Being invited to lunch by someone you haven’t seen in awhile, then having that person answer his/her cell phone and start chatting instead of letting the caller know that they are otherwise engaged (and he/she will call them back later).
Clerks who don’t ask, “May I help you?” or don’t look up and then don’t say, “I’ll be right with you.” or let you know how much you owe (they just stare and sometimes I can’t see the register total, so then I have to ask them how much I owe.)
Customers who don’t say, “Thank you.” or “Hello, how are you?” to the clerks and customers who don’t stop yakking on their cell phones when they get up to the register and the clerk.
People that constantly scream at their children in stores and don’t understand how to calmly teach their children to “stop doing something.” And parents with screaming toddlers who don’t know how to humanely stop them and then don’t take their child out of the store (or movie theater, or office waiting room etc.)
People who leave messages on your work phone, but disregard the message to please state their full names and slowly enunciate their phone numbers. Example: “Hi it’s me, call me back at nonetzerafortythreeone, oops I mean nonetfourthreedaone.”
People at work who will not clean up after themselves. Especially when they leave smelly, dirty dishes and food particles in the sink and sticky, crummy stuff on the counter, and cold half drank cups of coffee and plastic water bottles all over the office.
People that smoke and then use your office phone, leaving that vile scent on the part that you talk into.
People that don’t use turn signals and then cut you off on the freeway. And those same people that tailgate. And those same people that are doing all of that whilst talking and texting on their phones.
Going to a drive through fast food place, attempting to read the menu while the clerk starts asking you if you want X Y and Z (in static laced language), and you have to say No, No and No while you are still trying to read the menu. Then when you tell them what you actually want, then they repeat the wrong order back to you and you have to re-tell them what you want. Then after you pull away from the window, you realize that they gave you onions on everything, when you specfically requested that they leave the onions off, and they gave you coke instead of iced tea.
When you go to a restaurant and you ask if a certain item is made with chicken broth and they say they don’t know, but then don’t offer to go find out.
Having the receptionist at your doctor’s office say she’ll call you right back with your (referral, instructions, phone number that you need to call, name of the correct medication) and then they don’t call you back. Then YOU end up calling them back and get put on hold or a different receptionist answers and tells you that she’ll call you back and then doesn’t. It’s a vicious circle!
Having the homeowner’s association finally agree (after years of negotiation) to cut down the trees behind your house (on the common area) that are leaning toward your house that have been potential fire hazards for years (we live in a high fire danger area). After explaining that your own home owner’s insurance company saw those trees and highly suggested that they should be removed by the HOA because they are in danger of falling over or catching on fire. Then when the HOA tree cutters finally show up, they cut the trees down, but then let one of them fall on your house! Your roof is damaged, your back fence is completely destroyed, your patio furniture is crushed and your own Jacaranda tree (on your actual property) is completely wiped out, they leave and don’t contact you. You have to contact them and soon a week has passed and you have no back fence and a damaged roof and no apparent means of remedy.
