Cellphones in public are my #1. If you are in a restaurant or bar, step outside. Nobody give's a rat's ass about your conversation! Other ones are people not using turning signals and one who constantly interrupts someone else in a business meeting....you know, the type that want to put their two cents worth in whether they know what the hell they are talking about or not!
Cellphones+driving people who pass you and then slow down in front of you you win, you're in front of me, you jackass... now GO!
People who smoke in my face, where I can't get around it. Especially in front of doors to buildings. You have to take a huge breath of air when you're strategically far enough away, and hope it lasts until you get inside. The worst is one of the buildings I teach in, where you go up a very tall set of outside stairs before going in the main door. At the top of the stairs, there are always people hanging out on the balcony smoking so they won't have to go all the way down to go outside. Also, when they're finished and toss the butts down wherever they happen to be. Often without putting it all the way out first. (usually into the grass alongside the freeway, during the drier months of the summer... you get the picture. Oh well, it gives the firemen something to do.) And the previous comments about toilets. Learn to flush. It should have been part of your basic preschool education. You would think ladies' rooms would be cleaner, but not necessarily. People are too squeamish to sit on the seat, so they hover above it. That makes a mess. Then, do they clean it up before they leave? No. Someone else has to. The seat wouldn't be so bad in the first place if they didn't do that...
I hate when your walking in a public place and there is a clear path going in both directions and people still walk in your path without moving or trying to avoid you......Rude People cutting you off in traffic without using a turn signal and then coming within inches of taking out your front bumper. people who show up late all the time, especially when there are food and or drinks involved in the event People who feel the need to talk during a movie at a normal tone and then rehash every scene. People who try to cut in line People who feel the need to take 20 items through the 10 items or less line
- People who talk on the phone while driving. I hate you. You know who you are. - I stop at Panera just about every morning for coffee and a bagel. I hate it when someone gets in front of me and order 2 dozen bagels and wants them all sliced and toasted! Have a little courtesy people.
Teenagers. Anytime there are more than two together, their speaking voices and general disregard for anyone increases exponentially. I just want to drop kick them. If I didn't need them to take my fast food order, I would have zero contact with them.
One of my biggest pet peeves are people who arrive at the gate at the last minute yet insist on bringing their gargantuan suitcases onto planes that should be checked in. They then delay the flight even longer by refusing to check the bag, even though all the overheads are full. Honestly, unless you're carrying a musical instrument or something extremely fragile, just check your damn suitcase or buy a smaller one. I also hate it when people make a big show of their boredom in class - a guy in my Am Lit class last year fidgeted and sighed constantly and I was tempted to smack him across the head a few times. Finally, I hate people who go to public places just to spend the entire time talking loudly on their cell phones. Why even bother going out in public - you can talk for free at home.
along with Swoly's complaints: people who say "then" instead of "than." as in "moochie norris is worse then everyone who has ever played basketball." this seems to be a relatively new, yet amazingly prevalent, error in writing/typing english these days. i never saw this even 2 or 3 years ago and now it is everywhere. i'm actually surprised when i'm reading this bbs and someone actually figures out that you should use "than." even bill simmons does this and somehow it gets by not only him, but his editor. how the hell does this happen. a major website, and they miss a 3rd grader's error. virtually anybody on the road except myself. but especially the people who don't get out of your way in the fast lane. hey, go however slow you want in the right hand lanes. stand still for all i care. hell, go as slow as you want in the fast lane if no one's around. but if i'm ****ing behind you trying to go faster and you can move over, let me the **** by!! people will be in 65 mph zones doing 62 or 63 in the friggin' fast lane. how you can go that slow is beyond me, but how you either be so inconsiderate or completely oblivious to other driver's who are trying to get by is beyond me. if there's any sort of traffic, trying to pass to the right is damn near impossible. this problem is especially bad in austin. i get behind fast lane cloggers almost every day. i will say it seems to have magically gotten better b/t the fall and spring semesters. i now notice whole stretches where everyone (not just the fast lane) will be going a Houston like 10+ mph over the speed limit. i like it. and yes, writing checks at the grocery store should probably be outlawed. unless it's just a huge amount. i got stuck behind someone at 1 a.m. at HEB one time writing a check for 3 DOLLARS!!! they took forever, then the cashier took forever, then there was a problem, then something else happened, and then they just ended up leaving without buying anything. 3 damn dollars. if you have a bank account you should be able to come up with 3 dollars on your person. checks just take so damn long to process and verify.
I hate when people have tons of complaints and come to a website board to air them. I hate it when people can't say what's on their mind in the first place. They just let it build up inside of them like a volcano. Let it go. Let yourself flow. Slow and low. That is the tempo.
I can admit, I am horrible, but have gotten better when I'm un-interested in a subject or topic...I would lean back, shuffle paper, etc...
Anyone that takes up more than one space in a parking lot should be shot. Come on, the lanes are adequate for just about any standard vehicle and it takes all of 15 seconds to align yourself within them.
In an apartment complex, anyone who parks outside of the parking spots. I've lived accross from the mailboxes here for 3 years, at least once a week someone is parked to where I can't pull out and I have to wait for them. Then they go through their mail while sitting in their car that is blocking me.
ooh ooh This happened last week. Jerks who exit the freeway, cross over the double white line and attempt a right hand turn onto a street that is damn near parallel to the off ramp. In the process, not looking and nearly T-Boning my car at 65 miles an hour. Good thing I have fast reaction skills and german engineering, otherwise I would have been toaster strudel.
I do not sing but I make a Def song You could live your whole life - and I hope you live long On the Gong Show we won't get gonged We're the Beastie Boys not Cheech and Chong
While we are talking about grammatical and spelling mistakes, nothing annoys me more than to see someone use the word lose but spell it loose. "We better not LOOSE this game!!" Like f4p said, that mistake is akin to one being made by a 3rd grader, yet I see it all the freaking time.
