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THE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU MOST

Posted on 09/23/2003 8:48:39 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine

I find that in my day, its the mundane annoyances and not societal ills that get my goat. I'm going to start my curmudgeonly list, feel free to add:

1. People who leave long messages on cellphones and voicemail - I'm going to have to call you back, anyway, so why make me listen to it?

2. People who engage in chitchatty conversations on cellphones in bars, restaurants, bank lines and airplanes - why do I want to hear about how you're going to clean your basement, or the play by play on the game you're not watching? Just stop it!

3. People who insist on answering every cellphone call, even when in a meeting with other people - it is really, really rude.

4. People who insist on disciplining their children in plain view - you know you can't give them the smack they deserve in public. Go ahead and take them into a private spot so you can give them the beating they deserve - we can hear the shrieks through the bathroom doors, and will appreciate and laugh at the effort.

5. Including all the waitstaff in the singing of "Happy Birthday" in restaurants. They don't care about the birthday boy/girl, so why annoy all the other patrons?

6. Mai-Tais.

7. Fast food joints that make you ask for salt at the drive through.

8. Waiters/waitresses that insist on telling you their name, and who want to chat with you. I don't care about their lives, and just want my meal served appropriately.

9. "Self-serve" Delta kiosks when you have luggage to check.


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To: Chancellor Palpatine; All
Ignorance
21 posted on 09/23/2003 12:35:30 PM PDT by apackof2 (Watch and pray till you see Him coming, no one knows the hour or the day)
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To: martin_fierro
It does have that Seinfeldesque quality, doesn't it?
22 posted on 09/23/2003 12:58:58 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Peeps who talk LOUDLY on their cell phones in public.

I suspect they're the same people who always gave away the plot while talking in movie theaters.

23 posted on 09/23/2003 1:00:25 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: SoothingDave
Women who don't get their wallets out until after all of their groceries have been rung up.

Ha - major pet peeve of mine. Its even worse if they're elderly and have their husbands with them - because then they get to yell at him the entire time to boot.

Mothers and children at fast food places during lunch hour. Working men have to get in a get out. Go to lunch at 11 or 1.

I'll go you one even better - geezer women at the bank during the lunch hour. They'll waste three tellers for 15 straight minutes while tracking down an 87 cent discrepancy that was their mistake in the first place. I was once so disgusted I yanked a few bucks out of my pocket and offered them up if the old bat would give up her stupid quest.

24 posted on 09/23/2003 1:05:51 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
1) ANY driver who doesn't yield Right-of-Way when I'm going Code-3 in a fire truck.

2) Slow drivers in left lane

3) People who insist on sharing their life-story with the check-out lady at the grocery store.

4) Side by side bicyclists on a narrow street.

5) Geese in the road.

25 posted on 09/23/2003 1:27:28 PM PDT by Johnny Gage (Ever have a "salmon" day at work? You swim upstream all day, in the end you get screwed and die?)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
OK, I got a peeve to share:

Knuckleheaded people who overuse the words, "Unfortunately" and "Definitely" because they think it makes them sound More Like A Professional.

This practice is especially bothersome when the subject they're addressing has nothing to do with Fortune or is indefinite.

(yeah, I know, that's definitely unfortunate for me.) <|:p~

26 posted on 09/23/2003 1:30:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Great Googlymoogly!)
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To: SoothingDave
You sound anything BUT soothed, muh man. <|:)~
27 posted on 09/23/2003 1:32:09 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Great Googlymoogly!)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
I was once so disgusted I yanked a few bucks out of my pocket and offered them up if the old bat would give up her stupid quest.

LOL. I almost did this once in a supermarket, while some lady was searching through her changepurse for the proper number of pennies.

Look, here's a buck, just keep the change and get out.

SD

28 posted on 09/23/2003 2:15:45 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: martin_fierro
Knuckleheaded people who overuse the words, "Unfortunately" and "Definitely" because they think it makes them sound More Like A Professional.

Ha ha. "As well", works there also. As in " I have a pimple on my butt as well".

29 posted on 09/23/2003 2:21:35 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: martin_fierro
I have one along those lines. It is knuckleheaded people who say, "At this point in time". They're probably the same people who also say, "10:30am in the morning".
30 posted on 09/23/2003 5:58:12 PM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Weather people who say things like: "It's going to be cold in the overnight". ?? Would that be overnight hours, knucklehead?

People on forum threads who won't answer a simple question. You can get advice you didn't ask for, admonishments, off-topic questions, abuse, off-topic answers to unasked questions, ad nauseum. Why can't they just answer the damn question?!

People who pronounce nuclear as newkular.

Striptease promos for new TV shows.

31 posted on 09/23/2003 6:10:02 PM PDT by pa_dweller (How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?)
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To: wimpycat
"When people exaggerate for effect when the situation calls for accuracy."

Neat point, very damning, I'm going to remember this, abide by it, not do it, and be aware of it going forward.

The things that annoy me:

1. Littering

2. People who want to fax me things I won't look at until three days after they arrive anyway. I now refuse to give such people my fax number.

3. The hard sell. This will kill any deal to which I am a party.

32 posted on 09/23/2003 9:37:38 PM PDT by jocon307 (Where is Chat? And how did I get here?)
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To: martin_fierro
1. Odd use of capitalization. Unfortunately, it is definitely irritating!
33 posted on 09/23/2003 10:07:43 PM PDT by bluefish
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
People who can't finish their sent
People (or persons) who overuse (to excess) parenthetical (that is to say, tangential) phrases (or sentences).
People whose sentences do not a verb.
People who tend to arbitrarily split infinitives.
People who think they're really clever by posting self-referential sentences.

That last one is me making fun of myself. I used to have a journal site where I came up with many, many self-referential sentences. I suggest the book "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter for those, and many other verbal and mathematical amusements. He's the same guy who wrote "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid".

34 posted on 09/23/2003 10:14:14 PM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell (Increasingly alone in a world going to Hill(ary) in a handbasket)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
All the girls that pinch my butt. Man that's rude of them...
35 posted on 09/23/2003 10:27:24 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
Ok,...

People that can debate words, like nuclear.

People that don't give a courtesy wave, when you let them in to your lane of traffic.

Cars that are slow in the left lane.

Excessive packaging. Layers and layers of foil, safety buttons, tight plastic wrappers.
36 posted on 09/23/2003 10:30:37 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Professional
My fave is the packaging that is so tight and hard (tools are the worst for this) that you need tin shears to open it.
37 posted on 09/24/2003 4:37:31 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (All eyes were on Ford Prefect. Some of them were on stalks.)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
When my mom encounters tough packaging, she always exclaims, "You need a stick of dynamite to get this thing open!"
38 posted on 09/24/2003 5:00:05 AM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
People who expect you to pay attention to a recommendation sign like “slower traffic keep right”,
but think it’s all right for them to completely ignore the “speed limit 65 MPH” sign.
39 posted on 09/24/2003 5:30:45 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (I'm out of my mind...... But feel free to leave a message.)
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To: Professional
"People that can debate words, like nuclear".

"People that don't give a courtesy wave, when you let them in to your lane of traffic".

People who say "people that" instead of "people who"
40 posted on 09/24/2003 6:24:59 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.)
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