<p>When people take their sweet effing time.</p>
<p>People who honk behind you when you’ve got your right-turn signal on, but are at an intersection that clearly says “No right turn on red” or one where there isn’t a clear view of traffic approaching from the left. Would it kill them to wait 10 seconds until the light turns green?</p>
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<p>I love that sketch! OTOH, creeping forward and “3 cars go on the yellow” presupposes that oncoming drivers will actually stop on the yellow (or even the first 5 seconds of red). Where I live that will get you T-boned by a red-light runner. I now sit at the crosswalk until I’m sure I’ll be able to turn.</p>
<p>“When people from NYC refer to the place as NY, thus forgetting that the rest of the state is NY.”</p>
<p>AFAIC, anything north of Westchester may as well be Canada. ;)</p>
<p>What is this funny Gallagher sketch I keep hearing about? Any videos of it online?</p>
<p>I saw a lot of this on vacation last week and can’t understand it: Parents who walk far ahead of their small children in airports or other places and never turn around to make sure that they are still there. Parents who don’t hold small children’s hands in a street or parking lot.</p>
<p>When there is a whole line of cars merging left for construction, and one guy goes flying past everybody in the right hand lane and then at the last possible moment tries to merge into the traffic that has been creeping along for the last five minutes. Hate that guy. AND the guy who lets him in!</p>
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<p>Oh, dear now that they are both over 6’ it is my children walking far ahead of me. I could disappear and they would not have a clue where I went.</p>
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Ooh - me too. Once on vacation we were stuck in a horrendous miles long traffic jam because of an accident or construction or something and people were doing that, so a couple of truckers lined up side by side across all the lanes so no one could get by. Loved it.</p>
<p>People who bring small children to my home for an adult dinner party without toys and let them run wild in my very adult, not childproof home.</p>
<p>People who wait until after the cashier has rung everything up, told them the amount, and then they finally get a ‘oh I have to pay’ look on their face and start opening up their purse to start fishing for the checkbook (yes, lots of people still use checks here:)). Hello???</p>
<p>People who pile the sink with dirty pots and pan and dishes and say, “Why are you upset, I cleaned the kitchen.”</p>
<p>People who call me and then promptly put me on hold because they have other calls coming in.</p>
<p>People who do dishes and leave one thing. ONE thing?! It’s like the definition of 99%. What’s the point? Awwww, this is close enough. I can be done now.</p>
<p>When you plan a mothers coffee at a local coffee shop, flexible to times for moms who still have kids in preschool. Instead they request a day that all preschoolers are free so they can have play group during the mothers coffee…at the coffee shop.</p>
<p>As a cyclist (non-Spandex-wearing), I get especially aggravated by vehicles that don’t signal, and even more so when those vehicles signal for other vehicles, but not for cyclists and pedestrians - excuse me?</p>
<p>But nothing beats the time I was on my bike, entering a small roundabout clockwise (we drive on the left of the road here), and a car came, saw the “empty” roundabout, and proceeded to go anti-clockwise round the roundabout! That’s as good as deciding it’s okay to go the wrong way down a one-way street just because “no one” is on it!</p>
<p>Also - people at fast food restaurants who reach the head of the queue and still haven’t decided what to eat.</p>
<p>Yes! I am not disappointed. There is one dirty dish left for me in the sink…</p>
<p>Pet peeve for my town: bikers who ride on the road instead of using the bike path. That section of the road is dangerous and bike path is right there. Use it!</p>
<p>Irkels:</p>
<p>When people carry their big-ass oversized umbrellas thru DC’s Metro system;</p>
<p>When people stand on the left on Metro escalators;</p>
<p>The loud guy conducting his business call in Metro for the duration of the trip;</p>
<p>Metro.</p>
<p>People in a cold swimming pool who tell hesitators by the side, “C’mon in! The water’s great once you get used to it!” I know that. I’m working up my courage. Leave me be.</p>