A Bunch Of Things That Get On My Nerves
Drivers who are overly courteous. Don't get me wrong, I like courteous drivers but it's irritating as fuck when you're on a busy road like Shelbourne or Quadra or something and you have no qualms about waiting for a gap in traffic so you can cross the street but for some reason a driver sees you and decides to hit the brakes, making everyone stop for you. It's annoying because I know I should go to the corner or a crosswalk so I'm really not expecting anyone to wave me across the road. When it happens it's a lot of attention I don't want.
Conversely, I don't like it when people wait at street corners with no intention of crossing but look like they are going to. Move down twenty feet so cars aren't waiting for you to cross at the corner only to realize after a few seconds that you're just standing there picking your nose.
Whenever I see people wearing sunglasses when it's dark out I think to myself that they are total crotch-balls lame. Hilariously hypocritically though, I love wearing sunglasses at all occasions; night time, inside, funerals. I know I probably look super douchey but you just feel badass when you wear some cool shades. Once again though, when I see other people wearing sunglasses at night I laugh at them.
If you are a man, or a woman who doesn't use public washrooms I will let you in on a little secret. In female public washrooms they have these little metal boxes in each bathroom stall. Okay well I should put a disclaimer here saying that my experience with this is really only limited to the Empress female washrooms. Anyways, these metal boxes have wax paper liners inside so that girls can get rid of used pads or tampons. Now, what is supposed to happen is girls open the box, grab a wax paper bag, open it, and insert their used female hygiene product. What actually happens that is so damn annoying is that a lot of girls don't take the consideration to actually use a bag. Instead they open the metal box, whip out their tampon, and slam dunk it in. Then later the person who cleans the washroom, (ie. me, at the Empress) comes along and instead of being able to cleanly, quickly grab a wax bag, they have to pry a fucking tampon stuck with dried blood from the bottom of the box, or pick up an inconceivably heavy soaking wet pad when there are perfectly good, unused bags in the very same box. It's disgusting. And fuck you whoever is doing that.
Another thing I am definitely guilty of but find it annoying (sometimes, not always) is when someone refers to some Simpsons or Family Guy episode. With almost 30 seasons combined between the two of them the odds that something someone is talking about has some vague connection between something that happened in one of the episodes is staggering so I find that it's way overdone. I definitely do it too though. I think it's because my brain is wired to pop-humour or something so as soon as someone says,”It's like in Family Guy when...” I can instantly make the connection between the show and whatever is happening at the time. Of course people don't just say, “It's like in Family Guy.” they say the entire scene they're thinking of but I already thought of it and laughed in my head so it just drags on for another 30 or 40 seconds. This phenomenon also happens with whatever movie is big at the time. It happened with Austin Powers, it happened with Napoleon Dynamite and it will invariably happen with whatever stupid comedy makes it huge next.
The word "lull" has too many l's in it. Lull is almost all l's. L-u-l-l. Thank god for the u it breaks shit up.
- Andrew
Conversely, I don't like it when people wait at street corners with no intention of crossing but look like they are going to. Move down twenty feet so cars aren't waiting for you to cross at the corner only to realize after a few seconds that you're just standing there picking your nose.
Whenever I see people wearing sunglasses when it's dark out I think to myself that they are total crotch-balls lame. Hilariously hypocritically though, I love wearing sunglasses at all occasions; night time, inside, funerals. I know I probably look super douchey but you just feel badass when you wear some cool shades. Once again though, when I see other people wearing sunglasses at night I laugh at them.
If you are a man, or a woman who doesn't use public washrooms I will let you in on a little secret. In female public washrooms they have these little metal boxes in each bathroom stall. Okay well I should put a disclaimer here saying that my experience with this is really only limited to the Empress female washrooms. Anyways, these metal boxes have wax paper liners inside so that girls can get rid of used pads or tampons. Now, what is supposed to happen is girls open the box, grab a wax paper bag, open it, and insert their used female hygiene product. What actually happens that is so damn annoying is that a lot of girls don't take the consideration to actually use a bag. Instead they open the metal box, whip out their tampon, and slam dunk it in. Then later the person who cleans the washroom, (ie. me, at the Empress) comes along and instead of being able to cleanly, quickly grab a wax bag, they have to pry a fucking tampon stuck with dried blood from the bottom of the box, or pick up an inconceivably heavy soaking wet pad when there are perfectly good, unused bags in the very same box. It's disgusting. And fuck you whoever is doing that.
Another thing I am definitely guilty of but find it annoying (sometimes, not always) is when someone refers to some Simpsons or Family Guy episode. With almost 30 seasons combined between the two of them the odds that something someone is talking about has some vague connection between something that happened in one of the episodes is staggering so I find that it's way overdone. I definitely do it too though. I think it's because my brain is wired to pop-humour or something so as soon as someone says,”It's like in Family Guy when...” I can instantly make the connection between the show and whatever is happening at the time. Of course people don't just say, “It's like in Family Guy.” they say the entire scene they're thinking of but I already thought of it and laughed in my head so it just drags on for another 30 or 40 seconds. This phenomenon also happens with whatever movie is big at the time. It happened with Austin Powers, it happened with Napoleon Dynamite and it will invariably happen with whatever stupid comedy makes it huge next.
The word "lull" has too many l's in it. Lull is almost all l's. L-u-l-l. Thank god for the u it breaks shit up.
- Andrew