What trivial annoyance bothers you and no one else?

[seaglass]

Repetitive noises bother me.

There's a woman in one of my classes who knits during class. During the last half of class we usually watch movies which are often uninteresting. The click click click of her knitting needles make it hard for me to concentrate and I can feel myself getting stressed out just anticipating the next click of her needles. I try to put the noise in the background but it seems like the more I focus on not thinking about it the more I think about it.

What stupid things stress you out but don't seem to bother anyone else?

[BlueIris]

1. Computer noise.

So, yeah, every once in a while, in the 21st century, my life is a living hell. I just hate that quiet whirring buzz some electronic equipment still makes. HATE it. Most of the time, if I have to be in front of a computer, I have ear plugs in.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. Honestly, I can't even hear it.

It just blends in. :shrug:

[El Fuego]

2. People playing a radio real low in the office

It sounds like a mosquito buzzing around the room. Drives me nuts.

[Bunny]

3. My kids occasionally lie on the floor in front of the TV, watching

whatever nonsense is on. The TV stand has a door on it, and they idly open and close this door with their feet. It sends me over the edge, and I really don't know why.

[seaglass]

10. I know what you mean..

My son repeatedly throws a tennis ball against the garage door and it doesn't bother me at all but if he was continually tapping a pencil on a table it would make me crazy.

It doesn't make sense.

[sakabatou]

4. It's usually when I need to concentrate in class

The people will constantly babble about anything that's not on the subject and it bothers me. People talk when I talk. They ask me for answers w/o doing any work, etc. >_<

[slide to the left]

5. cell phones in movies

People who smack their food
Incorrect grammar, esp when my DH thinks he is right and I have to explain the rule to him.
Rude people
Obese people who take the handicap spot and use the motorized carts at the grocery store (sorry).

[seaglass]

8. My brother is a loud eater, lots of smacking noises. Once

when I was younger (and ruder) I told him to stop eating like a pig and he didn't talk to me for a month.

[johnnie]

6. People who whistle like shit

The ones who blow out more air than an actual note. And when they do happen to hit a real note, it is out of key. I have one of those here at the office, it drives me nuts.

[Fleshdancer]

7. people who smack when eating

I don't want to hear people eat or chew their gum I'm getting annoyed just thinking about it.

[azmouse]

12. I once sat near a woman who licked her fingers

and made this smacking sound as she pulled them out of her mouth ...and she did this the entire meal. I lost my appetite really fast.

[Fleshdancer]

16. *shudder* disgusting!

Recently I got pissed off in a restaurant because the place was empty (it was a seat yourself type of place) and this jerk chooses the table directly behind mine and proceeds to smack every bite as loud as possible. He literally could have chosen any other table in the damn place but noooo, he has to sit next to me and my family.

My husband hates the sound too so we ended up getting a to go box for my daughter and we left as quickly as possible. It was like nails on a chalkboard.

[1gobluedem]

9. Doodling

I hate it when people doodle on shared print materials or reports. Drives me nuts.

[azmouse]

11. People that use the word 'basically' all the time.

For example: They couldn't just say something is to the north of us, they have to say it's 'basically' to the north. I know it's minor but it just bugs the sh*t out of me.

[seaglass]

14. I used to say basically a lot. It even annoyed me. I worked

hard to remove that word from my vocabulary. It was probably me that was annoying you.;)

[azmouse]

17. Thanks for stopping!

Now to stop the 3 million other people who are 'basically' driving me nuts!!! LOL:silly:

[zanne]

13. Having to repeat the same thing over and over again...

And I was a teacher!

[DrGonzoLives]

15. People who say "puter" for "computer"

:mad:

[seaglass]

18. I'm sorry some things that annoy people are funny. I won't say

whose posts made me laugh.

It's ok if you think that my annoyance with knitting needles is funny or stupid.:D

[Solon]

19. OK, this will sound wierd...

To this day, the electron guns of computer Monitors and TVs that don't have any signal, for example when the TV is on Video in, or the computer monitor doesn't get a signal. Nowadays it is slightly less, but I still hear that damned high pitched whine, annoyance doesn't cover it.

[ThomCat]

20. Hearing people slurp, smack or chew.

I can't stand it when I can hear people eating or drinking. :grr:

And it's even worse if they eat with their mouthes open, because they they're not only louder, but you get visuals too. :puke:

I have certain friends I love dearly, but will not join for lunch or dinner. I haven't told them why, but I just can't sit at a table with them when they eat.

[amitten]

21. I used to date a guy who smacked loudly after every drink.

Drove me INSANE.

It didn't last (that wasn't the reason though).

[ThomCat]

25. That would have been the reason for me to break up with him.

I would have run screaming the second time we had dinner together.

(btw: I love eating out with people, and 99% of people have good table manners. So it's not that I'm just difficult to eat with. I've had dinner with several DUers recently and had a great time.) :P

[amitten]

68. It was always after he had a Coke, too. Like he was smacking to

re-taste the sweetness of it, over and over. :scared:

God, WHY did I date that guy....?!?!

[rockymountaindem]

23. People who walk slowly, right down the middle of the sidewalk

Honestly, I don't know how they get through life.

