Ignore him? These are irrational peeves, after all.
Same here. I legitimately thought I didn’t totally hear/understand the question, but then my brain says, “oh hey, we were working on decoding that in the background while you were paying attention to that other thing, here you go,” and suddenly I realize I do know what was said. I’ll usually follow a “what?/huh?” with “oh!” or something similar to try to convey that now I get it.
Medical people who wear those Crocs with holes in the top (around the toebox area) do not get a pass from me. I don’t want to think about what fluids might seep in there without you noticing. Getting splashed around the ankle is harder to miss than a little something that drips onto your shoe and runs down into a hole around your toes.
I’ve posted it before, I’ll post it again:
People who walk in the middle of the street instead of on the damn sidewalks. Gah!
Yes, my neighborhood isn’t that great about shoveling our walks. But it’s nice now, even here - nearly all the snow has melted. Get out of the damn road, you imbecile!
Boils my blood, it does.
Windshield wipers that are going faster than necessary. Or that are on when not really needed. Makes me flipping crazy, I have to look away.
People who are concerned about what I wear, and give the judgmental up and down. Look, the bikini areas are covered, in fact everything is well covered all the time. I am not trying to impress you or attract anyone. I just want to get through the grocery shopping without my feet hurting and my skin itching. The clothes are cotton, the shoes are comfy. Please for heaven’s sake find something worthwhile to concern youself with!
Here’s one of mine, right from the dope. It drives me up the wall when someone links to a thread and the search terms they used are still highlighted in it. All you have to do is delete the part after the ampersand (and including the ampersand if you want it, but it’s not necessary) and it looks normal. I’m sure it’s just a personal thing. In fact, when I click on a thread that I searched for I usually delete that part just because it’s easier to read without red words popping up all over the place.
Anyways, when I click on a linked thread, the first thing I do is delete the part, if for no other reason, it makes it easier to read, but for some reason it makes me batty when people leave that in.
Could someone tell me what it is about nurses and Crocs? Is there something about Crocs that make them appeal to nurses?
I would hope that a nurse or phlebotomist is spilling close to zero fluids on their shoes. I mean someone could vomit or sneeze on them, but the nurses I usually see wearing them are usually dealing with people that are actively vomiting/bleeding/vomiting in uncontrolled ways. That is, I see them more in private practice type places moreso then ERs.
Oh yeah? Well I hate people who have to 2-up everything you say.
They are super-comfortable if you have to be on your feet/moving all day, plus they’re very quiet on tile floors, so going into/out of the rooms of patients who are trying to sleep or rest doesn’t disturb them. They are very light-weight (the Crocs, not the patients!), so they cut down on leg fatigue. They are anti-bacterial, so whatever stuff you may be walking through, you don’t have to worry too much about tracking it home on your shoes.
Wow. Guess they don’t really need a book then. Tell them to come back when they have more information. Or just hand them the nearest book. 
people who can’t recognize when someone doesn’t want to have a conversation. If you’re the only one talking, it doesn’t mean “keep talking, I find your opinions enthralling;” rather it means “I don’t feel like taking part in this discussion so please go do something else.”
Ok, that makes sense, I was really hoping the answer wasn’t going to be as simple as “we’re on our feet all day and these ugly things are comfortable” since it’s not like nurses are the only people on their feet all day.
Most of these aren’t irrational, iyam.
My totally rational peeves:
People who chew with their mouth open. Double for those chewing and snapping gum.
Really loud ring tones. Are you DEAF?
There is this intersection near work that people have so, so much trouble with, but they just aren’t looking at the signs. Heading north, you have two lanes. One is a left turn lane, one is a straight through lane. It is the same on the opposite side. But so often, I’m sitting behind a guy in the straight through lane that is actually turning. It’s stupid and it only costs me an extra few seconds, but I get SO pissed off about this. READ THE FUCKING SIGN!
Same goes for those that don’t understand what this sign means.
And they’ve got some sort of rubber covering on them, making them really easy to hose down in case you do get ick on them - they’re a snap to clean. And they’re cheap and easy to replace.
Other shoes that try to fit in all these features cost the earth. They’re worth it for people on their feet all day (nurses, chefs, etc), but they are expensive. Crocs are a more than acceptable substitute.
On my last phone I always had to keep the ringer cranked all the way up. It was blindingly loud, but if it was in my pocket, even I couldn’t hear it since it would be so muffled.
My current phone has the ringer volume button on the side, which is stupid. I bump it all the time by accident, half the time it’s all the way up, half the time it’s almost inaudible.
Another one for me. This one is on the boarder in that it’s irrational in that it’s not really hurting anyone, but I think it’s rational as well. At my store we have a sales person (someone that sells stuff TO us, not one of our employees) that stops in about once a week and likes to chit chat. That’s all well and good, the problem is, he can’t do it without touching people. As soon as he walks in I go to my desk or behind the register counter where he can’t get to me. He’s nice enough, I just don’t like being talked to while he has his hand on my shoulder or (the one I hate the most) when he’s got a grip on my elbow. Last week when he stopped in, I was sort of in a hurry and as he grabbed my elbow, I swung my arm around (nicely) just to sort of break his grip so I could keep walking and mumbled “don’t”, but sure if he heard me though. One of these days I just need to tell him to stop grabbing my arm when he’s talking to me.
I’m not in our ER much, but I do tend to see people wearing scrubs (I mean the ‘really from the OR’ scrub sets, not the cute colorful ones worn like a uniform) also wearing Crocs more often than I like to think about. It’s quite possible that they have discarded some disposable booties that go on over shoes, but then I start thinking about the ER and going :eek: wondering about Crocs there.
I work in a clinic-type office and wear heels and business clothing, though if I were running around with patients all day I’d wear flats probably. But not Crocs.
This is not irrational. This is perfectly normal.
- White shoes (all white, like Keds or tennis shoes)
When people can’t find something to love in any shoe. Even Crocs.
This bugs me too. Unfortunately, there are two people in my immediate family that have a habit of doing this. For the sake of peace, (or at least less dysfunction) I have learned to tolerate it. Doesn’t mean I like though.