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

Co-worker just sneezed and I didn't say "bless you", thanks for alerting me to how angry that makes people.

waiting for someone to post, "i just sneezed and no one wished me blessings or health! how rude!"

xposts complaining about it for religious reasons is kind of ridic tbf, but it is a ridiculous and antiquated custom that people use and think is somehow polite. The simple truth is that we no longer have rat plagues killing people off one by one and it's therefore defunct. Is it polite to go "Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

I hope so, as I do it all the time.

Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

I might have to start saying this :)

I feel cheated if I sneeze and no-one says "Bless you". Bereft even.

Double bagging at the supermarket.

Phwoar!

129. Employees who comment at my purchase at the supermarket by saying things like "you don't cook, do you" when I buy 20 tv dinners, or "I guess you don't feel very perky" when I buy Pepto Bismol (both of which have happened). This is why I hesitate to buy condoms in stores!

citrix suck fyi btw ty

What's wrong with double bagging? Some of us walk several blocks to the grocery store and you definitely don't want bag failure on the trip back.

Spesh with them rubbish Tesco bags.

I put one sliced loaf in and it did split.

Tesco bags are SHIT aren't they? I guess they're made like that on purpose.

Thing about sneezing is I usually do it because of photosensitivity, which means like 4-5 big ass sneezes when I leave a building until my eyes adjust to the sun or whatever. I mean I already feel like a jerk sneezing so much but it makes it worse to get 5 'bless you's in succession.

I habitually say 'bless you'...sorry ILX. (Don't know why, not relig at all). However I draw the line at multiples. You'll get maybe 2 'bless you's maximum, and not if they immediately follow each other. Allergies/sneezing attacks, you're doomed, no amount of blessing can save you.

jeez it's pretty obvious when someone's on a run of sneezes just wait til it's done and bless em once ffs

makin me so irrationally angry up in this

do you have to indicate via a formal statement that it was an all-encompassing bless?

there's a particular hand movement, it's kinda pope-y

pope-y g stinkgarten in fact

Haha awesome, lemme just tweak dog latin's posts to cover co-workers who always ask "Are you OK?" after every ten-second coughing fit resulting from me choking on my coffee, which I do on a weekly basis.

people at bus stops that have been there for 5 + mins, that when the bus actually arrives and enter it, then start to look for money/change or ticket.

People who, when you ask them to please speak up, do so for the next three words, then drop back to their previous inaudible volume.

132. The fact that there is a show on the television named "Thintervention"

ugh yes hate that fucking show name

133. Phrases used like Quadrilogy on product. IT'S TETRAOLOGY FFS

Yeah I hate the word quadrilogy too!! It always makes me think of the Lobster Quadrille from Alice in Wonderland, lol

Are you sure about that? I thought Tetralogy was the study of horrible deformations.

ya know like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot

tetralogy = four of something
teratology = study of deformities

the potential for misuse here is kind of great

like some kind of botched diagnosis that ends with the patient being told they have four of something

If they send you to a tetrateratologist, you probably have four deformities.

If they send you to a teratetralogist you're probably writing your 4s all wrong.

lol what a difference an extra "o" makes

Being in a stationary vehicle makes me furious.

134. People who wear backpacks but have no sensory awareness.

^^^^
This is me sometimes. I have been shouted at a few times.

In my defense I actually have a minor condition similar to dyspraxia which makes me less spatially aware than most people.

135. Being unable to prevent my spoon from falling into a large bowl of soup.
Poor utensil management + love of large bowls of soup = irrational rage.

In my defense I actually have a minor condition similar to dyspraxia which makes me less spatially aware than most people.

= you don't get to wear a backpack in public

136. thousands of shiny happy employed folk on their charitably-minded saturday morning heart walk, closing down streets, fucking up the bus schedules

People packing in a coffee shop during the work week. If I take a day off work I want to be able to sit in a non crowded coffee shop.

138. when grocery/ad flyers have differently sized pages (like half height or width for weekend only specials etc) stapled at the outsides so that you can't hold the damn thing to flip the pages without some part of it flapping about against my hands = SEETHING RAGE

now that sentence doesn't even make sense as i've written it. clearly demonstrates the intensity of my irrational anger.

139. People who walk slow as ass through a crosswalk. I DEMAND A SENSE OF URGENCY BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF WAITING FOR YOU

140. This one's really innocuous, I almost feel bad saying it. I have been in the States for 8 years, and yet there are still people I work with, co-workers who I've known for this whole time who still can only, exclusively talk to me about Australia. Like, I'm the "Australian girl", period. On the one hand, it's nice, I like talking about home. But on the other hand, do you really just not want to get to know me at all? Like, you don't give a shit about my actual life, and maybe treat me like I'm like everyone else instead of singling me out with the 'you're not from around here' smalltalk? Like I said, I don't like that this makes me irrationally angry, so sorry if I sound intolerant.

140.i Asking me which country I like better, the US or Australia, and then acting shocked when I say Australia. I'm not a refugee. I was born there. My family's there. What the hell do you think I would say? Makes me crazy.

140.ii When you discover I'm from Australia, please, please, please resist the urge to talk at length to me in your fake Australian accent. A few words or phrases, that's okay, it's kinda funny. But going on, and on, and on....like the phone conversation i got trapped in last week.... this guy would NOT stop, it went on for at least 10 minutes and because I was at work and he was a studio rep I couldn't slam the phone in his ear and had to politely ask him to please stop. He thought it was hilarious, and I haven't wanted to kill someone so strongly in my whole life.

Man, anyone in a car who is mad at a pedestrian for being slow in the presence of their car, that shit is ridic. They have like a max speed of 4 mph, you can't even idle that slow in a car. If you can't handle being derailed 45 seconds by someone crossing the street, you should have left the house earlier.

That's why this thread is titled "innocuous" things that cause us to get "irrationally" angry.

Yeah but as a pedestrian it's a mentality that sometimes causes me to get "almost run over" or "honked at inappropriately" so...I'm a bit bitter.