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I think the coolest thing about this discussion is that most of us have experienced similar situations.

- When someone tells a story like this:

Friend: Guess who I saw?
Me: Who?
Friend: Bob Smith. So I walked up and said, "Hi". He then said, "Hi". So I ask him, "What's up?" He says, "Not much, what about you?" I say, "Same old stuff". I ask, "Do you still run marathons?" He says, "Yes". I ask, "When's your next run?" He says, "The end of August." So, do you want to run it with him?
Me: Ugh

"I saw Bob Smith. He's still running marathons. Do you want to do one at the end of August with him?" That's all you need to say.

I can't stand it when people tell stories like that. Summarize the conversation to tell me the point, I don't need to hear each exchange.

- Nesting conversations

Person: "So I'm driving home and I'm about to pass that doughnut shop, you know the one where we went that morning with Craig, who by the way is now dating Kelly, you know, Kelly's the girl we met at the bar for the Browns/Ravens game, the one where they won in overtime with that knuckleball kick, man that was a crazy finish, we partied all night with Brad and Jenny after the game, did you know they got divorced, and Jenny is getting the kid, you know, she's the kid that's crazy good at tennis, she takes lessons at the Mid Town Tennis Club, which is down the street from the doughnut shop. Anyway, do you want a doughnut?"

- Speaking of grocery store lines...not a common occurrence (sorry Vers)

I once was stuck behind a lady buying an apple for a kid, mind you, that was already eating the apple. Anyway, she was attempting to buy it with triple or quad coupons. The apple was $.40 or something and the coupons totaled up to $.50. I pick up the conversation a little late, but the cashier said, "I'm not taking 4 of these coupons and I'm certainly not paying you a dime to take an apple out of the store." The lady was insisting on get the dime back! The cashier called the manager over, which was taking forever. So I toss two quarters on the conveyor and say, "Here, I'll buy the kid the apple. Please." The people behind be laughed and clapped. They ended up not using my money, but they eventually worked it out where she had to pay $.20 for the apple while only using one or two of the coupons. It took 5 minutes.

I've never noticed that happening when I was in a lineup, but yeah that would really tick me off.

My Kroger is a [censored] show, I'm going to Publix next time just to see if its better.

I could go on and on and on about how awful it is.

You dont even have to go into the store to know its crap.

Just hanging around outside are vagrants, charity kids, and accordian players.

Its a sign to drive away.

JC. I fly pretty much every week and there are so many irritants I can’t list them all . From not knowing how to get through security to standing in line 20 minutes early for a flight that isn’t even at the damn gate . For not knowing how to read your group number , seat or how to follow the simplest of instructions.

There's a reason (or set of reasons) why they've earned the nickname:

"Giant Evil."

j/c

My wife would have a list a mile long.

I'm a bit easier going. Not that I don't have peeves, though.

But, it really gets me when things start breaking. And then more things start breaking.

Our furnace is a boiler - hot water heat. Even though it was off, it started leaking. Luckily, just a couple hundred bucks. We have a well. The water line to the house is leaking. That will be 500-1000 to fix, plus I'll have to get dirt to cover the top, seed it, etc.

Daughter's car - $725. Dryer worked when we left for vacation, didn't work when we got home. Fix it for $325, or buy a new dryer for $800.

Belts on the mower deck - 80. Saturday, mowing, the spindle/pulley broke. Mower deck is shot, so, buy a new mower I guess. Depending on what we get, $4000 to $8000. Plus, daughter's surgery soon.

TTTDawg: "Yes, Ma'am... because they're bags- not sleeves."

and it all seems to go at the same time, too.
After months of normal, MAJOR CASH OUTLAY.

Tell me about it.

Every one of you 7 billion idiots out there.

PARKING LOTS LOBOTOMIZE WEAK MINDS

I'm sitting 2nd in line. Dedicated left-turn lane on a 4-lane city street. Kroger parking lot is my destination. Light is green, but oncoming traffic has the right-of-way. Finally, there is a break in the traffic- enough for two cars to easily and smoothly enter the parking lot. (BTW- the entrance isn't directly into the parking lot- it's the main 4-lane access drive into the entire shopping center.)

The hole opens. I time my start as to make sure I'm comfortably through the turn before more oncoming traffic gets close. Until car#1 makes the turn... and stops- EXACTLY ONE CAR LENGTH INTO THE ACCESS DRIVE. Slam the brakes. Flow: interrupted. Trashed. Now, my entire car is blocking 1.5 lanes of oncoming traffic which is barreling down on me at 30 MPH. And this person acts as if there was an invisible wall at the parking lot entrance that knocked them out cold while their eyes were still open. Total brain choke... which leaves me in danger because wide-open spaces apparently lead to paralysis.

I got a million. Don't get me started.

Lol!

I know people who work in retail and believe me, they have complaints about customers, too.

There's only so many times you can checkout a customer and have to talk about the weather.

I was a baggerboy at my first job. I remember.

just drove to chattanooga, 6 1/2 hours, so tired of people driving 69 in a 70 zone, the semis pulling over to pass another semi drive me nuts. one going 71 the other going 70.

i know semis need to get where they are going, but come on if you cant drive the speed limit up a mountain, stay in the right lane. i know it wont be popular, but if i ever i become a person in power, from 7:00am to 7:00pm no semis can drive in the fast lane or the left lane. so frustrating when you are driving 78, no one behind you and a semi pulls over in front of you and you lose miles waiting for the semi to pass another semi!

