Nowhere did previous poster or I say “home” means “house”. They said if one does not want the responsibility of owning a home they should live in an apartment. In a country where apartments are rented, and apartment-like dwellings that are owned are called condos or co-ops, their statement is accurate. You told them to go “sit in the wrong box” and “oh God” them, which is an attack.
Alright.
Internet arguers.
People who don’t smile or at the very least say “hello” back when you greet them. No, I don’t expect everyone to walk around like grinning fools but ferfucksake when another human being looks you in the eye, smiles and greets you, if you can’t muster some kind of civil response then you should do the world a favor and stay the fuck home.
Sweet people. Some women have this way of talking in a high-pitched, unassuming voice that grates on my nerves. I guess it’s sort of along the lines of what **monstro **was saying in that it typically reflects a poor ability to stand up for one’s self. Basically, if I disagree with you, and rather than defend your idea you back down, I find that irritating. If I’m trying to have an adult conversation with you, an adult exchange of ideas, and you’re too sweet and agreeable to defend your ideas, that’s irritating.
I don’t run into the fedora wearing kind, I suspect they’re an urban myth, but the more militant atheists annoy me. I completely agree with you, God doesn’t exist. Chill.
An earlier poster referred to slow people, and hell yes. Especially people in front of me at, let’s say, a shopping mall, moving in a slow and diffuse group. If you’re moving slow, don’t block half the hallway, walk single file to hide your numbers. Or at least don’t get annoyed if I shoot through a gap to be able to walk at my normal speed.
I will also add “People who can’t accept other people’s limitations.” I just had a meeting at work about someone who is always telling me to do physical stuff and complaining that “she’s too slow.” I have a physical handicap. My left hand is in bad shape. I could be on disability if I wanted to go that route. I will do anything you ask me to do, but I have a hard time doing it fast. So what?
And as a cashier, people who think that they can take two minutes to find the right credit card or change, then five more minutes to put everything away and find their car keys, all the while gabbing on their cell phones and/or texting. All the while, people are waiting behind you.
I’ll 3rd this. Fuck all y’all.
Animal lovers, who when they hear about a dog in need respond with “Wish I could help, but I’m too far away/have two dogs already/don’t have time” and then plead for and demand someone else step up. If you want to help, then foster locally.
And, the “precious furbaby” people. I love my dogs and I dote on them, but if I start referring to them as my furbabies in earnest, just shoot me.
Not sure if this fits the OP, but I’ve been encountering more and more veterans with very well-developed senses of entitlement. That and the ever-increasing measures to recognize/reward vets (most recent - green lights? Seriously?) are causing me to think less well of the entire group.
Quoters.
You know who you are, so I guess you’re not really innocent.
Not every situation or conversation requires a Python, LOTR, Trek, or even Bible quote. Whether online or irl. Even if the quote fits! Stop it now, lest I be forced to nuke you from orbit. (See? Annoying, isn’t it?)
4th’d.
I’d suggest a tennis doubles match but…
Yo’ mamas!
People in public places who are oblivious that they are in public places. For example, leaving the grocery store and stopping right in the middle of an opening door to fish out their keys or chat with a spouse. It’s the whole attitude of “the rest of the world doesn’t exist” in my reality.
People who research their ancestry and brag about their Great Great … grandparents 200 years ago for being the inventor of ass bleaching or something equally silly.
People who get all caught up in their ethnic background are sooo proud of being German or Irish or whatever.
There are probably better ways to improve the supply of education and high skilled workers than introducing indentured servitude.
What should people who plan to be stay-at-home parents 4 years in the future do in the interim? Just not get an education and be stuck with crappy jobs and no skills?
I am intrigued by this line of thinking because I’ve never considered it before. I guess the question is how much does having a particular skill set obligate you to use it.
As a pilot, there were many hours that I figured it was in my best interest and everyone elses best interest to be using it.  ![]()
Not I, at least not when it’s raining. The water drips off the edges of the fedora and all over me and my stuff. I can’t stand fedora wearing rain drippers. Dang it!
People who pay by check in the express lane.
Smokers and gamblers at convenience stores. You go inside to pay for your gas and maybe buy a bottle of iced tea, only to get stuck behind that guy that wants a pack of each different kind of cigarette, and 5,000 different combinations of scratch-off tickets! What should be a 30 second transaction ends up taking 10 or 20 minutes.
Inconceivable!
No, no, it’s much more fun to actually guess.
“You’ve adopted a penguin?”
“Those aren’t really your shoes?”
“You’ve decided to convert to Zoroastrianism?”