Tiny Moments of Stupidity and Woe
 

Each day, we move through our routines and do our best to get by without strangling someone. Life's little irritations come and go but we rarely complain; they're simply too trivial.

Still, sometimes the tiniest things can cause the greatest aggravations. Though most only occupy a couple minutes, they add up over a lifetime. I bet the cumulative percentage of time wasted dealing with small setbacks and delays is larger than we realize.

Here's a brief list of the kind of minor frustrations I'm talking about:

• Being stranded on the toilet because the previous user finished off the roll and didn't bother to replace it.
• Sitting in class when some asshole reminds the teacher that there was supposed to be a test.
• Being unable to find your glasses because, well, you aren't wearing your glasses.
• Ruining a perfectly good bowl of Cocoa Puffs because you didn't realize the milk had gone sour.
• Getting stuck behind some nimrod who insists upon writing a check for two items in the Express Lane.
• Having to feign appreciation for a Christmas gift of clothing given by a relative who stopped observing fashion trends in 1972.
• Suppressing the urge to smack the know-it-all who warns you to "be careful" after you've disgracefully fallen flat on your ass.
• Running into an old friend only to learn that they've found Jesus and their new life's purpose is to subtly ensnare you into the collective.
• Scrimping and saving for several months so you can buy that nifty gizmo you've wanted for so long, only to see the price slashed by 40% one week later.
• Discovering Jehovah's Witnesses at the front door.
• Sadly accepting that it's easier to drink the Diet Pepsi instead of driving all the way back to the Burger King drive-thru and demanding the Dr. Pepper you ordered.
• Burying the sense of insult that comes from someone else pushing the same elevator button after you, as if you couldn't figure out how to do it correctly.
• Going on vacation and realizing that although you brought your toothbrush, you neglected to pack toothpaste.

What kind of tiny, insignificant setbacks irritate you most? How commonly do some of these things pop up in your life?

Not much... just old people driving. Seriously, there's a great need to test these people for their driving. I live nearby and drive through this street that has a restaurant that caters to old people, K (cane) & W (walkers) Cafeteria. So I encounter a LOT of stubborn, slow, and blind old drivers. :\ Due to this reason, I avoid driving on Sundays and lunch hours on this street.

On a related note, I feel like slapping my forehead whenever some 300+lb person orders three burgers, three large frys (all for themselves) and a large Diet drink.

When I worked at the supermarket, I dealt with this shit all the time. It was especially worse when I was waiting behind him, waiting to take my break, and losing precious seconds because he doesn't have $1.74 on him like most fucking people.

Most of my minor grievances come from driving. I'm one of those guys who always seems to get stuck behind the dipshit going 60 miles an hour in the left lane, but won't move over to let me pass him despite the entire right lane being open.

Being stuck in traffic always gets my goat. The entire concept of traffic is mindblowing to me. How does it ALWAYS happen? If you do your job and, you know, DRIVE, there is enough room for everybody at all times. Especially where I am, the commute down into Boston in the mornings is always a fucking nightmare. But seriously, how does traffic even begin? Who's the one asshole that cut someone off, thus, causing a mass influx of brake pedalling? I think about these things when in traffic.

Walking behind slow people getting off a train.
Walking behind slow people in the supermarket.
Walking behind slow people on the way to class.
Walking behind slow people in the cafeteria.
Walking behind slow people in the bank.
Walking behind slow people at the airport.
Walking behind slow people who use their children as an excuse to be so mindbendingly fucking slow.

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i concur sprout. driving into/out of boston in the morning or afternoon sucks balls. also, what roads are you taking ?

i get annoyed when my bosses decide to each send me the exact same memo, reminding me to do the exact same useless task, which usually I perform upon receiving the first memo. THIS RLY GETS TO ME !

I take route 93 from Salem NH. For me, a 30-minute drive turns into a 2-hour epic ordeal during rush hour. Luckily, my new work schedule allows me to completely avoid any traffic, but last month when I had to work weekday mornings... My god what a pain!

I've got another one. People who have NO situational awareness. Dumbasses who walk in to the middle of the road and either "don't see" the cars or they see and take their time. The folks in the ghettos & downtown Bryan are particularly bad about this. The folks who DO spot you lock eyes and kinda go "YEAH. GONNA TAKE MY TIME RIGHT NOW."

