You Irk Me Things That Irk or Annoy Us

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.

There are some people who do not understand that they are being rude when they just leave their Bluetooth on their ear the whole time during a meeting. It is not a fashion accessory! It would be appropriate to take it off if you arrive for a meeting and join the people at the table. It is almost like they are holding their cell phone up to their ear the whole time during the meeting and not only is it on their ear but it is still turned on and the blue light is blinking. Are you currently on the phone? Do you need to be talking to someone? If the answer is no then take it off your ear at least. If you just hung up with someone remember to take it off. You are not still in your car so you do not have to use it anymore. Why is it still in your ear? Are you trying to make a new fashion statement because it is pink and it matches your clothes or that it is blue and it matches your eyes? Or even better trying to cover up you lost your earring on that side? If you are not on the phone and do not have to be on the phone and are meeting with people please take off your Bluetooth because this really IRKS me!

This is an annoying thing that happens at work all the time. When I am on a conference call and we are on speakerphone and one person talks people do not realize that they have to wait until the other person is done speaking in order for the microphone portion of the phone to pick up your voice. If one person is talking you cannot really interupt them. It annoys me how many people try to interupt and then you cannot hear them and they said something important and then they have to repeat it any way. Speakerphone are not like regular phones and the microphone is picking up only the first person talking and then if you start talking it breaks up and people cannot hear you. So please when you are using the speakerphone let the other person finish what they are saying so that we can all hear the important wisdom you have to share with all of us.

People who block the door to a store irk me! There are people who need to enter and exit the store how are they supposed to do it with you blocking the entrance? I don’t get this at all. If people were to leave a clear pathway for people to get in and out of the store the store wouldn’t become over crowded and people would be able to come and go easily. No instead they need to stand right in front of the exit and there are like 5 people in front of the door to exit, so that it is impossible for me to leave I need to stop and say excuse me. They all look up at me like where do you want us to go? I don’t know maybe away from the front of the door so I can exit. They all are still just staring off into space and they have clearly heard what I have said. So now I need to be mean, I have to push my way through and almost knock people over just to get out of the store. Really people can you be a little more kind and considerate do not block the entrance and exit to the store!

THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO FORGET TO TAKE THE CAP LOCKS OFF ON THEIR COMPUTER AND THEY JUST TYPE EMAILS OR FACEBOOK STATUSES AND THEY ARE ALL IN CAPS AND THEY AREN'T YELLING.

Ooops I am doing exactly what irks me. If you are not mad or excited about something then there is no reason why you need to type in call caps. SO PLEASE STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS because I am sick and tired of you yelling at me. It really seems like something is wrong when you type like that. You should try to read your own typing it is difficult to read and actually distracting. The reader does not know whether there is something wrong, you are yelling or you are just excited!

I hate people that are lazy and do not clean up after themselves. I have watched people do it even in my home and it bewilders me; if you drop food wouldn’t you pick it up and throw it away? Now if you are a normal clean tidy person your answer to this question would probably be yes; but if you are a lazy dirty person your answer will probably be to just leave it there. Now the people who answer this question as to just leave it there someone else will tend to it, they are ridiculously lazy and dirty. If this was your home would you really just leave the food on the floor??

Either way this is my house and I am not dirty; my house is clean tidy and in order so if you drop food pick it up and throw it away! Walk the two feet to the garbage and place the thing you dropped in there. I am not your maid and I will not follow you around cleaning up the mess you make as you go through life. Take the garbage out don’t let it sit there till it over flows and make sure the house isn’t a mess before you have people over. Clean, neat, and tidy is the way to go. Don’t be a burden to the people around you; be proactive and clean up as you go along and you won’t live in a pigsty.

I am not sure what I would call this one other than foaming at the mouth. It really irks me when I am talking to someone and they have that white foam starting to accumulate on their lips. It actually makes me totally grossed out. I want to tell them to lick their lips and keep the foamy spit inside their mouth. Is it really that hard to keep your spit inside your mouth so I do not feel like you are going to spit it out on me? I do not understand why it happens with so many people. Then when it starts going on the upper and lower lip and it connects them while they are talking. This is really disgusting. I really want to give them a napkin to wipe it off but how rude would that be?

It really irks me when someone lies to me. Especially when I know they are directly lying to my face and I know the words they are telling me are a total lie. This irks me to no end, most of the time you can tell when a person is lying especially when they are someone that you know very well personally. I seem to have this problem with a certain person I know. Now the thing that really gets to me are the things they lie to me about are so ridiculous I am completely puzzled as to why they would lie about it in the first place. This gets me thinking hey; maybe they lie about really important things too.

Even though I am pretty sure they do not lie to me about important items it has me wondering why lie to me about stupid things? There is no reason to be lying to me in the first place let alone about something that stupid. I am sure whatever it is that this person has to tell me it would be much better off if they were telling me the truth instead of perpetrating a great big lie! Don’t be a liar about things; speak your mind and tell the truth at all times it might get you hurt but at least you will know you are always being honest with yourself and others.

It really irks me that most of the people in the human population were raised with out manners. I see it all the time its like parents forgot to teach their kids rights and wrongs and how to be polite and kind. So many of my friends do it too and believe me when it comes to asking for something from me that you want you aren’t getting it by saying “Toss me that ball.” Now if you were to say “Toss me that ball, PLEASE” than it would be no problem for me and since you asked nicely I will toss you the ball. Now after I toss you the ball what you are supposed to say is thank you. This is just common courtesy when asking for something you say “Please may I have that?” When the person turns around and gives you the item you say “Thank you!” Try it with me now…. “Please and thank you!”

Now when someone is in your way I wouldn’t say that you should barrel them down so that you can get through them. Just walk up to them nicely and say excuse me, they will probably step to the side so that you can get around them. This is also nice manners saying excuse me when someone is in your way in order to get around them.

Parents make sure that you teach your children manners because most kids in today’s day and age do not have any!

Now we have all seen these people they are oblivious to people around them, people’s feelings, and the time they have to waste on things. You see them at Dunkin Donuts and they can’t make up their mind of how they want their coffee and then 20 minutes later they finally decide. They walk into the deli and are unsure of what they want to eat and 20 minutes later they finally have a decision. They are talking to their family about where to go out to eat and finally 20 minutes later they have a decision. These people while these 20 minutes are passing will also make 25 other possible suggestions as to things they want to drink or eat. Stop with the constant back and forth make up your mind and stick with your decision either you want your coffee black or regular you can not have it both ways.

Now the people who really irk me are the people who are constantly up and down back and forth. Make a decision and stick with it! If you are unsure then don’t make any decisions just yet. Obviously if you are stuck in a predicament where you are indecisive then just let yourself sit on the decision. If it is something as easy as your coffee you should know what you want when you walk through the door. If it is something more complicated heed my advice and wait till you have all the facts and everything is clear in your head. This way you can make an educated decision that was based off of important information.

This has been happening more and more lately. It is almost like they do not want to admit who they are on the phone because they think they are going to get blamed for something. I think when someone answers an office line and they say the Name of the Company that they should also say their name. It really irks me when I always have to guess who I am speaking with especially when it is a company that I pay significant amount of money to in order to take care of business. It is just customer service and it should be part of the routine when you answer the phone. I do not want to try to figure out who I am talking to just say XYZ Company, Dawn Speaking how may I help you. It makes it easier on the caller so they know who you are and it makes it easier that you do not have to waste time telling them that you are not Ann, not Jamie oh yes I am Jane. So please answer the phone and just say who is speaking it would help tremendously!

So you are in New York City and it is raining; it doesn’t even have to be raining that hard just a little drizzle and almost everyone you encounter has an umbrella. The street peddlers that you normally see on the street corner selling purses and scarfs are now standing there yelling “Brella, brella, brella.” It works; because everyone in the city is carrying an umbrella. Even when someone has to take five simple steps from the front of their office building to the cab; they have an umbrella.

