Oh, yeah! And people who scuff their feet when they walk. Pick up your feet, dang it! Are you really that lazy?
(Then there are people who clatter their flatware against their teeth when they eat. That doesn’t just bug me, it gives me the willies!)
TOE SOCKS! ::cringe::
I have a pair and they are nice and comfy for slippers to wear around the house. They’re cute too. But on other people seeing the toes all spread out squicks me, and there’s no good reason for my reaction.
SOFA (Sweater Over Fat Ass)
As someone who does this 90% of the time the opportunity presents itself, I’m really curious about why this bothers you.
Amen!
It’s eminently practical – worn that way, the scarf hides the vampire bites better.
People who wear scarvess like those for “fashion” purposes should be thrown in the deepest snowbank you can find. (I think I can find a good 5-6 footer, but given how cold it is she’s not likely to sink in more than 1 foot or so.) And then they will understand that scarves are actually to keep you warm.
ETA: Scarves - I am such a doofus
I am not African-American, but I always freak out when I see scarves that way for that reason - I just imagine that scarf getting caught in something or being used by an attacker or something…
There’s no good or rational reason; it just strikes me as vaguely . . . I don’t know, like “I’m so bitchin’ and I want everyone to know I can back my car into this space”. (See, it’s so irrational I’ve been forced to use the word "bitchin’).
I am totally not saying that’s what you are doing. Heck, my boyfriend does it as do lots of people whom I like and respect. It just irks. But I am aware that this is *my *problem.
By the way, I thought the tone of this thread was silly thing that ought not to bug you but do for some reason. Some of the things posted here should bug everyone (foot scuffers and public pj wearers, I’m looking at you).
How do you know they don’t? Think about it.
WordMan, I’m with you. I will never wear a scarf in a way where I can be strangled by it. Not since that one Twilight Zone episode that I saw.
[whine mode]
But I’m hot!! I’m going through menopause, and sometimes I just can’t wear it! If I carry it my arm gets all sweaty. I need to wear it from the store to the car.
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I certainly didn’t take any offense – I was just curious. My ex used to be bugged by it when I did it, too. Kind of a, “It isn’t necessary, so why do you bother?” But I never got anything more specific out of her than that. My attitude was always, “I’ve either got to back in, or back out. I’d rather have the convenience of leaving more easily than arriving more easily.” <shrug>
Seeing WOOKINPANUB’s name irks me because I just recently found out what it means. I just recently saw a two hour biography on Eddie Murphy and they showed his Buckwheat sketch, “Buckwheat sings the classics” or some such and he sings “Wookin pa nub in all da wrong paces” or something similar and now everytime I see her name Eddie Murpghy singing that song gets stuck in my head and it makes me giggle.
Does that anerexic girl on the right really need a “slimming” scarf?
I think she’s more in need of a sammich.
I’m glad it brings a smile, Tahssa; you’re fee times a mady 
The backing into parking spaces thing bothers me also. Especially at the commuter lot where I park for the train. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad if these folks could whip into a parking space backwards as quickly as I can frontwards, but inevitably I’ve got to sit and wait for them to: pull past the space; start to back up; pull forward to reangle; back up again (slowly); whoops! reangle again; and then finally park. Whereas I can pull into a space in 2 seconds, thus freeing up the lane. Plus, IMO, it’s easier to back out into a relatively open space (front-in parking) than a narrow space (back-in parking).
But the thing that bugs me and I don’t know why, are people that show up to the movie theater after the movie has started. Not because of audience disruption (I get bugged even if they’re quiet as mice and take an end seat) but becasue it tweaks my sense of how someone is supposed to enjoy a movie. That is, see the whole thing. I shouldn’t care if someone else misses the first 15 minutes and is fine with that, but throughout the movie I keep thinking about how the latecomers don’t know a certain plot point or missed something important and no self-respecting person could actually enjoy a movie on those terms, right?
The pajamas in public thing really bugs me, too. They’re pajamas - you put them on at night, go to bed, sleep in them, then take them off the next morning. They are not your going around town clothes. I won’t even buy regular clothes if they look too much like pajamas - I don’t want to look like those people who don’t know the difference between bedclothes and real clothes. Slippers worn in public can be added to this rant, too. Slippers are inside shoes, not outside shoes.
My husband and I have a point of contention - pulling through parking spaces. He simply won’t pull through a parking space - if there is no car in front of him, no barriers or anything, he’ll still back out of the space. It came to a head this fall while on vacation; after parking at a Wal*Mart or something, he could have pulled forward and started driving, but instead he was waiting for car after car after car behind him to reverse out of the space. I pretty much lost my temper and demanded he just pull forward and go, already! He’s probably technically right, that you’re supposed to back out, but my logic is that since you’ll be found at fault if you have an accident while backing out, and all the large vehicles in parking lots make it impossible to see, I like the advantage of being able to look forward while leaving a parking spot and have a fighting chance of not getting hit.
ETA: Forgot my point - his refusal to pull through parking spaces bugs me.
I hate it when people don’t hold their cutlery properly - I mean properly as in culturally ‘normal’ in the UK/Europe, as I think I’m right in believing you do it differently in the US (can someone clarify?).
Your fork goes in the left hand, the knife goes in the right. And for fuck sake please don’t hold the knife like a pen!
Other cutlery based annoyances - opening your mouth long before the fork or spoon reaches it (I’m looking at you, old people!).
At a restaurant where different sized cutlery is there for different courses (such as the hotel I work at - so I see it a lot!), using the wrong cutlery for the wrong course.
I’ve got no idea why those bother me so much (well the spoon to mouth one is fair enough because an oldy sat there with their mouth gaping open is just gross) but they just do.
She is actually 300 lbs.
People who say “Hi there!” And by people I mean retail attendants. And by retail attendants, I mean young clueless girls. It’s always in a sing-songy type of voice too.
Where the heck is “there” anyway? Can you not just say hello?
And it really fucking irks me when I respond gruffly with “Hi,” and inevitably get “Good, you?” in response. I didn’t ask how you were doing. In fact I never ask how you’re doing. I don’t give a damn how you’re doing.
Haaa! I just ordered 6 scarves!