March 23, 2010
Pet Peeve # (I've Lost Count)
Net pet peeves to add to the list. 
1) Super huge restrooms with really cramped cubicles
Whenever I'm on one of my numerous work trips, I like to change into comfy clothes before boarding my homeward-bound flight. Most of the time I'm already checked out so I normally have to find some place to change. And every single time, whether it be a restroom at a swanky hotel in China/India/US or in some airport, there's never any space in the cubicle. At one 5-star hotel in China, it was so cramped that I had to stand sideways against the wall to close the door because there was just enough room for the door to clear the toilet. It really bugs me, especially in an airport where you'd expect people to have some form of luggage, that they would design restrooms with enough space to fit a car across cubicles but not in the cubicle itself.
2) KS people who push their way through to the front of a crowded elevator
I'm at work, the elevator's crowded and then some idiot decides to push his/her way through to the front. Ok, fine, maybe those few seconds will make a real difference to soneone's life. But what I don't get is when the door opens on the ground floor the same idiot takes his/her own sweet time to get out. Dude, if you were in such a f*cking hurry to get to the front of the elevator, why are you not in a f*cking hurry to get out???
And then after you get out, don't stop right in front of the doors and block everyone else! It's not as if you're slim enough that everyone can make their way past you.
3) Idiots who take ages to get out of the elevator when you're waiting to get in
The elevator at my office building has these weird-ass settings where the door closes pretty fast on you, so you really have to jump in pretty quickly. What really bugs me is when the door opens and there's only one person in the elevator who then takes ages to get out. Why, I don't know. You're on the ground floor already, did you not know that you'd be getting out at the ground floor? Why do you have to wait till the elevator makes its way to the ground floor and the door opens that you begin to gather up all your junk?
Then after she (it's ALWAYS a woman who does this) makes her leisurely way out of the elevator, the people who have been waiting patiently outside get to file their way in and half the time we get our elbows bruised because the door's on the way to closing and it doesn't stop till it hits someone.
Thanks for nothing, dumbass.
Posted by scrabbyfoo at March 23, 2010 05:47 PM