Little things you really hate

[WillyBrandt]

I'll start with two:

- Getting seltzer instead of Sprite at Burger King because the Soda machine is screwed up
- Getting hit by cold water by accident in the shower, when expecting hot

[bluestateguy]

1. In the grocery store...

People who yak on their cell phones about what to buy with theit family back home.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. Virus... Virii?

[asthmaticeog]

6. Reminds me of an old Shelley Berman bit..

1 blouse -- 2 blice
1 goof -- 2 geef
1 sherriff -- 2 sherriffim
1 jackass -- 2 jackii

[Dirty Hippie]

3. My kids slamming the door as they go out.

.

[CanuckAmok]

4. The third or fourth car...

to turn left on an advanced green light, after it's turned yellow/red.

[neverborn]

13. Now...

There's a rather infamous light in my town, and it's directly on the way to school/work for a lot of people. Turning left is ONLY allowed on a green arrow. I've timed this -- at 7:50AM, the arrow is green, and stays green for 25 seconds. This can get about 3-4 cars through. It doesn't matte rif there's 50 behind it, 25 seconds. So the three-four cars when that arrow is yellow/red don't offend me at all. Fix the damn light!

[asthmaticeog]

5. When people say

a propos when they mean "appropriate" or "fitting." I realize that widespread usage is making that more acceptable, but goddammit, that's NOT what it freakin' means!

Edited to add: also, people who use "data" as a singular - the singular form is "datum," and I'll go to my grave railing against those who say "the data is" instead of "the data are." I even catch myself doing it once in awhile, it's gotten to be so pervasive.

Yeah, I'm probably a heart attack candidate.

[WillyBrandt]

9. Yeah, but how often do you say "datum"?

THe only place where I see that is in OLD philosophy books.

I try to throw it in now and then just to freak people out :)

[Bertha Venation]

7. nouns used as verbs

to network
to office
to partner
to venue
to interface (esp. when used of people meeting -- dammit, it's not to be used of humans! I'm not a computer!)

:grr:

[Endangered Specie]

8. People who stop in the merge lane...idiots.

hmmm... heres a great site to list your pet peeves.

http://www.gaydeceiver.com/misc/hell/

[WillyBrandt]

10. People who don't know when you're trying to let them pass

You slow down to 20 fucking miles an hour, blink your headlights--then are forced to pass them anyway.

Then they'll tailgate you.

[HEyHEY]

11. Being hungover....making reakfast...discovering you have NO eggs

grrrrrr

[mbee]

12. Putting up with backstabbers and gossips in the

workplace!

[dolo amber]

14. People who are turning right

but put on their turn signal like...5 blocks before they're actually planning on turning....then slow to a CRAWL until they get there. :nuke:

I WILL go to jail for getting out of my car and smacking someone who's done this one day, I just know it...:grr: :cry:

[NJCher]

15. blocking traffic

People who stand in the doorway to have their conversations.


Cher