Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

What nationality/heritage does this person have?

I mean, yes, some unusual spellings are pretentious and annoy me (but shouldn't, I mean, parents can name their kids whatever they want, but I still feel bad for the kid who got a crappy name because their parents are dicks), but sometimes the alternate spelling could be stemming from a different language and family history.

 

He sounded American to me. Heritage, I have no idea. It was a documentary about film scores, not Mychael himself

 

Sometimes, I'll switch it out letters for similar ones in an attempt to create a new name such as:

David = Devyd

Bad example, but demonstrate my point.

 

PEOPLE THAT WALK TOO SLOW

 

Apparently there's 97 ways to spell scissors.

I've plucked that figure out of the air, but there's a few.

 

I F'n hate that!!!

And it's counter part.

People who drive way too slow!!

 

Following people that move faster than your walk speed, but slower than your run speed.

 

Interesting.

 

My gift wrapping skills. They range from "wtf is that? were you drunk?" to "well, at least you tried"....

 

People buying plastic-bottled water. I always see them schlepping the full bottles out of the store, and then schlepping the empty bottles piled head-high in the trolley back to the 'recycling' machine. I mean, there's water delivered to my home. It's cheaper – waaaaayyy cheaper. It's tasty. It's better quality controlled. The tap water in my neck of the woods is, chemically speaking, one of the best there is. I don't have to schlep anything.

 

Schleptophobia?

 

So, here's what happened to me today that's annoying, but shouldn't, because it is ultimately my own stupidity.

Came home from shopping. There's a note in my letterbox from the amazon guy saying he tried to deliver 4 packages, and they're at my neighbor's. I walk to the neighbor, and yes, he has one (1) package. Where are the other three? I start to investigate, run around, move heaven and hell. N0 other packages. I check online, but the outstanding orders do not have tracking (they're cheap bits and pieces).

I check the original note again. There never were four packages, only one. There's a field left open on the form, indicated by a horizontal line. The amazon guy has written a "1" over this line, in the typical German fashion with a hook from the top. His "1" together with the printed line from the form look like a 4. Stupid stupid me.

 

I occasionally forget that nearly half the population have to suffer jeans that have vestigial or absent pockets. Upon being reminded, my mind does reel back in horror. Hell works best when it's subtle. Everybody hates Hitler, but the person who decided women don't need pockets... What was their name again? That's right, they prolly slept like a baby too.

-SIN

 

when an author sets out to create a trilogy and the 3 books are great.... and then decides to continue it... and the books after the 3rd arent as good.

 

? Interesting! Which author is this

 

I directed this at James patterson and juliet marillier (im at work and "trilogies" by these two authors came across my desk and i needed to vent lol!!)

 

The five-book Hitchhiker Trilogy went downhill. At least in retrospect.

 

Erm...is your sex life improved by impersonating a gull during a 'session?' Enquiring minds want to know....

 

Finding out which books I do not yet have, or have already, or have already (pre-)ordered. Not helped by the online stores I use not properly displaying different editions of the same book. I have multiple books, the most recent Randall Munroe's "How to" (that's the guy that writes and draws the online comic xkcd), twice. One the US, the other the UK edition, because I pre-ordered one, then got some reminder from some online source, checking amazon, which tells me I haven't pre-ordered yet, but I forget to check if there's another edition, and pre-order again, and again forget until they're delivered.

 

12 year olds playing Dungeons and Dragons and my 30-40 year old coworker comes over and says "oh cool! can I play?"
the kids laugh and say "do you even know how?"
and my coworker says "yeah, i grew up with this," and the kids laugh and say "whatever."

...... Stranger Things has created little monsters!

 

I find that annoying as well, but only if they impede my own progress. (Ditto cars doodling along at half the speed limit, but won't pull over and let you get by them.)

Then there are the grocery cart hogs. My favourites are the ones who see something on the shelves, and move their cart into a 45 degree angle to the shelves while they look at it and make up their minds whether to buy it or not. COMPLETELY blocking the aisle.

I'm quite okay with people who can't move as fast as the rest of us. They don't irritate me at all. What irritates me is when they seem oblivious to the presence of others. That's a different mindset altogether.

 

I am SO with you on that, Jannert. I know first hand from back when I had to help my dad do the weekly shopping. He would leave a gap between the shelves and the trolley, so the trolley itself took up half the aisle, then, hog up the rest of the aisle -himself- as he stood back to take GRAND views of all the shelves at a distance. What made it worse, and made me embarrassed every time, was the fact he seemingly has -no- sense of self-awareness of things around him. So one, two, sometimes even THREE people would walk up to us and get stuck. I would stand to one side out of the way, and, despite them being in his peripheral vision - he wouldn't move! Oh the GLARES I got from people, mentally shouting at me "IS HE BLIND!? I'm SIDE on with him and he can't SEE me?!?!" I sometimes think he does it on purpose, to make people ask him to move.

I don't believe in god, but thank whatever I can for the day I moved out, and never had to go shopping with him again hehe