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I am a courteous person and I almost always move out of the way when people say "Excuse Me", but when they say excuse me and just keep walking in your direction and then grunt at you when you don't jump out of the way and they almost knock you over it just Irks me! Yesterday in Sears and I was trying on shoes and the aisles were very narrow. I had just finished putting away the shoes I was trying on and was returning my shoes to my feet and an older lady behind me said excuse me and continued walking as though she was going to walk into me and then she grunted when I didn't move. I would gladly move out of the way but I need to be in the position where I can safely do so. I was bending over and if I moved I would have tripped and fallen on my face. As I finally moved I turned around and she gave me a dirty look. So I decided to tell her "if you waited one minute I would have moved out of the way safely I was putting my shoes on and couldn't move without tripping". She then replied "Well I said Excuse Me!". Really I didn't realize that it meant that if you say excuse me it means that no matter what and no matter if it would cause you to trip I had to move. I always let other people go when they need to get by, I always am courteous but in this case I think she really should have been patient and waited a moment. All she was doing was browsing the shoe aisle she was not in a shoe emergency. Come on people be patient and wait a minute when you say "Excuse Me."

I hate when people can’t mind their own business. What I am reading on the train you do not need to see; looking over my shoulder to view what I am viewing is wrong. You know the saying keep your hands to yourself; well in my case I would like people to keep their eyes to themselves… This type of person also loves to look at what you are doing on your phone… Whose business is it who I am calling?? If I wanted it to be your business I would say hey buddy I am calling Jimmy right now just in case you are wondering… The biggest irk in this situation is people looking over my shoulder at what it is that I am doing on my computer. Again if I wanted you to be looking at what I was doing on my computer I would turn the screen so we both could look at it. However I do not want you looking at my phone, my computer screen, or what I am reading. This has brought on the age of privacy screens which are great but seriously I have to now shield my phone so you do not look over my shoulder and view what I am doing. Keep your eyes to yourself; I don’t need you looking into my personal business. This also goes for people who do not know what is going on in a situation. If you don’t have all of the background information don’t make comments and point fingers when it is clearly MY business you are invading without knowing anything about the situation. Nosey busybodies need to worry about themselves more than worrying about what I am doing in my life. The only reason you are sticking your nose in my business is because you are jealous and your life is boring…..

I hate when I am standing on line somewhere and someone is standing right on top of me. Is there really a need to stand in my personal space? There is no reason for a complete stranger to be standing right on top of me, so close they are pretty much touching me. Come on what difference does it make if you stand an arm length away from the person in front of you? Do you think you will get to the front of the line quicker by standing on top of me? Do you think that by standing on top of me you will be served your coffee quicker? Standing on top of me will do nothing for you… It certainly will not get you served faster either. So what is the hype with standing on top of the person in front of you? Space invaders are certainly the worst. There is no rhyme or reason for them to stand on top of you and invade your space but they do and they are everywhere!! Beware of the Space Invaders!!

So I will never for the life of me understand how some people pass their road test. Most people don’t even know what the common traffic laws are. I actually had someone ask me, “What does the red flashing light mean?”… And this is someone who has a license! The red blinking light means stop and then proceed with caution when you are able to.
Now the driving sign that is on my mind is the yield sign, does anyone even understand what yield means? According to the NYS-DMV a Yield Sign is defined: As the driver you need to slow down as you approach the intersection. Prepare to stop and yield the right-of-way to vehicles and pedestrians in or approaching the intersection. You must come to a full stop at a yield sign if traffic conditions require it. When you approach a Yield sign, check carefully for traffic, and be prepared to stop.
Can you re-read the last line for me… Be prepared to stop. Yield does not mean that you stop; yield is not a stop sign. Stop signs are stop signs and yield signs are yield signs… As a driver you need to continue to drive and do not stop because if you do I am bound to smash into the back of your car because you do not stop at yield signs unless there is oncoming traffic!

I know that a lot of my posts are all about things that irk me while driving but I seem to be on the road with the crazy people or maybe I am the one who is crazy. Anyway when I am driving into work every morning my daughter and I get off at a particular exit where the left two lanes have arrows to turn left onto the main road however no one pays attention. It is really dangerous when you think you are clear to turn left and the person in the left most lane decides that he can go into either of the two lanes on the road we are both turning on to. Please pay attention when there are two turning lanes because that means the left lane should go into the left most lane and the right lane that is supposed to turn left also will have to go into the right lane on the road you are turning onto. It is really not safe to just assume that I am going straight because my directional is on and you were next to me to see that my directional was on and if you were driving defensively you would pay attention to the cars around you and realize there are two turning lanes. Even though my lane can go straight or turn left does not mean I will go straight all the time. So PLEASE WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING WHEN TURNING AND STAY IN THE CORRECT LANE!

This is really annoying and very dangerous. It irks me when someone decides that they want to use the HOV lane as a regular lane that they can enter and exit whenever they want. I take the HOV lane to and from work every day and when there is traffic in the main lanes cars that happen to have two or more people use the HOV as a regular lane that they come and go without any restrictions. It causes a safety hazard and is really annoying. What is even more annoying is that they usually get away with it. I wish there were video cameras on the highway watching the HOV lane they would have hundred of violations that they could help the state budget. When you are in the HOV just wait a few hundred feet to get out or if you have a wait an exit or two just do it and turn around. Swerving in and out of the HOV lane is not right and it is very distracting to the people who are correctly using the HOV lane so PLEASE stop!

This is really annoying to me because it is more than just  a major fashion faux pa it is just really ugly. When an old man decides that today is the day he wants to wear sandals but apparently he does not want to have bare feet in them and he decides to wear white socks. It is common understanding that when you wear sandals that you wear them without socks. If you look up white socks and sandals on the web it says a footwear combination only worn by the fashion challenged. If the problem is that you have moldy fungus full feet then you should be letting your feet breath anyway and get them checked out by a doctor. If your feet have the tendency to be hot and sweaty than use foot powder it will help tremendously and save you from making this terrible fashion faux pas.