Now I would have no problem with this if people paid attention. Most umbrellas also have the pointy metal ends on them and when someone who is carrying one is not paying attention it can hurt someone else. Now I have seen people walking with their umbrellas down in front of their face; how are you supposed to see the people you are walking at? Oh I get it they are just supposed to move out of your way and let you keep going along, not paying attention, and ready to stab someone with the end of your umbrella. Then there is the person who likes to swing their umbrella they are completely not paying attention and they are definitely going to hit someone as well; I have actually been stabbed in the leg by someone swinging their umbrella back and forth.

Bottom line people must know how wicked they are; these types of people irk me, there is no need for an umbrella unless it is down pouring. So brella, brella, brella stop buying them. Oh and by the way when it is windy out they are just going to blow inside out.

Non-Morning people irk me! Especially people who are older and in the mornings they are mean, nasty, and cranky, and don’t want to talk. I am completely a morning person and this probably irks others but I am writing the blog so…. Non-Morning people are the worst; if you wake up wake up early there is no rolling over and going back to bed, waking up again going back to bed again, and then getting up again. If you opened your eyes at 7:30am get up; this is your body telling you that you should be awake now. You shouldn’t constantly go to sleep and get up, go back to sleep and then get up.

You should get up do things; be productive; not sleep until 4:00 in the afternoon. There are some nights even on the weekend when I would go out until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning and then the next day I would be up at 8:00am. I would get up wondering, where I was going to eat and what things I was going to accomplish for the day. I understand in the winter time there are a lot less things that you can do; but in the summer time there are a lot of things that I enjoy doing.

In the winter I would say pretty much the main thing to do is go snowboarding or skiing; where as in the summer there are a great deal of more events you could do. In the summer there is always my number one favorite going to the beach, or playing golf, or taking a walk around the flower gardens.

I feel that Non-Morning people miss out on life… They need to get up, get out, and enjoy the fun things in life before it’s to late.

Unkind people irk me. I understand I am a push over and will pretty much over extend myself for anyone; but then there are those people that only care about them. It’s all about me, me, me and right now. They don’t care who they hurt or what happens to the people around them. They are all about themselves and if you do not fit nicely into their plans or life; than oh well it doesn’t matter…

Now with a random person I can understand this, this person really does not owe you anything. In their mind unless they are very nice they will never do something above and beyond to try and help you out with something or go somewhere with you. Now if this is a person who you have a close bond with say a boyfriend perhaps; they should be willing to go out of their way for you and over extend themselves to you because they love and care for you.

Unkind people need to be nicer and think less about themselves and more about the world and people around them. If someone asks you to go somewhere with them go; they are probably asking you because they love your company and want you to be there with them, nothing else. I need to wake up and smell the coffee everyone I am overly nice to does not deserve my extreme niceness and the unkind people of the world need to put a smile on their face and help others out more often.

This is something that annoys me terribly. It is so bad sometimes I have to close my ears. When people are eating and I hear every chew and every ooze and every crunch. I really do not want to hear them. I cannot stand it. I would appreciate it if you did not chew so loud. Can you please stop it? Then those little jaw squeaks oh my goodness it is just so annoying. Sometimes I have to get up and go in the other room. It is even worse when someone is eating something crunchy. Really come on do you really have to chew those cookies so loud. It is just really gross to hear it. I do not know why you have to chew so loud. It is not everyone. I eat with plenty of people including 5 year olds at their lunch time and they do not chew so loudly but you on the other hand are so loud it is like nails on the chalk board. Please stop chewing so loud!

