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.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
The wide stance seems to be at its worse when they have a ladyfriend along.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 >:|
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
rip whitney ;_;
(joeks, luv u Trayce)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
<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).
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
hee hee, well if there's a place to unleash IA whitney hatred, this would be the place
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate Teena Marie.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
*GASP*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 03:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
"muchly"
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh and people who use "Sir" as a very very low level comic indicator in their general written fucking discourse. FUCK.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i rarely get very angry (pills managed to suppress it lololol). but when in the supermarket people take FUCKING FOREVER to put their groceries away and KEEP STALLING when i am already putting mine away, I GET EXCEPTIONALLY ANGRY. i really want to shout att them. but instead i don't. you probably don't even notice i am angry PISSES ME OFF.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I feel weird reading mine on the bus"
me too, i feel like a snob. :-((
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
embrace it
― Jeff, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
people who use "Sir" as a very very low level comic indicator
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 13:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Embrace my anger or my ipad? lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
the wide stance thing on the subway drives me nuts! i've gotten tired of stewing for a whole hour commute, so I've started just nudging people's legs...usually it works with minimum fuss. i've noticed that in general (not accounting for intentional assholes) men only sit that wide when there is space to open up.
alllll day there has been this intermittent buzzing noise, like the noise a bus makes backing up. all day! i feel like i'm being driven nuts, very slowly.
― rayuela, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I used to be able to wait until May 1 before I turned on the A/C, but this year, I might have to give in on March 1. I don't think I shivered once this winter.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spread-leg sitters suck and I don't remember a single one who closed them when I sat down next to him. I've tried weak nudging, but it has never had any effect, ever. I always want to press my legs against the other person's so he gets the hint, but I don't want to fucking touch other people's legs on the bus or train.
People should just be aware of the space they're occupying!
OTOH, people who get shitty when others get too close to them on full buses or trains are also no treat. E.g., the woman on my *packed* bus this morning. I was standing in the aisle and she was seated facing me. I (and other standing passengers) kept having to move aside to let others squeeze toward the door, and this woman loudly sighed and scowled at me every time. Should have drooled on her.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
wide-stance her
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
--people not moving into the subway car also drives me nuts. last week or something, i had to let 3 subway trains go past during rush hour because i (and a ton of others) couldn't get in, and as each one rolled away, i could see that in the middle, there was totally room
--people who lean on the metal posts even though there are other people who are holding onto it. super annoying.
--people who make the "i'm getting off the train" motions and head for the doors before the train has even stopped, esp when it's a central location that EVERYONE gets off at...everyone is getting off at the next stop, stop trying to push your way to the front when the doors aren't even open!!
apparently i have a lot of subway rage
― rayuela, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
People from the other company on my building's floor who stand in the hallway outside our office door making "private" calls on their cellphones, then giving me the stink eye like I'm fucking eavesdropping.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh I full on stare at people who do that. People who have loud, obviously personal phone convos in public? Yeah I'm listening and I'm gonna make it obvious.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
man there was a guy on the train going on very loudly into his phone about some "shiksa". he was kinda loopy, i could tell, and i felt deeply embarrassed.
― brownie, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
--people not moving into the subway car also drives me nuts.
Arghh, on the Muni there's a row of people waiting against the wall and a row of people waiting a step closer to the platform, so there's room between the two rows for people to move around. You'd think the people who step forward when they see which train is arriving are doing so because they want to get on the train, right? No, they're just waiting right at the edge of the platform so when you politely wait behind them for them to get on and then they don't you are STUCK and everyone else has gotten on and gotten a seat.
― kinder, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
rayuela is *fully* otm
i would add ppl sporting massive backpacks who act like they are extensions of themselves. put that shit on the floor -- i don't care if your backpack encroaches on my shins, but i don't want it in my face
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 March 2012 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
We have new, open subway trains where people can walk the entire length to spread out the bunching a bit, but it still gets jammed at rush hour. The other day I had the misfortune of riding it at 5:05, and there was a university student squished in amongst all us tired office workers, sitting cross legged on the ground, playing a computer game. It made me very IS. maybe A.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 March 2012 05:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
*IA :P
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 March 2012 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
That person needs to be stomped.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 06:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
that kind of..."spatial selfishness" (?) makes me crazy.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 06:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm judging that person based on some prejudices against crusty burn-out hippie types I went to college with who would do shit like sit cross-legged in inappropriate places or eat full meals without utensils.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 06:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't remember how odds work, but they are strongly in favor of my saying some harsh words to that person, possibly preceded by a knee to his or her empty head.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha I got IA like that towards ppl who would sit cross legged on the floor at shows. It's not story time! Stand up like grow ups!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 1 March 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
^otm.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 1 March 2012 12:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
This mouse keeps scrolling back every time it's scrolled down. Not sure if it's a faulty unit, the batteries in it, or the computer but it is really vexing. Trying to read comics on the computer or scroll down through messages both find me having to stop the thing & rescroll.
The little publicity that's been given to the changeover in the local bus service which is happening next Sunday. Up to yesterday there were a few small signs on the back of the driver compartment on the buses and yesterday and today there are full page adverts in the free local papers. But I don't think I would have noticed any of those if I hadn't been looking for them. Saw mention of this complete cross-service overhaul on a site online beforehand. Don't think many people around town are going to be aware of it until it's happened. Routes and timetables are being overhauled. You'd think there would be more prior publicity but no.Doesn't the public have a right to know?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 1 March 2012 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
i get IA when my coworkers throw away pieces of paper that are only used on one side, of which there are TONS, because somehow people here hate duplex printing and would prefer to waste swathes of paper.
sometimes they even toss completely blank pieces of paper if it comes out in their print job.
The bypass tray for one of our printers has a stack of used paper that people can use to print on the back of -- just put the paper there! not in the trash!
― rayuela, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
on occasion someone takes it upon themselves to dump this stack of used paper in the recycling bin. i do not get it.
This fucking cab driver has been crunching on Tostitos, one every minute or so, for 10 minutes.
Is it OK to tell him to turn in the radio or is that just being a dick? Please advise ASAP. Thx.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
how long is the cab ride? he wouldn't necessarily associate you asking to turn on the radio with his tostitos crunching, i don't think.
― rayuela, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Punch him in the back of the tostito head.
― Jeff, Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let a man have his Tostitos, jesus. If you're IA about that you've got too much energy pent up. Run around the block a few times.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
or better yet, run to the place you were taking the taxi to. kill two birds with one stone.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate public transport/bench spread-leg types bcz I am a fat woman and every time I get into a seat I have to spend a bit of effort on folding myself up and pressing myself into the wall and making sure my coat isn't trailing onto the next seat and etc, and then some dude just flops down next to me and puts his knees six miles apart
and I bet that if his thighs meet mine he'll probably still tell all his mates how disgusting it was that he was sat next to some fat bird who was taking up all the room, or maybe I just wanted him so badly that I had to touch him and forgot that I was unworthy to even be in the same universe as him
</giantburstofinsecurity>
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^ 100% solidarity with you re: that insecurity
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm amazing to sit next to on the train. I basically try and take up half a seat at all times, never encroaching on my seat mate. I will make all reasonable efforts to avoid touching you. I try and sit beside people who can do the same.
― Jeff, Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
world needs more Jeffs
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
cute lols @ "I'm amazing to sit next to on the train"
I consider if the dividing line between the seats carried upward, would it bisect my leg/arm, or theirs. If that can't be clearly determined, then fair enough--I don't mind basic contact if the space is somewhat equitably shared.
But if my neighbor is noticeably over that line...IA.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink