Manners.

[AngelBella]

People who step out in front of my moving vehicle because they did not bother to look first. Didn't we all have this covered before kindergarten? It is as if they somehow think the world should automatically accomadate them. Then they proceed to finally notice there was indeed a car coming, look at me, then drag ass as if they have all the time in the world.

This one was previously mentioned but I will second it. The folks who block up the store aisle with their shopping cart, oblivious to the line of people waiting to get past. And a trump to that would be the people that run into someone they know and decide to chit chat, thus blocking the entire aisle, regardless of the rest of us who just want to get to the box of Cheerios and get the hell out of the store.

And the biggest one of all that grates on my very last nerve. The folks who let their small children wail like banshees with zero thought to those around them. In stores, theaters, restaurants, etc. I mean come on. I have kids too, but I never let them act as such in a public place because if I don't want to hear my kid scream, I'm certain no one else does either.

Bleh. /rant off. Rude people suck.

 

[NippleMuncher]

if I don't want to hear my kid scream, I'm certain no one else does either.

X10!!!!!!!!!

It amazes me how deaf people are! They can't hear themselves, their kids, their animals, their stereos ... I say get a baseball bat and remind them they're not alone.

 

[Kikori]

I thank my mom and grandparents everyday for forcing manners down my throat as a child.

This.

1.) Bluetooth. It not only throws your conversation out into the public like a cell phone, it also makes you think everyone's talking to them, and if you haven't learned by the thirtieth time showing people what's hidden by your hair that PEOPLE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO TALK ON THE THING IN PUBLIC, you're ignorant.

2.) Cell phones. I can forgive important calls in public, I can forgive being a little loud at times because I most often see people on phones where the environment is loud anyway. But cell phones on the road, when you're supposed to make 1-on-1 contact, in a leisure / time-enjoying environment, or where you're interrupting people's time with them, gotta go.

3.) As stated before, parents oblivious to their children running amok. Again, there's some leeway. I've seen parents try to rush through what they're doing because the child or children may need constant attention, and the rush is to get to that point as soon as possible. But the amount of times that's the case? Very few.

4.) Other drivers in general. The turn signal is supposed to come on before you hit the brakes, so I know to expect you slamming them on. The speed limit is 55, not 45. The speed limit is 55, not 75 because it's a straight road. You want to swerve around cars that are in your way like it's a street race? Here, go ahead and tailgate me to all hell because I'm the fastest of your options until I give you an inch of breathing room as you pass between us and zoom off. Got a cell phone? I wish I had an EMP.

5.) Specific to my job, customers who forget and leave for _____. "Oh, I forgot my money." Well, you're costing me and the four people behind you about five minutes while you just now notice at the end of the order. "I forgot to pick up _____, I'll be back before you're done." No you won't, you're going for something that's not on the front end and something you'll think about for a minute before grabbing. It doesn't waste my time (though it does affect my numbers), but it wastes the time of EVERYONE else who's trying to get in and get out.

6.) I don't mind the common courtesies of "Please", "Thank you", and "You're welcome" being skipped. I quite often skip the first and third, myself, because I try to talk with everyone on a familiar tone, as if we're friends. If you can't even muster a little appreciation for the effort I make or time I spend doing anything (door opening, hard work, time spent listening, gifts, holding traffic up so you can finally get out of the spot you've been stuck in for a long time), then you probably don't deserve for it to be done again.

7.) Again, specific to my job, automated responses. If I ask you a question to try to strike up conversation, the least you could do is listen and answer. Again, my specialties in work are being efficient, and being friendly. But if I say "Hello!" and you reply with "Good, how are you?", I already know you're just running off stereotypical instinct.

8.) Me: "So you see..."
Them: "Mm-hmm."
Me: "We have to do..."
Them: "Mmhm."
Me: "It this way..."
Them: "Uh-huh."
Me: "Because of the..."
Them: "Mhmm."
It's nice of you to show interest, but.... Shut up and let me finish! ...Please.

9.) Specific to workers in general. Assuming that experience on one end of a two-way relationship equates to knowing how things work for both ends.
Myth: Coupons work no matter what you buy.
Fact: Coupons work no matter what you buy because cashiers are too lazy to fight with you about you getting the wrong things, so they force the coupons through for you.
In this example, if a lady who's "Been shopping since before I was born" comes through and tells me there's a problem with her coupon, I'm pretty sure the computer is designed not to lie enough and I don't mind confrontation enough that I can actually explain what's wrong. But go ahead, treat your experience as a shopper as more important than the facts supporting the worker. Douchebag. (Something tells me Ms. Fuckmeat is very understanding of this entry.)

10.) People who openly publicize negativity. Having an argument, ranting about a problem, trying to make someone look like the bad guy, just about anything stupid like this needs to be saved until you're behind closed doors, or at least out of the way enough of people involved that they don't have to get held up or distracted by what's probably your mistake or problem.

11.) Flat-out refusing to respond to conversation. It's much less rude, and I would very heavily prefer being told "I don't want to talk". It keeps me from pestering you, and it keeps you from allowing me to talk to myself for however long I normally would.

P.S.

I speak to the first item on your list here... I am the youngest of seven, and by the time I was 2 my parents could take us ANYWHERE because we KNEW better.

That's a level of discipline lacking in a lot of parents these days, unfortunately, even to parents with simply one or two children.

 

[bailadora]

<snip> But cell phones on the road, .....

This. Especially texting while driving or some other stupid shit with the cell phone. Not only are you being rude, you are endangering other people's lives. That message, call, whatever is NOT worth anyone's life. Put down the fucking phone and pay attention to what you are doing!!!!

This video forever changed my perspective on cell phones in the car.

 

[AngelBella]

X10!!!!!!!!!

It amazes me how deaf people are! They can't hear themselves, their kids, their animals, their stereos ... I say get a baseball bat and remind them they're not alone.

HaHa NM, Thank you for a much needed laugh.

 

[AngelBella]

This. Especially texting while driving or some other stupid shit with the cell phone. Not only are you being rude, you are endangering other people's lives. That message, call, whatever is NOT worth anyone's life. Put down the fucking phone and pay attention to what you are doing!!!!

This video forever changed my perspective on cell phones in the car.

I agree with this one whole heartedly. I have been nearly taken out so many times by some arse talking on a cell phone while driving. If the conversation or text is THAT important, then for the love of all that is holy, pull into a parking lot or something. Really people, it's not that hard.

 

[NippleMuncher]

We need more signs like these!

 

[SamScribble]

Mothers – and, for some reason, it is usually mothers – who push their baby/child buggies out into the traffic without bothering to check if it’s safe to do so. I know that most of us would go to inordinate lengths to avoid crashing our SUV into a baby buggy, but using that as a way to stop the traffic is definitely bad manners in my book.