20 things that get your blood boiling

TRAFFIC jams, queue jumpers and people who think rules don’t apply to them have emerged among the list of 20 things that gets South Africans’ blood boiling, according to a just-released health survey.

More than 1 300 South Africans were polled by the country’s leading heart and stroke treatment provider, Pharma Dynamics, to divulge the things that most get their goat, with taxi drivers topping the list.

SA’s top 20  annoyances according to the survey are:

1.      Taxi drivers

2.      Queue jumpers

3.      People who think rules don’t apply to them

4.      Bad manners

5. Loadshedding

6.      Rudeness in general

7.      Having to go through lots of automated phone options and then being kept on hold.

8.      Traffic jams

9.      Smoking around children

10.   Spitting in public

11.   Motorists and/or cyclists who jump red traffic lights

12.   Anti-social behaviour e.g. when someone pays more attention to their electronic device(s) than to you

13.   Backstabbers

14.   Using cellphones while driving

15.   People eating loudly and sloppily

16.   Petrol price increases

17.   Laziness

18.   People who swear all the time

19.   People who can’t spell or use correct grammar

20.   Paying a fee for withdrawing money from an ATM