# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/121 "2018-01-17T08:16:22Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > “Grizzly” for “grisly” > “Taken for granite” > “Escape goat” > I chuckle when I encounter these in my undergrads’ essays, but writers for the likes of Slate, HuffPo, and Politico should know, for chrissakes, that bloody crime scenes are “grisly,” not “grizzly” (unless, for example, a bear shot an escape goat in a bank robbery: “Grizzly Kills Local Goat, Grisly Details at 10pm on WKOB News 7 with Gary Granite.”) You should of mentioned “for all intensive purposes.” Yes I did it intentionally. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/122 "2018-01-17T08:18:37Z")
Brake dabbers are not slowing down, they’re not notifying anyone of their intention, they are simply idiots who can’t comprehend that dabbing the brakes (touching the pedal just enough to make the lights flash on) does NOTHING. They are not slowing the car because the tiniest whisper of contact on the pedal does not even engage the brakes. They do it because they have piss poor judgment of distance and speed and seem to think the only answer to any perplexity on the road is to brake. No. Seeing a squirrel on a park bench fifty feet off the road and 200 feet in front of you does not require a brake dab. Someone turning left from a side street when you’re doing 25mph and are a block away does not require a brake dab. If you put on the brakes, FFS actually change your speed, otherwise you’re just being fucking annoying. I don’t want to be behind you getting false alerts from your pointless brake dabbing. Stop it. Oh, and while I’m on the subject, those fucking fools who drive Camry sized cars who think they need to swing 3/4 of the way into the opposite lane in order to make a right turn are in need of a swift clip around the ear. It’s not a fucking semi, just turn already! ---
**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 17, 2018, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/123 "2018-01-17T09:42:26Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Yes I did it intentionally. Small font or not, that spoiled the affect. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/124 "2018-01-17T10:06:20Z")
Effect! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/125 "2018-01-17T11:12:14Z")
In French, one third (roughly speaking) of verbs have homophonic infinitive and past participle, but they’re not homographs (manger/mangé). It’s probably the most common of misspellings even among natives. Seeing that mistake drives me batty every time - and since these last few years I’ve been correcting student papers on and off, I see it a _lot_. I keep meaning to red ink “Motherfucker do you not even \*\*understand \*\*your own language ? Do you not see how these two forms of the verb have wildly different semantic meanings ? FUCK !” all over the place. ---
**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 17, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/126 "2018-01-17T11:27:11Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Effect! Whooooosh. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/127 "2018-01-17T11:38:45Z")
Nah, response appropriate to a thread about trivial stuff that bothers you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/128 "2018-01-17T13:04:09Z")
Trivial? I can’t pause YouTube videos on my iPad with any degree of precision. The controls they provide are fine for pausing a movie for a bathroom break, but are useless for trying to freeze one specific frame (like where someone puts up a paragraph of text for a split second). You have to tap the screen to get the pause button to appear; then you have to accurately tap the gnat-sized target in the center of the screen. Meanwhile, if you are waiting for a specific frame, the button disappears in two seconds, so you have to keep repeating this process. However, if you want to post a reply (which I never want to do) that’s on a hair trigger. Apparently, one can post a reply in heavy leather work gloves. ---
**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 17, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/129 "2018-01-17T14:10:26Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Nah, response appropriate to a thread about trivial stuff that bothers you 🙂 When someone has clearly deliberately made such a “mistake” for comedic effect, correcting them just makes it look like you don’t get the joke. (I find most of your responses on most subjects stilted and awkward, and this is a case in point. I’m really not sure what you meant with this response.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/130 "2018-01-17T14:10:50Z")
People who totally block out the real world when they are on that damn hand held. “Next on line please. NEXT ON LINE PLEASE.” Nope, the next on line is too busy texting to notice. Whenever two or more people are assembled for a single purpose, put that thing away. ---
**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 17, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/131 "2018-01-17T16:09:28Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Grocery store checkout, or any store with lines waiting for cashiers: > > People, usually my age or older, and usually female for whatever that’s worth, who wait until the cashier tells them the total for their purchase. > Then they flip open their checkbook (remember checkbooks?), and in the **slowest possible handwriting possible** begin to painstakingly write out > > - the store’s full name, in curlicued 1940’s grammar school script; > - the numeric amount goes quickly enough, but then they have to laboriously squeeze out “Seventy-seven and thirty-five one hundredths ----------------------------” Dollars; > - god knows what goes in the memo corner, but they make sure to write it > - their