Come on do you really think you are kidding anyone when you order 3 hamburgers, 2 hot dogs, fries and onion rings and then you order a Diet Coke? I once stood behind someone in line and this is what they ordered and guess what it was for themselves. What is even funnier is that they actually turned around and said I am on a diet. I honestly hope they were joking. If you order food like that then a Diet Coke is not going to help. You need to order less. I know it was for them and them alone because they were part of my group and they ate it all in front of me. I wanted to tell them they needed to get help but then they might have gotten offended. What do you do in this situation? I just let it go, but this just irks me to no end. There is really no reason to order a Diet Coke when you have all of that other food unless you have diabetes or something but even then you should not be eating all of those other things so you really need to pay attention and instead go on a real diet.

This just really irks me. I understand though that some people have a medical disorder which causes them to breathe loudly but if you don’t then you should pay attention to how loud you are breathing. Unless you just ran a race then you shouldn’t be breathing so loud. This is especially annoying when you are in class and supposed to be quietly reading or studying and the person in front of you is just breathing so loud you cannot concentrate. When you are supposed to be quiet you should pay attention and have consideration for those around you and stop breathing so loud. I know some of you have no choice but those that do can you please stop breathing so loud.

Alright so this really irks me. When I am talking to someone and they decide that they have to clean their ear out. I understand that sometimes there is an itch and you need to get out whatever it is but I think it would be better to use a Q-Tip or even your finger. Your Pen does not belong in your ear. A toothpick especially does not belong in your ear. That is really dangerous. What if the pen leaks in your ear or scratches something? What if the toothpick tip breaks off in your ear? What if it goes in and you can’t get it out? Someone once said you shouldn’t stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear and your elbow can’t fit in your ear so do not put anything in your ear. It is disgusting. Then when you take it out you look at what it was on your pen and then continue to take notes with that same pen with all of your ear gunk on it. GROSS. It would be nicer to do it more discretely and just use your finger. So please unless you are in the privacy of your own home do not use a pen or toothpick to clean your ear out. YUCK!

What irks me are public safety officials!! Now there is a great thing for us to waste tax payer’s hard earned money on. Some rubber gun cop that sits in his car all day long and does nothing! Now why do I say this, I say this because I just got a parking ticket. Yes I was in the wrong but so where 60 other cars in the lot and because public safety cops are beyond lazy they wrote one ticket that day in that lot and placed it on my car. If you aren’t even going to write more than one ticket than what is the point?

I am annoyed so I go back and take photos of the 60 other cars that are not parked in parking spots due to the fact that the station has no room for parking. I then phone the office of the Town of Islip only to get a beyond nasty woman on the phone who informs me that the officers are very busy and probably only had time to write one ticket and then had to go on another call. That is ridiculous public safety does not attend to calls the REAL police department does. So instead I now have to pay $75.00 to the Town of Islip just to make the problem go away. Legal matters are ridiculous, I really think we should have no need for court no one ever wins, there are always loop holes, and the city and the towns are just trying to bleed hard working citizens dry. Rubber gun cop if you are going to do your job actually do your job don’t write one ticket and get tired and sit in your car for the rest of the day because I know that’s what you did; you’re a loser who could be a real cop. Public Safety Officers and I use the term very loosely get a life and stop being lazy losers!

What irks me are dumb, lazy, late people. These people miss cut off dates for things, they don’t pay attention to life around them, and are constantly late. This causes them to over pay for items they shouldn’t have wasted money on in the first place. If they were just paying attention and doing their job correctly instead of talking to their friends all day long and surfing the web this stuff wouldn’t happen. You do not get paid a salary to come in and surf the web daily. You are getting paid to produce work.

Now what really makes me mad is when you know the person at hand has the time to get the work done and you watch them slacking off and not doing the things that you need them to get done so that you can complete daily tasks you need to attend to. Come on this is your place of employment pay attention to the things happening around you. Stay on top of your bills you should know everything that you are paying for! The company losing out on $1500.00 because you didn’t pay attention and cancel something when it needed to be canceled is a dumb costly mistake. Wake up smell the coffee and stop the slacking.

