# Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712>\
**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:** 1\
**Showing post:** 273

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 17, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/273 "2024-09-17T15:05:19Z")

</div>

> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
>
> WAG: If the iPhone screen had lots of random strangers thumping on it all the time, it would get dirty and wouldn’t work all that well either.

Not a chance. The touch screens just suck. The coffee maker at work is probably a $10k device, with all kinds of fancy-schmancy coffee options, and it is almost brand new. But the UI is still flaky.  
And the kiosks at McD’s are essentially giant iPads, with a gloss surface, that are cleaned regularly. There is no chance that this is caused by smudges.

> [@self preservation (no sense of)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-preservation-no-sense-of/596417/1):
>
> I am often amazed at the lack of a sense of self-preservation exhibited by random people I see, particularly urban pedestrians.

Totally agree!  
I live in a fairly urban area and it is not unusual to see people walking across four lanes of traffic after dark with no concern for their life, just casually looking the other way. Wow!

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712)._