People in my neighborhood who run on the street. Hear me out, I know it’s irrational, but our neighborhood has fantastic sidewalks connected to trails so people who run during the early morning rush, when it is still kinda of dark, and without any reflective gear annoy the heck out of me.
Non commuters who hop on the freeway during rush hour. You can tell who they are.
Oh I hate this too. The sidewalks around here a great, so many paved trails and paths, etc. Why do you have to run in traffic? Or sometimes I just see people walking in traffic. Why?
Piggybacking on the movie/show annoyances, I hate watching actors ride horses in movies. I'm sure to the untrained eye they look fine, but to me they look like a sack of potatoes on a horse. Probably similar to anyone who has been trained in ballet or figure skating watching actors attempt those skills.
I’m on prednisone- so just about everything right now is annoying me.
A particular stand out is social media posts where they say “OMG this sooooo good”. Shut the f up. Not everything you eat or make cannot be sooooo good.
Oh I have so many. So, so many. Here's a GBCN specific one which is very irrational: When people tell some long-winded story with multiple characters and instead of being consistent and using identifiers throughout said story (like BFF, SIL, CW, neighbor, old roommmate) they assign letters to these fools "So, my cousin (we'll call her N) lives next door to crazypants (let's call her Z) and she's married to this cop (I'm calling him D for purposes of this story) etc.
Then it's "N said to D that F was fucking R and Z got all pissed off and approached P at target and they got in a fight in the parking lot and D's partner arrested P and then I had to bail her out. Should I be pissed at B or D or Z or S or Y or H?
This probably doesn’t qualify as an irrational annoyance, but rather a rational one, but I cannot stand the sheer volume of marketing emails I receive. I can’t keep up, no matter how often I delete or hit the unsubscribe button, and it’s made my email practically unusable. I do not need multiple emails a week, let alone multiple emails a day from the same company!
I can shed a little light on the sidewalk vs street thing for running. Asphalt is a lot soften than cement and is easier on your joints. It doesn’t make much of a difference on short runs but you can really feel it on long distances. Please don’t hate me 🤣
This probably doesn’t qualify as an irrational annoyance, but rather a rational one, but I cannot stand the sheer volume of marketing emails I receive. I can’t keep up, no matter how often I delete or hit the unsubscribe button, and it’s made my email practically unusable. I do not need multiple emails a week, let alone multiple emails a day from the same company!
I unsubscribe to every single marketing email I get, and report all of them as spam. Stop harassing me, I don’t want anything even resembling a marketing email.
Post by UMaineTeach on Mar 6, 2024 20:20:32 GMT -5
Similar to grocery store pick up parking, restaurants that have 10 completely empty “curbside to go” parking spaces at all times and zero place to actually park to go in and eat.
“Friendly Reminder” It’s just a reminder, and that’s ok. There doesn’t need to be emotion attached.
Not board related but names in stories related, my MIL will include names, and often full names, of anyone in a story or comment she makes, whether or not it is relevant or necessary. E.g. "I used to work with this woman Kathy. Kathy Jones. Kathy's daughter Melanie was allergic to peanuts. Kathy and her husband Bob taught Melanie to use her epipens herself when she was about 7 or 8." She will have not talked to Kathy in 20 years, so it's not even like we might meet Kathy or Bob or Melanie! Just say "a former coworker taught her peanut allergic daughter to use her epipens herself when she was 7 or 8"!!
My dad does this all the time. He’ll be taking about old classmates as if I know who Brenda Davidson and Mike Burke are. Nope, sure don’t dad.
I don't like most TikTok sayings. Half the women on Love is Blind drive me insane because they speak that way, yet I can't look away from the train wreck.
