These are a few of my least favourite things.

[Stephen]

I hope that I am with Felix's first post most of the time.



But
Ok, I agree about Vegetarians who aren't. (I am!) Any dietry choice is fine, but describe yourself accurately.
I do very much agree about middle-laners dawdlers fall into the same category and those people with pull-along cases who stop at the top and bottom of staircases/escalators so everyone else has to stop behind them.

[pongeroon]

Something that really annoys me nowadays is shop assistants who ask 'are you alright there?' instead of 'may I help you?' or suchlike. One of these days I will no longer be able to stop myself shouting 'YES OF COURSE I'M ALRIGHT HERE, IF I WASN'T I'D GO SOMEWHERE ELSE'

They all seem to do it now.

[peter]

Over-optimistic inappropriate and pushy sales attempts.

On going to Homebase today to get some topsoil I checked they had some before going out front to get a trolley, I got asked three times if I wanted any keys cutting today and also whether I wanted to replace my windows.

I was tempted to say "Oh drat I've suddenly remembered that my windows fell out last night and I've got five lodgers coming tomorrow and they'll all need keys."

Of all the moronic sales attempts that has to take the biscuit, I'm 6'1" 20 stone, buzz haircut with a beard and wearing a purple T-shirt and within five minutes two different concession holders each ask me the same question three times.

[pongeroon]

Hmmm, you sound like my kind of man, Peter...

[JohnN]

I don't understand those newspaper reporters who always qualify the word "barrister" with "qualified" - have you ever met an unqualified barrister? Just to give you a smile, a 20 stone friend of mine recently recived a telephone call asking if her could donate some "clothes to starving Africans". His succint reply was "if my clothes fit them, they're not starving!" Cruel, but....
John N

[Chantal]

I've been thinking about this one:

Tomato blight
Spiders of any shape and size
Brain dead scum who snap off a load of just planted saplings (why?)
Celery (bleah)
Coriander (double bleah)
People cycling at 20 mph on the pavement (grrrrr)
Holes in the floor eg drains, manholes etc
Looking up chimneys
Buttons
Most TV programmes these days, I actually prefer the old repeats
My inability to learn Italian

Thats enough to be going on with I think

[AdeTheSpade]

OK, here goes:

People who give me advice I haven't asked for and don't actually need, who don't ask if I want it, and who must assume I'm so stupid I couldn't possibly know already;

People who phone and don't think to ask if I'm busy/is it a good time to talk, and launch at great length into whatever it is they're doing or have been doing;

People who phone when we're out, or if we don't get to the phone on time, and leave no message at all;

People who ask how my allotment's doing, then interrupt me before I've finished answering cos they really only want to tell me at great length about their own!

[AdeTheSpade]

Oh, and coconut (multiple bleah)...

[alan refail]

Buon giorno Chantal. Non è difficile imparare e parlare italiano. Infatti è una lingua relativamente accessibile. Beata Lei che non ha dovuto lottare contro le complessità interminabili della lingua gallese

Another one to add to your list Smarta***s who reply to you in Italian

[Chantal]

Buongiorno Alan

Magari posso parlare in italiano, posso leggere facile! Ho capito il suo messaggio perfettamente.

Non credo che tu è un "smarta***", anche se si parla gallese!

[alan refail]

Chantal

For your further education:

cacasenno (un/una) n. a know-it-all, a smart-ass; (lit.): one who shits wisdom.
cacasentenze m./f. inv. one who likes to moralize, one who acts like he/she is very smart, a smart ass; (lit.): one who shits opinions

[glallotments]

This is bit dodgy as someone may take offence
but here goes:

I agree with the people who smoke in doorways especially open ones where the smoke drifts in.
People using mobile phones whilst driving
People on our site who just refuse to lock the site gates
People sending texts to me in a language I can't understand
Not using capital letters where they should be or Americanised spellings used like 'friday nite'
Soap operas
The habit of driving in any lane you fancy including the middle lane on the motorway
Spell and grammar checkers that tell me I have used which and should consider using that but when I use that tell me to consider which or tell me I have used a fragment!!
Spitting by sportspeople or anyone else.
The saying I always give 110%?
Children who just scream and scream and scream when playing outside your window
Loud music playing anywhere where I have to listen
Foreign call centres
Buliders bottoms on anyone not just builders.
Litter louts
Oil seed rape everywhere you look - sorry if you grow it but it not only looks awful but is the only thing to give me hayfever symptoms
Newspaper reports who say Mrs X 43 years old - why does how old they are matter?

Sorry once started I just kept going and probably could think of lots more and have probably upset just about everyone by now!!

PS Love the Italian language

[Chantal]

Chantal

For your further education:

cacasenno (un/una) n. a know-it-all, a smart-ass; (lit.): one who shits wisdom.
cacasentenze m./f. inv. one who likes to moralize, one who acts like he/she is very smart, a smart ass; (lit.): one who shits opinions

I expect I'll find these words (along with some far worse ) in my Street Italian and Slang Italian books which I have at home. I'd have brought them with me if I thought I'd need them at work today