<p>People who wait for a parking spot, blocking everyone from moving when there are numerous spots open 20 feet farther away from the door.</p>
<p>People who use the right turn only lane as their passing lane.</p>
<p>Bicyclist who complain about cars not following the road rules but have never stopped at a stop sign or yielded to a pedestrian in their life.</p>
<p>People who walk two or three (depending on how wide they are) across on the side walk and will not let anyone else pass.</p>
<p>Nothing bothers me. When people ask why I am this way, I told them that after you swim every morning for 1.5 hrs at 6am before work, nothing will bother you for whole day and will be in the best mood. I hear it from others who do it on a regular basis. </p>
<p>My general attitude, if I have no control over something, why to be bothered with it? </p>
<p>I hope, it helps. If not, just ignore me.</p>
<p>Cashiers making change who give you the bills first, and then put the coins on top of the bills, resulting in the coins slipping off and falling. When did this start?</p>
<p>Car commercials in which people stare worshipfully at an ordinary-looking car going by.</p>
<p>The price of popcorn and soda at the movie theater.</p>
<p>People who won’t let you in when two lanes are merging.</p>
<p>“Courtesy” phone calls.</p>
<p>Oh, I hate the change on the bills thing too! I had wrist surgery and my hand doesn’t always turn completely horizontal. I am pretty likely to drop the change from on top of the bills. I usually don’t have a problem if the change is in my hand.</p>
<p>“Cashiers making change who give you the bills first, and then put the coins on top of the bills, resulting in the coins slipping off and falling. When did this start?”</p>
<p>This started when kids at cash registers stopped counting out change and simply let the computer tell them the exact amount to hand back to the customer. When cashiers counted out your change, the coins went into your hand first.</p>
<p>Don’t get me started on my old-fogey rant about kids not being taught anymore how to count out change.</p>
<p>M 5’3", 85 pound, size 9 man’s shoe, 10 year old who can’t seem to ever have enough food in is belly. I swear this kid consumes 4000+ calories a day. And the doctors who swear to me his rapid growth will stop “soon enough” since he was a year old.</p>
<p>People that don’t use their turn signals because they are on their cell phone, which also causes them to slow down in front of me and straddle two lanes.</p>
<p>People who don’t leave enough space between blankets/beach towels on an uncrowded beach–there’s a hundred yards of empty space on either side of us, yet you pile up your stuff two feet away–same for fishing on jetties–space, please!</p>
<p>People who treat the beach like a giant ashtray. People who treat the beach like a giant garbage can.</p>
<p>People who yell at their little kids for not being good enough at miniature golf.</p>
<p>People who feed the seagulls.</p>
<p>Jet skis. Just, jet skis.</p>
<p>(Can you tell I just got back from vacation???:))</p>
<p>OH, and bike guys who wear fake-sponsorship bike outfits.</p>
<p>Mansfield–I always say, “passing on the right/left” when approaching walkers on a shared bike/walking path, but sometimes I get dirty looks, like “so???”</p>
<p>Agree on telescoping leashes–a pain when I’m walking, lethal when I’m biking.</p>
<p>Doctors/dentists offices with the TV blaring. Some of us actually bring a book or magazine to read while waiting.</p>
<p>And supermarket lines with the TVs blaring! Really, I don’t need to be “entertained” while putting my groceries on the belt!</p>
<p>TV’s everywhere, bars, restaurants, stores…
The change thing, yes it makes me crazy.
Nobody seems to know how to negotiate a 4-way stop anymore.
And I am always amazed at how often, including newer cars, don’t have turn signals.</p>
<p>when I’m at lunch with one of my friends who will ask ME to call and leave HER a message on her home/cell so she can put something on her calendar…WHY CAN’T SHE CALL HERSELF?</p>
<p>people who say a funny “zinger” and always feel like they have to follow up with “JUST KIDDING”. Obviously. </p>
<p>when you are talking to someone on the home/cell and they relay your whole conversation to someone who’s there with them…and get sidetracked talking to the other person while you wait!</p>
<p>someone who obviously has a killer body who says “I really need to lose weight” making all us other fatties in the room feel like upchucking our big macs…</p>
<p>spitting…EEEWWW. Home come men seem to NEED to do this, but women never do?</p>
<p>People that call you and then don’t pay attention to the conversation because they are trying on their computer (I can hear the keys clicking) or are watching TV. </p>
<p>People that ask you if you saw and article in the newspaper and then proceed to read the entire article to you; all the while you have pulled it up on the computer, or gone in the other room to get the newspaper to read the article.</p>
<p>People who check their phone messages while we are all trying to exit the theater, up or down the stairs. Can’t you wait until you are out on the street?</p>
<p>Walking behind someone who is swinging his/her lit cigarette back and forth–add my small child, exactly cigarette height, to this picture.</p>
<p>The person on the express checkout line with 11 items.</p>
<p>My H, who never put enough water in the ice cube tray to make large enough cubes. The automatic cube maker saved our marriage!</p>
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<p>Or even worse, the person who double parks on a barely 2 way street, leaves car running and makes delivery when there is are OPEN PARKING SPOTS all around where they are double parked. Maybe this is just a Philly thing…</p>
<p>People who decide “merge one mile” means “merge now” and don’t let you use the other perfectly legal lane that is still good for that mile and if everyone merged when the sign really does say “merge now”, the merge would be like a zipper and much more efficient than one mile of continuous merging.</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=“” then=“” at=“” last=“” possible=“” moment=“” tries=“” to=“” merge=“” into=“” traffic=“” that=“” has=“” been=“” creeping=“” along=“” five=“” minutes.=“” hate=“” guy.=“” who=“” lets=“” him=“” in!=“”>></when></p>
<p>we drove to to Long Island from Philly last weekend and had to go over some bridge linking Staten Island to Long Island (this was the WORST route ever). There were 2 lanes in each direction. Left lane was at virtual standstill so we got into right lane and moved along until we saw the sign saying the left lane was for the direction we wanted to go so we had to commit the offense described above. </p>
<p>We came home a way that took us thru Midtown Manhattan on 37th street towards the tunnel. NYC jaywalkers, get a clue. Cross at an intersection for goodness sakes!</p>
<p>Yes, yes, yes, Marilyn. Also (probably already here as I haven’t read the entire thread), people who are supposed to be merging, but instead STOP. DH rear ended a woman on an entrance ramp to the 405 when he looked back to time his entrance and she stopped for no apparent reason. (Of course, he was guilty party.)</p>