Things and People I have never understood

1. Airline Passengers, be it the jeans n tee strutting budget traveler or the tie n laptop variety of corporate travelers (really pity the later souls actually)

a. Their inexplicable knack of queuing up to get anywhere... be it while checking in (the bus will not leave without u buddy) or piling at the door of the bus (the flight will not leave without u buddy) or in the aisle when the flight lands. The last one I find most strange since it is obvious to all that, one can only alight when the ladder is out and besides, one will still have to wait for the bus and then the bags... so what value is served by standing at all those awkward angles and violating each others personal space?
b. Their absolute need to remain connected to the rest of the world all the time. Dude, cell phones were not invented for the first 20 odd years of your existence and you managed just fine. So why don't u just follow the law and switch off your phone. Also, why cant you wait for the flight to come to a halt before switching it back on. It may seem like a pointless rule to you but whosoever has made it probably knows more about communication systems than you and me. Besides, ain't you the guy who cringes n cribs when he sees someone else breaking rules outside of this aeroplane?

2. The auto rickshaw wallah
As a supply chain guy, system efficiency is always top on my priority list. Thus, I have always had issues with the auto rickshaw driver and his absolute disdain for the same. He is always cutting lanes and causing more traffic mayhem, thereby increasing travel time for himself and everyone else without realising that this is also reducing his fuel efficiency and hence increasing his costs. I have tried to explain this logic to a few of them but it seldom has any impact

3. Timelines of road projects
Why does it take longer to build a small bridge, when large apartment complexes get made in shorter durations. Why don't the authorities cost the loss to the county in the reduced fuel efficiency of all cars stuck in consequent jam. If this is done, one would realise how much we are losing every day the project is delayed. This penalty should then be recovered from the delaying agency and all concerned.

4. News channels
Their total confidence in the intellectual disability of their viewer is quite strange. While sensationalizing, reporting unconfirmed data and subtly passing off opinions as news is endemic problem, what I cant fathom is their insistence on repeatedly bombarding you with the same point in 5 different sentence constructions, 15 times. Most irritating is the live correspondent who seldom has anything new to add but insists on repeating all the facts 2-3 times and refuses to go back to the studio... Footage-hungry bugger!
Thank god for online news sites, I have not seen TV news for almost 2 months now.

5. Random Studies
"A recent study has found that being born is the chief cause of death. After 2 years of studying 20000 deaths over that have occurred 200 years, researches have concluded that 99.93% of the people who died were indeed born, thus establishing without doubt the correlation"
The above may have been inspired from onion (check it out) but you get the drift. Loads of money is wasted establishing correlations which are plainly obvious and loads of news space allocated to publishing such pointless results. Bulk of them are pertaining to how exercise can reduce obesity, prevent xyz disease etc. Cant you guys just state the obvious and stop wasting everyone's time and money in establishing it!