Things That Annoy Me - Today's Edition

Well, Katie's post concerning the errant loogies has reminded me of some habits that I can be crotchety at. ;)

First, yes, hawking loogies or spitting at heavily trafficked places. I can understand, if every once in a while you get all phlegmy because you have a cold or what not, you can't swallow it, and you just have to get it out. Then hold it in, do it in a trash can. Do it in a sink but wash it away. If you're outdoors, do it in a bush or off the trail. But I don't want to have to walk around your large, cruddy phlegm marks on the sidewalk. And when I see you doing it two or three times in about thirty seconds, that's a problem. You and Pavlov need to have a talk, because there isn't a bell ringing that I can see.

/horrible pun

Second, not flushing after you use a urinal. It seems like, much of the time when I use one, it hasn't been flushed. Why do they do that? Do they expect it to flush itself? Don't they know that by the second or third time someone does that it smells of stale urine? The bathroom doesn't have to smell like that!

But today! Oh today. I actually saw someone not flush. Twice. At different times of day. Both times in the dining hall bathroom, where I often go anyway to wash my hands. One time the person didn't wash their hands (I hope they didn't touch any of the food). The other person did, and they got to see me reach over there and flush it for them. See, that wasn't hard.

Third involves using the sinks around here. I live in a dorm with a communal bathroom, so there's 8 sinks for 14 people. That's a good ratio... 1.75 people per sink. But it's still not cool to put your personal crap in even one of them. Yes, sometimes dishes have to soak, but don't leave them in a sink overnight, especially when they still have crud on them. And, as I saw tonight, don't dump your noodles in the sink. You're stupid for doing that, because that's not a trash can, someone else has to take that out of the sink, and until that happens, we can't use a sink and have to wrinkle our nose each time we see the gradually putrifying mess.

It makes me wish sometimes that there was this... direct causality, so the people who do these things could experience the effects of what they do. I mean, have spit apparate around their bed as they wake up in the morning. Have septic backflow so they get to smell what happens when someone doesn't flush. Dump noodles all over their keyboard, and see how they feel about that. But I guess what I mostly wonder is whether people know that these things affect other people. Do they have a valid reason? Is it just laziness? Is that the lamest excuse ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sbtkQM6zc

And this is totally unrelated. Just so I don't end on a "People frustrate me" note.