Those high, wailing fire sirens that some towns I’ve lived in have.
Those sleeping robot puppies and kittehs that BREATHE!
Oh, and Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell.
How about the Confederation Bridge that spans 13 km between Prince Edward Island and mainland Canada? It’s neither flat nor straight. From certain viewpoints, it looks like it meanders out to the edge of the world.
Me too. That behaivior makes me feel very uncomfortable and angry. Why the hell are you spying on what I like to order? So sometimes I change the meals I order to seem less predictable.
Also the sound of a tap leaking water creeps me out. Once upon a time my father told me a funny story about Dracula, who was guiding some strangers through his castle, and they passed from the “blood bank”, where he was collecting blood slowly by the dropplet. That made me fear leaking faucets for the rest of my life. I canot be alone in a room with one no way. And it is even worse if it is dark or completely silent.
Also accidentally knocking a habnging object and causing it to move as a pendulum for sometime makes me feel uneasy. Even worse the sound cloths make when moving in the closet.
Anything that floats on water, particularly at see. Reminds me of dead floating animals. Even more if it bumps with the waves and makes sound.
Dead molluscs. I am not only disgusted by them, I fear them.
Cats that move slowly and meow all of the time around garbage cans. They are like diseased zombies.
Loud snoaring.
My intestinal sounds sometimes. I think that is the sound the body does while decomposing.
A building at the sea side of my city. It was a smallish, insignificant think, but several years ago, in an act of developing the place, it was rebuilt tall, square, with strange oblique columns around it and a spiral ramp that goes up to the top. It has subdued blue lighting, and it has been become a tourist atraction. Inside there is a machine constantly working. I don’t remember exactly what it is, but it might have something to do with sewage treatment. I think about the contrast between unwitting humans on the outside and whatever inside.
Jessica Chastain.
Seriously. I have no idea why, but the woman just gives me the galloping creeps.
Joel Osteen. I get a creepy feeling.
More annoying than creepy (but still creepy), along with “how does the food taste” is when servers ask “are you still working on that?”.
And no, there’s no geographical insulator that keeps customers free of being asked these annoying and dumb questions. Your only real hope is to eat in really pricey/upscale places where these memes are still frowned upon.
In that same vein, I find it creepy and insulting when a store clerk feels the need to address me by name (after looking at my information in their system). Safeway did this for a while, and I cringed every time they did. It’s especially true for me because I’m married to a guy with a very difficult to pronounce last name (everybody gets it wrong, in the “I can’t be bothered to read” sort of way). I didn’t take his last name, but it’s the one on the account since he signed up for it, so they always used to say, “Thanks, Mrs. <Hislastname>”. Two strikes: I don’t go by “Mrs.” and I don’t use his last name. So I’m left with either correcting them, which seems petty, or being annoyed. I once asked a clerk, “So…I know it’s not your fault and the company makes you do it, but is there a way to flag my account to tell you guys not to refer to me by name?” She said no, there wasn’t (she seemed apologetic) and that it was the company’s effort to be “personal.”
They don’t do it anymore, so I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one who hated it.
I don’t find this creepy - unless (and this has happened to me) the server/order-taker pouts because you’re not getting the usual thing. :smack:
And while I almost always get a margarita at the Mexican food place we frequent, there are times I don’t, or want it prepared a different way. So it’d be nice if you didn’t bring the usual one out on the assumption that’s what I want.
The lyrics of a quite a lot of pop music. For instance, on the radio a minute ago was ‘Born to make you happy’ by Britney Spears, and how weird is that? And I can’t be the first to notice how sinister ‘Ain’t no mountain high enough’ is?
I had a person get upset at me because I wasn’t eating the other things on the menu. Would love to say I was snark-central right then, but I just left, only to come back 3 months later so they would ask me why I stopped coming, and I told them. Turns out, she owned the place! :rolleyes: