# Very Minor Things That REALLY Annoy You? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328 "2009-01-28T01:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/21 "2009-01-28T06:52:00Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > When my coworker says her “husband” rather than using his name. > I know him. I have worked with him many times. So has everyone else in the room. > Just use his name dammit. I can relate, my mom has started using the “Husband” term.. “I need to go spend time with my husband, I’ll be back”… Please… What ever happened to calling him “Honey bear” and all that 😃 As for another, I’ve started hearing the term “24/A”.. ya, 24 Ay.. Instead of 24/7.. WTF is that about… People who can’t simply say “thank you” when you spend 4 hours of your time trying to help them out. While at the grocery store when the cashier always has to ask “Do you need assistance to your vehicle”?.. Haha… That pisses them off too. They’re required to do it here at the Safeway regardless of what is purchases. Last time I went there a guy bought a pack of gum, and yes, he still had to say the line. Of course, he said is jokingly, but still, it’s ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/22 "2009-01-28T07:20:54Z")
I hate that plastic sandwich bags that have that crappy seal that never works are called “zipper bags,” when there is another design that _actually has a fucking zipper_ that’s more expensive and preferable in all circumstances. For some inexplicable reason, the version with the _actual_ zipper is called a “slider bag” _even though it has a damn zipper_. I can’t help but think that this is to trick people that want the “slider” into buying the “zipper,” thinking that they’re getting a deal. I just bought the generic “zipper” bags and opened them only to see those damned seals that don’t work at all. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/23 "2009-01-28T12:42:15Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > When people ignore me because they’re engaged in something. If I come up to you and say, “Hi, friend, can you take a look at this?” and you give absolutely no response, I’m going to think you didn’t hear me. Is what you’re working on so friggin’ important that you can’t even pause to say, “Hold on, I’ll be with you in a second”? > > I have a friend who does this, and every time it makes me want to punch him in the mouth. I came in here to say this. I mean really, nod or something! ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/24 "2009-01-28T12:49:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Not quite the same but very close. > > My parents divorced when I was about 13 yrs old. After the divorce, they always referred to each other as “your Father” or “your Mother”. I really don’t know what the proper protocol is, but it really irritated me when mom would say “you should call your Father” or Dad would say “give this to your Mother.” It sounds petty now that i am 48 yrs old, but I hated it when I was a kid. THIS. I have never seen a post or writing anywhere ever on any topic that I agreed with more. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/25 "2009-01-28T13:39:15Z")
When someone ‘apologises’ for something by saying “My bad”. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/26 "2009-01-28T13:56:01Z")
It annoys me when people use words in writing that are never used in speech. For example, “natch”. Not only does seeing this word distract me because I immediately think of “snatch”, but the value of meaning bestowed by this word is vastly outweighed by its pretentious appearance. And methinks? Played. Out. I don’t like it when people call me on the phone for casual conversation while they are out in public, doing errands or driving in the car. Because inevitably I’ll have to hear them direct stupid comments to the car that is cutting them off (“Oh come on, I was turning, dude!”) or hear them say stuff to cashiers like “You take card?..Thanks. Yes, plastic please…Okay, you too.” I could live without all that, really. Call me when you’re at home. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/27 "2009-01-28T14:02:06Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > When someone ‘apologises’ for something by saying “My bad”. Are you my boss? The interns would drive him crazy with that. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/28 "2009-01-28T14:03:34Z")
I hate the way that TV commercials are shown at a volume twice that of what I was watching. Loud noise stresses me out unless I’m the one choosing the music and volume and it’s like a blasting wall of sound trying to sell me things I don’t need. It annoys the hell out of me even though the volume control is right at my fingertips. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/29 "2009-01-28T14:08:45Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > It annoys me when people use words in writing that are never used in speech. For example, “natch”. Not only does seeing this word distract me because I immediately think of “snatch”, but the value of meaning bestowed by this word is vastly outweighed by its pretentious appearance. And methinks? Played. Out. > > I don’t like it when people call me on the phone for casual conversation while they are out in public, doing errands or driving in the car. Because inevitably I’ll have to hear them direct stupid comments to the car that is cutting them off (“Oh come on, I was turning, dude!”) or hear them say stuff to cashiers like “You take card?..Thanks. Yes, plastic please…Okay, you too.” I could live without all that, really. Call me when you’re at home. The folks behind them in line or in traffic would greatly appreciate that as well… ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/30 "2009-01-28T14:52:01Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > When you’re walking on the sidewalk, and two people are coming towards you, and the inside person closest to you won’t lean or walk single file or get out of your way. This inside person is ALWAYS a woman, usually young. Guys never do this because bumping into another guy can start a fight, but women haven’t figured this out. I honestly don’t think it ever crosses their minds. You get half of the sidewalk, ladies. If someone is coming from the other direction, you don’t make that person jump into a tree or the street just because you’re special and the conversation you’re having is so important, even if you’re walking with the love of your life and having some kind of special moment. Get out of the way. I will give you a withering stare if it doesn’t look like you’re going to move, and I will bump you out of the way if you seem like a self-important twat. Only old women and children get a pass. ARGH, YES. I walk to work and this happens to me every day. Even worse, at least a few times a week, someone will appear to actually careen toward me as I walk past them, as in, they were appropriately sticking to their side of the sidewalk, which was wide enough for the both of us, and then for some mysterious reason they walk _right at me_ just as I walk by. I know my ass is big, but it’s not big enough to have its own gravitational pull. Get out of my way! And even worse! It’s been snowing here a lot this winter, and the sidewalks in my neighborhood don’t get shoveled completely – there’s just a narrow strip cleared, wide enough for one person, with the snow piled waist high at either side. The other day on my walk to work, I encountered a trio of people who had stopped to talk in the middle of this narrow sidewalk, and they could see me coming but weren’t spreading out to let me pass. Well, I couldn’t step into the street because A) this is an urban neighborhood and I didn’t want to get killed by the passing cars, and B) the wall of snow was blocking me in anyway. So I said “excuse me!” twice, and when nobody moved, I just pushed through them. Then the clueless idiots called me rude. (I guess I could have stopped and asked them pointedly to get out of my way, but I was in a hurry.) ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/31 "2009-01-28T15:16:09Z")
Rapid fire ‘channel surfing’, either with the television or the radio; not even stopping long enough to see what’s showing/playing before zipping off again. My wife does it and it drives me nuckin’ futz. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/32 "2009-01-28T15:34:09Z")
I don’t like it when people refer to their children as DD or DS on parenting message boards. I find it extremely obnoxious. It took me forever to realize it meant, “dear daughter” or “dear son,” which made me hate the abbreviation even more. I love my kid, but it reminds me of the “Dear Liza” song, which I cannot stand. It drives me nuts when my mom comes over and uses almost all of a roll of toilet paper, then when it’s _almost_ out, but not quite, throws the rest away and gets a new one. I don’t like it when I ask my husband to help clean and, while he does help, he gets distracted and decides to clean something that’s completely out of everyone’s line of sight (even ours). For example, he’ll say he’s going to hang up freshly-laundered shirts in the closet, go to the closet to do it, then set the shirts over the back of the couch because he thinks the closet’s too messy and needs a cleaning. Which would be all well and good if he didn’t pull everything out of the closet and set it on the floor, vacuum the closet interior, thus making the closet spic and span, but everything within a five-foot radius covered with stuff that should be in the closet. Then he’ll forget to put the clothes away anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/33 "2009-01-28T16:05:35Z")
My mother has a horrible habit of saying " you know " in nearly every sentence. It could be at the beginning, middle or end, it doesn’t matter. What makes this worse is that for the rest of the day I’m hyper-sensitive to anybody else who does it. You know? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/34 "2009-01-28T16:08:04Z")
Riding with people who must find the perfect parking spot. I personally have no problem parking in the hinterlands and walking an extra couple of hundred feet. So it drives me nuts when the driver cruises up and down the rows in the lot for five minutes looking for an open spot. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/35 "2009-01-28T16:11:30Z")
The sound of people chewing food grosses me out. The sound of nail filing. Whistling. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/36 "2009-01-28T16:13:05Z")
I also hate the way that my mother says ‘simply gawgeous’ about every bit of beautiful scenery that she sees. She’ll say it 100 times in a day. I wanted to leave her in Big Sur once because one more of those and I was going to belt her, or at least want to. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/37 "2009-01-28T16:16:29Z")
My boyfriend is a better cook than I, so he frequently makes dinner at my place. He uses the same towel to dry his hands, wipe up crumbs, clean that smear of sauce, mop the floor, snap my ass, and dry his hands again. Am I the only one who likes to use the same \*clean \*towel to dry my hands after washing them? I don’t want to use a towel that has crud all over it, just use a different towel for messes and we’ll wash it later. Save that one towel for drying clean hands, please! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/38 "2009-01-28T16:47:28Z")
Folks who try to multitask by “holding a conversation” with you while simultaneously doing something at their computer. This results in long, drawn-out inattentive blathering while you’re standing there tapping your foot waiting for them to Finish. The. Damn. Sentence. before you die of old age. One of my bosses does this, as well as my husband. Drives me fargin’ nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/39 "2009-01-28T16:52:55Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Not quite the same but very close. > > My parents divorced when I was about 13 yrs old. After the divorce, they always referred to each other as “your Father” or “your Mother”. I really don’t know what the proper protocol is, but it really irritated me when mom would say “you should call your Father” or Dad would say “give this to your Mother.” It sounds petty now that i am 48 yrs old, but I hated it when I was a kid. I guess I don’t know what the proper protocol is either, but I can’t for the life of me think of anything else they could have said. “Give this to Mom”? That sounds odd, because your mother isn’t _his_ mom. Plus, that sounds like something you’d say when you’re closer, like in the next room, not when you live apart. And it’d sound even stranger to say, “Give this to Carol”, or whatever her name is, when she’s your mother. What did you want them to call each other? My little irritation: lights. Seems like every time I come home, every light in the house is on. My wife (look, “my wife”!) apparently doesn’t realize that it’s legal for her to push the switch back down when she leaves the room. Something really bugs me about every room in the house being brightly lit when we’re only in one small part of it. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328/40 "2009-01-28T16:54:43Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I don’t like it when people refer to their children as DD or DS on parenting message boards. I find it extremely obnoxious. It took me forever to realize it meant, “dear daughter” or “dear son,” which made me hate the abbreviation even more. I love my kid, but it reminds me of the “Dear Liza” song, which I cannot stand. Same. When I finally figured it out I was like, “We know you love your kid. Stop using that stupid abbreviation”. Drove me crazy whenever I saw it but it’s SO ingrained in almost every parenting board, that to ever post anything negative about it would be suicide. So I just don’t visit those boards anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-minor-things-that-really-annoy-you/483328.md?page=3)