El Coyote wrote:Everyone has them. Mine is when people keep texting when I'm with them. But not like checking your phone once in a while, I mean people who literally don't even look up and rather text than speak with real people. I'm right here dammit why do you want to keep talking to someone who is not physically present!
YES. With the advent of smartphones it's become 100x worse, as there's also Facebook, Instagram, etc.
My current one is droplets of urine on the toilet seat. Okay, fine, you're too lazy to lift the seat. Then wipe the damn seat if you get urine on it. Seriously. I don't even like dealing with my own pee. I like wiping up other people's piss even less.
I don't like creases on book spines, and I've yelled at a friend for doing so before (not proud of that). You can always tell if a book is mine as the spine is completely uncreased, even doorstoppers like the Song of Ice and Fire books.
And I can't stand people who say the past is better, because more often than not, it's either always been terrible, or it's better now than it is in the past. Like when people say movies were better in the past or (more commonly) that Hollywood is devoid of ideas. No. It's because in the long run, only the good ones continue to be remembered; we don't see the crappy ones because no one remembers them. Some idiot in 2030 will be going on about how the early 2010s were a great time for movies - you have Black Swan, Inception, the Avengers, Inglorious Basterds etc. But that idiot will not remember that we also got Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, Due Date and a thousand other mediocrities in the same period.
Yeah. I feel more strongly about this than I should.