What incomprehensibly ‘irks’ you?

amicus_curiae · Aug 01, 2018 at 02:21 PM

So, I’ve asked what ‘weirds you out,’ and received some terrific replies but this is a wholly different question.

I’m asking what, incomprehensibly, ‘irks’ you? What annoys you, gets under your skin, but there is no reasonable explanation as to why you should be so damned irritated?

I’ll go first.

I feel a jolt of anger when I read ‘Sad!’ in a paragraph or on it’s own. I know that sad can mean ‘bad’ but when the word is used by those of notorious improbity, I feel anger/ill. No, when it’s used by anyone who believes that the word inspires a kind of pitiful badness.

It really irks me. But I needn’t think it through, as above. That’s what makes it so very incomprehensible!

Mountaindewed · Aug 01, 2018 at 03:26 PM

We got fall, Halloween and thanksgiving things at work today. I get that it’s some sort of marketing strategy, but it irks me. It’s way too early for Halloween and Thanksgiving. I’ll give them fall.

Aug 01, 2018 at 03:43 PM

When people drag their feet on the ground while walking instead of picking them up.

People who chew gum like cows.

amicus_curiae · Aug 01, 2018 at 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

We got fall, Halloween and thanksgiving things at work today. I get that it’s some sort of marketing strategy, but it irks me. It’s way too early for Halloween and Thanksgiving. I’ll give them fall.

That’s wrong. Morally wrong, all sorts of wrong.

Just wrong.

amicus_curiae · Aug 01, 2018 at 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSadGirl2

When people drag their feet on the ground while walking instead of picking them up.

People who chew gum like cows.

I have never understood why people — okay, adults — chew gum?

I chewed bubblegum, on occasion, as a kid, but haven’t chewed any sort of gum since a pre-teen.

I accused my wife of loping like a lumberjack because, um, because she did when younger. She was a long-skirted, barefoot, hippie-chick with a long mane of glistening blonde hair. She was the most beautiful girl that I’ve ever known. The most interesting girl that I’ve ever known. By far, the brightest.

A loper certainly doesn’t drag their feet!

Deejay14 · Aug 01, 2018 at 04:21 PM

People who can never be grateful....negative, negative...drives me nuts

WishfulThinker66 · Aug 01, 2018 at 05:06 PM

People who put not an ounce of thought into being properly prepared. Like the job fair I went to recently. There were people who brought their kids and young adults who brought their parents and people wearing attire more appropriate for a day at the beach, a night on the town, or an evening standing on a street corner. I just can't figure this stuff out. Why?! How easy would it have been think, "How shall I make a first impression?" Apparently the thing to do must be to drag mommy and daddy into the screening interview with you. really.

WishfulThinker66 · Aug 01, 2018 at 05:09 PM

Which segways into the very topic of helicopter parenting. There is no excuse for a parent of a 25 year old to call me and tell me it is unfair their adult child be forced to wash dishes and clean bathrooms. We ALL have to do it. It is part of the job. Let them live their life. There is no excuse for this. Waa waa waa. Grow up.

Blueberrybook · Aug 01, 2018 at 05:57 PM

I hate it when drivers ride the brake. How in the world do you know a sudden stop might be ahead (especially if you drive a small car and can't see over them)?

LiteraryLark · Aug 01, 2018 at 11:08 PM

The current state of zombification of obsessive phone use and the people who "can't live" without their phone, people who talk on the phone in line, people who browse their phones at a sit-down restaurant, kids who smash their phones to get a new one, people (including a friend or two of mine) who has to constantly take pictures on their phone and constantly talk on the phone, having to constantly listen to people's conversation on the phone, constant ringing and dinging of phones wherever you go, there's not a single place you can go without someone being on their phones and it drives me up the wall! Read a BOOK and TALK TO SOMEONE FACE TO FACE IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT and LEARN HOW TO FUNCTION IN THE REAL WORLD!

*Laurie* · Aug 02, 2018 at 12:51 AM

^^^ THIS. I cannot stand it. For example, yesterday I passed a woman in the grocery store; she was smiling, so I smiled back at her. Then I realized that she wasn't looking at me at all. She had a wire thing in her ear and was talking on her phone to someone while pushing her shopping cart. She was smiling at her conversation.
I truly felt like slapping her.

I am looking forward to the day when there are support groups for cell phone addicts, because I believe that's what it is - an addiction.

Raindropvampire · Aug 02, 2018 at 01:02 AM

What sends me up a wall is when my husband or someone in my family tells me "A normal person wouldn't say, do, react that way." Who the hell died and made them king of the universe to decide what is or is not a normal reaction from me??? Oh it just burns my biscuits.