Not board related but names in stories related, my MIL will include names, and often full names, of anyone in a story or comment she makes, whether or not it is relevant or necessary. E.g. "I used to work with this woman Kathy. Kathy Jones. Kathy's daughter Melanie was allergic to peanuts. Kathy and her husband Bob taught Melanie to use her epipens herself when she was about 7 or 8." She will have not talked to Kathy in 20 years, so it's not even like we might meet Kathy or Bob or Melanie! Just say "a former coworker taught her peanut allergic daughter to use her epipens herself when she was 7 or 8"!!
on the flipside of this my mom when telling stories exclusively uses personal pronouns. Her stories are always only about various women so it is impossible to follow because it is all "she told her xyz. Then she went down to her room and 123. After she told her about..." but there were like four people involved in the story and you had no clue because no one has a name!
Not board related but names in stories related, my MIL will include names, and often full names, of anyone in a story or comment she makes, whether or not it is relevant or necessary. E.g. "I used to work with this woman Kathy. Kathy Jones. Kathy's daughter Melanie was allergic to peanuts. Kathy and her husband Bob taught Melanie to use her epipens herself when she was about 7 or 8." She will have not talked to Kathy in 20 years, so it's not even like we might meet Kathy or Bob or Melanie! Just say "a former coworker taught her peanut allergic daughter to use her epipens herself when she was 7 or 8"!!
My mom does this too. Have you seen the “boomer mom” reels? She does parodies of this that are AMAZING. I cry with laughter bc they are so spot on. My mom will now stop mid story and say, I sound like boomer mom, don’t I? Just last week she was telling me some story about some rando (using just her name), giving me useless useless details about her beautiful singing voice and how she sings in the clubhouse. I don’t even know what the point of the story was but it had nothing to do with singing, the clubhouse or really anyone I even know.
Not board related but names in stories related, my MIL will include names, and often full names, of anyone in a story or comment she makes, whether or not it is relevant or necessary. E.g. "I used to work with this woman Kathy. Kathy Jones. Kathy's daughter Melanie was allergic to peanuts. Kathy and her husband Bob taught Melanie to use her epipens herself when she was about 7 or 8." She will have not talked to Kathy in 20 years, so it's not even like we might meet Kathy or Bob or Melanie! Just say "a former coworker taught her peanut allergic daughter to use her epipens herself when she was 7 or 8"!!
My mom does this too. Have you seen the “boomer mom” reels? She does parodies of this that are AMAZING. I cry with laughter bc they are so spot on. My mom will now stop mid story and say, I sound like boomer mom, don’t I? Just last week she was telling me some story about some rando (using just her name), giving me useless useless details about her beautiful singing voice and how she sings in the clubhouse. I don’t even know what the point of the story was but it had nothing to do with singing, the clubhouse or really anyone I even know.
Callmekristenmarie? Why is she always so DEAD ON?! Every story is either my mom or mother in law, and a lot of times, both!
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Mar 7, 2024 8:15:25 GMT -5
Neighbors that have a perfectly good driveway with space for all their cars and choose to park their humongous work truck on the street in front of someone's house instead.
Another TV/movie one - I hate when they are on the phone and they just... hang up. No one ever says bye. How do you know the conversation is over? Doesn't the person on the other end find you to be rude?
My mom does this too. Have you seen the “boomer mom” reels? She does parodies of this that are AMAZING. I cry with laughter bc they are so spot on. My mom will now stop mid story and say, I sound like boomer mom, don’t I? Just last week she was telling me some story about some rando (using just her name), giving me useless useless details about her beautiful singing voice and how she sings in the clubhouse. I don’t even know what the point of the story was but it had nothing to do with singing, the clubhouse or really anyone I even know.
Callmekristenmarie? Why is she always so DEAD ON?! Every story is either my mom or mother in law, and a lot of times, both!
Not board related but names in stories related, my MIL will include names, and often full names, of anyone in a story or comment she makes, whether or not it is relevant or necessary. E.g. "I used to work with this woman Kathy. Kathy Jones. Kathy's daughter Melanie was allergic to peanuts. Kathy and her husband Bob taught Melanie to use her epipens herself when she was about 7 or 8." She will have not talked to Kathy in 20 years, so it's not even like we might meet Kathy or Bob or Melanie! Just say "a former coworker taught her peanut allergic daughter to use her epipens herself when she was 7 or 8"!!
