What small annoyance in life gets you more upset than it should?

Slow check delivery after a meal.

people who stop at the top of escalators or just outside the door of the subway, blocking the way for everyone behind them.

Slow walkers on sidewalks or malls, especially if they're in a group that's blocking the whole way.

People who stand on the left side of escalators.

Getting cut off in traffic. Slow pedestrians.

When you're walking on the sidewalk and the person walking toward you actually veers toward you instead of passing (often because they are staring at their phone). Also, when a person walking slowly in front of you keeps drifting right and left, cutting you off.

Related to r2 is when they run into a friend and start a conversation in those spots, including just outside and elevator, or just inside the entrance of a supermarket with the added blockade of shopping carts.

Hyphenate for clarity, OP. It's "slow-moving lines." Otherwise it seems like the moving lines are slow.

I guess we know what R7's small annoyance is.

Typos in books.

Yeah, I know that some are deliberately inserted to prove theft, but still.

People waiting in line in front of you who stand ten feet behind the person in front of them. If we all did that, a line of four people would be out the door. And if there are multiple lines or a crowd of people, others will jump into that space. Usually women but a few men, too.

People in the checkout lane who literally wait until the cashier is done before they start looking for their wallet and taking their cash or credit card out.

Library books edited after the fact.

When I'm having a bad day and a stranger says something nasty to me because I didn't move fast enough to let them pass or something similar. These types of random, unnecessary verbal jabs can really get to me when I'm feeling low. On other days I'll say something back.

Drive-up ATM, with a line of cars, when the person in front of you pulls up then spends five minutes digging for her ATM card. Have that shit ready.

When people don't say thank you when you hold the door for them. In that same realm - people who don't give a nod and a wave when you let them into traffic (which should only be done on a red light, never green)

I know this is cruel in a way, butvelderly people who still write checks at the grocery store and take up so much god-damned time. Really? Get with the 21st Century- Cash or Card people.

R10, oddly enough: people who stand close enough in lines that i can feel their breath. dude, it's not going any faster if you do that.

People who sit at traffic light like they are waiting for their invitation to fucking GO to arrive! They finally remember that green means GO, casually start going, then light turns red for all us fuckers stuck behind slow shit. Grrrr!

People who disobey traffic laws in order to be friendly and wave people in. If you have the right-of-way please use it - it's safer for everyone that way. I saw an accident recently where a car stopped to allow someone to turn in front of it. The problem was that the car in the next lane didn't stop so he hit the car of the woman who was turning. The guy thought he was being nice by allowing her to turn, but instead he caused her accident.

R18 that happens because they are usually busy on their phones during the stop.

I can't stand people who don't understand the purpose of the passing lane, which apparently includes almost every driver in America.

incompetence in people who wait on people in public, cashiers, sales people, etc.

[quote]When people don't say thank you when you hold the door for them.

This one for me, too. You hold the door for them as a courtesy and the assholes just walk through and keep going like they're some kind of fucking king or something. And I do think men are far worse about doing this than women, especially young men.

Drivers coming in the opposite direction who decide to turn in right front of you causing you to brake. This happened to me yesterday in the parking lot of a supermarket and it's happened to me on residential streets. I really don't know what the fuck is wrong with some people.

Chatty supermarket cashiers. Notably, at Trader Joe's.

Scan efficiently: that's all I ask. That's why I am bagging my own purchases -- to get out of these are fast as possible.

I know it sounds terrible (and borderline snobby) but I hate chatty taxi drivers. Whenever I take a cab (which is rare), I just like to enjoy the ride in silence, use the time to check my email, think about things, whatever. I don't want to have a conversation.

the new us postal service lobby/branch service / put into effect within last two years.... where they have a specific person greeting and taking pre posted shit.....when they could be behind the counter helping customers with cash transactions.....is it this way across the country?

Trader Joe’s cashiers are required to be chatty. They are supposed to ask if you found everything you were looking out or start a conversation about an item in your cart. “Oh, are those good? I’ve been meaning to try them.”

People who don’t walk single file on the right on busy sidewalks

Drivers who use a through-traffic lane to drive up to the front of a line of cars waiting to exit, and then cut in, blocking their lane and slowing the exiting traffic.

People who don’t use turn signals-it makes me get rage and want to shoot their tires out

Slow drivers who finally find the gas pedal when the light turns yellow, leaving you stuck at red when you both could have made the light if they had bothered to go at least the speed limit. [italic]Haaaaate.[/italic]

When people post recipes on a food webpage. Other people make the recipe and alter it, then they complain that it didn’t turn out right.

A lot of these apply to me. Glad to see I'm not the only one that gets upset with these rude people.

Everything that R5 said plus malfunctioning zip-lock bags.

People who sort of trudge along, rather than walking purposefully. They also lean on their shopping carts.

People who run their hands through their hair dramatically in the rear view mirror at a red light as if they are at a salon or in a Wella Balsam commercial.

There's currently a car that's been idling across the street for at least 10 minutes. It's 68 degrees F this morning and the car is a newer model. I have my windows open and every minute this asshole spends burning fuel for no good reason makes me angrier and angrier. It's so fucking polluting of our environment and my goddamn peace.

R9 Can you explain?

People who stop elevator doors from closing.

Other poz guys that bitch about having to take their tablets. ASSHOLES!!!!!!

I don't mind chatty cashiers but hate the never-ending sales pitch. Do you have a TJMax card? Would you like one? You can save 10% today, no? Well, you can take this pamphlet to fill out and mail in, or visit the website etc. Do you have a rewards card with us? You can save 10% if you open one today. No, really? Well, you get access to coupons by email and blah blah blah - The other day it was a manager I was dealing with and told her it would be so much less intrusive and painful if you would just put up a sign with the pitch and details and leave us alone. She was pinched face and miserable after that. Cunt.

People who drive like lunatics in parking lots and then sit in their car for over a half an hour transfixed by their phone.

Flight attendants do credit card pitches now on airplanes. Talk about your captive audience.

I wish they could come up with a pill or something that would make you totally indifferent to annoyances in everyday life.

Boss hanging up the phone on me in anger.

Slow walkers, usually in a pair, in a store aisle. And if they have a cart you best move to another aisle. It seems like the idea that there are others in the store with them is impossible for them to understand.

They have R44, it's VALIUM. Bloody hard to get now.

Xanax, R44

Yes to almost all of these. Another annoyance is when I'm trying to make a plane connection in a big airport. I hop on the moving sidewalk to enable me to move faster through the airport and the jerk in front of me STOPS walking, not even a slow walk, AND puts down 3 pieces of luggage all around him so that no one can walk past him. Happens frequently and makes me crazy.

People that wait till the last minute to get into the left hand turn lane or center lane and the back of their car blocks part of the other lane.

This is probably something stupid to be annoyed about, but seeing young people driving expensive cars. I drive a real shitbox and seeing some 20 something driving a BMW really pisses me off.

Going to the grocery store to buy 1 or 2 of an item that's on sale and seeing some asshole taking every item off the shelf into their cart leaving none for anyone else.

I’m watching a porno scene on Poe hub or similar site and the actor is naked except for his SOCKS.

I meant to say PORNHUB

R51 I once new an older gal when I was still young who would scream "yuppies"! at nearly every BMW or Benz. You two would have probably gotten on well!

^ knew

People who don’t use the left lane for passing. Usually bumpkins from the sticks on I95 doing 55 in the left lane - while a line of 10 cars is backed up behind them. Drives me insane!

I'm the annoyance for a lot of people, as I usually drive 55 mph on the highway, which clearly pisses off some people. To my credit, I do this only in the slow lane. And if there is only one lane in my direction, I look for opportunities to pull off and let others pass so that I never have a long line of cars behind me. But still, I usually drive 55....

To me, it's lines of any kind, whether it's rush hour lines, amusement park lines, movie lines, or grocery store lines. I hate waiting in line.

Pet owners who don't pick up after their pets.

Trader Joe's cashiers in NYC are lightning fast compared to the ones in LA, R27. I tend to stick my credit card in the slot as soon as they swipe the first item and if they don't press whatever button they have to press to start the process on their side I nudge them by saying: My card is in and I won't be needing a bag.

Old people blocking the aisles in the market. And I am an old person. I just tell them firmly, please stand aside, you're blocking free movement. It usually scares the shit out of them.

I like your style, R61.

People using "Liberal" or "leftie" as an insult, shows they have been brainwashed by right wing media and have no independent thought process.

People who voted Brexit to "take back control" (see above).

Ignorant parking

Jaywalkers. There's a crosswalk 20 feet away on that side, and a crosswalk 50 feet away on the other side. Why don't you use one of them, especially since once you cross you'll walk toward one or the other?

In office building entrances with multiple doors: people who enter or exit using the leftmost possible door. STAY RIGHT! Did your mother not even teach you the fundamentals of etiquette? I'm (properly) using the rightmost door, and you are blocking me.

People who throw food wrappers on the ground when there's a garbage can a few feet away. I hate seeing Mickey D's bags rolling on the road like tumbleweeds.

Amen to all of the traffic annoyances. I'd add drivers who veer into the lane of oncoming traffic to pass the car in front of them that's making a turn. It's dangerous and entitled.

Self-rightous Trump voters who tell us to get over losing the 2016 election. The candidates of my choice have lost many times. I can deal with lost elections. It's just that their candidate is a racist, sexist, irresponsible imbecile who is completely unfit for office, and they are just the same as he! That's a small annoyance every moment of the day!

You're in a crowd exiting a venue like an arena. There are always multiple rows of double-doors at the exits. However, people inevitably push open only one of the double-doors and everyone else waits to squeeze out through it instead of simply exiting through both doors. Damn stupid sheep.

Millennials starring at their cell phones walking at a snails pace in a crowded corridor.

Car problems.

The perpetual troll on this site who makes it her point to be the first reply in every thread asking, “ .. and the point of this thread is? .. “

I can understand the problem with slow walkers but now that I have some health problems, I am a slow walker.

I have not been behind anyone writing a check in two years or more. I thought the check writing at grocery stores had stopped.

To add to what r61 said, I get frustrated by older/slower people who insist on being the first off the subway so they can get to the stairs first and proceed to climb them slooooowly, blocking the faster people behind them.

If you're a slow person, then just hang the fuck back and let the fast people go first. Easy peasy.

R71 I don't have a problem with slow walkers if it is due to health or age but if you have your face buried in your cell phone and are busy texting that's another thing since most of them can't text and walk at the same time.

R38 Form of fictitious entry.

Being asked for my boarding pass when buying something at the airport. WTF? Mind your own business, bitch!

Dog owners who can't seem to control their dogs. And it's usually some huge beast that jumps on every person it sees.

Milleny-douche-bros and douche-biches who have LOUD long cell phone conversations about absolutely nothing for hours on end near others; in my case, sitting on the stoop of our building because their cheap-ass phones don't get reception in their apartments. They all yack in LOUD VOCAL FRY asshole-speak.

Every traffic related thing noted here, plus people who stop at every intersection regardless if there is a stop sign or not.

R76 I've never understood this. At the Reykjavik airport there is a sign outside the cafe area that says something alone the lines of "these seats for ticketed passengers only." How the fuck do you think I was able to get through security if I don't have a ticket? Having to pull out a boarding pass or phone to show a boarding pass to buy a bottle of water is a pain in the ass.

