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Post by jessibel on Feb 24, 2015 2:17:52 GMT
I hate people who order french dressing at a restaurant. I understand it's not really that big a deal, but it's the thing I've had to listen to the most bitching about over why we don't have it. Like last night when I was waiting on a set menu party of 65 people, only to be interrupted by some old guy while I was trying to take drink orders. He wanted to know if we had french dressing, even though the dressing options were clearly printed on the menu right in front of him. I told him we didn't carry it. He launched into a five minute rant about how he didn't understand how every one of "these here restaurants you go to, none of them have the same things", coke versus pepsi, how pepsi was called bellywater back in his day, etc.
And that's not the first person I've waited on who went into a crazy rant over french dressing.
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 24, 2015 2:33:07 GMT
I walk pretty fast naturally and it drives me nuts when I have to practically stop because the people in front of/around me apparently have snails for feet. Also when groups stop and talk in the middle of the sidewalk or in an aisle or hall of some sort. I missed the first train this morning because on every flight of stairs down to it I kept running into that thing where one slowpoke walks down the right side of the stairs and another slowpoke going approximately 3 inches per hour faster takes up the rest of the room by tying to "pass" the first one on the left.
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Post by muskratthemink on Feb 24, 2015 4:18:22 GMT
Ugh, I can't tell you how much that annoys me. I'm starting to think they should just have separate staircases for slow and fast people, like lanes on the highway. Not that anyone really respects those, either. :/
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 24, 2015 8:04:09 GMT
Yeah, the thing with the stairs makes me think of people who hog the left side of an escalator. It's usually tourists from outside of Europe who do it though not always. But if they try that on the London Underground they pretty quickly find out that British manners are not what they expected, when they get shouted at and shoved out of the way, especially on the down escalators. I mean it is clearly written on the escalators that you stand on the right and walk on the left.
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Post by xebi on Feb 24, 2015 12:30:58 GMT
People ignore those keep left signs. It makes me rage. Also, it does annoy me when people dawdle and dither in front of me no matter where - it's just worst in shops because I hate shops.
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Post by mrgbh on Feb 24, 2015 15:48:10 GMT
People ignoring queues enrages me. Especially since I'm usually the poor sod who's serving meaning I have to point it out to them. Then they look at me as if I'd just told them to jump off of a cliff. It's like, there are sings right there at head height in bright fricking yellow. If you're that stupid then you shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
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Post by xebi on Feb 24, 2015 18:39:02 GMT
One that has particularly annoyed me today: people misusing the word "karma" as if it means "petty revenge" or "I have the fucking smug bastard moral high ground here" or "coincidence that results in schadenfreude."
I always want to yell that this is not what karma is.
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Post by jscaifetx on Feb 24, 2015 18:45:18 GMT
Yeah, the thing with the stairs makes me think of people who hog the left side of an escalator. It's usually tourists from outside of Europe who do it though not always. But if they try that on the London Underground they pretty quickly find out that British manners are not what they expected, when they get shouted at and shoved out of the way, especially on the down escalators. I mean it is clearly written on the escalators that you stand on the right and walk on the left. I'm not British, but I've traveled in Europe/Japan, and I get so annoyed in the US when people stand on the left. Some of us want to just get up the escalator thankyewverymuch! LOL
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 24, 2015 18:56:03 GMT
Well as one of those people who use the escalator by just standing I hate those who rudely push by. If you want to run up them, use the stairs not 2 feet away from the escalator. I use a cane, I can't use stairs at all. I almost fall almost every damn time I'm on one due to people pushing by me and making me lose my balance. I do stand to the right, just like I walk to the right. But people are still rude and could give a shit if I fall.
One thing I'm irrationally annoyed at is hearing people eat when I'm not eating. When I'm eating with them it's fine. But if I'm not for some weird reason it just creeps me out. Can't explain it.
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 24, 2015 22:18:46 GMT
I can tell you there are not normally stairs in the Underground. Just escalators, a lift if you're lucky. I personally was careful of people who are standing on the right especially if they had a cane. If someone was standing on the left though I would ask them to get out of the way and explain that in London they must stay on the right. Others are more likely to shove. But either way, there generally are no stairs. Same went in Moscow where I have also lived. Moscovites would probably push you over and then shout at you for being in the way as you lay there. They're way worse than Londoners. If a Londoner knocked you over while trying to get past, another would help you up and apologise even though they weren't the one who'd done it.
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Post by Channy on Feb 25, 2015 0:06:22 GMT
People who constantly talk over each other. Doesn't even have to be me they're interrupting, I just listen to conversations at work, and a lot of younger girls (and I'm still young myself) will just interrupt or keep talking over people in a conversation and refuse to back down. My older sisters taught me strick polite manners with regards to "please" "thank you" and waiting your turn to speak and it almost frustrates me to the point of "why even bother if you don't want to hear what I say?"