signature, even more slowly than everything preceding it because one must make a good impression. > Satisfied, they lean back and relax for two seconds. You breathe an infuriated sigh of relief. > > Then they carefully fold the check back, then forward again, and VERY gently tear it off the pad. Three - perforations - at - a - time. zzt…zzt…zzt…zzt…zzt…zzt…zzt…zzt… > > Having apparently completed this Herculean feat, **they then copy the entire check into the register book** , because carbon backed checks must be too new-fangled for them. > > By the time they hand their masterwork to the cashier my head’s about to explode, partly because I’m irritated with myself for letting such a trivial vexation tie me in knots. And of course if I sneak a peek at my fellow victims waiting for this person, I always seem to be the only one with pursed white lips and a purple face. > Thank you. I feel better now. I feel your pain. How do you feel about the same sorts of people who have those little rubber change purses; the bill is $14.53, and first the bills are counted out. You can see that they have another one or even a five, but that just won’t do, so out comes the coin purse and the laborious coin counting begins, as there is nothing larger than a nickel in the damn thing. An aside: I see your location is Moscow, ID. I went to the U of I there for two years back in the early 70s, and two of my kids were born there. I rented a farm house outside of town in the general area of Genesee. I would imagine that not too much has changed. ---
**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 17, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/132 "2018-01-17T16:10:22Z")
When my phone comes within range of my car and Bluetooth connects, it autoplays whatever music it can find. When a phonecall ends, it autoplays whatever music it can find. And _there is no way to stop this behavior_, either within the phone’s settings or the car software. Pages of people complaining online, problem has existed for years, neither Toyota nor Apple have provided a solution. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/133 "2018-01-17T16:29:57Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > When someone has clearly deliberately made such a “mistake” for comedic effect, correcting them just makes it look like you don’t get the joke. (I find most of your responses on most subjects stilted and awkward, and this is a case in point. I’m really not sure what you meant with this response.) Wowzie, dude/dudess. Nava is a great writer, especially so because English is her second (or third or fourth language). ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/134 "2018-01-17T17:17:54Z")
I should OF also mentioned “one in the same”. Drives me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/135 "2018-01-17T17:32:42Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > When my phone comes within range of my car and Bluetooth connects, it autoplays whatever music it can find. When a phonecall ends, it autoplays whatever music it can find. And _there is no way to stop this behavior_, either within the phone’s settings or the car software. Pages of people complaining online, problem has existed for years, neither Toyota nor Apple have provided a solution. On that note, when I used my iPhone’s control center to resume playing an audio book or podcast I was listening to, it insists on playing something from the music application. I had to delete the built-in music application from my phone. I guess I’m the one Apple user in the world that doesn’t care for or give a feces about music. ---
**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 17, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/136 "2018-01-17T17:33:20Z")
> [@I.Dunno](#): > > I should OF also mentioned “one in the same”. Drives me crazy. The level of peoples’ insecurity about there grammatical reputation is just _ruining_ these jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/137 "2018-01-17T17:38:05Z")
The affect of you’re outrage is loost on me. ---
**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 17, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/138 "2018-01-17T17:44:21Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > People who think they can get off the plane faster than everybody else. When as soon as the seatbelt sign goes off people stand up in the aisle. Even better when they start opening overheads and getting luggage down. You’re not going anywhere until the people ahead of you go so sit down and wait! ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/139 "2018-01-17T17:46:26Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > About cashiers, No I don’t want your happy banter, or your questions. I am not gonna tell you what I am gonna cook with the odd assortment of stuff in my cart. It’s my secret. And don’t give me a dirty look if I buy alot of chocolate. It’s my business and my money. I am a shy, introverted person who doesn’t want to talk to you at all, just shut-up and do your job. Or I will and have changed stores if I feel to put upon. So there. I’ve steered a lot of my business to stores with self checkouts for this reason. On the one hand I can’t knock a cashier for wanting to make their shift less boring through a little pleasant conversation, but I just find it super uncomfortable (even worse if they comment on what you’re buying.) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627/140 "2018-01-17T18:30:25Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Small font or not, that spoiled the affect. I was afraid it would, but didn’t want to bother responding to humor-impaired “gotcha” responses. Next time I’ll have more faith in my fellow Dopers. Irregardless of the consequences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-that-annoy-you/806627.md?page=8)