What DrivesYou Nuts?

[pippin]

What are things people do that drive you nuts?

Me: people who are too lazy to return their shopping carts so the damn things run all over the parking lot into cars or are dumped in a space so you can't park.

[HEyHEY]

1. Places that have "Noodles" written on the menu instead of "Pasta"

I refuse to eat in a place like that.

[SOteric]

5. Here’s a little heads up.

If it isn’t Italian, or copied from the Italian styles in some other country, it isn’t called pasta. Many other cultures have a similar product in their cuisine. They’re usually referred to as ‘noodles.’ So, Japanese somen, cellophane and rice noodles, soba, and all bean starch noodles and buckwheat noodles, are, as their name suggests, noodles and not pasta. Wonton wrappers are a kind of noodle.

The beloved Eastern European kluski, also a noodle and not a pasta, though, the fact that it’s made from the same flour/water/egg paste might suggest otherwise. An exception might be cous cous, which is a kind of pasta-thingamie, but is not usually called pasta or noodles but rather is called “cous cous.” Who’dathunk?

[NightTrain]

15. I could write a book....

...but will instead provide a shortlist of what pisses me off.

1. Motorists who insist on using their cell phones while driving. Particularly infuriating is those jerk-offs who also are drink coffee or smoke a cigarette while using their cell phone and, incidentally, driving.

2. Connecticut's spineless state legislature, for once again allowing the bill to outlaw cell phone usage while driving die in committee. Meanwhile, the New York legislature passed the same bill, which Governor George Pataki signed into law. Thanks for nothing, Yankee pansies!

3. People who refer to themselves in the plural (e.g. "we" instead of "me" or "I").

4. Car stereo bass units that fill up the trunk, especially when the driver insists on playing his tunes at a concert-hall pitch.

5. People (most of them men) who become obnoxious and belligerent, or who try to shout you down, when you politely point a mistake out to them. In other words, pretty much every ring-wing pundit on radio and TV!

6. Similarly, those family gatherings where my know-nothing relatives get on their high horse about "those welfare types," then either ignore me or accuse me of trying to cause trouble when I point out that the *real* welfare types are coroporations like Enron and GE. That's just one of many reasons why, after my father died in 1998, I severed all ties with my relatives.

OK, that's enough ranting for now.

[HEyHEY]

2. oh and

People who think "Ignorant" Means "rude" IT DOESN'T PEOPLE!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[StaggerLee]

3. It doesn't?

Man, I feel rude.

[HEyHEY]

7. Hay-ooo

"Wow that's uh, that's really funny stuff"

[StaggerLee]

12. A groaner for sure

What drives me nuts:

People who don't use their turn signals

Not being able to withdraw denominations smaller than $20 from the ATM

Neighbors who dump their garbage in my apartment's dumpsters (buy a city bag folks- it's not that expensive)

The fact that there is now a Wal Mart less than 5 miles from my home.

[FloridaJudy]

25. I once saw a sign

That said "ignorance can be fixed". I'm with you on that.

[Kellanved]

4. people not using the turn signals,

vandalism, (the few but damaging) welfare queens in the media spotlight, tax evasion, companies threatening to leave the country because of high taxes despite billions of profits (and sometimes huge subsidies), clueless well-meaning extreme left-wingers attacking Schröder, current American foreign policy, general right-wing spin, ...


At least the deposit system for shopping carts keeps them from the parking lots.

[HEyHEY]

6. Yeah there is a rash of that latley

The turnb signals I mean...is it not cool anymore?

[Wcross]

8. Litter!

People allow me the great privilage of throwing away beer cans and Mcdonalds bags and wrappings! What NO FREAKIN GARBAGE CAN AT HOME!!!!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

9. Entitled People

SUVs that park in spaces labeled "Compact Parking Only"

People who bring their dogs on the beach during the day, when there are clearly marked signs "No Dogs Allowed from 9 to 5"

People who don't pick up after themselves on the beach

People who go the speed limit in the passing lane

Parents who ignore their screaming kids in restaurants and let them wail, thus spoiling everyone's dining experience

[HEyHEY]

10. Or as the other day

Let them run wild in stores...this ladies friggin kid was runnin around at top speed screamin, smashing into people...I am usualy not a mean guy. But I thought back to when I was a kid, and rememebred exactly what to do...next time he got near me I said, "get out of here" that was the end of him!

