# Things you hate!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate/186362>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 5, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate/186362 "2003-07-05T08:06:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate/186362/81 "2003-07-09T18:38:32Z")

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**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate/186362/82 "2003-07-09T18:49:49Z")

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I won’t bother to itemize all the bad driving habits and bad manners in general that get on my nerves.

Just to stick to the things that might be peculiar to me:

the smell of butter-flavored microwave popcorn

being nagged to eat something fattening I’ve turned down by being told some variation of “you don’t need to lose weight!”

answering the phone

rap/hip-hop music and culture bleeding into mainstream culture (can you tell I’m almost 40?)

having my name spelled and/or said wrong

having a man look me in the breasts when speaking to me

underwear (yeah, I wear it; I just can’t find any I **like** )

spiders

noise (thus explaining in general why I don’t have kids)

being asked “how are you?” or “how was your weekend?”

That’s enough. I could get a reputation as a curmudgeon.

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