I am a pretty laid back person, in my opinion anyway, and usually the dumb things people do don’t annoy me.  I tend to attribute bad behavior to a lack of self-esteem, a dysfunctional childhood (which covers just about all of us), fear, a lack of education or whatever other malady fits the situation.

But, there are some people who REALLY annoy me, and I’m taking this opportunity to call them out!

People Who Make Drugs Out of My Medicine

Have you bought a cold or sinus medicine that contains pseudoephedrine lately?  I have.  It’s the only stuff that can clear my sinuses.  I tried the other stuff, but it just doesn’t work.

Now, I feel like the criminal!  First, I have to skulk into the aisle of my local mega mart where the cold and sinus remedies are displayed, and sneak a small piece of cardboard off the shelf that has a picture of the contraband I want to purchase.  Then, I stand in the pharmacy line.  Then, I have to show my driver’s license and sign a small monitor promising that I will only swallow the pills, not cook them into an illegal drug.  Cheez.

Internet Spammers

There are all kinds of things I have to do because of Internet spammers.  I have to purchase special software to protect my computer.  I have to answer  all the ridiculous questions my computer asks me trying to protect me from spammers. 

But, the thing that annoys me the most is checking my e-mail Spam folder.  My brain can’t help but absorb some of the filth in the emails that end up there while I’m making sure that e-mails from real people haven’t been swept in there by mistake.

Stupid People Who Force Me to Read Dumb Stuff

I purchased a thingy to put in my windshield to deflect the sun so the car didn’t get so hot during the summer.  It’s pretty clever, actually.  It’s reflective material stretched on some kind of wire.  It starts out a relatively small round disk, and with a flick of the wrist, opens to cover the windshield on the inside of the car.

The instructions printed on the material includes this admonition:  “Do not operate the vehicle while the sun guard is in use.”  Duh.  Could anyone really be that stupid?!?  How did that court case play out?  “Well, Judge, I didn’t notice I couldn’t see out of the windshield, and there was nothing in the product literature that told me the sun guard couldn’t be used while driving.”  Give me a break!

So, Now It’s Your Turn!

Let me know about people who really annoy you!  Send me an e-mail, and I’ll publish your lists next Wednesday.  Include your web address (and even the keyword phrase you’d like to use as the link text), and I’ll include a link to your website.

I would have simply given you my e-mail address rather than a link to a contact form, but then the spammers would scrape the e-mail address off this blog and send me even MORE GARBAGE!!