Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

[TAC]

So online, I see all these pictures of people that take their picture with their phone pointed at a mirror. WTF? Who does this? It's not like you can't see the phone.

Wait. I though you weren't on social media? What sites are you going onto you old perv? Lol

My favorite one is @Kingshmegland

[Phoenix87x]

When you go to a BBQ place and all the side dishes are better then the meat 

[King Postwhore]

So online, I see all these pictures of people that take their picture with their phone pointed at a mirror. WTF? Who does this? It's not like you can't see the phone.

Wait. I though you weren't on social media? What sites are you going onto you old perv? Lol

My favorite one is @Kingshmegland

 

I wish! I would troll the hell out of you.  Lol

[ReaperKK]

When you go to a BBQ place and all the side dishes are better then the meat 

That's a very common theme here in NC

[jingle.boy]

When you go to a BBQ place and all the side dishes are better then the meat 

I don't think I could imagine a more emasculating statement/situation.

[Stadler]

So online, I see all these pictures of people that take their picture with their phone pointed at a mirror. WTF? Who does this? It's not like you can't see the phone.

I'm totally with you on this one.  To me, it's a special sort of idiot that can't figure out how to take a sensible selfie, since my 11 year old can do it.

(By the way, we were watching "America's Next Top Model" - well, my wife was, and I was taking one for the team - and Tyra Banks actually did a short tutorial for the girls on how to do it right.  I taped it and made my two daughters watch it.  Haha.)

[Stadler]

Yesterday at Jersey Mike's I'm waiting to get a sub. This woman who was ahead of me was asking her daughter who is around 5 or 6 what sub does she want; her daughter clearly doesn't know and is overwhelmed. The mom starts getting upset and starts asking her "Ok what meat do you want? Ham, chicken, salami?" The daughter responds with "I don't know, cubed meat" The argue back and forth for about 5 minutes before she realizes her daughter wants the chicken philly sub.

What really put me over the edge is the mom eventually started saying "What do you want?!?! I can't make a choice for you" WTF?!?!? she is your daughter, order the fucking sandwich and go. It took me back to my co-worker who has two kids, 4 & 1, and always complains that they only place they can go to is Olive Garden because their kids are so obnoxious. Apparently he allows the kids to just keep ordering shit off the menu, or ordering stuff that isn't even on the menu like Hot Dogs. I asked him why he does this and he says "we want our kids to have a choice in what they eat".

I guess I'm finally turning the corner and becoming an old man because my parents either never took me out or said "You can have A or B or nothing at all".

See, I think that the IDEA is sound, but the EXECUTION blows.  We have this problem with my 11 year old.  The fact is, they CAN'T have "free choice", because it would be pizza, hamburgers and ice cream all day every day if they did.  We have no problem narrowing down to a choice of one or two.

And not for nothing, but there is life- benefit to NOT having a choice.  When you get into a business meeting and there are just turkey sandwiches there, or you're traveling and all that's available at that moment is... whatever, tuna sandwiches, you have to figure out how to survive.   It's STUNNING to me how many kids have never been faced with the "problem" of eating what's in front of you, whether it's your first choice or not.    For various reasons (not all of them bad or negative) my 11 year old is like that.   He likes his tacos with meat and cheese (same with his burgers).   When I first came on the scene if a burger came with lettuce and tomato (yes, lettuce and tomato, i.e. not something that is hard to remove) it was like a catastrophe.  This weekend his tacos came with sour cream, tomatoes and lettuce.   And cutting the conversation short, in so many words, I said "look bud, this isn't about "perfect tacos" and "these tacos".  It's about "these tacos" and "NO tacos".  So is a little lettuce and a little sour cream worth NO tacos at all?" 

He ate them.  No one died, or puked, or had any other notable medical condition. 

[Adami]

When I post in the Flying Colors thread to Stadler that I'll be at the same show as him and he doesn't even reply. 

[Stadler]

When I post in the Flying Colors thread to Stadler that I'll be at the same show as him and he doesn't even reply. 

I was planning my wardrobe! 

[Cool Chris]

Kids who are goddamn particular about what they eat

God this is my daughter.

[Phoenix87x]

Videos that autoplay when I go to read an article online

[Adami]

When I post in the Flying Colors thread to Stadler that I'll be at the same show as him and he doesn't even reply. 

I was planning my wardrobe! 

Crossing my fingers for birthday suit.

[Stadler]

When I post in the Flying Colors thread to Stadler that I'll be at the same show as him and he doesn't even reply. 

I was planning my wardrobe! 

Crossing my fingers for birthday suit.

TOTALLY depends on the weather.  It is after Labor Day, after all. 

[JayOctavarium]

Videos that autoplay when I go to read an article online

Especially when on Mobile. It's gotten to the point where I have stopped going to certain sites due to this.

[Lethean]

Kids who are goddamn particular about what they eat

God this is my daughter.

As someone who was particular about what they ate as a child, I say leave those poor children alone.  

[Stadler]

I didn't slave over a hot stove just so's you can move crap around your plate with your fork.  Now eat!




Subject change: POISON IVY.  Used to get it BAD as a kid (I've been to the emergency room for it), but haven't had it in a while. For some reason, some how, I got it on my forearms and it's annoying the crap out of me.   Grrrrr.