[amitten]

24. How about people that stand in parking lots talking, blocking

traffic? They see you but won't move unless you honk at them! :wtf:

[rockymountaindem]

26. I usually park out in the middle of nowhere so nobody dents my ride.

I don't have a problem with them.

As for other meanderthals, don't get me started. Is it wrong to just rabbit punch them? I guess so, eh?

[Akoto]

27. Mayonnaise.

I can't stand mayonnaise. The look, the smell, the taste. Having an open jar on the dinner table just turns my stomach.

That's right. I said it. :P

[MissMillie]

28. People's cell phones rining in the restaurant

If I wanted to have my dinner interrupted by a ringing phone, I'd eat at home.

[Fleshdancer]

29. another annoyance: driving below the speed limit in the far left lane

Of course this annoyance doesn't apply during rush hour traffic because everyone is stopped, but if you're on a highway and in the left lane, how hard is it to go the speed limit? If people in the slow lanes are passing you, it's time to move over.

Also, no talking on the cell phone while driving...but I don't think that annoyance is all that unusual.

[seaglass]

30. My daughter's friend was texting her boyfriend while driving

the other night. How bad is that?

[Fleshdancer]

31. that's a darwin award waiting to happen.

wow. just wow.

[Ron Mexico]

32. People who say "myself" where "me" or "I" would be proper grammar.

What, are they trying to sound more educated than they really are?

"At the meeting were Bill, Carla, Ron and myself."

Fuck you. Invited to eat shit and die are not Bill, Carla or Ron, but yourself.

[Left Is Write]

35. You're not the only one bothered by that.

[InvisibleTouch]

33. Talking while the TV is on, or TV as irrelevant background noise.

I'm not a multi-tasker. I prefer to be full-immersion in everything I do, and when I can't do that, I get majorly irritated, like I'm on sensory overload. I couldn't read DU, for instance, and have the television on in the background. My poor dogs even get bitched at if they interrupt me while washing dishes.

If I'm watching TV or a movie, I want to pay attention to the story, completely. If I'm having a conversation, I want to pay attention to the conversation, completely. I hate it when someone tries to talk with me while at the same time running the TV as background noise. Same with the radio in the car, if it's a news or info broadcast. Even if I'm not interested in the TV or radio program, I can't help but want to pay attention to some degree. I then find myself having to divide my attention. I've more than once snapped at family members and said "If you want to talk, turn the TV/radio off. You're not watching/listening to it anyway. Otherwise be quiet and let me watch/listen."

[file83]

66. I hate it when you rent a DVD with a friend, and they read a magazine

during the entire thing. Then during the good scenes, they ask "What happened?" :dunce:

[anarch]

34. the fact that I'm really hungry right now,

but I don't have any money to buy food. Nobody else seems put off in the least. :shrug:

[CBHagman]

36. I've gotten sick of whistling.

Tuneless whistling is just annoying, and I also hate it when someone whistles along to the music that is being played over a store's sound system.

Then there are the guys (and I've only see guys do this) think they are percussionists and demonstrate that fact by pounding bus or subway seats. I don't know whether it's too much caffeine or hyperactivity or what.

[dback]

37. People who say "Don't you think..."

Well no, actually, maybe I don't.

If you phrase the question/comment as, "Now maybe it's just me, but in my opinion..." I may or may not wind up agreeing with you, but I'll probably be somewhat more receptive to your viewpoint than if you assume it's just automatically correct.

[skyblue]

38. Southern Accents, certain words.

Often pronounced with the 't'
been pronounced 'bean' eg: where have you 'bean'?
'in actuality'
'i'm not for sure'

[Ariana Celeste]

39. People standing around to chat in the store

Not to the side, not out of the way, right in the middle of the freakin aisles man! I never see these people move out of the way, they just stand there, and very rarely you may hear one absent mindedly (yet cheerfully) apologize when you manage to knock into the side of the aisle trying not to knock into them. And that cheery "Sorry about that teehee!" pisses me off even more!
Reminds me of high school, trying to get to class and having to squeeze by groups at every corner.

{sigh} I just want to buy my coffee and food and get the hell out as fast as possible. In fact, this is the very reason why I do my shopping in the middle of the night. Long lines don't bother me, chatting groups in the aisles bother me.


(My apologies to grocery store loiterers that actually DO move out of the way :))

[TrogL]

40. People who block doorways and escallators

They walk into a store and come to a crashing halt, blocking the doorway or reach the top of an escallator blocking everybody else trying to get off.

If I'm in a bad mood, I'll loudly announce. "IT'S A BIG STORE - LOTS OF SELECTION - WE WANT SOME TOO - NO NEED TO BLOCK THE DOOR".

[TrogL]

41. People telling me how to eat

"Oh, you should try the dill pickles"
"Oh, you should have some of the pasta"
"Oh, you should..."

"LADY, SOMEBODY WITH A WEIGHT PROBLEM LIKE YOURS SHOULDN'T BE TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO EAT"

[no name no slogan]

42. Door slammers

or just people who don't close doors quietly. I live in a smaller, older building, and it seems that almost everybody in it slams their doors when they enter their apartments. The whole building shakes when some people do it. It also wakes up my cats, too.

