These pretty much speak for themselves, though, as usual, I have provided a little context as to where I'm coming from. Here goes nothing...
It bugs me when...
... women don't clean up their pee on the toilet seat. If you must hover so your bum doesn't touch the public seat (as most of us with a vagina do) try to aim. If you have splatter issues you just can't control, please do your part and clean up after yourself. No one wants to see that.
... people treat escalators as if they are rides at an amusement park. Union Station is not Disney World. Most of us have places to be, especially during rush hour. If you're not in a hurry and/or are too lazy to walk the steps as they are propelling you upward, do the rest of us a favor and stay to the right so I can get to where I need to be on time. Your group can stand to go single-file for the entirely of 30 seconds that you're on the escalator so you're not holding the rest of us up.
... restaurants charge for extra condiments. I paid $7 for that salad, you can certainly afford to give me an extra couple ounces of dressing to put a smile on my face. Whatever happened to the customer is always right?
... I have to wear glasses behind the computer. Which has basically become all the time. I put them on in the morning and don't take them off till I get off the train (because by the end of the day I have to have them on just to read my book on the way home). Sigh.
... I can hear someone chewing. This has always bugged me, I don't know why. It's just gross.
... people who sit next to me on the train smell funny. No, not funny, bad. I could deal with funny. I've only been a Chicagoland commuter for a month, and I'm already tired of this. Whether it's bad breath or body odor, just like elementary school I tend to find myself stuck next to the smelly kid.
That's the short list. I'm sure there's more, but I'll leave those for the second installment.
So c'mon, I know I'm not the only one out there with behaviors that irritate me, spill it. Comment lines are open: it bugs you when...
Cheers!
-A
I agree with most of those - the paying for condiments, when you can hear someone chewing and the escalators. But one thing I noticed about the toilet seat pee issue, ex: a sitter using a toilet seat protector. I've used a cover, did my business and flushed, only to see the cover stuck to the seat by my pee or had been stuck and pee remained on the seat. Not sure if anyone else has this issue, but maybe no one turns around after they flush. Just a guess....as I always wondered about women and peeing on the seat until I discovered what was happening.
ReplyDeleteEnough pee talk ;)