[JayOctavarium]

I've never had poison ivy / oak, but I am allergic to Morning Glory and break out into hives when I come into contact with it. I also have had it growing in every freaking yard in every home I've lived in since I was 12.

[cramx3]

Poison Ivy sucks.  I only got it once when I was younger and it quickly was all over my body including places you'd really hope it didn't get to, but yea.  That sucked.  I actually took a piss off the side of a some random road near the NY/CT border a couple weeks ago and thought I might have stepped into some poison ivy so I washed my legs and arms using my water bottle when I got into my car.  Just to ease my mind a bit because if I had gotten some it would have ruined my weekend for sure.

[Adami]

Subject change: POISON IVY.  Used to get it BAD as a kid (I've been to the emergency room for it), but haven't had it in a while. For some reason, some how, I got it on my forearms and it's annoying the crap out of me.   Grrrrr.

What the HELL are you complaining about!?!?

[Evermind]

People actively discussing their children/family life (but it's usually children) at work. No, I don't want to listen to how your son got an A+ in the Math class in which he usually sucks, and no, I don't want to listen to how your daughter was sick for four days. It's not a passing sentence or two either, which I would've been fine with, they talk about it for 30+ minutes in the morning, loudly enough for anyone in the vicinity to hear.

I guess I should be thankful we can use headphones and listen to music at work, but this is still mildly irritating when you're in the middle of a call and this is your background noise.

[Stadler]

I don't go into the office much, but there's a guy there that is like that.    The woman next to me and I even have a code to call each other if the guy comes by becuase he will drone on and on and on about his personal life.   

Oddly? He has a degree in psychology from an Ivy League school, but is functionally oblivious (or maybe he's not!)

[The Walrus]

Man. My last job, which I recently left, was a nightmare as far as having to listen to coworkers talk. Riding around in a van all day with various people you really don't give a s&*% about, you just want to get the work done, and you hear about their kids and wives and personal lives and oh god. One guy would just do nothing but complain about women all day, but he had 3 moms for his 4 kids and was fooling around with 2 other girls at the same time. I wanted to give myself a root canal. I like my new (old) coworkers who just say a couple things and move on with their work.

I learned a lot about the gay sex community from one of them, which was completely unsolicited. I'm not homophobic in any way but uhhh I don't even like hearing about my best friends talk about sex.

[Lethean]

I didn't slave over a hot stove just so's you can move crap around your plate with your fork.  Now eat!

I don't wanna!

[Cool Chris]

Man. My last job, which I recently left, was a nightmare as far as having to listen to coworkers talk. Riding around in a van all day with various people you really don't give a s&*% about, you just want to get the work done, and you hear about their kids and wives and personal lives and oh god.

I learned a lot about the gay sex community from one of them, which was completely unsolicited. I'm not homophobic in any way but uhhh I don't even like hearing about my best friends talk about sex.

I worked for 10 years in the office of a luxury cruise line, and let me tell you, at least in my department I was in the stark minority being a straight male. I am not particularly chatty at work (or in general) but all the women and gay men in my department were to the nth degree. Through no intention of my own I knew more about their lives than my family and closest friends.

[cramx3]

I guess it all depends, but I don't mind some small talk and getting to know the people you work with and spend most of your time with... but there's a line of not only too much information but also tlaking too much.  My coworker and I get along very well but there are times I'm working and he just won't shut the fuck up.  I just keep working and stop responding.  He never gets the hint but at least I get my work done and he keeps talking.

I had one job with one super talkative person who was just sooooo uninteresting too.  That made things really worse being stuck wth him for hours.  Thank God I got out of that sooner than later.

[Stadler]

He never gets the hint ...

And that's really the crux, isn't it?   I have a feast or famine type job, and while I'll talk to anybody, if I'm on the phone or clearly working on something, that's a different story.   (No, I don't expect anyone to read minds; the guy I mentioned, you can tell him "Big deliverable in an hour!" and he'll still launch into his dating story.)

[Chino]

We switched to an open office floor plan in a new building on Monday. The woman at the desk next to me is eating a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich with a knife and fork.

[Stadler]

I would slap those utensils out of her hand and tell her to eat it right, or don't eat it at all.

Does it smell good, though?

[jingle.boy]

We switched to an open office floor plan in a new building on Monday. The woman at the desk next to me is eating a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich with a knife and fork.

But how does she eat a Snickers?

[Chino]

I would slap those utensils out of her hand and tell her to eat it right, or don't eat it at all.

Does it smell good, though?

Of course it did, though it was hard to smell over my freshly french pressed coffee.

[Chino]

We switched to an open office floor plan in a new building on Monday. The woman at the desk next to me is eating a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich with a knife and fork.

But how does she eat a Snickers?

Whole

[KevShmev]

[Hyperplex]

Pisses me off when people actually ask me what might be bothering me, and then after I've taken the time to explain it, they criticize me for being bothered by it.

Why even ask and feign interest in the first place?

[Snow Dog]

When people pee on the toilet seat and don’t clean it up when they’re done.

[cramx3]

When people pee on the toilet seat and don’t clean it up when they’re done.

It's amazing how bad bathroom etiquette is even in the work environment