My mom does this too. Have you seen the “boomer mom” reels? She does parodies of this that are AMAZING. I cry with laughter bc they are so spot on. My mom will now stop mid story and say, I sound like boomer mom, don’t I? Just last week she was telling me some story about some rando (using just her name), giving me useless useless details about her beautiful singing voice and how she sings in the clubhouse. I don’t even know what the point of the story was but it had nothing to do with singing, the clubhouse or really anyone I even know.
Yes!! Boomer mom is 100% my MIL. My MIL is also from the upper Midwest so even the accent is spot on.
I hate generalizations of any kind. It's irrational because really it's impossible to avoid generalizations entirely, but whenever anyone says/writes/implies that "all" people in a group are one way I am incensed.
"40-somethings are..." "Women love when..." "We all try to..."
YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ME, BUDDY!
As someone in that weird sometimes millennial, sometimes Oregon Trail generation whatever we're called, I hear this. Stop generalizing on so many levels. Stop overusing Millennials for everyone under I don't know under 42 or whatever the oldest cut off is, I promise us "oldz" are doing very different things.
Also stop calling every female presenting person over 18 "girls". It's real life, it's shows, it's all over. We're women just like grown boys are "men" (although that stands to be debated, lol)
Along the generalization lines(ish) I haaate both IRL and here when someone who hasn't seen, heard, smelt or dealt with it etc. just comes back that nope, no way it happened/happens so you're wrong and/or here's why! FFS things can happen without you experiencing it. I'm actually thankful to other folks who will speak up and make comments like maybe it's a neuro diverse behavior you're not aware of as you may not be diagnosed or aware, or it's RegI0nAl as we like to say. If you haven't experienced it just move on unless you're concerned about the persons safety.
I've always been told offline that "friendly reminder" can also be passive aggressive you need to respond. I also hate the re-forwarding an email from a few days or a week+ ago with no other context, just here you didn't do the email. If I sent that I'd get coached it was unprofessional.
Ludites....or any person my age (or older/younger, so anyone lol) who refuses to keep up with technology or know what is going on in the world. It's not hard to read a newspaper or blurb on SM/Google or Yahoo News!. It's not hard at 45 to figure out technology...watch a YouTube video.
I will preface this with the fact that I had a lot of customer service jobs to include fast food and retail cashier jobs. It is when service people say "you're welcome". This is only really about food places. I was always trained to thank the customer. So customer says thank you and then you also say thank you (or like Chik-fil-a workers say My Pleasure). My husband and I are on different sides of this. He was a waiter for 4 months and that was it for any customer service jobs of his. Everyone thanks everyone! It's a thank you circle. This is my hill to die on. However, I do not expect them them to say thank you back. I rather they be silent or say "please pull around" than say "you're welcome" to my thank you.
I feel like you are a fellow grammar nerd so I will share that I learned the difference between these recently. Use is when you using something for the purpose in which is was intended. Utilize is when you use it for another purpose. Ex: I use socks to keep my feet warm in the winter. The silly toddler utilizes her socks to keep her ears warm.
But I am with you. I always notice when people say utilize. I think it's one of those words that people use because they think it sounds more intelligent or fancy.
I do not believe that is correct.
Eta: Your example, that is. Utilize is not for improper uses of something, but creative extensions or applications. Utilizing a sock to replace a fan belt so you could drive a car? Sure. Putting socks on the wrong body part is not utilizing the socks.
And either way, use always works, and can be several parts of speech. Utilize only sometimes works and is not. And nearly no one uses it correctly. So just don't, I say.
Eta: Your example, that is. Utilize is not for improper uses of something, but creative extensions or applications. Utilizing a sock to replace a fan belt so you could drive a car? Sure. Putting socks on the wrong body part is not utilizing the socks.
And either way, use always works, and can be several parts of speech. Utilize only sometimes works and is not. And nearly no one uses it correctly. So just don't, I say.