What REALLY annoys you?

Big mamas who squeeze in between you and someone else at the back of the bus because they don't want to face the rear (even though all all the rear facing seats are free).
 
Domo said:
People who take AGES at cashpoint machines.
People who stand still on the left side of escalators on the London underground
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Interesting, was london always a case of stand on the right continue climbing on the left?
That would appear to be in contradiction to the normal stair climbing protocols for the UK.
 
Dimple said:
My number 1 annoyance at the moment are other cyclists (100% MTB'ers) who wear all black and obviously have no lights or helmets on.
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I almost wiped out (well, I saw him about 20 meters away, but it sounds more exciting this way), some absolute cretin wearing all black and riding a BMX in an NSL road. I mean, wtf? BMX's are useful for nothing, and even less useful for long distance cycling commutes!
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Interesting, was london always a case of stand on the right continue climbing on the left?
That would appear to be in contradiction to the normal stair climbing protocols for the UK.
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pretty much every escalator in the country has signs saying "stand to the right"

cause they only go one way, so you don't need the right for people coming down :p

walk on the left as always
 
People coming into the shop to pretty much just argue at the advice they've asked me for. If your not going to listen then don't bloody ask.
 
- People that don't know how to use self service checkouts; either by being ridiculously slow or rocking up with alcohol
- Cyclists that go the wrong way down one-ways and are general douches
- People putting a new toilet roll on the wrong way
- People generally not being efficient (eg ordering popcorn and a drink at a cinema and them doing the popcorn first)
- Bad service in restaurants

etc
 
JayMax said:
I stopped off at my local off licence tonight, pitch black, got in the car, checked wing mirrors - nothing coming, indicated anyways as I do regardless, and set off.
Batman cyclist wearing all black with no lights appears from nowhere and gives me a load of verbal for nearly killing him. I told him you've got no bloody lights - how was I meant to see you. I got a load a grief back. I give up with cyclists.
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Last year as a cyclist wearing high-vis jacket with front and back lights I was cycling with traffic and a bus overtook me just before a left turn. On the other side of the road waiting to turn in was a car driver who saw the bus whoosh past and took off and hit me.

Almost a year later I almost got hit again by a person doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same spot. I had high vis gear and lights on and right of way

d_brennen said:
Did you kill him? I won't tell anyone :)

People who can't get in lane, when there's ******* Get In Lane signs everywhere. Then it's people who won't take .5 seconds out of their day to let you out of a side road, especially when there's traffic ahead - how far do you think not letting me out will get you ****head? That's right, up to the next stationary car/red light :mad: :mad:

I could continue all night/morning

To think, once upon a time I loved driving
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Again when cycling I find that you have what I call 'squeezers' who drive past you leaving about an inch of space between you and them , frighten the bejesus out of me and then come to a stop at the red light 50 feet away.

And the number of road users ( cyclists and car drivers ) who seem to 'just get through the lights' even though they clearly turned red 5 seconds ago is laughable.
 
djferrick said:
Last year as a cyclist wearing high-vis jacket with front and back lights I was cycling with traffic and a bus overtook me just before a left turn. On the other side of the road waiting to turn in was a car driver who saw the bus whoosh past and took off and hit me.

Almost a year later I almost got hit again by a person doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same spot. I had high vis gear and lights on and right of way
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I feel your pain.
I'm lit up like a Christmas tree and I'm still invisible to some drivers.
 
I wish more cyclists would wear hi-vis, even ones with really bright lights are lost amongst an urban background of equally bright lighting. One simple jacket is so much more visible from inside a car when it's raining.
Is there some bicycling fashion for tiny (pointless) reflectors on bikes now, I had whopping great ones on my bike (on eBay they are called retro now :()
 
Spook187 said:
Yeah to stop the London idiots rushing about :p seriously what does it achieve running up the escalators, because everytime that has happened i have caught these clowns up going at a normal pace :rolleyes:
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I'm usually one of those clowns but I can guarantee you wouldn't catch up to me if I went past you.

My pet hates:
Drivers who don't indicate, seriously how hard is this?
Slow people who walk in front of me who seem to take up the entire path or alternatively seem to change direction to block me from getting past.

At the gym:
People who don't reorganise the weights when they're finished with them or just don't bother at all and leave them on the bar/floor.
People who use the gyms only squat rack for exercises that can be done starting from the floor.
Overuse of spotters.
 
Tefal said:
pretty much every escalator in the country has signs saying "stand to the right"
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In my whole life I've never seen a sign a like that.

Domo said:
People who take AGES at cashpoint machines.
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Cash machines need to be on a timer that sucks in your card if you don't complete the transaction in time. It's the only way to stop the huge queues that form when people seem to try to do their annual tax return using them.

Reeve said:
I'm usually one of those clowns but I can guarantee you wouldn't catch up to me if I went past you.

My pet hates:
Drivers who don't indicate, seriously how hard is this?
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Cars should have a built in bomb that explodes when a turn is made without the indicators being activated. These drivers cause huge traffic queues as people behind them can't make a turn in the opposite direction because of their failure to indicate.
 
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Cyclists who whinge when you smash them off their bikes, face crunching them into the cold hard tarmac in your hot hatch as you infringe into the cycle lane in order to undertake traffic. :p

Popcorn on standby.
 
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