Those Annoying Habits

[scotpens]

Does anyone have a family member, friend, acquaintance, roommate, or co-worker with a habit that just drives you out of your freakin' skull -- but, for whatever reason, you won't or can't confront them about it so you suffer in silence?

I work for a fairly small mom-and-pop business. My boss's wife has a habit of singing along with her favorite songs on the radio. That in itself wouldn't be so bad if she could actually sing, or at least carry a tune. Unfortunately, her voice sounds like that girl Sueleen Gay in the movie Nashville -- the one who couldn't sing worth a turd.

I put up with it because she's the boss's wife.

Anyone else in a similar situation?

 

[Miss Chicken]

One of my sons really gets on my nerves if he has been drinking. He just gets so fucking annoying if he has had a few. I don't suffer in silence however. My youngest son does not get annoying if he is drinking.

 

[LitmusDragon]

One of my co-workers is not all that skilled with language. Not his fault I guess. But he's gotten into the habit of calling this one window in a software tool the "config respiratory" instead of "config repository". You know, like the software has a cold or something. Drives me up the wall. I have pointed it out a couple of times but I just let it go now.

 

[Withers]

I sort of brought this on myself but...

I was sitting in the office of my now boss and quickly noticed she had a McDreamy sticker on her bicycle in the corner (which led me to assume she was a Grey's Anatomy fan like everybody else in this city.) I personally can't stand the show as I get all my prime time soap opera crap from Desperate Housewives. I do however, by virtue of having listened to endless conversations on the show, know a little bit about it. Well, the interview was going just okay until she asked what my former boss was like. That was my chance; "Well, she was a little like Miranda Bailey... oh, that's--" "Grey's Anatomy!" "Haha... yeah, she was a little like that."

Well, I got the job (though I really hope that wasn't why) and I am the only other person that works here who claims to like it. So now every time a new episode comes on or some drama regarding the cast occurs she rushes in to chat with me about it. I have actually started watching the show to make it easier on myself to have these conversations. And it is awful. Plain... straight up awful. But, she is my boss after all.

Oh what tangled webs we weave, eh?

-Withers-​

 

[Diddle]

I'm usually the one with the annoying habits.

 

[auntiehill]

Hubby's best friend sucks air through his teeth very loudly before every other sentence. It's the most annoying thing EVER.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

Christian always talks to me like I'm a freakin idiot. It's pretty annnoying, because I actually get much better grades than the little midget. You have no idea how many times I've wanted to strangle him, or throw him off the bleachers, or toss a nice 10-pound rock at his noggin.

 

[Lindley]

My officemate makes annoying noises at random intervals. Remember that Firefly scene---"Could you not do that.....ever?" That's what it sounds like. Totally unpredictable when he'll do it.

He also has a tendency to suck on straws that are in nearly-empty cups too often (I'm sure you know the sound).

 

[AstroSmurf]

I have a friend who says "you know" every other sentence when he is talking. I have put up with it in silence for almost eight years now. But I just know I am going to crack one day and scream, "If I knew then you wouldn't be telling me the story now would you!"

And I would also like to echo Diddle. I am usually the one with all the weird habits. Yes, I am that guy who likes to tap things (not realizing that I am doing it), singing to the odd song or laughing way to loud for the situation. I also talk like a machine gun when I am stressed or nervous. I like to shoot people with my Nerf gun when they least expect it. I am a terror. (Thank the maker I work for myself these days.)

 

[Miss Chicken]

My best friend annoys me with her gushing over certain actors - most notably Russell Crowe and Alex O'Loughlin. I don't want to constantly hear details of these two actors' lives. I am not interested into Hollywood gossip at all.

