I hate:
- Those green-square Bike boxes.
- Yeah, pedestrians in Portland have royal 'right of way,' but it's at least a little courteous to pick up your heels a little bit when you're holding up traffic. I hate it when sauntering slobs who look at you, then make like they're slowing down to a full-on, lowest-speed MOSEY in a crosswalk, just because they know they can hold you up.
(Re. the above two, I'm generally avoiding events & shops inside Portland just because it's gotten too inconvenient to drive into town.)
- Writers who use 'they' as a singular. Yeah, some people are OK with it, but I grew up with "he or she," "his or hers," or the older "his" being OK by itself. When someone says 'they,' my grammatical processor goes off looking to find whatever else is PLURAL in the sentence, and if I don't find a match that makes sense I get annoyed. (Just me, deal with it, show some tolerance for people who think differently, no h8ters against people who prefer traditional grammar, plz.)
- Same goes for mixing up 'blonde' vs. 'blond.'
- And using 'FLOUNDER' (big ugly fish with both its eyes off to one side of its spine) for 'founder' (to sink, such as an opinion poll, or a stock price.)
- Mitt Romney as a Republican candidate. Barf.