# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/161 "2013-12-04T15:18:21Z")
You know when you’re at a wedding, and everyone clinks on their glasses to get the newlyweds to kiss? Stop it! Horrible sound. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/162 "2013-12-04T15:48:01Z")
When a book is titled with a title and then a phrase explaining what the book is about. I don’t know why the title part annoys me, it just seems redundant when there’s an explanation as well. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/163 "2013-12-04T16:14:00Z")
I guess my driving one was more of a rant, (but morons about to the point that they _are_ a normal situation…) A more normal or common froth-making thing for me is the use of “home” when referring to house. A house is a building deigned to be lived in. I buy a house, and I make it a home. A home is a state of mind, not a structure. When I sell this place I’ll be selling my house to make a new home elsewhere. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/164 "2013-12-04T16:21:34Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Cashiers who ask if I could find everything all right. “Did you find everything you were looking for?” I usually respond with “and more!” I am waiting for a cashier to come into the thread and mentioned how this gets their goat. :o ---
**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 4, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/165 "2013-12-04T21:29:31Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > People kicking the back of my chair make me red-raging stabby. I hate it too! I also hate when I’m seated in a bus, and there’s someone standing near me and holding onto the pole that connects to my seat, and they’re repeatedly tapping or grabbing onto the pole. Like if they’re listening to their MP3 player and tapping along to the beat. I can feel it in my back and it pisses me off. I know, it never actually hurts me or anything, but it still annoys me. Maybe I’m just weird. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/166 "2013-12-04T21:49:27Z")
I too am driven mad by the sounds of people eating. -\_- It’s kindof like snoring, except you can’t nudge them and tell them to roll over. I am also bothered by something related to the “hypotheticals” issue raised earlier. When someone asks a question on a forum, in the form of: “I am looking for a \; It needs to be: A,B,C and NOT D.” And then the second freaking reply is something like “You should try Y! I know it’s D and not A, but it’s REALLY GOOD.” Stab. The one I _DON’T_ get, from here is people getting annoyed by “It is what it is.” Maybe you don’t understand? This is basically just half the phrase. It’s really “It is what it is…” and implied, “…and you have to deal with it.”. It’s like saying “When in Rome…” you don’t expect people to get all cranky and go “YEAH YEAH I KNOW, WE’RE IN ROME!” 😉 ---
**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 4, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/167 "2013-12-04T21:57:24Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > … > > The one I _DON’T_ get, from here is people getting annoyed by “It is what it is.” Maybe you don’t understand? This is basically just half the phrase. It’s really “It is what it is…” and implied, “…and you have to deal with it.”. It’s like saying “When in Rome…” you don’t expect people to get all cranky and go “YEAH YEAH I KNOW, WE’RE IN ROME!” 😉 I actually like the expression “it is what it is.” Maybe that should go in the “unpopular opinions” thread though. ---
**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 4, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/168 "2013-12-04T23:47:32Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > This. > > “It was IN MY HAND 20 SECONDS AGO and I haven’t moved from the spot. So, where in #$%^ could it have gone?” > > I make myself so angry. I do that with the plastic closers from bread bags. I don’t know what happens with those frigging things - I take them off the bread bag and my Kitchen Troll eats them, is what I figure. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > \ > Typing in my password and not seeing what I’m typing. Look, nobody can see me. I’m at home. Why can’t we turn the hide the password feature off? I’ll go even further - let me turn the password feature off altogether. I don’t give a tiny little rat’s ass if anyone else tries to access probably half of the websites I go to. As you say, I’m at home with only my husband - my husband wouldn’t bother with them, and if he did, I wouldn’t care. > [@EmilyG](#): > > I actually like the expression “it is what it is.” Maybe that should go in the “unpopular opinions” thread though. I’m liking that phrase less as so many morons from the Judge Judy show use it as an excuse for their moronic behaviour. It’s not some kind of inescapable truth of human existence - it’s you being stupid and getting caught and then lying and getting caught for that, too! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/169 "2013-12-05T02:35:35Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I actually like the expression “it is what it is.” Maybe that should go in the “unpopular opinions” thread though. I think people who complain about “it is what it is” for being a tautology are rather missing the point. Or saying “what else could it be?” The setup for using “it is what it is” is when it would be really nice if it were something else. It’s making the point that it **isn’t** something more favorable to your situation, and there’s no use pretending it is. Though it is fun to respond to the phrase with “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” – Lewis Carroll ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/170 "2013-12-05T14:09:23Z")
I hate when someone grabs my shoulders/necks and rubs them in that friendly gesture type of way. Like “Hey buddy!” If that makes sense. That has always caused intense lingering pain for me regardless of who does it, and drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/171 "2013-12-05T14:58:52Z")
> [@jrsone](#): > > I hate when someone grabs my shoulders/necks and rubs them in that friendly gesture type of way. Like “Hey buddy!” If that makes sense. That has always caused intense lingering pain for me regardless of who does it, and drives me nuts. Yell “OUCH! That hurts!” when someone does that. Yell as loudly as you feel is appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/172 "2013-12-05T15:07:35Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Yell “OUCH! That hurts!” when someone does that. Yell as loudly as you feel is appropriate. I’m a big guy, not really one that you would expect to be taken down by such things, but a friend of mine did this gesture once and it pretty much put me out of commission for maybe a half an hour or so. I don’t know why that area is so sensitive for me. He felt pretty bad. I don’t think he knows his own strength. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/173 "2013-12-05T15:14:15Z")
