I don't know if this is allowed but on a daily basis, what pisses you off?

Paulina

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I'll start. I see kids from age 30 on down saying like in every single sentence use the word like numerous times. Like I like this color, but I don't know like if I would like it to look good on me. I told him this but like I don't she would like it like she may be upset like I have to go now. Today I saw a newscast about elementary children and a couple of the little spokes people said, "Well like I was kind of scared but like I'll be okay like". Nice verbiage to be picked up by their parents, aunts, uncles, whomever. That pisses me off and irritates the hell out me too. And you?
 

Repeating words continually is harsh on the ear, it's a symptom of grammar ignorance. Modern day communication is electronic, the vast majority being the text message. E-mail is also used but social use is mainly text. Most younger people in the age group that you mentioned Paulina, have never written a letter by hand, nor have they had the pleasure of receiving such a letter.

Back when we were that age, handwriting was the norm, we thanked our relatives for the greeting card, we sent our new girl/boy friend a tentative first love letter and we wrote a curriculum vitae / resume to would be employers, or colleges, if we were applying for higher education. All those grammatical skills have been lost, now it's just text speak, or should I say txt spk?

It's a sad indictment of the laziness that has become the norm in communication. Lack of vocabulary, lack of grammar and lack of handwriting skill have all contributed to the irritating repitition that so hacked you off.
 
Not much really bothers me and, certainly not on a daily basis but, I hate when you have to phone a company and you go through a long list of options before you even get the option to speak to an actual person, the dreadful "... your call is important to us. You are number 55 in line ..."!

Some companies give you the option of a callback which, in my experience, they usually do. I guess I miss just being able to phone, speak to someone and get on with my day, rather than hanging on for goodness knows how long!

Oh! and the companies that expect you to wait indoors all day .... :mad:

Maybe I am just impatient ;)
 
There is a lady on a checkout in a certain store who makes me cringe with the repeated use of, "Alright my love?", to everyone that passes through.

One day she started to scan my items and she said, "Alright my love?"
I stopped really still and just looked at her and then she looked up at me and was about to say, "Alright my love?", when I got in first with, "Gizza kiss, go on, gizza kiss."

She almost swallowed her dentures. 😊
 
I use to let things bother me all the time. People acting like they are better, someone always needing to be right, another only seeing the mistakes you make, you know the drill.
Then I began child care in a class of 3 year olds and it put life into perspective real fast. When I feel rankled by someone, I look at them as if they were 3 and abbra kadabra... it all makes sense.
 
Nothing pisses me off on a daily basis. Life is too short.
Not on a daily basis. I can't remember the last time I was pissed off. OK there was a guy I didn't like, but he died 5 years ago. He pissed me off a lot, because he was really stupid and always thought he was so smart and better than everyone else. I'm fine with people who are actually smarter than most everyone else. No problem there, but not that guy.
 


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