Have you ever experienced something so deeply annoying, offensive, or downright wrong — only to realize it’s totally legal? Welcome to America, where the line between “social crime” and “actual crime” is blurry AF.
These aren’t your run-of-the-mill complaints. These are the things that unite us in rage across all backgrounds, tax brackets, and Spotify Wrapped categories. Some are petty. Some are corporate-level evil. All of them? Still legal.
For now.
Let the arguments begin.
1. Calling Before Texting
Unless you’re dying, delivering a baby, or announcing you won the lottery — don’t just call. Send a text. It’s 2025, not 1998.
2. Coworkers Who Microwave Fish
This should be an actual felony. You know who you are, Todd. You brought trout. To the office. And now the break room smells like regret and low tide.
3. Leaving Shopping Carts in the Parking Lot
There’s a cart corral RIGHT THERE. You’re not special. You’re just lazy. And yes, karma is real — and she drives a dented Corolla.
4. Unskippable Ads on YouTube
Two ads. Back to back. At full volume. For something I’ll never buy. Feels like psychological warfare and somehow it’s just “digital marketing.”
5. Reply-All Emails That Didn’t Need to Be
You ever get looped into a 50-person reply-all chain because one guy couldn’t just say “thanks” privately? Should be punishable by inbox suspension. Or at least a stern IT intervention.
6. Companies Shrinking Products But Charging the Same
It’s called shrinkflation, and it’s the capitalist scam of the decade. Your chips, your cereal, your deodorant — smaller sizes, same (or higher) prices. Totally legal.
This is my greatest bug bear! I mean, have you seen the size of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg lately!
7. Parents Who Let Kids Watch iPads on Full Volume in Public
We’re not mad at the kid. We’re mad at the parents who think the rest of us want to hear Baby Shark on blast at 7am in a waiting room. How annoying!
8. Automated Customer Service That Never Lets You Talk to a Human
“Your call is very important to us,” but not important enough for an actual human to answer. You better press zero like your life depends on it.
9. Surge Pricing During a Crisis
Trying to escape a storm, fire, or festival of Fyre-level failure? That’ll be $548 for a pop concert. Totally fine, according to the algorithm overlords.
10. Restaurant Menus Without Prices
Oh, you’re that fancy? If I need to ask, I can’t afford it — and I’m leaving. Pricing your food isn’t a suggestion, it’s basic human decency.
11. Texting ‘K’
You’re not okay. I’m not okay. This conversation is definitely not okay. It’s passive-aggressive, emotionally violent, and somehow still legally protected speech.
12. Charging Extra for Guac (Yes, Still)
We get it. Avocados are expensive. So is rent. But we’re out here paying mortgage money for a scoop of guac like it’s liquid gold. Regulate this madness.
Your Turn!
What did we miss?
What drives you absolutely feral that’s still legal? Drop your own in the comments and let’s build a case for a new constitution — or at least a new etiquette handbook.