# Trivial Things that annoy you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627 "2018-01-14T20:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/21 "2018-01-15T05:07:39Z")
[ul] [li]People who stop at the green right arrow like it’s a stop sign. every. single. morning[/li][li]People who don’t use the center turn lane the way it’s intended[/li][li]People who drift out in front of you, and then proceed to take their sweet ass time, despite there being no one behind you for a mile[/li][li]People who don’t walk on the right. Or hell, even the left. They meander and confuse everyone else[/li][li]People who label MP3s Song Title - Artist, instead of Artist - Song Title as God intended[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/22 "2018-01-15T05:31:21Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > A group of people dining together, all bent over their phones. They’re not with me so it doesn’t affect me personally, but it just annoys me to see a tableful of phone addicts ignoring one another. > > You didn’t want only logical annoyances, did you? How do you know they aren’t talking to each other via text? It’s a lot easier than shouting over a loud restaurant. It yeah, it annoys me to shout over a loud restaurant or to hear others shouting over a loud restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/23 "2018-01-15T05:43:17Z")
People who post a topic and say “Discuss”. Fucking lazy is what they are. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/24 "2018-01-15T05:55:38Z")
Any of the following mistakes which are so ubiquitous now that people doing them wrong are unlikely to learn by observing and actually correcting someone gets you a stink-eye. Your/you’re everyday/every day and other compound words myself/yourself as a non-reflexive pronoun ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/25 "2018-01-15T06:12:30Z")
Your/you’re used to really bother me until autocorrect fucked me over so many times that I’ve come to tolerate the mistake in others. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/26 "2018-01-15T06:56:58Z")
My Levi’s. They come in 36 or 38 inch waist. I’m a solid 37 apparently. They either pinch or fall off my ass like a rapper. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/27 "2018-01-15T11:32:07Z")
People who have no spatial awareness This happens everywhere but maybe the worst is at the grocery store. People turn into an aisle and stop, blocking you from getting in and then looking around for 30 seconds deciding if they need anything in that aisle. This leaves your butt hanging out into the main aisle between the groceries and the checkout area making it look like you’re the asshole. People who walk down the center of every aisle and leave their cart there while they step over to examine every one of the 150 varieties of soup. Couples who must walk side by side no matter what, completely blocking everyone from getting past them. It is possible to speak and communicate while walking single file. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/28 "2018-01-15T12:56:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My little dog begging to go out, and when you open the door she hesitates because it is cold. Mine does this but I find it quite endearing - she gets all excited at the idea of going out, then stops at the back door and looks at the rain, then looks forlornly at me, as if believing I have the power to make it stop. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/29 "2018-01-15T13:49:00Z")
People who nod their heads in agreement while they’re speaking. Just… no. You speak, I listen, I nod. That’s how that works. Only crazy people nod while they’re talking. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/30 "2018-01-15T13:55:49Z")
- Foot shufflers (yes, I know some people have a medical condition. This is not that) - People who don’t respect screen privacy - People who talk really loudly on the phone except, magically, when it’s a personal call they find their inside voice - People who have conversations with themselves so you never know if they’re talking to you or themsel…you know what? I should just collapse these into a bullet point called “cubicle life.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/31 "2018-01-15T14:07:19Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Getting change at the checkout line in the form of a “receipt sandwich”: > > hands me my paper money change > on top of that lays the goddam receipt > on top of the receipt places the metal change Dear God I hate this. Preach. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/32 "2018-01-15T15:37:38Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > … who then also insist on not only paying with cash, but _paying with exact change_, and then taking the time to rummage through their purse/pockets for the necessary coinage. I think all stores with multiple lanes should have a Cash Only, and we MEAN it! lane. My experience with card users often ends up as follows: Waits until order is rung up. Searches in huge luggage-sized purse for card. Swipes first card. Doesn’t work. Tries again, doesn’t work. Enters correct PIN, card denied. Searches in huge luggage-sized purse for second card. Repeat of first card scenario. Search ensues for checkbook, the writes check. Searches for proper ID… Me paying in cash: Order rung up. I hand cash to cashier, take change, leave store with my purchases. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/33 "2018-01-15T15:50:17Z")
Good to know I’m not the only one who hates the receipt sandwich. A trivial thing that annoys me (and maybe only me) : when I’m on the bus or subway and someone near me is tapping their foot. I can both hear it, and feel it in my own feet. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/34 "2018-01-15T15:53:20Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > How do you know they aren’t talking to each other via text? It’s a lot easier than shouting over a loud restaurant. I also get trivially annoyed by people who appear to judge the quality of what annoys me. Guess I’m not doing it right, huh? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/35 "2018-01-15T16:47:15Z")
> [@Reecejackox](#): > > Waiting in queues The older I get, the worse this gets for me. I’m gettin’ cranky. ---
**Author:** ![Maurie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Maurie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maurie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/36 "2018-01-15T17:05:30Z")
People who make fun of people who order a diet beverage with a fast food combo. I don’t even eat fast food or drink soda, but every time I hear this worn-out joke I want to sit the person down for a crash course on nutrition, logic, differing tastes, and not being a judgemental jerk about things they are ignorant about. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/37 "2018-01-15T17:43:33Z")
People at the grocery store who don’t use the express lane or self checkout when they only have one or two items. There are two express lanes open, and four self checkouts, but they have to use the only “full service” lane (which I need to be in because I have a full cart) because I don’t know, they’re lazy or stupid I guess. (Sometimes I think it is part and parcel of the “phone addiction” thing. They can’t be bothered to put their phone down long enough to check themselves out. It still doesn’t explain why they don’t use the express checkout though…) Also, why does Target have 20 cash registers along the front of the store but they never have more than two or three open? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/38 "2018-01-15T17:46:25Z")
People who video you without your permission. Next time it happens, Ima slap the phone out of their hands. This happens at venues where there are protests going on. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/39 "2018-01-15T18:03:27Z")
calling a sandwich a “sammie.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/40 "2018-01-15T18:04:41Z")
Old white guys who feel they have the right to chime in on every situation. I was at an event this weekend and ordered an IPA, the vendor told me that the IPA was coming out really foamy and it would a few minutes. I asked what they had that was ready to do when this old white guy in line points at the menu and starts reading them off. A) I wanted to know what they had ready to go, not what was on the menu; and B) no one was talking to you. As a middle aged white guy, I hope this guy’s smug sense of entitlement isn’t my future. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=3)