<p>People who live in our building and share the same walkway, who think it’s okay to leave cigarette butts on the walkway. The butts get tracked into our house by H’s wheelchair, and then the cat winds up playing with them! It’s making me cringe just to write this. :(</p>
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<p>Oh, this one really gets to me. I always picture them as just meandering down the road, unconcerned about getting somewhere but the second they realize the light is turning red, they gun it because, darn it, their time is suddenly too valuable to sit at a red light. Of course, all of us who have been driving behind them, impatient to get to our destinations, are left waiting at the red light because they couldn’t drive the speed limit.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s about bad reflexes most of the time, I think it’s about not paying attention. I see people on cell phones or people chatting with others in the car do this all the time. Argh!</p>
<p>People who insist on coming in to work when they are obviously sick and infectious (ie juicy coughing, sneezing, nose blowing etc) They blame it on ‘oh it’s just allergies’ and then they are out SICK for a week. Thanks.</p>
<p>People who sneeze and then refuse to blow their nose, then spend the next half hour sniffing it back in. GROSS.</p>
<p>1down, I’m a quasi offender. I stay home if I know I’m sick but I have such bad allergies that they do result in coughing sneezing and nose blowing so sometimes it’s hard to tell!! I felt like I was run over by a truck on monday and tuesday when i woke up but took a zyrtec and was back to normal.</p>
<p>My number one pet peeve has mentioned: People who walk behind your car or drive behind your car as you are backing out of a parking space. </p>
<p>Other top peeves:
People who pull out their Crackberry or phone WHILE YOU ARE STANDING THERE TALKING TO THEM!</p>
<p>and relatedly,</p>
<p>Talking to someone on the phone and realizing they aren’t really listening because they are using the computer, watching tv or whatever.</p>
<p>I find that people seem to struggle to maintain attention without multitasking anymore.</p>
<p>I’m with HGFM - Parents who don’t control their children anywhere, not just stores–church, school programs, stores, dr. offices, etc. Carts are made for shopping items–not your 3 year old standing in the back and swaying or leaning way out. Carts are also not made for your 3 year old to push into my ankles. </p>
<p>Sit down, shut up, pay attention, don’t run down the aisles, and do NOT kick the person’s back in front of you on the bleachers during the entire 1.5 hr. school program. Errrr-the number of parents who don’t teach their children any of these and are completely oblivious to the havoc they are causing.</p>
<p>A corollary to greenwitch, when you search through a pile of items that do have price stickers or sale stickers, and finally pick the one you want, not realizing until checkout time that that particular single item doesn’t have a sticker.</p>
<p>As soon as a tiny slice opens up on the conveyer belt at the checkout, you reach in front of me, grab the marker to stake out your territory, and then begin stacking your groceries on the sliver. As the belt inches forward, you pile more on, until your entire cart is set out on a piece of real estate the size of a dinner tray.</p>
<p>Next time you’re at the supermarket, try this experiment. Don’t start unloading your cart until my groceries have been swiped and I am in the process of paying. Did you end up spending any longer at the checkout? Didn’t think so.</p>
<p>lol, LurkerDad, sometimes I do that because I don’t trust the cashiers and want to watch them scan. If I don’t get the stuff on the belt, then they are scanning away while I’m focused on the cart.</p>
<p>60 seconds of a tv show, followed by 20 minutes of commercials. thank goodness for dvr.</p>
<p>Lurker Dad…if we tried this experiment, we’d get bopped in the butt and heels by the cart belonging to the person behind us. Sorry, but that just hurts ;-)</p>
<p>I’m with sylvan. I want to watch the scanning. Too many times I’ve paid more for an item or paid for it twice.</p>
<p>Sylvan & Shellz, thanks for the explanation, hadn’t thought of that. I guess I just think of grocery shopping as “down time.” So I paid twice for a can of tuna; in return I got to relax a bit.</p>
<p>Speaking of shopping, I hate it when a person is in their car with the engine running and their reverse lights on, knows that people are waiting for their parking space, but just SITS there. IIRC, there was a study done that showed that the average time for a person to pull out of their parking space was higher when someone was waiting for the spot than when no one was waiting. Figures.</p>
<p>jym, I think it depends on the situation. I have had times where I’m in my car and someone pulls up to take my spot and they are so close that I can’t even back out comfortably without whacking them. So I just sit there till they go stalk some other parking spot. Ordinarily I leave right away but that kind of behavior drives me up a wall. Or when they see you coming, follow you to your car, and sit there and wait will you unload every bag of groceries. I’ve actually had people honk at me because they thought I was taking too long to lead my car. Sorry but I’d rather put my groceries in my car in a matter that my bottle of OJ won’t smush my loaf of bread. If it takes me an extra minute to get them arranged the way I want them then so be it. By the time you wait for me to get done loading my car you could be parked somewhere else and in the store shopping already. I personally never wait for a spot. It’s almost always quicker to park in left field and walk then it is waiting for someone to leave their spot. Unless you are a disabled person who has trouble walking or something. See post by hops_scout on an earlier page.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention that about the “too close to get out of the space”, fendergirl. That exact thing happened to me yesterday, and I meant to post it here, but forgot about it, and then meant to add it to my post above but forgot again!! I waited for a spot today because we are supposed to have a bad, BAD storm tonight, and EVERYONE (including me) was at the store today. Parking was at a premium. Right now I am at the office getting all the cotact info for people for the next few days, should we have to cancel appointments due to weather.</p>
<p>** edit to add- sometimes people gesture/wave to a driver to follow them to their car when a parking lot is crowded. When that happens to me I try to do that, as it is very helpful. Rarely do I follow someone with a cart full of stuff, but if I did, I’d wait til they finished loading their car. I would certainly never honk at them to hurry up . If someone follows me to my car I try to load it as quickly as possible. But to sit and purposely do something to make them wait? Thats not very nice.</p>
<p>When people use the phrases “if you will” and “be that as it may” a bazillion times a day - a good friend does this and it drives me nuts! Wish I could say something to him…</p>
<p>^^Sounds like an “old” friend.</p>
<p>^^you could constantly respond with an equally overused and annoying phrase: 'with that said…"</p>
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<li><p>People who toss cigarette butts out their car windows. Many of these people would not toss a candy bar wrapper or a pop can out… why do they think butts aren’t litter? I always honk at 'em.</p></li>
<li><p>People who let their dogs poop on other people’s property and don’t pick it up. I spotted a guy in my car headlights last week letting his (big) dog poop in the road just in front of my mailbox (like a foot from the post). I rolled down the window and said, “You ARE going to pick that up, aren’t you?”. He said, “I’ll get it on the way back…” (we are on a cul de sac). Me: “You don’t even have a baggie, do you?”. Him: <em>shrug</em> and walks off into the dark. Grrr… I picked it up later when I took my dog out.</p></li>
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<p>int, both of those annoy me too.</p>
<p>A girl I know had a neighbor whose dog would go right in her yard. She’d come out and throw a fit and the neighbor would just shrug. I guess she started cleaning it up and throwing it over into his yard. lol. one time she said she came home and stepped in it so she put her poop covered sneakers on the neighbors porch with a note saying my gift to you. I guess the s*** hit the fan when her dad was down visiting and the dog did it again. her dad let the guy have it and the dog hasn’t been back in her yard since. I think the guy just didn’t care when it was a 26 year old girl yelling at him but when it was a 50 some year old man it was a completely different story.</p>