You usually don’t even need to fill out the check anymore. Most retail systems don’t read whatever you wrote, they just pull the account information off the check and create a debit transaction for the total purchase as if you’d used a bank card. Then I give the check back to the customer. Of course, the type of customer who pays by check doesn’t understand this, and gives you a hearty “I am NOT giving you a blank check!”.
I get annoyed when people get indignant about something when everyone in the room agrees with their point anyway. I have a friend in my book group that will rail about politics and the silly thing is, she is preaching to the choir. I’d just rather have a discussion and learn something new than be reminded of things that annoy me already. Same goes for Facebook. Sure, I am privately indignant about stuff, but being indignant all the time is tiring and tiresome!
I mentioned upthread how irritated I get by people not returning their carts. Yesterday, I was pulling into a parking spot at the Home Goods and a runaway cart that had been left in a parking spot came barreling at my car. I was able to back up and avoid it. The car next to me was not so lucky. It smashed into the driver’s side door causing a small dent and scratched paint. People can be so inconsiderate.
@jym626 All this makes me glad I’m Catholic. All we have to do is not eat meat on Fridays during Lent.
Oh, and in addition to all those dietary “requests”, another is allergic to nuts, so had to label the items with nuts. And one doesn’t eat cinnamon. It was an adventure!
@bevhills - I’m talking about trucker caps and beanies, not religious headgear. As I said upthread, there are about 17 Jews around here and about 17 million rednecks. I’ve never seen a single Orthodox Jew in this area. When traveling, yes. But not here. The one local religious Jewish acquaintance I’ve had - a teenage babysitter - told me no one keeps kosher here, because there are no kosher delis. In the capital of our state! And the local rabbi’s kids all graduated from our Catholic high school.
"One of my freshman roommates (who claimed to keep kosher) has a habit of going to BK and ordering a bacon double cheeseburger, extra cheese, cheese-meat-cheat-meat-cheese. I’ve also stopped asking why. "
lol…That reminds me of when my parents were growing up in NYC back in the 30’s and 40’s, there was an old joke you could always tell a Jewish neighborhood because they had a lot of Chinese restaurants…and the basis for it was back then a lot more Jews were observant (my mom used to act as a Shabbes goy a lot as a kid:), but that is where, to quote a friend of my parents, you could get your fix of sweet and sour pork or shrimp and not feel guilty smile.
It is kind of obnoxious to expect others to fit your needs, especially a dinner with a lot of people, if people make the effort to invite you over and even to try and accomodate you, that should be enough. If I invite people over where someone has a dietary need (kosher or observant Muslim), I’ll make it a point to make a dinner that can at least attempt to meet their needs, for example if I made a beef stew I would use Kosher or Halal meat and if they were muslim would not use alcohol in the stew (same if someone was a recovering alcoholic), but I wouldn’t have dishes for someone who is Kosher that I could guarantee never touched dairy or whatnot, and no one ever questioned it, they said that they appreciated my offering hospitality and my attempts to meet their beliefs, and that those rules were never meant to be so rigid, and not to worry about it.
My latest one is people on the commuter bus I take putting their stuff on the seat next to them as if this was a private conveyance, then giving you a dirty look if you ask them to move it so you can sit down. The worst is when they do that then nod off, then get mad when you wake them up. A lot of the time it is women with their bags, the other big offender is young guys with backpacks. IMO they do it deliberately, to try and keep someone from sitting next to them, but these buses routinely fill up all the way before heading into the city, so that is just plain rude.
Not that it matters, but the alcohol usually cooks out. So, other than the taste issue, its probably not a big issue , though agreed, would probably steer away from that as a main course.
When I ran a big project for our volunteer group and afterwards sent a mass thank you e-mail out to the organization thanking members for participation etc. I would mention people by name and their role in the success of the project.
I think people deserve some personal recognition for a job well-done especially since the “thanks” was their only reward. And the organization needed to know who was out there working for them so they could convey their appreciation…
My gripe: I just got a couple e-mails with “Thanks to everyone who helped but I’m not going to mention names because I might leave someone out.” Huh? Garbage. Either nobody actually took on their jobs and did them well or you’re too lazy to type a few more characters.
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People that turn right on red in the 2 seconds between the light in the other direction turning red and their light turning green. Generally this means that they are preventing pedestrians from crossing when the light turns.
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People that stop along roadway to drop people rather than using Kiss-and-Ride at subway.
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people that “block the box” at busy intersections and then almost hit pedestrians while trying to clear the box.
Calling the intersection “box” irritates me 
When my 2 kids were little, I would deliberately park the car right next to the cart return, even if I had to park fairly far away from the store to do so. Like you say, it’s not that hard to get the kid(s) into the store - it’s the unloading of stuff after and returning the cart without leaving them that’s a pain. By parking right next to the cart return, I could put the kids in the car, put the stuff in the trunk, and return the cart to the return that was literally 2 feet from my car door.
Wow amazing how easily people are irritated. I returns carts when I shop but I was never irritated be carts left behind. I remember noticing carts left behind but rarely thought to judge it one way or other.
You might if a rogue cart banged into your car and damaged it. You might well be irritated if you couldn’t park in the one available space because the cart was left there, forcing you to get out of your car and put the cart into the cart return before you can pull into the space. Both of those have happened to me.
How often does that happen to you? I remember once or twice in my life time a cart occupied a parking spot. There were other places to park. It was no big deal TO ME. YMMV.
^^ Home Depot is notorious for that. The parking lot is always packed and I get so irritated when I spot an empty space up ahead and when I get there, there’s a big flatbed card sitting in the middle of the space that someone was too lazy to return.
Of course, and I’m sure you have some pet peeves that others would find absolutely ridiculous. There is no such thing as a person who is never bothered by anything.
Then again, as mentioned before, there are some who are seemingly bothered by everything. Most people fall somewhere in the middle, I suspect.
I belong to a club that meets weekly for a potluck dinner & short story discussion. Among the members that attend regularly there is a couple with a toddler, who they always bring along. For the past year, these parents have decided that the best way to keep kid occupied is to set him up with the iPad with a movie…WITH THE VOLUME ON. It is so irritating and distracting. And it’s the same movie every week.
I really don’t want to judge and am reluctant to say anything, since I am not a parent myself, and I want these parents to be able to socialize with other adults. But is there really no other way they can entertain the kid? Kid friendly headphones? A game rather than a movie? Whatever happened to books or coloring? Or even have one parent stay home with the kid every other week?
^have a bright kid friendly set of earphones next time --the kid will love it!