> Is it because it affronts your sense of right and wrong? I get a similar feeling when I am waiting in a line of cars at a red light, and I see a cyclist go RIGHT THROUGH the red light as if he has some special right to break all the road rules merely because he can.
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> It doesn't annoy me because I'm still waiting -- I'm rarely in a hurry to get anywhere and I don't get stressed at traffic lights. It just annoys me to see people who ignore rules and/or basic social conventions which the majority of us follow. This would definitely extend to your absentee voter types. Now that I think of it, the real reason this annoys me is that the thing I dislike most in any person is arrogance and general self-centredness, and behaviour like this seems to indicate such traits to me.


Yes, all of these things ring true. It also occurs to me that I feel like exceptions to rules, such as absentee ballots and handicapped parking spaces, should be reserved for people who actually NEED them. Taking advantage of something just because you CAN is one of the things I dislike in people; for instance, someone I work with never eats breakfast here in the office. However, on those few occasions when my boss asks him to go get breakfast for my boss, which request is always followed by, "and get something for yourself if you'd like," this person ALWAYS gets a full breakfast. Like he's only hungry when someone else is buying?? GRAR. That just kills me.

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