Makes me want to run them down.

I hate walking behind slow people. If I realize that I'm walking slowly, I move to the side out of the way - but so many people fail to do this on campus.

I also hate people who can't seem to push their chairs in when they get up from a table - especially in the dining hall.

I often see something similar with local traffic lights. There might be half a dozen people standing waiting to cross, and every one of them will have pressed the switch when approaching, like those before were simply uncapable.

Me, I get sick of using the paint palettes at college, when so many fellow students just don't bother cleaning them after they're finished. So I end up doing it, time and time again.

- People that walk 6-8 abreast in groups, taking up the whole sidewalk (you see this one in college towns a lot). I'm not sure which is more annoying--getting stuck behind them, or having them stare daggers at you when you walk on the grass to pass them. Do they expect you to meekly follow them, or is the level of cluelessness so high that they assume the sidewalks of the world are theirs by birthright?

- The line at the post office. My schedule usually means I only have a few minutes to spare when mailing things, and I always get stuck in a huge line of semi-literate people mailing stuff to Uzbekistan while all but one of he casheirs are taking their three-hour breaks or something. And all I usually need is a stamp, but the machine in the lobby is broken and eats dollar bills and quarters like candy.

- People that get angry at you for not providing a service, especially one that you have never and will never provide (you see this one a lot in retail). I recall a woman getting huffy because Wal-Mart wouldn't let her make photocopies--isn't that why God invened Kinko's?--and another insisting on a 50% discount because "the stereo in the box doesn't match the one on display." At the library where I work, people get angry because we don't have vending machines. What they don't seem to realize is that, in addition to not being a bistro, the library doesn't allow you to bring food in at all. So of course we should sell some anyway.

A little something that really pisses me off is when I'm walking on the sidewalk and somebody on a bike comes rushing by me at a speed that would obviously make for a pretty messy accident. What's worse is they sometimes turn to look at you in a pissed off kinda way looking all like "WTF are you doing on MY sidewalk!". I don't know if that happens in every city, but in Montréal it's a fucking plague.

When people don't properly perform the tasks assigned to them and it ends up becoming my problem.

Here is a perfect example: In church today, the youth minister comes into the sound booth and hands me a DVD. He tells me that it contains a short movie that the priest wants to play at the beginning of his sermon. OK, no big deal. I pop it into the DVD player, let the main menu load, and everything is good to go. When it comes time to play the DVD, there's no sound. So I check everything on the channel strip: Cables in? Check. Gain up? Check. Pad on? No. Stereo routing button down? Check. Channel on? Yep. Slider at unity, good to go. But there's still no sound. Everyone is looking up into the sound booth, waiting for me to do something, but there's nothing I can do, except feel extremely embarrassed.

It was only after I loaded the DVD into the room's computer that I learned the DVD literally had no audio. Ugh! Things like this happen often and it always ends up looking like it's my fault because I'm the one standing in front of the console.

The worst is when somebody does something like this, and blames it on you.

"I can't hear my vocals, are you sure you turned this thing on??? We're in a hurry here!"
"What channel are you plugged into"?
"I dunno like 11 or 12 or something."
"Your microphone channel is number 14"
"Oh, sorry."

"I can't hear my monitor, did you it turn it up??"
"Is it plugged in?"
"Oops, sorry."

:(

I'm a big victim of walking into a room and subsequently forgetting why I'm there.

Also, when people neglect to tell you pertient information. I found out after The Big Project went live that certain classes we were offering from a third party did not conform to their stated API, but they never made us aware of that fact. It would have been a big problem if we found out by way of someone complaining to us that they weren't getting into their classes properly.

I hate every person who makes a left-handed turn on the road, excepting cases where the oncoming lanes are empty so the turn is reasonably fast.

Going to sleep then waking up to discover that you rolled over on your arm and now the lack of blood circulation has made them unresponsive. Then it's just rolling around (or trying to) for a few minutes flailing the dead limb around.

