...or people that yell at their kids/make a scene because their kid's not perfectly quiet in the store. I saw (well heard more than saw) a mom doing this to her ~4 year old this afternoon, when the kid wasn't doing anything outside of normal 4 year old behavior. It just makes me sad; if she'll talk like that in public to her child, how does she act at home?
On a less sad panda note - I get annoyed when the workout room at the gym is pretty much empty and somebody has to take the machine right next to me. Dude, really?
Similarly, when the professor runs 2-3 minutes over and people ask questions that keep the entire class there longer. I'm sorry you were too dumb to get the topic, but don't keep the rest of us here longer.
In fairness to that Mom, you really don't know what went on before the freak out. One time my Mom got pretty angry with me in a store when I was a lot younger because I had been a total douche the entire day. Straightened me right out and I seldom acted out in public after that incident.
Disgustingly sick coworkers that keep snorting snot instead of blowing their nose.
True, I'm sure I got yelled at as a little kid myself. I don't mean that she was necessarily a bad mom, but she could have kept it down just a little (I was halfway across the store and still heard every word she said).
However, I also worked in pediatrics for a while and saw several moms yelling at their kids for absolutely no reason...if your kid is 2, there's no reason to get mad at him and jerk his hand back if he's getting into the magazines in the exam room, for example - most kids learn by exploring, and a 2 year old's not really going to understand why you're yelling at him anyway. Now, if you lectured a 4 year old for acting out in a store, they would probably remember it and straighten up a little more...but I think there's an appropriate way to do it without sounding "ugly."