Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[OakLeaf]

I don't act rude to telemarketers. It's about the world's worst job, usually paid little more than minimum wage, staffed for the most part by people in depressed rural areas, and they have a quota to make if they want to keep their jobs.

All you have to do is say "Thanks, not interested" and hang up. You don't have to engage them. Then you can put their phone number into your spam filter (it's surprising how often calls come in from the same call center).

It is kind of strange, though, how the "do not call" list worked really well for the first few years, and now we get spam calls all the time again, hardly any less than before.

[salsabike]

I don't act rude to telemarketers. It's about the world's worst job, usually paid little more than minimum wage, staffed for the most part by people in depressed rural areas, and they have a quota to make if they want to keep their jobs.

All you have to do is say "Thanks, not interested" and hang up. You don't have to engage them. Then you can put their phone number into your spam filter (it's surprising how often calls come in from the same call center).

It is kind of strange, though, how the "do not call" list worked really well for the first few years, and now we get spam calls all the time again, hardly any less than before.

Well said, Oak. I absolutely agree. Few of those folks are doing it because it's a dream job for them--far from it.

The Do Not Call list has to be renewed by you every five years, I think. So it wouldn't hurt to look it up online, and re-input all your phone numbers.

[OakLeaf]

.... drifting away

The Do Not Call list had a sunset when it was originally enacted, but they removed it before it expired, so if you signed up once, that's all you need to do. Anyway, after our phone just buzzed this afternoon (didn't ring, because it came from a call center that's already in our spam filter), I verified that the number is on the list, and it still is.

[WindingRoad]

As a student the most annoying thing I notice is the person sitting next to me crunching corn chips or cheetos in class. It seems they inevitably cannot stop rattling the bag around either while I'm trying to hear what is being said. I totally understand getting hungry in class but I can't help it! The sound of someone crunching just sets my nerves on end. Redrum!!!

[spindizzy]

As a student the most annoying thing I notice is the person sitting next to me crunching corn chips or cheetos in class. It seems they inevitably cannot stop rattling the bag around... The sound of someone crunching just sets my nerves on end. Redrum!!!

1) Like you windingroad, loud eating (crunchy items, slurpy items) and cellophane rattling makes me want to kill (It's a family trait - mom's side). My husband will now place cellophane/foil wrapped things in a bowl- but I have to leave the room when he starts crunching...DD recently confessed it also drives her mad. Cousin too- recently confessed to having the "nerve."

2) if someone slaps my butt. Though it may be made in a friendly way, it makes me insane and I've been known to immediately explode..I don't know why- but it does.

3) loud talkers -

[IFjane]

This may have already been mentioned & I did not read this entire thread, but I am sitting here in my living room listening to a dog up the road barking...and barking....and barking....he stays in a pen & if he hears the slightest thing he starts barking and will not stop. No one at his house pays any attention to him and no one ever tells him to stop. I feel bad for the poor thing & his owners piss me off because they 1. neglect the poor thing and 2. do not have enough respect for their neighbors to make the dog stop (or send him to a home where someone loved him).

[shootingstar]

2) if someone slaps my butt. Though it may be made in a friendly way, it makes me insane and I've been known to immediately explode..I don't know why- but it does.

You mean someone else other than your hubby?

I would explode too if it wasn't my dearie ...but then he doesn't at all...let's not get into further details.

[spindizzy]

You mean someone else other than your hubby?

He's my "butt-protector" - he will warn people off - he's seen the rage

..perhaps it has to do with spankings I received as a child ...alas I was not perfect, my father was in the army...corporal punishment was de rigueur.

[pardes]

Pulled up to Dunkin' Donuts in the dark on my bike with 6 lights flashing. Server was outside on his cell phone and said to me as I grabbed the handle of the door, "You gonna buy something?"

....."I beg your pardon?"

"You gonna buy something?"

....."Yes," (through gritted teeth)

"Okay. I thought you just wanted to use the bathroom."

....."Is my senior diaper showing or what?"

"'scuse please?"

