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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

NP. No, you shorten the damn leash!

The dog is on leash. That’s all that’s necessary.

My dumb neighbor thinks like you. Puts her ugly frenchie on a 20 foot retractable leash. So far she has bitten 3 neighbors, including me. It's not a question of if she will get sued, but when. But go on.

The biting is the problem, not the leash.

Mother's Day

It just seems so forced every year. Not genuine at all and from my family I desire things that are real and not just scheduled on a calendar for this one day in mid-May.
So in early May all of a sudden all I see in stores, online and on social media are "show your mom you love her" things to do or buy. It is simply an opportunity for profit.

I am happily married with two adult children (one still in college) and we are very close. I cherish when one of my kids does some random, out-of-the-blue gesture throughout the year to show they are thinking of me and that they appreciate me. That feels genuine. But to not do that all year and then on Mother's Day go all out - no thank you. It annoys me how fake the holiday is but it also annoying how mothers settle for such a forced offering from their loved ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

NP. No, you shorten the damn leash!

The dog is on leash. That’s all that’s necessary.

And I'm sure you wonder why we bash horrible dog owners like you.

My dog is on leash, walking quietly next to me. Your child is the one turning red, flipping out, screaming. Who’s misbehaving again?

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

They actually are not complying with the law. Here is DC's leash law:

900.3 No person owning, keeping, or having custody of a dog in the District shall permit the dog to be on any public space in the District, other than a dog park established by section 9a of the Animal Control Act of 1979, passed on 2nd reading on September 20, 2005 (Enrolled version of Bill 16-28), unless the dog is firmly secured by a substantial leash. The leash shall be held by a person capable of managing the dog.
900.4 The length of the leash required under § 900.3 shall not exceed four feet (4 ft.).

So all those long leashes, retractable leashes, people being walked by their enormous dog they have zero control over? Actually violating the law. Go ahead and pick up your 80lb pit bull mix and cross the street to avoid me and my kid, thanks.

Anonymous wrote:There are lots of cases on here where a loud
"Pardon me!" or "Excuse me." (I put the punctuation in the quote for the PP) will go a long way.

Maybe it will shake some of these obtuse narcissists out of their self-indulgent stupor. Who knows? Try it and report back. I truly want to know if people are apologetic, indignant or what!

So often it doesn't matter. Recently I was walking into a museum gift shop with a friend when the women in front of us did one of my pet peeves, which is to stop in the doorway to a public place and then stand there, looking around, blocking the entrance. We said "excuse us!" and they moved but you could tell they thought we were the rude ones. They certainly were not apologetic and I bet they complained about us later.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL, when alone, I do sometimes "study" the pasta sauce aisle, comparing sales, $/oz, glass versus plastic jars, sugar content etc, when I could just grab and move on. When with my teen kids, we talk and laugh and negotiate splurges or treats, and probably annoy OP in both scenarios.
I get annoyed at adult couples buying groceries together looking very serious and strategizing how to split the aisles as if this were a timed game show with big stakes or a very serious difficult two-person task. I'm probably just envious, right?

Agree on the adult couple grocery shopping together. Big production. Clog the aisle. Lots of drama. I am not envious of their togetherness.

Meanwhile, shopping with my husband makes me irrationally angry and I try to avoid it. We have totally different approaches to grocery shopping and his approach is wrong. My goal is to efficiently get everything on my list so that I can go do something I enjoy more than grocery shopping. His approach is to spend 20 minutes examining heads of lettuce to select the right one while also wondering if maybe the should make something that doesn't involve lettuce at all, maybe we should do spinach, but if we do that maybe we should do a different protein? It's too much for me, I want to be at home on the couch watching Great British Bakeoff and eating olives.

I have a rational anger but an irrational level of anger: my neighbor and her kids and her boyfriend and her kids boyfriends all let her two dogs out front multiple times a day to run around the neighborhood peeing and pooping. The dogs are sweet dogs and cute but I really want to kick them. Many neighbors have talked with her and the daughters over the years but there is no change in behavior. I think if she took control of that, the other stuff she does would bother me less.

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

NP. No, you shorten the damn leash!

The dog is on leash. That’s all that’s necessary.

My dumb neighbor thinks like you. Puts her ugly frenchie on a 20 foot retractable leash. So far she has bitten 3 neighbors, including me. It's not a question of if she will get sued, but when. But go on.

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Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

NP. No, you shorten the damn leash!

The dog is on leash. That’s all that’s necessary.

And I'm sure you wonder why we bash horrible dog owners like you.

When people become so deeply distraught about a 90+ year old's death. Yes it is sad. Yes, we will all miss them. But to call the death "tragic" and ask "how will I go on?" as I have heard on many occasions angers me greatly.

When anyone reaches their 90s and then dies it is not "tragic". They are the lucky ones among us and essentially won the long life lottery.
The privilege of living that long is an achievement and while their life should be celebrated, what other outcome was expected?????

OP, did you want responses about irrational anger or annoyance -- two totally different things.

Toile.

Whenever I see it, I feel irrationally outraged. It must be related to something in a past life.

People walking around head down in their phones

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dog owners who don’t hold the leashes if they see someone approaching.Not everyone loves dogs.

People crossing the parking lot without paying any attention whatsoever to cars.

People not holding the door for their family once they are let in by someone in the front.

I have a kid who is terrified of dogs and we've taken to asking dog owners to shorten leashes when they are walking on sidewalks with a long, slack leash. They'll even see my DD is hesitant and say "oh he's very friendly!" but not shorten the leash or do anything to show they have control over the dog.

You should have to pass a test on dog etiquette before you adopt one.

If the dog is on leash, they are complying with the law and have the right to be on the sidewalk just like your family. Pick up your daughter if she's that scared, or cross to the other side.

NP. No, you shorten the damn leash!

The dog is on leash. That’s all that’s necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:When I go into the kitchen to get myself a small snack and all of a sudden my DH and/or kids materialize right in there with me to see what I'm doing/eating.

+1

Or when I start preparing breakfast or lunch for myself and all of a sudden, DH has to do the same. In the same space.

No. The worst is when you start preparing something and husband suddenly materializes and asks for some as well. It is true that scrambling 6 eggs is as easy as scrambling 3, but he never prepares anything for me and never cleans up. I’m over it. I’ll wait until you’re gone and then make my eggs, thankyouverymuch.