What I probably wasn’t clear about was that this area that I’m talking about is a main through-way, where there is a lot of entering and exiting traffic. Literally to open the door to leave the building you have to say “EXCUSE me” and push through 2 or 3 smokers who are standing inches from the front door when there are 2 large open areas on both sides of the doors, paved with benches and standing ashtrays. Plus I’m 7 weeks pregnant so I’m completely entitled to let this piss me off without reason. 
I really despise going into my office smelling like I just smoked a pack of Luckys.
People who litter. There’s a neighbor of mine who routinely throws his junk mail into the sewer drain right next to his mailbox. I also saw him throw one of those small county newspapers down there once, too. How would he like it if I stuffed his toilet with my junk mail?
People who can’t seem to use “affect” and “effect” properly.
I think it’s stupid to file for bankrupcty, but still allow your 14 year old child the frivolities (IMO) of life (cell phone, high speed internet, digital cable, designer clothing).
I also think it’s stupid to put a box of tissue on the back window ledge of your car. If you’re driving alone and have to blow your nose that badly, what will you do? Gotta pull over, crawl into the back seat . . .
(I agree with Winnie: Smokers should move away from the entrance doors. I smoke, BTW.)
This is probably just stress from finals, but I’m getting really sick of people who whistle. They whistle vaguely in the dining hall, in the library, in the dorm hallways, while reading… It’s so obnoxious. It’s a piercing, obnoxious sound even when done softly, and if I wanted music, I would go home and put on a song.
Doctors and lawyers using Latin phrases with Anglicized pronunciation. They should pronounce it the way the Catholic Church used to, which was more like Italian.
I don’t know why it bothers me, but it does.
In case anyone’s wondering, I was reminded of this by Ol’ Gaffer’s post regarding “alumnus”, “alumni”, and “alumna”. I think the reason most colleges have given up and just put “alumni” on their alumni associations’ license plate frames is that the Latin word is notoriously confusing in this regard. Depending on whether you’re using the anglicized pronunciation familiar to doctors and lawyers, or the Italianate pronunciation of the Church, the same pronunciation can mean either masculine plural or feminine plural.
You know Spectre, it isn’t so much that it is ungrammatical per se but rather that these people are using an ungrammatical expression to proudly proclaim that they have graduated from college. It drives me nuts. It is like applying for a copy editor job with a typo in your cover letter (which actually happened to my brother).
Yeh, Um I thought this was the thread for stupid things that bug you more than they really should even if there’s no real reason for it 
I could probably invent some psychological justification for it, and bring in my revulsion for dreadlocks or how I really hate people that smoke while preparing food (even though when you think about it the ash that drops in is probably the most sterile thing in the kitchen and doesn’t actually alter the taste) but I know that you’ll have a good answer to anything I say about having holes in your face and I have already acknowleged that the creeps I get aren’t justified.
big breath in
I don’t think it’s cleanliness or that, as it extends to facial or finger tattoos too.
Carry on, but I’ll still avoid you at the Deli counter. Sorry AnimistDragon . 
pepperlandgirl, I didn’t know dolphins lived in igloos! Well. I guess they ain’t as smart as I thought. I feel much better now!! 
Jeez I annoy myself. Like just then when I typed “annoy” with one n, even though I know I sent the command to the fingers to do the double-hit on the “n” key.
And when my fingers get in a total tangle and I find I’ve just been typing a row of gibberish.
Or the caps-lock key is down and I fill a para with capitals 'cause I can’t look at the screen and type at the same time 'cause I’m trying to make sure my fingers are doing what I told them to.Ooooooooooooooooh!
Oh, and pretty much all the stuff everyone else here mentioned. [AOL]Me too[/AOL].
People who, when singing, pronounce “perilous” as “peroliss”. I don’t know who started this horrific pronunciation, but it needs to stop. Like, yesterday, if not sooner.
**Yes and yes! - noisy eaters and idiots who can’t simply point, they have to touch.
Or people who yell “OH! LOOK!” while I am driving - after I have initiated the emergency stop procedure, it turns out they were just indicating their appreciation of a moderately attractive tree.
Also, people who grope when they are talking to you - not sexually or anything, fortunately, but they can’t talk to you without feeling your arms, shoulders, hands etc…
The guy in the office next door always starts throwing a base ball againest the wall from 5pm. Whap-Whap, Whap-whap, whap-whap. It drives me insane!
dman S’all cool. I was just wondering.
I wouldn’t want someone who’s smoking making my food, either.