Know what really irks me?? Mondays really irk me… Friday morning comes and you are so happy to wake up because it is Friday and you know that once that clock hits 4:30pm you are out of your office and you do not need to do another thing pertaining to work until Monday morning. You at 4:30pm on a Friday can leave the office yelling “Free at Last, I am Free at Last!” Then the weekend comes and you have a great weekend. You go out for drinks, dinner, you go see a movie, you hang around and do nothing with your significant other; basically you have Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday to kick back, relax, and enjoy your life. Then you wake up Monday morning and that alarm clock goes off… Now I don’t know about you, I am a morning person but come Monday morning when that alarm goes off I want to throw it across the room until it breaks. Mondays are the worst day of the week and the day completely drags!

You wake up and everyone you encounter is like land of the living dead. No one wants to be awake and going to work. Most people also hate their jobs so to go from having two days of being able to do whatever it is you want and not worrying about work or responsibilities back to your daily grind is like murder. Mondays irk me! I need to win the lotto!

Okay so this one probably goes for men and women, but especially women because I honestly do not know how they get this to happen. I would understand how this happens with a man. I would like to say you really irk me if you go to the bathroom and can’t get it in the toilet. I know this might be gross but come on how did it get all over the seat? Did you straddle the seat and stay standing up and hope it went into the toilet? Did you squat with your feet on the seat and hope it got into the toilet? Try to go to the bathroom and get it into the toilet. If you are a germ-o-phobe then wipe it down with something and make sure you carry that something so that you can clean the seat so you can sit like a regular person. What gets me is when I go into the bathroom and enter the stall and there are footprints on the seat. Are you kidding me? Are you some kind of acrobat? How the heck did you squat like that and not fall on the floor. This irks me terribly especially because I have a 5 year old who always needs to use public bathrooms and they are always disgusting. Why is it so wet on the seat? It is not from flushing because it has a yellow tint to it. Please when you use a public restroom try to be courteous to the next person and don’t go to the bathroom all over the seat!

What really irks me is the lazy employee. Honestly, if you see your co-worker running around the office like a crazy person why wouldn’t you offer up some help if you are sitting there doing nothing. Oh I know why; because most of American’s are lazy and want to get paid for doing the minimal amount of work required. Most American’s do not take pride in their work, their job title, or the company that they work for. Why is this? Is Goggle Chat and Facebook really more important than doing your job correctly and efficiently? These people are a complete and utter waste of time and money; I have never in my life had that type of work ethic. If I am at work and I find myself with down time and nothing to do, I will ask the other people in my office what it is that I can help them to get accomplished. It is all about Team Work and helping out one another. So why am I sweating, multitasking beyond belief, and starting to make mistakes? Oh it is because we pay a warm body to sit there and Goggle Chat all day. Lazy Employee offer your help, it will probably be an easy task that you are given that will help lower someone else stress level.

So this is something that I thought about on my way into to work yesterday. I commute from Long Island to New York City via the Long Island Rail Road. I drive to Deer Park to take the train from there, now the parking lot there is definitely craziness. I just don’t get people; people will park wherever they can in that parking lot. They make it impossible to see if there are other cars coming at you as you are trying to make your way across the lot.

I also see this is random places that I have to go to; the mall, the grocery store, the drug store, pretty much any place people park their car in. Now my question and also the thing that irks me is… Is there a particular reason why 99.9% of people in the parking lot can park correctly and in between the two yellow lines that make up the parking spot, but you; problem parker you can’t seem to do this. Problem parkers are either taking up two spots, are not parked in a marked stall, or are either over or just on one of the yellow lines. This makes it next to impossible to park next to them and in a very crowded parking lot this is unacceptable! Stop being rude people; think about the accidents that you cause blinding peoples view by parking in unmarked stalls or it is the last spot in the lot and you take up two spaces because you were in a rush and didn’t care.

I understand most people take pride in their nice cars and some do this so other people do not hit their car but in crowded parking lots be kind and courteous, think of others and park safely and correctly.

