Inconsiderate people…as someone said above, when people spread out and walk, ever so slowly, down the street or across the aisle at Costco so you can’t get around them. People who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle when they’re looking for an item. People who don’t drive with the flow of traffic in any lane other than the far right one or two lanes. Same with the person who gets off the escalator or off a train/subway and just stands there or moves ever so slowly, blocking the way for those behind them. Of course I don’t mean someone who needs the extra time, is helping a child or elderly person, etc. I mean people who are unaware of their surroundings and either don’t think about others or are just oblivious.
That’s the whole thing @ahl, it was our local Italian cafe 4 blocks from our home – one we frequent often. My H was laughing into his napkin but really, it irritated me.
I think people are emboldened lately by our current leadership. I have never seen anything like this in the past at this restaurant and I know the owner is an ardent supporter.
Wow, @HarvestMoon1, bleech! I’d rethink patronizing that place. Tough to call things “leadership”–positions of power yes, leadership no.
Different Japanese cities have different conventions for which side to walk or stand on on escalators. Tokyo vs Osaka.
People who get in the checkout line and send their other family member (or members) out to pick up several MORE items and bring them to add to their checkout. Its ok if you forgot one thing and someone runs to get it, but family members arriving with many additional items to pile into the cart (or the checkout belt) is just rude.
How about the folks who enter the 10 items or less line, when they clearly have far more items?
^ The “too many items for the express checkout” was mentioned in post #2. Yes, very irritating!!
- Drivers who don't bother to signal when changing lanes. In my area, it always seems to be the ones with the most expensive cars. I will never do this, but in my fantasy I pull up next to them at a red light, roll down the window, and with a smile, say, "Wow, what a beautiful car! It must be expensive, right? SO STRANGE that it doesn't come with a directional signal!!!"
- People who get impatient with elderly supermarket shoppers when they are slow to find coupons or have trouble with the credit card keypad. Elderly folks have earned the right to be as slow as they want. Try offering to help next time.
- Women who can't handle their husbands or boyfriends interacting with another woman in any way. You know, the ones who rush up to grab the guys on the second they see him exchanging pleasantries with you by the cheese and crackers.
- People who honk at you the split second the traffic light turns green because they didn't see your brake lights go off simultaneously.
People who bring their pets inside the grocery store…or any store, for that matter. :o3 :(|) 3:-O ~:> .
People who tie them up outside!
People who whistle.
Re carts, kids, and shopping, daycare is a real blessing. It is miserable to do errands with anyone under six years old.
Eta I’m going to use that idea of offering to help another parent return the cart. 
Tourists who come up to me at home and start asking questions in English without so much as a “Hello, do you speak English?”
^some ppl get offended…“of course I speak English!” No win!
People who repeat the same old corny stupid jokes again and again and again. My dad was like that and it drove me crazy and if I called him out on it he got offended.
This seems to be a city phenomenon to me. I have lived in small towns my whole life and nobody does this kind of thing. Whenever I go to a city, I see it all the time.
I wonder if people just do it for the attention? :-? Not talking about those who have a medical reason for bringing pets with them places.
I frequently go to a nice wine shop near my house, and over the weekend I went in to buy a bottle of champagne for a romantic valentine’s day dinner at home (no panty dropper, lol!). When I was scanning the sparkling wine shelves, a saleswoman came over to ask if I needed help. I told her that I was looking for an “interesting” bottle of champagne. The first thing she said was, “From France? You mean you want champagne from the Champagne region of France? I’m not sure if you know the difference.” I’m in my 50s and dressed well enough not to look like I’m flicking the hayseeds off my shoulder, or so I thought. Such an obnoxious tone, too - I was nice to her, because it would be rude to cop an attitude like hers, but I really could have been snarky right back.
I work in a building with smart elevators, which means that you punch in your floor number on a keypad and it tells you which elevator to use. I hate it with a passion when people swoop in front of me and start punching in their floors before my elevator number has been shown. I also hate it when people run and dive into the elevator, often holding the door open with their briefcases, because they will be going to my floor and having to return to the lobby, which means that they will be irate on the small, closed elevator with me. Actually, I hate smart elevators.
Dog owners who don’t train their dogs. Dog walkers who let their (usually small, yappy) dogs run wild on the flexy leash, ready to trip me or sniff at my ankles. No, your dog is not cute and you need to control it.
I don’t like having other people mind my business without knowing what they are talking about. Last week I shopped at Wegman’s and picked up my groceries, which I had purchased online and paid for. I realized before I walked out of the store that I had forgotten to order a lemon, so I went back and got one and stood on the express checkout line to pay for my one item. With my cart full of already bagged and paid for items. A strange man came up and started screaming at me, totally in my face, about the fact that it was a 12-or less lane. I guess it didn’t seem odd to him that while I was waiting my turn to pay for my single item, the groceries in the cart were already bagged and there was even a paid sticker on my 12-pack of paper towels. My husband wasn’t amused, and a manager came over and explained that it was not uncommon for people to pick up their large orders and supplement with a few impulse items. The guy wasn’t even apologetic.