Actor Ricky Gervais is Annoyed by Everything. Funny Video.

James: I especially laughed at the bit about waiters/waitresses seating people right next to you in a quiet and empty restaurant!! It really hit close to home because of my similar quirks with picking up very faint but annoying sounds that ratchet up the anxiety, impatience and especially irritability.

So I thought I'd vent a bit and list some of my own annoyances. These are in no particular order:

-Any mechanical yard equipment: Lawn mowers, weed trimmers but especially the dreaded mechanical manic episode inducing leaf blower.

-The doorbell. Whenever someone buzzes the door bell it scares the shit out of me. I flinch and startle and my heart rate immediately goes up worrying who is behind the door. Mercifully the doorbell broke awhile back and we didn't bother to fix it so now people have to knock, which I can better handle. It still startles me but not as bad as that loud, obnoxious door bell. The other one that is connected to the door bell is the phone. I hate that people can reach me so easily. I hate being in my secure and comforting cave (my home) and hear the phone ring. The ring is intrusion enough. It's such an annoying sound that it's as if any stranger can reach through the phone and pester me to via that intrusive ring. I much prefer email and texting.

-Anything involving driving. Especially having to share the road with people who don't know the rules of the road or who just don't give a shit about anyone else. A big one for me is people who take their sweet ass time turning left through an intersection on a green arrow. They slow down to like 5mph and like a turtle they meander their way around while the rest of us waiting are chomping on our steering wheels. They don't care if anyone else gets through so long as they make it through. It's incredibly inconsiderate of other drivers and inefficient driving. Then we have the people who slow down as they are trying to merge into traffic or who actually come to flat out stop on an merge lane for a busy interstate highway. The last one I'll (list) though I could name dozens are the left lane campers. I hate when people camp out in the fast lane on a major road because they have to turn left in 5 miles. Stop plugging traffic and move over. There's plenty of time to move over when you get closer. People WILL let you in. It's called a turn signal.

-Dog barking. I'm an animals lover but I don't understand guardians of dogs who let their pet bark away in the backyard for hours on end. It's not the animals fault and I do love dogs but the staccato sound of the same sounds and number of barks just chew on my nerves about about 10 minutes. When we had a dog growing up and would put him outside we'd always bring him back into the house once he started the barking routine.

-People who push their shopping carts through the grocery store as if they were in a race car. They don't even look often when they are turning a corner and often nearly slam into your cart. I see pushing the cart as an extension of driving. Slow down and look before you turn a blind corner.

-Cell phones. Especially when you're waiting in line for food and someone is up ahead holding up their order because they're talking to their best friend about a bad date or something inane. Hang up and get with the program your majesty. They act like they are the only ones that are around and that somehow they are special or different. And while I do use my cell phone while driving at times I use it vary sparingly for neccesary calls only. I never call someone "just to tal" while I'm driving. Often I'll just simply pull over to talk. I don't camp out in the fast lane and clog things up because I'm engrossed with my conversation about last nights CSI or god knows what else these people yammer on about. And I wonder who are all these people talking to? Do they really have to make that many calls while driving? It seems like everyone is talking to someone these days and they can't all be emergency or necessary calls. Talking to someone on the cell phone while driving because you are bored isn't a good enough reason. You shouldn't be bored while driving.

-People who stare. I was raised and taught not to stare at people as it is rude and provocative. In animals it is seen as a sign of aggression and confrontation and that's how I see it for me. There are ways of looking at someone without staring at them incessantly. You catch a glimpse and maybe flash them a smile but then look away. That or you use your peripheral vision to look at them but don't stare like a zombie right at someone. Some of us are prone to severe paranoia and even if not, people don't like to be ogled at like some inanimate object. Or some model running the catwalk. Old people are the worst at this. I believe in giving old people a break now and then on stuff because, well, they're old but just because you're old doesn't give you a right to be rude. What kind of example is that to the younger generations anyway?

-People who knock on the door to pedal their religion. If I wanted to know about your religion I would look into it. Or I would show up at their church or where ever they meet. Knocking on someone's door at 9 in the morning on a Saturday to tell them "the good news" is asking for a punch to the face. Religion is a touchy subject anyway so to confront people at their own home when they're trying to relax or recover from a hard day is invasive, inconsiderate of peoples' private lives and rude. And don't get pissy if someone slams the door on you because you were the one pressuring them to do what you want them to do as a total stranger and at their private residence.

-People who talk during movies. It isn't your private home theater damn it. And don't eat popcorn out of the bag like you're stocking up fat for a trek across the himalayas. I get so irked at people who root and rattle around in those paper popcorn bags as if they're looking for the lost ark of the covenant. You can eat popcorn without alerting the whole theater that you're doint it.

-I have loads more annoyances but I'll spare you the gripe session. I've become quite the curmedgeon but I kinda wear that title as a badge of realism.