People who are in La-La Land completely irk me to no end. Why is it that everyone on a daily basis looks like they are clueless as to where it is they have to go and where their destination is? This especially irks me on the E Subway Line in New York City. When you take the E and you get off at Penn Station especially when you are in the front car there is nowhere else to go but down. Walk put one foot in front of the other… Stop staring at the sky and pay attention; there are some people behind you who have 2 minutes to make their train; don’t walk like you are going nowhere fast. Now this really irks me because it is also the evening rush hour. Do these people not want to go home? Get off the subway; get to your train; and go home.

Now there is also the person who likes to ride on the left side of the escalator and not walk up they just sit there. Do you not see everyone else in front of you walking up the steps? Walk left ride right… If you do not feel like walking up the subway steps then stand to your right so that I can get around you and walk up the escalator steps. Not all of these people are tourists either they are just rude and do not care; or as I like to call it they are in La-La Land. I especially love when I get off the E and I am running to my train and there are people who wander walk. Wander walking is weaving back and forth and walking super slow; if you are wander walking walk in a straight line so that people can get around you. Come back to Earth return from La-La Land and WAKE UP!!!!

What really irks me is the indecisive non-up front person. People you need to speak your minds; let people in on the secrets that are filling your head. I hate when someone tells me they are going to call me and they don’t… If you are not going to call then don’t tell me that you are; then I will not be waiting for your call and I won’t be mad when you don’t call. However if you tell me you are going to call then do it!

I especially hate when you first start dating or seeing someone and they are completely up and down. You cannot read what they are thinking or feeling, you are completely in the dark about how they feel towards you. You think; and you are pretty sure that they like you but you don’t really know because their actions are sneaky and shady and you are unsure of what they are thinking or feeling. The reason for this is most people are not upfront they are indecisive and it is all like a game to them. A game; come on people! These are people’s feelings you are dealing with! Get over yourself you are not that great if you tell the other person you are with that you are just not that into to them I bet they will move on in life and stop waiting by the phone for you. So to the people who think they are godly trust me the person you are seeing will get over you in a heartbeat if you just tell them the truth… “I’m just really not that into you.”

What really irks me is the last minute person. Why does everything need to happen right this minute, and be done without the proper time and planning? When you try to complete a project last minute; things don’t turn out correctly, problems arise, there is stress, and people are scurrying to get the job done. When all you need to do was start the project maybe even a week prior and things would have run a lot smoother than they are at that current moment. All you needed to do was plan properly and the project would have been completed in a time efficient manner.

When you try to do things last minute problems arise; people are only human and they make mistakes so when they are trying to multitask and take on way too many projects all at the same time things start to get mixed up. Such as booking wrong dates for non-refundable flights, trying to mail out a letter that should have an information sheet and not including the information sheet, booking last minute flights and hotels so they end up costing entirely too much money. The item at hand whether it is spending time with a person or a project when it comes to the last minute person it needs to be right this minute or not at all. Why is that? Last Minute Person you irk me! Learn how to plan better!

This is again inspired by my dad. When you are sitting in a room silently or on the train and want to just keep to yourself and someone keeps clearing their throat you wonder what is wrong with them. Do they have a medical condition and need to clear their throat every 30 seconds? If you do then I am sorry but if you do not have anything medically wrong that is causing you to clear your throat then drink some water, suck a piece of candy or do something to get the tickle out of your throat. I guess I am one to talk though but I actually have something medically wrong that is causing me to cough every few minutes but if I could control it by drinking or doing something I would.


The throat clearing sound sometimes gets so annoying that I would like to get up and give them a piece of … candy. No I was not going to say piece of my mind. I just wish they would realize that if someone is trying to concentrate on something then the throat clearing is very distracting. If you have a habit of continually clearing your throat then try to stop. You may be irritating your throat more by clearing it. Try to be courteous of people when they are working on something and control the clearing.

Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Marie I’m on the train so I’ll have to talk low. All this is said while this woman is yelling into her phone at 8AM! Really; it is not a tin can and wire, you do not need to scream into the phone for the person on the other end to hear you. It is a mobile device it is specifically made for carrying your conversation from one place to another and it does this without you having to scream into it. So now her conversation begins and I need to hear about little Johnny and Susie the whole way into work.

