things that people do that drive you crazy?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

mine:

people freaking out if there is a single strand of corn silk on their corn on the cob

[Wounded Bear]

1. Dragging their heels...

It bugs me when people, especially wearing flip flops or open heeled sandals, drag their heels when they walk.

Pick your feet up, yo-yo!

[BlueJazz]

2. People who creep at red lights...creep...creep...creep, then when the light turns green,..

...wait until the car in front of them is 125 ft away before moving.

I always want to ask them "Why in the hell do you creep so much at red lights (until you're 2 feet from the person in front of you)..
and then fuck around after the light turns Green" AGGHHH!

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Red light, no left turn signal -light turns green, person takes forever to actually move...

who knows - texting, emailing, eating - and the only car that makes it through (eventually) is them.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

46. yup. I've taken to hitting a short horn beep in those situations regardless just to make sure

ass holes who are using their precious time in traffic to text will get a fucking clue and go, already!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. breathe

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some of them anyways . . .

CC

[Aristus]

5. Driving slow in front of me.

Go fast or go home!

[BillStein]

18. worst are the people driving in the left lane,

pacing the cars to the right.... pull the f*** over

[hifiguy]

71. Come to China.

Even on the best highways, like the Shanghai-Huangzhou road that is better than many US interstates, one sees the ubiquitous little cabover pickup trucks, and every other kind of truck for that matter, blocking lanes at 40-50 kph. The actual speed limit is 120 kph and the "real" speed limit is more like 140. The speed disparities on Chinese highways are well beyond terrifying and unbelievably dangerous.

[Ava]

6. when people cough and hack on the subway right near me

Particularly since many don't bother to cover their cough.

[pipi_k]

7. Augh!!!

That drives me crazy too! And sneezing out into the air without covering it up.

Good lord...sneeze into the crook of your elbow, people!!!

[Ava]

12. this was on gawker yesterday

pretty true/amusing:
http://gawker.com/the-ten-worst-people-on-the-subway-730051779

[madinmaryland]

40. "The people who get on before letting everyone get off. You deserve to be stabbed."

I rode the subway in NY for 15 years. That is a classic!!

[raccoon]

56. Or on elevators! nt

[NV Whino]

8. Constant lateness

[pipi_k]

11. Oh yeah...

I have a stepdaughter who is almost always late.

OTOH, Mr Pipi has this obsession with being early to everything. OK I can see appointments, but family dinners/get togethers are something else.

His constantly late daughter will tell us to be at their house for 4 PM, say, and he not only wants to leave 60 minutes before (it only takes 40 minutes to get to her house), but he drives like he's going to a fire. Like we're going to be late even though we're actually way early. We almost always get there when his daughter and her hubby are still cleaning and in the middle stages of cooking dinner.

This has been going on for years, and I used to be real embarrassed, but I figure she knows how her dad is, and if it really bothered her, she would tell him to show up 30 minutes later than what she would ordinarily tell a normal person.

[NV Whino]

23. I confess I suffer from constant earlyness myself

I think it stems from my abhorrence of lateness. I've been known to drive around the block a few times to be only slightly early rather than really early.

Edited to change ear lines to earlyness, which my computer still didn't like. It didn't like earliness either. Maybe it's just not a word, but I still suffer from it.

[Captain Stern]

24. Guilty of being chronically early myself.....

......the stupid thing (on my part) is that when I am supposed to meet somebody, and I get there early, I start getting pissed off AT THEM for me having to wait.

[NV Whino]

26. Yeah, that's one of the hazards of being chronically early

[LiveNudePolitics]

9. well, now that you ask

it really bothers me when folks try to enter the doors of elevators, subways or buses at the same time I am trying to get out...It is just better to let people out before entering, then they don't have to smash and smush past you.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. Yup. It's common courtesy (and infinitely more sensible) to let people out first.

[bif]

10. Talking on a speakerphone in a cube environment!

How rude is that?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. YES. Guy I work with has a speakerphone voice that pierces

every crevice of my brain. It actually hurts. When he is talking to someone else, I hold my ears or put headphones on. It takes every ounce of self-control I have not to literally scream "shut-up asshole"

[Pretzel_Warrior]

45. yes.but I was told I could talk to other people on my phone at a reasonable volume...

[MadrasT]

65. I have sat between two people 30 feet apart who were on the same conference call on speakerphone

while the whole thing was bouncing and echoing over my head

Assholes

They built those conference rooms for a reason

[olddots]

13. everything people do drives me crazy

I get annoyed at myself for being annoyed at others and then that annoys them which in turn annoys me but I really hate people on cell phones that talk like there is nobody else in the world who might not want to hear half an idiotic conversation.

[PeppinoImpastato]

14. it would be easier

to list things people do that don't annoy me

[Initech]

15. People who chew gum and loudly pop the bubbles.

[lunatica]

33. That gets me too

And if I don't tell them to stop or go talk to the manager I start getting murderous thoughts.

