Things I Hate

1. Fast food employees who don’t speak. I walk up to the register and they just look at me. How freakin’ difficult is it to say, hello, may I take your order?
2. People who don’t understand that the merge lane onto the highway is there so that drivers can, before merging into traffic, accelerate to a speed that is as close as possible to the speed that all the other cars are going.
3. People that don’t wash their hands after they use the restroom.
4. Which leads to…Public restrooms with doors that swing into the room, requiring you to pull (that is, touch) the door handle to get out. Hey, my hands were clean before I touched the door that all those people from #3 touched!
5. Finding that there is no soap in a public restroom. [Especially bad in a restaurant, and just plain disgusting if you’ve already eaten there]. Also annoying is women who pee on the seat and leave it (I don’t sit on the seat but I don’t want to hover over someone else’s pee), no toilet paper, followed by no paper towels and stall doors that don’t lock or shut all the way.
6. Websites that have intros that take forever to load and don’t offer the “skip” link; also annoying are flash-only sites that take forever to load; it’s just some overzealous web designer showing off.
7. People in cube farms that talk too loudly on the phone or who use the speaker phone.
8. People who drive Hummers. If you hit me in my little Volvo, I’m dead, but at least you look cool!