<p>Someone mentioned sociopaths upstream.</p>
<p>Now that’s something that annoys me greatly. I believe I’ve met more than my share during the years, and I also believe I’ve worked for more than my share. They are scary because they lie and don’t even remember that they’re lying. They are remarkably convincing.</p>
<p>People that have curbside recycling and don’t bother.</p>
<p>People who live in the country and shouldn’t (I mean city-slickers, not illegal aliens 
Don’t move here and then whine you have corn, dust, bugs, livestock, and farm machinery on the roads. It’s ok with us if you stay in your little bubble and think milk comes from the grocery shelf and meat didn’t have a former life…</p>
<p>^^Two thumbs UP! :)</p>
<p>We get some of that in VT. I mean, a dairy farm produces manure and some of it ends up on the road sometimes. Get over it.</p>
<p>^^Thanks! Usually I shut a thread down instead of getting positive results :)</p>
<p>When I’m checking out of a store, I’m always aware of people in line behind me and I like to make a quick getaway so I don’t hold them up. So it irritates me when cashiers return my change with bills first, so that I have to balance the coins on top and then slide them into my other hand and then awkwardly get them into the change compartment of my wallet. Only then can I leave. If they give me the coins first, I can ball those up in my palm as they count out the bills, because it only takes two fingers to get the bills and then I can go. </p>
<p>What also bugs me about this is that it indicates the person doesn’t even know how to count change, which is not exactly rocket science. </p>
<p>It’s a stupid, small thing but it bothers me.</p>
<p>^^^^
Oh boy! And when you are accompanying a senior citizen making a purchase it is not so much annoying but embarrassing. </p>
<p>Debit cards. I am switching entirely to debit card purchases! :)</p>
<p>Retirement communities where the leadership disavows any responsibility for what a marketing team told prospective residents.</p>
<p>LOL LasMa- Someone mentioned that exact thing upthread somewhere.</p>
<p>Here it is:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14280722-post38.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14280722-post38.html</a></p>
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<p>Actually, any business where the people who do disavow anything that the people who sell said.</p>
<p>The maintainence people at our apartment complex have been out at least a dozen times to fix the air conditioner, tell us they fixed it, and it’s not fixed. It was 90 degrees yesterday, and at 11pm when temperatures outside had cooled to the 60s, it was still 85 degrees in our apartment with the AC having been on all day long. This is after our dishwasher broke, the man came to fix it four times, failed, and eventually my boyfriend looked up online how to fix it himself. I’m an asthmatic and the heat is making it very hard for me and I am getting VERY annoyed. >:( Our rent is astronomical and for all the good maintanence does there might as well not be any.</p>
<p>Drivers who take up an entire lane(during heavy traffic times) when they could have stayed to the left of the lane to turn left and allow room for drivers who want to turn right. Even worse when there are two lanes and drivers who turn left from the right lane. Happens at our school ALL THE TIME! I think people are becoming more and more selfish and could care less about how their actions affect others. Of course this applies to more than driving.</p>
<p>I almost hate to admit this, because the people who do this all have their hearts in the right place and I’m probably wrong to get annoyed. But I really do get annoyed when people are talking about someone with cancer, and say “oh, she’ll do fine - she’s such a fighter”. </p>
<p>I do understand that giving up can adversely impact your outcome. But the admiring way so many people say “such a fighter” makes it sound to me as if surviving cancer is the sick person’s responsibility, and if he/she dies because he/she didn’t fight sufficiently hard. No one says a patient’s leg will heal quicker if you’re a fighter. Or that your heart attack won’t be fatal if you’re a fighter. The way people talk, it’s almost as if you die of cancer, it’s your fault for not fighting. </p>
<p>I’ve never said anything when people say this, because I know they’re honestly trying to be supportive. But boy it gets to me. People with cancer have so much to deal with, we shouldn’t make their survival a test of their moral strength.</p>
<p>Oh hayden, you took the words right out of my mouth. I totally agree: It suggests that people who die of anything are weaklings 'cause they didn’t fight hard enough. I’ve told DH that when I finally die of something, my obituary should not read, "After a brave battle with . . . " I have no plans to be brave and, besides doing what the medical professionals tell me, I have no plans to “battle.”</p>
<p>Oh yes, absolutely. I read an article not so long ago that suggested that the high value that is placed on being “a fighter” causes some terminally ill people to suffer unnecessarily because they don’t want to let their families down by giving up the fight. I saw this in my own family with my husband’s aunt. It was very sad.</p>
<p>Any phone calls outside of close circle of family/friends.
People walking their dogs without any respect to others who might be afraid of animals. Leash could be shorter for few seconds instead of all explanations that dog just wants to say Hi. How about recepient of this Hi who is on a verge of a heart attack caused by this Hi? Dog owners simply are more considered of their pet’s feelings vs people around them. That one goes way beyond simple annoyance.</p>
<p>My father told me that always he wondered why people call having cancer a “fight,” until he had cancer. He said that he felt like it was very much like an enemy within, and it helped enormously to visualize his strong cells fighting the “evil” cells. There is much anecdotal evidence that this sort of focusing helps some patients - so, for many, it does help to be a “fighter.” Also, I really don’t see how this sort of view, especially if the patient finds it helpful, is in any way a commentary on the moral strength of those who do not wish to call it a “fight.”</p>
<p>^I feel like this when I have any slightest pain. I get totally drained, physically tired like after huge physical strain. There is no control over it. Body is fighting with desease, we physically feel drained by this fight, it is a fight, so I call it the way it is - “fight”. I believe that it is automatic reaction, visualize or not, there is no choice.</p>
<p>Parents, coaches, athletes and the media who say “he just got his bell rung!” Well, no he didn’t; he likely just suffered a brain injury!</p>
<p>My comments don’t pertain to patients. If it helps the patient for the patient or others following their lead to see it as a fight, more power to them. Whatever helps them is terrific.</p>
<p>It doesn’t help everyone. For instance, when you see a mom and dad with a newborn in the MICU with a life threatening condition, and all you hear is well-meaning people saying that a 4-day old baby is going to live because he’s a fighter, I hope you can see the other side, and understand why some people would grit their teeth when they hear that.</p>