Why (when there is a line of people trying to get gas) is someone sitting in his car talking on the phone AFTER he finished pumping gas? Move away from the pump!
Your child is screaming and crying and yet you continue clothes shopping! Take the poor kid home!
What else? This should be interesting.
I live in a very crowded city with bad traffic, so my pet peeve is people who dawdle when the light turns green, esp for a left turn, because their slowness often means I miss the light.
I also really get irritated by people who subscribe to elaborate political conspiracy theories when the reality is worse but so much more banal.
Whenever I feel bad about myself, I tell myself that at least I’m not as bad as the people who put chewed gum under seemingly every table in the world.
@maya54 Loud chewing or any eating noises drives me crazy! It’s got to the point where I can’t be in the same room as my family at breakfast.
Aversion to loud chewing (or other sounds) has a name: misophonia
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-misophonia
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/please-stop-making-that-noise/
People in restaurants whose young children are crying or screaming and they don’t take them out. So rude. Same thing in church…take your kid out if they can’t be quiet so others can hear what is going on.
I’m extremely irritated by people who are curt or rude to those who work in the service industry, and people who don’t tip or are very cheap tippers definitely bug me. Maybe I’ve just known too many people who have worked as servers. Dunno.
When people don’t take the time to return their shopping carts to the store or the cart corral. It is lazy and terribly inconsiderate to the next person parking.
Maybe Mom needs that outfit for a job interview or funeral or other event tomorrow and has no one who can watch the child today.
Maybe the family is away from home and people are hungry. The older child sitting next to the screamer is going to suffer if he’s not allowed to finish his lunch.
I deeply apologize for all the years when I didn’t do this while shopping with small children. The logistics were just too overwhelming. First, you place your child in the car seat so you can unload the groceries. At this point, the child starts crying because he/she can no longer see you. Then you unload the groceries. Then, if you are going to return the cart to the corral, you have to pull the now kicking, screaming, uncontrollable child out of the car seat and put the child back in the cart so that you can bring the cart to the corral without leaving the child unattended. The child fights being in the cart because by this point the child has totally lost it, so it’s a huge struggle to keep the child from falling out as you cross the parking lot. Then you leave the cart and carry or drag the screaming child back to the car and struggle to buckle the child (who is now fighting your every move) into the car seat again.
No. Just no. And if anyone out there is shopping with a small child, I will gladly return YOUR cart to the corral along with my own.
(My kids also started crying the moment we pulled into the pediatrician’s parking lot and would not stop even if told it was their sibling who had the appointment! I don’t miss those years.)
Re loud chewing: Those of us with TMJ disorder really can’t help it.
Sorry, I don’t buy the small children argument. I had three under the age of 5 and have never ever left my cart by my car. If you can figure out the logistics of getting the cart in the first place then you should be able to figure out how to return it.
Getting the cart is easy. You park your car and walk with your child (or carry your child) to the cart. At that point, you have no groceries to deal with, and your child is not yet tired and cranky. And most important, you never have to get out of your child’s line of sight during the process.
Returning the cart is hell on earth – or at least it was for my kids and me. It requires too many transfers of the child and the groceries from one place to another, at least one of which involves getting out of your child’s sight (and therefore inducing panic in the child).
It was hard enough getting the groceries onto the conveyor belt at the checkout (which also involved getting out of the child’s line of sight), but I used to deal with that by talking to the child constantly so that the child could at least hear my voice. About half the time, this would prevent the child from starting to scream. But a child in a car seat cannot hear the voice of the parent who is loading the groceries into the trunk (and about half the time, would already be hysterical because he/she just went through the panic of feeling abandoned at the checkout).
This garbage which is INUNDATING my facebook wall and messenger lately:
Happy Valentines Beautiful Mommy!! Being a mother is one of the most highest paid jobs in the world since the payment is PURE LOVE. I just nominated you for the Loveliest & Caring Mom Award. You must send to ten moms and make their day. I’m also waiting.
Just stop it with your poorly-written passive aggressive demands and your middle school chain mail mentality.
@TatinG thank you for creating this thread. I’ve been wanting to grump about this particular aggravation for a week now, and (obviously) I can’t on FB.
Men who insist on wearing their hats indoors and in restaurants, even nicer ones. To me, this is a hallmark of a true redneck.
People who form a phalanx type line on a crowded sidewalk and then walk, no saunter, meaning they barely are moving along. Meanwhile I’m trying to find a way around them so I can actually move. I am a fast walker.
Same for people who stop at the top or bottom of an escalator causing a pile up of those behind them. Move away from the escalator!
I second rudeness to service workers! There’s no need to be grumpy and disparaging towards someone who is just doing their job
“Men who insist on wearing their hats indoors and in restaurants, even nicer ones. To me, this is a hallmark of a true redneck.”
Where I live it’s the hallmark of an Orthodox Jew!
Where I live, there about 17 Jews and none of them, and I mean * none*, are Orthodox. Seriously, I had never heard of Hillel until I was on CC and didn’t know what Yiddish was until I was an adult. There are, however, about 17 million rednecks.
People who trash public bathrooms. Pretty sure you don’t leave toilet paper all over the floor, clogged toilets, graffiti on the walls/mirrors, faucets running, etc. at your own home so why would you do it at a public bathroom that everyone uses??
Vile savages.