So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[V.C. Brunswick]

This election cycle. It's sucking the oxygen out of everything!

 

[Trenchfriend]

This election cycle. It's sucking the oxygen out of everything!

Did you mean election-research?

 

[Touchofevil]

People who leave behind garbage in their shopping cart for someone else to take care of because they are obviously too busy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

People who spill popcorn on the carpet as they're walking away from the concession stand -- look down at it -- and then step on it as they walk away.

 

[Trenchfriend]

People who spill popcorn on the carpet as they're walking away from the concession stand -- look down at it -- and then step on it as they walk away.

And thinking "customer is king"...

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Oh leave it, that's what they get paid to do."

 

[ChiTownScion]

"Oh leave it, that's what they get paid to do."

I have a cousin who, at age twelve, was asked by his mom to clean up his trash as we were leaving a Burger King one evening. I still remember his reply:

"They pay foreigners to do that !!"

His mom had a sense of humor and knew he was joking. That was in a time when a lot of parents would have slapped his face for saying that. He did, however, clean up after himself.

 

[ChiTownScion]

One of my peeves is people who shove shopping carts into the parking lot corrals willy- nilly, often creating a dangerous situation where carts will roll loose and hit a car, or worse. I lapse into OCD mode when I see that, taking it upon myself to organizing the carts according to size and getting them fitting together nicely. Drives my wife crazy.

 

[MisterCairo]

One of my peeves is people who shove shopping carts into the parking lot corrals willy- nilly, often creating a dangerous situation where carts will roll loose and hit a car, or worse. I lapse into OCD mode when I see that, taking it upon myself to organizing the carts according to size and getting them fitting together nicely. Drives my wife crazy.

I've done that several times, along with straightening out buckled floor mats, picking up litter in parking lots (and sidewalks, and parks, etc.), and tidying up the milk/cream/sugar/lids counter in coffee shops. I've been both complimented and looked at like I have three heads.

 

[tonyb]

They call it, "rolling coal." It's supposed to be an expression of machismo (as Lizzie notes) against "wimpy environmentalists" and it's usually implemented by some insecure jerk who has the need to make that sort of statement- and earns every laugh that he gets.

There's a word (several, really) for people whose public behavior gives every indication of being objectionable by design, for the sake of nothing more noble than objectionability itself.

We might all find objectionable the expression of views in conflict with our own, and we might offer contrary views. We might find our adversaries in such exchanges ill-informed or even illogical, but still accept that they hold such views in good faith. It's hard to fathom, though, how a person can deliberately make a blatant spectacle of polluting the air in the expectation that such behavior would win the respect of any reasonable adult. We're left to wonder if perhaps such a character doesn't know what a reasonable adult is.

 

[Touchofevil]

"Oh leave it, that's what they get paid to do."

That is a mentality that annoys the heck out of me. Students who believe that cleaning up after them is the job of the custodian doesn't fly at the school wherein I work. We are noted as consistently having the cleanest campus in the district. One of our mottos is that we do not have littering and that is because the alternatives are not enjoyable. The pride of having such a clean campus helps as well, it is contagious.

 

[tonyb]

That is a mentality that annoys the heck out of me. Students who believe that cleaning up after them is the job of the custodian doesn't fly at the school wherein I work. We are noted as consistently having the cleanest campus in the district. One of our mottos is that we do not have littering and that is because the alternatives are not enjoyable. The pride of having such a clean campus helps as well, it is contagious.

Yup. Litter invites litter. Can't have it.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

My previous physical medicine doctor was notorious for running late. The last time I saw him before he retired, I was taken into the exam room two hours after my scheduled appointment time and still waited another 15 minutes before he walked in.

Something similar happened to me, oh, thirty or so years ago. When the doc finally entered the examining room, I said, "Doctor! I'm glad to see the rumors weren't true!"

He looked at me with a puzzled expression and said, "Rumors?"

I said, "Yeah, the rumors that you joined the Foreign Legion."

 

[Touchofevil]

Yup. Litter invites litter. Can't have it.

Cannot permit it. Will not. Do not. On the occasion that it appears, not only is our campus cleaned, the parking lot of the main campus and all areas surrounding our campus as well. This tends to work well as the other options are less palatable to our population. It helps that we have a really good group of kids, a great atmosphere, and consistency in our application of discipline.

 

[Zombie_61]

This election cycle. It's sucking the oxygen out of everything!

I couldn't agree more. In fact, this is the election that made me finally decide I'm not voting any more. I have no respect whatsoever for any of the candidates, and believe it makes no difference which of them gets elected.

 

[Trenchfriend]

If you see someone in Germany, heaving drinks from the shopping cart into the car-trunk, standing with one feet on one of the shopping-carts wheels, it's me. Accident-prevention, "SAFER-SHOPPING". No need, that the shopping-cart bumps into your own silver-grey auto-paint.

 

[Trenchfriend]

German radio, OMG. The "silly-season stuffing serivce" whips out the boobies, again. The old discussion on public breastfeeding.

Boobies are a private thing, that's it.

 

[ChrisB]

We're left to wonder if perhaps such a character doesn't know what a reasonable adult is.

Some people are stuck in a state of permanent adolescence.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Some people are stuck in a state of permanent adolescence.

I think, the origin were the first generation of gamer-nerds. These subcultures caused the next generations of permanent gamer-nerds, living further in their LAN-party-subcultures.

 

[skydog757]

I've grown used to seeing political campaigns sling mud and fan the flames of fear, but I've never seen it devolve to the pits of this cycle. Can you imagine Lincoln and Douglas debating on the size of the other's "hands"? I wouldn't vote for any major party candidate for my local school board, let alone the President of the United States.