Random things that annoy me

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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.

Boys and socks.

At some point I'll dig up this essay I saw that a dad wrote when his son went off to college. It mentioned all these things our kids do that seemingly annoy us (the endless asking, "Where's my X?", the socks on the ground, etc), and this particular dad reflected on how time passes too quickly when his son left for college, sort of wistfully hoping for a chance to go back again to that time where you were totally needed, totally taken for granted, totally involved. So that's a nicer way to look at those socks always on the floor!

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When DH forgets about the tea kettle so it's screaming while I'm nursing and he's taking a dump.

LMAO. Happens to me all the time.

Flo, is that you?

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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.

people who brush their teeth in the bathroom at work. UGH.

moms who are SO NOT JUDGING you for feeding your child formula, even though you should've tried harder before feeding your child that rat poison.

moms who think that the best way to parent is to completely subjugate themselves to the whims of their infant, because after all, it's not your life anymore.

i could go on forever.

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Open back shoes that are too big and stick out in the back. So random.

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Listening to my co-worker scraping her spoon in a plastic container! I thought I was kinda nuts for even letting this bother me until I Googled the topic. Turns out there are quite a few people who hate this sound. Unreasonable, I know. . . .

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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.

people who brush their teeth in the bathroom at work. UGH.

moms who are SO NOT JUDGING you for feeding your child formula, even though you should've tried harder before feeding your child that rat poison.

moms who think that the best way to parent is to completely subjugate themselves to the whims of their infant, because after all, it's not your life anymore.

i could go on forever.

I just brushed my teeth in the bathroom at work. Where am I suppose to brush them? I am about to go interview someone, I don't want her smelling my nasty coffee breath.

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People on this Forum who make a big deal about the Titles of the threads not matching the subject, saying things like, "I thought this was going to be about xxx!"

As if it cut into their important work.

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My cat waking me up at 4:30 every morning by repeatedly walking across me and nudging me. This morning she actually stood on my head. Love her, but this does get annoying.

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Inspired by two things I read in this thread:

The word "supper". Ugh.

Anyone eating in my office. We're in very close quarters and I do not want to hear you crunching or slurping at 10am while I am trying to get work done!

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Anonymous wrote:Listening to my co-worker scraping her spoon in a plastic container! I thought I was kinda nuts for even letting this bother me until I Googled the topic. Turns out there are quite a few people who hate this sound. Unreasonable, I know. . . .

You googled it. Ok... *Starting to smile but unsure*

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"no worries" You're not Australian! Shut up

even worse, "no worries, no worries"

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Women (always women for some reason, men don't do this) who don't remove the tacking stitch from the vent in their coat.

Drives me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women (always women for some reason, men don't do this) who don't remove the tacking stitch from the vent in their coat.

Drives me nuts.

I must say, I would not only not know it was called a 'tacking stitch', I wouldn't even know it was called a 'vent'. There is a big vocabulary out there that is just lost on me.

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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

Actually, the article says that late merging is only better when traffic is already slow and congested. In other words, it's already so messed up that even late merging can't make it worse.

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Anonymous wrote:Women (always women for some reason, men don't do this) who don't remove the tacking stitch from the vent in their coat.

Drives me nuts.

Is this bad? Does it make the coat look bad?