This is just online, but I hate people who message me with my nick as a conversation starter and nothing else. The problem is amplified if a) I'm AFK or b) I respond within a few minutes and they're unresponsive. Is it so hard for them to just say what they want so I don't have to do this dumb chasing game? Sheesh.

Seeing litter right next to the bin, as if moving your arm a foot or so through the air is really going to be too much effort after scoffing that Big Mac.

When your classmates are being incredibly raucous, which results in everybody losing their free time.

Impoliteness. I thank people for holding doors or moving out of the way so I can get past and so on, but whenever I do it, people act as though I'm invisible. This makes my life sound miserable but it makes me very happy to hear someone acknowledge that I am doing something, no matter how small, for them.

I agree completely that people who walk at a slow pace without even moving out of your way is incredibly annoying. I usually envisage myself riding a huge motorised lawnmower through town; their body parts wouldn't be so slow-moving then.

I see that alot including people who are crossing when the light clearly says don't walk. I actually once couldn't make a left turn on a green arrow because some gangster wannabes were in the way till the light turned red on me. I would have honked but I don't want to get shot.

They actually use the sidewalk there? Damn, here they use the street and ignore stop signs like they think they're a pedestrian.

One that aggrivates me is old people that think they're right because they're old. Like people who argue that the sign says a specific price, you check it and they're wrong then they say "Well it said that when I was over there.". I just feel like saying "No it didn't, you're going senile, deal with it."

Then there are the ones who almost run a stop sign and then honk and swear at you like you did something wrong even though you didn't have a stop sign and they did.

I just had another one happen to me today. A pair of semi-hot mormons came to my door. Before they even got a chance to say "Hi" I shut the door in their faces.

What do the door-to-door salvation salespeople hope to achieve from doing this? Honestly, has ONE PERSON converted to religion X when confronted about it at their HOME? You'd think religious folk would have better ideas on how to convert people than going door-to-fucking-door.

Every time I walk into the metro to go to university, there are people standing there which are Jehova's witnesses holding a magazine called "Réveillez-vous" (it means "wake up" in french). I always have a laugh at that and can't help but think they should take their own advice.

I try my best not to allow myself to get frustrated. Even though there are a few things that really get on my nerves.

The biggest one has got to be when people drive while talking on their fucking cell-phone especially within city limits. I got no problems if people are driving and talking on their cell phones if your driving on the open highway, or if your doing open road driving. When your diriving within a town and city and you have to be aware of your surroundings at all times, this is not the time you should be chatting on the phone.

I've had too many close calls where people are not paying attention and are too concentrated on talking on their damn phone.

The one small thing guaranteed to piss me off are those massive traffic jams that have no reason at all. I've been late to classes several times because my 5-6 minute commute turns into a 30 minute waiting game, one time simply because a garbage truck was parked on the shoulder. It was nowhere near the traffic lanes, yet everyone had to come to nearly a complete stop since no one has apparently seen a freakin' garbage truck before. The worst case was when a 10 minute drive out to the Biltmore mall took an hour and a half because a 20ft. section of one lane that no one really needed was blocked off for "construction." Actually it was just a bunch of construction workers gathered around talking and not really doing anything.

To a much lesser extent, I hate people who think it's an excellent idea to stop and have conversations in doorways. Then they glare at you for being rude when you have the nerve to want to go through the door.

People who are obsessed with 'having their rights' in every little thing. Just suck it up, be the bigger man and let it go.

Are you kidding? Boston is just one, giant, vehicular nuisance - no matter the time of day, no matter the area of Boston. Even Cambridge can get on my nerves. Don't even get me going about the concrete clusterfucks all around Boston... at the Zakim Bridge, down by the eastern point of the Pike near Chinatown...UGH

Beats Western Massachusetts, though. It's like a whole different country out here. Being raised in the 'burbs of Boston, I've got Aggressive Driving in my blood. It really doesn't translate out here well at all.

The majority of my irksome pet peeves or irritants revolve around driving. I love to drive late at night, when the road is mine and I don't have to worry about people nearly side-swiping me because they didn't look in their mirror to see if anyone was in the left lane. I also sympathize with Sprout's "60 MPH in Left Lane But Adamantly Refuses to Move" thing.

