| All the things that drive us mad, annoy, irritate and frustrate us in today's modern world
A selection derived from many sources, including friends, family, newspapers and magazines
- Teachers who complain about how hard they work, even though they get more holidays than the rest of us
- Anyone who starts a conversion with the phrase, "I know it's your day off, but..."
- Anyone who smokes in a restaurant
- Adult men who wear back-ward baseball caps
- Mobile phones which always seem to be set to the loadest ring, going off in the middle of a film, play or concert
- The phrase, "at this moment in time"
- People who tell you to, "cheer up, it might not happen", when it just did.
- Supermarket checkout people who close the checkout just as you push your trolley in
- Endless features on talentless 'personalities' who feel compelled to inflict their brainless opinions on the rest of us
- Readers Digest' prize draw pre-pre-draw, pre-draw and draw notifications
- People who allow their dogs to foul the pavement while they stand watching
- 'personalised' junk mail which tries to convinve you that you have been especially selected
- Mothers (or Fathers) pushing side-by-side double baby buggies around narrow isles in supermarkets
- Restrictions on teenages driving when it's the over-70's who go the wrong way up motorways
- Anyone towing a caravan on a narrow road
- Women who talk about their biological clock
- Radio and TV ads that end with, "get us now on, www dot blah blah dot com" and omit a normal phone number
- When you ring a company, being greeted with, "Good morning/afternoon, this is so and so company, my name is such and such, how may I help you?". Ranks equally with the insipid, "have a nice day", used in 'certain' fast food outlets
- The current trend of making men look stupid in adverts
- Women who scream, 'sexual harassment', if you so much as brush against them
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