I'll add, assholes who don't hang up the phone when they are being waited on at the grocery store, bank or some other form of customer service. It shows a complete lack of respect to the person doing their job, not to mention the rest of the people in line could care less about the mundane goings-on in your life.

More items than the limit in the express line at the grocery store. Pisses me off more than anything

I know at Walgreens pharmacy they will not deal with you if you are on the phone R79

People who walk along sidewalks, shopping malls, in restaurants, office corridors, all while engrossed in the cellphones, completely/rudely oblivious to others. Here's what I do when encountering such hostile species: I deliberately look down at the grown when encountering them, making THEM move for ME -

Getting stuck in a corridor or on a sidewalk behind someone who can't take their eyes from their cell phone for one minute, walking slower than an elderly turtle! Lately I've started just barging right through, hoping to knock a phone or two out of a hand.

I don't know how many times I've encountered people looking down at the cell phone while walking R82. In a raised voice (as if questioning) I will say hello.

At the grocery store, people who take their carts into the smoke shop. It's a small space and they'll be four carts in there taking up all the room.

Having to go to any places where there are a lot of East Indian people

^^^Gandhi

The stupid credit card people.

"Can I put it now? Are you ready? I thought you said put it in now. Is it in correctly? You said put it in? Now? I have to put it in again? Oh, I pulled it out too fast. I ok I'll wait. It goes in this way? Ok I think I have it in correctly. *W A I T "Pull it out now?" Ok"

Conversations sound like bad fucking porn.

Oh and they charged a ducking pack of breath mints.

R80, I feel the same way. If I'm behind someone doing that I quietly say to them, "Excuse me, I'm sure you didn't see the sign above the cashier but this line is for customers with 12 or fewer items." I don't get huffy about it, just relay the information. They always look sheepish and mumble some bullshit reply but I chuckle inside.

Another anger inducing idiot driver: You are driving 55 mph down the road, and asshole sees you coming, waits until you are seconds away, then pulls out in front of you and putts along. If I can’t safely pass the asshole, I tend to put my high beams on to wake their ass up! And the people who have the red light, but believe that “right on red” gives them the okay to pull in front of you instead of stopping and waiting as you pass thru intersection that you have green light. I tend to swear a lot while driving.

[quote]You are driving 55 mph down the road, and asshole sees you coming, waits until you are seconds away, then pulls out in front of you and putts along.

My uncle R90. He's half blind and can't see the car until it's close then misjudges the distance. I have no idea how he hasn't killed himself or someone else.

Parents who can’t control their kids. Or they sheepishly ask them to behave. I do appreciate a parent who tells their brat to behave in public, then gives them an ass smack to make sure they got the message.

God, R90, I encounter that daily. It truly seems that few drivers know the correct rules of the road.

r91 Like that old Will Rogers quote: "When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

[quote]When people don't say thank you when you hold the door for them.

I was walking through a series of doors in a hallway and was holding a open for someone walking behind me. He totally ignored me and acted like it was my job. On the final door I just kept walking and a few seconds later heard the guy cursing as he ran into the door.

People who don’t pick their feet up when they walk.

R96 Flip flop wearers are the worst offenders of that.

Another shopping item. When there is a line of people down an aisle at the market waiting for a self check machine to open up, someone comes out of nowhere and stands right next to the entrance to the self check machines waiting to pounce on the next one to open up. Then when someone points out the people waiting in line, they act completely shocked, "gee how did I miss those 15 people standing there."

People who shout racist all the time often when they can't argue intelligently

BDS Movement

Pardon my ignorance, R98, but what is BDS?

Metoo movement

People who refer to Google, Facebook and Twitter as private companies.

having to click a million times to get through one of those pages with tons of advertising. Yes, I know it's about getting lots of ads, but at least provide thumbnails so we don't have to sit there forever.

People who enter an intersection and then are trapped there, blocking traffic, when the light turns red. I know, shocking that the light would eventually turn red you fuck.

People who jaywalk, frankly usually black, walk as slowly as possible or get close to your car as if trying to get hit.

People with huge carry-ons on airplanes.

People, usually women, who order off menu at good restaurants. The chef knows what he or she is doing, bitch, let them do their job.

Anyone who talks in movies should be taken out and shot.

People who spit on the sidewalk or worse, who make an effort to hock up mucus and then spit in public. It's disgusting, rude, and unsanitary. The world is not your Kleenex.

Not being able to turn onto a street since the car in front of you is taking up both lanes.

When two lane are merging into one and people feel the need to slow or stop in the merging lane to hop over to the next one. Just ride it till the end and slip in one car after the other. What is this rush? 90% people will give you the space. Drives me crazy.

The guy who used to cut my hair (when I had hair), had a 'Regulatory Street Sign' in his salon which read: "Unattended Children Will Be Towed Away At The Owner's Expense."

On the other hand R105 drivers who see the road is merging and speed up to get ahead of everyone else and then cut off another car to get into the lane.

Pigs who don't flush the toilet in public restrooms or leave a huge mess everywhere. Do they act like that at home?

Stay the F out of my 'Breaking Zone'!

Young women's voices

People who speak very loudly and aggressively for no reason at all.

Being in a public restroom that is completely full but silent. Everyone is just sitting there after the fact wallowing in their filth staring at their phones.

[quote]Slow drivers who finally find the gas pedal when the light turns yellow, leaving you stuck at red when you both could have made the light if they had bothered to go at least the speed limit.

I clicked on this thread to write just this.

Drivers who doodly-doodly-doo down the street until they see the yellow light, then hit the gas, leaving everyone behind them stuck at the red.

My other major driving annoyance is school zones, particularly ones that last two hours after the last kid has left the school. Speeding should get a ticket, of course, but having to go 20 mph down a major street for blocks? Bitch, please. Teach the kids not to run out in the street on the first day of school. The zones around high schools are particularly enraging.

Cellphone conversations on speaker in small public spaces.

Smokers.

Pet dogs (not service dogs) brought into grocery stores and restaurants.

When you buy something like a big pack of toilet paper and it's really made up of a bunch of small packs put together. Double the plastic. So much plastic waste. Hard to open,too.

I'm right with you, R11. Not only do they wait to hear the total bill before even reaching for their money, it inevitably then also means that they have to unzip the top of the purse and then unzip and inner side of the purse and then pull out a wallet and unzip the compartment for paper money and then zip it and then unzip the compartment for coins and figure out how to take them out fucking one at a time to come up with exactly 68 cents and then zip it back closed, put it back in the side pocket and zip it back closed, and then zip the overall purse back closed before even considering picking up their purchases and getting the hell out of the way.

Meanwhile, I am standing there thinking, "Have you never paid for anything with cash in civilization before?" and also "How can I have some sort of retribution against this idiot that will not get me in trouble?"

My other pet peeve, that I haven't yet noticed being mentioned here, is when you are in a store standing in the check-out line at the counter, ready to check out, and the phone rings and the cashier turns away from you, (you know, the person actually standing in front of them with real merchandise to purchase), and has a never-ending conversation with the person on the phone. The day they say, "Hold on, let me check on that." and put down the phone and start to walk away is the day I will say, "If you walk away from this counter without checking me out right now, I am leaving everything here on the counter and never setting foot in this store again."

People who call you to conduct business, then continually say, "I'm sorry I can't hear you, I'm in a coffee shop and it's very loud."

I hate the buttholes who leave their shopping cart blocking a parking space rather than returning it to the cart corral just steps away.

Agreed R119. They somehow have the strength to push the cart all over the store but that last 10 feet to the cart corral is just too far for them.

Guys who spit gum in the urinal. It's not going anywhere and someone has to clean it up after being pissed on all day.

Interesting comment R121. People seem to forget that a cleaning staff has to clean up their mess and seeing people make unnecessary messes is fucking annoying.

People who ask for advice on DataLounge when it would be faster to simply Google it themselves.

^^ DL-ers have actual life experiences related to their questions. You want Google to answer the same?

R124 - It's my small annoyance. Hands off.

Selfish assholes who let their laundry sit for hours in the communal washers or dryers. You aren't the only person in the building who needs launder his clothes and I don't want the chore of removing your sad underwear to wash my own or worse, to be caught doing so if you finally decide to bother to grace the laundry room again with your presence. Set a goddamn timer, buddy.

People who respond to "Thank you" with "No Probem." When I ask if they were expecting one, they have no clue what I mean.

People who try to walk into an elevator before you've had a chance to walk out. (Same for buses and trains.)

I park in a multi level parking garage for work. I seethe in anger when I have to drive past the scene of two spots taken by one vehicle. So many people cannot fucking park in their space, spilling over to the one beside them, making that space too small for another car. So inconsiderate!

That I spent almost half of my day today on DL. To my defense, DL has been pretty lively today.

[quote]At the grocery store, people who take their carts into the smoke shop. It's a small space and they'll be four carts in there taking up all the room.

What the hell is a "smoke shop" and what's it doing in a grocery store?

Constant solicitations for donations at checkouts in stores.

People who don't bus their own tables at restaurants without table service (fast food or fast casual.)

So many of you are complaining about people who somehow slow you down--you are obviously such busy, busy people, with such important lives!!!

And yet... you all somehow find time to post on a gay chat site!

Go figure!

Football. I need to stop watching as it makes me so mad. Oh and I hate the Packers.

R134, [italic]MOM?[/italic] How did you find me here??? I thought I blocked you!

Coworkers who leave their coffee mugs in the office pantry sink "to soak." I've thrown one or two out.

gym douches who don't wipe their sweat off machines.

R131 the place in the store that sells smokes and lottery tickets. Must be a Canadian thing.

Whenever technology isn't working like it should, not matter how small the inconvenience is, like a site loading a bit slowly, an app that crashes, a frozen phone, a video that keeps buffering, etc.

R139, one of my local big box grocery stores, in the US, (maybe more than one) has a separate shop like that, except for booze instead of smokes.

Smokers throwing their cigarette butts on the ground.

My next door neighbors lacking inside voices. They yell even when they're six feet from each other. Not even fighting. That's how they talk.

I don’t mind long lines as much as disorganized ones, where the store hasn’t made clear where the line is supposed to form. It makes me so (unreasonably) anxious I usually put down my items and leave.

Another vote for slow-walking meanderers and the same type of attitude behind the wheel. People who generally are not aware of their surroundings. Drives me mental.

When an ebay buyer knows they have 4 days to make payment before you can file a NPB complaint and they wait until the last minute to make payment.

People who hate things just so they can have *something* in their miserable little lives to feel superior about.

The amount of time my laptop spends "installing updates" ... and then staying at "100% complete, do not turn off your computer" for over 45 minutes.

I accidentally F&F'd a reply (or maybe a few replies?!) while I was scrolling through this thread.

I'm sorry.

I agree with many of these; I strongly agree with R1 (slow check delivery) or a server who completely disappears after asking of every 'looks ok' or is 'tasting OK.'

People who accidentally F&F witty posts on DL.

Bartenders at gay bars who pick up a fruit garnish to drop in your drink with the same hand that's just used a filthy bar rag to mop up a wet spot and also counted change. And then don't get why that's a problem.