I also don't like it when the same friend says how she has managed all her life without the internet and a couple of day later she rings me up to ask me to look up one of the following on the internet

1) Session times of movies or what movies are starting the following week
2) Bus timetables
3) Look for something on eBay or Amazon and buy it for her (she always pays me back)
4) What the weather is going to be like

etc etc

 

[auntiehill]

One of my co-workers is not all that skilled with language. Not his fault I guess. But he's gotten into the habit of calling this one window in a software tool the "config respiratory" instead of "config repository". You know, like the software has a cold or something. Drives me up the wall. I have pointed it out a couple of times but I just let it go now.

My husband is the same way---except the ONLY thing he knows are computers and computer terminology. Everything else? Forget it. Even things he really likes, like songs or movies, get totally and completely forgotten. It's as if simple nouns and pronouns are too much for him, yet he remembers 20 lines of code he just wrote in his head.

He is a big fan, still, of the heavy metal and hard rock bands from the 80s. There's one Iron Maiden song he was singing--only he completely blanked out on the lyrics. So he just starts singing, while we're playing cards with friends, "Walking the dog, walking the dog..."

Even *I* knew that wasn't right. Everyone just stared at him, not knowing what he was talking about. Then it dawned on me:

"Honey, you mean Breaking The Law, Breaking The Law!"

Two or three years later, I still tease him about that.

 

[propita]

Hubby bites his nails to the quick--he runs out of nail and bites on the skin. UGH! Sounds like little rats chomping away. Usually I just request he stop for a while.

I know he does it because he's thinking hard on something (he is always thinking--I can practically hear and see the gears working in his head), but enough sometimes.

My bad habit that Hubby's commented on? I forget things. A lot. More now with the health issues, which, though under some control, my memory and thinking seem to have taken a permanent hit. When you add in that Hubby's memory is freakishly good--not just my opinion--I can understand his frustration. Even though I know this isn't really a habit.

 

[Geckothan]

Everyone in my family snores but me.

 

[JonathonWally]

And I would also like to echo Diddle. I am usually the one with all the weird habits.

That's me too. I also go machine gun mouth when I'm nervous.

 

[sbk1234]

Merry and Pippin got pretty annoying at times! And don't get me started on Bilbo Baggins!

 

[Velocity]

my husband drives me nuts when he calls a burger, a booger. EVERY time. We've been married 35 years so you can imagine how many times I've heard it.

 

[RandyS]

One of my sons really gets on my nerves if he has been drinking. He just gets so fucking annoying if he has had a few.

I know how you feel. My brother is the same way. His abusiveness when he's drunk has led to our reluctant estrangement. I say reluctant, because he's still my brother and I love him, but I just couldn't take his behavoir toward me anymore, that coupled with my cerebral palsy, making it difficult for me to protect myself pysihcally from his abusiveness, made it necessary to cut off all contact with him.

 

[Kestra]

My brother and one of my good friends both eat obnoxiously loudly. I don't know if they're eating with their mouths open or what, but !

I'm pretty used to it by now though.

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ I have a friend that chews with her mouth open. I get so freaked out that I won't eat with her anymore. This is also the friend who is the heavy breather. Not only do you get to see what she is eating but you get to smell it as she gasps and snorts for air. Don't get me wrong. I love her to death but it is like trying to lunch with a Viking horde.

(You know that saying about pet owners taking on attributes of their animals? Well she owns four pugs so I am not surprised she does either one of those things.)

 

[Miss Chicken]

One of my sons really gets on my nerves if he has been drinking. He just gets so fucking annoying if he has had a few.

I know how you feel. My brother is the same way. His abusiveness when he's drunk has led to our reluctant estrangement. I say reluctant, because he's still my brother and I love him, but I just couldn't take his behavoir toward me anymore, that coupled with my cerebral palsy, making it difficult for me to protect myself pysihcally from his abusiveness, made it necessary to cut off all contact with him.

My son doesn't get abusive or anything like that he just talks the most ridiculous shit and drivel. His younger brother has cerebral palsy and is the one who can control his two older brothers the best. I reckon this is because my youngest son is so easy going that his brothers realise that their behaviour is totally unacceptable if they have managed to upset him.