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Pet Peeves & Irritants - or It really bugs me when...
Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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A new project at work has created a tense and stressful environment. We're under the gun to deliver a large amount of software development in a short time period and it's in those moments that small things start to bother you. Those little things that don't normally get under your skin but ever so slowly (and sometimes extremely quickly) they make you want to explode.
This list is dedicated to those pet peeves & irritants that get under your skin and generally make you blood start to boil.
Please add those items that bug you all the time, some of the time, or maybe only when you must focus but can't.
It really bugs me when...
The list by sodaklady over a year ago inspired me so here's a link to it in credit:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
people listen to their voicemail on speakerphone. I'm working over here in cubeville and I really don't need to hear what your doctor has to say about that...that...thing you have growing on your back.
Oh...and when you come into cubeville, you don't need to talk like you've got a megaphone in your throat. Really, as strange as it may sound, not everyone is enthralled by your every word.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
people forward forwarded email to me. Chain-letter emails and emails concerning the email-driven fund drive for Billy's cancer operation are summarily deleted. Anything with a 50pt fontsize and in multiple colors is gone. If you don't take enough time to type your own subject line and/or type a bit of your own text to the forward, then forget it...it's gone.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
someone asks for you wishlist of games and then trys to convince you that those ones they saw at Target today look really good...you know, there's some new Scrabble versions.
If you ask for my wishlist concerning items that I'm a geek about and you're not, then don't ignore it.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
my family members come to visit and seeing no knickknacks sitting around our house, think we need some knickknacks gifts to fill that knickknack-void in our lives rather than understanding that since our home has no knickknacks that we're not really into knickknacks.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
people get upset with me that I can't fix their computer problems. The don't understand why their 10 year old machine can't run the latest video game their 16 year old son just bought or why I can't get their emails to work on their internet(s).
Few things are more frustrating than trying to describe to your 80 year old father-in-law why he needs a firewall except maybe trying to understand what in the hell your 75 year old father is trying to tell you (over the phone) about why his "pop-ups are not starting in his Microsofts" and how he got rid of all those extra things he didn't need by using regedit.
It also bugs me that this is my third attempt at this geeklist and something has gone wrong every single time! 
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
I'm sitting in the 'straight' lane like a good citizen but people are zoom past in the open 'turn' lane and at the last minute shooting into my lane only to get stopped hanging halfway out into their original lane.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
my car gets totalled around Thanksgiving. It happend in 1998 and now we're waiting on our insurance company to let us know if the damage from the drunk driver will total the car from this year's Thanksgiving.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
you tell your kids to clean up the living room and when they say they're done you go back and check to find it looking pretty much the same.
Did you guys have your eyes open when you looked to see that you were done?!
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
people don't answer the question.
- Are you going to pick up your sister after work?
- She gets off at 4pm.
Hunh?!
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
People ding my car by either letting their door fling open into it or let their shopping car crash into it at 100 miles an hour across the parking lot.
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Ben Vincent
United States
Vancouver
Washington
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Some driving related pet peeves:
1) Driving without headlights in rain or fog. It seems like every other car on the road is some shade of gray. Might as well be camouflage when it's raining. Just because you can see the road doesn't mean other drivers can see you.
2) Driving with their parking lights on. I can understand that sometimes you just forget to turn on your lights. But turning on your parking lights takes a conscious act. What exactly is the thought process here? Trying to improve mileage by reducing electric load? Then turn off your subwoofer. Parking lights do not convey the same information to other drivers as headlights and taillights - they're not appropriately used on a moving vehicle.
3) Merging at the last possible moment. When a freeway lane ends, there are multiple warning signs that typically begin thousands of feet in advance. This is to give drivers ample opportunity to find a gap and move over, in order to reduce turbulence. It's not so you can pass one more car on the right, and force a dozen to hit their breaks when you finally merge, so you can get off at the next exits 2 seconds sooner.
4) Yielding when you have the Right of Way. First, don't let #3 in - it just encourages them. Second, you think you're being nice when you stop midblock to let someone make a left turn, but there are people behind you and coming the other direction who don't (and shouldn't) expect a stop or turning vehicle.
5) Red light runners. You know why there are all-red periods on signals? Because people push the limit on entering when they can enter an intersection. Knowing that some drivers will run red lights, engineers add an all-red period (usually only 1-2 seconds) between phases, so conflicting vehicles don't enter an intersection at the same time. But drivers learn this, and push the limit further, which leads to longer all-red periods. It's a vicious cycle. From a system wide view, red light running makes everyone - including the red light runners, wait longer.
6) Pedestrians who push the ped call button a dozen times. This isn't going to make the phase change any faster. Once is enough, trust me.
7) Inappropriate speed limits. If you build a 4 lane road with wide shoulders and large radius curves, don't expect people to drive 25 because you put up a sign. If you want a 25mph road, build a 25mph road. It's cheaper!
I'll stop there...
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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Littering. There is absolutely zero reason to do it. I hate picking trash up off my lawn. I hate seeing it in the streets. I get red when I see someone casually throw something out their car window. There's no defense for this activity. It's not someone else's job to pick up your trash.
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Matthew Marquand
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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It really bugs me when...
people walk their dogs by my house on the street (there are no sidewalks in my neighborhood) and they stop to let their dogs relieve themselves on top of the flowers we have planted down the side of our driveway.
Along the same lines is finding plastic bags of picked up dog droppings thrown into the bottom of our landscaping/yard-waste only trash cans that were empty after pickup.
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Todd
United States
Cleveland
Tennessee
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[/i]it bugs me that[/i]
Even after 4 Christmases of putting nice, useful gifts in my wifes christmas stocking, my wife still follows the her family's tradition of filling the stocking wil stupid gag gift. I hate gag gifts. Don't waste your time, money and effort giving me something you know I don't want or need just becuase you think it is funny.
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Chris Kice
United States
Shorewood
Illinois
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It really bugs me when...
...people forward me dire warnings about AIDS needles on gas pumps, rat urine on pop cans, and the other 100 messages that could have been stopped if they had just scanned the headlines over at Snopes.com.
No - forwarding this e-mail to 100 people will *not* get you a free XBox 360
No - I don't want 3.6% of your oil baron's fortune in Nigeria
No - that dying kid collecting greeting cards is not only no longer collecting cards but is also no longer dying
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Duncan flint
United Kingdom
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
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Back to driving. People who drive in rain/light mist with Fog Lights on. WHY ? If im tailing you all I get is a red glare !
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Martin Parker
United Kingdom
Newbury
Unspecified
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Roundabouts.....why oh why won't people actually indicate where they're going on the roundabout? It drives me mad when I have to stop in case they decide to go round.
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Dave Lartigue
United States
Springfield
Massachusetts
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It really bugs me when...
...people on the internet say something insulting or condescending and then follow it with a smilie as if that somehow absolves them.
"I think you're all a bunch of jerks "
Trust me. If you're kidding, we know from context. Usually the person in question isn't kidding and is just cowardly trying to use the smilie to deflect criticism away.
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Gotta get me some o'that ``punctuation`` action. 
I buy Dell so they will fix it for me. 
sorry, not sure why I typed that out above. rather heavy on your thread. you can delete it and this and it wont upset me.
. I know I answer my mum in perfectly clear, audible English and she'll scream back 'DO YOU WANT FOOD?' which makes me come stomping over to her to scream back my reply.
. Just relax and let 'em think they've won. The life you save may be your own.
