What Drives Me Nuts Is . . . ?
July 30th 2008 03:01
The True Seat of Power
Is it something a 'minor' as your housemate, partner, husband leaving the toilet seat in the raised position or perhaps those self-proclaimed silver spoons who chose to pronouce words such as Medicine as Med-sin.
Maybe you subscribe to the aache (h) theory rather than the haache oracle when you enunciate the eight letter of our alphabet.
Does leaving an empty toilet roll leave you scathing?
Or squeezing the toothpaste tube from the middle?
Perhaps leaving a teaspoon worth of milk in the botle earns your wrath.
Vent your spleen - get it out in the open.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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The first thing that comes to mind has to do with Wal*Mart. Now I am pretty sure you don't have any of those by you, but i am sure there has to be some sort of store that does the same thing I am about to explain, just maybe not on the same scale.
You go into the store get everything you needed and head to the checkout. Now at Wal*Mart they have almost 30 checkout lanes, but they NEVER have cashiers at more than about 6 of those lanes. Four of those six are express lanes for 20 or 10 or less items. This leads to standing in line for 30-45 minutes even if you wait and go at 1AM to try and avoid the crowds.
One side note of this annoyance. . . they have 4-8 "Self Checkout" lanes, but close them down very early in the night. Apparently they don't want to have to pay the customers to check themselves out, wait we do that for free!
Gene
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I was in town last night for a dinner and couldn't believe their antics . . . as for deciding that blocking the curbside lane and centre lane as no less than 9 cabs decided that just the club across the road was an ideal place to pick up fares but p*$s off every driver heading into The Rocks - well - yep that did irk me.
Horribly timely old boy.
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Boy - talk about a double co-incidence.
First Cibby, now you.
The function I attended last night had one of the board from Wal-Mart (who's an Aussie) as a guest speaker.
If only I'd posted a day earlier - I could've had a word for you.
Stay well champ
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Have to admit - haven't seen that much of late - but personally - I would probably like to simply march into their homes with those of us like minded individuals and do the same.
I'm with you.
Cheers
Comment by Lara M
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...and then they conveniently drop the butt on the footpath to put it out...!
Comment by JohnDoe
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A few that get me riled:
- People who drive below the speed limit in the right hand lane. Also those that change lanes 5 km before they have to turn right and constantly put on the brakes. People not indicating when changing lanes....can you tell I was stuck in traffic today.
- Push bike riders in peak hour traffic who take up an entire lane.
- Reality TV
- Oprah Winfrey
- The fact that 90% of film and Entertainment magazines are just about tacky gossip with no info on actual moviemaking
I will stop now, thanks for the forum to vent!
Comment by Cheryl J
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Ok John Doe, how did you get into my head? I'm going to have to start wearing my tinfoil hat again, every single one of those things bugs the hell out of me. That's spooky!
I'll add to that:
- people who cannot use roundabouts properly and people who try to race the red light when they can see there is nowhere to go and end up blocking the intersection.
- the man next door who spends half an hour three times a day hawking up a lung and spitting. I can hear him from every room in my unit. Gross!
- people who don't wear deodorant...especially on the train. I'm armpit height when standing and in summer it's putrid.
Thanks MNG, I feel so much better now.
Comment by D. Armenta
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-People who assume the world revolves around them.
-Parents who bring their kids to restaurants, theatres, parks, etc. and let them run amok.
-Self-righteous boobs who try and foist their (unsolicited) advice on me. One of these days I'm going to turn the tables and do it to them: "Hey, you look like you could use a cigarette. Comeon, smoke one. I do, and they keep me from overeating!"
-Miami cubans who give me a ration of shit because I don't speak spanish. Every country I ever visited, I made the effort to learn enough of the native language to get along; I never copped the attitude of "I'm spending money here, so speak my language!"
-Almost everything on T.V.
Oh yeah--and textspeak. That irritates the hell out of me. OMG, IMHO IAABAH Bcuz I cnt spl lol lol
Thanks, I feel better.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Ever have that happen to you.
Had a dress shirt ruined - by a damned flippant women who was so self absorbed by her gesticulating and showiness that she was oblivious to her actions.
Best she could offer up afterwards was a sorry, joke about it and try and rub away the singe.
. . . I got my own back later.
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Anything to help ease the pain buddy.
May need to talk soon - will be in touch.
Cheers
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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The MNG Speakeasy is always open - you know that.
As for the deodorant thing - how is it that people just don't get it . . .
Stay well
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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From time to time it's good to blow off a little steam - and it is very apparent that you're a freight train when it comes to putting up with a whole of irritations.
Why can't parents control their kids in restaurants, shopping centres etc - perhaps Mrs Nice Guy and I were lucky - but our three were never allowed out of our sight - knew that they were to behave and to be honest held themselves well in public. Hmmm - perhaps we were just blessed.
Concur with most of your points though the whole Spanish thing probably doesn't really raise its head in my neck of the woods . . . Korean or Mandarin - perhaps . . . but still holding our heads above water.
Stay well - stay sane . . .
Comment by D. Armenta
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What constitutes bad manners?
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L.A.M.P.
As for the spanish--well, I lived in southern California for years with thousands of the mexicans that our pres. is so busy trying to keep out by building a wall. I never spoke to one that didn't know enough english to get by. Miami cubans, on the other hand (not all but many) are always saying "You don't speak spanish? Why not? You want to do business here (south Florida) you better learn spanish".
Gets my goat.
Sane? Gotta get there before I can stay there!
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Ouch!
Sounds like doing business at the Sydney Markets unless you speak Catonese or Mandarin.
Comment by Miswanderlust
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We can't really love and accept others and their habits until we forgive and deeply and completely accept ourselves first—past lives, warts and all.
I say take your patchouli smelling selves elsewhere:
Here is my list (so take that!)
Folks who are chronically late
Non bathing folks who just don't care
Criicizing your partner or mate in public
Being a turd about food issues
Mis
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- beating around the bush rather than asking a direct question
- smug couples
- sport on every channel of the tv at the same time
- casinos and horse-racing
- neighbours or housemates that complain about noise
- people who are dismissive or condescending towards women
- public servants claiming to be "busy"
- people who tailgate other cars on the road
- local news which is constructed badly and has no information or point
- Bryan Brown
- that jockey who is sometimes on the NRL Footy Show and does loud abrasive commercials
- nagging
- people who dont know the difference between gross and net wages
- utes
- nurses
- dogs
- nurses who are dogs
- sunlight (including glare)
- female celebrities who change their surname when they get married so we dont know who they are anymore
- doctors waiting rooms