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

retail staff who don't move with 100% videogame-like efficiency

HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO DAWDLE OVER THAT POPPADOM

People who audibly disapprove of me or my wishes, anywhere, any time, in any language.

testify

I wish I were kidding.

91. people getting irrationally angry about other people who walk slowly. i want to walk at whatever pace i feel like thank you very much

Hangers. Just because.

People who disappear off the face of the Earth for a month, completely out of phone/e-mail contact, then suddenly send a group e-mail at 5:20PM scheduling a pair of two hour "catch up" meetings for the following day at 10AM and late afternoon. Thanks for that, it's not like I was DOING ANYTHING oh wait I WAS AND YOU BOLLOCKS'ED UP MY DAY

94. people who quote rules, policies or laws at me rather than just acquiescing to my demands

93. People in restaurants who order using either "Can I get . . ." or "I'm going to have . . . " instead of "May I have . . . " or "May I please have . . . "

94. Motherfuckers who pay for things by putting the money on the counter, rather than handing it to the cashier.

Seriously, 94 has caused more spikes in my blood pressure than anything else ever.

96. People who only go one stop on the bus. They could walk, most of them. Obviously, it'd be mean to chastise the elderly or the infirm for going one stop. Though, it's probably a good idea for the elderly to keep active.

Let me explain: Why, because hangers grab onto clothes when you're standing on tiptoe holding a cup of hot liquids or a cigarette in the other hand, just trying to get a jacket out, and it will require three hands to disentangle the item from every clip and crevice of any hanger within reach. Conversely, when you put a shirt or dress ON the hanger, the hanger will plumb refuse to grip anything, and the item will slither off the tip of the thing as soon as you take your hand away from placing the hanger on the bar. You can watch it in slow motion, as the strap slips, sliiiips...a little more! and then WHOOSH it's crumpled on the floor behind your dry cleaning pile.

Motherfuckers who pay for things by putting the money on the counter, rather than handing it to the cashier.

sometimes i do this and i always feel bad about it but sometimes i have an important phone game to continue playing

it's worse when the shop asst. puts your change on the counter, that's rude.

laurel what about otherwise empty hangers that hide inside the top of already hung clothes, it's like THEY HATE ME

I am actively trying to train myself out of number 93.

I was just about to say that 93 seems over the top to me. I always order with "I'll have..." and don't really see anything wrong with it.

94 is de rigueur in some surprising places, mostly involving people of other cultures and religious faiths, who may not want to touch their customers' hands for various reasons.

97. People who stand in front of a cashier after paying for their goods, and immediately hold their hand out waiting for change, rather than waiting for the cashier to hand them their change before extending their hand. It drives me batshit, and has the same effect as tapping your hand or foot impatiently. Simmer the fuck down, rudeperson.

I would explain why 97 sometimes happens by accident but honestly that's not what this thread is for and it's already humming along so nicely that I hate to soften the blows with justifications.

98. when you tell someone about a problem or worry you are having and their response is something along the lines of "eeeek". thanks for the help!

Sometimes life may feel like it's sucking you up
But it's not, it might be just you sucking

Sometimes life may feel just like you're losing the race
But you're not, you're just letting everyone else win

Sometimes it feels like everyone's being a dick
But they're not, it's just you being a dick to everyone

Some days it seems like nothing works right
But its fine, you're probably just using it wrong

99. Opening goods in the supermarket & eating/drinking them before you've paid for them (and then handing the opened package to the cashier at the checkout). The only exception I will allow is maybe, *maybe* if you have small children/toddlers with you. But if you're a grown person, surely you can wait til you've paid for the damn thing. It's called impulse control.

xxxposts, Laurel the accidental extending of the hand is definitely exempt in this case. It's more directed to the crabby, oblivious, rudey mcrudensteins who live to belittle salespeople.

100. Dust jackets. I feel I should keep them, but I don't really like them. Not that I'm incandescent about it, just mildly urrgh.

That's very sad because most books are ugly.

98. People who complain about every little trivial dumb thing in life because that apparently is their only outlet for releasing their rage.

