You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

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Female comics. Why do they exist? They're all the same. Not a one of them is genuinely funny.
Counterpoint - Lucille Ball, and occasionally Amy Poehler when she's imitating Lucy.
You know how you'd normally read out a phone number one digit at a time in a particular rhythm?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UcfZem5Cwgw
Not everybody does that. Example, the last four digits are 1234. Instead of saying each digit, some will say "twelve thirty-four." Why?

Or even better, read out all the numbers at once so fast, you can't understand them. Then, they get mad when you ask them to repeat.
This happened to me recently. The receptionist read my address and number back to me in the thousands. I had to repeat it, out loud, in the normal way to double check. I felt both old and retarded in that moment.
 
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