# What completely normal situations get your goat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874 "2013-11-27T02:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/121 "2013-11-30T20:48:16Z")
Watching ppl eat. I try not to, but then I can hear them. Ok not everyone, its the DH. He eats like an animal. :rolleyes: • Stuffing the side of the cheek full of food and then cramming MOAR food in there. Like food is leaving the planet and will not be back. • Chomping, smacking, slurping, grinding the teeth together so that they make that awful scraping sound gives me the creeps. Then the finger-licking, smacking/sucking noises. And burping afterward. Disgusting. Ive tried to gently tell him to slow down and even made a joke of it but it never changes. Its like nails on the blackboard. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/122 "2013-11-30T20:52:20Z")
> [@Recusant](#): > > People who scrape metal forks against their teeth. You do not have a beak. You have a mouth. You are possessed of extremely flexible lips and a prehensile tongue. I should not have to repress a wince every time you put something in your mouth. I had to LOL at the “prehensile tongue” part! Conjures up a giraffe eating! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/123 "2013-11-30T21:29:41Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > \ > 2) Don’t force your cashiers to be a speaking commercial. Kudos to the Walgreen’s cashier who, when I said “I’m in a hurry, please skip the commercial this time” actually did so. I hope she didn’t get in trouble for it.\ I had a cashier at Wal-Mart the other day who asked me multiple times if I wanted a Mastercard. The _first_ no was polite; the subsequent ones, not so much. > [@Waenara](#): > > \ > I’m generally not a road-ragey person - I’m pretty calm in a traffic jam and don’t let bad drivers piss me off too much. But the ones I really hate are people who slow down unnecessarily when driving because they’re thinking about maybe turning in a few blocks, or maybe a kilometer or two down the road. Attention morons: it is entirely possible to maintain your speed until you get much closer to where you need to turn. Any earlier than that, and I am fantasizing about taking out your car with a rocket launcher.\ Or the people who turn right in front of me when I’m the only car on the road, then make another turn in a block, forcing me to slow down for them again. If you had waited two more seconds, I would have been past you and you wouldn’t have had to inconvenience me twice for no reason at all. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/124 "2013-11-30T22:26:49Z")
The most mundane thing that drives me into a fury is “push” doors that look like “pull” doors, and vice versa. What kind of evil person would design misleading push/pull handles for doors? Something that used to bother me more when I lived downtown: when I’d be walking behind a couple of tourist and they’d abruptly stop so that Tourist #2 could take a picture of Tourist #1 standing on the sidewalk. “Hey, remember that time I was standing on a sidewalk?” “Oh yeah! Good memories…” ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/125 "2013-11-30T23:14:40Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > \ > Or the people who turn right in front of me when I’m the only car on the road, then make another turn in a block, forcing me to slow down for them again. If you had waited two more seconds, I would have been past you and you wouldn’t have had to inconvenience me twice for no reason at all. Especially when there is a big open space behind you with lots of room to not cut someone off and make the turn safely. ---
**Author:** ![soulburnz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@soulburnz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulburnz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/126 "2013-12-01T08:49:28Z")
~ People that clip their fingernails at work. I could hear it clear across a noisy call center. Ping… ping… ping… smack ! ~ Someone who eats (usually cereal) out of a glass bowl and pinging the sides of it with every spoonful. ~ Meeting someone in a hallway and they squish clear up against the wall to give you enough space to pass - I want to scream “My ass is not that wide, asshole!” They are most likely “trying” to be polite… but still… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/127 "2013-12-01T13:25:10Z")
People who say “EYE-ther” when saying the word “either”. I was raised that it was “EE-ther”, not “EYE-ther”. Yes, I realize that this is now becoming a majority pronunciation, that does not make me loathe it any less. Likewise “normalcy”. I learned the word “normality”. I loathe “normalcy” and yes, it is another one that seems to be becoming the default. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/128 "2013-12-01T15:37:00Z")
Why is something learned as a child so much more important or true, whether it is or not, than something learned an hour ago, yesterday or 10 years ago? It can be hauled out in any discussion or argument and is supposed to carry more weight than otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/129 "2013-12-01T19:06:01Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Here’s one specifically for the Dope: > The OP writes a hypothetical with very clear and defined lines. Yet, there’s always going to be a handful of posters that simply can not follow the rules and simply MUST offer their input that clearly steps outside the purview of the hypothetical. Write better hypotheticals. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/130 "2013-12-01T19:24:59Z")
-Smokers, who, when seeing the bus approach and stop, take the biggest, fattest drag off their cig, then knock the cherry off to save the half-smoked cigarette for later, exhaling a lungful of smoke into my bus :mad: . These days when I see them taking a huge drag off a cigarette I won’t open the doors until I see them puff all the smoke out, otherwise the bus reeks of cigarette smoke for a while. [Normal in the sense that they are considerate enough to know they can’t smoke in the bus and at least not littering at the bus stop, but irritating nonetheless] -Parents who change their kids’ diaper in the bus, then forget the dirty diaper when they leave, leaving it to get sat/stepped on. -I’m sure whatever they are watching on their smartphone is pretty hot, but I really wish they would jerk off into the urinals in the public bathrooms instead of between the seat cusion in the back of the bus. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/131 "2013-12-01T19:27:03Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > -Smokers, who, when seeing the bus approach and stop, take the biggest, fattest drag off their cig, then knock the cherry off to save the half-smoked cigarette for later, exhaling a lungful of smoke into my bus :mad: . These days when I see them taking a huge drag off a cigarette I won’t open the doors until I see them puff all the smoke out, otherwise the bus reeks of cigarette smoke for a while. [Normal in the sense that they are considerate enough to know they can’t smoke in the bus and at least not littering at the bus stop, but irritating nonetheless] > … Around here, it’s the bus drivers who smoke inside their buses. :mad: And there don’t seem to be any bus drivers who don’t smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/132 "2013-12-01T19:37:15Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Around here, it’s the bus drivers who smoke inside their buses. :mad: And there don’t seem to be any bus drivers who don’t smoke. That’s LEGAL? :eek: Sometimes I forget not everything is like how it is in California. Where I live, nobody is allowed to smoke in the bus, to the extent that the drivers aren’t even allowed to hold an unlit stogie in their mouth (which some drivers got pissy about). ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/133 "2013-12-01T19:44:29Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > That’s LEGAL? :eek: Sometimes I forget not everything is like how it is in California. Where I live, nobody is allowed to smoke in the bus, to the extent that the drivers aren’t even allowed to hold an unlit stogie in their mouth (which some drivers got pissy about). It’s illegal as HELL, but bus drivers still get away with it. :mad: They usually smoke inside their buses before picking up passengers, as opposed to when passengers are inside the bus. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/134 "2013-12-01T19:50:49Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It’s illegal as HELL, but bus drivers still get away with it. :mad: They usually smoke inside their buses before picking up passengers, as opposed to when passengers are inside the bus. Wow, that’s nuts. We get in trouble for eating a sandwich in the driver’s seat (even if it is parked, engine off, they’re really particular about rules like this) and if someone complains, they’ll check the CCTV on the bus to see the driver’s incriminating activity. If I was smoking on the bus I’d get a 3 day suspension handed to me before I could even finish the smoke! (ie people tattle on the bus drivers for everything and I never assume I’m gonna get away with squat) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/135 "2013-12-02T23:57:13Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > Wow, that’s nuts. We get in trouble for eating a sandwich in the driver’s seat (even if it is parked, engine off, they’re really particular about rules like this) and if someone complains, they’ll check the CCTV on the bus to see the driver’s incriminating activity. > > If I was smoking on the bus I’d get a 3 day suspension handed to me before I could even finish the smoke! (ie people tattle on the bus drivers for everything and I never assume I’m gonna get away with squat) Recently, a bus driver (who was already late) stopped off for a full five minutes at a restaurant that was on his route, then came back with a coffee and sandwich, and drove slowly and erratically because he had a sandwich in one hand. Then there was the time I went to the front of the bus to get away from a passenger’s stinky McDonald’s food, and discovered that the bus driver was eating a reeking McDonald’s hamburger while driving. I hate the bus drivers here. **Incubus** , can I just move to where you live? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/136 "2013-12-03T00:26:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Write better hypotheticals. I wasn’t really speaking about myself. If you can find me a single hypothetical thread where someone doesn’t go outside the bounds of the hypothetical, I’ll eat my hat. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/137 "2013-12-03T00:55:04Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > -Parents who change their kids’ diaper in the bus, then forget the dirty diaper when they leave, leaving it to get sat/stepped on. > > -I’m sure whatever they are watching on their smartphone is pretty hot, but I really wish they would jerk off into the urinals in the public bathrooms instead of between the seat cusion in the back of the bus. I wouldn’t call either of these things “normal everyday situations.” (At least, I hope they are not normal everyday things for you! :eek:) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/138 "2013-12-03T01:31:33Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I wouldn’t call either of these things “normal everyday situations.” > > (At least, I hope they are not normal everyday things for you! :eek:) That’s just what I was going to say - I don’t want to live anywhere where those things are normal! ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/139 "2013-12-03T02:16:35Z")
People who spend all their time in public with their cell phone glued to the side of their heads, seemingly in one long, drawn out conversation with no end. I see, all the time, people in grocery stores shopping, going up and down the isles, without ever putting the phone down, including going through the checkout line, paying the clerk, all without ever hanging up. Not to mention people in restaurants who arrive while on the phone, sit down, have their order taken, and eat their meal without ever hanging up. I can’t imagine having that much to talk about to anyone, and if I did, I wouldn’t do it out in public. Cut the crap! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jeepus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeepus/32/3593_2.png) [@jeepus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeepus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/140 "2013-12-03T03:23:51Z")
People who whistle in public. No, more correctly, more honestly, people who whistle in my presence. I can’t stand whistling. I will ask whistlers questions just so they have to stop doing that thing with their face. I don’t necessarily care what their answers are to my questions, I just want them to quit with that noise. Also, people (in my family) who want to have a conversation with me while they brush their teeth. How long does it take to brush your teeth, 5 minutes? 10 minutes at the most? Surely you can be silent for this brief time. Whatever you want to say can wait a few minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874.md?page=8)