Then I guess it’s a good thing I don’t work at a Deli Counter. hehe.
It drives me bonkers when words beginning with “ex” are abbreviated with an X. For some reason I can’t figure out, there’s a general consensus that these words should be an exception to the rule that words are abbreviated using their first letter.
I’m currently working with XML on a project at work. XML, for those who don’t know, stands for Extensible Markup Language. Meanwhile, there’s a group in my department called Data Exchange Services, or DXS for short.
I just don’t get it. Look: Extensible Markup Language. EML. Data Exchange Services. DES. It seems like it should be so simple. The first letter of the words “extensible” and “exchange” is E, so the words should be abbreviated with an E.
Unless we’re talking about Xylophone Markup Language, or Data Xenophobe Services, the letter X just doesn’t fit.
Hey, I like to push the elevator button lots of times. No good reason, really…just makes me feel good.
All the nurses at the last blood drive I went to had tattoos. That really bugged me. I’m not sure why. The whole time I was there, I found myself thinking about it.
Q.N., I don’t care for tattoos either. Now someone’s going to be along in a minute to yell at us, but I say if it weren’t for us prudish old fogies, what would you whippersnappers do for a good time?
I hate it, hate it, HATE it, when grown adults can’t follow little, simple rules – the ones we all learn in kindergarten – and it f**ks stuff up for everyone else.
Examples/
- Would you just bloody well move to the back of the bus???** Please! I was the last passenger to squeeze onto a streetcar before the driver said “Sorry, I can’t take anymore passengers. It’s too full.” And it was - packed tighter than a jack-in-the-box . But I knew better, I squeezed, and slithered, and pushed my way past the middle doors to find… 10-15 feet of pure empty aisle space for me to enjoy all to myself! Half of the streetcar was empty (the seats were taken, but the aisle was empty.) I could skip, I could dance, I had heaps and heaps of room 'cause no one moves to the back of the streetcar!
Plenty of room for all the folks we left behind. But no, they’re going to be late because no one wanted to give up a strategic position by the middle door. Or sure, you could say “I want to be close to the door so I don’t miss my stop”. But if your stop isn’t coming up imminently, then move your butt to the back and let everyone have a bit more breathing room.
And hey, while your at it, let the little old lady sit down. Like, maybe in the seat with the sign over it that says: “Seat reserved for the elderly and infirm.”
- You, pedestrian! “Don’t walk” means don’t walk! I walk to work a lot, so it’s not like I’m a pissed off driver, but I still get ticked off at the log-jam near work. There is an advance green for cars turning left. They need this to keep all the lanes flowing. But every morning, a throng of pedestrians decide “well, the light is red the other way…” and cross against the “don’t walk” sign. The cars turning left with the blinking arrow… can’t.
Like the fluttering wings of a butterfly causing a tsunami, this creates a chain reaction and traffic gets backed up for blocks – back as far as a very major intersection. And Og help commuters if someone was in mid-turn when the throng lept off the curb, because then the car ends up blocking more lanes.
Remember when you were six and they said “cross at the intersection, look both ways, a cross with the light?” No, really. Cross with the light. The advance green last only ten seconds, deal with it.
**Note: This post refers to all the able-bodied folks. I know there are some people who must be nearer the doors.
Phone peeve - i.e. old fashioned phones with handsets …
People in offices who dial without picking up the handset, so everyone in the vicinity gets to hear LOUD DIAL TONE BUZZ boop beep boop etc. I hate the implication that you’re too important/busy to actually pick up the handset. Also, my office is generally noisy enough with electronic sounds, computer dings, phones ringing, etc … don’t need your extra noise pollution.
I hate this from the receiving end as well … my phone rings, I pick it up and answer politely, in the midst of which I hear CLUNK clackety CLUNK while the caller picks up the handset, then hollers “what? who is this?”, since they couldn’t hear me.
I hate those beeping Nextel phones too. I’m having a peaceful lunch, suddenly from the table next to me … BEEP “Joe, where you at?” BOOP [yelling] “I’m eating lunch at Wendy’s, whadya want?” BEEP “Where’d ya leave the left handed socket wrench?” BOOP Why is this superior to just calling?
I’m a noise sensitive person, in case it’s not obvious. I wish there were more like me. We live in a very noisy world.
After reading this thread, I’m annoyed that so many people are so easily annoyed!
Christ… the world is falling apart around us, and we’re kvetching about how much freaking milk people use on their cereal??