I'm talking either pet peeves, or full-on fury inducers.
I have my minor annoyances, for example when a person writes "your" instead of "you're" (and "ur" is even worse), or when they approach an elevator and push several times on a button that's already lit up, like this is going to make the elevator get there faster.
But if you really want to make me see red, here is what you do: Assume, before I've even had a chance to try something, that I'm going to mess it up. I remember our family going to Disney World, and we're standing in line for Space Mountain. The whole family kept talking on and on about how I'm just not going to be able to handle it. I'm going to lose it. I'll freak out. That ticked me off! Well, as it turned out, I handled it just fine. Didn't utter a squeak.
Had my eyes closed the whole time, but still....
Just don't ever say in advance I'm not going to do well at something, before I've tried.
This can also take the form of not letting me struggle and learn, but just seeing one mistake and concluding I can't do it. I've had people actually grab something out of my hands and do it themselves, because I was just learning it, and they thought I was too slow. I'm going to be all kinds of angry in a case like that.
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