Very annoying.

[Darth_Kitten]

46. You are not alone....

the builders in my apartment right now (they are renovating) can't seem to close doors normally, slam slam SLAM SLAM....

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! close the door. that's it, gently. :eyes:

[progmom]

51. yes yes yes!

it seems very arrogant to me.

[Roon]

43. People who tie up the line buying and scratching

lottery tickets.

[no name no slogan]

48. There's a special place in hell for those asshats

Worse yet, they sit there doing the scratch-n-sniffs while everybody else piles up, waiting to pay for their gas. Then they hit a $2 winner, and buy more tix. CRIPES! Get outta line and let those of us who have stuff to buy get through!!! :grr:

[Roon]

50. No doubt

If I want to gamble, I am going to the casino. Not the gas station.

[Babette]

44. Leaving the caps OFF pens!

I get really upset when I try pen after pen and find that they've all dried out. I like nice pens, and its wastes my money. I'm working on getting DH to cap his pens when done.


I also need to have my bedsheets perfectly even. I cannot sleep if the comforter is hanging down more on one side of the bed than the other. I have been known to get up in the middle of the night, strip the bed and remake it so it was even.

[Darth_Kitten]

45. When people lean forward in movie theatres.....

to my left or right, even if they are a few people over.

sit BACK, you are a distraction. :evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

47. When people refer to apes as "monkeys."

A MONKEY HAS A TAIL.

AN APE DOESN'T.

GOT IT, AMERICA?

[mitchum]

49. People who block doorways

how fucking rude can one be?

[LeftyMom]

52. People with nicer cars than mine who insist on driving like grannies.

Seriously, if you're going to drive so damn slow I can easily pass you in my 9 year old 4 cylinder american station wagon, you're wasting your $50K luxury car.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

53. People who use debit/credit cards for everyfuckingthing

A pack of gum? Can of dog food? A 3 dollar lunch? Would it fucking kill you to carry a couple of dollars?

[SeattleGirl]

54. Women who wait until their very full cart of groceries has been

rung up before starting to dig through their monster-sized purses to find their checkbooks. Um, could you have maybe started your fishing expedition WHILE your purchases have been rung up, instead of AFTER. Grf!

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. No, they couldn't start fishing before then because they were watching

the scanner like a hawk making sure every goddamn item came up exactly what it should be, because God knows that if you don't watch it, the supermarket will charge you an extra dollar for every item, especially for older people, because they can do that with computers, you know, and I know it's true because they said so on some sensationalistic news show FOX.

[SeattleGirl]

58. You may be right.

Mr. SG does most of the grocery shopping for us, and he checks the receipt AFTER he has paid, and AFTER he has moved away from the checkstand. He actually has found many, many pricing errors (usually overcharges), but he doesn't expect the whole world to come to a screeching halt just for him.

[OhioBlue]

56. restaurants that use bagged lettuce

for their salads. I love a good salad - but hate the taste of bagged lettuce. Now I ask before I order - but very few places in my town use fresh lettuce. Oh - except one that seemed to forget that you have to wash Romaine really well or you will have dirt in your salad....

[GOPisEvil]

57. The town's name is New Braunfels. Not New Braunsfels. Or New Braunsville.

New. Braun. Fels. It's not that fucking hard, but people around here screw it up all the time. I'm not even FROM there, but dammit, I care.

[Alleycat]

59. People at the grocery store who....

stand in front of the cashier waiting for them to run everything over the scanner then one the cashier tells them the total they then realize "OMG I have to pay" so they rummage thru their purse for like five minutes pulling out all sorts of things in the process, and finally whip out the checkbook and act like this is the first check they ever wrote!!!

For pete's sake why did they not do all this while the cashier was checking them out!!!

[sleepyhead]

60. People who lick their fingers to turn pages

Or worse, lick their fingers to count money (don't they know how gross and filthy paper money is?) - or worst of all, lick their fingers to pick up a piece of paper and then HAND IT TO ME so that I have to touch their spit! Ick!

[file83]

62. LOL - that one is gross. G R O S S ! ! !

[file83]

63. self D

[spindrifter]

64. It creeps me out when people do that--

especially when it's a library book. Then I start thinking about all their germs....it's about as bad as the people who clip their nails in public. Who the f* do they think they are, spewing out body waste like that!

[Redstone]

61. Christ, that's NOT trivial! I understand completely.

Redstone

[file83]

65. I hate it when a girl convinces you to MOVE ACROSS TOWN to be

closer to her, and the weekend you move in to your new place, she decides she "needs her space" and then breaks up with you.

:mad: I HATE THAT!!! :mad:

[Oeditpus Rex]

67. Homosexuals and fat peop... shit, wrong forum

Uh... yeah, I meant waiting. Not like for Christmas to get here, but for piddly stuff like web pages to load or files to download.

If I didn't have DSL, I'd prolly go through a monitor per week.

[taterguy]

69. Environmentalist bumperstickers

If you really care about the Earth then get rid of your car