Without going into a diatribe about driving, I'll do some other irksome occurances:

- Ordering a coffee which is standard - and having some non-English speaking person screw it up.
- Old people counting literally PENNIES in line.
- People who waste my fucking time in line at a convenience store buying, scratching and re-buying scratch tickets. (Seriously. They stand there, scratch and win, and KEEP BUYING MORE for MINUTES ON END.) I WOULD LIKE TO PAY FOR MY WATER, PLEASE.
- In the same vein, people who are too impatient to wait their turn in line at the convenience store, and cut you off to throw a $20 down and announce "Twenty on Three!" FUCK you, asshole. I had to wait - so will you.
- Teenage kids invading a place you're having a quick bite to eat, and literally taking the establishment over on a Saturday night.
- Mis-pronunciations of simple words like "ask," "espresso," "milk," and "idea."
- Complete ignorance about how the world works. ie: What do you MEAN you don't take personal checks? WHY NOT? Let's fight for 30 minutes in line about it!
- PEOPLE AT CVS WHO STAND AND LOOK AT THEIR RECEIPT AND COUPONS FOR MORE THAN 3 MINUTES. Seriously. This one guy had to have EVERYTHING EXPLAINED TO HIM, and the employees had to open another register due to him.

Most of these things make my skin crawl. If it wasn't illegal, I would seriously take a sledge hammer to all these peoples' heads. I can't IMAGINE how much worse it can get.

Here's another one, people who leave their shopping cart in the line. I've actually had people who ended up infront of their cart to unload and after there stuff was bagged they grabbed their groceries and left even when there are people behind them. One time an old lady did it and she had a redneck behind her who yelled "TAKE YOUR CART WITH YOU STUPID!" and shoved it at her. It hit her in the behind and she looked around as though she had no idea what just happened and walked away still leaving the cart there.

I don't get bothered much, but I hate it when you are walking down the hall, and two people who are talking come up the stairs and walk in front of you, and then stop....

The other is when walking down the hall and people are sitting on the floor with their legs lying across the hall and you have to step over them...

O man, tell me about it.

We were on a road trip this past summer and we were stuck in traffic for six bloody hours because there was a major wreck on the other side of the highway and people just stopped and stared.

Six hours. Worst traffic jam ever.

Although, I have to admit. I slow down and look too, but I keep up with traffic at the same time. Since we're going slow.

Sometimes, out here, people cause traffic jams from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING though. One assholes in the left lane really loves tapping his brakes. SERIOUSLY fucks with traffic flow.

No shit right? Just today I was in the left lane and of course some D-bag is going incredibly slow, so I go to pass him on the right, and just as I move, he changes lanes too! Fucking morons!

There's always going to be things that piss me off about other people's driving, or pedestrians while driving:

-Not using your blinker. Seriously. Its not that hard.
-Pedestrians that cross the street without hitting the button, KNOWING that the light will turn green momentarily.

At home:
-Oddly enough, everyone in my house gets mad at my dad because he doesnt know how to put the toilet paper on the roll. He puts the facing the opposite way from the rest of us, so we cant figure out why the roll isnt unrolling.
-My sister, making little 'nests' of her stuff every where. She has so much shit in our house, she just dumps it wherever she pleases. I get a message from her saying "I'm putting some books in your bookcase." and I have to reply "Taking over another section of the house then?"
-Constantly getting "You're Approved!" Credit Card shit in the mail. Because they include almost all your info, you need to shred it to itty-bitty pieces... all of them.
-These people at the mall that stop you and try to convince you to buy this nail shit by dragging you over to their booth and putting it on one of your nails... or lotion (my friend once started screaming that she was allergic to avoid them).

At school:
-The school's dining common not putting out the main course until a certain time, and taking it away at a certain time. College students dont have a set schedule... leave the real food out all the time!
-Habitat for Humanity... 'Come to our meetings and get free pizza!!!' Why don't you give the free pizza to those homeless people you're supposed to be helping?
-Professors thinking they're helping you out by waiting until November to assign all the big stuff... when all the classes do that.
-Girls that talk in the fake, way too happy voice
-Political and Credit Card people shoving stuff at you or trying to talk to you on campus. I'm on my way to class, I don't need your shit.

