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06/17/04 |
from the Chicago Sun-Times
Life's annoyances: people who just don't get it
June 17, 2004
BY RICHARD ROEPER
Gum-crackers. Junk mail that tries to disguise itself as a check or a personal letter. ESPN sports highlights guys (and gals) who try way too hard to pepper their commentary with hipster catchphrases.
"Special Anniversary Unrated Edition" DVDs of movies that are released just months after you've bought the "Special Director's Cut."
Drivers who block the intersection when they know there's no chance of making the light.
Utility infielders with lifetime averages of .247 who stand in the batter's box and admire their home runs as if they're Reggie Jackson or Barry Bonds.
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Those are a few more of my least favorite things. After I wrote a column earlier this week about having a kind of "Hate Lite" for some of life's minor annoyances, hundreds and hundreds of you sent in some of your "favorites."
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Betty Darling: "I hate the never-ending shrink-wrap packaging on CDs."
Dave Carlson: "The ever-changing spelling of our enemies' names. Is Libya's main man Quadafi? Khadafi? Or some other variation? And just when did Mao Tse-tung become Mao Zedong or Mau Tse Dong?
"[I also hate] transferring out of somebody's voicemail to get to the other person who can help me 'if this is urgent,' only to get yet another voice mail -- and then getting transferred to TO THE ORIGINAL VOICE MAIL AGAIN!"
Rick Gregori: "I 'hate' those idiotic happy birthday songs you are forced to sing in a restaurant. Why the owner of the establishment would think that I would love nothing more than to sing and or clap along with all the waitstaff -- to some stranger -- is beyond comprehension."
Meri Gendek: "People think it's OK to clip their fingernails in public, say, in a restaurant (!) or on the Metra sitting above you. Where do they think those clippings are going?"
Kim McWilliams: "Those return envelopes that come with your credit card bills. There is always an advertisement flap that you have to detach in order to return the envelope. I always find myself mumbling, 'This is insane,' whenever I have to tear that ad off the envelope."
Mike Gibbons: "At the risk of sounding Seinfeldian, it bugs me when people don't offer 'the wave' after you've let them merge [in traffic]."
Neil McCarthy: "People who say, 'With all due respect,' [meaning], 'I have no respect for you.' "
Maria Dombrowski : "Women in their 30s and 40s who speak in that dumb, breathy 'little-girl' voice. Men who yell instructions at their kids at Little League games. People whose eyes glaze over when you talk about your children. Married people who knock single life; single people who knock married life.
And my favorite: PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR KIDS IN THE RUNNING CAR 'JUST FOR A MINUTE.' That's all it takes to lose 'em forever. Don't they get it?"
Doug Deuchler: "That sign that's in restaurant washrooms: 'EMPLOYEES: Wash Your Hands Before Returning to Work.' It's distracting and gross. If the kitchen workers aren't into washing their hands, trust me, a sign isn't going to make them do it."
Scott Berger: "I hate when people say, 'ATM Machine.' The 'M' stands for 'Machine,' so what they're really saying is, 'Automated Teller Machine Machine.'" |
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