# 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:** 68
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1341 "2025-02-11T13:59:05Z")
Yeah, that’s some bullshit! I hope you got them to take it down. ---
**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 11, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1342 "2025-02-11T15:40:30Z")
Our local Target store has about 25 parking spots blocked off for online pickup, right outside the main doors. I think the most cars I’ve seen parked in those spots is two. And I’ve never understood why they need to be right outside the doors. It’s not like a handicap spot - you’re not getting out of your car, they’re coming out to you. So it’s for the convenience of the employees, not the customers. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1343 "2025-02-11T16:32:06Z")
I think doing it for the employees convenience is a great reason. After all, they don’t want to have to go looking all over the parking lot for the right car. And they may have to take stuff out for pickup all day, so it speeds things up for everyone to have the pickup be close to the door. ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1344 "2025-02-11T16:58:18Z")
Yeah, but they don’t need 20+ parking spaces for it anymore. Cut the number in half and you’ve still got twice as many as you’re going to need. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1345 "2025-02-11T18:12:24Z")
Yeah, they can cut the number. But they still need some of them. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1346 "2025-02-11T18:19:22Z")
When I picked up groceries for my Mom, she would order them. The store had an ‘out’ only exit for the employees that put it together. And parking places for us lazy bums. Easier for everyone. Regular shoppers would not want to park there. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1347 "2025-02-12T06:43:10Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Yeah, they can cut the number. But they still need some of them. At our local Target, the pickup spaces are all in one aisle. The aisle starts two aisles over from the main door. It’s also two aisles over from the garden exit. In the middle, between them. It keeps the pickup cars easily findable but doesn’t take up all of the close spaces. The ADA spaces do that. There are a lot of ADA spaces, and they’re always full. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1348 "2025-02-13T11:08:15Z")
Wearing a shirt with a pocket under a dress shirt. It’s a wasted pocket! It’s clean but still annoys. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1349 "2025-02-13T15:06:52Z")
Getting the cuffs of your sleeves wet while washing dishes or any other water related thing. They seem to stay damp all day. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1350 "2025-02-13T15:15:11Z")
Now there’s really an easy solution for that problem: roll up your sleeves before washing dishes or your hands. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1351 "2025-02-13T17:25:13Z")
we have those now too… not only do they feel weird (a small price to pay, i suppose) but they completely obscure the contents and i swear they make veg/herbs/whatever go bad more quickly. all things we can of course compensate for, but vaguely annoying nonetheless. ---
**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 13, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1352 "2025-02-13T17:48:20Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Now there’s really an easy solution for that problem: roll up your sleeves before washing dishes or your hands. Shirts designed with sleeves that are difficult to roll up, or won’t stay rolled up, infuriate me well beyond their actual significance. (Usually it’s because the cuffs, or the entire sleeve, are too narrow.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1353 "2025-02-13T17:50:11Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > (Usually it’s because the cuffs, or the entire sleeve, are too narrow.) If the cuffs are too narrow to roll them up, I just push them up to my elbows before handling water. I never had sleeves that were even too tight for that. ---
**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 13, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1354 "2025-02-13T17:55:50Z")
They slide back down, IME. And some of them are too tight even to push up well – there appears to be a theory among clothing manufacturers that all women have thin arms. Generally I just don’t wear shirts that are like that; but once in a while I’m given something, or buy something not expecting the tight cuffs/sleeves, that I like well enough otherwise to put up with it, as long as it’s not so bad that I can’t readily move my arms. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1355 "2025-02-13T17:57:16Z")
Yes, obviously our experiences differ, as I’m a guy with rather thin arms and never had these problems. ---
**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 13, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1356 "2025-02-13T18:15:32Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > They slide back down, IME. Or they get stretched out, and never fit your wrists properly again. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1357 "2025-02-13T19:25:27Z")
Sometimes the reason you’re washing your hands is that they are filthy and you cannot touch your sleeves to roll them up. ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1358 "2025-02-13T20:57:24Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Now there’s really an easy solution for that problem: roll up your sleeves before washing dishes or your hands. If I’m wearing a shirt with buttoned cuffs, I can’t roll them up more than an inch or two without unbuttoning the cuffs, and even then they don’t really stay rolled up. And I don’t want to go through the effort unbuttoning the cuffs, rolling up my sleeves, washing my hands, and re-buttoning the cuffs. Especially since re-buttoning the right cuff requires using my left (non-dominant) hand and is rather difficult. ---
**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 13, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1359 "2025-02-13T21:15:21Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > 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. I’m beginning to realize this guy is a noisy eater, too. So around midday I hear “slurrrrp smack smack smack smack slurrrrp smack smack burp…” But at least that’s just once a day. I swear he chugs some water like every 10 minutes. Why is he drinking so much water? I suspect he’s fallen for that pseudoscientific myth that you _must_ drink at minimum 64 ounces of water every day to stay properly “hydrated”. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1360 "2025-02-13T22:02:44Z")
The trick to keep your cuffs from unrolling is to roll them under, not over, i.e., inside, not outside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=69)