1. People who continually comment on the weather. This morning, the boy in the office has said the following: "I think it is going to rain today," followed by, "Oh, the rain is here," and now, "If it keeps raining, I might have to get wipers for my truck!" Okay, I am a reasonably intelligent person; I can look outside and see that it is raining. Also, I don't need the running commentary. If you are that bored, go back to your office-I will look out my window and track the weather myself.
2. Co-workers (the above one and one other) who get bored and feel like they need to chat. I am at my desk, working, and I will go so far as to completely turn away from them and keep working, but they don't get the hint. I like to take breaks right along with the rest of them, but if I am clearly working, shouldn't they leave?
3. Stores who hire people who can't speak English. Okay, I understand the need, at least here, to hire someone who is bilingual, but it should be reuired that they speak English well. We went shopping for a dress for my niece's wedding (I am, at my advanced age, her "Matron" of Honor!) in the mall, and the woman in one of the stores we went into kept saying, "You look for dress, yes?" Like 6 times. And I am thinking, "Well, we are IN this store, which ONLY sells dresses, but you know, I am really looking for a nice pair of jeans." Duh. I think that was the only English phrase she knew.
4. People who work in retail who think THEY are doing YOU some big favor for working there. Like I really feel special to be waited on by some gum-snapping, pierced and tatooed young girl who doesn't even know how to run the cash register (same day, different store).
5. Young women who think it is somehow sexy to wear skirts that show off their ass cheeks. I was in the bathroom (still at the mall) and there was a girl there not much older than Hannah. She was standing at the sink when I came out of the stall and I could literally see her cheeks; she wasn't even bending OVER. Maybe young guys like it, but I know that of all the men in MY life, the look they give those girls is one of disgust, not lust. I understand wanting to look attractive and sexy, but that look is just slutty.
***Perhaps I am getting old, or I just need to stop going to the mall!***
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6. People who walk into a store on their cell phone and are surprised that they won't get waited on, since they aren't serious about buying something if they are talking to someone else.