<p>People who clip their fingernails for 20 minutes at work in their cube. </p>
<p>People who use speakerphone in their cube when they are by themselves.</p>
<p>people who speak loudly on their cell phone in a restaurant</p>
<p>people who speak loudly on their cell phone in a restaurant and put the phone on speaker so you get to also listen to the other side of their conversation (ok only happened once but it was annoying)</p>
<p>people you are eating with in a restaurant who talk on their cell phones or text</p>
<p>people you are socializing with who talk on their cell phones or text</p>
<p>movie theaters - cell phones</p>
<p>People who don’t know boundaries in fitness classes - the whole room will be empty, and they’ll come and stand half a foot from you. ARGH.</p>
<p>Along those same lines - people in a hurry who will get right behind you while you’re walking on a path and almost run you down, even though you’re walking fast.</p>
<p>Morning people.</p>
<p>Gum chewers.</p>
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<p>LOL. Nothing worse than overly chipper morning people! Makes my blood boil, ha ha.</p>
<p>Spandex and pointy helmet wearing Lance Armstrong wannabes who insist on riding on narrow winding roads endangering themselves and the people in cars who try to pass them.</p>
<p>People who park their shopping carts in the middle of the isle while deciding between Frosted Flakes and Cheerios.</p>
<p>People who put you on hold (especially annoying when you are on your cellphone)
for a long period of time while they take another call</p>
<p>people who see you are waiting for their parking space but take their sweet time fiddling around in their car</p>
<p>People who want to ask you something (maybe for a favor or something) and email you asking <em>you</em> to call <em>them</em></p>
<p>People who take up 2 parking spaces (especially with a car that doesnt really need such a privilege)</p>
<p>I posted this in the cursive thread, but have to share my hate (goes beyond being irked)</p>
<p>Multipage forms that have to be filled out by hand, like camp forms or applications. Child’s address, parent’s address, everyone’s phone numbers(home, work and cell), email addresses, emergency contacts, doctors, dentists names, addresses, insurance company addresses, policy numbers…arrgh!</p>
<p>(especially if you are filling these out for more than one child…)</p>
<p>Guys who buy a $500 bicycle to get exercise. If you want to get exercise, wouldn’t a rusty one-speed Huffy from the Salvation Army be better?</p>
<p>Multipage forms that have to be filled out by hand, like camp forms or applications. Child’s address, parent’s address, everyone’s phone numbers(home, work and cell), email addresses, emergency contacts, doctors, dentists names, addresses, insurance company addresses, policy numbers…arrgh!</p>
<p>I like when forms give you the same amount of space for street address and city (combined) as they do for the zip code.</p>
<p>What about those manually completed camp and school forms that are the SAME EVERY YEAR yet they claim they don’t have them on file and want you to fill them out in triplicate again. What died they do with the gazillion copies from last year? Did they really purge them all?</p>
<p>When someone wants something - at work or away from it - but has to dilly-dally/soften me up/try to manipulate me before cutting to the chase and asking for it. Just freaking ask (or tell) me, please. Making me guess what you want doesn’t mean I’ll think it was my idea. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Recent example: local charity we’ve supported in the past calling (it goes without saying at dinnertime, yes?) to ask if we still enjoy the benefits said charity provides in our community, the blah, the blah-blah, the blah-blah-blah. JUST ASK FOR THE MONEY. Or the favor, the assistance, the whatever. I don’t want to have a long conversation with you first.</p>
<p>Similarly, when you call about your bank account or credit card, and the automated voice asks for your account number, and you punch it in, and then you get to a live person and they ask for your account number.</p>
<p>People who don’t turn their cellphone on vibrate at work, thus forcing the entire office to listen to “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (just the fiddle part) 18 separate times during the day.</p>
<p>Radio commercials that have the sound of a police/fire/ambulance siren in them.</p>
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<p>So true. Especially the immunization history. Just ask for an update. I didn’t unimmunize them since last year. Also, if I have a few kids at your school or camp, guess what, the contact info for everyone in an emergency, etc. is going to be the same. Can’t we streamline this?</p>
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<p>Add to that, radio commercials with the sound of screeching tires. I have almost gotten into an accident because of this. They shouldn’t be allowed to air.</p>
<p>Okay, here is what irks me: when a group discussion is going on via e-mail and some people simply either cannot or will not hit the Reply All button. If it’s a group conversation, reply to the group. </p>
<p>Also, people who leave lengthy voicemails (reading this DH?) where everything after the first sentence is a repeat of the first sentence. I really can follow it the first time.</p>
<p>And, finally, along the lines of communication irks, people (entire DH’s family should be reading this one) who call someone up and say, "Will you call so-and-so and tell them such-and-such? "</p>
<p>OP’s on CC that say after posting their SAT score of 1780: “I’m planning to work really hard and get a 2200 when I re-take the test”.</p>
<p>The moms and dads in D’s “EC” parent organization who treat said organization like their own personal high school. It irks me so much the song “High School Never Ends” is my “power cardio song” on my iPod because it gets my blood boiling. If they would just realize it’s not about them, life would be so much more pleasant.</p>