Hmmm...annoying phrases

I can't stand when people overuse the word "basically". Here's a conversation I had with someone at the pharmacy. He walks up to the counter and I ask him...
 
Me: "Can I help you?"
 
Idiot: "The other day, I dropped off a prescription. Basically, my insurance wasn't paying for it. I was told someone had to contact the insurance. Basically, someone contacted the insurance and the insurance needed to talk to the doctor. Basically, the doctor had to do a prior authorization. They said it basically takes 72 hours for a prior authorization to go through. Basically it's been over 5 days and I haven't heard anything. So basically, I'm coming in to see if my prescription is ready."
 
There was nothing "basic" in this long story he told me. Lord have mercy. [&:]

Basically I agree with you.
 
I hate the "Have a good day" phrase from people who couldn't give a rat's patoot what kind of day you have. I recently had a clerk very annoyed with me (because I refused to sign a charge slip before having her check a price for me). After glaring at me for the 5 minutes it took to check out she said "Have a nice day". I said, "Oh come on, you'd rather have me get hit by a truck". It was the first time she smiled.

Oh, you don't like "dear", well I hate "OK, darlin." [:@]

When I'm at work and I answer the phone and the first thing the person on the other end says is, "hi, how ya doin?".  Identify yourself FIRST!

The other thing is people who spell everything when you don't ask them to. . .A like apple. . .ARRRRGGG!!

Not so much a phrase...but I hate the overuse of the word LIKE....in sentences. It's excruciating!
 
Grown people...saying "so like I was going to the store and like the clerk there was so rude! I like tried on a shirt and....." [:@]

I hate when I'm arguing with a loved one (my fiancee) or a family member and they say, "Will you listen to me?" or "Am I allowed to speak now?"
My experience is that when someone says that to me, they haven't heard a word I've said. People rat themselves out ALL THE TIME in ways like that.

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

Not so much a phrase...but I hate the overuse of the word LIKE....in sentences. It's excruciating!
 
Grown people...saying "so like I was going to the store and like the clerk there was so rude! I like tried on a shirt and....." [:@]

I know what you mean. I try to only use "like" in my sentences if I'm meaning "similar as" or something to that effect.

I hate it when people say “Oh look at the pit bull!” When my son is being a real meanie. People use that phrase whenever they talk about something negative. DS has recently started to bite everyone and everything in his path, and my step father always go “there goes the pit bull” Its just a saying but it makes me sooo mad!

Instead of being called dear, we're called baby or honey. 
 
On occasion, we're blessed with the phrase 'Now listen to me'.  I couldn't stop giggling when this guy was telling his story (we get the pleasure of every minute detail) and he says "Now listen to me, I need to get some insurance... now listen to me, I just want the basics, the lowest possible... now listen to me, I ain't got no insurance now but that's not my fault".  Some days, it's amusing and on the busiest days, when we don't even have time to eat, I want to stick my fingers in my ears and start humming loudly until they stop talking!
 
As willowchow pointed out... the people who spell everything when you don't ask them to BUT some are amusing. Instead of saying A as in apple, D as in dog we hear A as in a**hole, W as in whisky, R as in redneck, U as in ugly..... and so on.  Sometimes we hear silence when they're trying to think of a word to associate with the letter LOL.  If we're in a good mood, this place keeps us laughing all day.

"it was like....ya know??"  Ummm, actually, no I DON'T know......

i used to work with a guy that ended almost every sentence with "you know what i mean". it drove me nuts, and most of the time i didnt have a clue what he meant. of course, i think a lot of the time he didnt even know and was hoping that i did.

"Lemme tell ya...."

Well then tell me, don't tell me you're telling me!

You guys bring up some good examples, to be sure, but my pet peeve has to do more with the written word.
 
There instead of their.
 
Your instead of you're.
 
There are others, but that is the what I can think of right now.

Good point Billy.  How 'bout shure for sure?  AND for an?  An apple, not and apple.....

“Oh look at the pit bull!”

 
oh man!  Thats bad...