<p>“Have a good one.” Instead of saying thank you…they say…“have a good one”. Have a good WHAT??</p>
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<p>Regarding these two, I suggest counting your blessings. Imagine what a hellion the 7-yr-old would have been without the electronics, and imagine having to listen to them moaning about their backpain/lack of sleep throughout the visit. </p>
<p>But the big question is: how was their grammar? :D</p>
<p>Speaking of phrases that have become ubiquitous, where did “It’s all good” come from?</p>
<p>maybe it’s just my lower class socio-economic neighborhood, but I don’t understand why people put trash out in things that fall over, get blown away, etc. It’s bad enough that people just out and out litter, but this makes me insane. </p>
<p>There are people who don’t pick up leaves on the street surrounding their houses. I’ve gone to the store and used my foot to clean out sewer drains so rainwater would have someplace to go. </p>
<p>There are the flyers that they stick in doors for takeout places. These are always lying around.</p>
<p>If I’m looking out my kitchen window and can see trash in my view, I go out and pick it up. I have also taken empty bags with me when I go out to pick up trash along the way.</p>
<p>What is wrong with these people?</p>
<p>Here’s another one that happened to me today: I returned a large gift (it was in the store box, in the store shopping bag, with all the receipts). The girl took the gift and began ripping up the box and bag to make them fit into her trashcan, which was apparently too small to accommodate the large box and large bag. That’s all very well and good, but can you please just ring up my credit and give me my credit slip or whatever, and THEN when I’m gone rip up the box and bag? I had to ask her nicely if she could do that after I was gone so that I could get my credit and move on with my day. </p>
<p>And I hate-hate-hate when I go to a register and there is someone in the store doing inventory or whatever and they don’t stop to help the customer. I’m sorry, your inventory is nowhere near as important as helping a live customer, NOW.</p>
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<p>I know that is annoying, but sometimes stores employ temps solely during inventory season, and they actually aren’t allowed to use the cash register in that department. </p>
<p>It has been noticeable in department stores for decades how grossly understaffed they are most of the time. Especially in the evenings.</p>
<p>Thumper, Nucular vs Nuclear is also mine (and this has been a HUGE peeve of me during the last 8 years, if you know what I mean)</p>
<p>As for the temps who can’t use the register, they could at least acknowledge the customer and offer to find the appropriate person to help!!</p>
<p>“decimated”</p>
<p>IT MEANS ONE TENTH !!!</p>
<p>not, utter destruction</p>
<p>Using “impact” as a verb, which I have expressly forbidden in my lab. An impaction is something that happens to wisdom teeth or to stool.</p>
<p>on thumper1’s post on “your hair looks great today” and how that makes you wonder if the person is implying that your hair looks bad on other days…</p>
<p>My office friends and I love to wear slenderizing black pants and have had a rule for the last ten years or so that you may not say “you look thin in those pants” or “those pants make you look thin.” You can only say “You are thin and you look very nice in those pants.” 
Yes, we probably have been working together for too long…</p>
<p>Axe isn’t just black English. I have a very good friend of Italian heritage from the Bronx. She’d never heard it any other way until she got to college.</p>
<p>^ For years, our regional Baby Bell had a prerecorded message suggesting we “ax our operator for assistance”. Made my skin crawl every time I heard it. I would have preferred to axe the manager/supervisor who let that recording go public.</p>
<p>Here you can get a good “dill” on an item if it is on “sell”</p>
<p>People who reach the end of the escalator or stairs, or just go through a door and STOP! Do they think they are the only people in that store??</p>
<p>You are quite right about “axe” mathmom. I too, have heard others say it. I was careful not to say that it was only blacks. I’m sorry your friend had never heard it any other way. I only relayed how one fellow on TV explained the pronunciation when blacks say “axe”, and how I am skeptical of his explanation. Your comment that an American of Italian ancestry pronouncing it the same way adds to the skepticism about languages native to Africa. </p>
<p>However, the fellow on TV did not comment or explain about why others may pronounce it wrong so I made no comment about that.</p>
<p>Sueinphilly beat me to the gum one, though I will elaborate–
there are some people who make constant little clicking/popping sounds with their gum. They’re not blowing bubbles, just CLICKING it. I can’t really describe it, but it drives me nuts. Argh!</p>
<p>The other indicates I have the questionable taste to watch (only sometimes, I swear!) reality shows like “Dr. 90210”—
Whenever they ask a woman what she thinks of her massive new breast implants, she’ll invariably cite the improvement in “confidence.” 99% of the time these women looked fine or better beforehand, but will say they needed the surgery to boost their confidence level.
Wouldn’t it boost their confidence more to stop worrying so much about what men might be thinking (or noticing)? File under “things I hope my daughters will never ever consider.”</p>
<p>Two I can think of:</p>
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<li><p>The word is “business”, NOT biness.</p></li>
<li><p>People that drive at 35 MPH on a road with double yellow lines (cannot pass them no matter what) where the speed limit is 55 or higher.</p></li>
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<p>I agree with the gum cracking. It drives me crazy. Makes the chewers look like cows too.</p>
<p>I think the general rule of thumb should be “if you are making a noise, on purpose that anyone else can hear, STOP NOW”.
No gum (bubbles, click and crack - I know exactly what you mean), no whistling, no humming or singing.</p>
<p>I had a coworker who liked to click his pen open and shut, 60 times a minute, 8 hours a day. I don’t think he was doing too much work because I have yet to perfect being able to use my computer keyboard with one hand</p>
<p>I think I have hypersensitive hearing. I can be in a noisy environment and instantly know I’m hearing one of the ‘offending’ sounds.</p>
<p>Working from home for the next few days. Won’t hear anything except the sound of the computer fan running. </p>
<p>Oh, Snoring is another one. I realize the offender isn’t doing it on purpose 
I have lived with guys who snore and I end up sleeping in another room. No I will not get used to it, ever.</p>
<p>To add to Sue’s list of office noises that drive me nuts: nail clipping! Why can’t this be done at home in the privacy of your bathroom?</p>
<p>(Sue, re: typing with one hand - I had a coworker who typed everything, including long grant proposals, with <em>one</em> finger! Really loudly, too! This coworker’s constant “click, click, click!” drove me nuts.)</p>
<p>I already mentioned on another thread that I do not like to see people’s undergarments sticking from under their clothes: boxers, “whale tails”, bra straps, etc., no matter how fancy they might be.</p>