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

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.

141. people who drive and all their bullshit complaints about driving including but not limited to: any complaints about the expense incurred through driving, traffic, behaviour of other motorists, cicylists, pedestrians. also anyone who takes interest in cars and thinks any affordable car is in any way interesting or cool: it isn't. sure a gallardo or a phantom is a beautiful piece of design, anyone can see that and, while i'm glad you're aware that you will never own one and thus set your sights lower, a ford focus really isn't worth talking about.

I'm actually very respectful to the peds, I don't honk, I don't almost run them over, I just stew silently to myself when people walk ridiculously slow. :)

Yeah but Abbs, there are those who are obviously being trollish and saunter as slowly as they want when crossing the street (and often texting simultaneously).

but then I'm sure plenty of drivers find me annoying because I refuse to cross in front of a car at a stop sign unless I make direct eye contact with the driver.

That's wise actually

It shows how much of a car driver I'm not that I assumed San Te meant being stuck behind OTHER peds when all crossing the road at the crossing. As in - dude. it says WALK now, stop shambling! Go! The light'll turn red again! GTFO of my way aaargh.

Blinds that you can't just pull up and down because they get caught up in the window catch or something and you have to go right up to the blind and untangle it with your other hand.

^^^ this. Also blinds that have the plastic pole hanging down which allows you to open & close them but when the glue starts to wear off these little bastards fall off our blinds if you so much as look at them sideways and omg it makes me want to throw things hulk-smash stylee

When I do housework and seemingly 20 mins later, housemate comes thru like a tornado and the place is a pigsty again ;_;

FITE

...maybe thats not so innocuous.

145. people who do not jaywalk

146. double-wide strollers

147. crowded bars (crowded anything, actually)

thiiissss. And mothers who all stop and gather on the footpath with their prams to swap stories and GET IN THE WAY grrr.

uh xpost

148. people who are right when i am not, about anything

and yeah, groups gabbing in the middle of the footpath always make me want to kill

149. learning to drive stick shift and failing miserably. i can barely drive an automatic. i hate driving!

Comiserations...learning the stick is def. tough. But you get to that day where you think "aaargh ffs I will never get it" and shazam, you're suddenly doing it & it's cool. It takes time, for sure. Hang in there!!

150. Going the wrong direction - taking the wrong exit on a freeway

I barely ever get road rage but taking a really long path to someone's house because my navigator is out of date or whatever can be quite bothersome

151. Having to wash pots that won't go in the dishwasher. Fuck hand washing a pot srsly stomp stomp stomp grrr crash splash grrr

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.

I'm ashamed to say I've done this. I peppered an Australian friend of mine with questions about Midnight Oil. Fortunately, he was a music nerd too, and was happy to oblige, but in retrospect, I felt like kind of a jerk about it.

thiiissss. And mothers who all stop and gather on the footpath with their prams to swap stories and GET IN THE WAY grrr.

Aaah, I get irrationally angry every weekday morning, because there is a school between my flat and my nearest bus stop, and every morning the pavement is a sea of children and parents, who fill the entire pavement and don't let anyone past - I often have to step into the bus/cycle lane and hope I can get back out before traffic reaches me

anyway I know that the logistics of child-herding mean there is no way to get them not to fill the pavement, and that if someone has to step into the road it's a good thing it's me and not a child, but the mothers are usually at least as obstructive, and that is what pisses me off - but, yes, irrationally, and I'm sure I would/will do it too if I had kids

normally I stop being angry when I get past them, but when I miss a bus because I couldn't get past the children fast enough, that is angry time - even though, y'know, even when the pavement is empty in the school holidays, just missing a bus is a thing that happens, no big deal

i have the same thing, really annoying. as you say i don't expect a perfectly disciplined line of kids but there is definitely a thing where parents are incapable of thinking about anyone or anything besides their child.

141. kids in the pub. i know people want a beer and if someone wants to bring their kid into a non family pub then that's okay, to a point, but when a perfectly good pub becomes a family pub on a sunday it really kills me, the sense of a dreary sunday from this is so overpowering it makes me feel like i've got to go to mass then do my homework, not you know, enjoy my weekend, have a beer, be happy.

Acker Bilk - 'stranger on the shore'

152. Having a messy house. Like, some people manage to somehow work a full week and come home everyday to a miraculously neat and tidy home. I'm not one of those people. I do all the washing up, hoover, mop, clean bathroom, dust - it takes half a day between me and my girlfriend to return it to the norm of food-encrusted oven pans, dustball-covered floors and shelves, rings round the bath etc. God forbid we ever have kids or I'll go insane.

152b. We have no dishwasher (not much room for one either) and our sink is tiny with a GINORMOUS and hyper-sensitive tap that fills the empty sink in less than 20 seconds. If you put anything in the sink it splashes out and all over the work surfaces and the floor. I am not looking forward to tidying up right now.

153. People who use the word "cereal" in place of "serious".

Who the hell does that?