Too funny. Once had a district manager above me and when I was introduced to him I offered my hand. Now I’m a lady…[psyche, I’m a FEMALE] but I gave him a FIRM handshake. He responded with an even FURTHER firm handshake, causing me to respond to actually crushing his hand. Good times.
When I upload or download an album and find that someone has coded “(live)” into every song title. If the album is called “Live at [Wherever],” this is redundant - they’re telling me something I already know and that any moron could figure out by reading the album OR by listening to two seconds of the song. Then I have to go through every track and delete the “(live)” so I don’t have to look at it again, which is work I didn’t need to be doing.
There’s a local authority building in my town where to get from the basement level (where the carpark is) to the main floor, you HAVE to take the elevator. There’s no other option. Apparently there used to be a staircase you could use, but noooo, they locked it off and made it staff-only.
Drives me mad. Did I mention there’s only one lift, and it’s really slow, tempermental, and busy? You can be stuck in the basement for quite a while 
That sounds like a fire disaster waiting to happen.
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I’m very curious where you live. People there actually get mad at courteous drivers. That’s just … wow. You’d rather I run you off the right shoulder than let you merge on the freeway? You’d rather sit on a side street for five minutes than have someone stop and let you in? This boggles my mind.
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The best summation I’ve ever seen of this is - don’t be courteous, be predictable.
JSYK, most vehicles that have a factory installed alarm have the option of ‘lights and horn’, ‘horn only’ and ‘lights only’ that can be set by the owner. Well, maybe not most, I do know for certain that Chevy trucks (since 2003) are this way.
If your vehicle has a factory installed alarm, you might want to check the owners manual and see if the alarm can be ‘adjusted’.
I find it useful on occasion, eg: after I’ve walked away from my truck in a parking lot and don’t recall if I’ve locked it or not.
(Hey, I’m old and sometimes I’m a little forgetful. Don’t worry, you’ll get there too, one of these days.)
I can hit the remote button and the horn lets me know that I did. It’s also helpful when I forget where I parked, hit the ‘panic’ button and the horn starts honking. 
Oh, gee thanks for that.
I was reading through, and all “ok, a little on the all-organic” side, but nothing really weird there, I wonder what’s got his back up?" and then I get to the “preparations” section, with gems like the following:
“Preparation 505: Oak bark (Quercus robur) is chopped in small pieces, placed inside the skull of a domesticated animal, surrounded by peat and buried in earth in a place where lots of rain water runs past.”
WTF? Really? That’s like all the fun of homeopathy mixed with astrology there. Jeezus, why do I follow links like that!? :mad:
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I bought a car once from a dealership that didn’t just use license plate frames; they had installed a chrome logo (or chrome-plated plastic, I don’t know) on the back. I made an offer on the car and said it was contingent on removing their logo. They said it wasn’t removable. I said they could either take another thousand off the price to repay me for advertising their dealership, or remove the logo. They balked. I started to leave. They removed it.
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Had the almost the exact same thing happen. The (new) van I had just bought didn’t have a sticker when I looked at it on the lot.
When I returned the next day to pick it up, there was a large shiny sticker on one of the back doors, right below the window! :mad:
I was told that they put one on all of the vehicles sold at that dealership.
Told the salesman, take the sticker off or give me my money back.
The sticker was removed while I waited.
+1
(bolding mine)
Makes you wonder how in the world they ever passed the driving exam. :smack:
I disagree. I parse the statement to mean, “Observe the ‘rules of the road’.”
IMHO, it’s okay to be courteous as long as doing so doesn’t unnecessarily impede others. 
It’s probably been said here…but cars honking for no good reason.
I walk home from work in a large city- I can’t stand an errant horn. I honestly worry that I could end up breaking a cabbie’s jaw when they sit on their horn for absolutely no reason.
I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but it really does. Especially when the name is a normal name, just spelled wrong. I’m sure they think it’s clever or special to spell “Carter” as “Qar’turr”, but the kid is probably going to dislike having to explain his name to everyone he meets much more than he’s going to like being a unique and special snowflake.
