I’m sure this has been done before but there are no current threads I can find. Hope this is the right forum… here goes…
What sends you over-the-edge-crazy that someone or most anybody wouldn’t even notice?
I know it’s crazy but when there is a commercial where I can hear the sounds of key strokes as text appears on the screen drives my blood pressure through the roof. Fingernails on a blackboard or a cat in a blender sounds like a choir of angels compared to this. The worst ones are the Carfax commercials. I can’t figure out why this affects me the way it does. My airway closes off, my pulse races, my teeth clench and it feels like my head is going to explode! I hit the mute button if I have the remote but usually I jump up and run out of the room.
Hearing someone type on a keyboard does not have the same effect; it’s only on the tv. I wonder if I’m going insane when this happens.
Anyone else care to share your strange, unreasonable, wacky, crazy reactions? :eek:
I’ve mentioned this before, I cannot stand exclamation points on a note. It is like yelling at someone vicariously and there is no eed for yelling at work. I destroy the neats and rewrite them quietly.
Wooden paddles like the kind they sometimes use to eat ice cream. If I see someone else using one, I have to stop what I am doing to get them a real spoon.
Bad grammar on a commercial or in a print ad. I grates on my nerves to have to read poorly written inter-office communications, but in print/commercials? Oh dear Og, it makes me want to climb a clocktower.
People around here seem to have an inability to pronounce the call letters of the radio station where I work. The last two letters are S and U. A lot of people are unable to resist pronouncing it “a shoe.” On the air. All the fucking time. Even the news director does it. I’m apparently the only one who cares. No amount of asking them to stop has any effect.
And spelling?? If they’re going to do something for public comsumption, PLEASE hire someone who can SPELL and WRITE proper english!
(typos I can tolerate… dumbness is another matter!)
Cow-orker. It’s not an actual word. While it’s good when you are making a point that your co-worker has dumb tendencies, just typing cow-orker and thinking, “That tells my audience that I don’t respect them”…just makes you look stupid.
Ads that put “quotes” around words for “emphasis”.
No, you morons. Quotes imply that you are taking words from a verbal interchange and using them verbatim or that the word is not to be taken as it usually is.
CORRECT: “You blithering idiots! Learn to use punctuation properly!” she screamed.
CORRECT: Oh, yes, I’m sure these marketing “experts” know what they’re doing.
I agree, but spelling doesn’t grate my nerves as badly as grammar. Funny enough, I have a picture (I will have to upload it to the web and share it) of a recipe box that I found at Wal-Mart. The label on the box (not a handwritten one at the store, but the actual manufacturer’s label) says it is a “Receipie Box.”
It drives me batty, since there is not a single computer-based program out there anymore that doesn’t have some sort of spell-check in it. Is it so hard to click that button?
Right now, it’s that I keep getting calls, voice-mails, and e-mails for another woman here at my company. We have the same first name. It’s not a rare name but not one in common use these days. I made a point when I joined this firm to go by my full first name rather than it’s quite common nickname because I didn’t want that type of confusion. It only happens on my end probably because she makes no attempt to inform her contacts that they must make a distinction. I know it’s not a big thing but it really chaps my [del]ass[/del] butt. :mad:
There’s nothing more unremarkable than a Windows PC. I’m not a Mac evangelist by any means, but day-um. Unless you have to*, you gotta be out of your mind to use, let alone buy, one of those things.
Also, socks with “fingers” on them. Creep me the hell out.
*you’re an extreme gamer, or need to use Windows only software consistently.
The local Wendy’s restaurant must be trying to improve their cycle time in the drive-thrus. I noticed that the last couple of times I went there, that after paying at the first window the person stationed at the second window would already be holding my drink out the window impatiently waiting for me to drive up and get it. This makes me so fucking insane with rage that I daydream of bashing their damn arm with a bat! I would never really do such a thing, but it really does get my BP up. Not sure why, they probably think they’re being attentive and helpful, I think they’re being impatient and rude. If you’re that impatient why don’t you grab my food and run it back to the first window while the jerk there is swiping my credit card and getting my receipt. Assholes…
People who hum as they eat. It turns my stomach, especially as they’re usually shoveling in french fries with alternating hands. I’m not even sure they know they’re doing it. Still…ugh. Don’t monsters do that in bad horror movies?