Annoying Public Habits...Which one tops your list?

People talking on cellphones while they are being checked out at a store has to be my biggest pet peeve. It is so rude to the checker, but also to those of us who have to listen to some stupid conversation that could wait until they finished what they are doing. People not using blinkers. Not holding the door for someone. The movie thing is right up there, however, I am pretty nasty, I will go get a manager and ask them to be moved or leave.

Public spitting is definitely at the top of my list, but I think even more is the talking on the cell phone so everyone can hear your conversation. I don't really want to hear what your cat did while you were gone or what your friend did on their date last night - of course this wonderful little pet peeve of mine didn't begin until a few years ago, when cell phones became so pervasive in society.

LOL! And I thought they always sat right behind me! Yes - the talkers annoy me too, but my worst pet peeve is people who spit in the street. It is a disgusting, appalling, rude, and unhygienic habit in my opinion, - it kind of makes my blood boil just to think of it! Oh and people who eat greasy, smelly burgers in public places, and throw the wrappers around. I am vegetarian, and thr smell makes me want to throw up! Thanks for letting me rant!

If you are in a restaurant and people sat on the table next to you start smoking whilst your clearly still eating. Also, people who fall asleep on trains and start snorning. When you are in a queue and the person behind you is so close to you, they think they are getting closer to the front and they are breathing down your neck! Also if you are in a queue or in a small shop and someone has flatulents! Please go outside or wait until you are!!

The most disgusting and unique public display of groomimg (which I can't stand) is a girl who clipped and filed her long nails next to me on a train. During rush hour no less! I kept thinking I was on "Punked" or something like that. It happened a year ago, but I still think about it in amazement. Luckily, no one was wounded by any stray nail clippings.

I know Im one of many that has a problem with people on cell phones. Its not so much that i have to hear their conversations, or that they talk loud or interrupt me, its how so many people can not seem to live without their cell phones. It drives me insane. You leave class, everyone busts out their cell phones, calls up their friends. Your plane hits the ground, 2 seconds later people are on the phone talking about how their flight was. You cant go anywhere without hearing the ear splitting, lacookaracha ring tone. What happened to old fashion person to person talking? It is possable to survive without knowing where everyone you know is at every exact moment. Dont get me wrong, i love having a cell phone. But I do not need it every second of every day.

I answer phones for a living and one of the things that drives me nuts is when I answer the phone and the caller doesn't know it because they are to wound up in the coversation they are having with the people in the room with them. Come on now if you can't pay attention to the call you are making then finish what you are doing and then call.

oh! Oh! I have one! I hate it people pass you and they even have to bump into you or even slighty push you aside... Like what the heck it that??? Can they not keep their hands off other people??? I just hate that!

Definitely the loud talk in a theater...even worse, when people don't turn off their cell phones, and actually answer them while the movie is going on, and talk on their phone as though there was no one around them, in a loud voice. Absolutely mind-boggling how people can do that and not be aware at all of what they are doing. People who run red lights. So dangerous. People who decide for whatever reason they can tell me their morbid life stories if by chance I make eye contact with them..total strangers do that to me. People who trash wherever they've been. That's just so strange to me, how people just don't care about messes they leave. Anyway, when I see this in others, I try to be more careful how I behave in public myself, as I'm not guiltless.

There are different annoying things that happen when we are out in the society. There are people out there who are causing different problems which annoy everyone else. Such behaviour really gets on my nerves and the behavior which is on the top of my list is quarreling while traveling in public transportation systems. It really gets on my nerves.

I have two major pet peeves that are comon in the public today. People talking on their cell phone when other people can see and hear them. This is only an annoyance in banks, waiting in lines, movie theaters, & in restaurants. My other pet peeve of a public annoyance is those who play their music too loud in public areas. This is when people don't use headphones.

talking in the movies deinately! and when people don't say thanks or anything when you have taken time to hold the door open for them or something like that.

Well your top list of annoying public habits also one of mine too. As for the the best one is public trowing their garbage and their unwanted stuff at the area where authorities have put-up sign "Don't Throw/Dispose Your garbage Here". Well at this certain area where people say don't than that will means yes to them. What really happend to the noncivic minded people? Do they can't read the sign or just having fun breaking the law??

My biggest pet peeve is when your out at a restaurant and people have their cell phones on and they are talking on them and eating at the same time... I can't stand people who smack their mouths when they eat or talk with food in their mouths it is rude and disgusting.........

The one public habit that get's to me is when folks are talking on speak with the cell phones. I don't want to hear their conversation, nor does anyone else on the bus or walking down the street. Please people get blue tooth cause i don't want to know that your baby father is cheating on you once again!! LOL

I am quite annoyed by PDA - Public Display of Attention - Like couples ---mostly students--- who, as if there's no more "tomorrow" for both of them. I find the act offensive.

listening to my neighbours music at 07.00 in the morning or during the week-end...at least if it was something nice..

Cell phone talkers! I am having a quiet evening dinner out with my husband (a rare event) and at the table next to us, a woman gets out her cell phone, calls a resort hotel down the road a way and makes reservations, and then gives them her credit card number to confirm the reservations. If we were of the type, we could have played hell with that, instead, it just put a damper on the evening. Just a few weeks ago, we were out at a different place eating out, and looked across the place and there were two people at a table, stuffing food in their face, and both talking on cell phones. If I am out on a date with you, I expect to talk to you, look at you, listen to you, and only take a call on that cell phone if it is an emergency. That means a short quick conversation, or I am stepping out of the public eating place so that I do not disturb others.

I fully understand your frustration, me myself can go nuts on people who do anything to be seen. Like acting 'stupid' or like you said making a lot of noise ... Another thing I really hate are old people driving a car :) Ok there are a few good drivers but most of them are getting me nuts on they way they drive ... People like them are the reason of so many accidents and it is not because I'm 'young' I say this but it is really a mess :)

I have a lot of these, but at the top of the list....loud talkers (especially cell phones) in restaurants or theaters, groups of people who have to walk down the sidewalk or through a store all lined up side-by-side and thus blocking everyone else from walking past them, and parents who let their kids run wild in public.