1. Slow walkers
Bagging the 1st place is hands down, slow walkers. There's just something about people taking their own sweet time while walking that really irks me. I can understand if the person is an elderly or is injured, that's fine. But when people are young and are physically fit stroll down a busy street while everyone else is trying to zig-zag their way around them, that's not okay. NOT OKAY. It boggles me why they can't walk at a normal pace like majority of the population. You're neither a snail nor a sloth, move faster! I would say I'm a pretty fast walker, not because I'm constantly rushing from place to place but I just am. Probably a habit I picked up as I had to always keep up with my dad. While slow walkers annoy me, oblivious slow walkers really get on my nerves. These people have absolutely zero awareness of their surroundings. It's as if they're the only ones existing and they give zero fucks about everything else. These people generally like to hog the street by not only walking slowly but also walking in the middle of the street. LIKE REALLY?! So I have only one advice for slow walkers: Walk faster or move aside, don't bloody walk in the centre while everyone else has to go around you.
2. Bad drivers
This brings me to 2nd place, bad drivers. I'm an Asian woman who drives, so as the stereotype goes, I'm clearly not the best driver, but I'm pretty confident I'm not the worst either. I strongly believe that there are some people who shouldn't be allowed to drive because they're so terrible. As you already know, slow walkers annoy me and so do road hoggers. These people clearly do not understand that the outer most right lane is for cars who want to go fast. You've got cars going at 110km/hour and then there'll always be one car that's driving at 70km/hour in the right lane! I mean, change lanes if you're not going fast. I'm not being stereotypical but from experience these drivers who road hog tend to be Asian women. They give us Asian drivers a bad rep. Not cool.
3. Yakkers
Yakkers are annoying. I don't know how else to describe them. My low tolerance for yakkers could be due to my introverted personality as I enjoy silence once in a while. On the other hand, yakkers, just can't shut up. They'll talk about anything and everything under the sun and they don't really care if people are listening or not. Seems to me like they can't keep their mouth closed. They need to be heard 24/7. There's always a time and place to talk and sometimes it's perfectly normal for people to sit in silence. I do wonder if yakkers are afraid of the silence, which would explain why they compensate it with so much unnecessary gabble. Being an introvert, I try my best to avoid social interaction, especially with unfamiliar faces. Social interaction is just exhausting, and so I particularly loathe having to fake a smile and occasionally nod to pretend like I'm listening to someone's yap because that's the polite thing to do. But God, I hate it. So for all the yakkers out there, talk when necessary if not just be quiet. Silence is golden, embrace it.
4. Overly happy people
I couldn't think of an appropriate heading for my 4th pet peeve; this was the best I could think of. I don't want to seem sour or pessimistic or cynical (although I am, a little) but some people are just way too happy. I'm not talking about being contented with life or accepting and loving oneself. That's amazing. I'm referring to those who just seem to be overly positive about everything like they've got nothing negative to say about anything. It's to a point where from my point of view seems fake. We are all humans and we've all got good and bad days, so no one can always be happy. It's just not possible. These overly positive people make me cringe because the world is not perfect. It's not made of fairy dust and rainbows and unicorns. In today's world, I feel like showing emotion, especially negative ones, makes you human, makes you real. I think it's okay to feel that things aren't going to be okay because that's how the real world is. But thinking that everything is amazing and perfect like there are no problems in the world is just plain delusional. That's neither positivity nor optimism, that's being gullible. The key is accepting that things aren't going to be perfect but yet stay positive and overcome the obstacle, and not believe that everything will go to plan all the time.
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