I am just trying to get some sleep along with everyone else on the train; however all we can hear is this woman’s whole conversation loud and clear! While this is taking place she is receiving dirty looks and funny stares, you think this might give her the hint; hey I am being way too loud on my cell phone. Alas she doesn’t care because she wants to talk that loud and doesn’t care who she bothers. This is what really irks me; they have signs, pamphlets, and they make loud speaker announcements on the train specifically so why is it that you feel the need to yell into your cell phone?

I once saw a woman get so annoyed on the train she got up and threw a pamphlet at a woman who was yelling into her cell phone. It’s not just the train that this is done either! Stop irking me and the rest of the world! Speak softly while on your cell phone I promise you that the person on the other end can hear you we have come a long way since a tin can and wire.

Ok so this one is inspired by my father who has been a salesman for many years walking the streets traveling office to office encountering a lot of people walking down the road with him. When you are walking down a city block or anywhere for that matter you should try to pay attention to where you are walking, especially when you are texting someone on your Blackberry, iPhone or any cell phone. This is not only for the safety of others but for your safety. It irks me when people who are walking at you and are not paying attention because the next thing you know they are going to walk right into you. You are texting someone about your plans for later, your head is down and you are not paying attention to the people walking at you and you trip into them, over them or they try to avoid you and they cause some more tripping. Please pay attention to where you are going it is already against the law to text and drive already because you can cause accidents. But it is not against the law to text and walk but what if you are walking across the street and are not paying attention to a car coming down the road. It is important to try to stay safe and pay attention to your surroundings while you are texting so you do not cause an accident with someone or something.

Nothing irks someone more than when you are in the store going to the front to pay and the person in front of you decides to pay with change and does not have it ready. They are buying a cup of coffee and the cashier says the total is $1.17 or something like that and they take out all the change on the bottom of their pocket or the bottom of their pocket book. Then they start going one, two, three. Ok come on now. Have it ready and if you do not have it ready then let the person behind you go so that they do not have to wait for 20 minutes while you count out $1.17 in pennies, nickels and dimes because you did not have $2 or $1.25 to pay. In this day and age people are always in a rush and you should have your money somewhat ready when you are going up to pay for something. So please everyone who wants to pay with change have it out and ready before you get to the cashier and start counting at the counter and hold up the line.

We have all seen this happen and this is something that used to really irk me when I was waitressing. I still see it all the time; I call them kid appeasers. Instead of parenting their child they appease their child, and they are appeasing their child for bad behavior just to make them quiet! This irks me to no end; you need to parent your kids! You don’t need to give them the beating of their life for throwing a temper tantrum. You also don’t need to let them have the salt shaker to throw across the room at their server walking in; just because they were yelling that they want the salt shaker that you took out of their hands.

The child is not in charge you are in charge. Just because your child is yelling at the top of their lungs and crying does not mean you give them what they are throwing a fit over. This only makes them see the pattern that they yell and scream and you give them what they are yelling about to appease them. How does this teach your child? It doesn’t it appeases them and the next time they will do the same thing.

You need to be the parent when your child yells even though it stinks for you to have to get up from the table you need to. You need to get up and pull your child away from the table to parent them, talk to them, and let them know that this is not ok behavior for the restaurant. Instead of what most people do by giving their child the object they want to use as a throwing device.

You know when you are on an escalator and the person in front of you doesn’t seem to realize that they need to move away when they get to the destination floor they want. In order to be safe you should move away from the top or bottom when you get off right? Well it just irks me when people who decide to use the escalator and they seem to be in dream land then when they reach their destination they just stop. No movement nothing. Are they trying to determine where they are or where they want to go maybe jewelry or women’s clothing? If this is the case then move away because guess what you are going to cause an accident. The people behind you on the escalator cannot stop. The escalator itself is not going to wait until you are done deciding where you want to go in the department store. The next person behind you is going to end up right on top of you and so is the person after them.

