# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1301 "2025-02-01T14:26:21Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > The last two times I’ve taken this route, there’s been one car ahead of me turning left at this intersection. Meaning I have to wait until the light is green, whereas if I were in the front of the line, I could have turned well before the end of the cycle. I wonder how many people consider this act of kindness as they drive. When I am approaching a red light on a road with multiple lanes, I always try to move to the middle/left lane, to let right turners have a chance. It seems rare. Once every few months I notice someone else doing the same thing…kindly moving over as they approach the light and notice me in the right lane. I wish there were a way to reward them beyond a belated wave as I realize too late that they were considerate. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1302 "2025-02-01T19:26:43Z")
For some reason, the same situation where it’s straight ahead or right doesn’t bother me that much. I think it’s just the perversity of someone being in the right lane to turn left. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1303 "2025-02-02T09:25:13Z")
Yes! I’ve just come across this twice in the last week here in an urban environment, where there are garbage cans everywhere in the alleys! Why the hell would you do this? And, like you said, why would you bother to bring the bag, gather up the poop, tie the bag, only to leave it in the grass by the sidewalk? ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1304 "2025-02-02T14:16:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yes! I’ve just come across this twice in the last week here in an urban environment, where there are garbage cans everywhere in the alleys! If by “in the alleys” you mean cans that belong to individual residences , my guess is that part of it is being yelled out for using people’s garbage cans. It’s amazing to me how many people will yell at passers-by if they put an empty coffee cup in the yeller’s garbage - especially since I’ve only seen this in residential areas where there are no street receptacles. And people can be very crazy about this - my nephew ended up breaking a lease ( in a two family house) early because the landlord didn’t tell him she had a problem with him putting properly bagged pop in her garbage can until he did it - she knew he had a dog, so I guess she _expected_ him to leave it on the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1305 "2025-02-02T14:23:50Z")
Nobody here in Chicago gives a shit. Or I should say in my experience it is extremely uncommon. I usually take my dog poop to a convenient commercial dump or my own garbage can but, if it’s not convenient, I just dump it. I find all sorts of shit (especially beer bottles) in my trash can. I could give a damn. Better than littering in the streets (and we have plenty of that.) I’m sure there’s some neighbors that care, but in my lifetime of dumping stuff in other peoples trash cans, I’ve never once been talked to. I think that’s public property anyway (not that that would stop one in the past.) Oh, and scavenging is extremely common here. Extremely. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1306 "2025-02-02T21:08:24Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > If by “in the alleys” you mean cans that belong to individual residences , my guess is that part of it is being yelled out for using people’s garbage cans. It’s amazing to me how many people will yell at passers-by if they put an empty coffee cup in the yeller’s garbage - especially since I’ve only seen this in residential areas where there are no street receptacles. Yep. In fact I have told several neighbors they can use our bins- once on the street- if theirs is out of room. However, many other people are weird- I got yelled at one time for picking up a aluminum can and putting it in some strangers recycle bin on the street. Of course, I am talking one small item, not a bag or two- that is right out. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, and scavenging is extremely common here. Extremely. When we lived in San Jose the bin got salvaged at least once, maybe more. And whatever useless household item- like a broken but repairable chair, pout on on the little grass strip would be gone soon. That was handy, I have to admit. Got a microwave that doesnt work? Put it out, and it is gone. We used to joke it was koldolds or gremlins or something. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1307 "2025-02-02T21:17:32Z")
Ever noticed how some folks stick their tongues out when they’re conveying a forkful of food into their mouth? I notice, and it grosses me out. Only a small percentage of people do this, and I wonder why they think it’s necessary to do it when they take in food. I used to work with a woman who was prim and proper and classy, but when she ate her lunch, she’d do the tongue-poking-out thing. If we ate in the lunchroom at the same time, I’d have to look away. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1308 "2025-02-03T07:23:05Z")
Grrrr. My late mother did that and I felt the same as you. Why she did it, I can’t figure out. In her case she was a food addict (obese but not morbidly) and had ongoing dental issues, but I’m not sure there’s a connection. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1309 "2025-02-03T07:30:24Z")