^101 actually~

93. People in restaurants who order using either "Can I get . . ." or "I'm going to have . . . " instead of "May I have . . . " or "May I please have . . . "

No way, you're GIVING ORDERS not ASKING PERMISSION.If I want permission to get some food I'll ask my MOM.

102. Those long skinny rectangular mass market paperbacks. They're slightly taller than a normal mmpb, and skinnier, and they're just the absolute WORST to read because the page is so short from the spine that your hands are covering the words on the page while you're holding the book trying to read it, and it won't open far enough and AAAAAAGGGGGGGH. They make me angry and I hate them with a passion

Believe me, i'm well aware of my Andy Rooney-esque hangups.

103. Ppl who use their sleeves as barriers when they touch elevator buttons or the door handle to my office or any other surface the public touches. I'm uptight about germs but that is taking it too far.

This thread makes me terrified to meet you IRL vegemitegrrrl. I'd just be constantly on edge trying not to do one of the endless things that piss you off.

as a former waitress, 93 doesn't bother me at all. I did just ask you what you wanted, we're not playing mother-may-i

Once again, the inhabitants of ILE prove they do not love everything. This bugs the hell out of me!!

xxpost Viceroy, I'm really very nice in person. I keep all my rants in check for the most part, unless I'm in the car with my husband and then he gets the full performance. He calls me the female Andy Rooney :)

Oh, but if you really mean to someone who doesn't deserve it, or treat a person badly in front of me, then I get a little scary. I have a tendency to fight for the underdog.

Oh, and Viceroy, remember the key to all of this: I am Australian, so chances are I would never never never tell you. You could be a waitress who pours hot coffee in my lap and I will probably tell her it was my fault for not paying attention.
I will just complain incessantly about you once I am home.

104. People who walk around crowded urban areas and ride the subway with huge backpacks but have absolutely no concept of the room they are taking up, thus cluelessly banging into people and blocking pathways without even a second thought.

^ not innocuous

True, but when I've brought it up before people seemed to think I was making too big of a deal out of it.

I would never say that. I rode the train yesterday with a couple, of which the man kept pressing his sweaty back against the upright pole I was holding onto, right over my hand, and the woman had her arm and shoulder wrapped around the next-nearest pole and was touching most of it with her body so one else could hang on. At rush hour. When I got off the train, I had to excuse myself three times and then say, "Seriously." to get her to move so I could pass. And she was really offended.

Tourists, possibly sports fans. Was there baseball yesterday?

18. Someone said this already elsewhere on ILX, but sandwich artist - YOU"RE supposed to know what makes a good sandwich, don't ask me, just make it!!!

― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

There is an Italian market in my neighborhood where the dude behind the deli counter makes sandwiches totally based on what the best stuff he has in at that time is. You just ask for a sandwich, and he makes you one.

I have never had a bad sandwich there. And I have them a lot.

He's an artist. Those motherfuckers at Subway are sandwich assembly line workers.

― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you guys seriously get mad at ppl that work at subway?
that's the way the restaurant works, they have to ask you what you want.
they are just doing their job.
wtf.

See thread title, especially: "irrationally"

105. Episodes of unhelpful inaction when someone knows what they should do but does nothing because their ass isn't covered. Or some legalistic criteria hasn't been met. Or both.

Er should read "should" in itals, not in strikethrough!

106. Fake 'Russian' text that is just English with backwards 'R's.

Like that notorious Russian toy store?

I harbour vast irrational anger abt
people who walk slowly in front of me
and people who walk impatiently behind me (may actually be imagining the impatience)
and people who overtake me quickly, like ooh see how fast I can stride, slowcoach
and people who overtake me slowly so they are right alongside me for like a block
and and and really anyone I have to see when I walk anywhere, want to be in my own little bubble at all times and only see squirrels and wild birds instead of people (see irrational happiness thread)

and then I realise I'm doing it and have some more for
106. me, for being so easily made irrationally angry by daily occurrences

Oops, 107.

xp yeah, Toys Ya Us *shakes fist*