A few things that make me insane

1. Yielding the Right Of Way. If you don't have a stop sign, but you stop and then hand motion for me to go? NO NO NO NO NO. That is not how we drive in America. I have already gone to the trouble to obey the stop sign and stop, FOR YOU, presumably because the thoroughfare YOU are on requires constant motion to keep traffic moving at a decent clip. When you yield the right of way, you mess everything up. It is also confusing, this polite wave with a big grin.

What? Hiiiiii? Do I know you??? Oh, you want me to go. BUT IT IS YOUR TURN TO GO. No. YOU go.

AGHHH YOU ARE AN IDIOT. THIS IS NOT HOW DRIVING WORKS.

Yielding the right of way breaks the space-time continuum of traffic. DON'T DO IT.

2. Phone books. Why on earth are these still printed? And why are people allowed to dump them on my front door? Does anyone actually USE a phone book these days? You know, someone under the age of 80? No. If I went around dumping trash on other people's front doors, but I called it "marketing!" I do not think people would be okay with that. I think folks might complain. Phone books, and the illegal dumping thereof? No. 

3. People over the age of 30 that leave messages on Facebook saying things like: "Congrats 2 u 4 helping ur friend. U r both the Coolest :)." Oh my God, please leave the country at once because you are what is wrong with America.

4. While we are on the topic of traffic violations, people that take up TWO lanes at an intersection, people that take up TWO parking spaces, people at preschool that park OVER THE LINE. That's a totally smart way to get your car door dinged because when my kid flings it open? IT WILL POP YOUR MINIVAN. 

5. People in stores that ask me if I need help (I politely decline if I don't) but then HANG OUT next to me and talk to my children or ask me about my children when HELLO I HAVE THINGS I AM TRYING TO DO HERE. Stop interrupting my shopping chi.

6. Loud talkers at the gym. 

Comments

[Linda]

I hate when those #1ers are older men who (in my mind) see me as a "woman driver! alert! alert!" and wave me through because OBVIOUSLY I can't be trusted to follow the rules of the road.

Re #6: also, people who sing loudly to the music in their ear buds while on the machines or running. WE CAN HEAR YOU.

[BigP's Heather]

I totally agree with all of those, except the phone book. I like the phone book, and the coupons that come inside it. But, maybe I'm just 80 at heart. sigh.

[A'Dell's Mom]

A few years ago, I called the phone book droppers and complained about the litter they were leaving in my yard. They came by the house and retrieved the books and have stopped delivering them to me.

[Lindaay]

I love everything about this, especially number 1. Number one causes car accidents. STOP IT.

[Katie]

#1 is my biggest annoyance! But, I would add to that people who don't understand the concept of right of way, particularly at the 4-way stop. There is a 4 way stop in my neighborhood that is a total cluster$#@$ every morning because people just don't seem to get when it is their turn to go. They aren't yielding, they just don't understand it at a basic level.

And my yard was littered with a phone book while I was at work yesterday. I tried to explain what it was to my 3 year old and she looked at me like I was 80.

[K]

Oh, man. I still use the phone book. A lot. I wonder what this says about me.

At any rate, #1 gives me the rage. I want to shout, "IT IS NOT MY TURN! YOU GOOOOOO!" Sometimes I honk. I honk a lot at other people.

[Julie]

There is a way you can discontinue phone book delivery. Kind of like the do not call list. I went to a website and filled out my information and I haven't gotten one since. I used to get about 5 a year and now they call to make sure I don't get one.

[megan]

I just recently learned this - there was an article in the newspaper. I think most states require the phone companies to print and deliver phone books. I believe the phone companies want out of this process because it is expensive and not particularly effective. (Mostly I use the internet, but occasionally I am surprised by the effectiveness of the phone book, so I tend to keep one version around.)

Anyhow, some phone companies (when allowed by the state) have opt-out forms.

[Vanessa Napolitano]

People who can't count at a 4 way stop.

People walking in large groups in a parking lot that just mosey along taking their time in the middle of the lane.

People who comment on the size of my belly and the fact that I must be about to have this baby instead of just asking me when it's due.

Babies that won't turn head down so that their mommy can breath and not feel like a character from the movie Alien that's about to her have her stomach explode.

[Sara @ Belle Plaine]

U r awesome. Can we B frnds? ;)

(My brother texts like that and it makes me INSANE.)

[Life of a Doctor's Wife]

Yes. YES. All of these things. I have so many driving related frustrations. Like not paying attention to the turn light? Or STOPPING at a right turn arrow? PLEASE DRIVE.

I have a work colleague who says "U'R." As in "U'R welcome!" Not even "U R," but with an apostrophe. In WORK EMAILS! To his SUPERIORS! (I have another work colleague who says "your welcome." I can't decide if that's MORE heinous than "U'R" or not.)

[Katie]

YES to all but especially #3!!! We are grown-ups! Use correct english. It especially irks me when I see "text talk" on a business sign. Not professional!

[HereWeGoAJen]

One that drives me crazy is when people slow down on the highway before they get off at their exit. That is the reason we have such long exit ramps! You are supposed to maintain HIGHWAY SPEEDS while you are on the HIGHWAY.

And how many extra letters are there in to instead of 2? Or you instead of u? HOW LAZY ARE PEOPLE???

[Dr. Maureen]

IHYFF, A'Dell. Oh, but I still use the phone book because sometimes it's faster than the internet, depending on where I am in the house. But why so MANY phone books a year?

[Natalie]

I hate text talk,too. How hard is it to type out a word?! And my husband still uses the phone book.

[Carrisa]

I agree with every single one. Well, I would if I went to the gym.

[Elsha]

Along with #1, people who believe that a "yield" sign just means merge. NO. Yield means the OTHER TRAFFIC has the right of way, so if it exists, you have to stop and wait. So please do not honk if you're behind me at a yield sign and I'm, you know, YIELDING to traffic.

[Jesabes]

I only use the phone book for the yellow pages with restaurant menus. A lot of chinese restaurants, especially, don't have websites, so it's nice to have the menu in the phone book. I only use it a couple times a year, though, and we get WAY to many phone books.

[Erin G]

this post is random and also awesome.

#shoppingchi

My new favorite thing to say. True story.

[Carrie]

Ohmygod, #1!! Inevitably this occurs when I am waiting to cut across three lanes of traffic and some "good citizen" stops TO BE NICE and wants me pull out in front of them, yet I cannot go because there are two more lanes of zooming traffic that I need to cut in front of and somehow I end up looking like the jerk when I don't pull out when THEY ARE THE ONES CAUSING A SAFETY HAZARD. Bless you A'Dell, I am so happy someone else in the world feels the same way.