# Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712 "2024-09-04T02:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/61 "2024-09-04T22:40:55Z")
oh wow Grammarly and i both missed that now lol ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/62 "2024-09-04T23:08:57Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > My curated journey this afternoon is to pick up my dog’s artisanal poop in the backyard. How aspirational. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/63 "2024-09-04T23:12:44Z")
Embroider it on a pillow in cursive. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/64 "2024-09-04T23:15:11Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > When people describe things as “their journey.” Make that quadruple for “wellness journey”. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/65 "2024-09-04T23:19:29Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > What is so freaking difficult about making a hamburger without cheese? Sorry, you’re in the wrong thread, as your complaint is definitely within the boundaries of _very_ important (because it’s _my_ complaint, too)! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/66 "2024-09-04T23:20:53Z")
> [@sunacres](#): > > For the next 20 minutes I can’t get the video out of my mind of me dumping a large trashcan of wet garbage into their car through their open driver side window. or perhaps a Chicago sunroof. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/67 "2024-09-04T23:26:01Z")
Laughter. If something is funny, by all means, let’s laugh. Let’s appreciate it good and well. But after a certain point, get over it. After a while, if it’s gotten hysterical, or performative, or just too shrill and loud… well, one of these days I’m afraid I’m going to hurt someone. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/68 "2024-09-04T23:29:59Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > When people describe things as “their journey.” While a friend was in the hospital, she displayed a card that said: **PLEASE DO NOT REFER TO MY ILLNESS AS A JOURNEY…** _…unless you’re buying me a round-the-world cruise._ . By the way, this thread title could be the job description of any guy over sixty. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/69 "2024-09-04T23:34:15Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > What is so freaking difficult about making a hamburger without cheese? Is it incomprehensible to the order taker…? Yes, as is “Diet Coke, no ice.” Bartender at my favorite watering hole will scoop up a cup of ice, then look at me. Our eyes lock, and she says, sheepishly “Oh, wait… ‘No Ice’, right?” ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/70 "2024-09-04T23:53:12Z")
people who stand right in front of the greeter at Costco before spending 5 minutes looking through their wallet/purse/pockets for their membership card, causing a backup getting INTO the store. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/71 "2024-09-05T01:00:20Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > anal poop Is there any other kind? ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/72 "2024-09-05T02:51:04Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I’ve heard that. But in 42+ years of law enforcement I’ve never taken a complaint for it and never head of anyone on a walk in make a complaint of it. Not saying it never happens ever (everything has happened at least a few times) but not ever having heard someone make a complaint of it makes me think it’s taken on an urban legend life. Folks afraid of something that rarely happens. Could be because my states stickers self destruct if you try to remove them once the adhesive has set even if you try to use a liquid to move it. It has happened to me. Because this backwards state makes stickers that can be removed easily. 🙄 It’s not too hard to get it replaced, but I don’t like driving around without it until the new one comes. Also one time someone tried to steal my license plate by yanking it off. Of course that didn’t work, so now I have a bent license plate. But that’s okay because we’re getting a new venus flytrap plate, and when I renew, I’m getting one of those! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/73 "2024-09-05T04:48:48Z")
Back to the OP, just coming off watching the Diamondbacks - the use of “vee lo” in place of the perfectly fine word “velocity”. I hate it almost as much as “side hustle”. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/74 "2024-09-05T13:21:57Z")
I actually used to be the same way until I found out I was the asshole who cut into the right lane occasionally. Some times it can’t be helped. The left lane has less traffic and eventually I discover why. The traffic buildup sometimes occurs before the warning signs can be seen. So, I pay it forward. If somebody needs to cut in front of me, I let them. They may not have intended it, and it’s not worth adding stress to an already stressful situation. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/75 "2024-09-05T14:33:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > If somebody needs to cut in front of me, I let them. I had multiple chances to do this in five minutes yesterday. A right lane that was clearly marked as “Closes in 1/2Mile/Closes in 1/4 Mile/Closes in 500 Feet/Closes in 100 Feet”… with SO many drivers flying up the soon-to-be-closed lane and trying to butt in, in front of those of us who’d moved over long ago _like the good citizens we are!_ I found myself letting some cars in, but only after judging the driver’s entitlement and the price of the car: The woman with an older minivan full of rambunctious kids got a pass for probably being frazzled and not noticing. But anyone with a showy, expensive car got shunned… one yahoo with mirror shades driving a throaty Corvette got shut out by a good dozen cars in a row. All he could do was rev his engine in frustration (and presumably mutter “Don’t you people know how much my law firm bills a year?”). ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/76 "2024-09-05T14:40:32Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Either way, still no reason to have those stickers all over your plate. How would having them all over your plate make them harder to steal, anyways? There seems little logic to that, regardless of how the stickers are made. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/77 "2024-09-05T14:46:05Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > What is so freaking difficult about making a hamburger without cheese? I started a whole thread on the subject. > [@griffin1977](#): > > When a company demands your address to identify yourself on the phone, and insists on giving the zip code as well. I always find it a little annoying when I’m entering my address on a website and it asks for my city, state, and ZIP code. It could just ask for the ZIP code and auto-fill the city and state. > [@pkbites](#): > > Stop putting your gawddam year stickers all over your rear license plate so the plate can barely be read. I put the new sticker over the old one. It’s getting a bit sloppy; I should probably peel some of the old ones off next time. > [@Jaycat.again](#): > > Not to mention, “artisanal” and “curated.” Also “tactical”. I think there’s a fortune to be made in tactical bacon. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/78 "2024-09-05T14:52:55Z")
> [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](#): > > people who stand right in front of the greeter at Costco before spending 5 minutes looking through their wallet/purse/pockets for their membership card, causing a backup getting INTO the store. General lack of planning drives me crazy. The person in front of me at the grocery store waiting patiently for everything to be tallied up, and only then do they begin fishing around in their TARDIS of a bag for their wallet, and points card, and credit card. Public transit is even worse: waiting until they’ve actually stepped up onto the bus and are blocking the entrance before remembering to search for their pass/transfer/money. This thread can possibly be split into two: one for the real topic which is things that don’t truly matter in the long haul and we’re just being annoyed for silly reasons, and one for “you know what kind of dumb assholes _really_ grind my gears?” because a lot of those actualy cause trouble and escalating delays. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/79 "2024-09-05T15:05:29Z")
When you are with a coworker at their computer and you have to watch them try to navigate around but they’re so bad at it. They have no shortcuts to their most common files and don’t know how to just go up a level or two in the folders. Or they have their own personal filing system based on the “Color” of the case instead of the subject or type of case… etc., etc. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/80 "2024-09-05T15:06:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I should probably peel some of the old ones off next time. Which is exactly what the woman at the County Treasurer’s office told me when I traded cars and transferred my plate from old car to new(er) car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=5)