Random things that annoy me

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you a recent arrival from India, by chance? We have several IT acquaintances who moved to No. Calif. directly from India in the past 10 years and they speak the Queen's textbook English like this.

Random annoying thing -- people who pretend not to understand how to merge when a lane will disappear on the highway, etc. They attempt to cut in at the last moment.

This made me laugh, I understand the way it to work is to use the lane until the lane ends. I get annoyed at the people who insist on merging in a half a mile before the lane ends.

I was trying not to respond to any of these until I saw this. No, no, no. The point of a merge lane, complete with warnings that the lane will end, is to allow the driver to drive the speed of the lane to be merged into, and make the merge without slowing down traffic in either lane. If you wait until the merge lane ends, you will invariably be forced to slow or stop at the end of the merge lane to wait for an opening (unless you just go ahead and merge in and make the other line of traffic slow or stop), and once you're stopped, you need a much longer opening, because you no longer have any lane left for acceleration. Then, everyone behind you has to stop, and now they have no speed to make the merge. Voila -- the cause of the "accordion effect." This is a related problem to the thing that really annoys me, which is people who drive all the way to the end of the on ramp, and then stop and have to wait for an opening in traffic that is big enough for them to accelerate into from a standing stop. If you must stop, do so away from the end of the ramp, which will give yourself some room to accelerate up to speed and slip into a much smaller gap in the traffic. It also really annoys me that people here that are behind you honk at you if you do this properly. Don't honk, I may have stopped 20 yards behind where you think I should have, but I'm going to get on the highway faster than the idiot that stops at the end of the ramp, I promise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people say my kid. No, it's your child, a kid is a baby goat.

Makes me . That is exactly what my mom always says.

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The way little tufts of hair get stuck in the hinge of my sunglasses when I push them up onto my head. I'm literally tearing my hair out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When people say my kid. No, it's your child, a kid is a baby goat.

Makes me . That is exactly what my mom always says.

More annoying to hear "My child".

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When women write 'post pardum' instead of 'postpartum.' Drives me crazy!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i agree with the lol thing. so annoying lol.

on the same tangent, the way that teenagers/early 20s kids today think it's so cool to add a millionnnnnnn lettersssssssssss to everythingggggg theyyyyyy typeeeeeeee!!!!

nickelback.

people who take forever to wash their hands/do their makeup/talk to their friend in the public bathroom while i am trying to take a crap. let me be loud and nasty in peace.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!! Drives me crazy!!!!!!!! Just let me do my thing!!!!!!!!!!

Have to agree! I cannot stand when women stand in there talking as well as Im trying to do my business. Get the hell out and talk somewhere else!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you a recent arrival from India, by chance? We have several IT acquaintances who moved to No. Calif. directly from India in the past 10 years and they speak the Queen's textbook English like this.

Random annoying thing -- people who pretend not to understand how to merge when a lane will disappear on the highway, etc. They attempt to cut in at the last moment.

This made me laugh, I understand the way it to work is to use the lane until the lane ends. I get annoyed at the people who insist on merging in a half a mile before the lane ends.

I was trying not to respond to any of these until I saw this. No, no, no. The point of a merge lane, complete with warnings that the lane will end, is to allow the driver to drive the speed of the lane to be merged into, and make the merge without slowing down traffic in either lane. If you wait until the merge lane ends, you will invariably be forced to slow or stop at the end of the merge lane to wait for an opening (unless you just go ahead and merge in and make the other line of traffic slow or stop), and once you're stopped, you need a much longer opening, because you no longer have any lane left for acceleration. Then, everyone behind you has to stop, and now they have no speed to make the merge. Voila -- the cause of the "accordion effect." This is a related problem to the thing that really annoys me, which is people who drive all the way to the end of the on ramp, and then stop and have to wait for an opening in traffic that is big enough for them to accelerate into from a standing stop. If you must stop, do so away from the end of the ramp, which will give yourself some room to accelerate up to speed and slip into a much smaller gap in the traffic. It also really annoys me that people here that are behind you honk at you if you do this properly. Don't honk, I may have stopped 20 yards behind where you think I should have, but I'm going to get on the highway faster than the idiot that stops at the end of the ramp, I promise.

Early merging is not always the best answer. In many circumstances, late merging is better for everyone.

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/workzone/doc/When-latemerge-zipper.pdf

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localdtw/20101112/ts_yblog_localdtw/study-shows-that-merging-late-speeds-traffic

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Anonymous wrote:When women write 'post pardum' instead of 'postpartum.' Drives me crazy!!!

When people write "postpartum" when they mean "postpartum depression". ("I suffered from postpartum and my doctor prescribed medication.") We're ALL postpartum in the first few months. We are NOT all depressed.

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I don't like how on most orange juice packaging, below the screw on top, there will be this little seal that you have to peel back with a ring top. Every time I do that, I inevitably jostle the carton and orange juice splatters out.

That's pretty random.

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How slow and lazy my coworkers are.

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how DH is incapable of putting his dirty clothes in the hamper.

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Anonymous wrote:how DH is incapable of putting his dirty clothes in the hamper.

Mine is incapable of completing ANY task. He'll gather the trash from throughout the house, bag it all up, take it out to the back porch, and then... leave it there, stopping 15 feet short of putting it in the can. He'll wash a load of laundry, but not put it in the dryer. Or he'll dry a load of laundry, but leave it in the dryer. Or he'll unload the dryer into a basket and then leave the clothes in the basket. He'll clear the table, rinse the dishes and put them in the dishwasher, and leave something undone, not always the same thing. Sometimes he leaves food out. Sometimes he leaves dirty pots and pans on the stove. Sometimes he clears the plates but leaves the glasses... And so on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how DH is incapable of putting his dirty clothes in the hamper.

Mine is incapable of completing ANY task. He'll gather the trash from throughout the house, bag it all up, take it out to the back porch, and then... leave it there, stopping 15 feet short of putting it in the can. He'll wash a load of laundry, but not put it in the dryer. Or he'll dry a load of laundry, but leave it in the dryer. Or he'll unload the dryer into a basket and then leave the clothes in the basket. He'll clear the table, rinse the dishes and put them in the dishwasher, and leave something undone, not always the same thing. Sometimes he leaves food out. Sometimes he leaves dirty pots and pans on the stove. Sometimes he clears the plates but leaves the glasses... And so on.

You should do the same with sex. Do a little bit of what he likes, then stop.

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Insomnia (I was up till 2:30 this morning for no good reason)

Listening to my dog's nails on the hardwood floors

Finding socks all over my house. - I will win this battle dear sons.

DH keeping his house key seperate from his car key. I've been locked out twice recently when I had to take his car.

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And speaker phones.