Stupid things that instantly piss you off

[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?"

[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.

[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

[shootingstar]

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

Sometimes that depends on the corporate culture and nature of dept. that one works in. If one has control/is responsible for a dept. and its space, then one can cultivate more discreet conversations.

[Veronica]

Students who lose every piece of paper I give them. Even when I have purchased with my own money folders for them and remind them to put papers in the right folder.

Veronica

[Biciclista]

Veronica, they haven't lost them. The papers are in the bottom of their lockers /and/or backpacks.

[Veronica]

I know! And they can't seem to look through their back packs and desks to find them! I'm watching one of my little darlings right now look for a missing paper. It's painful. He's slowly picking up papers, staring at them... no he's not ADD.

Veronica

[Biciclista]

I raised two of those little darlings. At the end of the year I found A LOT of papers on the bottom of their backpacks (that i had carefully signed and dated for the teacher and vice versa.) =8-0

[badger]

It irks me when people are so intolerant to try new foods.

we were trying to organize a lunch to try these hotdogs called Japadogs http://www.japadog.com/menu/index.html when a couple of people in the office piped up "oh my god, that is SOOOO GROSS!!", "I NEVER eat hot dogs, they're nothing but lips and guts".

I hate it when people say bad things about food I'm about to eat. You don't want to eat it yourself, but *I*'m eating it, so please don't ruin it.

[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.

[mhami]

Okay, don't judge me for this because I know there is a good reason these rules are in place. Having your identity stolen is no joke and I do take it seriously and I understand that it would be a terrible thing to happen to you.


HOWEVER.... I become completely irate when I can't speak to a business representative (customer call center) because only my husband's name is on the account. I'm the bookkeeper of the house, pay all the bills (on time) and deal with any billing discrepancies. When something has to be done, I do it, not my dear husband. I hate going through the whole phone process of listening to what number to press, entering the 16 digit account number, being on hold for 15 minutes, only to find out they won't answer my questions because I am not on the account. I have since had my name put on every account we have, but even when my name has been on an account they did not always fulfill my request. Even when my question has been so generic and had nothing to do with his account per se, but rather their policies they said they would not speak to me. Arrgg, I feel my rage boiling just as I type this.

I feel like since I have my husband's personal information they should be able to talk to me too. I know, I know, anyone can say they are the spouse and if they have stolen the information can act like they are me. But, if it is a male and he has stolen information, he too can act like my husband and they wouldn't know any better. Someone in a previous post said that people become irate for stupid things because they take things personally. I guess this is why I feel irate, because I do take it personally, when I should not. When this happens I feel like a second class citizen, a pee on, and an employee, when I should feel like a partner and owner. I am just trying to take care of business and they are wasting my time. I like to be independent and when I need to rely on him for something it makes me feel inferior. So I do take it personally.

Like I said, please don't judge me for this. I understand why these rules are in place and I do somewhat agree with them. It just pisses me off and that is what this thread is about.

I have other pet peeves, but none that make me as irate as the one above.

[Biciclista]

hi, Mhami!
I can really relate. A few months ago, my mother called me from the hospital where her husband was dying. She wanted me to find out something about their insurance coverage. He could barely talk, he was weak and since he had recently been intubated, he had almost no voice.
So i had to call her insurance, pretend I was her, then they needed HIS permission to give me(her) info about his account, so I then had a coworker pretend HE was my stepfather!!!!!!
My mother had given me all the pertinent info, birthdates, account numbers, but it just shows you how dumb the precautions are; until they can do voiceprints, ANY male voice can be used to pretend to be your husband...

[OakLeaf]

another reason to have your durable power of attorney for health care purposes in place, whatever your age....

People assume that since unmarried couples have to do so much paperwork to get basic aspects of their relationship recognized legally, married couples don't have to do any. There's a lot less, to be sure, but it's not "none."