Fluff - Irrational annoyances

My students (ages 11 and 12) who have no concept of "personal space" even though they have lived during Covid!

I stand by my classroom door a few minutes before the bell rings and they crowd around ... a few are right up in my face    

I say to them:  "Personal space!" and they back up a bit.   

I hate people in my space in the grocery store lineup as well ... Covid people!!!    

I think that type of stuff is annoying because it is so entitled. Had she asked politely it would be no big deal but she just took part of your space with no consideration for anyone but herself.

I was at the pharmacy last night picking up a Rx. Another customer was on her speaker phone in the consulting area yelling at some poor customer service person on the other end of the line basically demanding she get a refund plus a 25% off next order offer. Something didn't go right with her grocery delivery order from what I overheard and she wasn't going to get a refund for 3-4 days. She was being very dramatic about the fact that those groceries were for her family and now she has nothing to feed her family until the money is put back into her account and how is she going to feed her family? She kept demanding she get a discount offer as compensation and kept calling out that they were a "multi-billion dollar company" and that she thinks they can afford it. It may have all been a legit complaint, but it wasn't the time, space, or situation to be having that phone call and her verbal berating of this person on the other end of the line made me irrationally angry. And I couldn't help but think, "If you can't afford groceries, how are you going to pay for whatever prescription you're waiting on?" Very judgemental of me, which also made me irrationally angry at myself for judging her. Perhaps her prescriptions are free for one reason or another. But she made me very uncomfortable in a public place and I wasn't even involved in the situation at all.

Right now I’m annoyed at my kid’s pediatrician. He’s now at the middle school so I’m playing by the rules and when dh came back from the appt Friday night and said he needs Advil before practice to help with the sever’s disease I faxed the slip to the doctor first thing Tuesday, before 8am. Called the dr to make sure they received it. They won’t fax it back bc it’s not secure, of course email isn’t secure either….I’d have to pick it up (30 min away). Stupid. Every other doctor does it (I know this bc part of my job is faxing doctors. Finally I come to my senses and ask them to upload it to the portal (you know, the one they require you join). Yes, they can do that (took 2 phone calls to confirm). It’ll take 24-48hrs. This was Tuesday, it’s now Thursday afternoon, do you think it’s done? Nope. Call again (we’re now at 4 phone calls, a fax and a portal message), they’ll “try” to have it done tomorrow. For a signature that will take 2 seconds….I want to tell them to hire me as a consultant on how to work smarter not harder, they could make a fortune.

Pretty sure we’re switching doctors after this and tempted to email the doctor and tell him exactly why. Also tell him that while I have referred parents there (I’ve had parents move into the area and ask for recommendations for pediatricians), I no longer will because of his office staff and their policies. All this for Advil. At his rate the kid will be healed before it’s done 🙄

Drivers in the last few days.. Seems like everyone wants to do what they want... using straight lanes to make a turn instead of waiting in line and cutting people off. Using the shoulder on a highway to pass people.. weaving in and out between cars like maniacs... 

Actually is that irrational annoyances?  lol


 

OP, your comment made me laugh. I have a great friend that I used to scrap with at a crop. We'd be assigned a 6 foot table to share. She would always say that she really just needed a small space and I could have the rest of the table. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. her stuff would flow out over onto my three feet of space. She brought a lot of crap (so did I). I would make a joke about it (because that is how I deal with things). It would creep over even further. Then I took to bringing a tape measure and painters tape to the crop and would put a big blue line of tape on the table. Yes, it was apparently just for show. I finally started buying extra space for $25 and got a whole table to myself. I know I should be better with that kind of stuff. I am an adult. I can share... but man, it bothered me and this is a person I truly love!

My current annoyance... I work with low readers in the mornings. I have two 2nd grade boys whose mom home schooled them. They do not know half their letter names or their sounds. They are sweet kids and have picked up a lot in just a few days of practice. I asked them if they practice at home and they said they don't have letter flashcards. While I generally take what kids say about home with a grain of salt, it does make me wonder what they have been doing at home the last two years when they are picking up the letters and sounds pretty quickly. I need to head to the Dollar Tree to get a set of flashcards and will see if they might practice at home with each other.

I have two things. My friend ( in her 60’s) thinks it cute to say SANKS instead of THANKS. I want to choke her every time she says it.

The other is that I was in a doctor waiting room and a woman was playing a game on her phone with the volume seemingly all the way up. I heard every ding, bing, and ring. I wanted to grab the phone and throw it out the window!

Ok, I’ll play! At the end of July I figured I should try to get an appointment for DD for a physical because she was due for a Covid booster and her second HPV vaccine. The problem was the primary care provider we had both been going to left the clinic so we needed to pick someone new (which I hate). So I called and the soonest I could get her in with a female doctor was SEPT 14, six WEEKS later.   Whatever, I made the appointment and then made a separate nurse visit appointment so she could at least get the other vaccine out of the way.

Fast forward to now, and the new Covid vaccines are being released so I thought I should see if I could get one for myself when I bring DD in next week. Yeah, no, THOSE Covid vaccines won’t be available to be administered until THE 15TH. The NEXT FREAKING DAY. 🙄 So could I switch her appointment to a different day when the new vaccines would be available? Why sure. She could be rescheduled. The soonest appointment? OCTOBER 28TH. Nope.

I kept her original appointment for the physical for next week and she can get her flu shot then, and made a second appointment for two days later for the both of us to go in for the updated Covid booster. What a hassle.

I send out speaker evaluations as part of my job, and a very well educated individual once responded "Tx!" to my email. Like...is it that difficult to write out "thank you"?

To your other point, I was waiting for a doctor's appointment once and this woman decided the waiting room was the perfect time for a call. On speaker phone. "Oh, you're at the doctor's now? Are you waiting for them?" "Yep!" Technically, she *was* waiting for the doctor...but you're in the freaking waiting room. None of us need/want to hear your business, I assure you.

NONE of my annoyances are irrational. They are all completely rational!

That brings back fond memories for me, of an old friend from work who was Chinese. He would always say "Chanks" instead of "Thanks". He was able to say it properly, but he liked to say things like that as a bit of a joke, a nod to his heritage. It rubbed off onto his (Australian) wife and me, and we both got into the habit of saying Chanks all the time. I haven't seen him for many years, but every now and then the occasional "Chanks" pops out.

Apologies but we're gonna have a battle. I don't do it to be annoying. The only way to confirm it got locked is to make it make the sound... and then sometimes I have to do it again because the first time does.not.register in my brain and if any question pops into my head about whether it was actually locked, my anxiety will not let me move on with my life without locking it again.

I work on a board for a not-for-profit. There are five officers and we are all volunteers. Two of us know what we are doing (me as VP and our treasurer), the others are disorganized and apparently did not pay any attention when they were trained for their positions. It drives me crazy that they don't know even the basics of their jobs. I know they are doing the best they can and I have to keep thinking "we are all volunteers, we are all volunteers". One more year of this and I am done, thank goodness.

The first thing I thought of is when people on escalators don’t make that move to get off the escalator until their toes hit the landing. It’s takes a extra second for them to start moving when they have to and are blocking the exit area then I have to do this weird little two step thing so I don’t bump into them.

This is only when the escalators are crowded when I’m going to/from work when there’s just one empty step between people.

My irrational irritation today is drivers who wait until the last possible moment to merge onto the highway. When you see your chance as you enter the highway, go for it. Inevitably, by the time they merge they are right next to me and the merge lane has ended. Merge before DAMMIT!