Same guys who typically want to make a special drink as shots when their friends come up, on a crowded night with a huge line behind them, then drink it with them, only then to go about mixing the six different drinks the friends want, chatting with them the whole time.

Currently every single thing at my job.

If it is everything in your job R151 then it is not a small annoyance.

[quote]Smokers throwing their cigarette butts on the ground.

I saw a guy flick a butt on the ground one day, and I said to him, "Oh I guess it's OK to throw litter on the ground as long as it's ON FIRE!!" He looked so shocked when I said that hehe

People breathing around me.

Other people.

R155 - Stop copying other people's better responses.

Assholes who go through the 10 Items or Less line with a whole cart full of groceries. And the spineless pricks that work behind the cash registers who never say anything.

Threads like this that include bad drivers. So many of you complain about them, you deserve your own thread.

Where are smokers supposed to get rid of their butts outside?

You fast walkers are going to have to get over yourselves. I'm old now. I don't walk as fast as I once did. And there's nothing to be done about it.

YES! Smokers who throw their butts on the ground drive me nuts, particularly if they're standing just outside the door of the building where they can't smoke and make assholes of themselves by passive-aggressively toss their butts and walk into the building, blowing smoke. I was never so happy as when the city council passed a law prohibiting smoking within 25 feet of any doorway leading to a non-smoking building.

Smokers belong on rooftops.

People who bring their dogs into supermarkets and drugstores. Unless it’s a trained service animal, it has no fucking business in a store where food is being stored.

If I were Emperor I would have Etiquette Squads who would punish these infractions. Rude drivers would be removed from traffic by helicopters dangling enormous magnets as seen in You Only Live Twice. My regime would be so popular no one would want to depose me.

r163, I love it when people bring their dogs to stores and restaurants. Keep the dogs. Lose the kids.

dropping things, I HATE it

My elderly mom that has dementia signed up for cable and didn’t understand what she was agreeing to, so I called to cancel it, (Hadn’t been installed yet) and they demanded me to fax my Power of Attorney to cancel! Since when does a cable company need to do this??

Had to ripnthrough three levels of management to cancel it, ridiculous.

[quote]You fast walkers are going to have to get over yourselves. I'm old now. I don't walk as fast as I once did. And there's nothing to be done about it.

People are always smugly righteous about their annoyances until they (or somebody they care about [italic]become[/italic] the annoyance.

Following on R102, the other part of the carry-on problem is that the airlines deliberately don't enforce their own rules in order to drive people to give up in advance frustration and pay their ridiculous fees for checking baggage. If I follow the rules and bring one carry-on and one "personal item," I should be able to put that carry-on in the compartment above my seat regardless of which "zone" I'm allowed to board with. Infuriating when I'm forced to gate-check and then have to wait around for a half-hour or longer for my luggage to show up at baggage claim. Why can't the airlines put dividers in the overhead bins and number them like lockers corresponding to the seats below?

I can see the cellphone videos of the fist fights now, r169.

Cellphones everywhere...concerts, tennis matches, on the bus, at the restaurant, theaters...fucking everywhere...what are you people looking at that is so crucial that it cannot wait...I wish they had never been invented !

If you read the title it is about getting upset over small things. Yeah, we shouldn't get upset, but we do. I would love to be one of those people that stroll around the supermarket or store oblivious to the people around them that they are blocking. I don't think it is necessarily the act, but the fact it shows them to be discourteous to others.

Walking down the aisle or sidewalk and there is a group of 2 or 3 people and instead of falling in line behind one another they run you off the sidewalk. I can't stand rude people, no matter what the situation is.

People who walk in the middle of the driveway in parking lots. Of course they literally take their sweet fucking time and are invariably fat fucks.

Not only is it unsafe for them, but it literally slows everyone down.

I courteously flashed my lights at two fat bitches in their 20s just the other night as a polite gesture to ask them to pay attention. They didn’t get it so then they got my horn. Of course, I got the look of death.

Unaccompanied children usually get on my nerves. Especially if there are groups of them.

When there is no place to have a quiet conversation at a bar or nightclub because the music is too loud.

When your driving and you can't enter some place because it's on the opposite side of the street.

People who smoke or vape in public spaces.

co-workers who can't figure out how to do their jobs so they take up people's time. Especially the one's who are told they are wasting other people's time but they don't cut it out, either because they are rude, or so inept they fear getting fired if they do what they alone, decide is best. So they waste people's time with their neediness and their anxiety.

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R134 - Here is the subject line of this thread

[quote] What small annoyance in life gets you more upset than it should?

By posting here people are admitting their reactions to these annoyances are inappropriate and/or irrational.

[quote]I hate the buttholes who leave their shopping cart blocking a parking space rather than returning it to the cart corral just steps away.

In England, we have to put money in to use them and only get the money back when we return the cart

[quote]People who don't bus their own tables at restaurants without table service (fast food or fast casual.)

This also seems to be an American thing. It's not considered bad form here. Maybe that's why you see so many uncleared tables in these places...which is a pet peeve of mine, places where the staff doesn't clear the tables even when they're clearly not busy. I don't enjoy being surrounded by other people's mess.

and on that subject - people who use the street tables in front of a café without making a purchase.

Women taking their shoes and sandals off in public and putting their bare feet all over shared furniture.

Gross!

The way my elevator says "LOBBY" like in this weird sexy voice.

This isn't me in the video but it's the same voice.

Litter. People who make a mess of public places, public restrooms and don't clean up after themselves. I have to cut the feelings of rage over such lazy, narcissistic, disrespectful piggery. I want to slap them and scream: "Do you think you're the only person in this society?"

[quote]"Do you think you're the only person in this society?"

Your use of the word society would make you deserving of a slap yourself.

[quote]I have to cut the feelings of rage over such lazy, narcissistic

The over-use of the words narcissistic and iconic.

I heard someone use iconic it for an animal last week.

Glad to see some others mention the conversationalist cashiers at Trader Joe's. I recently had one who asked me, "So, what are your plans for the rest of the day?" I was caught so off guard that it took me probably 30 seconds to respond, "Uh...not much."

A trick shooting his load all over one side of my White bedspread, then sat on my $200 moisturizer and ruined the other side.

[quote]I recently had one who asked me, "So, what are your plans for the rest of the day?"

That's hilarious.

[quote]In England, we have to put money in to use them and only get the money back when we return the cart

We do in the US -- but only at Aldi.

So many of these problems have to do with other people in retail or service situation, or in traffic or driving. Is it any wonder that more and more people are gravitating toward online shopping, banking, etc., and watching movies at home? Anything to avoid interaction with other people.

Talking in theaters (movie or "legitimate.") Same for cell phones and noisy eating.

Emailing or using a Contact Us textbox a specific, carefully worded question on a retail or helpdesk site and getting a copy and paste answer that has 5-10% relevance to my question, that relevance being one or two keywords, and is text I already read on the website. I want a real person with real intelligence and real knowledge, not the "I see by asking us something we haven't put on our website you haven't read our website. I'll paste from the website to show you I too haven't read your question" idiocy.

Getting added to some foundering, over-expanded youth-oriented trendy apparel company CRM database because someone fat-fingered his email address, or typed it in correctly but the CRM strips out nonalphabetic characters during insertion. I have to make three - five requests for address removal, they say "yes, please wait 10 business days for removal" and I say "I did not ever consent to be on your database, you will remove me immediately." I save datestamped screenshots, and after the second request fails, I submit their subsequent promotion mails to the FTC. At the third request failure I continue submitting to the FTC and also email the Marketing Vice Presidents who, wowee zowee, somehow have the magic ability to remove my email address from the CRM database that the Marketing Customer Response team members swear they can't do immediately.

Stinky smokers who drive Lyft. It sticks to my clothes. Same with passengers who join the ride right after smoking. Somehow it just sticks to me.

People who make random chit chat with you and then shut down when you engage. I seem to notice that a lot here in the Bay Area.

People are really quite socially inept here. When someone talks to you, you talk back, especially when you initiated the conversation.

I've become much more of an asshole here because people are so wrapped up in their little world, for no apparent reason either.

People at the back of the plane who try to rush up the aisle as soon as the fasten seatbelt sign turns off. Nope!! Wait your fucking turn assholes.

Fuck buddies who, after cumming, don’t worry about your own orgasm.

[quote]gym douches who don't wipe their sweat off machines.

Or stretch mats.

They do not deserve to live, r195.

R159, I'm a smoker, too, but there's never an excuse for throwing butts on the ground. I carry a portable ashtray; there are some lovely vintage ones out there.

When people don't kiss my ass all the time in every situation.

R199 = DJT

The posters on DL who post things on long threads like R439 meet R189.

People yapping on their mobiles in their cars with speaker function through super amplified speakers. I swear to G-d it sounds as if there is a giant amp right in their grilles. A neighbour sits in her parking space (near my bedroom window) after work each day and yaps for twenty or thirty minutes. I can hear the most intimate details of her life each day. Even with the windows closed I can hear her loud and clear. Does anyone realise how loud this is?

R202, I noticed this just the other day when I was walking to my car in a residential street. I heard loud talking and I was looking around to see where the voices were coming from, assuming I'd see people standing in the street, but it was a woman sitting in a car talking to another woman on the phone. It was unreal how loud the speaker sound was.

R201, that is the most annoying poster of all.

R202 & R203 in the movie Teen Beach Movie 2 when the 50s film kids are transported to modern day life, after meeting a group of teens on their phones Garrett Clayton's character asks at one point, "Why is everyone talking so loud?"

Cheers R203. It's quite maddening. Even with all of their windows closed, engine running, etc. WTF! They haven't a cluebag we can hear them either.

"a cluebag"?

Oh, God.

[quote]I courteously flashed my lights at two fat bitches in their 20s just the other night as a polite gesture

You are deluded. There’s nothing courteous or polite about signalling “get the fuck out of my way, waddlers.” An actually courteous person would just wait.

R208 That was refreshing. Thank you.

R208 No, a courteous person would not be holding others up for no reason. You didn't see the line of traffic behind them or how long that driveway was. Nothing is stopping them from walking off to the side so Everyone can go about their merry way.

You sound like a fat Flyoverstani who has never lived outside her car-centered strip mall of a hometown. Sorry you can't hurry up and get the F out of everyone's way when you go to the store to buy your Doritos and ice cream.

We all make typos, but because of some annoying people around here we have to immediately fix them or we get the wrath of the people that have nothing better to do then point out our mistakes. People that point out other peoples mistakes annoy the shit out of me.

Less attractive guys do NOT have better personalities. Media/TV/movies have been feeding us that BS line for years, and it's simply not true. "Oh give the ugly guy a chance, his true personality will shine through!!" Fucking bullshit.

Actually, r210, you're the one who comes across as someone "who has never lived outside her car-centered strip mall of a hometown."

R213 I'm well traveled and live in a coastal metropolitan area. Try plopping yourself down in the middle of everyone's way in the world's greatest cities and see how far that gets you.

One thing I love about Europeans (it's a continent in case you didn't know) - is that they know how to move efficiently. And they don't take it as some huge personal offense when they tell you to move out of their way if you are the cause of a delay.

R210–I didn’t say the pedestrians were being polite. I said you weren’t.