I use to work at a Sears Department Store in the New York area and this used to happen all the time. The funny thing is there were only two floors so they should have known where they were. It was not that hard to figure out. So all of you who need to figure out where you are or where you are going after you step off an escalator please step aside so that you don't cause a pile up.

The Left Lane is for passing! Have you ever heard of this expression? Well it is true and also the law however daily I encounter people who are aimlessly going no where fast in the left lane, the supposed fast and passing lane. Why is this? Why is it that you feel the need to ride in the left hand lane especially with another car beside you so that you make it impossible for me to get around you?

So you know when you are talking to someone and they seem to not understand that even if you step back a foot that you can still hear them. They feel the need to invade your personal space. If you aren't telling someone a secret there is no reason why they need to stand so close. When someone starts to step back away from you shouldn't move forward. This body language you are seeing suggests you are too close and you are invading my space. Now what makes it even worse and irks me even more is if their breath stinks. You know that stale foul smelling breath. You want to quickly grab a Listerine strip and give it to them but oops you forgot you just ran out. I am definitely not deaf and if you don't mind I would like to keep my sense of smell intact. I do not need to know what you had for lunch because whatever it is it smells like something crawled up into your mouth and died.


People should pay attention to how close they stand to people and try to carry around some mint gum or Listerine strips or something. I know I have breath spray and mouth wash in my desk at work so before I go to a meeting I can make sure I don't have stinky breath.

This happens at least once a week and sometimes the person is really out of control about it. I am allowed to drive in the HOV lane when I have myself and my daughter in the car even though she is in a car seat. Just because I have one of those sun shades on her window doesn't mean there isn't someone in the seat. It really irks me when people feel that they have to drive up next to me while I am in the HOV lane and gesture that there needs to be two people in the car. They are not gesturing with their middle finger they are holding up two fingers getting mad at me that I am using the HOV lane. Then they come into the HOV lane and then roll their window down to continue to gesture with two fingers and then motioning me to get out of the HOV lane. I am not driving too slow I was following behind a line of cars so they are not gesturing me with their middle finger.

It just irks me that people don't think that someone sitting in a car seat counts as a person. I went so far as to check and it is allowed so they can just stop being so annoying. It is even worse when a police car comes out and seems to be pulling next to me to check. I start to get nervous that I am doing something wrong and then they look over at me and see my daughter in the carseat and keep moving. My heart skips when this happens because I don't want to get pulled over.

Have you ever encountered a person who has a staring problem? It feels as if they are going to stare right through you. You try to look away from them hoping it will deter them from burning a hole though your head; but alas this is no use you turn back around and they are still staring at you. You really feel like asking them to take a picture because it will last them longer. The thing that really irks me is when someone who is not alone does this. They are with someone and clearly they are staring you down; why is this?? Can you not stare at the person you are with? Don’t look at me in amazement and awe we don’t know each other, we don’t speak to one another, and we will never know each other so stop staring! You know the saying keep your hands to yourself well keep your eyes to yourself too. There is no reason for you to be staring me down, unless of course there is something on my face… Is there?? Nope there isn’t… Here wait I think I have my camera I’ll snap you a photo!

Ok so this really irks me. Have you ever been driving behind someone and they have their directional on and it has been on for miles? I would like to know if leaving it on makes them happy or is it because they like to annoy the person behind them. There are many times which they can turn and redeem themselves but they don’t.

Are they going to make that right hand turn or not? Should I go around them? Can’t they see the directional flashing on their dashboard? Can’t they hear it? Have they ever taken driver training? They really need to pay attention to important defensive driving techniques because it means you are going to turn if your directional is on! It seems they are in their own little world. Are they going to turn or not…. Oh maybe not. Now are they going to turn or not….This is especially annoying when driving in a multi-lane highway. If I want to move to another lane I am worried that they might finally want to turn and cause me to get in an accident. So please everyone turn your directional off if you are not going to turn or change lanes.