# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/41 "2018-01-15T18:17:30Z")
> [@edwardcoast](#): > > People who post a topic and say “Discuss”. Fucking lazy is what they are. People who call threads “topics”. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/42 "2018-01-15T18:35:22Z")
> [@Maurie](#): > > 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. preach it. i simply don’t like the taste or mouthfeel of regular coke. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/43 "2018-01-15T18:40:58Z")
-Receipt sandwiches -Tags on towels & pillows -Also any clothing tag that picks me either on my neck or side -When I’m in a left turn arrow lane and it takes FOREVER for the first 2 cars to move -When my husband uses the hand towel in the kitchen and throws it on the counter instead of hanging it back up on the stove handle. I hang that towel up 10 times a day! -When I get a burger at a restaurant and my fries and bun are soaking up the pickle juice. HATE pickles. -The person ahead of me in line at the DMV who has a manilla folder full of papers, but not the correct ones. -Commericals -Sneezing right after putting on mascara. -Finding a book that looks good but then realizing its the 5th (or any other number) in a series. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/44 "2018-01-15T19:01:45Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Your/you’re I remember thinking that SO MANY entries in my senior year high school yearbook that had “your” instead of “you’re” was a great (failing) “report card” on the whole high school English department ! As to the trivial things that bother me: - standing in line for the single open check-out person/teller…who is being helped by another clerk (sometimes this is a supervisor - who also doesn’t see the big line forming to make the command decision to open up another teller/register) - groups of people with no spacial awareness blocking aisles. - “looky loos” in the opposite side of the flow of traffic, screwing up traffic on the side where the accident didn’t take place ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/45 "2018-01-15T19:03:27Z")
Websites (or anywhere else) that alphabetize titles starting with the indefinite or definite article under A or T instead of the second word. People who spell minuscule as miniscule. (OMG! Autocorrect on my Android tablet doesn’t highlight the latter as incorrect! No wonder so many people get it wrong! It’s the end of civilization as we know it!) ---
**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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/46 "2018-01-15T19:04:29Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > 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. Middle-aged white guys who can’t wait a few minutes for their beer and hold up the line for the rest of us. ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/47 "2018-01-15T19:07:34Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > calling a sandwich a “sammie.” Is “sammich” OK? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/48 "2018-01-15T19:10:37Z")
Not sure if this fits the billing, but I once read a children’s book, as a kid, that really ticked me off. The story was about a race between a horse, an airplane, a hot-air balloon, and a bicycle (I think,) and the author claimed that all 4 things resulted in a tie race at the end. Even at that age, I knew there was a drastic difference in the speed of an airplane vs. the other objects, and knew it was a lame attempt by the author at “making everything equal.” ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/49 "2018-01-15T19:53:30Z")
♪♫ Slightly slow drivers and gum chewing fools, Grocery shoppers who flout all the rules, Pickle soaked burgers and orange that zings, These are the worst of the trivial things Dogs that just cannot understand weather, Receipts and the change given screwed up together, Terrible grammar and waiting in lines, These are a few of my favourite whines, People who stay on their phones all through dinner, People who shout thoughts that should have stayed inner, Finding the hand towel again on the floor, All of these things are a terrible boor, When the smug men, Have to tell you, Their understanding’s bad, Remember it don’t just infuriate you, And let yourself feel so mad. ♫ ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/50 "2018-01-15T20:19:46Z")
People who think that when there’s a green arrow for a left turn, you can’t turn left when it goes dark (if the main light is green and your way is clear). Most of the U.S. population doesn’t understand their own traffic signals. 4-way stop signs. Jesus Christ. Just prioritize one direction like the rest of the world does, to stop the silly confusion of people not being able to figure out who should go next, half of them being too pushy and the other half not assertive enough. And given the ubiquity of 4-way stop signs, the idiocy of 2-way stop signs, where the only way to figure out the nature of the junction is to try to discern if the perpendicular roads have their own stops signs or not. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/51 "2018-01-15T20:27:58Z")
When I open my driver’s side door in the winter and snow falls onto the seat. The word “vacay” and every other trendy short form of words. There’s a magazine called “For Women First” and I swear everything in it is punctuated with an exclamation point. People who re-post things on Facebook without fact-checking first - eg. a missing person that has already been found. “Your welcome.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/52 "2018-01-15T20:30:05Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Slightly slow drivers and gum chewing fools, > Grocery shoppers who flout all the rules > […etc] Nice! ::::claps::: ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/53 "2018-01-15T20:45:31Z")
People who stop dead at the bottom of escalators or at the exit to grocery stores to check their receipts. Step to the side or keep moving before I run you over! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/54 "2018-01-15T21:21:58Z")
> [@Scoobysnax](#): > > People who stop dead at the bottom of escalators or at the exit to grocery stores to check their receipts. Step to the side or keep moving before I run you over! I’ve always wanted to push those people out of the way. ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/55 "2018-01-15T22:51:05Z")
People who complain about their jobs, while on the job. The local radio show host seems to do it indirectly, through her mentioning how much she dislikes Monday and gets excited for Friday. Or maybe I’m reading too much into this. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/56 "2018-01-15T23:21:06Z")
No, I don’t want to round my total up to the nearest dollar for animal shelters or homeless shelters or buying kids’ school supplies (and storing them in shelters, I assume) or any other undoubtedly good cause. No idea why; it would have essentially zero impact on me. Just don’t like being asked, and don’t like feeling like an asshole every time I refuse. Even _more_ trivial: the dead branch that fell and lodged itself, like an upside-down “Y,” on another branch high up in one of the tall pines in our backyard. It’s been there since we moved in over a year ago. I thought wind would eventually blow it off, but it’s still there. Probably been that way for years. Whenever I see it, for absolutely no reason, _it bugs me_. ---
**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 16, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/57 "2018-01-16T00:19:48Z")
\*\*Filbert \*\*- Huzzah!!! You are just too clever! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/58 "2018-01-16T00:40:35Z")
When I find a loose lego on the floor. Not because I’m worried about stepping on it - I collect the things, and when I dismantle the sets I put them back in their boxes, and a loose lego means some set _somewhere_ is now incomplete! And on the subject of lego woes, a lot of sets nowadays have spring-powered firing missiles. With hair triggers and sufficient power to fly fifteen feet and bounce off two walls before landing…somewhere. Dammit! ---
**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 16, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/59 "2018-01-16T00:46:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Middle-aged white guys who can’t wait a few minutes for their beer and hold up the line for the rest of us. That was just lame, how does my changing my order impact a guy who has already ordered and waiting for his beer? Wait, is this an example of old white guy chiming for no reason? Well played. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/60 "2018-01-16T00:48:31Z")
Misspelling “Cincinnati”, usually as “Cincinatti”. I was shocked to see that Facebook does this when it automatically tags the location of photos from that city. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=4)