R214 = Il Demando.

Know-it-all, assuming, smug and oppositional mean queens.

Lazy entitled Americans who take their sweet time to do anything. Basically that's 215 and 216 and the source of 90% of the complaints here it seems.

And you're the jerk when you call them out on it.

[quote]I'm well traveled and live in a coastal metropolitan area.

Well. Get her.

R219 Let it go girl. You're a lazy slow parking lot blocker.

Take a deep breath. You're used to people honking at you because you are holding them up. Just let it go here like you do in the parking lots.

Well, this has turned into an annoying thread.

No, actually, I don't do that, r220. But if it happens, I don't lose my shit over it.

Please think of the environment before printing this email.

Women who can't hold their liquor.

Men that can't hold their liquor.

Serena Williams.

For R114 and R163:

Robo calls that ask me to hold on and wait for a human when I make the mistake of answering the phone.

Women and for some reason it is always women never men, who come flying out of an aisle pushing a shopping cart, in the grocery store like they are the only person in the store. No slowing down to make sure they don't hit anyone, they just shove their cart right out into traffic forcing others in the main aisle to to stop or swerve to avoid them, sometimes accompanied by the fake surprise, "OH I am sorry"

I wish I had the presents of mind to purposely hit them with my cart, but it is my nature to be careful and look out for other people while shopping and not think I am king of the world and that everyone else must yield to me.

I had one strike my hand basket so hard the past week, it actually flew out of my hand R229. The frau pretended it didn't happen. If I had done that, I would immediately help put the contents back in the basket and apologise.

Fucking idiots who walk in New York arm in arm ACROSS THE WHOLE GODDAMN SIDEWALK. You don't fucking know that sidewalks are TWO WAY? Stay on your side moron, that's why I "accidentally" hard bump/shove into people on the sidewalk all the time.

R229, it's also mostly women I see blocking aisles at the market with their carts, but this may be because more women shop for their families.

The DL-approved response to pedestrians who are blocking a driving lane in a parking lot is to roll down the window and scream "Move it along, Toots!"

(Acceptable alternative: Purchase a horn that makes that statement for you.)

[quote]I wish I had the presents of mind

I can think of another present your mind wishes it had. (Just kidding, just being a cunty DLer :)

People who modify a meal served to them without tasting it.

Seasoning it and pulling things out before you've had a taste.

So rude.

People who overeat.

People who type loudly on their laptop keyboards.

You shouldn't hear keystrokes. Annoying on phones, as well.

R233 is correct. Note, however, that he does not confuse “DL-approved” with “courteous.”

More idiot old people in the market who insist on writing a fucking check for EVERYFUCKINGTHING. They stand there while their entire cart of groceries is being scanned and won't even bother to put as much information on the fucking check as possible until the checker tells them the total. Then it takes them 5 minutes to write the goddamned check and they almost always have to ask the checker what the total was again because their addled brains have forgotten the total since they started writing the check.

I use self-checkout. I don't think I've encountered a check writer in 20 years.

People who split their orders at a supermarket. And do so after you've already gotten behind them in based on the assumption that everything was part of one order. I noticed that some stores are refusing to allow this anymore and I applaud that.

[quote]People who split their orders at a supermarket.

Something else I've never experienced.

Flat mates who smoke all my weed

Using something, putting it down.. then 5 minutes later, can't find it. That happened to me today. That drives me crazy. I can't stand tailgaters, too.

Jackasses in the break room at work who play video and music on their cellphone, or have loud conversations on speakerphone. Go outside or use earbuds, douchebag!

Oncoming drivers who see you're waiting to make, say, a left turn across a large intersection, but dawdle so that you end up having to wait an extra light change before another opening or green turn arrow appears, because he went so slowly that the herd behind him caught up.

It makes me want to bite.

A few weeks ago I was behind an old VW bug that had a bumper sticker on it that said, "Why yes, I CAN drive quite a bit more slowly than this!"

[quote] I'm well traveled and live in a coastal metropolitan area. Try plopping yourself down in the middle of everyone's way in the world's greatest cities and see how far that gets you.

Mary!

YOU ARE SUCH AN IMPORTANT PERSON!!!!

R248 Not really. Just pointing out I am not some provincial queen whose head is so wrapped up in her bubble of the world. Its call sophistication, it might benefit some of you. Then again, when I look at who our president us, it doesn't surprise me at all how some of you are taken aback by the concept of cosmopolitanism.

What more than anything else do many of the posts here say about our humanity, or the lack thereof? Too many of us are in too much of a bloody hurry. People ought to work on developing better patience than blaming the elderly for their slowness, or suggesting people are doing things intentionally to cause them to miss the light or a turn arrow. Trust me, these people are not even aware of you, as they are concentrating on their own righ-of-way and direction. Everyone needs to take a deep breath, and exhale slowly and thoroughly.

People wearing headphones who play their music so loud they might as well take the headphones off!

[quote] Its call sophistication, it might benefit some of you.

Learning how to punctuate properly and grammatically would certainly benefit [italic]you,[/italic] O Miss Self-Proclaimed Sophisticate.

Loud music blaring from cars

People starting duplicate threads on Datalounge.

Coworkers who manipulate and charm people. They always need someone to help them, but they will never help anyone else - unless that person is someone in a prominent position.

A slow-assed computer, that keeps getting hosed up. Trying to type and the letters won't register. Happening a lot, after clearing out the cache and turning off. Horrible and frustrating!

Stupid spell correct

Damned ipads and iphones with their touchy touch screen faux keyboards.

R252 Girl give it up. You that mad because you got honked at in a parking lot. Yeah, so I had some typos. You got the point right.

Another annoyance: people who have nothing new to add so they quip on pedantics.

[quote] Another annoyance: people who have nothing new to add so they quip on pedantics.

Your grasp of the English language is nothing short of remarkable. Are you new to it?

Google Chrome (Not responding)... forever! Then... the "Oops.. aw snap!" message.

R260 No. However, I do speak three languages. I've gotten along just fine in all the places I've used my language skills.

How about you?

When speaking to a customer rep on the phone... they end with, "Have I done all I can for you today? Thank you for being a wonderful and loyal customer.... please call us back for any help. There's a survey at the end, I would love for you to give me the highest rating. Please hold on for the survey. Have a great day." It's nice that they're trying to be courteous... but, it's overdone, and seems to take 5 minutes to hang up (exaggeration.. lol). A simple, "Thank you. Have a great day.. good bye." , is enough.

[quote] I've [bold]gotten[/bold] along just fine in all the places I've used my language skills.

Perhaps not so well as you seem to think, hon.

Unsincere ‘have a nice day’

Robotic menus when calling a company, with too many options. You want to speak to a human, but get caught up in the loop. Hate that!

Yesterday I had a waiter in a restaurant ask me "And how may I help you today?" I wonder if he was recently employed in a retail store, because that was certainly an odd thing to ask someone seated at a table in a restaurant.

R264 Just fine in my book, so I'm happy with that. Do you have anything else you'd like to add?

Good thread, OP. I posted a few comments. It feels good to complain.. it's cathartic.. thank you. Many of us share the same complaints.

people (Americans, for some reason) who say "I could care less" - when they mean the opposite.

People who put apostrophe's in all the wrong places.

People with multi-colored hair. It's so 2013.

[quote] Do you have anything else you'd like to add?

I think you've spoken far more eloquently to exactly what kind of glamorous sophisticate you are than I ever could.

People who sneer at slightly old technology.

People who play with their food.

I get annoyed when bitches on here attack each other but don't really contribute anything else to the conversation.

R272 I'm not so sure. You seem to be fixated on doing so, so by all means - it takes nothing away from me if you want to convince yourself of whatever you think it is you need to. Let me know if I can oblige.

Parents who wield their pushchairs or strollers like weapons.

People who dislike tattoos

People who circumcise their poor kids for non religious resasons

People who chew their food with their mouths wide open. They’re right up there with the gum snappers.

And whistling. I hate people who whistle.

When waiters or waitresses ask people eating at the table, "Are you still WORKIN' on that?" Near the end of the meal, like seeing if people are done before they start collecting finished plates. It always rubs me the wrong way and I'm not sure why. It's really demeaning and unappetizing.

People who make that clicking noise with their gum.

R281, yes! A thousand times, yes. Whistling drives me nuts.

Loud breathers... and sometimes, there's a whistle sound with each breath.

I whistle. I don't know I'm doing it. Music expresses my subtext.

I can't whistle.. so that leaves me out.

Quiet farters who won’t admit it.

Chris Matthews’ bluster. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.

I can't whistle - I always thought that's why I hate other people doing it.

The fact that when I open a web page, the part of it that I need is never there in front of me. I ALWAYS have to scroll down. ALWAYS.

r214/etc., you just kept digging your own grave deeper and deeper.

I'd feel sorry for you, but you started it by being so self-important.

... I do admire when someone can hail a cab, by putting their fingers in their mouth, making a loud whistle.. like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany. That's a skill.. :). Phony and insincere people burn me up.

People who leave the water on while brushing their teeth.

That's extraordinarily...specific, r294.

I don't like dining out with people who are NEVER READY when the waiter comes to the table to take our orders.

One friend is notorious for this and it's embarrassing and infuriating because she has never read the menu before the waiter comes; she just sat down and started running her mouth.

I now avoid going to lunch or dinner with her. She's an annoying pill.

[quote][R214]/etc., you just kept digging your own grave deeper and deeper.

She's a classic.

I already used "well traveled and live in a coastal metropolitan area" to mock someone in another thread.

People who stop right in the middle of the supermarket entrance because something VERY important is happening on the phone they're clutching and staring at. RIGHT in the middle of the door. As if nobody else wants to get in. Stupid bitches need to get run right over with a cart.

People who don't recycle when it's convenient.

People who litter.

People who yank their dogs and drag them on their leashes.

People who still use leases (vs. harnesses).

People who sold their companion animals. Fucking insane.

leashes* (vs. harnesses).

People who *scold their companion

R292 I don't need you to feel sorry for me. You should feel sorry for yourself in that thinking being Miss Grammar Queen USA means you are the end all be all on the matter. Everyone loves that person who has to fall back on grammar policing.

But NOBODY loves you, r303, you precious, prancing priss.

Dos she think you have to pass some sort of secret entrance exam to live in "a coastal metropolitan area"? Or that none of the other posters here live in big cities on the coasts, and that makes her somehow special?

R296, do what I've done in that situation. Order something for her - she won't know the difference, and you don't have to waste energy by being irritated.

But you're also wise to increase avoidance from her.

People who are late to meetups for dinner etc. Fucking arrive early.

Guys in the Equinox steam room who act all standoffish and only when you're about to leave do they want to play with you.

People ( 99%) Women, who decide AFTER their groceries are rung up, to THEN take out their purse, or wallet. You KNEW the food wasn't free, so have your fucking money ready. ALL TRUMPANZEES. Yankees fans. Pedestrians who walk across the crosswalk without even glancing up ONCE. AT. ALL. Anyone trying to TALK to me on the street while Im walking trying to sell anything or panhandling. I do not want to talk to you get the fuck out of my way.

BTW More than a few times, I have handed down on their luck folks money, or bought them food. AND I do have some Yankees fans that are friends, but these are anomalies.

