Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[ColoKate]

It's pretty rare that I get annoyed or worked up but I was on a plane a few weeks ago coming home from a business trip and a very loud, crude man sat next to me. He kept referring to the flight attendant as "dude" and was muttering demeaning things about him under his breath just because they needed to put his jacket in the storage bin. I hate adult men calling other people "dude" whether to be insulting or to sound cool. To make it worse, he reeked of smoke AND he chewed gum with his mouth open and smacked/blew/popped bubbles the entire time. Right when we landed, a baby started hysterically screaming and I was soooo thankful. I was in a murderous rage by that point.

[Selkie]

I AND he chewed gum with his mouth open and smacked/blew/popped bubbles the entire time. .

This is one I forgot! Open mouth/smacking gum--falls under the category of rude, I guess.

I've taken to wearing a walkman/listening to music at work because the woman who sits behind me brings dishes---stonewear---to eat her meals off of at her desk (which in itself is weird). She scrapes/bangs her cutlery against the stonewear, trying to get every last morsel. I feel like screaming, JUST LICK THE F'ing PLATE!! And to make it worse: she cooks up the smelliest food (reminds me of a stale bathroom, if you get my drift). Thank goodness I'll have my own office in about a month.

[Galatea]

The guy that throws the "free papers" that nobody wants, that end up littering the streets and disintegrating into mush when it rains. He drives a LOUD manual transmission vehicle...and when I sleep with my window open, the sound of it~ slow then "throw" then fast, then slow then "throw" then fast, from one house to the next, wakes me up at 4am (which is why I am on here so darn early this morning!) and I can't fall back to sleep! Seriously, I can hear this guy's car for about 40 minutes straight, driving all about our neighborhood.

One day I am going to run out there in my pj's and throw the paper back at his car. That would be quite a scene!!

[Tuckervill]

Oh, Galatea! The free newspapers drive me insane! How can the newspaper get away with littering like that? Can't they see that the people at the house down the street are NEVER going to pick them up? So they just pile and pile up in their yellow bags and it drives me crazy. And I don't want one in my yard, either. It ticks me off so much that instead of taking it to the recycling, like I do with the paper I pay for, I put it straight in the trash, yellow bag and all. Irrational I know, but at that moment, I couldn't care less.

Karen

[Deborajen]

Interesting reading all the opinions on being called Mrs., Ms. or Miss. I guess it's just a sign of my age and upbringing but I've always thought that the titles Mrs. and Miss were just signs of respect - no underlying implications or insults intended. We used those titles when I was growing up and if we didn't know whether or not a woman was married, we quietly asked someone else so we could address the woman properly.

On the other hand, nowadays I have no problem being called Ms., either. I guess that's because women today have so many different preferences in how they want to be addressed. Some women prefer to keep their maiden name if they get married, some take her husband's surname, others prefer not to get married but are in a long-term/permanent relationship, etc. -- Ms. just sounds respectful to me.

I'm easy on this one. Mrs. or Ms. is fine. I don't get called Miss very often anymore.--

But being called "hon" -- THAT, to me, is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Don't like it at all!

[Galatea]

Deborajen~Oh yeah, I hate the "hon"...hate it hate it hate it!!!!!!!!!!!

Karen~ I really REALLY want to find out who the head of distribution is and gather up all the wet mushy papers and dump them all at the end of his driveway!

(Someone should do a study of the environmental impact of disintegrating newspaper...if we can get the environmentalists to lobby against it, we are SET!)

[Pedal Wench]

I HATE it when people let their dogs run loose in the back of a pickup truck. If that truck stops quickly or is in an accident, that dog is going to go flying. HATE THAT. Fine, if you have people in the back, they can make their own decision on the safety of it. A dog can't think for itself.

And for some reason, lately, gum-chewing in public, especially when someone's being interviewed on TV, it just bugs me. I don't know why this is suddenly driving me crazy.