People who determine for everyone else what is “cool” and what is “lame” by labeling activities THEY don’t happen to care for, as “lame”.
People who use sponges and DON’T WRING THEM OUT when done with them.
Ditto on sports interviews. If you have heard about three of them, you have heard them all.
On the “one-floor elevator ride:” Don’t assume that all people who look able-bodied are so in fact. You can’t tell if someone has a bad back, knees, or heart, and simply can’t climb even one flight of stairs.
On the turn-signal thing: The reason some people leave the thing on forever is that their hearing is not acute. They honestly don’t hear the clicking, and are looking at the road instead of the dashboard. If you think seeing it is annoying, try being the passenger, wondering if the response you’ll get to, “You left the turn signal on again, dear,” is worse than “click…click…click…click…” for several miles.
Now a really annoying thing is when you are walking – yes, I said walking – as fast as you comfortably can, and there is plenty of room to either side, and somebody who wants to walk faster walks REALCLOSETOYOU in a bizarre pedestrian tailgating mode.
Almost as annoying as when people standing in line don’t move up when the people in front of them move up. Yes, I know there are 5 people in front, and I won’t get served any faster if number 4 moves closer to number 3, but as the title said, it’s a truly stupid thing that annoys me.
It drives me crazy when a sportscaster says that a player is “leading the league” in a negative category when that player has the most of such bad items. For instance, a baseball batter who strikes out the most is said to be “leading the league in strikeouts”, when in fact the batter who is leading the league is the one with the fewest strikeouts, not the most. The batter with the most strikeouts is last in the league in strikeouts. To me, being a league leader means being the best, not being the worst. It’s like saying the golfer with the highest score is leading the tournament. Nonetheless, sportscasters say such things all the time and it drives me insane.
Wouldn’t that make the person the best at striking out??
I hate it when people don’t move up to the cashier to pay. They stand at the end of the belt and pay from there instead of moving forward. I know it won’t get me out faster but moving up that 1 foot makes me feel like I am getting out faster.
People who have the fog lights on their car on, when it isn’t foggy … <twitches nervously>
THANK you! Though I work out, I’ve had iffy knees for years, even when I was much younger.
They don’t bother me to dance, do aerobics, or even do the stairmaster, but hitting those cement steps just KILLS them, especially going down.
And since I broke my leg back in April, forget it, it’s just much too painful. It’s certainly not laziness.
Besides, as someone else already mentioned, frequently stairwells are SMELLY. Most of the time it’s where the building’s smokers sneak off to have a drag when it’s cold outside.
Lastly, I really don’t want to be all alone in a not easily escapable area should some psycho come around.
Which brings me to another “this really bugs me” people who judge others without really KNOWING why they’re doing what they’re doing, but instead assign some negative reason (like laziness) to that person’s actions.
Just because someone LOOKS able-bodied, you don’t necessarily know what old injuries they’re dealing with that may cause them to, for instance, take an elevator for just one flight of stairs.
This weekend while shopping I saw a mass-produced sign marking an aisle that said “Stationary”. Apparently that’s an aisle that doesn’t move when they rearrange the rest of the store. I guess I should expect it from a place that calls itself ToysRUs!
The road junction in Dublin that has:
- A right-turn only traffic light.
- A “no right turn” sign.
- “No entry” painted across the road into which the traffic light is sending you.