I'm sure there are more... I get irritated fairly easily though.

Let's see.

On the job:

-Managers who sit around for 15 minutes with a delivery up. They're taking care of a customer at front counter, okay, no biggie. They finish up, and instead of taking my cash and sending me on a delivery which is due in five fucking minutes to an address ten minutes away they... turn to the make table and start making pizza. I've literally had to wait for 10-15 minutes because my manager refused to take 30 seconds to send me off on another delivery, and there's NOTHING I can do about it since I have neither register access nor the authority to dispatch myself on a delivery.

-Wrong addresses/phone numbers. It's not rocket science people. The customer calls. You take their phone number. If info doesn't pop up on them, confirm the phone number. If it's a new customer, take their address. Confirm the address with them, and make sure it's not an apartment complex. If it is, take down the apartment number and confirm it with them. No, you goddamn moron, EIGHTH PLACE IS NOT THE SAME AS EIGHTH STREET.

-Assholes who don't tip. Look, guys. I have the distinct honor of paying out of pocket just to do my job. I blow anywhere from 50 cents to over 2-3 bucks' worth in gas for ONE delivery. And I get 85 cents commission on each delivery. Do the math: More often than not, I actually lose money for doing my job. The only reason why I'm not is because I get tips. If you're gonna order over 50 bucks in pizza from a fucking trailer park on some retarded-ass backwoods highway, you're damn straight I'm gonna expect a tip, especially since I blew a gallon of gas (which, by the way, is 3 bucks a gallon right now from the cheapest place in town) and a half-hour (that could've been spent delivering pizza to customers that are closer and tip better than your cheap ass) to get your pizza to you on time.

Elsewhere, I'm gonna have to second pretty much everything said about driving on the road. I especially hate rubberneckers. =|

Hm, this is like, therapy:

Going to a bus stop to get on the bus only to find the time schedule changed and it just left
Going to take a shower when...whoops, you forgot you ran out of soap
Shaving when your electric shaver runs out of power half way through
Preparing for a dinner with friends only to get a call fifteen minutes before it to be told they are too busy and it's cancelled.
...and then those friends surprise you the next day by having that dinner rescheduled for that evening...and giving you roughly two hours to prepare.
DOing an assignment only to find the professor changes it hours before it is due just because "it's like the real world"

- Getting a wrong order. I don't eat out much and I especially avoid fast food places. The quality of food at most fast food joints sucks, but the startling rate at which they get my order wrong is another reason I avoid fast food. When I say no bacon/sausage/ham, it's for a reason (I don't eat pork). I usually check before I drive off, but sometimes it slips my mind and then I get the pleasant surprise of finding out way down the road that my Egg and Cheese Biscuit has sausage on it and that I don't get to eat breakfast. This happens a lot.

- On that same note, menus at restaurants that do not tell you everything that is in the dish annoy me. When I order green beans as a side order, I don't expect there to be bacon all over them. This doesn't happen too much anymore because I know now to ask what is in everything.

- Nothing will put me on the verge of an apoplectic fit like trying to find a spot in a parking lot and getting stuck behind those people who insist on walking in the middle of the road. You would think this would most often be old people, completely oblivious to the world around them as they push themselves along on their walkers, but no, plenty of younger people do this too in my experience. This happens every time I go to a store that isn't the grocery.

- Getting behind someone who has to go 10 mph under the speed limit. Usually this is an older individual who, when turning a corner, also takes the curb. This happens probably once a week.

- People who tailgate me irritate me. I usually do five over the speed limit when the speed limit is under 50. I'm young and my insurance is high enough. I don't need speeding tickets to make it any higher. Riding my ass will not make me go any faster, either. In fact, getting on my bumper will just turn our trip down the small road we're likely on into a giant setback for the both of us because I'm going to slow down to the speed limit just because they tried to intimidate me. Them waving their hands and cussing at me will just make me feel like I've accomplished something for the day. If people are in such a hurry they should pass me. This happens a lot because people are always in a hurry.

An addendum, inspired by this weekend:

- People who don't have their headlights on when it's dark or shitty out. I had to drive in horrible, foggy, rainy conditions this weekend, and it was made worse by the fact that many people didn't have their lights on, making them all but invisible (they were usually driving silver cars too, which blended perfectly into the gray morass of the day). They're like ostriches, assuming that if they can see other people, other people can see them.

