Trivial annoyances

[moneyp]

All those little kids who stare at me when I'm cursing somebody out on my cell phone. Hey, do I come to your classroom and watch you do schoolwork, junior? Get outta here!

[Fleurette Africaine]

Loud chewing. Makes me hostile and violent.

Rampant consumerism. Where is all this disposable income coming from?

Cell phone yapping. Ring, hello...I'm on the bus...I'll be there in a minute...aiight, bye...ring, hello...

Losing money. I had 40 bucks fall out of my pocket at a rest stop on the turnpike in May. Still suffering flashbacks.

Running for the bus and the driver pretends not to see you and pulls away just as you get to the corner. Really I could just say, "SEPTA. period."

Walking barefoot on wet tile. My most pathological neurosis.

Spitting on the ground. UGH!

[Root Doctor]

The ad campaign for Dr. Scholl's gel inserts. "Gellin' like a felon?" I can only interpret that one way, and it doesn't make me want to try the product.

[MRS]

What does that mean, anyway?

[Jazzzoline]

Those who sniffle a big load all day long.

Those who spit in a public place.

Those who sniffle a big load, then spit it... yuck!

[Uli]

I strongly second previously mentioned sticky shit. I'll add all the stickers that your supposed to display on your car fron window and all the drinks garnished with a cherry.

[Root Doctor]

It rhymes. That's as much as I can get out of it.

[mke]

People that are annoyed by trivial matters.

[Douglas]

Drivers who give you the finger because they failed to cut you up

Using words like EKPWELE for crossword anagrams

Smokers who don’t inhale

People sitting in perspex boxes suspended in the air.

[blawless]

The use of the term trivial. OPEN YOUR EYES! THIS SHIT IS SERIOUS!

[Enforcer]

1. Bumper stickers: Wrong place to advertise what your favorite band is, spew your attitudes about abortion, assert your belief in God or try and make me laugh. I don't know you, I will never see you outside of this chance meeting behind your car on I-75, and nobody gives a f**k.

1a. The final insult: When the bumper sticker warns tailgaters to back off. Unless your job consists of giving driving directions to people with 20-5 vision by letting them follow you to their destination while driving behind your car so you can show them the way yourself, guess where the average, half blind f**k driving behind you is going to be when he's reading the cautionary sticker?

2. Vanity plates. Wait, let me pull over and take a cold drink of water so I can settle down and get over my starstruck encounter with the "TRMN8R."

Autocentric 'cause he's from f**king Detroit already,
Larry

[Root Doctor]

Speaking of anti-tailgating bumberstickers, what about the one that reads, "Unless you're a hemorrhoid, get off my ass." Maybe it's me, but I wouldn't want a tailgator or a hemorrhoid on my ass.

[Monte Smith]

I am sure this counts:

Londoners annoyed by magician



There is a marked increase in police presence at the David Blaine show today.

Two Met officers patrolled the area on foot throughout last night and the early hours.

Blaine, however, was still subjected to a barrage of abuse from people coming out of pubs and clubs. But, there were fewer attacks on his glass box and no one got into the Tower Bridge compound where the American is in day 12 of his 44-day endurance feat.

Representatives from a diet firm managed to take advantage of the stunt, projecting a laser slogan onto the GLA building reading: "There are easier ways to lose weight."

But they nearly lost their £30,000 equipment as Blaine's security men tried to confiscate the projector, thinking the beam was aimed at his pod.

A group of Iranian Londoners from Richmond, meanwhile, held a placard with a slogan in Farsi reading: "Yankee go home". Gloria Darvish, 21, said: "It's pathetic that anyone wants to do something like this."

Yesterday a man collapsed with a facial injury during a scuffle with a security guard.

On Tuesday a man was arrested for allegedly attempting to cut the New Yorker's water supply. Eggs have been thrown at the 30-year-old's box and he has been the target of a golfer aiming at him from Tower Bridge.

A Met spokeswoman said today: "We are monitoring the situation and are in dialogue with the representative of Sky (TV) and the local authorities to discuss safety issues around the presence of David Blaine and the impact it is having on the area."

[Enforcer]

1. People working at drive thru windows who say, "Enjoy your meal." Don't say that. Because when I reflexively say, "You, too," I look stupid. Say, "Have a nice day," or something. Then I can be lazy, which is what I clearly am if I'm using a drive thru to begin with.

2. Backing into parking spaces. Yeah, it makes sense to try and wedge between two parked cars in *reverse* so you can pull out into the wide open aisle later going *forwards*.

3. Pennies. Get the f**k rid of them. Start with nickels and round everything to 5 cents.

4. Three days for a check to clear when you deposit it in your account and it was cut by another *bank*. 'Cause it might not clear, since you can't count on a *bank* to have enough money to cover the amount or anything.

Larry

[shrugs]

Originally posted by bostontricky
Go ahead and drink your wussy coffee, shrugs. Just don't get in line in front of more than one of us here before lunch.

I'm your huckleberry.

[stonemonkts]

Originally posted by Larry Nagel
1. Bumper stickers: Wrong place to advertise what your favorite band is, spew your attitudes about abortion, assert your belief in God or try and make me laugh. I don't know you, I will never see you outside of this chance meeting behind your car on I-75, and nobody gives a f**k.

Bumper sticker mentality in general. Who gives a f**k what you think. Unless you have a captive, attentive audience, keep your beliefs and sayings to yourself. Thank you.