[Cheswick2.0]

11. people who talk in movies

I usually ask them nicely to stop talking and if they don't or they are "ignorant" about it, I say: "either shut the hell up or give me my money back. If I wanted to pay ten dollars to listen to you I would come to your house".

[SOteric]

13. The general level of rage in society.

I have a distinct memory of people behaving in a more civil manner to one another.

It's not just the earful one is subject to in traffic. Wander unexpectedly into the express lane at the store and people feel free to angrily berate you as an eejit. Choose the wrong line at the espresso stand, make a typo in a chat room, and expect to hear vitriolic hypothesis that your parents were from the same shallow end of the gene pool.

There aren't any people on this planet who make the right choices, have the fullest, clearest attention-levels, always type and spell perfectly, etc. Most of the rage I see isn't even cast at people for very good reasons. So, ...someone made you wait 3 seconds longer than you felt you should have at a stoplight. My GAWD!!! -it's the end of existence as you know it!!!

[Booberdawg]

14. People who stop in residential areas

to stop and chat with someone in another car while there is another car waiting behind. Get the fuck outta my way! Pull over and visit!

Store clerks who visit with aquaintences while customers are waiting in line.

People who stand and wait until ALL of their groceries are checked through BEFORE they bother to pull out their checkbook and pen.

People who rush the handicapped or elderly that obviously need more time, or make them feel self conscious about it.

People who cram into a crowded elevator as soon as it opens and before other people have a chance to get out.

Co-workers sit next to me who visit and gossip ALL day! (Normally I can handle this with a little humor by asking them if my working is interrupting their social life, but at my last job the offender was my supervisor:wow:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. I am with you. I just want to ram into those peoples' back ends. And then

when they hold up a hand as if I have the time to wait for them. What if I was on my way to the ER because my son was bleeding from his ears. You are so extremely right on that!

[bowens43]

16. bushes voice

I become physically ill when I hear the idiot spouting his ridiculous nonsense.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Here's just one of many. Freeways with the two left lanes (I-94) closed

down on a Saturday for construction, and guess what? No construction, no construction vehicles, not even a torn up road. Just two smooth lanes to the left of me, separated from a stopped up mass of humanity by innocuous little orange barrels. GRRRRRRRRR! At least make it look like we shouldn't be driving there!

[glarius]

18. People who strip the husks down on corn-on-the-cob in grocery stores

to chose the ones they want! That is such a dumb thing to do...What those who do that don't realize is that the corn starts to deteriorate as soon as the husk seal is broken and unless you take it home and eat all of it right away you're spoiling the quality of it. .You can tell if it's good corn if it's nice and plump without peeling it down!

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I peel it down at the store because I am lazy when I get home. If I were

to wait until I got home to husk it, it would end up a stinking mess of rotten corn on the cob in a plastic bag on the counter. And my $2 for eight ears, which brought me to buy a vegetable I don't even really care for that much, would be down the drain...followed by a lemon peel to get rid of the smell of rotting corn flesh. ;-)

[glarius]

20. People who strip the husks down on corn-on-the-cob in grocery stores

to chose the ones they want! That is such a dumb thing to do...What those who do that don't realize is that the corn starts to deteriorate as soon as the husk seal is broken and unless you take it home and eat all of it right away you're spoiling the quality of it. .You can tell if it's good corn if it's nice and plump without peeling it down!

edit---I goofed...this is a repeat of #18....Don't ask me how I managed to do this!

[Alenne]

22. People who let unimportant things bother them. nt

[Porkrind_Power]

23. the morons in NE philly can't lay off their horn...

for instance, if you slow down to make a turn the moron behind you will wait until you're halfway into your turn and then lean on their horn like you comitted a crime against humanity... by the time you're done turning, they're already gone before you get the chance to give them the finger... they don't have the balls to beep you when they're behind you... makes me sick!

[Twenty3]

24. Music on "hold"

:mad:

[Shanty Oilish]

26. Nothing. And many have tried.

Some world-class crazifiers have worn themselves out on me. :)