What irks you the most?

When people are consistently late. Everyone’s late sometimes, but I find it so inconsiderate and self-centered when people are consistently making you wait.

People who always have to be right, no matter what you say, even if YOU’RE right, they still have to be right.

I an afraid that the one thing I cannot abide is when someone slides their feet as they walk across a gritty floor. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and literally drives me insane.

Secondarily, it is when we get to the doctor’s office 15 minutes ahead of our appointment, but then the doctor doesn’t see us for another two hours. I can understand that an emergency could throw off the schedule, but far too often, no one can tell us why things are running behind, or when the doctor will actually see me.

Common courtesy would be to announce the delay and offer those who cannot sit there the additional time a chance to reschedule.

Slow left-lane drivers!

I really dislike screaming little kids in restaurants and movie theatres and I notice that parents do little to control them and don’t even remove them from public! God, kids drive me crazy. I especially hate it when negligent parents let their kids do stupid things, like pointing loaded BB guns at people…that happened to me recently and I yelled at the mom.

You know, I think I just dislike kids in general…life would be more peaceful if they were seen but never heard.

When people just stand in hallways or walk too slow in school.
@seekingwolf oh my god, I hate kids screaming in the public bus. I feel like tossing them out the window.

When you’re in line to order food and the person in front of you spent their time talking in line instead of deciding what to order. Then, you have to wait five minutes for them to finally pick something.

People who wait to make out their checks until the last minute. You can date it, sign it, and write the store name all before you know the total, people.

Tailgating my rear bumper. Oooh, I want to get out & ask if they want in my back seat or just my trunk! It absolutely pisses me off royally! I’d like to have an old clunker with a tire strapped on behind. Then just slam on my brakes & let them have it. Yes, I’m vindictive about it. I guess being rearended several years ago by a big lumber truck did it. Get back!!!

People who talk on their cell phone when driving, making them go way too slow, and being oblivious to their affect on the traffic flow.

Another here in a slew of driving pet peeves: Left lane cruisers (even if there’s no one in the right lane, they just will not move over!) and people who religiously do not use their blinkers. Thank goodness I do not own a car anymore.

People that stare! It’s like one of the first bad manner things we learn! Don’t stare it’s rude!

People who let their dog (on a leash) come all the way up to you, smell your crotch, and the person does nothing. Doesn’t even pull them away until I say something.

Slow traffic in the fast lane.

@Judi Oh yes. And people who cut you off and then drive slow.

And people who are behind you at a red light who honk the split second the light turns green.

@Quagmire Ya know those people who are honking the second the light changes…guilty ;)

Then I would SO crawl with my car when you did!!! :)

@everyone who hates screaming kids – don’t hate the kids, hate the parents!!!!!!

I can’t stand bullies.

Rich who pick on poor. Smart who pick on dumb. Older who pick on young. Weak who pick on strong. You get the picture.

Muggers who beat up on old victims.

@Quagmire – what the hell? how about muggers who beat up any victims? I was mugged by two guys at 17 and it hurt like a mother!

That irks me too but more so when the victim is defenseless and weak. If that describes you, then I’m talking about you.

Parents that will not discipline their kids.

Slow left lane drivers, and those that pass at ¼ MPH faster than the car they are passing, so they block both lanes for several miles.

The number one driving pet peeve of mine is when you are in the left turn lane, about six cars back, and when the light turns green, the idiot at the front of the line isn’t even paying attention. You don’t get through on the first green and have to wait for the signal to cycle all the way through again because some dumb fuck was playing with their damn iPhone, iPod, or digging through their purse (or man bag) instead of paying attention to the traffic light.

OMIF, I just want to thump those dumb bastards when that happens.

@Quagmire, you know the guy that honks two seconds after the light turns green, that’s me. If you don’t like it, then you need to follow the #1 rule of driving. Either lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. =a)

As soon as I can afford it, I am replacing the little beep horn on my Toyota to a semi tractor air horn. So when I honk the people in front of me will know that someone is honking at them.

Greed and selfishness.

@evelyns_pet_zebra, as I mentioned, I AMAZE myself with how SLOW I can make the car go when someone does that to me! The speedometer reads NEGATIVE NUMBERS! :)

Not to mention, I yell “BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS!!!”

@Quagmire,well, I only drive that slow when people tailgate me, so I know that trick as well. I also have been trained as a stunt driver so when I go by you on the shoulder, up on two wheels, or at a very high speed, to get around your pokey slow-as-a-snail ass, try not to let your dropping jaw hit you in the nuts. That could hurt. =)

Someday you gotta teach ME how to do that!

This is the best comedy act going on here

I can’t stand it when someone thinks it is okay to unnecessarily label someone in a derogatory manner. You’ll hear the same person claim not to be a racist, but pass judgment on a person for a something on their body. I fucking hate hypocrites.

I hate hypocrites, too. And, while I’m at it, liars.

Delivery limbos annoy me (it’s when you impatiently wait for something in the mail)

@Quagmire – testify!!

Two faced people

when my posts are removed from fluther because they are to short, i guess ill start writing dribble or just put some words there

@whereisfreespeech that would be drivel, as dribble is something you do with a basketball, or a leaky container. =)

Master “irker”: What about when you answer a Fluther question brilliantly and, in fact, might be the only RIGHT answer posted and you get no lurve and someone else who hardly posted anything gets 4 or 5?!!

@Quagmire – That happens, but it’s one of those things that you just have to let go. Some people see the answers as opinions – not as facts; therefore, it is more subjective. Is it always fair? No. At that point you have to know that you put your best into an answer, the info is there and hopefully the person refers back to it and uses your correct answer. Ultimately, isn’t that the best outcome?

I have 3 iPhone irks. 1. When I don’t realize that it has corrected my spelling and chosen a completely irelevant word. 2. When I am giving a long fluther answer and get a phone call and loose it all. 3. When I can’t edit a fluther answer because I can’t scroll through the edit window on the iPhone. I am really not as stupid as these iPhone irks sometimes make me look!

@Quagmire – I hear you. That will happen a lot here. Then there is the “answer repost.” You post an answer and someone comes along doesn’t read the thread and posts further down and low and behold they post the same thing and are a lurved as a genius.

@cak, well I don’t linger on it. It’s not gonna make me want to kill myself anytime soon, but it can still irk me. :)

And when someone gives lurve based upon something OTHER than the quality of the answer, that sucks. That REALLY urks me.