What Irks you the most?

Tuesday I was stuck in a doctor's office waiting for my sister, and another patient (about 20 years old) was talking very loudly on her cell phone (in spite of the "please go outside if you need to use your cell phone" sign), and she went on and on and on, forcing all of us to listen to her tell someone on the other end the grisly details of her recent date with someone called Sam. Don't people have any sense of privacy or boundaries anymore, or are they just completely oblivious of the world around them? In a million years I would never force a room of strangers to endure the details of my recent foray into dating some grabby jerk.

And related, just today some idiot stepped off the curb, mid block, right in front of me, so absorbed in his cell phone that he looked neither right nor left before he stepped off, forcing me to come to a screeching halt and throwing everything in my car seat into the floor and risking getting hit by the guy behind me. This happens all the time around here and just makes my blood boil.
 

Butterfly said:
Tuesday I was stuck in a doctor's office waiting for my sister, and another patient (about 20 years old) was talking very loudly on her cell phone (in spite of the "please go outside if you need to use your cell phone" sign), and she went on and on and on, forcing all of us to listen to her tell someone on the other end the grisly details of her recent date with someone called Sam. Don't people have any sense of privacy or boundaries anymore, or are they just completely oblivious of the world around them? In a million years I would never force a room of strangers to endure the details of my recent foray into dating some grabby jerk.

And related, just today some idiot stepped off the curb, mid block, right in front of me, so absorbed in his cell phone that he looked neither right nor left before he stepped off, forcing me to come to a screeching halt and throwing everything in my car seat into the floor and risking getting hit by the guy behind me. This happens all the time around here and just makes my blood boil.
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I think people are so inured to not having any privacy after years of social media, they think nothing of the people around them hearing their conversations. I don't participate in social media so it always startles me. Setting aside issues of privacy, I wonder if they even notice there are other people in the universe they seem to think they inhabit alone.

Stepping off curbs because they're preoccupied with their DumbPhones is mostly something I see people do downtown. Idiots.
 
Butterfly said:
Tuesday I was stuck in a doctor's office waiting for my sister, and another patient (about 20 years old) was talking very loudly on her cell phone (in spite of the "please go outside if you need to use your cell phone" sign), and she went on and on and on, forcing all of us to listen to her tell someone on the other end the grisly details of her recent date with someone called Sam. Don't people have any sense of privacy or boundaries anymore, or are they just completely oblivious of the world around them? In a million years I would never force a room of strangers to endure the details of my recent foray into dating some grabby jerk.

And related, just today some idiot stepped off the curb, mid block, right in front of me, so absorbed in his cell phone that he looked neither right nor left before he stepped off, forcing me to come to a screeching halt and throwing everything in my car seat into the floor and risking getting hit by the guy behind me. This happens all the time around here and just makes my blood boil.
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:mad: Oh, and how pleasant is it to be in a restaurant and privvy to some jerk's loud phone conversation about his latest colonscopy. People are simply oblivious.
 

C'est Moi said:
:mad: Oh, and how pleasant is it to be in a restaurant and privvy to some jerk's loud phone conversation about his latest colonscopy. People are simply oblivious.
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It's illegal here to be looking at your phone while crossing the street. However, still legal to be talking on the phone. I wish that could be illegal, too. It is illegal here to be talking on a cell phone while driving, though. Except hands free.
 
I have most of the things that irk others irk me. But the thing that irks me most is if a so called friend believes a lie someone tells about you. I've had this happen to me recently and now when I think about it how can someone that is a friend and knows you would believe something about you. If they are a friend they should know you are not capable of doing what they say you have done.
 
Sassycakes said:
I have most of the things that irk others irk me. But the thing that irks me most is if a so called friend believes a lie someone tells about you. I've had this happen to me recently and now when I think about it how can someone that is a friend and knows you would believe something about you. If they are a friend they should know you are not capable of doing what they say you have done.
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Sorry, Sassy. I used to believe I have a lot of "friends," but I have come to know that actually, I have a bunch of "acquaintances."
 
