Taking up more than your fair share of space on an airplane, and I don’t mean inadvertently or with little ones who don’t know any better.
People who read their phones while slowly walking up or down public stairs with lots of people (me) behind them.
Please put your f’ing phone down for 10 seconds while on the stairs and walk!
I also can’t stand Valentine’s Day on FB. ???
Bah humbug! 
“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.”
I am sure that is true. Coming from my background I always think it’s intersting that people don’t understand that there is a religious component behind the idea that not taking ones hat off is bad manners. And that not all people everywhere have that standard as part of their heritage.
I hate when people bring children into a store who are either tired or hungry. I’m not talking about running into the grocery store to grab a loaf of bread or milk. I see moms with carts full of food at nap time dragging a toddler around the store. I have been the mom with 2 little kids who had to run into a store when they were melting down, but I made sure to only get what I needed and to get out as quickly as possible.
I agree about being polite to service workers too. Also people need to get off their phones when someone is checking them out at the register. Put the phone away for a minute and make eye contact with the person helping you.
I get super irritated when the means of production isn’t in the possession of the proletariat.
For the shopping carts - it is helpful to just park right near a cart corral which hopefully has a cart in it just waiting for you and your toddler. As a mother of twins, if I couldn’t do this I couldn’t shop! No way I was going to leave them in the car and go sprinting 100 yards to get a cart in the summer.
^^^I still park near the cart corral if I can.
‘“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!’
It can also be the hallmark of a guy who hasn’t yet come to terms with his thinning/receding hair.
It can also be someone who lost their hair due to chemo and their head gets cold because suddenly there is no hair to keep it warm. Our neighbors both just had chemo and I notice the H suddenly is always wearing a baseball cap (tho he never used to).
People behind me in line who insist I move up because they think I am not close enough in their opinion to the person in front of me. This will not get you to the front of the line any faster.
Maybe I don’t enjoy being that close to a smoker or perfume overload.
Agreed. I’ve taken to asking “Are you a heart surgeon awaiting a transplant?”
So many phone-related things. I really can’t stand it when I’m hanging out with someone and they check their phone with any real frequency. I never look at my phone when I’m having a conversation with a friend or two over beers or whatever. Of course if it’s an emergency, or the husband/wife calls, fine. But you don’t need to check your insta or FB. Seriously.
Along the same lines:
• People who don’t understand that they should walk on the sidewalk the same way they drive their cars (at least in the US) - on the right.
• People who walk 3 and 4 abreast while walking on a narrow sidewalk.
• People who don’t follow the “stand right, walk left” rule on escalators/moving walkways
Interestingly, for decades Korea instructed pedestrians to walk on the left even though it’s a right-lane driving country. That pedestrian convention, though, was vestigial of the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945; Japan’s a left-lane driving country), and so the Korean gov’t switched it up a few years ago.
A good friend who posts on FB how happy she is that it is Friday EVERY Friday.
hehe @intparent , that reminds me of a friend of mine who said last week as he popped his lunch in the microwave, “Man, I’m starving–it’s like I haven’t had lunch since yesterday.”
Restaurant managers on Valentine’s Day who name the featured cocktail “The Panty Dropper.” Seriously??
Here’s another thing that irritates me: snobbery about food and drink.
I love great food, fine single malt and mezcal, and craft beer as much as anyone, but there’s a time and place for Taco Bell, Subway, MD 20/20, and Stroh’s Light, and having “refined tastes” doesn’t make you special, especially if you use your “taste” as a blunt weapon to shame or dismiss others.
HarvestMoon: just trying to imagine that restaurant