Oh I thought of another one. People who type condescending/idiotic things and end them with a smiley face. I see this on Facebook a lot: “I think that ugly people should be euthanized, I mean, they are totally taking up space! :-)” ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/174 "2013-12-05T16:50:13Z")
When people refer to a child’s age in months after it’s a year old. Okay, I can see saying “15 months” or whatever because there are many milestones around that age…but after 2 years? The kid is not “26 months old” - he’s 2! Also, when people say their child is “current age” going on “next age.” eg. “She’s 9 going on 10.” Ya don’t say. I figured she’d skip the next year and turn 11 on her birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/175 "2013-12-05T17:52:13Z")
This is a perfectly ordinary behavior, but it really squicks me out: people who brush their teeth and/or floss in the bathroom at work (only when I’m in there at the same time, of course). I know, where else are they going to do it? But I somehow feel that I shouldn’t be relieving my body of waste in the same room and at the same time where people are intimately involved with their mouths. I grew up in a house with one bathroom for four people, and it was always only one person at a time in there, with the door closed, even if the person was just washing their hands or something innocuous. I guess I’m not over that. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/176 "2013-12-05T20:09:59Z")
Sexist remark follows: Females can’t just get out of the car once its parked. I am (or could be) halfway into the store, theater or wherever and she (it could be the wife or daughter)is still doing _something_ in the car. I think it may have something to do with make up or the purse or something. I really should stay behind in the car sometime to see just what the heck they are doing that takes soooo long. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/177 "2013-12-05T20:20:24Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > When people refer to a child’s age in months after it’s a year old. Okay, I can see saying “15 months” or whatever because there are many milestones around that age…but after 2 years? The kid is not “26 months old” - he’s 2! > > Also, when people say their child is “current age” going on “next age.” eg. “She’s 9 going on 10.” Ya don’t say. I figured she’d skip the next year and turn 11 on her birthday. George Carlin. Funny stuff. > [@](#): > > "Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. > “How old are you?” “I’m four and a half!” > You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key. > You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. > “How old are you?” “I’m gonna be 16!” > You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life ! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! > But then you turn 30. Oooohh… what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed? > You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone. > But! wait! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE IT to 60. You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! > You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; “I Was JUST 92.” Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half!” > May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/178 "2013-12-05T20:37:09Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > Sexist remark follows: > > Females can’t just get out of the car once its parked. I am (or could be) halfway into the store, theater or wherever and she (it could be the wife or daughter)is still doing _something_ in the car. I think it may have something to do with make up or the purse or something. I really should stay behind in the car sometime to see just what the heck they are doing that takes soooo long. That is the strangest thing isn’t it? I have no idea why they take so long to get out of the car but I do know they start that shit young. I had to start disciplining my 7 year old daughter over it. We would get home, I would get out, unload several bags of groceries from the back of the car and already be at or past the front door by the time she decides to even open her car door. On top of that, she expected me to wait for her and hold the front door open with heavy groceries in hand until she decided to show up. I finally just told her that she was going to have to sleep in the car the next time she did it and I almost followed through because she did it one more time. She cried and cried so I finally let her in the house but no more. That’s a best case scenario though. When they get older, you can’t just punish them like you can a kid. I never could convince her mother to get out of the car in a timely manner whenever we got anywhere either. No reason was ever apparent. They just seem to have a hard time changing states. I think it is the same reason you never pick a checkout line with lots of women in it over one with mostly men unless you like standing in line all day witnessing to a whole string of minor complications that destroys any attempt at efficiency. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/179 "2013-12-05T21:12:55Z")
> [@Zago](#): > > I get really pissed at people who walk around heavily populated cities with large umbrellas, like they own the sidewalk. > > Gum chewing is extremely annoying. I don’t understand why people who chew gum don’t realize that they look/sound jerkish since it’s a common shtick in comedy. I used to date a guy who chewed cinnamon gum. I loathe the smell of cinnamon gum. I’d ask him to either not chew it around me or at the very least not in an enclosed space, like the car. Didn’t stop it. One of the many reasons I should have known he wasn’t into me. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874/180 "2013-12-05T21:48:24Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Being told to “turn it down.” Don’t trivialize my music by calling it “it”! > > (“Racket? That’s Brahms! Brahms’ Third Racket!”) Reminds me of a favorite line from a favorite movie, _ **Tombstone** _: [QUOTE=Doc Holliday and Billy Clanton] Clanton: Is that “Old Dog Trey”? Sounds like “Old Dog Trey”. Holliday: Pardon? Clanton: Stephen Foster. “Oh, Susannah”, “Camptown Races”. Stephen stinking Foster. Holliday: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne. Clanton: A which? Holiday: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin. [/QUOTE] So many of this, incidentally, I’m right there with. Open-mouthed eaters. Gum in all of its disgusting forms. Slow-walking people. Tourists who like to take pictures of themselves standing at completely random places. (Actually, they don’t annoy as often as they simply baffle. Like, really… you needed a picture of yourself in front of a completely non-descript bodega?) It’s a wonder I haven’t blown up in some dramatic way yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-completely-normal-situations-get-your-goat/674874.md?page=10)