Train passengers who sit in the Quiet Car and insist on talking and using their phones. Uber drivers who literally stop their cars in traffic while waiting for their customer.

People, as in this thread, who just cannot let it go....

R304 Did you finally realize being Miss Grammar Queen isn't all its cracked up to be? That last response is all the level of a 14 year high school girl. If that's all you have left, kindly move on. I don't talk to girls who should be working their after school shift at Forever 21.

R305 Hardly. Nothing here suggests that I think that. On the contrary, you find yourself surrounded by millions of people and you realize you're not that special. Thus.. my comment on parking lot driveway blockers needing to GTF out of the way. Only people who live in Bumbleweed USA would expect the drivers behind them to courteously wait while they snail their way in front.

I don't know what you two are talking about and why Grammar Girl turned this into that 2018 National Datalounge Grammarthon.

And there he is, right on schedule....

And you, right behind in second place, as usual.

R311 take your own advice

The house staff who refuse to lower their eyes when I enter a room.

[quote]What more than anything else do many of the posts here say about our humanity, or the lack thereof? Too many of us are in too much of a bloody hurry. People ought to work on developing better patience than blaming the elderly for their slowness, or suggesting people are doing things intentionally to cause them to miss the light or a turn arrow. Trust me, [bold]these people are not even aware of you, as they are concentrating on their own righ-of-way and direction.[/bold] Everyone needs to take a deep breath, and exhale slowly and thoroughly.

That's exactly the problem, isn't it? Be unaware of your surroundings when you sit on your couch at home, but once you enter traffic (or any type of public situation) you are part of a larger system in which you actions have a ripple effect.

[quote]take your own advice

I'm not the one who's been pointing out the hilarity of that particular poster. I'm just piling on because it's so much fun.

[quote]"a coastal metropolitan area"

Love it. LOL.

Actually, R312's post is pretty fucking good. You have to admit it.

Though I think it should have been Grammar Gurl - not Grammar Girl.

Fat frau home bloggers saying ‘Nom’

From R182 : I'm surprised I've gotten so much push back just because it irritates me when people intentionally litter, use public parks as their own personal garbage dumps or smear feces on public bathroom walls and leave wads of toilet paper everywhere.

Yes, it is narcissistic of these people -- that's the appropriate word to describe their obsession with their own comfort, perversions and convenience over everything else -- and I'm not ashamed to say it. I'm also another one who always walks my cart back to the corral after I'm done with it, no matter the weather because I think it's disrespectful to not do so and carts left in a parking lot can blow into someone's car and damage it.

I'm totally laid back about everything else. I just get angry over the selfish, lazy bastards who take a figurative dump on society whenever they can, destroy and take and can never make a damned effort to have some basic consideration for the other human beings they share a space with. I have no problem with human quirks, waiting, sharing roads, babies crying, etc. I do have a problem with the selfish and the lazy who show regular contempt for other people.

R275 I love you!

[quote]smear feces on public bathroom walls

I have never seen this in my entire life. Which public bathrooms are you frequenting?

Pedestrians in car parks who walk slowly across the driving lanes texting or looking at their phones, as if they're in their own driveways, oblivious to the 1.5 tonne vehicle bearing down on them. They think because they're not on the M5 there's no need to look about as if they were crossing any other road.

I always want to roll the window down and shout, "Don't worry - you won't feel a thing!"

"Could care less"

argh.

Slow walkers and slow drivers.

People on DL that don't want to read the comments before posting and end up repeating what has already been said.

People who post non-gorgeous gays in the gorgeous gays thread.

Looks are subjective R329

When you're in a packed parking lot looking for a space and you see someone walking to their car and drive over to their lane, they become aware you want their parking space and they start walking more slowly, and when they finally reach their car, it takes them forever to get situated, get the car started and finally pull out. Like they fucking own the space and want to make you wait more. People can be such assholes sometimes.

Idiots who get gas at places like Costco where there are ALWAYS long lines but then take their sweet time in completing their transaction. First they take a few minutes to find their card, then they play around with the payment system for a while, then they remember they forgot to open their gas tank door. Then they get in their cars and ignore the pump until several minutes after it's turned off. Then they take a while to peruse the receipt. Then they sit in their cars for several minutes before finally exiting the station.

R331... Yes... and sometimes, after those assholes get in their car, they sit there.. checking their phone.. or make their calls, when they know you're waiting. Wouldn't it be nice, if that person would let you know that they're not pulling out soon? Consideration?.... another pet peeve, the lack of it.

[quote]Looks are subjective [R329]

That's why we have words like "hot," that can be a little more open to interpretation, r330. These are synonyms for "gorgeous": rich, superb, grand, brilliant, resplendent, glittering, dazzling.

It bothers me that I have to be rude and raise my voice before I can get people to listen to me, I my Condo Association. I sometimes need to correct them about assumptions they make about my apartment, wrong assumptions. Why won't they listen when I tell them nicely? Is there something about me that makes them think I am a dimwit? I am always right in our disagreements, yet they always dismiss me until I prove them wrong. It annoys me.

Clueless, slow-moving pedestrians top my list too. Many are tourists, and seem completely oblivious to city life. Families with small kids walking 4-5+ abreast, blocking all other foot traffic in crowded areas, ambling slowly, little rug rats trailing behind them, ignored and wandering to and fro, as workers on short breaks, delivery people with trucks double parked, and everyone else who has to actually get somewhere specific within an actual time frame is bottlenecked behind them or trying to dodge them coming towards them. All the while, oblivious, because they’re looking in shop windows or checking their phones as they lollygag along. Absolutely ridiculous fucking morons who should have to pass a damn common sense test before they’re let out of Bumfucke.

Sometimes they even stop mid pace to gawp at some marvel not seen back home, like a tall building or a black person. I was once driving through the tourist trap in my town on a one way street, and had to honk at people to get out of the road. They were meandering down the MIDDLE of the street like it was an outdoor mall, their backs to traffic, totally in their own little world. Mom and dad were holding hands (!) and their kids were chasing each other back and forth in the middle of the street like it was a playground. When I honked they jumped and glared at me like I was some lunatic for driving down a city street with my car while they were trying to sightsee with their kids in the middle of traffic.

When people plunk their toddlers down on the floor in someplace filthy, like an airport, and the kids roll around and put their hands and faces on it. Don't the parents get how disgusting that is?

R331 & R333 - There's actually a scientific study on the parking space thing.

Men actually leave faster if you have a "higher status car" whereas women are not affected - but in general, people leave more slowly when someone is waiting. If you honk, they leave even more slowly.

I guess I'm an anomaly, but if I'm walking to my car in a crowded lot and see people looking, I'll point to where my car is and then get out of there as quickly as possible so they can have my spot.

A bottom who hasn’t cleaned sufficient.

Posters who don't add the appropriate "ly" at the end of a word.

That's nice, R339. I'll try to do that.

[quote]People who don’t use turn signals-it makes me get rage and want to shoot their tires out

A millions times this, esp. when changing lanes at close proximity and potentially causing an accident. I just envision the person hopefully going off the side of the Gowanus Exp.

[quote]Posters who don't add the appropriate "ly" at the end of a word.

Wordly.

Men undressing me with their eyes wherever I go.

R100= Alex Jones

Bicycles, motorcycles, etc., on roads. Go ride them in the park or wherever. Roads are for cars and trucks ONLY.

People who don't walk on the correct side of the street. If you're in a country where they drive on the right, then walk on the right. Of you're in a country where they drive on the left...

And pull over to the side when you need to stop, and use signal directions (body language) when you turn.

I guess I would like to see walkers licenses issued with an appropriate test.

[quote]I've gotten along just fine in all the places I've used my language skills.

Until the day you came to Datalounge, behaved like an asshole, and were mocked for your poor grasp of English.

I understand that UPS drivers and the like can’t really function in NYC without double parking sometimes, but they get in the habit of doing it always Even when there is open space at the curb. They are parking illegally anyway, so why not pull into the bus stop or fire hydrant they are blocking instead of backing up traffic for blocks? Sometimes, two of them will block 2 out of 3 lanes of an avenue when both could have pulled up to the curb. I suppose they’re worried that another delivery truck may block their exit.

My experience has been for every jaywalker there is a driver or bicyclist who doesn't yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

I’m currently sitting in a large waiting room for families in a hospital and there’s a loudmouth here who has not stopped talking for 45 minutes at a volume that exceeds the overhead paging system. What’s wrong with people who can’t tolerate silence and need everyone within earshot to her their boring stories? I can’t stand them.

The proper response is "I'm walking here."

People on DL that don't want to read the comments before posting and end up repeating what has already been said.

R354.. meet R328.

Echo...

People on DL that don't want to read the comments before posting and end up repeating what has already been said.

People who think only one poster is allowed to express a single opinion. It makes no sense.

What gets me is people who don't read the thread so they post the same stuff again. Or maybe they have the same opinion and post it. Did you ever think about that? Has it been mentioned?

Given that a 600 post thread can take months to fill up, the possibility of single-poster duplication over time should come as no surprise. If this is really such an issue (it isn't to most people, I'd imagine), 200 post threads would make more sense than proofreading threads in September to make sure you didn't already post in them in February.

Some people just look for things to be annoyed at.

Getting stuck driving behind a Toyota Corolla, anytime, anywhere, guaranteed to be going 10 under and the driver scared out of their mind to even be on the road.

R294 One of my peeves as well. As a fan of the Navy style shower, distressed by those wasting water not even standing under it while lathering up too. I see it in the locker room all the time, and most of my American exes. If it is so cold in the shower please get a heat lamp or a space heater rather than waste water. Americans seem to waste an inordinate amount of water compared to others.

R359, I just noticed that the "BREAKING: Lindsey Buckingham Leaves Fleetwood Mac" thread was started on April 9 of this year. I don't know whether I have posted in it or not, but if I were to want to post in it today, you may be certain AF that I would not first read through 530 posts to see what, if anything, I have already posted, in order to be sure I don't post it again, just to satisfy the neurosis of an ornery fuck like you.

R362, you just became my father, that cheap-ass fuck who fought my entire lifetime with my brother over how long a shower he took.

Do you buy brand-X everything, and turn the lights out every time you leave a room, even if it's just to take a piss?

No one wants to heard your stories anyway R363.

*hear

Sigh. So many of these annoyances just don't happen in the better neighborhoods.

Sure, r367. Self centered assholes are NEVER found in “better” neighborhoods.

People who assume every reader should read every post because their opinions are so important.

And, yes, this has been posted before.

Actually R363 you would be the asshole thinking no ones opinion counts, but yours since you can't take the time to read what others have said. There is more to a story then just a headline.

[quote]That's why we have words like "hot," that can be a little more open to interpretation, [R330]. These are synonyms for "gorgeous": rich, superb, grand, brilliant, resplendent, glittering, dazzling.

I must say I'm so sick of the word "hot". It's SO over-used. Hot used to actually mean HOT! - not some nerdy, ordinary looking guy some DLer thinks is cute or whatever.

People in a grocery or drug store who sort of helicopter/hover around the area where they want to make their selection while they make up their mind over their selection.