[shanti]

75. This!

Especially when one is on public transportation, cause there's no escape. It's the same as clipping nails.

[femmocrat]

16. Litter.

Especially in other people's yards. WHY???

[digonswine]

74. They probably think it's not littering-

they know you'll pick it up!

[Myrina]

17. The geek in the cube next to me: Slurp, groan, sigh, hum, moan, drum his fingers on his desk ....

.... not to mention kneeling at his desk (yes, kneeling) with his bare feet sticking out for all of us to smell.

[BillStein]

20. why bare feet?

More to the point, how does he get away with that? It's a safety hazard

[Myrina]

22. It's all kinds of disgusting.

He gets away with it because this place is like a library - nobody socializes, walks around, etc ...
The place is half empty due to layoffs and we see our manager once a week for a 30 minute "staff meeting".
I've contacted HR and they told me to talk to my mgr about him, but they're besties and I'm just a contractor so guess who'd come up on the losing end of that discussion?

Sigh.

[sakabatou]

19. People chewing with their mouths open

[BillStein]

21. People who talk on cell phones

when they're in a restaurant. Do you really think the other patrons want to hear your conversation?

[Captain Stern]

25. Ppl who leave 2 car lengths between them and the car in front of them when they stop at a light(nt)

[vanlassie]

68. Me too. Irritating.

[LadyHawkAZ]

27. People who bring their 5 or 6 small children out in public places

but will only pay attention the youngest 2, leaving the other 3 or 4 to run riot and shriek.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

44. hahahha. that cracked me up big time

[TrogL]

28. Vampires and zombies

Vampires - socializers who cannot control themselves in public, have to talk to everybody around them. On a bus they'll stand at the front and talk at the bus driver, preventing him from doing his job.

Zombies - people who are simply incapable of getting out of the way. They'll walk in to a grocery store, stop in the middle of the entrance and stand there gawking. You came to the store to buy groceries. Walk into the store. There are groceries there. Buy some.

[ZombieHorde]

29. Strangers starting conversations with me about sports.

I don't approach strangers and start talking about zombies or Cthulhu.

[R B Garr]

31. Some people at the gym have been bugging the nits out of me lately

I needed a change from the machines, so I started some cardio classes a few weeks ago. Just this morning, I go into one of the classes -- a big dance hall type room which was still relatively empty, and I felt someone on my heels. I took a spot in the back where I usually go, and moved just a few inches to put my towel down, and this woman took my spot just inches away from me in an otherwise empty room.

Dafuq!!!

So I just stood with her nose to nose and didn't budge much. After awhile into the class, she eventually moved over. Just because you get in my personal space doesn't mean I'm moving over for you. Sorry.

Now I feel better typing this out.

[Callmecrazy]

32. Get out of the hammer lane when your gabbing on your

fucking phone.
You see that car behind you creeping up your ass? That's every other poor bastard on the planet just trying to get home.
MOVE THE FUCK TO THE RIGHT AND HAVE A NICE DAY ASSHOLE!


And people who fart or smoke on the elevator.
And whoever invented Gangsta Rap should be shot.
And and and electricians that think they are smarter than me.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. LOL ! "That's every other poor bastard...." nt

[Nevernose]

34. People walking aimlessly in parking lots

They leave the store. Instead of crossing to the row of cars by the shortest distance, they walk diagonally, slowly, and manage to back up a dozen or more cars in total, in multiple lanes and aisles, all because they don't understand the very simple concept of walking either parallel or perpendicular to the traffic. Oblivious. Oblivious, and diagonal, and annoying me just to think about it.

[MadrasT]

66. Or just wander slowly right up the middle of the driving lanes

Instead of close to the parked cars

Half the time it never occurs to them a might - oh shock - want to be driving through

The other half they eventually notice and then look annoyed about moving out of the way

[Pool Hall Ace]

35. Drivers who look right at me as they pull out in front of me

then poke along at 5 to 10 mph below the speed limit. Especially when there is nothing behind me! I swear sometimes I must be driving an invisible car.

[Art_from_Ark]

39. I see that a lot here in Japan

Just yesterday, I encountered 3 drivers like that, including the driver of a big rig who looked at me as he pulled out in front of me just as I was approaching, then crawled along at 10mph for a while until he came to a narrow part of the road, where he had to stop several times to let cars pass from the other direction. Another driver ran a stop sign just so she could pull out in front of me as I was approaching on the main road, then proceeded to crawl in front of me at 20mph (speed limit 30mph) for the next couple of miles

[NuclearDem]

38. People chewing ice.

I just get the feeling of ice on my teeth and...aghhh.

People with subwoofers that are WAY TOO LOUD. Can't even hear the music, just BOOM BOOM BOOM.

[Kali]

41. manic posters

get on my nerves. I can just imagine how fucking irritating they must be in real life.

[Behind the Aegis]

42. People who drive cars and don't have their heads above the steering wheel.

There are two types:

1. The "barc-o-lounger" chair types: they put their seats in the far recline position, that in actuality, they should sit in the back seat and be done with it.

