<p>-People who text when you’re with them, especially if it’s a short meeting. Are you really that important?
-People who pee on seats/throw paper around/don’t clean up their messes in public bathrooms. Are you honestly too good/too hurried to pick up that paper you just dropped on the ground?
-Spitters. Especially when I/others/my car am/are/is in the path of the flying spit.
-When my mother goes to a store and asks for about 5 extra plastic bags, which inevitably end up littering my car/my room.
-Mac users who ambush you and tell you to get a Mac, with no reasoning whatsoever besides “It’s a Mac.”
-People who think I’m a moron. Like a receptionist at the local medical center who told me I needed about 10 shots before I went to college and who apparently didn’t realize that I could access the vaccination requirements and figure out that I was actually fully set in about 2 minutes.
-That the movie theater charges 12 year olds as “adults” but you can’t get into an “adult film” until you’re 17. You really can’t have it both ways, but apparently they can.
-Girls who act stupid on purpose because they think it’s cute.
-Facebook statuses in which people brag about being drunk/high. Really?</p>
<p>High school students and college freshmen who claim to be pre-med/future doctors… Don’t tell people that until you’re holding your medical school acceptance letters!</p>
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<p>Thanks Garland. Not only is this irksome, its dangerous. Last week I saw a cyclist crash into an oblivious walker on my trail. Ambulance was called. </p>
<p>As for the leash…2 years ago, an exuberant poodle on the trail wrapped his leash around both my legs. I had called out to the owner to pull in the leash. My legs were a bloody mess and I still have deep scars.</p>
<p>People. They irk me. A lot.</p>
<p>Skimmed the very funny thread, but I thought the whole right turn law was AFTER stopping. I think that I will go read the Maryland driver’s ed book on my kitchen counter.</p>
<p>How about people who drive the huge SUVs and other trucks who can’t park them in one space or keep them on one side of the road?</p>
<p>People who keep creeping out and creeping out until they’re halfway into the intersection when stopped at a red light.</p>
<p>People who think “The light just turned red, so I’ll go through before the cars going the other way can start moving …”</p>
<p>People who start honking the very instant the light turns green.</p>
<p>People who honk at you when you’re yielding to a pedestrian who’s in the cross walk when you are clearly signally that you intend to make a right turn.</p>
<p>And air conditioning that makes it feel like its 65 degrees in the grocery store—particularly when I’ve got short shorts on because it’s a really warm day …</p>
<p>People who stand in really crowded spaces with their hands on their hips and their elbows out! Make yourselves smaller for the good of us all or may you meet one of those rude people who plows through crowds oblivious to the fact that they’re wapping innocent bystanders left and right with their giant bag or backpack.</p>
<p>Men who need to spread their already large legs in baggy jeans as wide as humanly possible when sitting next to you on a crowded bus/subway/train/airplane.</p>
<p>People half my age who call me ‘honey.’</p>
<p>amen…why are restaurants and grocery stores soooo colddd! in the summer? I shouldn’t need to bring a jacket when it’s 90 degrees outside!</p>
<p>It’s the fallacy of outdoor temperatures. I always take a sweater to a restaurant ot movie in the summer, because the temp outside has no impact on the temp inside. Same with people who wear huge parkas to the mall in winter…they are warm for the 60-second walk from car to mall, then either boil or lug parka around for 3 hours (better to wear light/mid-weight jacket, but be sure to remember where you parked).</p>
<p>I suspect it might hae something to do with some sort of air conditioning system that’s hard to manipulate. They want it to be comfortable for the shoppers (and safe for the food that people are walking around with in the store!) </p>
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<p>In my state, Virginia, you actually do have to stop and check before turning on red. See, just because it says that you can turn on red doesn’t mean that there isn’t someone doing a U-Turn or people coming from the other direction who actually have green lights. Of course, no one actually does that, creating pretty accidents when inexperienced drivers try to imitate their parents and zip around residential corners at 55 MPH.</p>
<p>Hollywood hypocrisy: Many of the shrillest voices for social justice have been all for everybody else playing fair, while they or their spawn take the nepotism express lane to fame and fortune. I’m talking about Sean Penn (father a director), George Clooney (father and aunt in show biz), Rob Reiner (father is actor/director), Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen (dumb and dumber sons are movie stars), Susan Sarandon (busty daughter is parlaying her 2 hereditary assets into show biz career), Alan Alda (father was actor) and Angelina Jolie.</p>
<p>And they’ll ALL claim their connections had nothing to do with offspring’s success.</p>
<p>Extreme Hollywood nepotism for talentless offspring: Scott Caan, Will Smith’s kid, Emilio Estevez, Colin Hanks, Kate Hudson, Rob Reiner (as actor), Beau Bridges, Robert and Keith Carradine.</p>
<p>"In my state, Virginia, you actually do have to stop and check before turning on red. See, just because it says that you can turn on red doesn’t mean that there isn’t someone doing a U-Turn or people coming from the other direction who actually have green lights. Of course, no one actually does that, creating pretty accidents when inexperienced drivers try to imitate their parents and zip around residential corners at 55 MPH. "</p>
<p>I believe that is the case in my state, too. You also have to come to a complete stop before turning left on a blinking red, which people get tickets for all the time-- I get angry people honking their horns and nearly rearending me when I stop. The rule of thumb is that you treat a red light like a stop sign.</p>
<p>Post #155 ^^Nicholas Cage fits both of those categories, IMO.</p>
<p>Cross post–so funny–Gardna. I am sure he runs red lights too.</p>
<p>Nicholas Cage runs through red lights too? I’m actually not surprised; he seems like the kind of person who would do that. I bet he doesn’t believe in turn signals either.</p>
<p>Hollywood nepotism (continued) : Amazing # of leading men: Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey Jr. (Sr. was a director), George Clooney.</p>
<p>How about kids of moguls getting TV time? You know the ones with names like Hilton and Trump.</p>
<p>My brother lives in LA and said Cage almost ran him over while he was crossing a street.</p>