Example: once I wanted to buy steak and in the prepackaged area. Every time I would try to lean in to look the person would move to block me until he was finished deciding. He did this several times until I asked him if they were all his. He finally relented and let me take one.

Now when I see this I just go shop for something else and come back later.

North America being condemned to plastic light switches.

People that don't know to use "who"

Software and apps that use pop-ups to interrupt you during use of the app to give a tutorial, promote a feature, or ask you to rate the goddamned thing.

I'm loving the person who keeps posting the "I can't stand people who don't read through the posts first before posting" who keeps posting the same thing. Brilliant. Brilliant!

I feel like this meme has a home here:

One of my most ridiculous pet peeves and minor annoyances is when I pay cash for something and the cashier has to break open one of those rolls of coins in order to give me my change. I KNOW it is a ridiculous thing to get annoyed about but for some reason it IRRITATES me. Why do you wait until it is my turn at the register to start struggling with cracking open that roll of quarters?

[quote]Why do you wait until it is my turn at the register to start struggling with cracking open that roll of quarters?

Why open something you're going to have to count unless you NEED to, braintrust? As you said, "ridiculous." Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing kvetched about so far.

Junk mail. I have gone paperless for just about everything, so now 90% of my mail is junk.

Self elected thread monitors who get threads shut down because "they don't like it" not because it is offensive/trollbait/illegal.

You can fill out a form at the post office to eliminate junk mail R379.

r379 Does it really do any good? I'm sure I'll still get supermarket ads and the like.

I still get junk mail for two deceased relatives (who died four and seven years ago) who've never lived here. (I had their mail forwarded here after I sold their houses.)

[quote] Why open something you're going to have to count unless you NEED to, braintrust? As you said, "ridiculous." Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing kvetched about so far.

If you see your drawer has no quarters why wait until you have a customer is at your register before you open a new roll?

My phone rings constantly.... the ID shows numbers in different parts of the country, or unfamiliar numbers. They're all crap calls, no messages are ever left. It's extremely annoying.

- people who stare at their cellphones and don't watch where they're going - People who try to use the self-check out line but then can't figure out how it works - the roaring sound of lawnmowers; can't they put mufflers on those things? why are they so fucking loud?

Guys who cum on any part of my body

^^ a guy shot in my eye the other day. I have mixed feelings about this...

Widespread use of the term "self-esteem", a piece of empty pop psychology jargon that is meaningless.

R388 Eww. But still better that in your mouth or anus

[quote]the roaring sound of lawnmowers; can't they put mufflers on those things? why are they so fucking loud?

How about leaf-blowers, every damn week.

Getting annoyed with stupid things. It's amazing how often in the day I get pissed off over stupid little things that don't really matter.

To all the posters who hate it when someone doesn't say thank you. I think the problem is they just don't teach manners anymore. I grew up in the 50's and most people were trained to have good manners. My mother would have spanked me and did a few times for bad manners. People actually judged people on how well their kid's manners were. If the child was wild people looked down on the parents. People don't train their kids anymore and it seems manners don't come naturally. I am now a little old lady with a walker and doors are always being opened for me. I am so well trained in manners I don't even have to think about saying thank you, it comes automatically thanks to my mother. I don't think people mean to be rude they just don't know any better.

Widespread use of the term "self-esteem", a piece of empty pop psychology jargon that is meaningless.

I feel this way about the word "bullying"; anyone gets a harsh word or a dirty look, they feel they've been bullied Overuse actually diminishes really bullying and over-dramatizes small incidents

When I order a soft drink at a restaurant and never get refills. I ask and ask. Nada.

R395 is literally thirsty!

R396 fuck yes. You pay 5.00 for a drink. Let me drink.

I hate the Face ID feature on the iPhone X! Why couldn’t they keep the fingerprint ID?

If I’m wearing glasses or it’s too dark my face isn’t recognized and then I have to put in a code. I keep the phone on my desk at work, have to pick it up and stick it in front of my face to check personal emails or answer texts

R391... Fall is almost here. Leaf blowers will be in full force.

R398 Does face recognition work with identical twins ?

I think everyone should spend some "me time" over the weekend cradling something pumpkin spice.

Take a deep breath and cradle...

I would love a thread with our elders here, like R393, sharing memories of a life from half a decade ago.

R353 That scene was not in the original script. Hoffman ad-libbed or just did what maybe came naturally in that scene.

Eldergays thinking it cute to camp. I'm talking to you, Joe.

My now ex bi-boyfriend who had to fuck a women every now and then while dating me.

I’m wig R115. When I order shoes, or leather wear, even clothing, and it arrives in a HUGE box, surrounded by bubble and post packs and those annoying little rice foam things. It’s so bad for the environment and such a waste

People that are late. It drives me crazy. It shows a total lack of respect for the person waiting for them.

I’m with R115. When I order shoes, or leather wear, clothing, even underwear, and it arrives in a HUGE box, surrounded by bubble and post packs and those annoying little rice foam things. It’s so bad for the environment and such a waste

R133, much to the annoyance of my husband, if it’s just the two of us for lunch, coffee, morning or afternoon tea, I insist that we pick up our plates/cups/glasses, and carry them to the counter (when staff are busy) upon leaving. Staff seem to appreciate the extra help and consideration. We don’t eat in fast food places ourselves, but would definitely think it goes without saying that you take your tray and rubbish and deposit in the bin.

R409 I never do it even at McDonalds. That’s what staff is for.

When a parking lot is packed full and somebody is waiting for a car to leave. The person waiting (usually female) often sits in the middle of the aisle not letting anyone pass while they wait for the spot to open up. No matter how many cars are piling up behind them they just sit there. Sometimes all they have to do is move over one or 2 feet so people can pass them. But no! It’s all about them and their needs! Sometimes it takes people up to five minutes just to load and leave the parking space. I wish people would just wait to the side so other people can get past them while they are waiting! Is it really that hard?

Power cords getting tangled. If I can't untangle them with one quick yank, I feel like burning the world to ashes

We get it R411, you don't like women.

Those iPhone lightning charging cords that work for about three weeks. They usually stop working when you need them the most. And you have no replacement either.Then you have to buy another one! Then you buy a cheap one at the gas station which they charge you $25 for! F#CK THAT!

R413 I do like women. It’s just something I have observed over the years. And I am female!

People who take their sweet time leaving a parking spot when there are people waiting for that spot.

Whoever designed these parking lots/garages where there is only 6 inches between the cars when parked properly. And to get between the lines takes five tries because the spaces are so narrow there is little room for error. F@CK those parking lot designers/engineers! Greedy f&cks!

R402 a decade?

Death grip on the steering wheel Nana's who brake when ever they want to usually while doing half the speed limit. Stop at the intersection and wait till the whole street is clear of cars then decide to turn into the same place your are going but do it inch by inch which leaves you stuck in the middle of the road getting road raged at.

People who slam doors! My neighbors are door slammers and it’s SLAM! SLAM! SLAM! all day long! The only saving grace is they’re in bed by 9 PM.

R178 - it is the same in Australia. You pay either $1 or $2 in a gold coin, and must return trolley to retrieve money. It means I see a lot less shopping trolleys outside the homes of bogans, and the white trash neighbourhoods no longer have them cluttering up the nature strip.

No, r411. The one who needs to move her ass is the one unparking her car. NO, you do NOT need to check your phone the minute you get in your car in a crowded parking lot. Just move your ass out, bitch.

R240 - I can’t fucking wait for you to get old. It comes to us all (if we’re fortunate enough to live that long). And before you ask, I’m not old. I’m 34.

R249 - “Its call Sophistication”

Ba ha ha! Oh, my sides!

For future reference, before shutting others down, and acting all high and mighty (with due deference) it’s :

IT’S (it is) Called, not call. Sophistication - I would suggest utilizing a dictionary, as your posts seem to indicate the antithesis of this word and concept.

Xx.

R262 - ahem, Miss Cosmopolitan. Perhaps you should attempt to master one language, before mangling the others?

[quote]People that are late.

People who type "people that are late" instead of "people who are late." See r420 and r416 to see it done right.

Does anyone still write checks ?

Yes! @ R414 - why the fuck is with that? We keep purchasing them, almost in a monthly basis. It’s fucking ludicrous.

R413 - it’s a self loathing frau. This may be my pet peeve - clueless, fat fraus who liter the datalounge with their annoying, verbose contributions

*litter

People with B.O. who won't wear deodorant because they are too "woke" to do so.

A group of us alternate sending dollar store deodorant to various people using interoffice envelopes.

People who use excessive deodorant.

R432 for President of Sex.

r431 for Guy Who Gets to Live in Dumpster behind Axe Factory.

R433: Sit in a cubicle for hours with someone who smells like incense and nasty armpit BO.

Then let's talk.

I once was seated next to a Pakistani who ate curry constantly and did laundry monthly. His adding deodorant to the mix would not have been an improvement.

I asked to be moved. I was moved.

Guys who use their spit on you when they rub your cock.

And guys who chew gums

Some guy tried to chew my gums.

I slapped him. Viciously.

[quote]Guys who use their spit on you when they rub your cock.

As opposed to lube? Dry-jerking you?

People (in real life, on the internet, on online articles) who replace the word v-e-r-y with super. "I'm SUPER sorry". So you're "fantastically, wonderfully" sorry? IT SOUNDS SO FUCKING INSINCERE!!!! Very for fucks sake, VERY!!!!!!!!!!!

People who just stare at their phones and don't look where they're going. Parents who are more interested in their phones than the safety of their kids.

r440 "Super" is just ever so slightly better than "so, so...", don't you think?

People who call each other BRO.

The over use of the word “tons” by millennials. Sets my teeth on edge!

R412 - I have a similar problem with portable fan cords. I use fans a lot but somehow the cord eventually gets wound up. I don't know why as I don't do anything to make it happen. Last time I yanked the cord to straighten it out and it broke off. Now I have a backup fan.

"Tons" isn't new, r444. Tons of baby boomers said "tons" tons of years ago.

Examples, please, r446. I don’t believe you because I have only recently noticed “tons” replacing perfectly good words. The utterer is invariably a young person.

Someone back me up here!

R393, you go girl.

R427, I do. I'm 64 so you can chalk it up to my age but I can't find any rational reason to stop doing it.

This will blow your mind: I don't own a cell phone.

Grannies who have had ALL DAY and ALL WEEK to grocery shop, but they insist to do so on Friday afternoons when everyone is getting off of work. A habit, I'm sure, but...

R449 Credit cards ?

People who think an interstate is a real life video game--going way over the speed limit and much faster than everyone else, zipping from lane to lane so they don't have to slow down. They almost cause multiple accidents as they cut in front of people and inevitably wind up at the toll booth the same time you do.

People who don't abide by the "one car from lane A, one car from lane B" rule when two lanes of traffic are merging.

People who get onto public transport immediately after smoking a cigarette. You know the ones who blow their last puff of smoke and throw the ciggie away as they step onto the bus. They fucking STINK. It's a unique smell too, not just cigarette smoke. The stench fills the whole bus/carriage and is putrid. I feel so much anger towards them and their lazy addictive selfish tobacco-stained souls

We don't have toll booths so this doesn't happen here.