Similarly, in my office building, you can’t take the stairs from the first floor to the second floor as there’s a security gate in between. It took me a while to stop disliking people who take the elevator one floor when they do it to get past that gate. (I know you can go down through it during fire drills and emergencies, but I don’t know if it’s usually a one-way gate or if it specifically unlocks during emergencies.)
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This reminded me of the time when I was taking driving lessons and the driving instructor, in the passenger’s seat lunged across me as though he was grabbing the wheel. I completely froze, thinking I was about to run over someone or cause an accident in some way I hadn’t even noticed. No, he just wanted to honk the horn so he could wave at a friend he saw on the sidewalk. It’s a miracle I managed not to strangle him.
The horn has a specific purpose: getting other drivers’ attention. Using it for anything else makes me angry, even if you aren’t specifically terrifying me to do it.
Self-checkout scan stations that are becoming much more ubiquitous at area pharmacies… HATE THEM.
What really gets me is when the employees stand and monitor self-checkout instead of just being the cashier.
You are just being paid to stand and observe???
This is why I wondered where you live. There are no four-lane roads around here (I have to drive almost an hour to get to one), and no traffic lights, either. If you’re a pedestrian waiting to cross the main street in town during tourist season, you could have a long wait unless somebody stops to let you cross. Ditto if you’re a driver trying to come from one of the side streets onto (or across) the main street. We count on courtesy in cases like that. Someone will invariably stop, and you wave & smile as you cross in front of them.
I suppose it’s the definition of “problems for others” where we disagree. If you can let some poor soul onto the road that’s been waiting for a few minutes and it slows down the guy behind you by a few seconds, that sounds like a good tradeoff to me. In the ten years I’ve lived in this town, I’ve never had anyone honk or yell at me for doing that.
Car alarms just piss me off irrationally. Especially when people set them and walk away. It will probably be set off by a big truck rolling by, or someone brushing against the car as they walk by, or a door slamming on the car next to it – not by a burglar in broad daylight in the middle of town. If that alarm goes off and someone doesn’t show up in 30 seconds to shut it off, I just want to take a baseball bat to the damned car.
I used to live in an apartment where my bedroom window overlooked a parking lot. I was awakened in the middle of the night three different times by the same car alarm going off. The third time, I got up and stuck a note under his windshield wiper that said, “Next time this alarm wakes me up, I’m smashing your windshield.”
People that stand next to an empty seat on the bus. If they’re trying to be noble and leave a seat open instead of taking it, fine, but they’re not doing anyone any favors standing in front of it! Either sit down or get out of the way!
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This is why I wondered where you live.
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Sorry, I missed that part. I’m in Baltimore City, definitely an urban area. Lots of traffic, lots of busy roads sometimes with poor visibility.
To me, it’s more about behaving in a predictable manner. If you have the right-of-way, take it. Don’t hold up traffic behind you while giving up your right-of-way for someone else.
In my experience they’re being paid to help every second customer process their transactions because they can’t figure out how to use the self checkout.
That’s all you’ve got?! :rolleyes:
Also to limit cheating, bypassing the scanner, misrepresenting the produce item, etc.
God yes. Unfortunately I have co-workers who “can’t work without my tunes, man!” Really, how fucking old are you? I hate rap/hip hop and I sure as hell don’t want to listen to it for eight hours straight. You probably wouldn’t like my kind of music and that’s why I don’t force it on everyone.
And then there’s my ex who couldn’t sleep without the tv on. Wtf?
Silence is golden, dammit!
What in that post deserved the rolleyes? Did you not notice that the title of the thread is " Tiny things that annoy & irritate to a far greater degree than they should…" and not “Huge important stuff that matters greatly!”
'Zackly.
That is one of my major irritations with the Dope (and I’m sure it’s not exclusive to us): the way thread topics tend to get watered down to the simplest, stripped down and therefore erroneous version of themselves. In this case, what is supposed to be extremely minor things that irritate majorly becomes (to the waterers) “irritating things”. Happens over and over and over. Makes me kinda nuts.