Similarly, my friend who taught ski school had a great line when separating a large group into smaller groups based on their ability. As he would watch them ski towards him he would yell at them...

I'm really looking forward to this winter because I like to be the annoying chatty cathy on the chairlift if I can tell someone doesn't want to talk. Then I really go overboard.

There is a major...

All my posts in this thread are about annoying coworkers. Here's another...

I work with a guy who can't just say 'good morning' or 'hello' when he sees me. It's got to be this over-dramatized ...

People who have to give a huge preamble and pre-apology to any question they're about to ask or statement they're about to make. It's usually women. I'm on a local board here and one of the female...

That sounds real nice. And it would it kill you to let me have a couple last drags off a smoke while you softly sing Mockingbird to me? That's how I want to go out.

I'm about to head out on an annoying 5 hour drive with our CEO to a conference. the conversation will be unbearable because he's old and tells you the same story several times. Throughout the 5 hour...

I like to annoy people from Oregon (I’m from OR) and Nevada by mispronouncing their states. I say Ore-gone and Nev-ah-dah… really fucking annoys people from those states and they’re always very...

I'm at a conference so I'll focus on annoying things at conferences.
First, I work in an industry where my peers and colleagues are 90% female, so not hooking up the first night of the conf is...

Bartenders who don't give me dolla bills in change. do you not want a tip? you're not getting my whole tenspot you swill merchant!

fake mountain personas. I have a buddy who talks like a mountain bro constantly, kind of like a ski bum spicolli, until his phone rings and it his is boss.
“Brah, I’m just a gypsy ski bum who only...

Drives me apeshit.

Also, ending a sentence with a trailing "so" as if I'm expected to infer what the speaker is implying. For example "The AD's birthday is coming up soon and he really likes...

I think I blogged about this person in the annoying office habits thread, but I have an employee who has a lilting sing-songy way of speaking… every word, every sentence, every time, all the time.
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