2. The "little old person": that is pretty obvious (though it can apply to really short people, I suppose)

If you can only see the road by peering though the steering wheel, DON'T DRIVE!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

43. funny....one thing that drives me crazy is finding silk on my cooked corn on the cob

followed by dopes who have waited in line in front of me for 5 minutes but when they get up to the teller at the bank they still don't have their shit together and they make the rest of us wait to do a simple transaction. (same applies to people who've waited in line at DMV for an hour in front of me and also don't have their shit together after all that time.

[Demo_Chris]

47. People who eat while talking on the phone. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch...etc

[Kali]

48. I told you not to call me at lunch.

[AngryOldDem]

49. People who can't lay off their effin' cell phones for any length of time.

Especially those on commuter buses who think it's okay to gab about personal stuff the entire trip, and those who interrupt work projects to take personal calls. I understand completely the occasional personal call, but some people have them like clockwork, it seems. ("Oops, sorry...gotta take this!&quot

Every day I ask myself how in the hell did we ever survive as a species without these gadgets? Do people come out of the womb with cell phones pasted to their ears now?

[datasuspect]

50. their very existence is baneful to me

[Hoyt]

51. People who walk around in stores talking loudly on their phones, especially using headphones.

Some folks actually shout.

The other thing is some ass who pulls up next to you when you windows are down on his unmuffled Harley and starts bliping the throttle. Sometimes, I just start blowing my horn and smile at the idiot.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

52. People who yak on cellfones and drive.

I spelled it "fone" as a homage to "Fonebone" in MAD magazine.

[Jamaal510]

53. People who start shooting fireworks days before the 4th of July,

and the day after. In Oakland, fireworks are supposedly illegal, yet tons of people throughout the city were shooting them. They were so obnoxious, and it was tough getting to sleep.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. pretend to be helping when they are really just trying to look important.

[Special Prosciuto]

55. Loud music blasting from neighboring apartments.

...and assuming everyone else wants to hear it. If you like it loud, put on headphones, crank up the volume to the max, and fry whatever remains of your brain.

[raccoon]

57. People who don't signal before making a turn in traffic. nt

[In_The_Wind]

58. +1

[undeterred]

59. Staying in the fast lane while not driving fast

so that you can't pass them.

[IrishEyes]

60. People who walk slowly on a busy New York City sidewalk.

Many times in groups so I can't get around them. Or people who walk normally but then stop suddenly so I crash into them.

People who got to restaurants and ignore each other at the table because they are busy texting other people.
Also, people who leave their phone on in theaters and answer them when they ring.

Really fast eaters. I go out to eat with two people who eat really fast. I always feel awkward because I still have a plate of food and they are done so I get most of my food to go.

[MrsBrady]

61. The first time I was in NYC

I learned my lesson about how to walk on a busy NYC sidewalk. LOL

Was a shock to this little girl from the Texas suburbs...

I love NYC, by the way.

[IrishEyes]

62. Just for the record

I'm nice to tourists. I understand how excited they are to be here. They always ask me for directions.

[MrsBrady]

63. People were very friendly

one man had me walk behind him when getting off the subway (I was staying with friends in CT at the time)
on a busy week day morning...so I didn't have to litterally get run over by people and he showed me
how to get to the top...

[LiberalEsto]

64. People who let their dogs bark outside at all hours

without ever checking to see if the dogs are okay, or bringing the dog inside.

No damn consideration for neighbors.

[LiberalElite]

67. Gum Snappers

[vanlassie]

69. People who throw cigarette butts out the car window.

Slobs.

[hifiguy]

70. Various things related to elevators and escalators.

Specifically the damned hammerheads who get off escalators and STOP to fuck with their phones or gawk. Where the fuck are you supposed to go if you are behind them?

The idiot sheeple who come stampeding into elevator cars en masse as soon as the doors open. How the fuck are you supposed to get out with these morons bulling their way in?

I have seen things on the roads during my first week here in China that defy description, reason, sanity itself and possibly even the laws of physics, but that's another post.

[Tabasco_Dave]

72. people who park next to me in an empty parking lot

My car is antisocial it doesn't want any friends.

[Broken_Hero]

73. Talk to me for no reason.

I am a magnet for stranger talk, meaning strangers talk to me without me prompting it(actually I pray to my kryptonian gods that folks just leave me be) and it happens a lot. At the store, at the doctor I got folks whom I don't even know, or even make eye contact with start talking to me about things, like their kids, their diabetes, or whatever. Its awkward, and its not like I look that inviting either, I'm 6'4 and rather big, and have a huge beard and look all viking scary, yet strangers always talk to me.

[Initech]

76. Parents whose kids scream uncontrollably in public and they do nothing to shut them up.

Happened. on a flight I was on to Phoenix last week.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

77. People that Try to be all things to all people resulting in they are nothing to no one.