.....Pullling up to my full 5'0.5" height, "And I suppose you would refuse to let me use the bathroom?"

"'scuse please?"

[Skierchickie]

Burning cigarettes thrown out of the windows of moving cars. So, what's the deal? Those people don't want their cars to stink like cigarettes? Guess what - THEY ALREADY DO! AND, it's as if cigarette butts don't count as litter.

Okay, I hate all cigarette butts I see on the ground, but the ones that are still glowing are a fire hazard. We had at least one wheat-stubble field that burned when I was a kid - started by the road, 95 degree day, windy,.... It could have taken the house, the adjoining fields, and the family's only source of income for that year. The people who start fires that way just continue on their way, never knowing what they've done.

Grrrrr. I guess it's on my mind right now, because the snow melted a month early, and we are DRY. It will be a while before things green up, and we're surrounded by woods & dry, dead plant material.

[Selkie]

1) Like you windingroad, loud eating (crunchy items, slurpy items) and cellophane rattling makes me want to kill (It's a family trait - mom's side). My husband will now place cellophane/foil wrapped things in a bowl- but I have to leave the room when he starts crunching...DD recently confessed it also drives her mad. Cousin too- recently confessed to having the "nerve."
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This is something I can't stand, either. Loud eating, poor table manners, etc. There might be a genetic component because my maternal grandpap was the same way (if you wanted to eat celery, you had to leave the room!!). I had a boss who snorted and chewed audibly during meals. To make it worse, he was a food stuffer, someone who shovels it in before swallowing the last bite. No one wanted to go out to lunch with him.....

[OakLeaf]

Eh, I had to get used to the loud eating. DH has bad teeth and a phobia of dentists, and it's a racket even though he's polite enough to keep his lips closed. It's only going to get worse as we get older...

Pardes, yikes, that was incredibly rude. You're kind of d*mned if you do and d*mned if you don't in that situation - if you decide not to buy anything because of the way you were treated, then they'll assume that you were just going to use the bathroom.

But on the other side of that, I get ticked off when I'm on a group ride and someone goes into a store to use the bathroom and doesn't buy anything. And since I always have to use the bathroom I get ticked off when there's nothing but junk food for me to buy in return.

[PamNY]

I don't act rude to telemarketers. It's about the world's worst job, usually paid little more than minimum wage, staffed for the most part by people in depressed rural areas, and they have a quota to make if they want to keep their jobs.

All you have to do is say "Thanks, not interested" and hang up. You don't have to engage them.

I agree. Nothing is gained by being rude to the people who do this type of work. Besides, they've probably heard it all before.

[badger]

I was talking to my friend one day about telemarketers and she admitted she was one while going to school. She said it was AWFUL, that people were really rude, so she would tell them that she was a student trying to make a living and to put herself to school. It's a job for her and there's no reason for them to be rude to her.

What I get these days are the recorded telemarketing calls. Those I have no qualms hanging up on, but worse in that you can't tell them to take your number off their list.

[Maxxxie]

I was talking to my friend one day about telemarketers and she admitted she was one while going to school. She said it was AWFUL, that people were really rude, so she would tell them that she was a student trying to make a living and to put herself to school. It's a job for her and there's no reason for them to be rude to her.

Who knew that my remarks about telemarketers would generate so many responses?

Without defending bad behaviour (and I admit that some might say that my toying with telemarketers is bad behaviour), I would like to say this about telemarketing: People wouldn't be rude to telemarketers if the practice of telemarketing wasn't so damn annoying, time-wasting and intrusive. People generally aren't rude by default. They get that way by virtue of being needled into it. Here is a post by someone who's received one too many telemarketer calls (warning: contains not-so-nice language).

Anyway. Another pet peeve: Co-workers who stand outside my office door and have a shouted conversation with someone down the hall. For god's sake, just walk five metres to that person and have a spoken conversation with them!!!! I don't need to hear you blathering on! Nobody else needs to hear it either! Just give me some peace and quiet!!!!!

Max