Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Always seem to hit Mapco right at shift change.

I shouldn't be playing the lottery anyway.

Attachments not being accessible on webmail work email.

People who leave a work voicemail asking me to call them back without any indication of what they need.

God knows, I may have mentioned this already, but letting other drivers stuck in a bad traffic situation cut in front of you, then them doing something stupid that slows you down.

strangers who leave robocall messages with their name and number but don't say what business they're from or what they're calling about, or even whom they're looking for.

e.g., "this is john smith at 1-800-xxx-xxxx, with a very important message. please call back as soon as possible." (click.)

these are usually creditors, looking for someone who used to have our current landline number. i always let the landline go to voicemail, cuz most of the calls are for this deadbeat guy. but on the off chance that such a message is for me, i wanna know what the deal is.

Creditors are calling at my work phone for the woman who had my job two women ago.

I've been getting call like that about once a week for the last 3-4 months. I feel like I should call the number just to tell them they've got the wrong number but that would probably be more of a hassle than it's worth.

The guy who occupied my desk two or three lawyers ago still gets creditor calls, sales calls, and client calls. He was apparently running a side practice from his govt job and using that phone number as his business line. Which is pretty 0_o.

Hail and Ride sections on bus routes. What the fuck is the point of them? Ostensibly you are supposed to be able to hail/stop the bus anywhere, but in practice there are actually certain set points along the route where you can do this. Which are of course top secret if you don't normally use that route, so you get buses whizzing by ignoring you holding your arm out. I've got this crazy idea, you could mark the places where you can actually hail a bus, maybe with some kind of sign. You could call it a "stop" maybe.

People that walk around using their iPads as iPods. I've seen this a couple of times recently.

A guy at work does this. Something about it reminds me of 80's dudes walking around with their boomboxes

I saw a tourist once walking around taking pictures with his ipad.

It didn't make me angry though, more like mildly amused

I've seen the picture thing before, I can almost see the benefits of that for a big viewscreen. There's just something weird about carrying around a gigantic tablet to listen to music though. One thing if you are sitting at your desk, but walking down the street? Nah.

ia: i sold a book on amazon and got a $5 credit for expedited shipping. the cost to send it priority mail actually cost $13. guess who's eating that $8 difference?

ia: me using "cost" twice in one sentence. argh; i am my own worst copy editor.

Doesn't the current iPad 2 camera notoriously suck bad? Kind of weird to see it used for anything other than a quick snapshot or an application.

I always hated getting Amazon orders with expedited shipping.

Yeah that was my first thought - super shitty vacation pics (xp)

I have seen ppl walking down the street READING ipads. So tempted to trip them over.

I know two people who have been mugged while reading and walking, so I don't do that anymore. CONSTANT VIGILANCE.

I do enough of it for the both of us.

I had actually never seen someone use an iPad on public transportation until the other day, when I saw a dude on a crowded bus getting really into some game that looked like it was designed for preschoolers.

That's the sound a cow makes! YESSS!!

That surprises me, j. People on my bus (#8 Halsted) read on them quite a bit. One guy reads comics/graphic novels on them. I saw one guy playing a very active accelerometer controlled game. Fortunately the bus was pretty empty b/c 'bows were being thrown.

xp - lol

getting really into some game that looked like it was designed for preschoolers.

So, Angry Birds or something then?

monsters ate my condo

Maybe! I've never actually seen Angry Birds apart from the ubiquitous logo.

Or that one where you cut fruit up or something.

Fruit Ninja.

Thats the one. I dont play many ipod games can u tell.

Man I get really unduly upset about crushing my fingers. In full on fuck the world mode right now.
Fuck the world now, everyone~! Ok!

I'm going to buy un fucking tamal and eat that bullshit because fuck the world and everyone in it.

Oh man fingers being jammed in a door is the WORST :( Its like badly stubbing a toe, I wanna knife a hobo when that happens to me.

i'm helping my sister with her math homework, and her teacher assigned a problem that is JUST different enough from the example given in the textbook that i don't understand how to do it. i thought, fine, i'll look up the answer in the back of the book and see if i can figure out how they got there. oh, wait, it's an even-numbered problem, the answer's not in the back. maybe i can find a similar problem that's odd-numbered and work that one out? nope, EVERY TIME they switched the problem around so that it no longer matched the example, they made it an even-numbered, answerless problem. MOTHERFUCKERS.

Doesn't the current iPad 2 camera notoriously suck bad? Kind of weird to see it used for anything other than a quick snapshot or an application.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, February 27, 2012 4:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's pretty bad. Only useful for video stuff imo.

I feel weird reading mine on the bus. It's just big enough so that if it's crowded (which it always is) it feels unwieldy. The idea of using it like an iphone is so weird.

I always thinking of the sidetalking meme whenever I hear "using an iPad like an iPhone"

(Nokia had a phone that looked kind of like a gameboy but the microphone/speaker placement meant you were basically holding the narrow end to your head when using it in phone mode so it looked hilarious. People came up with a number of pictures of them holding video game consoles, other phones, and the like to their heads)

Lots of ppl use their ipads to read the papers on my train. At least that means they're not spreading gigantic newspapers and flailing elbows all over the place!

pet hate of mine: people who think train seat real estate is ALL ABOUT THEM, usually men who sit completely, offensively spreadeagled on a seat so they take up half the seat next to them, and WILL NOT BUDGE when you attempt to perch on what remains of the aisle seat. Sometimes tempted to drop hot coffee onto their groins.

spread-leg sitters need to be shot into the sun. Have been subjected to same at football stadiums a bunch of times this last season and it is fucking MADDENING.

If I was bolder, I'd loudly say "put it away, it isnt that big" but I would probably end up getting assaulted or some crap.

I think something along those lines to myself every time I see this. The worst is when they tsk at your or roll their eyes when you sit next to them thereby causing them to close their damn legs. SO ANGRY MAKING.

The wide stance seems to be at its worse when they have a ladyfriend along.

Hah yeah. In related train IA-ness for me this morning, I had to put up with some twat who was listening to whitney houston VERY LOUDLY on his ipod. I mean it was so loud EVERYONE was looking around in annoyance trying to work out where it was coming from. I had a hangover, and felt like shit, and the last thing Ineeded to hear is that hideous woman's cloying, godawful bellowing all over the train. Hate ipod noise polltion and HATE WHITNEY HOUSTON, double raeg >:|

rip whitney ;_;

(joeks, luv u Trayce)

<3 u, too Trayce (and I also hate Whitney Houston's music and have been keeping that thought inside of me like a festering secret while the world mourned, except for the all caps email I sent Jesse the day after she died).

hee hee, well if there's a place to unleash IA whitney hatred, this would be the place

I hate Teena Marie.