<p>“It’s” versus “its.” Is this really so hard to understand?</p>
<p>"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>Thanks for asking, sryrstrees. My irk is probably the same thing that worries you–the tailgate coming into collision with another vehicle. If an automobile is backing up in crowded quarters to a pickup, the car driver likely cannot see that the tailgate is down. That means there is–what–22 inches less clearance than you think you have. Easy way to get dents, dings and scrapes.</p>
<p>Can’t stand seeing men wear baseball caps inside.</p>
<p>I can’t stand being in the fitness center and seeing high school age boys working out with their droopy pants allowing me to view their boxers showing at all, let alone below the level of their @ss, which is the usual case. And no, I won’t put on a blindfold when I’m lifting weights.</p>
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Thank you, LasMa! I am also irked by people who don’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.” And, to those same people: There is no such word as “alot.” It’s “desperately,” not “desparately.” And if the word “definitely” is going to be used in every other sentence, please learn to spell it.</p>
<p>unnecessary quotation marks. And there’s a blog to monitor this!</p>
<p>[The</a> “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks](<a href=“http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/]The”>http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/)</p>
<p>Cashiers who have no clue what to do when you give them $5.03 when you owe $4.53.</p>
<p>People who don’t understand passing on the right when going in an out of multiple doors on a building but dive for the door you are opening or the open handicapped door, preventing the wheelchair bound person from exiting. </p>
<p>People who don’t walk their bikes in the crosswalk on our college campus but come zooming from a distance a driver can’t really see because of shrubs/vehicles/trash dumpsters. There have been 3 deaths in 15 years and the school’s only solution is to lower the speed limit, not ticket the bikers.</p>
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I recently saw a guy wearing one while testifying at a committee hearing in the House of Representatives.</p>
<p>People who are walking maybe 20+ feet in front of you, who when exiting a building, absolutely insist on holding the door open for you even if you’re like 10 seconds behind. Not wanting to look like an *ss, you are then forced to pick up your pace and run straight ahead so as to not force that person to stand there holding the door for a long time.</p>
<p>I am a door holder. Never even crossed my mind that it would offend people. I grew up in Iowa and we hold doors. It was such a shock when I moved to Upstate New York and the land of the door droppers.</p>
<p>^^^^^MDMom, polite people never irritate me, even the door holders who are way ahead of me.</p>
<p>I feel better.</p>
<p>Being from upstate New York, my d rejected one (southern) school, in part because of the “excessive” door holding she encountered. Not sure she was irked, but the experience certainly unnerved her.</p>
<p>Polite people irritate me when they endanger others; don’t take their turn at stop signs, stop in the traffic circle to let someone in, wave people across traffic in front of them while lanes on either side are moving, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people feel they are being polite by waving someone to go ahead out of turn when what they are really doing is making the people behind them wait longer than they should.</p>
<p>People who let their kids ride around standing up in the baskets of grocery carts. People who ride bikes with helmeted kids but don’t wear a helmet themselves. (Do as I say . . .)</p>
<p>People who wear t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops to Mass.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but the proliferation of apostrophe’s on word’s that are simply plural’s drives me nut’s.</p>
<p>vballmom–you certainly have issue’s!</p>
<p>PS–this is for you–</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.apostropheabuse.com/[/url]”>http://www.apostropheabuse.com/</a></p>
<p>Non water soluble adhesives/labels on food preparation utensils/cookware.</p>
<p>Chances threads anywhere but the chances forum.</p>
<p>garland I admit that I am powerless over this problem and am working on my 12 step’s. </p>
<p>I’ve seen that apostrophe abuse blog before. Don’t you just wish you could carry around a jar of white-out?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, there’s this article which, ironically enough, is missing a possessive apostrophe in the text:</p>
<p>[“The</a> Great Typo Hunt”: The irresistible allure of bad spelling - Nonfiction - Salon.com](<a href=“http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/03/great_typo_hunt_interview]"The”>http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/08/03/great_typo_hunt_interview)</p>