<p>oh, picky eaters, don’t get me started. Especially the ones who have to tell you their looong story, all about their food “sensitivities” every time you get together to eat, then prolong the choice of restaurant, and then their food order (after extended quizzing of waiter). </p>
<p>I also hate people who talk extra loud at restaurants. They are always - ALWAYS - seated next to me.</p>
<p>It really irks me when I’m driving down a two lane road, no one is behind me, and someone pulls out in front of me and then drives s…l…o…w…l…y. What the heck? You couldn’t wait for me to pass by?</p>
<p>People who don’t bathe or try too.</p>
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<p>On a related note, is anyone else irked by those giant SUV-sized strollers that clog up restaurants, stores, medical offices? Strollers these days are huge and they’re packed to the brim with enough clothes, food, toys (and the above-mentioned giant toddler) to last through an arctic expedition. DH hates to go to a certain restaurant because he doesn’t like to navigate the phalanx of strollers on the way to the table.</p>
<p>Here’s a few suggestions that might help some of us reduce our level of annoyance:
That giant toddler *might *be disabled.
That person who parked in the handicapped parking space *might *be handicapped in some way we can’t see.
The person talking too loud *might *be deaf.
The person speeding or cutting you off *might *be rushing home to deal with a real emergency.
The person behaving in some odd or annoying way *might *be sick, or grieving, or mentally ill, or from a foreign land with different customs.</p>
<p>Of course, all of these people are *probably *just annoying, but pretending they *might *not be *might *help us.</p>
<p>lololu took mine!</p>
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<p>Since I’ve been in college I’ve met SO many people who are picky eaters or who have weird eating habits, and I have zero patience for it. It’s one thing if you have severe food allergies and you have to be careful, but I just think it’s crazy when people can’t have any foods on the plate touching or can only eat one food at a time (i.e. you eat your whole sandwich, then your salad, then your bag of chips - you don’t eat all three together). I have read some interesting articles about picky eating lately, so that got me thinking! Some people believe picky eating is a type of eating disorder…</p>
<p>In order to be an eating disorder it would have to be in some way maladaptive, and as long as one is getting adequate nutrition and nourishment I fail to see why it would be.</p>
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<p>Yes and what about those terrible grocery carts that look like cars in front and block the aisles?</p>
<p>I love the grocery carts with the cars in front, but my kids won’t let me ride in one.</p>
<p>There was an article in my local newspaper about a young woman who only eats types of potatoes (can you imagine?), so I would go out on a ledge and assume she has some major digestive problems going on. I think most people grow out of picky eating habits, but the articles I’ve read are about people who don’t, hence the “disorder” aspect of it…</p>
<p>Amy Pohler and I BOTH hate adult picky eaters. </p>
<p>I get so irritated by people driving on the shoulder when everyone is in a construction merge…One day I saw a Big pick-up truck pull just slightly out in front of a speedy little sports car and WHAM! </p>
<p>The pickup wasn’t even dented. The shoulder rider got the ticket.</p>
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maybe, but I don’t think even a deaf person should be carrying on a conversation in the time it takes to ride an elevator. Step in, shut up, step out.</p>
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I can imagine. It is not for nothing that my nickname is spud.</p>
<p>How about those counters where you take a number? If one or two of us are waiting, no one usually takes a number. Every once in a while someone come up, takes a number and expects to be waited on before the people that were standing there. They could just take a number and let us be waited on first.</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom–In our family we call those single hairs that sprout annoyingly on the chins of us ladies of [cough] a certain age, “Witch Hairs.” I have a special set of tweezers on my bathroom shelf just to deal with those beauties.</p>
<p>Also, to the person who mentioned the spam from Macy’s. I get them from Barnes & Noble, Penney’s and other stores. I try to unsubscribe. These stores need to start realizing that an email every day of nothing interesting soon leads to never reading their emails.</p>
<p>Was I the only one annoyed with the pickup trucks who leave their tailgates down in public parking areas?</p>
<p>Grocery gripes? How about a crowded store and oblivious people who leave their carts right in the middle of the aisle? Fruit peels - whoever thought those were a good idea? Super stores with 5 aisles of stuff you don’t need…</p>
<p>Someone will be offended by this, but how about the people who take the whole family to the store? Mom, dad, three kids. It is particularly bad in an older store with narrow isles.</p>
<p>Skyhook-I wanted to comment, but wasn’t sure you’d be back. What in particular annoys you about tailgates down? I drive a pickup (with tailgate up!), but I wondered why it bothered you. I try to be very careful and hate parking lots because mine is extended cab with a topper, and I just don’t like the limited visibility and size. If I had my tailgate down, I might do some real damage.</p>
<p>People who tell the waitress they need more time to look at the menu, and spend the next 10 minutes talking instead of looking at the menu. Then when the waitress comes back, they ask the waitress what SHE thinks is good, as if a total stranger is going to make a better choice for the customer than the customer can for himself.</p>
<p>Seeing photos of new babies with mom’s cell phone within inches of their developing heads.</p>