#860 When guys put girls on their shoulders during concerts

Dear "that guy," we
strongly dislike you.

Remember the progression of man? Well these guys are setting us back, one concert at a time. Come on guys, let's use our brains. Would the people behind you rather see the concert that they probably paid to see or the back of the girl on your shoulders who's drunkenly flailing around and screaming? Stop ruining the show boys.

It's just slightly annoying.

#927 Switching radio stations and hearing the same song

Shouldn't it be someone's job to make sure their top 40 radio station isn't playing the same song as another top 40 station? There's only about forty songs on a top 40 radio station.  Forty. That's not a lot of songs. Obviously there's a good chance one station is overlapping with another station. If someone if flipping to your radio station, they probably didn't want to hear what was on the other station. Pretty complicated logic, I know.

Hey radio stations, hire some free interns and have them get on that.

It's just slightly annoying.

#940 Hearing songs that have sirens in them while you're driving

Check the mirrors and look over your shoulder as much as you want. If you're listening to music, there's a good chance that there won't be any red and blue lights flashing behind you.

One of these days, a song that has a siren in it will cause an accident. Some unsuspecting listener will be checking mirrors and hit something before he or she realizes it was a false alarm. This accident will lead to a movement toward banning siren-containing songs on the radio.

Okay, maybe that's a bit radical, but let's at least acknowledge the slight annoyance that these songs cause before any type of incident does occur. These songs are the cause of so many unnecessary mirror checks, over-the-shoulder glances and skipped heartbeats. If it's your music that you're listening to, then you listen at your own risk, but would anyone really mind if police sirens weren't ever played over the radio?

It's just slightly annoying.

#958 When people say "cha cha cha" while singing Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to you, cha cha cha.

Happy birthday to you, cha cha cha.

Happy birthday Dear Friend

Happy birthday to you, cha cha cha.

When Patty Hill and her sister Mildred Hill wrote this song, there was no inclusion of any slightly annoying "cha cha cha" anywhere in the lyrics. Come on man, look around, no body's laughing or even smiling when you shout the blurb "cha" three times after the real words. I wonder if Cuban musicians hate when you take the name of their most famous form of dance and music, and throw it around like it's some interchangeable interjection.

The person that is guilty of cha cha cha'ing, regardless of gender, will be known as "that guy," a title worthy of only the most awkward person in the room. Don't be that guy.

It's just slightly annoying, cha cha cha.

#980 Music that automatically plays on a web page

By all means, put music on your site, especially if your site is music-related. But let's be humane here; make the music playback contingent on the user's push of a 'play' button. There's no need to have it start up automatically, scaring the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out of us and embarrassing us when our volume happens to be raised and we're in a public setting.

Not only is this surprisingly scary when your volume happens to be turned up, but it's also slightly annoying. God forbid you ever need to actually use this site to find information and there's no way to stop the music. If the MIDI ringtone-sounding music playing on the site isn't good in the first 30 seconds, it sure as hell won't be good after half hour of searching through the site for the information you need. If you're going for the "I don't care if people can concentrate on the information that I took the time to put on this site" attitude, then go ahead and kick out the incessant tuneage on your site.

It's just slightly annoying.