Different things irk me depending on my patient level that day but one that always gets me and always has is the guy/gal that has to "up story" everything I talk about. They've always done it bigger and better.
 
twinkles said:
all of the above plus husbands that use their wives for a slave---tell lies and people believe them--users-they dont talk to you for a month then call and want you to do them a favor
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That and men who only want you for one thing..
 
Olivia said:
It's illegal here to be looking at your phone while crossing the street. However, still legal to be talking on the phone. I wish that could be illegal, too. It is illegal here to be talking on a cell phone while driving, though. Except hands free.
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It should be illegal too.
 
retiredtraveler said:
Lack of voting. Virtually 'everyone' complains about politics and politicians, but far less that half the country does their civic duty. When it comes down to voting for congressional people, the numbers are often 20% or less. Huge percentage of people not even registering to vote, and huge percentage of people not showing up to vote even if registered.
All of these problems in the country, and low turnout. I'm really upset at people who complain about major issues that affect them (such as medicare or taxes), but don't vote.

The 2nd thing is people not doing anything for their health. AMA says we have 900,000 newly diagnosed cases of Type II diabetes a year. At the same time, they estimate that 90% of the new cases were 100% preventable. We have so many seniors complaining about health care costs, and especially how diabetic supplies are so expensive and not reimbursed well, and the odds are, they gave themselves an incurable disease solely due to their own sloth. And, they become a burden on the healthcare system solely due to their lack of caring.
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Lack of voting is a real concern, too! Not that everything here isn't a real concern because everyone has their concerns and they are real. Anyhow, I wish everyone who COULD vote WOULD vote in the elections!!
 
Gary O' said:
Huh, have to take personal inventory from time to time
Because
Sometimes everthing irks me
Then I assess, realize
It’s me

I guess the thing right now is when I find myself entrapped
By someone so enmeshed in themselves, they get all wrapped up with a heroic biographical epic saga
That can last for seemingly days
It’s become excruciating for me
A gun to the head is a temptation
Not mine, theirs
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I understand Gary.
 
Sunny said:
People who are completely immersed in their phone while crossing the street at a busy intersection. Or even worse, while they are driving.
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There was a woman in the news a few months ago that walked into the side of a moving train while texting. The train knocked her on her butt, she was lucky.
 
Lots of little things irk me, at least for a little while, ... uuumh, that sounds like the first line of a poem ... Oh, sorry went off on a tangent there - but in the grand scheme of things, most of them aren't worth mentioning.

But people who are hypocrites, now that is a whole other ballgame.
 
Radish Rose's comment: People who are always late
Showoffs
Whiners trying to get attention
People who brag about money
Cheapskates
People constantly looking at phone/taking calls during a social time
Selfies

I agree with all of that Radish. Great post.
 
Sassycakes said:
I have most of the things that irk others irk me. But the thing that irks me most is if a so called friend believes a lie someone tells about you. I've had this happen to me recently and now when I think about it how can someone that is a friend and knows you would believe something about you. If they are a friend they should know you are not capable of doing what they say you have done.
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yep I've had that done to me...it's beyond infuriating....
 
Iodine said:
Radish Rose's comment: People who are always late
Showoffs
Whiners trying to get attention
People who brag about money
Cheapskates
People constantly looking at phone/taking calls during a social time
Selfies

I agree with all of that Radish. Great post.
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Yep I agree Iodine ..people who whine about being a victim all the time..and blame everyone else for their own problems, really get on my nerves...

Also those who've never made any effort to do anything with their lives , but spend all of it being bitter and envious of those who've worked hard for what they have..

..people who talk loudly on their phones in confined spaces..like the train carriage, or the doctors surgery...or the bank etc...and people who talk on their phone while pushing a pram and a toddler walking by their side...I want to say For Gods' sake speak to your child!!

..and I agree with Butterfly...I've had that happen to me while driving too..it makes me really angry because if you were to run them over you're life would be ruined all because these people are incapable of not looking at their phone for one minute!!
 
Being misunderstood, or judged, especially if it's done without confronting me first.:mad: I mean what gives someone the right to think they know what your intentions are/were without asking you.
 
It's a good thing I'm retired, because my list of co-workers habits that were irksome would be pages long. :D
 

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