All The Small Things

I'm generally a rather easy going guy. I don't get upset very often (although when I do you probably don't want to be vicinity) and I get along with almost everyone. This probably is blowback from my younger days, because when I was a kid I was bigger and stronger than most of my friends and I had a really bad temper. I had to learn to restrain myself or I might have seriously hurt people. As it is, before I even started school I hit a number of people over the head with a foot long rubber great white shark. But enough about me and my issues.
Now, while I don't get mad, I do get irritated by things. Small things. Trivial things to some. But I'm going to kvetch about them all the same. These are a few of the things that really get under my skin, and why they do.

Apostrophe abuse: The apostrophe is easily the most misused of all punctuation marks, and I see it used wrong all the time. The apostrophe is used for possessive forms and contractions, not for plurals. Never for plurals! Stop using apostrophes for plurals! It bothers me to no end. If you aren't 100% absolutely sure you need an apostrophe you almost certainly don't. See, that was correct. But when you write down such punctuational abominations like guy's or book's or letter's it makes you look like an absolute tool who dropped out before finishing elementary school. Stop doing it!

Calendars with Sunday on the right: The days of the week, in order, are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. That's the correct order. Sunday is the first day of the week. It shouldn't be at the far right on a calendar. That's wrong, wrong wrong. The weekend is supposed to frame the week like a set of bookends, not be lumped on to one side.

Drivers that don't signal: They build all cars with signal lights for a reason, kinda like they build all cars with brakes for a reason. It's an important safety feature. Use them when you drive. Not using them is an invitation to have an accident. It's one thing when you don't signal to turn into your own driveway on a quiet residential street, but when you're driving in traffic and you suddenly decide you need to be in another lane or you have to turn left, you had better signal. If you don't one of these days someone driving a cement truck is going to run you off the road because of your own stupidity. Just signal, okay?

Compact Disc packaging: While I like getting new CDs as much as the next person, I absolutely hate having to open the things. First there's the outer plastic wrap, which never comes off without a fight. I usually end up slitting it along one side with a pocketknife but even then it's difficult to rip the plastic off from the inside out. After removing that there is usually a sticky label keeping the case closed, and said label doesn't come off without more work. Some CDs have a supposed "easy to open" pull tab thing to remove the outer plastic, but I've never actually seen one work. Can't they come up with a better way to package these things?