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9 Annoying Things You Should Stop Doing

I do some of these. You do some of these. We need to stop.

Max Klein
6 min readApr 21, 2022
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“Slow down!” I yelled as I walked angrily into Target.

I couldn’t take it anymore. I had been in the parking lot for forty-five seconds and in that time three cars sped by me at a minimum of 45mph.

In a parking lot. Seriously. The number of brain cells you must lack to think you’ll get somewhere any faster by endangering every grandma and kid in your proximity must be astronomical.

Driver’s license tests should ask “Will you get to your final destination much faster if you go 45mph for 40 yards vs. 15mph for 40 yards? Is the time you save worth the risk?” Then if someone answers yes or even maybe, ban them forever from behind a wheel due to lack of mental capacity.

Some days, people are just annoying and what’s annoying is that they keep repeating the same annoying things. It’s not a one-off human annoyance.

Here’s my list of things people keep doing that annoy me. I’m not some holier-than-though human here. I do some of these things and annoy myself.

Here they are.

#1. The “one-up.”

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