It makes me mad when people have conversations such as the following. Background: I had to have some dental work done several months ago. The office called my dad about the bill:
Lady: Our record show that you never paid for Avery's dental work.
Dad: Well, I just got a statement recently, and I have yet to recieve a bill. How can I have paid if I haven't gotten a bill?
Lady: Well, I don't know.
Dad: Did you submit the claim to insurance?
Lady: Yes, I submitted it to United HealthCare.
Dad: United HealthCare doesn't offer dental insurance. Our dental insurance is through MetLife, and it has been for the past ten years.
Lady: Well, they haven't paid.
Dad: Well of course they haven't paid, MetLife never got the claim! They can't pay it if they don't know about it! May I please speak to Dr. Dimling? {He's the dentist.}
Lady: I'm sorry, Dr. Dimling doesn't take this kind of call.
Dad: Well, can you have him call me?
Lady: I'm sorry, Dr. Dimling doesn't make that kind of call. He's going to be very upset when he hears about this.
Dad: Are you going to tell him?
Lady: No, because he doesn't deal with billing!
Dad: Well then how the hell can he be upset about it if he doesn't know about it?!
And so on. Dad can't pay, because he hasn't gotten a bill. The insurance can't pay, because the claim was never submitted. And the dentist will be angry about this, even though he doesn't and won't know about it. How annoying and ridiculous can you get??
ETA: It drives me nuts when people use redundant phrases, especially when the speaker is supposedly intelligent. Case in point, from Dispo Day (CSI:Miami, Season 1):
Calleigh: ...One of which
fatally killed Officer Hollis.
Okay. Either it killed him or it fatally wounded/injured/whatevered him. Argh!