Pet peeves threads. >:[
Really though, people irritate me in a lot of ways. The biggest one is just any kind of personal space invasion, especially if I don't know them, but even family members piss me off with that nonsense.
People trying to talk to me in public when I have headphones on and am reading or doing shit on my phone. The people who try to talk to me despite those barriers are almost never after anything important, they just want to randomly chat with a stranger about whatever. I hate it.
I've come to loathe potheads since Oregon voted to legalize recreational marijuana. I voted for the measure and I'm totally fine with people using pot, but the thing is I take the bus to and from work and more often than not someone who smells strongly of weed is going to be on the bus for part of all of my ride. That stench is fucking potent, and it means the entire bus is going to reek of weed until a few minutes after they leave. It's worse even than people with bad body odor and people who go way too hard with their perfume or cologne or whatever, and they're pretty terrible.
I've also recently come to have a lot of spite for people who can't find places by their street address despite having the power of modern technology at their fingertips. This annoyance came from part of my job as a security guard requiring me to help people find whatever office in the building they're looking for (because apparently it's hard to use the huge directory board that takes up most of a wall in the lobby right by the elevators???), and there are just a ridiculous number of people who seem incapable of finding the right building. The street address number of the building I work in is 1515; directly across the street from the lobby doors is the building numbered 1500; diagonally across the intersection right outside the lobby doors is a building numbered 1400. I get at least one person a week (once 6 people in one day) who comes up to me early in the morning asking if they're in the right building. The street address is posted in big numbers right outside, including on the big canopy thing right outside the lobby doors, the 1500 place has their address in big numbers on a sign out front too, and although the 1400 place does not have such obvious markings you would think people could gather from the big 1515 signage outside that this building is certainly not the 1400 one. Apparently a lot of people get directions in the form of "it's right at the intersection of X and Y" and then manage to fail hard at picking which of the four possible buildings is the one they want, and also apparently they couldn't think to pull out their phones (which I know most of them have because they read the fucking address off of their phone when asking me if they're in the right place) to pop the address into whatever map or GPS thing they've got to figure it out themselves. Fucking useless people.
I think I'll stop now before I get up to essay length rants on how stupid people are in particular ways.