Another vote for the wrapping on CDs and VHS tapes. Risky every time I have to open one..ever get a plasticized paper cut from that shit? At the very least I always manage to slide some of the crap under a fingernail for an intensely painful moment.

People who live in rural areas who burn garbage. Thanks for that. I moved out here from MuhtaF***ing New Jersey to inhale your toxic fumes. Can afford all those ATV's parked all over your junky yard, but not enough left over to pay for garbage pick-up you stingy hick bastard?

All telemarketing calls, of course. Surprised no one mentioned those yet.

Phonecalls in general. The ringing sound has become offensive to me. Send e mail, it's quieter.

Tailgaters for sure. My fantasy is to have a 007-esque bazooka pop out the back and blast away. Just before it goes off, a camera snaps a shot of the driver's expression, you know, for my photo album.

Many of those expressions which are supposed to placate you in some half-assed way...such as "it takes all kinds" or "whaddya gonna do?" or "God works in mysterious ways" ....ad nausea.

[MRS]

"I Have A Guardian Angel"

"It's A Child Not A Choice"

. . .and as for the latter, I don't care what your thoughts on abortion are, but 'it' is an inanimate pronoun.

[shrugs]

I hate the one that says "Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons, For You Are Crunchy And Taste Good With Ketchup".

[Chris D]

Mostly hate bumper stickers, but I do have to agree with the "Shut Up and Drive" ones.

[Brian Olewnick]

OK, I bet there's actually a term for this in the ad biz, but for example, one of those commericials with multiple shots of an actor speaking (the voice-over is constant), back and forth, jiggly and blurry, etc. Inevitably, at some point, there will be a shot of the person "spontaneously", self-consciously laughing. God, do I hate that! It's like, "Let's show the viewer how natural and unstilted we can be! As though this were all ad-libbed!"

Shut. Up.

Also, the omnipresent shot of the news anchor, sports figure, whomever, raising their head to look at the viewer, as though you've just interrupted them in the process of writing a novel but they're kind enough to acknowledge you.

[bostontricky]

Originally posted by Larry Nagel
I don't know you, I will never see you outside of this chance meeting behind your car on I-75, and nobody gives a f**k.

Larry - true story. My first car (that wasn't given to me) was a really shitty '83 powder blue Ford Escort which naively bought back in '88 (hey, it was the only thing in my price range). I plastered the obligatory college stickers in the back window and wound up trading it in eight months later after it broke down twice in a week.

About eight months later, my wife and I are heading into town on the Lodge when we see some college stickers on the window of the car in front of us. "Geez, somebody else went to Kentucky, Northern Michigan, and Michigan. I wonder if I know him."

Duh.

[mke]

Originally posted by Brian Olewnick
Also, the omnipresent shot of the news anchor, sports figure, whomever, raising their head to look at the viewer, as though you've just interrupted them in the process of writing a novel but they're kind enough to acknowledge you.

I thought it was either because they were looking at a screen or they weren't aware the report was over. However, it may be a tatic they learnt to reinforce the sense of closure between items?

[Underhound]

Rude motherfuckers who fart in public.

People who get offended when I fart in public.

Obscene language.

People who aren't me.

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Underhound
People who aren't me.

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally posted by mke
I thought it was either because they were looking at a screen or they weren't aware the report was over. However, it may be a tatic they learnt to reinforce the sense of closure between items?

No, I mean in a commercial where in the initial shot, held just for a moment, the person's head will be down as though reading something, then they'll raise it as if you've just walked into the room, giving you a "meaningful" look. This faux intimacy is barf-making.

Another irritant: Painfully slow-walking people, generally overweight, laden with packages, bags and pocketbooks that double their diameter, walking down the middle of a narrow hallway instead of off to one side.

[Sergio Zamora]

I have a few pet peeves, but they're big.

Getting interrupted. It's ok if it's a big group and everyone's talking at the same time, but if I'm speaking to someone and want to complete my thought, I can't stand people cutting in.

People who continuously state the obvious. This is especially true if they say it as if they were expressing a newly discovered life-altering profound truth.

[Jazzzoline]

My neighbor mowing his lawn at dinner time.

My neighbor mowing his lawn during the dinner, wearing a belly gut AND a Speedo. OUCH! ( "OR" would be acceptable).

Finding dog shit in the yard, from an alien dog. Stepping in that shit.

Long toe nails.

Long finger nails on a man, dirty with that.

Stinky co-workers.

Pink windows on a house.

Being in China as a tourist and, being stuck on a boat with some French tourists, understanding EVERYTHING they say. *rolling my eyes*

Being in China as a tourist and watching some tourists from the USA acting as they were the button belly of the world. Shut up man! they only want your money!

[RainyDay]

Baggy pants. How pathetic is it to see some schmuck getting arrested and the cops are pulling up his drawers and his pants? And doesn't it seem that the lower a guy wears his pants, the greater his chances are of getting arrested? In fact, a guy who wears his pants around his knees should do everybody a big favor and just check his sorry butt into San Quentin now.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by RainyDay
Baggy pants. How pathetic is it to see some schmuck getting arrested and the cops are pulling up his drawers and his pants? And doesn't it seem that the lower a guy wears his pants, the greater his chances are of getting arrested? In fact, a guy who wears his pants around his knees should do everybody a big favor and just check his sorry butt into San Quentin now.

Which is kind of funny, because prison garb is what inspired that look to begin with (no belts issued in prison because they could be used as a weapon).

Larry

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Finding myself getting annoyed at trivialities.