What the...?

On the way in to work this morning I came across a car parked where it had no business with the four-way flashers flashing away while the driver was inside a fast food restaurant ordering breakfast.  The mere fact that her “flashers are on” apparently makes it OK to inconvenience everyone else so that she didn’t have to walk the extra ten feet that being legally parked would have caused her to do.  Why do people feel so entitled to do these things?  What makes this person better than everyone else that she can make it tougher for everyone driving through the parking lot just so that she can be lazy and park right in front of the door where there are clearly no parking signs, and where it makes anyone coming around the building have to swerve completely over out of the lane of travel to avoid hitting her car.  I don’t get it, and what’s more, it irritates the Dickens out of me.

Other things that annoy me:

·         The person in the grocery store check-out line who stands there for ten minutes watching the clerk ring up his / her $250 grocery bill and only when the clerk finishes and reveals the bill does this person even attempt to locate their checkbook.  So now here you stand for another five minutes while they complete the check and be certain to enter it in their transaction register before handing it over to the clerk.  What was he / she doing for the past ten minutes when the check could have been filled in leaving only the amount blank.  Again, this is a person around which the world revolves and we’re all just scenery in the background.

·         Along those lines, people who send their kid back to an aisle to get one more thing they forgot, holding up everyone behind them.  Like the person this morning – guess it’s all about them.

·         People who lay on their horn a millisecond after the light turns green.

·         Total and complete ignorance – if you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t talk.

·         Along those lines, people who try to put on airs and show that they can speak with a certain eloquence only to show their true intelligence when they sue words in the wrong context or use the wrong word altogether. There is a county commissioner in my home town that the people who elected him deserve.  Not too long ago during an open meeting of the Board he was making reference to the US Constitution and stated that all people have certain ineligible rights.  He didn’t just misspeak, he honestly thought that the constitution guaranteed ineligible rights opposed to unalienable rights. 

·         Red lights that stay red when nothing is coming the other way.

These are just a few things that get my blood boiling and my dandruff up.  What irks you?

Dickens