In any case, this made me think of other annoying things people do daily that makes me wanna run up to them, point my finger at them and say, "You are so rude MR! SO RUDE! So hence my Top 10 List of Annoyance! See this as a learning curve… Maybe some of you will recognise some things on the list that you do regularly and hopefully it will encourage you to refrain from doing so in future, thus the world will become a better place to live in. So basically, this is my bit to save the world from imploding…
1. Blocking An Exit Or An Entrance. Okay, it doesn’t take a genius to identify an exit or an entrance of a building. I don’t mind kids doing it because hey, they’re kids, but grown ass people blocking an entrance or exit to have a conversation, annoys the living daylights out of me. Especially when there’s only one entrance or exit and when it’s small and when it’s big butted people doing the blocking. I’m a big butted person myself, so I won’t go stand at an exit/entrance point because my brain realises that other people need to come in or go out there. It just doesn’t make sense.
2. Not Saying Please Or Thank You. There’s no excuse man. It doesn’t matter who you are, yes, even if you are rich or important. Basic manners 101. If you are not used to saying please or thank you, you’re just rude and freakin’ uncivilised. Full stop.
3. Ignoramus. Everyone who knows me well, knows that I absolutely hate not getting a reply on my emails or SMSes or any questions I may have asked. I just feel that if I take time out of my busy day to contact you, you can have the decency to reply even if it’s just a one-worded reply. Don’t even get me started on work-related emails. I deal with publicists on a daily basis. Publicist – a communicator - a person who communicates with others. Do you guys even know how many publicists don’t do this? The basic core of their job? They never get back to you and I for one cannot swallow this bullshit. Some other things that fall under here are, ignoring me when I talk to you! You know those people who talk your head off when they’ve got nothing to do, but as soon as you want to return the favour they are too busy to listen to you, so they either ignore you or tell you they’re busy. Omg! Wth! I hate that!
4. Making Fun Of The Weak. I just totally can’t stand it when a group of people gang up against a weaker person. Someone who can’t defend themselves. Really??? The stuff we teach our children… Because you know it goes all the way back to your childhood. “You are better that everyone else.” Bloody worse thing you can teach your kid.
5. Cutting A Queue. Everyone has been in a queue that seems to go on forever. So everyone will probably feel me on this when I say, it irritates me to madness when a person cuts the queue, like it’s the most normal thing on God’s green Earth and pretend like they don’t know what they are doing is wrong. And when you tell them, “Hey you! Get back in the queue!” They look at you like they wanna say “Whaaaat?” That really stinks! You’re not better than anyone else, so get your ass back in line, sneaky. The worst is most times they get it right! They get to cut the line, especially when they see a friend in the front, hey it doesn’t even have to be a friend, they butt in anyway. This is usually the point where I get tears in my eyes, not because of sadness, but because of anger!
6. Bad Service. Ooooh! I live close to a big mall. Many would say it is so convenient but I try to avoid that place like the freakin’ plague. I don’t know why but shop assistants, tellers, even waiters somehow think that if they work in a mall, especially this particular big mall, they can treat customers or clients like they please. Maybe it’s because they are so fed-up with rude customers, so the rest must also suffer. I can’t even count on my fingers the amount of times I have been disgusted by service I received from people working in this mall. The more expensive the store, the ruder the employees. Even shop assistants in Foschini, Edgars and Truworths (normal retail shops) walk with their noses up in the air if you ask them for assistance with make-up or shoe sizes. Even if I walk in that store with my hair in a bun and my ass in some tracksuit pants, I am a customer and you’ll treat me the very same as you would a seemingly rich person – seemingly because you never know if the customer you are helping turns out to be the owner of the store you are working in! People act like all entitled and shit. If you don’t like your job bro, get another one because it doesn’t help taking your bad attitude out on your clients/customers. At least you have a job and that is something you should be freakin’ grateful for in today’s economy. You are not doing me a favour by assisting or serving me. Don’t even get me started on banks – that’s a whole different chapter! You know in a world where everything is so very expensive, the least shops and service providers can do is to ensure that consumers are treated with respect.
7. Reading My Computer Screen Over My Shoulder. As I have mentioned, I do extremely dislike this! Doing this means, you have no respect for me and my privacy! And please don’t act surprise when I am abrupt with you afterwards because dude, you are RRRUUUUDEEE!
8. Blowing Smoke In My Face. Okay, I am not a smoker but I don’t mind if people want to light up in my flat or in my company. The people who do ask me, since I am a non-smoker, I respect. What I dislike is when I am minding my own business at the bus stop and a smoker comes to stand next to me and starts blowing billows of smoke in my face. Or if I come from somewhere, enter a building and I walk through a smoke cloud to get inside the building. Okay, I feel really sorry for smokers since they can’t smoke anywhere anymore but I think rude, inconsidered smokers did this to you guys who are good considered smokers. Because of them, all smokers apparently have become public enemy number 1.
9. Racism. Nuff said.
10. Bragging. We all tend to do it from time to time. I am guilty of it and I imagine when I allow myself to sometimes boast about an achievement, that other people get annoyed. That’s why I don’t do it often, some people are just jealous also, so screw them. However, I know you know what I’m talking about when I say there are a certain breed of people who cannot have a proper conversation with you, without talking about how much they paid for this, how much they paid for that, how much they earn, how awesome they are at everything, what expensive taste they have, what labels they just cannot live without and how everyone should adore them because they are super successful and super talented and super perfect. Look, I try to give credit where credit is due but for the love of everything that is sacred, showing off and bragging whenever you see someone you want to impress is not cool. You’re just gonna alienate people. These people are also almost always super-competitive. Don’t even think about saying something like, “Oh, yeah, we also recently got myself that gadget.” Be prepared to get an answer that sounds like this: “Oh, but mine is the upgraded model.” Whatever you do, do not entertain this person further! Just smile and move away. Far away.
I think I tolerate most of these things on the list above because like most people I don't like making a scene. But it really gets under my skin and I think if we spent more time considering the other person and respecting other people, the world would be a much more enjoyable place to live in. Last of all, I hate moaning, which I am clearly doing now, so I'm just going to stop it and return to being happy and pleasant now that all that's out of my system! Hope you do the same!
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