<p>12 “step’s?” Was that a joke? Or are you starting to create what you fear? </p>
<p>All in fun.</p>
<p>it was a joke ;)</p>
<p>^^^^^Yay!! LOL.</p>
<p>People driving lawn mowers with young children on their laps.</p>
<p>Or kids standing in shopping carts. That didn’t used to bother me until I witnessed a toddler fall out of one. It was the worst thing I have ever seen, as his legs got tied up inside the cart for a few seconds and he hit head first on the ground. He had to be rushed to the hospital.</p>
<p>People who leave their dog in the car on a hot day. :mad:</p>
<p>I have a common name that has two possible spellings (like Ann/Anne or Jean/Jeanne). It irks me that people respond to my e-mail message, beginning immediately below my signature of Jean, but typing “Dear Jeanne.”</p>
<p>I second what I call the “dangerously polite” drivers who let people go, but, in doing so, endanger themselves and other drivers. When I’m driving, I don’t look inside the other vehicle to see what the other driver is motioning me to do! Take your own turn!</p>
<p>Parents who let their children scream. I’m not talking about crying or even tantrums, just screams that would fit in a horror movie. My children learned very quickly that that was not an acceptable noise to make.</p>
<p>When two cashiers or clerks are having a personal conversation while ringing up groceries.</p>
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Several years ago I had to give CPR to a baby that fell out of a shopping cart onto her head and stopped breathing. One of the scariest moments of my life - a real baby does not feel anything like the dummy you practice on in class.</p>
<p>“When two cashiers or clerks are having a personal conversation while ringing up groceries.” </p>
<p>I still say there are conversations and there are conversations. Like it wouldn’t bother me if one of the cashiers picked up a ******** & said, “**** ******* ** ** **. Schmaltz.”</p>
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<p>Hunt, are you trying to take away our fun? ;)</p>
<p>I am irked that all fruit now comes with little stickers. Seriously irked. If you don’t remove them before washing the fruit, they become impossible to remove.</p>
<p>But Hunt forgot one: The person might just be a you-know-what.</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>I used to work in a store where we’d occasionally create and print last-minute funeral programs while the customers (family of the deceased) waited. Sometimes they’d be grief-stricken…sobbing and hugging each other. I always wanted to say to them, “Hey, lighten up. They aren’t THAT expensive.” But I always figured at least one would have a Huntish non-sense of humor, so I always held my tongue.</p>
<p>^^lol. Wise choice, Schmaltz.</p>
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Just wondering… if the person is deaf, wouldn’t they be signing, not trying to have a conversation they cannot hear?</p>
<p>^^ one more annoying thing…I could never be nearly as funny as Schmaltz!! LOL</p>
<p>Lately everything irks me. Big things, little things, all things. What really irks me is that my family and co-workers can’t seem to figure that out and they keep coming at me with even more things. Seriously people…not now. Maybe not ever, but definitely, not now.</p>
<p>Returning college freshman who revert back to toddler behavior within one month of returning home for the summer!!!</p>
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<p>No, not necessarily. My MIL had a sister who went deaf over a period of time during childhood. She says everyone in her family talked louder than normal people do because her sister had a hearing aid and could make some things out as she was in the process of going deaf. Her sister probably talked louder too. Also, many deaf people read lips and speak in response to what they are seeing. It’s similar to how some people with a bad head cold talk louder than they might normally do because they can’t hear how they sound and temporarily lose the ability to judge how they sound. There are many deaf people who speak and converse. There was a deaf lawyer in DH’s family who argued cases all the way to the Supreme Court, without signing.</p>