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

IT guy was supposed to be fixing the server or spending every waking hour propping it up instead of finding a real solution, obviously

• email signatures (we've been over this before.)
• images in email signatures (wait? there's an attachment with this? Ohhhhhh....)
• cars that don't put their blinkers since I'm just a pedestrian.

A non-trivial part of my job is spent talking about image resolution and formats with people who have no idea what any of these things are (other than maybe knowing the word "JPEG") and I always end up feeling like the conversation resolves to them telling me about Brawndo having the electrolytes that plants crave.

I'm the only person in my office who knows how big a megabyte is

lol I knew this was you before I got to the end of the sentence.

- when I insist on posting on ILX from a moving taxi even though I know it's going to make me motion sick

What are you doing out in a cab at this hour? You have work in the morning.

I was on my way home from the opera! I'm so tired now.

Crazy late night out at the opera! Had to cheat and take my makeup off with those face cleansing Wet-Ones things! Didn't get to sleep until MIDNIGHT! Who says I don't know how to party?

In a cab at midnight, painting your face, watching a parade of fancy men and harlots... Tsk.

Everyone isn't bad, Jesse! Everything isn't a sin!

I bet you were wearing the devil's red! And cramming things up your butt.

My experience of being an IT technician is being the guy on the left a lot of the time.
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One thing that really irritates me but I can't figure out quite why:

My office's custodian is a nice, friendly, jovial guy, but when he comes in to collect trash and recycling, he is way too meticulous. Just now I noticed he had had been behind me for quite a while, barely making any noise. He had my shredder opened up and he was picking every last tiny scrap of paper out of its teeth. He even blew on it and brushed it off before he put it back together. I hate that! It's a waste of time for something that does no one any good whatsoever.

On Monday he was looking for me and when he tracked me down, he told me that my chair's arm was loose. I said that was fine and normal b/c they're adjustable and they just feel loose all the time, but he kept asking if I didn't want him to work on it. He has tons of other work to do without farting around with stuff like my chair.

I think you have a secret admirer...

Was it this thread where we bitch about needless chivalry just getting in the bloody way? Cos I just had that. Woman in lift gets off at same floor as me, just as she walks out some guy is there waiting and has to stop and greet her and insist on taking her bag off her etc. Meanwhile I'm trying to get out of the fucking lift but they are blocking the doors.

Taking her BAG? Talk about overkill.

Jesse, sounds like the super at my apt building--I've been asking him to change a light bulb for 6 weeks in the darkened hallway, but he'll call me at 10pm if he sees my bike outside the building so I don't leave it there overnight. I haven't quite put my finger on the real meat of this problem but it comes out as under-attentiveness in some things and over- in others.

Haha taking her bag! Did he also offer to deposit her cash for you and get her jewelry cleaned?

Laurel, do you think he's that way w/ everyone or could he be a secret admirer? (damn you VG)

My custodian guy also insists on showing off his handiwork. Every time he changes a light bulb, he comes and gets me or one of the lawyers so we can go see how much brighter it is.

And one time he interrupted my boss while he was on a conference call to tell him that he had asked another tenant in our building to move his car b/c it was too close to my boss' car. ;a;dslkjfsa;dkj

I hope they were in a romantic relationship and she had a torn rotator cuff that makes carrying a bag excruciating. That is the only thing that would justify that situation.

I had an IA trifecta this morning:

Sat next to a phantom wang leg spreader on the train.
Not only did he have his knees fanned out, he was SNORTING the entire ride. Big, meaty, disgusting snorts where I could hear the sound of the phlegm walloping the back of his throat every time he let one rip.
He got of at my stop and proceeded to stand on the left on the escalator down to the main building entrance. (That part actually made me feel vindicated more than IA because I always stand on escalators (there are stairs right there and if I want to walk the stairs, I will take the stairs) so he wasn't holding me up, but he was enraging a whole escalator's worth of commuters, and I liked the idea of all those people's ire washing over that man and smothering any chance he had of happiness today.)

The point of walking on an escalator isn't (just) an easy lift, it's the added speed. This is why it's really stupid when stand up comedians go har har, what's the DEAL with moving sidewalks? Are we really THAT lazy?!

(poor transition in second sentence, whatever)

Re superintendent: no, he's nearly 70yo and is a crazy eccentric interesting person who I know likes me, but it's not secret or romantic or anything. Also if he wanted to be admiring he could FIX THE FRACKING LIGHT BULB IN OUR HALLWAY.

I think it has more to do with just being really really spotty about what you take care of. Like, the nature of the job doesn't require to you to show compliance or completion, you just have to not piss off too many people too badly. I think it's a placating thing, like, look how attentive I am, when they really aren't.

whey you're flossing your teeth and the piece of floss breaks and then you've got a piece of dental floss stuck between your teeth which is impossible to get out

and then a couple of months later the dentist complains that you don't floss often enough

e-mail from twelfth-rate casting agency that has achieved a modicum of notoriety around town for mostly being useless and wasting people's time:

you must match the following, if you don't---do NOT submit, you are wasting my time and yours.

this isn't really IA, i just have to laugh.

well that's just rude

I am IA on your behalf

I am receiving IMs from the other half detailing the progress of the plumber and getting IA at plumbers

(suspicious snap noise followed by the announcement of a new replacement part needed, tiles cracked while hammering at things which probably didn't even need hammers, etc)

the word "cousin" used in the following context

"can be served with either the banana or his cousin the plantain"

when online recipes include ingredients that aren't actually in the recipe but intended for the person making the recipe to eat/drink, e.g "1 cup of red wine — you're gonna need it! lol!"