> [@Trump's new cabinet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-cabinet/1009799/759): > > Dollars to donuts Trump has told her she’s fired if she doesn’t look “beautiful” enough. For sure; except I don’t think any of them need to be told. This is 1950s Christo-fascist Trumpland. The main goal of the women appears to be "maintain that Barbie Doll look and stand by ~~your man~~ der fuhrer. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1310 "2025-02-03T12:28:36Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Ever noticed how some folks stick their tongues out when they’re conveying a forkful of food into their mouth? I notice, and it grosses me out. Only a small percentage of people do this, and I wonder why they think it’s necessary to do it when they take in food. > > I used to work with a woman who was prim and proper and classy, but when she ate her lunch, she’d do the tongue-poking-out thing. If we ate in the lunchroom at the same time, I’d have to look away Lately I feel myself developing this habit. I don’t know why it’s happening, but it bothers me, too. Seems to me it’s more common among the elderly (I’m in my mid 50s now). It was a point of humor in this bizarre Kids In The Hall sketch comedy that someone posted here a few years ago (see at 1:27): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3ChvxsVgT8c/maxresdefault.jpg "KITH Sausages") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChvxsVgT8c) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1311 "2025-02-04T19:15:01Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > When I watch a YouTube video and the person drinks a beverage while talking. > That’s it. I really have no business caring if they sip a beverage, but it makes my skin crawl. > > I will often flip to another video the moment someone picks up a big bottle and takes a swig. Their mic typically picks up the audio of the event, and I know they will repeat it throughout the video. Just edit that bit out if your throat is dry and you need a sip! Related to this, I recently had to move to a new cubicle at work. The guy in the cube next to mine keeps one of those big insulated metal water bottles at his desk, which he drinks from throughout the day. Except he doesn’t just drink from it, he _gulps_ from it. So throughout the work day I have to hear “_GULP, GULP, GULP, GULP…_” from the next cube as this guy chugs his water. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1312 "2025-02-04T20:45:48Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > The solution to baggers doing it wrong is to do it yourself. When I worked as a bagger ~25 years ago, I _hated_ it when the customer tried to “help” bag their groceries. I had a system, and the customer was messing up my system, darn it! Our checkouts each had two bagging stations, and sometimes I’d be bagging at one of them, and the customer would go to the other one and start bagging stuff themselves. And I’d be trying to, for example, bag all the cold items together, and the customer would just grab a bunch of random items and put them in their bag, including one frozen item I was planning on putting in my bag. Of course I wouldn’t say anything. The customer is always right or whatever. Generally that didn’t happen when there were two actual baggers working on a large cartload of groceries. Then we’ve communicate and be like “I’ll take the cold stuff, you get the canned goods” or something like that. And I always found it a bit condescending when the customer reminded me not to put squishable things on the bottom. Yes, I know that. I paid attention to the training video. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1313 "2025-02-04T20:49:50Z")
Well a lot of baggers were playing games on their phones during that video. I am a much better bagger than most paid employees, mostly because I have been bagging my own groceries since 1977. That’s a lot of bags. I’m fast, too. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1314 "2025-02-04T21:07:52Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I always found it a bit condescending when the customer reminded me not to put squishable things on the bottom. Yes, I know that. I paid attention to the training video. You might be surprised how many baggers don’t; and how many (even more IME) don’t put the cold things together unless specifically asked to. And sometimes don’t even when they’ve been specifically asked to, plus the customer having sorted them that way on the belt. Sometimes I wind up rebagging things myself, whether in the store or when I get to the car and discover that there are more bags with cold things in them than I can fit in the cooler, despite each of those bags having some items that don’t need to be in the cooler. There are indeed a lot of good baggers out there, and I try to keep my mouth shut at least until I see things going into the wrong bag. But there are also bad baggers, and some customers who are quite good at it. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1315 "2025-02-04T21:19:54Z")
I used to have a guy in the next cubicle at my old workplace who brought his lunch to work every day in glass containers. Every day about 3pm (he came in late and worked late, so I guess that was his lunch break) he would eat lunch at his desk. And for about a half hour every day I’d have to listen to the constant “dink dink dink scrape scrape dink dink dink” of metal utensils on glass containers. Drove me up the frickin’ wall. Nowadays I have hearing aids I can mute when the background noise gets to be too much. Sure could have used those ten years ago! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1316 "2025-02-05T05:27:59Z")
The prevalence of [this voice](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tyAx4mbiojc?feature=share) in You Tube videos is starting to drive me nuts. I don’t know who it was modeled after, and it simulates human speech pretty good, but enough is enough. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1317 "2025-02-05T14:57:10Z")
Is that an AI voice, as opposed to a real person? I’ve noticed it too, not just in YouTube videos but in actual TV commercials. I assumed it was a real guy, who would record anything if you waved a ten dollar bill at him. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1318 "2025-02-05T15:00:21Z")
I assumed it was AI, modeled after someone. If it actually is a real guy, he’s a busy beaver. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1319 "2025-02-05T15:42:44Z")
True. I might add, I knew exactly which voice you meant before I even clicked on the link! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1320 "2025-02-05T16:32:57Z")
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