I'm annoyed by people who will ride your ass while you're doing 90 down the highway, but as soon as you change lanes to let them pass, will slow down to 75.

People who talk loudly on the train really fucking piss me off too. There's insufficient leg room for someone my height, so I'm feeling cramped, trying to relax as best I can, I do not need some shrew of a hag sitting three rows behind me loudly telling everyone around her how she told her boss how it was going to be, because she knows best about everything. God damn that's annoying. Same goes for teenaged girls and thugs. Trains should be quiet places, with murmured conversations and a lot of people sunk in their own miserable solitude.

Going with what lurker said, I'm not a fan of that whole incomplete information thing either. A few times I've been asked to do something, only to realize once I begin that I need access to something that I don't have access to yet. Of course, the reason I'm assigned to these things is because the higher ups are busy with other things. This means they're generally not available to get me access to whatever it is I need.

Also, sometimes the underlying assumptions are wrong. This pisses me off because you'd think the people closest to the issue would have the best understanding. This is not the case. I've had to, on occasion, actually read through entire contracts looking for specific terms and conditions because we find out after the fact that oh wait, the initial scope of the assignment was too narrow.

One other thing that's been getting on my nerves more lately, though it doesn't necessarily impede me in any way is the blatantly naive pronouncements made by people high school through college age, about the injustice and tragedy of every god damned little inconvenience in their lives. My sister got a nose piercing, and then found out that her job doesn't allow for it. Weeks and weeks of bitter complaining that free speech was being curtailed. Similar pronouncements that everyone should fall in line with their unique standards of righteousness and justice. "What? People way back-country in the mountains are still racist? Well we should bring in some black people and make them accept them!"

Along those lines you also have flaming gay people who insist that not only must they be tolerated, but they must be accepted by everyone, universally, and it should be a law, and we should have the death penalty for people who are mean.

You know, these kids aren't kids anymore. We're talking 18+. Childhood needs to be cut short again. These people can vote and they haven't removed their heads from their asses yet.

Oh yes >=( If I were more outgoing, I would continue to walk straight into their faces, then upon receiving their stares say "oh whoops, I didn't realize that I wasn't allowed to walk on the sidewalk, you know, like everyone else" then go on an even longer tirade.


I'm sorry, I like to complain a lot:


On the bus:

- When people don't move to the back of the bus. This really angers me excessively. It's as if they're scared of sitting, let alone merely standing at the back of the bus. They'll clutter up the front in hopes that the bus driver will give up and just go, when 2/3rds of the back aisle space is completely open. It just wastes time since the bus drivers are then forced to yell "move to the back of the bus!" and 5-7 minutes is spent because of stupid people who grumble or inch backwards at the slowest rate possible.

- When people ring the bell to stop, after you or someone else has already rung it. It's as if you didn't pull it or do it right, they couldn't see the bright red sign saying "stop requested", they couldn't hear the loud "ding!" sound, and that the bus won't stop if they don't do it. Sometimes people just continue to pull it aimlessly then almost shout at the driver for their own ignorance.

- When people (mostly guys) take up two or more seats because they spread their legs wide open as if they'd crush their privates by sitting like a normal person. There's no need to block space like that at all.

- When people at the front don't offer their seats to older people. I can understand if the old person wasn't very feeble or if they already said "no thanks", but if you see struggling old ladies with lots of bags inching their way forward, you could at least offer.


At School:

- Cell phones on during lectures. I can understand the odd forgetting, maybe once a month. If it happens more than once in a class or repeatedly, I really just cringe. You could at least set it to vibrate instead of letting the world hear your latest CPop/KPop ringer when your friends call you during class. Nothing could be so urgent that you absolutely must hear it in class and disturb everyone else. It just strikes of superficiality. On that note, picking it up and talking in class is even worse!

- People that complain after a test that none of the material was on it and subsequently that the prof sucks, when it was clearly there and you know they didn't even skim the notes/text or attend lectures.

