People who don’t cover their mouth or nose when they cough or sneeze. This especially includes sick people in the waiting room at the doctor’s office; there is a box of tissues right on the counter – use it! The rest of us don’t want to catch what you have.
I think it’s extremely rude to come to work when you are contagious. Unfortunately, my manager has made everyone terrified to call in sick, so what one gets, all get. It is, of course, far more productive to have a whole group of miserable sick people moping around than to let one person take a day off.
A grunt is not a greeting. It’s as simple as that.
When I say hello to you in the entryway of the apartment building, you could do me the honor of a least acknowledging my courtesy.
Also, to the Stompers upstairs: Shut the fuck up. You do NOT need to be tramping around your condo endlessly, rapidly, from wall to wall all the live long day. You do NOT need to be doing it in high heels, or wooden shoes or whateverthefuck you are wearing. Fer crissakes!
(Also please refrain from dropping bowling balls on the floor. I swear to Christ.)
In a related note to the Stompers upstairs: I am glad that you have had sex (this is the first I’ve - literally - heard you goin at it up there since I’ve lived here. Good on you that your dry spell has come to an end.) HOWEVER, lay off the fucking Viagra. Put. the. little. blue. pill. down. and. back. away. slowly. It makes me wanna swear off sex for the rest of my life (not really) to be startled from my sleep by the bang bang bang bangbangbangbangnbangbang at 5-fucking-20 in the AM (on a Tuesday! :eek: ). BTW, remember those hardwood floors? It does NOTHING to dampen the screech screech screech WHAM of your bed grinding into the floor (or, my ceiling in this case). Lastly, make her COME, you asshat! Fourty fucking minutes of this shit. Break for five. Twenty fucking minutes of this shit. Break for ten. Another fifteen! AAAAAAAAAAAWK!
Today at Starbucks I the barrista gave a 50ish lady her coffee and then realized he’d put something in in that wasn’t supposed to be in it so he said, “I’ll get you another one,” and the woman said, “Can you make it extra hot?” I just stared at her and she looked at me like, “what are you looking at.” I almost screamed YOU FORGOT TO SAY PLEASE!!! I mean, what is so hard about it?
I get really judgemental about that. It should be a reflex. If I see someone has a nice coat and a manicure, there’s no excuse for her not knowing when you say please and when you say thank you.
People who don’t say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. It’s not that hard, come on!
People who don’t even say ‘excuse me’ when breaking off a conversation to answer their cellphone.
Take heart. I was surprised a couple of years ago when someone at work commented: “Your momma did a good job raisin’ you, always holding the door open and such.” Pretty much out of the blue. Point is, people (some of them, anyway) notice.
I just wish more people would realize that common courtesy really does make the world a more pleasant place in which to live.
Note to all snifflies who will ever sit in the same room as me to write an exam: Bring tissues and blow your damn nose. If you’re going to sit behind me and sniff repeatedly, every 3 seconds, while I’m trying to write my exam, I’ll have to plug your nose with tissue myself, and it’s not going to be pretty.
I have something to add to the nose-blowing issues - people who blow their noses while they’re talking to you and then examine the tissue for pirate treasure.
Oh, this reminded me of something I absolutely hate! People (generally in an office setting) who insist on instant messaging during a conversation. Not the “Hold on, let me switch to away”, but the people who effectively hold two conversations at once. Typing while I speak! Urgh!
When I worked in retail, I always made it a point to compliment children who said please and thank you. Because, sadly, so few did, and most parents didn’t even care.
Actually, there’s a reason for that. If you’ve been blowing your nose a lot in dry weather, you may inadvertantly give yourself a nosebleed so a quick glance at the snotrag for traces of red could be useful.
Personally, I find cellphones in restaurants (or in fact any place except theatres) rather tolerable. What annoys me is car radios cranked to earbleed levels in stop-and-go city traffic, so you can’t readily escape the music losers, er, lovers.
Also, I was quite ready to beat to death the person who flashed a laser pointer at a movie screen. Fortunately, good sense (or a firm smack from a companion) must have intervened and the behaviour was not sustained.
Ooh, I wanted so badly to link to a thread of mine called “Irregardless” from like four years ago, but decided it’d be a bit rude, considering we’re in an etiquette Pit thread. So thanks for mentioning that.
What Guinastasia said: Lowercase is two-and-a-half, and he’s learning that unless he says “Please” and “Thank you” {in English or Japanese, either is OK - we’re raising him bilingual}, he’s not getting food.
Call Waiting. Unless you’ve made it explicitly clear that your mother is in Intensive Care, hovering between life and death, and the neurosurgeon may call any second, if you cut me off to answer another call I will hang up on you. If YOU call ME and break off to take another call, I will never speak to you again and not count it a loss.
Yeah, like when my boss wants me in his office for a meeting, and I sit there for 10 minutes while he’s answering another phone call AND IM-ing someone. And reading email. Neither of the two latter actions cease when we actually start our discussion. Poor guy, he claims he has sooooo much to do. If he would concentrate on one thing at a time he would waste less of his own and others’ time.
In some areas, it might. Sometimes, in the dark, trying to corral youngsters, tossing them and the stuff in the back seat, I’ll just drive off and leave it. Ain’t worth the risk of leaving the little’uns alone in the truck… not even for a second.
Most of my pet peeves have already been mentioned; people who don’t acknowledge a courtesy, people whether on cell phones or on IM who try and carry on two conversations at once, and those who don’t stay home when they’re sick. Another which hasn’t been mentioned yet is people who drop in for a visit without prior notice, this one really is most annoying.
I just remembered one more after reading this thread.
Why is when dining out with another couple who order the most expensive food and wine on the menu and eat twice the amount you do, insist on splitting the bill 50/50? I know it seems picky to just pay for what I have eaten but it is annoying having to pay and extra $200 or so for food and drinks I didn’t consume. I really don’t know what the correct etiquette is in this situation but I guess this is the price one has to pay for being a small eater and non drinker.