Yes but you only have the weather in common to talk about. It's not polite to ask them what is really on your mind, like if they have a hangover to match their chosen attire for the day?

Thinking to myself.... Common Occurrences that Grate Your Nerves.

I am going to have to go with people complaining on the internet about common occurrences that grate on their nerves.

It irritates me when people are talking on their phone while a cashier is trying to ring up their order or trying to give them change. How rude is that?

Makes me want to smack the phone out of their hand.

It also irritates me when going to the drive up teller to pull $100 the person in front of you fidgets around for a minute before doing anything, then has to run 2-3 cards to find one that works, then has to get a card or two from their passenger. Then they dork around putting cards away and counting money. Pull up and do your dorking around there so I can grab my money and go, idiot!

+1

I had a similar circumstance yesterday and frankly, this happens far too often.

I'm following a minivan who is driving under the speed limit. I think about passing it, but I don't want to be a jerk by passing the nerdmobile and then turning right not much farther up the road. So, I slow down and the person puts on the right turn signal and starts to turn into a strip mall parking lot. They come to a complete stop w/half the vehicle on the street and half in the entry way to the parking lot.

You might ask, "what's the delay?" The driver is scanning the parking lot for possible parking spaces before they commit to going left, right, or straight. Meanwhile, I have to come to a complete stop, as do the vehicles that are following me.

We know ma'am, it's all about you.

It's people like make me wish I could equip my car with a train horn.

lol, people just having loud conversations on their phones in public places drives me nuts. And don't get me started on those stupid borg looking bluetooth ear pieces that were so hot a few years back...

People in general grate on my nerves, but if there is a stupid ass person anywhere in the vicinity, they always find their way to me...

One thing that sends me through the roof at the grocery store is waiting to get past some lazy fat slob loading their "ride on handicapped" cart with nothing but junk after just seeing them walk into the store with no problems. Eat some veggies and exercise for crying out loud. I'm not skinny and have real health issues but I won't ride one of those carts because I CAN WALK.

The people who text and drive, put makeup on while driving, anything but keeping their eyes on the road... that grates on my nerves. A lot of people can't even talk on a phone and drive safely, they have no damn business even driving a car.

And one last peeve for now, going to any office run by the city or state... BMV especially.

Fixed

I was working with this girl and we had to go out of town for a shoot. So, she offered to drive there and I could drive back, so I took her up on it. I had to ask her to pull over and let me drive. She had her head tilted to hold her phone between her head and neck, steered the car with her knee, so she could stir her coffee, and she was drive 87 mph. I was in the passenger seat white knuckling it. I thought I was a dead man.

LOL.

Tailgaters. They bother me. I have thought about filling my wiper fluid reservoir with corn oil and run the tubes to the back bumper. Spray corn oil up on to their windshield. When they hit the wipers it will just smear all over...that should slow them down.

When I say tailgaters, I am not talking about me driving slow in the left lane. I am talking about heavy traffic when everybody is going the same speed and there is nowhere to go but that jackwad wants to ride the bumper to try to weave through traffic one car at a time.

Just mount one of those spike strips under the rear of your vehicle with a remote release inside the car. when they ride your bumper, slow them down.

The corn oil spray is more doable and wouldn't cost all that much.

1. People that weave in and out of traffic like idiots. Your putting me and my family at risk because you cant wake up early enough to get where you need to go. 9/10 times, I end up at the same red light you do - everything you just did was a waste.

2. Tardiness - I hate being late. I literally get anxiety over it if I am late myself. I get stomach turning, clamy hands feeling. Its rude, and inconsiderate to others waiting for you. Have some personal accountability and plan ahead.

3. People that think they can dictate what others can and cannot do

4. People seek attention by playing woe is me, all the while passively attacking others in the process - trying to play the victim.

YES!!!
That's exactly it!!!

Aaaaaaaargh!

People that write "bible versus" instead of "bible verses."

Just kidding with ya!

That is something that gets on my nerves though: when auto-correct changes a word that I had spelled exactly like I wanted.

Vers' verses, versus Vers' versus...

One of my best buddy’s name is Bo. My autocorrect constantly changes it to ‘no’. (It even did it when I typed this post.)

People annoy me. Always breathing and being in my view.

Restaurants talk about customers too. I once got almost every worker in a restaurant to come up to our table. then realized,
when first seated, I said across from me, "it's going to cost me a place to live to quit this job but if I don't I'm going to go crazy"

soon after we started a conversation how we had to have a relative return all the objects to 'box store" at a city 200 miles away because they'd no longer take returns from the person at the table,

The restaurant people didn't know, but the objects were part of an online auction purchase of a huge bin of hodge-podge home improvement items plumbing, some they could use, others they'd just try and return to the box store.

They probably thought we were "oceans 11", pfft, maybe it was, I wouldn't know.

nice post. Lucid.

This is a fun thread. We get to complain about people and their actions, there's no arguing, and we agree with almost everything posted!