Irrational things that annoy you (and non irrational things too come to think of it)

[Tiggy]

It's not bothering me all that much, it's bothering those around me more!

Two of my four siblings will be 40 this year. They will both slap me if I have a proper wobble about turning 30 lol

[Kitten]

When people bang on about having OCD because they're clean freaks or because they have to have the volume on an odd/even number. That's not being really OCD, that's being 'a bit quirky' or perhaps the other syndrome known as 'liking a clean house'.

Seriously, stop mistaking a very serious, very debilitating condition for something that has virtually no impact on your life except for the 2 seconds when you're putting the radio on.

Oh and saying 'I'm a bit OCD' makes NO SENSE! What? You're a bit obsessive compulsive disorder? REALLY? You're a bit illiterate, I think.



/rage

[Jonny69]

Ok, I've been saving things up. I have a few.

People who can't walk in a straight line.

I walk a bit faster than average, but I'm not an impatient pedestrian. I generally overtake a few people on the kilometre from the station to work. What really annoys me is people who can't keep a straight path when they're walking. They just drift randomly and unpredictably. And it's usually when I'm about to pass, they'll just drift across into my path causing contact.

Even when I've got my iPod plugged in I'm quite well aware of when there is someone close to me but there will be some element of surprise with these people and they'll jump, or make a noise of surprise, or some other expression of complete lack of awareness that they haven't noticed that they were walking in a straight line and just suddenly drifted two feet off to one side into me.

And then there are the ones who just can't walk in a straight line at all, but there's no pattern to their drifting. They will be walking down the middle of the path, drift left, walk there for a bit, drift all the way over to the right, then left again, stay there for a bit, and then, as I approach trying to decide which side to pass on, they'll start drifting faster than before, leaving me weaving all over the place trying to get round them. I'll often end up having to step off the kerb because you can just guarantee they'll be heading over that way - you guessed it - just as I'm actually going past.

JUST WALK IN A STRAIGHT LINE FFS

[Pheebs]

Hear hear Jonny!

Wolf Whistlers.

I don't know whether this is irrational as I guess it could be seen as a compliment. But it annoys me like insanely.

As my current morning job as a postie, there's a bunch of builders I walk past twice every day and EACH time they wolf whistle and make comments on my being a girly postie.

I just don't know what to say!

Ugh.

[vix]

Originally Posted by Jonny69

Ok, I've been saving things up. I have a few.

People who can't walk in a straight line.

I walk a bit faster than average, but I'm not an impatient pedestrian. I generally overtake a few people on the kilometre from the station to work. What really annoys me is people who can't keep a straight path when they're walking. They just drift randomly and unpredictably. And it's usually when I'm about to pass, they'll just drift across into my path causing contact.

Even when I've got my iPod plugged in I'm quite well aware of when there is someone close to me but there will be some element of surprise with these people and they'll jump, or make a noise of surprise, or some other expression of complete lack of awareness that they haven't noticed that they were walking in a straight line and just suddenly drifted two feet off to one side into me.

And then there are the ones who just can't walk in a straight line at all, but there's no pattern to their drifting. They will be walking down the middle of the path, drift left, walk there for a bit, drift all the way over to the right, then left again, stay there for a bit, and then, as I approach trying to decide which side to pass on, they'll start drifting faster than before, leaving me weaving all over the place trying to get round them. I'll often end up having to step off the kerb because you can just guarantee they'll be heading over that way - you guessed it - just as I'm actually going past.

JUST WALK IN A STRAIGHT LINE FFS

Don't walk behind me!

[Jonny69]

You have an excuse. They don't, damnit!

[semi-pro waster]

Originally Posted by Kitten

Oh and saying 'I'm a bit OCD' makes NO SENSE! What? You're a bit obsessive compulsive disorder? REALLY? You're a bit illiterate, I think.

It's a bit like asking someone who's had a heart attack "was it serious?". Obviously it didn't kill them but apart from that it's about as serious as it gets.

Recently for me the irrational annoyance has been standing at the station and then a train flies past full of people preceded by the message "please stand back, this train is not in public use". Now I don't care (much) that I can't get on the train, that's fine but what bugs me is that they're just flat out lying to me - the train is in sodding public use, I can see members of the public on it. What they actually mean is simply that the train will not stop at my station so why don't they just say it - it's not like it takes any more time and it would then be factually accurate, I wouldn't get irate and the World would continue on its merry little way that little bit more smoothly.

[jmc41]

Booking in conference calls at 6pm on a Friday. Oh wait that's rational (for the hours I'm meant to work anyway). It's also better than the ones NA just booked in, they vary from 7pm to about 9pm.

[divine]

Originally Posted by Kitten

When people bang on about having OCD because they're clean freaks or because they have to have the volume on an odd/even number. That's not being really OCD, that's being 'a bit quirky' or perhaps the other syndrome known as 'liking a clean house'.

Seriously, stop mistaking a very serious, very debilitating condition for something that has virtually no impact on your life except for the 2 seconds when you're putting the radio on.

Oh and saying 'I'm a bit OCD' makes NO SENSE! What? You're a bit obsessive compulsive disorder? REALLY? You're a bit illiterate, I think.



/rage

Annoys me too... it's kinda like saying 'I'm a bit AIDS' because you have a lot of colds. Just massively retarded.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by vix

Don't walk behind me!

Don't walk behind (or in front of) me either. I've done just about everything in that post - many times!

Originally Posted by jmc41

Booking in conference calls at 6pm on a Friday. Oh wait that's rational (for the hours I'm meant to work anyway). It's also better than the ones NA just booked in, they vary from 7pm to about 9pm.

Par for the course here - doesn't happen often, but it does happen. That's what you get for being a multi-national company. I work routinely with people in Austria, Bulgaria, and both sides of the US. Haven't got as far as Singapore or Australia yet, but we do have offices there.