DechanDawa · Aug 02, 2018 at 01:03 AM

More cell phone stuff. People who talk REALLY LOUD on their cell phones in stores.

DechanDawa · Aug 02, 2018 at 01:08 AM

I have been trying to work on letting go of things that bother me but I do find things get on my nerves. I don't understand, for instance, why people often don't keep to the speed limit, and when I do they tail gate me. I get irritated when people let their small children play close to the street. I also don't like it when bank tellers get all chatty. Just give me my cash and let me leave, already!

Aug 02, 2018 at 04:14 AM

people that start conversations with

" hi, I'm bored."

I usually want to say... and what do you want me to do about it?

or people that think what you're doing is " boring", then when you ask them what they are doing they say " oh, nothing much."

also people that insist on being late or lazy, with no real/ valid excuse

and people that want the world given to them on a silver platter

Aug 02, 2018 at 04:17 AM

people that work in UK shops or on UK telephone lines that can't speak the language.

I mean fair enough- people come and work here from all over the world and english isn't going to be their first language all the time.

that's fair enough

what's not so good is when people take on the job and can't speak it at all

even simple words like "hi " and " bye" are challenging

amicus_curiae · Aug 02, 2018 at 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by LiteraryLark

The current state of zombification of obsessive phone use and the people who "can't live" without their phone, people who talk on the phone in line, people who browse their phones at a sit-down restaurant, kids who smash their phones to get a new one, people (including a friend or two of mine) who has to constantly take pictures on their phone and constantly talk on the phone, having to constantly listen to people's conversation on the phone, constant ringing and dinging of phones wherever you go, there's not a single place you can go without someone being on their phones and it drives me up the wall! Read a BOOK and TALK TO SOMEONE FACE TO FACE IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT and LEARN HOW TO FUNCTION IN THE REAL WORLD!

I recently binge-watched the series “Dexter” and I became so annoyed with the series because of the cell phone overload; and this was a work of fiction. Probably paralleled in reality, though.

WishfulThinker66 · Aug 02, 2018 at 09:56 AM

I am pretty much irked this very moment.

I attended a job fair near three weeks ago. I passed the screening interview and went on to a second. I was told I would hear back about a final interview yet now there has been not a word.

This really upsets me as I have cancelled plans and set things aside so as to make myself available. Apparently, I am now guessing, they have decided I don't pass muster after all and have set my application aside. How rude though to not contact me to advise me of such. How dare they leave people hanging on the edge. How unprofessional. Even an email would be nice.

I would never do this to someone else. When I myself was part of a hiring process, we ensured every individual who made it this far in the process was contacted regardless of the decision.

So yeah, I find this incomprehensible that a company of this size would be so rude.

Aug 02, 2018 at 10:11 AM

people who don't want to help themselves,

and people who are never happy- even if you move the world for them

Aug 02, 2018 at 10:14 AM

people who do things they know upsets them

if it upsets them, why do it

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Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,199 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,765 hugs given	Aug 01, 2018 at 03:26 PM #2 We got fall, Halloween and thanksgiving things at work today. I get that it’s some sort of marketing strategy, but it irks me. It’s way too early for Halloween and Thanksgiving. I’ll give them fall.

Anonymous57678 Guest Posts: n/a	Aug 01, 2018 at 03:43 PM #3 When people drag their feet on the ground while walking instead of picking them up. People who chew gum like cows.

Deejay14 Poohbah Member Since Sep 2016 Location: USA Posts: 1,460 7 41 hugs given	Aug 01, 2018 at 04:21 PM #6 People who can never be grateful....negative, negative...drives me nuts __________________ True happiness comes not when we get rid of all our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice patience and learn.~Richard Carlson

WishfulThinker66 Magnate Member Since Jun 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 2,285 5 117 hugs given	Aug 01, 2018 at 05:09 PM #8 Which segways into the very topic of helicopter parenting. There is no excuse for a parent of a 25 year old to call me and tell me it is unfair their adult child be forced to wash dishes and clean bathrooms. We ALL have to do it. It is part of the job. Let them live their life. There is no excuse for this. Waa waa waa. Grow up.

DechanDawa Grand Magnate Member Since Nov 2015 Location: United States Posts: 3,815 8 1,043 hugs given	Aug 02, 2018 at 01:03 AM #13 More cell phone stuff. People who talk REALLY LOUD on their cell phones in stores. __________________

Anonymous32451 Guest Posts: n/a	Aug 02, 2018 at 10:11 AM #19 people who don't want to help themselves, and people who are never happy- even if you move the world for them

Anonymous32451 Guest Posts: n/a	Aug 02, 2018 at 10:14 AM #20 people who do things they know upsets them if it upsets them, why do it