People who stop on the moving lane of escalators

People who don't know which side of the foopath to walk down. Watch out if you're in my lane fuckwits. You're going down

People who don’t hold the elevator/lift for you

People who have speaker phone conversations in public places.

I've seen this a few times lately and none of perpetrators were under 40 either and two were speaking in a language other than English.(I'm in the US)

One seemed to be a Facetime conversation too. In a coffee bar.

I was tempted to wave and join in.

Tourists with selfie sticks

Small dick guys who insist on topping only.

R451, I do use credit cards. Just use checks to write my monthly bills.

R462 Checks will be phased out by Oct (UK)

Litter

Cigarette butts on the ground

Traffic jams

Power outrages

Bad customer service

People who blow their noses in restaurants

People who don’t return the greeting when you say hello to them

General rudeness

Obtuse people

Social media dry bragging

Slow drivers

^ **power outtages**

Hot doggers on ski slopes who ski out of control. They injure and occasionally kill others.

I blow my nose in Asian restaurants frequented by Asian diners.

Most prefer their food to be highly spiced and this causes much nose blowing.

"When in Rome ...."

R463, that article was written in 2009. Are checks, indeed, being discontinued next month in the UK?

People who waffle.

People who have a need to correct people. See R426. It doesn't make you superior, it makes you look like a fucking ass.

Of all the things there are to be thought "a fucking ass" for, r470, this is one I can live with.

^^ Big idiot and PROUD of it!

Yeah...no, r472.

Children

Drivers who don't understand how a four-way stop works.

Drivers who don't use turn signals in roundabouts.

R394 - for that matter, we could add to "self-esteem" and "bullying" the term "racist" applied randomly and without discretion to anyone who criticises anyone or anything connected to a minority population. It's getting to be a bit more than a "small annoyance", it's turning into a suffocating blanket of . . . . bullying. :)

R447, I have heard "tons" used for most of my life and say it myself. I am 49. Maybe it's a regional thing.

When store employees say, "Welcome in!" It sounds so awkward. Just say, "Welcome" please.

People who assume that being disabled or old means that the entire world has to stop for them. I have arthritis in my feet and also MS. I limp most days, yet I have never assumed that the rest of humanity needs to slow down or "learn patience"- I walk to the side and let other people pass me. People who want the entire aisle, entryway, or sidewalk to themselves are often that way because they subconsciously enjoy control disputes. It makes them feel powerful when they are able to unnecessarily inconvenience other people.

It is selfish of people not to slow down for me in extenuating circumstances, but I would be the selfish one if I expected others to put their lives on hold so I can waddle down the center of an aisle or sidewalk. If you are slower than 95% of the other people around you, move the fuck over when you can.

[quote]When store employees say, "Welcome in!" It sounds so awkward. Just say, "Welcome" please.

I have never heard, or heard of, "Welcome in!" until this very moment. Are they maybe saying "Well, come in"?

They are quite clearly saying, "Welcome in!" It's now the greeting of choice at both Ross stores I frequent, and also at a restraunt I eat at.

Add me to the list of people who hate whistlers. I associate it with feeble-mindedness.

Really? "Tons" for a lot of something and you use it all the time with this meaning at your age?

Where are you?! It must be a regional colloquialism.

Well, I won't have it and I WILL look down on those who use such puerile terminology.

Where do you live, r479, that shopkeepers welcome you in?

Super eldergays like R393 who are always posting tons of stuff about how awful Millennials and Gen Xers are.

People not disabled parking in disability parking spots.

Weird, elder age-obsessed guys like R482 that have a rocky road ahead

When people use received language. So many examples but I'll stick with the insane overuse of the word awesome. It has made me sick. Am I the only one? What is up with how passionately it has been embraced by the old and young alike?

Frauen (and it is ALWAYS frauen) who are over the age of 8 and use "yummy" as a descriptor, particularly on social media.

"Eating yummy pancakes with Emily and Jessica at Moonshine!" [PHOTO]

"OMG!! Love Stoneys!! Their honey rosemary gelato is super yummy!!! [VARIOUS EMOJIS]"

And frauen who say "yummy" inevitable use the even more heinous "delish!"

"Delish" is concentration camp-worthy.

[quote]When people use received language.

Like "received pronunciation"?

In the Valley, R481. CVS and Ross require their employees to greet everyone as they enter.

Feh. Fundamental lack of scientific knowledge. Not even basic knowledge of logical fallacy, so reading social media is tedious as fuck. You can nearly sing out the the names of the fallacy “POST HOC ERGO PROPTER”! “SLIPPER SLOPE” “REDUCTIO AD ABSURDEM”

When someone spells my name wrong on an email - when my name is clearly spelled out like 1 inch above their reply. I don't even have a complicated name. Maybe that's the problem?? They just decide to switch vowels around - wtf?

, usually people at the3 door you'd not have at your dinner table.They're doing that in the Hamptons now, R489

[quote]So many examples but I'll stick with the insane overuse of the word awesome. It has made me sick. Am I the only one? What is up with how passionately it has been embraced by the old and young alike?

It was replaced by AMAZING several years ago. Where have you been?

Teeth

R488 I guess that's not a commonly used term. Just googled and no evidence of it. I mean trendy language... language that everyone uses suddenly. I.e. You do you, pivot, to your point etc

But they come and go. Awesome has persisted and persisted and it makes me truly upset.

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say, r492. Are you saying I wouldn't have store employees as guests at my dinner table? Why wouldn't I?

R496 tell us of door employees, hell, anybody, you've had at your dinner table that were fat, ugly, barely articulate, never in your ethnic-mix or like R488.

People who park crooked and/or take up two spaces when they park

People who hold up traffic trying to back into a parking space

When someone holds a door or presses your floor for you in an elevator and you say, Thank you, but they respond with, Uh huh.

r497 What did I do? Had you heard of "received language" before?

R500 do you mean 595? If so... you didn't do anything. As the kids(who use received language) say, "We're good."

My cousin used the term to pinpoint what was so awful about my frau aunt, so I assumed that received language was the way to describe it but after a google, I see it's not commonly used. It should be.

Like, gaggles of, like, millennios who, like, LITerally spout "like" and "literally" with every other word, and like, move in impassable clusters on sidewalks, like, LITerally all the time, and like, if they're behind me, I like pull over and, like, pretend to check my phone to, like, let them pass, because, like, they are LITerlly so like annoying!

Numbnuts @ r497 : I am of mixed ethnicity and my dinner companions are often Latina, black, Irish, Filipino, and Hawaaiian Japanese. My friends have jobs that are apparently beneath your approval rating, but not mine. I don't live some privileged life- I work 3 jobs and most of my friends also work multiple jobs, some of them in stores. I'm ugly, two of my friends are fat, and none of us would have YOU at our tables.

^ I forgot to add the "barely articulate" dinner guest, my Mexican-Russian autistic client.

[r 503] you - and your friends - sounds like a wonderful dinner party!

I travel a lot, mostly or work. I eat in restaurants frequently. The worst? Loud groups that use profanity. So, you’re thinking this is going to be a smack at young people.

It’s not. Sure,in bars - no surprise. But, in very expensive restaurants I’ve asked to be reseated because obnoxious people (read: Texans) well into their 60s were dropping the F bomb LOUDLY at the table and could be head several tables away. This was in a restaurant that easily cost $500 per person for dinner.

Boorish.

My pet peeves have to do with parking, mostly.

I hate when people get into their cars at a parking lot, and then don't leave immediately. You can pull over once you're on the street and check your phone (or makeup, or whatever) there. I have.

I know technically they could sit in their car all day if they wanted to, but do they not remember 20 minutes before, when they were looking for a spot and creating a traffic jam because they were stalled, waiting for a car with its lights on to leave?

Parking lots are annoying, and we all need to just get out as quickly as possible. It just makes sense.

The Self Interview drives me batty.

"Was I upset? Sure. Will I go there again? Yes. Will I be careful to let them know in advance what I need? Absolutely. Will I shut up now? No. Do I have more questions for myself? Let me check my list..."

R503,yes dear. To each his own.

When hurricanes don't live up to their hype

When gas leaks blow up your house

[quote]Power outrages

[quote]^ **power outtages**

Keep trying, dear.

But this just happened to me today. Woke up at 3AM and discovered the power was out. Utility pole was knocked down. Took then SIXTEEN HOURS to get it running again. I'm afraid to look in my freezer. (And it was in the 90s today. No AC, no fans.) I've had better electrical service in Third World countries.

Re: Awesome. Yesterday I saw a little boy wearing a t-shirt with that written on the front. I couldn't guess his age - I'm not good at that - but he was a child.

Thank you, r505. I wish I could see my friends more often, and invite you along.

Guys who wear the size sticker on the lid of their hats.

R485... No, you're not the only one.

TV stations contributors on pannels with screeching/high pitched voices. I don't care who they are and what they think, if they have an annoying voice they don't belong on TV.

Visitors who won't eat when you offer them food but will sit there watching you eat.

Add to that being a drop in and I get really pissed off.

My new millennio brohole neighbors are again watching some dumbass weekend football game on TV, and hooting and shouting every few minutes. Their screeching gal pal makes it worse. I hope their sportsball team loses every weekend. Fucking dumbass loudmouth douchebros and screechgals.

R517, Bethenny Frankel comes to mind immediately.

I don't understand what Received Language is. Would someone take a moment to explain? Thank you.

Nothing original here, but: Self-entitled and know-it-all 'hot moms' who fanny around everywhere, oblivious to everything but their own crotch fruit and that of their cunty friends. Especially when they allow said crotch fruit to run amok in restaurants that are clearly designed for adult dining.

So-oooooo not eco-friendly of me, but I hate buses. Every time I find myself stuck behind one in traffic and say very ugly things.

Totes adorbs. What are we, babies!?

People who have to make a big, fucking deal out of their special dietary needs in a restaurant: quizzing the waiter on ingredients, asking for substitutions, changing their minds, bitching loudly about everything when it is served. Stay home and fix yourself a plate of mashed yeast and a large, steaming cup of Shut the Fuck Up.

R517.. Meghan McCain being a good example.. DL's fave..

Seriously R518, can't you just stop eating, wait until they've gone? What kind of manners do you have? Were you raised in a barn?

R527 when someone shows up at my place I expect them to fucking eat when I offer them food.

r525 Thank you! I have a complicated diet, but I’ve only found it a problem - once. In every restaurant, everywhere in the world, restaruants have diet/allergy menus if you ask. ASK. Use your words. If you’re so special that you can’t eat something that was picked with the left hand under the waning moon, and has to be rinsed with Evian and not San Pelligrino, well you’re. SOL. Everywhere. Nobody will accomodate your snowflake stupidity.

Even in cheap restaurants, the cook has come out and been damn helpful figuring out what they could do - and been really cheerful. I tip way above 50% too because I’m a pain in the ass.

The only time it was a problem was at a hella expensive restaurant where they screwed up, badly, and yeah I wound up in the emergency room as a result .

If you want to be the latest issue of GOOP - stay home. If you raise your voice, at all - you should be thrown out of the restaurant and banned. That’s inexcusable.

This one chaps my ass:

People who criticize others for not following the rules when they do the exact same thing!