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Post by blowpop on Feb 25, 2015 0:21:03 GMT
People who constantly talk over each other. Doesn't even have to be me they're interrupting, I just listen to conversations at work, and a lot of younger girls (and I'm still young myself) will just interrupt or keep talking over people in a conversation and refuse to back down. My older sisters taught me strick polite manners with regards to "please" "thank you" and waiting your turn to speak and it almost frustrates me to the point of "why even bother if you don't want to hear what I say?" This bothers me to no end! Also people who are judgmental about the format of reading someone chooses (especially people who snub their noses at people who use e-readers! Who cares? They're reading that's all I care about!). On the flip side of the coin people who look down on people who don't read (because reading doesn't make you superior to someone who doesn't) and people who take a lot of pride in not reading and talk trash about people who do read or books in general. Great you don't like reading. Don't put those who do down and don't talk trash about books you've never touched. (saying you didn't enjoy having to read x book in high school is one thing but equating all books to that book just..ugh). On the topic of books, poorly edited and published books. I'm not talking self published authors that release their books in e-book format. I'm talking traditional publishing route people. ELJ is the worst perpetrator of this but there's many others who do it and it annoys me to no end every time I pick up a book that has a really good and interesting blurb and the writing looks like a 12 year old could have written it better. (Also, one thing if it's a translation and things are getting seriously lost in translation because the translator is mis-translating but a different if English speaking/writing author writes in English and can't put sentences together properly and appears to have not had it edited or ignored any editing suggestions. You're not Stephen King and get to have final say in your work about editing, though his work annoys me on another level altogether, so take the damn editing suggestions and implement them it WON'T take away from your work. It will improve it almost every time).
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Post by mrgbh on Feb 25, 2015 16:08:29 GMT
My 3-year-old nephew loves the tv show Curious George (Because that's my name). I've developed a nervous twitch every time he's referred to as a monkey. Especially by zoologists and others who should know better. He's not a monkey, he's a chimpanzee! Stop teaching our children that chimpanzees and monkeys are the same thing.
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 25, 2015 17:26:46 GMT
I can tell you there are not normally stairs in the Underground. Just escalators, a lift if you're lucky. I personally was careful of people who are standing on the right especially if they had a cane. If someone was standing on the left though I would ask them to get out of the way and explain that in London they must stay on the right. Others are more likely to shove. But either way, there generally are no stairs. Same went in Moscow where I have also lived. Moscovites would probably push you over and then shout at you for being in the way as you lay there. They're way worse than Londoners. If a Londoner knocked you over while trying to get past, another would help you up and apologise even though they weren't the one who'd done it. Remind me not to travel abroad then, especially Moscow!! ha ha ha!! Here in the states most places have stairs right next to the escalators in between the up and down ones. Ok that's written like there might be side to side ones. You know what I mean! ha! But people a lot of times don't care about the cane. I'm not sure what has changed over the last few months, but everywhere I go people are just getting ruder and ruder. Most times people are very polite once they see the cane, but lately not so much. We parked in the handicap space last week grocery shopping and some very health old lady parked in the one next to us. I was out walking in next to my husband and she bumped by me (not like there wasn't about 50 feet of space she could have gone in, nope she had to go right up to and bump me) and just kept walking. Didn't look back or even mumble a sorry. Not sure why she even had the hang tag. They seem to pass them out to older people no matter how healthy they are around here. And these same healthy people who literally jog into the store are also the ones who leave their carts in between the handicap spaces where the lines are. This is another thing that is justifiably annoying though, not one I can't justify. These spaces are for people like me who need to open the car doors wide to get in (or I would just park in a regular space- but the cars are too close then!!!), or are in wheelchairs and need a lift. So please PLEASE don't leave carts there!! Especially the ones who leave them there when the cart return thingy is two spaces away. I think people have lost all common courtesy.
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 25, 2015 19:50:18 GMT
Russia is seriously not a good place for disabled people. It's worse if you are in a wheelchair of course. I honestly would never recommend that a disabled person went there on holiday, same as I wouldn't recommend it to a non white person or a camp acting gay man. London isn't very good for wheelchair access either, that is much better here in Germany where I live now. I guess healthy people park in disabled spots everywhere unfortunately, it often doesn't seem to be policed at all so they figure they will get away with it. My husband always grumbles when he sees someone doing it but it really never seems to be policed here and in this part of Germany (Frankfurt area) people are bigger dickheads than in other parts (you guessed it, my husband is from another part of Germany ). I don't think they give out the disabled permits so much to elderly people here though, think you really have to prove you are disabled.
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