Somebody already mentioned ordering a nice steak well done. Might as well just order a hamburger patty.
I have a teenage daughter so I often see other teenagers while in the process of wagging her all over town. It maybe a little unfair to pick on teenagers because they still have some growing up to do, but every time I see a kid with his pants halfway down his thighs I just know the little bastard is never going to amount to squat.
Cell phone lovers and all the rudeness that it entails. People who drive while talking on cell phones. People that buy young kids cell phones.
People who wear sweaters draped over their back and the arms tied around their neck.
There’s no good reason for that to annoy the hell out of me but it does.
People that leave their garage door opened all day for no reason.
Women with long fake painted nails with decals or fake jewelry on them.
Parents that allow their children to run around a place of business such as a restaurant or hair salon while they sit on their butts holding conversations with other adults.
People who don’t hang up their cell phones when dealing with a clerk or sales person.
And the biggest one that I recently lost a friend over…
People that don’t think gays or lesbians should not be permitted to be parents.
Just out of curiousity, what age do you consider a “young kid?” My daughter is 9 and three of her closest friends have their own cell phones and call her from them all the time. I told her she may not have one until high school. Is 9 a reasonable age? I didn’t think so but apparently I am outnumbered in my community.
Um… is that double negative intentional?
I worked with one jackass who actually said, “If you have time to read, you’re not busy enough.”
Oh my gosh, I hadn’t thought of that in a long time. I completely agree.
Which reminds me of the teeth-grinding quote, “If Walmart doesn’t have it, you don’t need it.”
But it’s true 
A few things I’ll add to the discussion…
People who have little dolls hanging from the bottom of their cars on the back end. Best example I could find
People with excessive amounts of stickers on their cars…
People who say they can do something but when faced with the task they have no damn clue what they are doing…
Those that do addicting, life-threatening drugs but just explain it as “something to do”…
Girls who smoke… I dunno, just doesn’t strike me as a feminine activity…
People who watch (but do not play) sports every day of their life and have nothing else to ever talk about…
People who make everything stupidly-complicated…
People who I catch in a lie when I’ve first met them…
Aw man, when you are in a restaurant and light her cigarette, and she leans forward, and the glare of the Zippo lightens up her face,…
When she reaches over and takes the post coital cigarette from your hand, takes a drag and hands it back…
I’ll be in my bunk.
People who pronounce the word “sandwich” as “sammich.”
When people point out subtle jokes to prove that they “got it,” thus magically making “it” no longer funny. Stupid pointer-outters!
People who drink bad beer when good beer is available.
Baseball caps indoors.
People who insist on sitting in the aisle seat on the bus or subway, and won’t stand up to let you take the window seat, instead just making a weak gesture of turning their knees to the side to make room, so you have to squish around them.
White earbuds… don’t get me started.
Wow, public transit is a hotbed for this stuff!
I am hesitant to admit I am one of these people. I do love reading, but I need to be able to commit some serious time to reading to comprehend anything, provided I am reading something worth while and not skimming a magazine or something. I have tried to read at night for 10 or 15 minutes, but by the time my body is done moving for the day, my mind has already checked out. My wife goes through books incredibly fast, and is very well read. I envy her, and have tremendous respect for her for that reason. I will go through 2 or 3 novels on vacation however. I am not taking this personally, just thought I’d share some insight. 
Yeah, I thought the same. My husband says he doesn’t mind if I read, but gets amazingly chatty as soon as I crack open a book. Also, the dog wants to play, one kid is out of toilet paper, another kid calls to see if they can stay out later, and someone on TV is screaming. If I lock myself in the bathroom too long, they get worried…
So… I guess I can’t interest you in the $1131 Mega Hamper?
Do keep in mind that this is an Australian site, so Australian prices in Australian dollars. But yeah, they’re still crazily overpriced and full of crap. That’s why I think less of people who buy them!
Moccona make instant coffee. As far as I can tell, it’s “sticks” of instant coffee - like, a box of individually-wrapped single-serves of instant coffee. I guess it’s similar to having sugar in one teaspoon packets. It’s a good thing they’re included really - you might run out of instant coffee over Christmas as the hamper only comes with two jars, but the sticks should see you through the 30 long hours until the shops reopen on Dec 26.
I’m wondering that too.
Why on earth do you care what color people’s earbuds are?
Picky eaters.
I know. I shouldn’t care what you put in your mouth. But I do. I automatically assume you are high-maintenance and have a small comfort zone. Which is something I don’t like to be around.
Speaking of which… did you ever eat “local porcupine” in Cameroon?
Lack of basic good manners.
I work for a charitable organisation that sells second-hand books via the Internet. This morning we received an order from the USA. Accompanying the sale was this very curt request:-
Ship only if book is clean copy without library markings
It would have been nice if this message had included “please” and/or “thank you”. Sadly it didn’t
I’m going to have to call you (and others expressing similar sentiments) on this one.
I have two small kids at home. Before they came along, I was a pretty voracious reader. Now, though, my free time for all of my hobbies has shrunk precipitously. One of them that has fallen by the wayside is reading.
Now, sure, I could make more time for reading if I wanted to give up composing, or playing basketball, or writing, or sleeping, but then I’ll just have transferred the problem to a different hobby. It may be accurate to say, based on the empirical evidence, that there are other pastimes I enjoy more than reading. But it’s still an absolutely accurate statement that “I wish I could read more but don’t have the time.”
There just aren’t enough hours in the day.
I have a colleague that says something similar. I can’t remember her exact words but the meaning is pretty clear, and that is “I have way more important things going on in my life than you, this is why you can read and I can’t.”
When I see a baby with pierced ears I immediately think less of the parent.