Case in point: people criticizing others for parking in handicap spots and then, when they happen to be driving their grandparents' car that has such a sticker, their parking in handicapped spots even though they're no more handicapped than the man in the moon.

People whe wear mismatched socks.

[quote]Use your words.

The phrase "use your words" annoys me much more than it should.

The absurdly small print on the menu at the McDonald's drive-thru.

People who respond to celebrity deaths as if the celebrity was a personal friend or family member.

God Bless. I’m praying for you. Tell her she’s in our prayers. It’s in God’s hands. Heaven just got another angel.

[quote]People whe wear mismatched socks.

I need to get out more. I never see people with mismatched socks.

My friend mismatches hers on purpose. She says it bugs her to have two of the same style or color on. No, she's not autistic.

Idiot Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists. They can be presented with the facts, and will still deny or defend.

Not a small annoyance, r538.

R521, it's usually referred to as "Received Pronunciation" and it refers to the accent of upper-class English people (Oxford and Cambridge sorts). Requires an upturned nose.

R521 I'm the one who used that expression. Turns out it's not a known expression. My cousin used it to describe my hardcore frau aunt. I assumed it was a known way to describe some phenomena.

The aunt is all over the word "awesome" though she is over 60. By received language, I meant language that everyone uses cause they are not individualistic. You be you is a new awful one. "Ted Bundy, you be you"

Pivot this and that and to your point on the news drove me crazy. Butthurt, Low Key, Legit all irritate too. So many more, unfortunately.

People who flick cigarettes out their car window.

People who write more than a three-sentence response on DataLounge.

When people look at the same thing as me in the supermarket but walk away when i do because they didn't buy anything!

R544 You want to run that by us again, this time with meaning?

When the maid quits and I have to put the dishes in the dishwasher all by myself.

Thank you R540/R541, for your explanations.

R545 I look at something on the shelf and then someone else comes and has a look i put the item in my basket/trolley but they don't take anything off the shelf!It's weird and it happens a lot to me!

I'm not heartless, but I'm tired of people going on and on about their dead pets on social media and people offering prayers and condolences like it was some kind of unbearable tragedy. I get it, your pet was your baby, except…it wasn't. Pets have a shelf life. We know they're going to die and it will make us sad when they do. I met a woman recently who was carrying around the ashes of her dead cat and was planning on having those ashes scattered with her own when she died. Seriously, get a fucking grip.

Seriously, r549, eat the shit that comes out of the asses of every single pet whose owner posts on Datalounge. And wash it down with their piss.

People who do Tough Mudder and other extreme obstacle course/marathon challenges. You're not star athletes in high school anymore. Get over it!

Guys who talk about their tough jobs like they're saving the world and the rest of us are just mere mortals.

You're a lobster fisherman? Congrats. You work on a oil rig? Super. You're a tow truck driver hauling rigs? Tremendous.

Did anyone force you to do those jobs? Are you getting paid well to do those jobs? Then stop bragging because no one cares.

W&W for R551.

Agreed. R551 is the BEST post all week!!!!!

Gym douches that repeatedly drink from water bottles as they work out as if they are dying of thirst. You're not in the Sahara, FFS. Then they leave their empty water bottles behind for someone else to throw away.

[quote]people who stop at the top of escalators or just outside the door of the subway, blocking the way for everyone behind them.

YES!!!!!!!

They just get elbowed in the back.

Or the neck if they are short enough.

Men who cum too quickly

Loud squirts are the worst!

Spitters are quitters. Okay I guess that's not a small thing, except in some cases. Carry on.

Diarrhea

This is not a commonplace annoyance. It's a problem that's begun happening at a local Dollar Tree here. ' This DT has your typical shitty pharmacy chain/dollar store checkout line set up where customers stand along a long display of cheap crap that runs parallel with the cashier stands. Standard, universal layout that's in a million stores, right? So what is the problem?

Well, for some bizarre reason, as of this year, customers have now forgotten how to stand on line at this store. Every other day, for no reason at all, they keep deciding, "Forget this most obvious place to stand on line. Let's all stand in the very last aisle, blocking other customers' access to merchandise." No one told them to stand there, and it doesn't even make sense to stand there. They just decided, "We're going to stand here."

You have no idea how annoying this is and how much you just want to scream at these people, "Hey, you morons! The line is over HERE. It's always been here like it has been for the past six years. It's obviously here; what do you think this Goddamned display separating the rest of the store from the cashiers is for? It's so you can busy yourself looking at these small items while you wait on line. So why would you even stand over there and not here?"

One guy was so annoyed one day when he found customers standing in the last aisle again, he defiantly stood next to the display, looked those people square in the face and said, "The line is over here." They started arguing with him and he was, like, "No. It's here. The line is here."

Weeks late, the line situation has gotten worse. People aren't even standing on one line anymore but trying to make separate lines behind each cashier, even though there's a sign at the foot of the display that says, "Please wait here."

So now I just feel like pulling a Nicolas Cage whenever I show up at this store, just wanna hop onto a shelf like a crazy person and go, "GIMME AN H! GIMME AN E! GIMME AN R! GIMME AN E! WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? HEEEEERRRRRREEEE!"

I no like when people be mean.

When people return their rented VHS tapes WITHOUT REWINDING. Bitch, please. That will be a $2 fine!

1) A friend of mine, when asked by the waiter/waitress what she'd like to drink, tends to say "waters all around, first". I'm honestly not a control freak, but I don't want people ordering for me!

2) My officemate usually leaves for home before I do, and when she gets ready to leave, she takes forever. She'll grab one possession then another, then decides to visit the restroom first, then comes back and takes forever to grab her things again. I sit there thinking "leave already!" It's not that I dislike here and can't wait for her to be gone. Something about the way it draws out gets on my nerves.

[quote] People who sort of trudge along, rather than walking purposefully. They also lean on their shopping carts.

That'd be us (we?) class of Deplorables that don't have access to Norcos or Rascals yet, R35. The carts take the heat off of various joints-hips and knees in particular. The irony that this now adds to the burden my shoulders take isn'I lost on me. I affect a bulldog stance, which unloads my knees and encourages lane discipline in other shoppers (they think you're bananas).

Do you find us to constantly in your way,R35?

was born and raised in New York City, I don't dawdle and I do not stroll. It's physically and mentally impossible for me to stroll or saunter. I tried strolling a few times when I was in between appointments and I had time to kill and I just could not do it. I now know to walk at my normal pace and find a coffee shop or nearby park to cool my heels rather than idly walk down the streets.

But you people who "can't stand slow walkers" are human tampons who purposely walk on heels.

You're not in a rush, you're in a rush to get in front of the person in front of you.

I know this because after walking on my heels and breathing your rank, fetid breath on my neck , once you've planted your flabby silly self directly in front of me, you stop short suddenly and whip out your unsmartphone to begin a texting marathon . People "in a rush "do not stop short on a crowded city street to text- you wait until youve reached your destination to do that shit.

It's the same with drivers, R568. I learned to drive in LA, where you drive with a purpose, not meandering around like you're out on a Sunday in the country. Moving to other cities where people drive at the speed limit or even below, randomly change lanes and even try to block you from passing them has been a frustrating experience.

I agree R569 people driving the speed limit are an annoyance. After all speed limits are random numbers selected by those lottery ball machines. Although my understanding is in Vegas they are selected by slot machines.

In grocery stores, there are two:

1. People in check-out who stand in front of their carts;

2. People in aisles who don't "get" that the cart stays with the person, no matter which side of the aisle one stops at to look at items. Otherwise, if separated on two different sides, the person and the cart crowd the aisle.

R571 why would it possibly bother you that people stand in front of their carts at the check-out? I usually do self-checkout, but if I use a checker I stand at the front of the cart to unload the cart onto the conveyor belt. How could you even do that from the back of the cart? Or are the lines at your market set up such that the checker unloads the cart for you?

I simply do not understand.

r427, I do. Can't be hacked.

r572, I've been unloading items from the back of grocery carts for decades. One simply bends from the waist (I'm 5'2"); or unloads items ahead of time from the front---because the person ahead, also behind his cart, hasn't left said cart as a BLOCKADE.

People who "cheers" by touching their food together like they're clinking glasses. Even worse are the ones who do AFTER taking a bite, thereby comingling their disgusting saliva cooties. HATE this dumb trend.

Double dipping using a potato chip, in a dip.

When people are telling a story or talking about something that happened to them, they start switching to "you..." rather than "I" . It usually happens during an emotional topic. I just saw an interview were someone was doing it:

[quote]That year was stressful, and you just don't know how to deal with it so you're constantly on edge and you're constantly worried - and you end up doing things that aren't helpful.

It's not me... it's you.

I always unload my grocery cart from behind, or else I use self-checkout. I don't know why anyone would leave the cart lagging behind them.

Cars that park on my front lawn because there is no spot on the street. Get off my property!

I load the cart from the front as I’m 5’6”. It’s hard as hell to reach into the cart from the back. I’m sure for you Giants it’s just business as usual - but god dammit, I need to get back to my treehouse and bake cookies. My ass and feet danging out of a cart might brighten your Instagram, but TIMES A WASTIN’!

I am 5'7", r580.

Tailgaters. I'm driving on a two-way street through town at the speed limit w a long line of cars ahead of me.

Why the fuck are you two inches off my bumper???

When gay men feel they have to be "on" all the time. It's like they're always in character.

R573 a check "can't be hacked"?? LOL. Your check has everything needed to hack your account: bank account number, routing number. Anyone with a copy of any check you write can run through a debit from your account. You realize that most checks don't even get deposited anymore, but just process as debits based on those data points? Yes, you can report it as fraud and get the funds restored to your account, but you absolutely can be hacked.

[quote]r582 Tailgaters. I'm driving on a two-way street through town at the speed limit w a long line of cars ahead of me. Why the fuck are you two inches off my bumper???

I slow way down when someone's tailgating me.

I know their brain is exploding...and I smile.

Toilet paper you find at McDonald’s or other fast food places that’s paper thin. God for bid you need a lot if you take a number two. Also the toilet paper is so thin it tears off when you pull it so you’re constantly pulling on it and pulling and pulling. Aargh!

People who don’t pick up after their dogs!

R587 Another non-small annoyance. Those fuckers should be smeared with their dogs' shit.

Here in Canada at least, the stink of pot everywhere. Shit's not even legal yet and everywhere you go, fucking skunk.

Pot stinks.

saying someone is "X years young"

Yes, R591, I loathe the way the young are so condescending to older people. It's disrespectful and disgusting. We should revere the elderly, as in Asian cultures.

Kids who wet their bed.

Women in huge SUVs who drive like shit. Just almost got backed up on in a parking lot. grrrrrrrr

Right now, cigarette smoke coming into my apartment from my neighbours on their balcony. It's too hot to close all the doors and windows.

Morbidly obese women parading down the runway and displayed in fashion spreads.Yes, you should be allowed to live your life in peace, free of harassment, but your grotesque distorted body is neither beautiful nor normal.

R582... I hear you.. hate that.

Most of you seem insufferable and the rest of you are just assholes.

[quote]I learned to drive in LA, where you drive with a purpose, not meandering around like you're out on a Sunday in the country.

Where is this LA where people drive with purpose?

People who use hand sanitizer and then dig into the shared bread basket.