Wednesday, January 9, 2008

[On] People & Things that IRK Me

It's been awhile since I did a bitter New Yorker rant post in which I just list a bunch of things that bothered me today, yesterday or everyday of my life as a New Yorker or perhaps just as a human. And with everything that's been going on the last few days, I feel like I have a solid case. So without further ado:

Wanda Sykes' new voice-overs for Applebees. Wanda Sykes voice period
Any design where I'm forced to use papyrus, comic sans or arial; it's just not right and it's against everything I was taught in grad school.
When you ask for someone's opinion re: said design and they say "well it's not bad." Oh well thanks, so is it also not good? I'm not using this font by choice, FYI.
People who wear puffy coats with the fur hoods when it's 50+ degrees out
People who don't wear a coat or who wear shorts when it's really freaking cold out
People who use an umbrella when it's not raining. People who use giant umbrellas large enough to shelter a family of 9 and are clueless as they knock into everyone on the sidewalk. People who don't put their umbrellas down when walking under 2 or more blocks of covered scaffolding.
People who stop in the middle of the sidewalk to text or e-mail on their blackberry.
People who stop at the bottom of the escalator like holy shit, this thing moves?! That's new.
People who push to get into the escalator line, as if pushing makes me move faster. No, it just pisses me off!
People who push the elevator button over and over and over as if that makes it come faster; everyone knows it doesn't.
People who say the word important and don't pronounce the Ts and therefore slur the whole word together..like impordnt. There's 2 "Ts" in that word, people. 2!
People who leave spin or other such workout classes as soon as the workout portion is over, like, oooo I'm too cool to stretch. Also, people that come to class late. I got here on time, why are you so imporTanT that you couldn't. If you're going to come to class 25 minutes you really just shouldn't come.

1 comment:

Shay's Beautifully Human Words and Sounds said...

Well said Amo! Thank you for reiterating those pain saking moments of our city of complex people who think they are ImorTanT.:) The Blackberry one is my FAVE! Get a clue buddy. You are not Will Smith wandering by yourself in New York City which; let me remind you, is populated of 8 million people.