- People who don't hold the door. Uni already has very congested halls every 50-60 minutes, so it just irks me a bit when people slide through the doors and let it slam on the the faces of people behind them. I know I'm sometimes tired of holding every single door, but thinking about it from someone else's perspective, I wouldn't want a door closing in on me, or have to reopen it.

The one I've been noticing lately is people who don't realize that there are others around them while shopping in stores. These slow people tend to stop abruptly in the middle of aisles. Also, when they see that other people are trying to walk by them in a narrow area, they don't make room by stepping aside to let others pass.

I'm also not too pleased when people tailgate me on the freeway or anywhere. I go at least 5 over the speed limit, and if I see that someone stays too close behind me, I actually slow down.

Traffic puzzles me as well. Luckily I've never had to wait longer than an hour, but there are a lot of drivers here who like to slow down to check out an accident on the freeway.

The last one I can think of is people who don't hold open doors. It's a minor irritation, but I suppose not all people can act the way I do.

I do that, when I sit in the seats that hold two people and are perpendicular to the length of the bus. If someone wants to sit down, I always get up, or at least sit on the outside seat.
I'm not being a jerk -- my knees literally can't fit inside a single seat.

Probably the only annoyance is my younger sister not washing the dishes after herself.
Also people who talk during lectures. It doesn't happen anymore (gotta love third year) but I remember it used to make my blood boil in first and second year.

I'm from Puerto Rico so one of the things that really ticks me off is when someone asks if people from Puerto Rico need a green card to get into the US or is the currency in US dollars. I mean come on, are you really that ignorant?

Also, I used to work at a place called the Laminate Store where they only sold wood laminate flooring. I used to have these stupid customers who would walk around the showroom and have already been helped by a salesman just to come up to the register and ask me if we only sold laminate floors or if we carried any engineered wood or hardwood products. HELL NO we don't carry real wood floors only laminate you idiot. L-A-M-I-N-A-T-E-.....oh just forget it.

People who drive in inclement weather without headlights, as someone else already mentioned, are a big annoyance. They are almost always in the left lane driving 80+ even given the weather. All I can do is stay to the right and hope they eventually kill themselves, preferably far enough down the road that it doesn't inconvenience me.

I also, really dislike people, who use commas, like this. I know, it's my job, but when I proofread something, with this many commas, I wonder, how the person made it, through fucking elementary, school. It also, reminds me, of girls who are, stereotypically unsure of themselves, and speak in bite-sized sentences? With rising intonation every time? This also annoys me, you know?

Finally, I really dislike it when people talk down to me - not in a rude manner, but when they soften their speech. I realize that I probably bring it on myself sometimes due to my personality. For example, I was working alone in the office conference room last week, since my normal computer wasn't working. This one girl walked through and said "You should blast some music in here or something. It's OK, no one will yell at you!" The way she said the last sentence had that peculiar half-coddling tone to it, and I don't like strangers or casual acquaintances using it with me.

I'm sure there are many more, but these are what come to mind at the moment.

I'm with quiet fox. Patronization enrages me beyond reason. It's especially frustrating because there are nuances to most things which give me pause, which apparently don't concern other people. People treat my ignorance of the nuances of a given situation as general ignorance, I assume because they are simple. Those people especially give me violent urges when they speak down to me.

1. Being in a room with a terrible boaster who acts like he's the king of the world. Plus he likes to tease others intentionally, changes opinion easily, accused other people for something he did (and everyone knew he did it), and blames things which are not to be blamed for causing him trouble. I had to bear it for a year before graduating from high school and I even wonder why there were no one hurt.

I was wrong.

2. Stuck with someone who asks questions way too much. Come on, they are not idiots with IQ of -54. Yet they keep on questioning simple things like what to do (though the tutor had explained clearly what to do) or simple problem solving.

3. Score freeloaders. Especially in college. Really want to erase their names from the papers my group made.

4. Hypocrites. The person in number one also match this, since he always tried to be good and praised teachers to get their attention, but talked bad things behind them. Now I get people sniffing the lectures' ass for some god damn "A"s. Give me a break.

5. When queueing and some bitches just break the line. Can't force them to go to the end of line and you just have to stand still, chewing your tongue, trying hard not to smash their heads to the windowpane.