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.
The females anyway - don't want to do anything that might seem gay.....
Boy Alpacas are better than Girl Apacas.
Just remember my motto: It ain't gay if it ain't your species.
pointless vanities. ;)
Welcome to the Thread About Nothing.
Peeps who talk LOUDLY on their cell phones in public. Do they think the other caller can't hear them? Do they think they're cool because they're on a cell phone? Do they just want attention?
2. 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.
3. Above mothers who waste time asking little Timmy if he wants the burgers or nuggets, coke or sprite, etc. Just order him food. You're the parent. Or discuss it on the car on the way over.
4. People who drive ultra-cautiously slow (below the speed limit uphill, so they don't go too fast on the downhill part) and then fail to do a legal stop at stop signs. Hello? If you are going to be fastidious about driving laws, then at least be consisten.
SD
Threads about things that annoy you most. :-)
People who view everything in life through the lens of their own personal pet issue.
Indiscriminate use of hyperbole.
When people exaggerate for effect when the situation calls for accuracy.
People who can't admit when they are wrong.
People who are constantly talking on their cellphones when they are dealing with other people in person.
When people leave me a voice mail asking to call them, when they could have given the info I asked for on the voice mail.
Leftists, socialists, communists, anti-Christians and extremists of any sort.
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