Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[nscrbug]

When I teach Spinning, the biggest hot button I have is people running their mouths and making my class a personal chit chat party.

Some teachers at my gym do run their classes that way. I love to chat to people before, and get to know them. HOWEVER... once I start class, unless it's about music or the ride itself... it's time to zip it.

I also hate this even as a student rider. Sometimes it has taken everything I have to not yell out...

"HEY! NEWSFLASH... THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU! SO, STFU!".

Gheez... just typing that sentance makes me almost foam at the mouth lol.

As a spin class "regular"...I also do not like incessant chit-chatting during a class. It's distracting, disruptive, and disrespectful. So I'm with ya, on that one sister!

[crazycanuck]

A few...

People who haven't figured out what thier indicators are for...

Small children that wander around & make noise at restaurants (or other public places). Keep your kids on a leash or something . The rest of us are not YOUR BABYSITTERS!!!! You'll get a nasty evil eye and very little understanding from me

[Aggie_Ama]

I have a fairly simple last name unlike my maiden name so I am really annoyed when people mispronounce it. Seriously they add letters or give it an almost ethnic sound. It is not much harder than Smith so it really annoys me!

I also get annoyed when people call my Mrs. but have no way of knowing I am married. And if you can tell I am married, I hate being called Miss.

And my biggest pet peeve? When someone calls me "Miss Amanda". Unless you are my 92 year old Mammaw don't even think about it!! My old boss did it and it felt so patronizing. I wanted to throw something at him or scream every time he did it.

[Zen]

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And my biggest pet peeve? When someone calls me "Miss Amanda".[/QUOTE]


You should never move to the South and that even includes Maryland

[oz rider]

Great thread.

I do wonder at times if being short and petite prompts certain responses from various people.

Hell yeah! They seem to assume stupidity. (Or is that just me, hehe?) Not long after I had my son I had reason to point out I'd had a kid, not a lobotomy. Same for too many tradesmen and bike shop guys. But my plumber is a mtbr so he's fabulous!

And anyone assuming anything about my marital status, as if your value relates to availability like a lump of meat.

And lazy/selfish/incompetent/impatient/ignorant drivers.

And waiters who don't check ingredients properly.

[Crankin]

+1 to the petite issue. Though, now that I am of a certain age, it seems to matter less.
My issue with the "kid talk" is not so much from when I was teaching, as Veronica described, although I experienced that a little. It's more what Tulip described, but expanded to every little thing, i.e. getting a license, college application, etc.
One time many years ago, I was at the monthly children's service at my synagogue. My 2 kids were about 8 and 10. Before the service started I had to listen to this horrible rant from the woman next to us about how her little genius was not being challenged in writer's workshop. Blah, blah, blah. I was getting enraged by the second, so I said, kind of loudly, "I don't want to hear this **** when I am in temple," so I made my kids get up and move. My older son was really embarrassed and was like, Mom, calm down.
I had to stop going to the cheapo manicure shop near me because I kept seeing too many people I know who were saying things like, "Oh, did you know that ---- (their kid) was married? graduated law school?, etc. etc." It never stops. These "kids" are closer to 30 than 20!

[Selkie]

Over-privileged people who think the rest of us should step aside because they have money. These are the ones who cut you off in traffic in their big expensive SUVs or cut in front of you in line at a store. Their kids are even worse...

People who come to work sick and spread around their illnesses.

People who take credit for other's work/ideas.

Dishonesty.

A sense of entitlement (my big beef w/much of the "younger" generation -- those who were indulged and told they were special).

Selfish people---the ones who lack manners and think it's all about them.

[Tuckervill]

Most of the time when things piss us off, we're either taking things too personally, or projecting motives that we have no way of knowing. Both of which my mother is really good at and which I try to ferret out of my own personality because of it. So when I read some of these complaints, I just think, "Why do you care? Don't listen to everything you hear. It's not about you. That person is not directing their behavior at you, so why get worked up over it?"

Of course, some people are just being rude, and not considering how their actions affect others. I try to take a look in the mirror to see how I could have helped or fixed or mitigated the situation, before I stew or complain about it.

Karen

[daisylubob]

#1 - People who throw cigarettes out the car window

Close #2 - People who litter

[KnottedYet]

I lose my cool when my daffodils get taken out of my garden.

Folks don't take just one... they take ALL of them.

I've been growing them for 6 years, and it happens every year, so I should be used to it by now. I try to put a positive spin on it: someone has a very empty lonely life and they are so desperate for beauty that they are reduced to taking my flowers, they carefully put them into a vase and smile and feel better about themselves and the world, blah blah blah.

but it still makes me grumpy that they take my flowers. ALL my flowers.

[PamNY]

Most of the time when things piss us off, we're either taking things too personally, or projecting motives that we have no way of knowing. Both of which my mother is really good at and which I try to ferret out of my own personality because of it. So when I read some of these complaints, I just think, "Why do you care? Don't listen to everything you hear. It's not about you. That person is not directing their behavior at you, so why get worked up over it?"

I agree completely.

[Tri Girl]

Tri Girl makes it easy to know what she prefers.

hee hee... I guess with a login like Tri Girl...
I should have chosen: middle aged tri woman.
I actually don't mind being called by my first name by parents, colleagues, etc.
Of course, I'm reading more into this than there actually is. I teach in a very wealthy parochial school where you're "unofficially" expected to bow down to those with money, and I'm often talked "down" to by parents with a lot of money. I'm like the "hired help." They really should be kissing my arse because I'm teaching their children for less than 30K a year. I made a lot more $ in public education (but it had it's drawbacks, too).
I get that from the kids, too. They think they can talk down to me or treat me with less respect because mommy and daddy have money, but I am not influenced by money and I call them out when needed (parents AND students). I shouldn't take it personally. I never say anything to the kids when they call me Miss, but it just goes all over me sometimes- especially when it's accompanied by an attitude.

I do love my job, tho. "Miss" and all...

[lph]

It's stupid, I know, but that is the name of this thread after all. I get pissed off at pedestrians who insist on walking in the exact middle of the bike/ped-path on their way to work. Gaggles of kids are excepted, they don't know any better and are too busy goofing around to pay attention. But grown people walking alone on the same path every morning being passed by bikes should at some point grasp that they are in fact on a shared path, a large one, and that those passing cyclists are a lot less intimidating if they would just pick a side.

[Veronica]

That's funny. I run on a multi-use path that sees very little use. If I see ten people in a seven mile run, that's a crowd. But I am always so careful to stay to the right anyway.

Veronica

[Eden]

People who chew with their mouths open!!!! Nothing instantly po's me more than someone who sits down next to me in the cafeteria and proceeds to smack and champ and chaw like a #@$% cow - double that irritation if they are eating something loud and cruchy.