<p>My FIL has a significant hearing loss with hearing aids, DH speaks very very loudly and strongly due to his childhood being told to ‘speak up boy’</p>
<p>Somemom, my husband’s family is loud and my MIL thinks she passed down this whole loud way of speaking from living with a deaf sibling.</p>
<p>i just thought of another irksome thing…</p>
<p>How do you keep a turkey in suspense, nicksmtmom? lol</p>
<p>The problem with loud talkers is not just the volume but their oversharing. Talk about irk.</p>
<p>(shouting for the hard of hearing…) THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT THE HARD OF HEARING!</p>
<p>…What?</p>
<p>okay…lol! :-)</p>
<p>I’m irked when motorcycle riders zoom between cars on the painted lines BETWEEN the lanes.</p>
<p>And I’m annoyed when busy grocery stores with aisles that are too narrow insist on adding extra display stands in the aisle.</p>
<p>Oh…and now I’m irked that I stayed up late reading this entire thread!</p>
<p>Bluetooths (or whatever they are called nowadays) irk me. Bluetoothers sound like they’re talking underwater.</p>
<p>Just remembered another one, and this is a biggie for me: Horrible customer service. I especially loathe phone mazes and the inevitable long wait in the phone queue. I’ve learned to set aside at least a half hour whenever I have to talk to a large company, and the more technological the business is, the worse their service is. My parents recently had a problem with their Comcast, and I spent at least 30 hours over a 3-week period trying to straighten it out. Getting a replacement phone from Verizon took 2 months, visits to 4 different stores, dozens of phone calls, and a 1.5-hour round trip to the FedEx depot. Seriously?</p>
<p>Not a little thing that irks me - it’s kind enormous instead, but it does irk. We have received atrocious customer service from our health insurance provider for more than 20 years. Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield - they STINK. Every year, when open enrollment time comes around, dh and I have an argument about whether to go with someone else. He hates them, too, but it’s through his employer and for a variety of reasons (including “they’re all the same,” and God save us all if that’s true) he doesn’t want to change.</p>
<p>I have never had a conversation with one of their their customer torture, er, service reps that didn’t raise my blood pressure 30 points.</p>
<p>How about grocery stores that advertise buy one, get one free, but the price is jacked up on the first item so that if you make the mistake of only picking up one you really get ripped off? Or, there is a huge display with a sale price sign on top and the sign has an exception (this was a Gatorade sale with a stack of G2 which was not on sale), and the exception is the product that is stacked.</p>
<p>People who carry huge cups of steaming coffee around the office and refuse to put a cover on them.</p>
<p>I haven’t read the whole thread so I may be repeating someone else’s small irksome thing. Also, I think the heat and humidity may be getting to me! Anyway, I have been reading student postings and I want to take a blue pencil to all of the misspelled words. The one that finally got to me was someone who wrote weary for wary.
I know all of the excuses-one of my son’s teachers even said once that “spelling does not involve a higher order thinking skill” but I hope that all of these kids aiming for selective colleges actually proofread and correct their essays.
I know, I should just refrain from reading anything but the parents’ forums (and let’s hope I haven’t misspelled anything here). :)</p>
<p>“and let’s hope I haven’t misspelled anything here”</p>
<p>I think you’re spelling is all write.</p>