As a South African what irritates you?
Traffic jams, queue jumpers and people who think rules don’t apply to them have emerged among the list of 30 things that gets South Africans’ blood boiling, according to a health survey.
A survey done by Pharma Dynamics polled over 1300 people and revealed what irritates South Africans the most.
Some of the items on the list are quite surprising.
SA’s top 30 annoyances according to the survey are:
- Taxi drivers
- Queue jumpers
- People who think rules don’t apply to them
- Bad manners
- Load-shedding
- Rudeness in general
- Having to go through lots of automated phone options and then being kept on hold
- Traffic jams
- Smoking around children
- Spitting in public
- Motorists and/or cyclists who jump red traffic lights
- Anti-social behaviour e.g. when someone pays more attention to their electronic device(s) than to you
- Backstabbers
- Using cellphones while driving
- People eating loudly and sloppily
- Petrol price increases
- Laziness
- People who swear all the time
- People who can’t spell or use correct grammar
- Paying a fee for withdrawing money from an ATM
- Pop-up adverts on the internet
- Paying tax
- Office suck ups
- Paying for parking when you only intend to pop in to the shops quick
- Drivers speeding through housing estates
- Your neighbour mowing the lawn or drilling at 7am on the weekend
- Drivers ignoring zebra crossings
- Tardiness
- Tissues in the washing machine
- Busses or trains being cancelled
Are these the same stresses you experience?