What small things irritate you ?

hollydolly said:
I've never heard anyone in real life start a sentence with like but I've seen it on some American reality shows.... but I do get irritated at people who use the word like in every sentence...

I was like walking down the road, and there was like, this dog, like it was just walking, and it's owner was kinda like... .. :eek:
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Holly.....how do you feel about the like button on here.....lol...lol....;)🙃🙃
 
Gross and disgusting TV ads while I'm eating, like Dr. Pimplepopper.
Streaming TV shows that "freeze" the last 5 minutes of the show so you don't get to see the end.
Things that are crooked...wall art, outlet covers, badly set tile, lamp shades, drawer handles, etc.
So many more, but I'd be on here all day.
 
Drivers who don’t signal before changing lanes or turning.

Folks who refer to their “PIN number.” That’s redundant. PIN = personal identification number, so they’re in effect saying “my personal identification number number.”

Items that are enclosed in shrink wrap or hard plastic. Even with a box cutter and scissors it takes forever to get them opened.

Items that are sealed with a layer of plastic. Supplements, chapstick, coffee creamer etc. Not only is the plastic hard to remove, there’s the additional annoyance (to me anyway) that when you do manage to unwind the plastic it often leaves a ragged edge which offends my sense of order and tidiness lol.

When multiple use food boxes (cereal, crackers etc) are opened upside down. If I accidentally do it, I can’t NOT fix it. I will tape it back up and open it from the right end because I know that every time I see it in the pantry I’ll get annoyed all over again!!
 
hollydolly said:
I've never heard anyone in real life start a sentence with like but I've seen it on some American reality shows.... but I do get irritated at people who use the word like in every sentence...

I was like walking down the road, and there was like, this dog, like it was just walking, and it's owner was kinda like... .. :eek:
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I once worked with a very nice lady but most people avoided her for the very reason you mention. To make it worse, she was a receptionist and a big part of her job was taking messages. "Yeah, like, he rang like and said like "hello" and I said like "hello" and then like ..." :eek:
 
Aetna. Just got a letter telling me my prescription pain meds are bad for me & I should
"explore" using over the counter (which they don't pay for) NSAIDS to which I said "Oh yeah, go F off!" I have doctors I go to for medical advice, not insurance companies. I'm so irritated I will say again: "Oh yeah, go F off!"
 
I know what you mean about shoemakers (what we call them in my area) being a dying breed. The one who has taken care of my shoes and boots for years sent me to another shop in a different town to see if that one, apparently more specialized, could put heels on these new fangled shoes with (not rubber) soles. I don't know what the material is. Anyway, I was told it wouldn't be worth it to repair them. He wanted an insane amount to put a hole in another customer's leather belt.

Little things that annoy the H*LL out of me...people who litter, people who use foul language in public places, people using their phones on public transportation telling all their business, a person slurping soup (my husband used to make me crazy doing that). The grammar police in me hates the terms "switch out" and "change out". They are both redundant. To switch or change something means to replace it with something else. I hear these terms a lot on the home buying shows. It also gets on my nerves when they say "Oh I imagine myself sitting out here (usually a deck or enclosed porch) having "my morning coffee". What gets me is 95% of the people say it. Does that mean they don't have coffee in the afternoon? Does that mean they won't have tea out there? :LOL: Now more people are saying "have a glass of wine". But the coffee thing was so overdone that I felt it must've been scripted. BTW, in my neck of the woods we just say "have a cup of coffee".
 
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People who chew gum especially those who snap and pop it while doing so.
People who fidget - drumming their fingers or fingernails on surfaces incessantly, tapping, clicking their pens incessantly, cracking their knuckles incessantly, etc.
Crickets singing in the house at night -I have to get up and hunt them down.
People (usually men) who spit on the ground, sidewalk or wherever every couple of minutes. Yuck!
Smokers who stand by the entrance and you have to inhale that nasty smoke just trying to enter a building.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
orientate!!!!!!!!! That word means to face east. People misuse the word. They confuse it with orient. Correct: The pews are oriented to face the altar. Ungodly irritating wrong way: The pews are orientated to face the altar. I don't know why, but when I hear the "tate" in orientate, it sets me off.
Oh, life is such a burden!!!
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I have tried twice to inform people that the word is oriented, not orientated and both times I got shot down. One person argued with me that it was correct and the other just stared at me and said (annoyed), "whatever". The first one was my best friend, the other was my sister. So I have to listen to "orientated" forever! :sick:
 
Ronni said:
Drivers who don’t signal before changing lanes
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When I first started driving in Florida it was illegal to use your signal for a lane change. Signals were to be reserved for turns. It was a question on my first drivers test.

That has all changed of course, Florida had few multilane roads back then.

I learned it that way and still have trouble getting myself to signal.... So I have an excuse for that one.
 
Obviously some items members have mentioned are not small. Day to day, I'm most often annoyed by television ads 👿 especially loud musical ones attempting to make viewers excited (almost all luxury car ads). Maybe over years why I've pressed the Remote MUTE button so much that it wore out so no longer works. Since most of us drive a lot, next would be a long list of annoying driving habits that ought have a thread of its own. Like the person in a car near the front of a long line of vehicles in a left turn lane looking at their smartphone after the GREEN light illuminates. Of course after they wake up, are the last car to make the turn by going through while RED.
 
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