Cab driver again.

Instead of taking the street that goes directly south to my work *as I requested*, he headed toward a way circuitous route. I asked "what are you doing?"

He mumbled something about traffic and said "how do you expect me to turn around now?"

Then he tried to cross a closed bridge, ignoring the huge BRIDGE OUT USE DETOUR --> sign.

He tried to pass cars on a two lane street. By using the wrong lane. There was an incoming car in the other lane. So we sat there until we could get back in our lane. Similarly terrifying left turn at 3-way intersection.

And he has Christian evangelical radio on.

financial press headlines that try to make something out of nothing, and/or ascribe forces or motives to phenomena that there is no actual evidence for

e.g. this morning's WSJ: "Jobs gains build momentum"

i.e. no evidence for the forces/motives, not no evidence for the phenomena

xxpost use the ejector seat!

I visited LA back in September and the drive in the airport shuttle was similar, wrt terrifyingness. my first indication was his exclamation of dismay/horror at the traffic jam as he pulled onto the 101. (I have only visited LA a few times but even I know that a 9am traffic jam on the 101 is about as shocking as a sunrise.) Both me and the other passenger had given him our hotel addresses before departing, but halfway there he asked BOTH of us to give him directions. We both looked at each other in mild terror, like 'uhmmmm dude we were hoping you knew how to get there, kind of why we paid for the shuttle?'
We get downtown and some of the streets are blocked off for a movie premiere, and the driver really starts to lose his shit, he's swearing and yelling. He drops off the other passenger and I'm left alone. I've quietly fired up google maps and am tracking where we're going in case he gets lost again, so I can at least get to my hotel in one piece, but he's flying around without a seatbelt on, swearing at everyone who even merges in front of him. and then as we're driving out to West Hollywood he reaches over and plugs in a GPS. Which he had all along. I wanted to strangle him.

Not sure if this exactly fits here. Funny that the same week that in one computer course I'm doing the lecturer goes on about the limitations of Powerpoint e.g. that if the presentation is naff the Powerpoint display isn't going to save it.(illustrating it with unintentionally cheesy Powerpoint effects). Then about 3 days later I get to watch one of the worst Health & Safety presentations I ever hope to see.
Not sure where the talker was from but her accentuation seemed to be totally wrong so I listened through a long percussive spiel where every word had a random plosive. several metaphors appeared with no explanation and the same random accentuation.
Not sure if this is what I should be expecting from a talk like this but apparently this person is travelling Ireland giving the same talk at FAS centres. there was no feedback sheet or I might have pointed out problems with the presentation. had me squirming throughout.

Also getting stuck on a course where I'm having to use a typing tutor that has a program with a different keyboard layout than the keyboard I'm using and no way to adjust it. would think it was a long term problem that somebody would have looked into by now. Maybe the course just gets Mavis Beacon layed on.

Oh and the deep weariness I've been feeling all week. having to get up at 6.30am to get in to college by 8.30. I keep waking up at odd hours during the night then not really getting back to sleep.
Plus finding out that I need to keep resetting my alarm thanks to profiles on my phone. Could be the incipient weariness not letting me realise I've still got the thing set up as silent for the class and not readjusted to normal after I've left at the end of the day. GOD.

That I can't find a thread for rational anger!

yes, i need somewhere to post 'audible.com commercials'

People that, in a hotel coin-laundry room, do multiple (and separate) loads of laundry AT THE SAME TIME...monopolizing all of the machines so that nobody else can use them.

Wtf, that's pretty rude.

The phrase "man cave".

also delivery drivers who don't have pens on them when they deliver your food. local place near me has forgotten three times and forced me to root through my house for one.

@Deric YES.

unless you have an ACTUAL cave, stfu.

je55e vs. autumn a. for the ia crown?

Are you keeping stats?

nope! it's curious because i have a sense of you as a p. laid back guy, but then you've a lot of posts here

I'm fire 'n' ice baby ;)

People that, in a hotel coin-laundry room, do multiple (and separate) loads of laundry AT THE SAME TIME...monopolizing all of the machines so that nobody else can use them.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:54 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wtf, that's pretty rude.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:04 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I finally got a chance to wash my clothes, then went over to the one dryer that wasn't cycling and realized one of the same douches still had his clothes in there, even though the cycle ended like 30 mins ago.

His clothes are now on the floor. fuck him

"man cave" is kind of okay with me bcz it makes me imagine "mangina"
if someone feels the need to spend a lot of time alone with their mangina, I understand

hahaha