray but does not plug it in! Later, I go to use it and the battery has 20 minutes left on it, so I have to drag the cord across the room so I can sit and use the laptop while it charges. Ugh! I mentioned this to him last night, in fact, and he denied doing it. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/24 "2010-03-11T16:36:56Z")
People who seem to feel it’s too much effort to walk the last couple of stairs on the escalator. If you don’t want to walk up/down them, totally fine(as long as you stay to one side, preferably the right), but **are you _really_ so lazy you’re not going to move until your toes are actually touching the floor/ground where the escalator ends?!** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/25 "2010-03-11T16:38:40Z")
People behind me, especially at work. There is a conference room behind me, and before a meeting starts, people gather in the hall. I feel like they’re looking over my shoulder. And when a meeting lets out, they usually gather there again and talk for a long time. Or during the meeting someone will come out to make a call on their cell phone, usually pacing back and forth behind me the whole time. While I hated them doing that in full voice, recently someone did it whispering. That was far worse. Psst psst psst psst psst SHUTUP! ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/26 "2010-03-11T16:58:01Z")
People thinking that just because I’m of the country Y, they’re welcome to ask me how I like it here/recollect their stories about visiting (or being friends with, or being roommates with, or seeing someone on the TV, who is also from) country Y. Also, the same people not getting that -I have interests and opinions on things outside my home country-. I’ve lived in country X more than half of my life/ am a citizen/ am actually more patriotic than most people I know, and am sick and tired of being treated like an alien. OH! Also, people who assume that just because someone met their male SO online, they are a mail-order bride. ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/27 "2010-03-11T17:30:35Z")
I don’t care if I am walking down the street with my sisters (we are triplets). We are not “cute.” We are 28 years old, for god’s sake. Call us “stunningly beautiful” if you must, but not “cute.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/28 "2010-03-11T18:17:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I am 52. My 15 year old son gives me grief over my text messages that are spelled out and with proper capitalization and punctuation. You can’t win.😃 Unless he’s paying for his own texting privileges, you most certainly _can_ win. You can begin by insisting that (on pain of losing your subsidy) he use your formatting. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/29 "2010-03-11T18:19:49Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’ve said it before, but the use of “please advise” in emails drives. me. up. the. WALL!!! > > I got two emails in a row with this phrase yesterday, one of them in the subject! Now I have to see it every time I open my inbox for a short while. Forward it to yourself (changing the title), and delete the original. Or, if it’s already been dealt with, just delete it. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/30 "2010-03-11T18:24:46Z")
When people call The Super Bowl “The Big Game”. Yes, I _know_ it’s because “Super Bowl” is copyrighted (or trademarked, or whatever), but “The Big Game” just sounds uber-lame and I cringe every time I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/31 "2010-03-11T18:31:27Z")
The sound of filing, or two jagged edges rubbing together (like dimes or Quarters). I had to get my teeth filed once and it nearly drove me insane. Even thinking about it now gives me the willies. ---
**Author:** ![Foma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Foma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foma)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/32 "2010-03-11T18:36:24Z")
Cotton Balls. Sweet baby Moses, I can’t stand cotton balls. And when people mispronounce: **often** - pronounced “offen”… and I really hate it when someone over-pronounces the “t”. \*\*height \*\*- there are already two h’s in that word, there is no reason to add a third: heighth. grrr… just writing it makes me mad **espresso** - not expresso. Expresso is not a word. [WoW geek] When someone queues for Random Dungeon Finder and then declines the invite. Especially tanks. [/Wow geek] ---
**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:** [March 11, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/33 "2010-03-11T18:38:15Z")
Posters and notices hung crookedly, with so many pins I can’t fix them quickly. ---
**Author:** ![boozilu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@boozilu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boozilu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/34 "2010-03-11T19:16:24Z")
Second on the walking in the street instead of the sidewalk (in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET FOR PETE’S SAKE) and crooked posters. People who stand in a clump and won’t move aside for you. It’s a sidewalk, not a sideBlockTheWay! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/35 "2010-03-11T19:25:28Z")
People who have spent years and years working on a computer yet completely failed to ever learn to type properly. “Having your own method” is one thing, continuing to “hunt and peck” after decades is entirely another… ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/36 "2010-03-11T19:41:55Z")
Plate scraping. I’d rather have you pick it up and lick it. You think I’m kidding. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/37 "2010-03-11T21:00:54Z")
As someone who grew up working with type metal, I know exactly what a ‘[font](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font)’ is, and Times Roman (and all other type **faces** ) is NOT a font. Where I live I see people walking jogging and pushing baby strollers in the gutter next to the sidewalk. I sidewalk paved with the same material (macadam) as the street, so don’t tell me you do it because you don’t like the cracks in the sidewalks. People who say ‘every other one’ when they mean ‘every **single** one’. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/38 "2010-03-11T21:11:45Z")
People who stick their arm in the elevator door just as it’s about to close. For god sakes, just wait for the next one! Additionally, people who insist on squeezing into an already full elevator. TAKE THE NEXT ONE! AND! People who are healthy, but take the elevator down ONE FLOOR! Why yes, I do work in a building with an elevator, why do you ask? 😃 ---
**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:** [March 11, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/39 "2010-03-11T21:21:28Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > AND! People who are healthy, but take the elevator down ONE FLOOR! That drives me nuts too, in fact, I think using the elevator for anything less than three levels is a waste of time. I compensate by imagining the terrible, terrible conditions they must suffer. Enlarged hearts, arthritis, and emphysema are my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090/40 "2010-03-11T21:32:01Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > That drives me nuts too, in fact, I think using the elevator for anything less than three levels is a waste of time. I compensate by imagining the terrible, terrible conditions they must suffer. Enlarged hearts, arthritis, and emphysema are my favorites. Never use the elevator if you’re climbing three floors or less. You should never use the “down” elevator unless you have bad knees. Well, I suppose if you work on the 175th floor or something… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-really-silly-but-make-you-twitch-in-a-bad-way/532090.md?page=3)