My phone's autocorrect. Lately, it's been trying to correct perfectly spelled words into nonsense that I've never seen / typed before...so why is it even trying? It tried to correct "some" into "sone."
"The sone is a unit of how loud a sound is perceived." Yeah, sure, phone. When I said "Want to get some pizza" what I really meant was "Want to get a unit of the perceived volume of sound pizza?" Or how, lately, it's trying to autocorrect " I " into " u." Not "you" but "u." My phone completely slanders my sentences by dumbing down my language into slang, while also trying to warp the entire meaning of the sentence. I'm not hating on autocorrect, because sometimes it catches misspelling and fixes it. But when it takes a perfectly good sentence and butchers it...that's just dumb.
"What would cause that?" becomes "What would cuz that?" You're seriously going to transform the correct usage of a word into the slang equivalent...when it doesn't even make sense there? Technology. (Yes, I'm aware I can turn off autocorrect / revert autocorrects before sending the message, but I have to babysit my phone to do it.) It actually tried to autocorrect "holographic" to "holocaust." If I spell a word perfectly, there's no need to change it. Lay off. Your job is to fix spelling errors/grammar errors, and it ends there.
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Also, another thing that really bothers me lately, is people that speed up to get in front of me...and then they slow down. I realize there's very little things that draw my ire more than being stuck behind someone who's going so slow, and I literally get upset when someone speeds up to get ahead of me, and then slows down. Not even in vehicles, but on foot. My comfortable walking speed is fast, and silent.
But when people rush ahead, just to get in front of me, and then slow down...it aggravates me. I work in a grocery store, and do a ton of walking. There are some days when I actually just get annoyed at people in general, because how often I'm stuck behind someone who seems to be going the same exact place/direction as me, who is going 25% of my speed. To the point where I turn around and walk up a different aisle to get to the same destination.
Is it quicker to just wait behind the slow-walker, than it is to walk comfortably down a different aisle? Probably. But having to slow down so drastically just because Speedy Gonzales decided to evolve into a gods damned Slowpoke the second he got in front of me irks me. While on the subject of grocery stores (Yes, a gold mine of pet peeves to be found when you're working or visiting a grocery store), people who have 4-5 people in their group...who walk down an aisle...side by side. It makes it entirely impossible to navigate around them, unless they decide to just behave considerately and walk behind / in front of one another.
I'm mute, I don't get the luxury of telling them to get out of the way, or "excuse me." But I get fed up with people who acknowledge nobody's existence but their own, and don't once consider that their simple actions could be inhibiting other people's movement or experience. People who have 5 people and walk side by side, people who park their cart in the very middle of the aisle so nobody can get by without bumping the shelves or the cart, people who block the entrance to an aisle with their cart because they're busy sending a text, or want to read every single nutritional fact on a box of graham crackers.
I almost got in trouble with my manager once, because this lady blocked the entrance to an aisle, and was talking on her phone while staring at a shelf 30 feet away from her cart. I moved her cart out of the way, she glared at me, I gave her a thumbs up, and she complained...after she finished the world's most important phone call.