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

you mean that was real? lol lolz

when i hear people shouting or having overly loud conversations outside my flat on the street it riles me beyond belief. nothing worse than the ignorant howling of someone's name you hear sometimes, repeatedly. does this happen in all cities or just london?

Only when I'm observing a moment of silence.

Happens everywhere I've lived in Chicago. In our first apt, people tended to have shouted conversations at each other from across the street (that our bedroom window faced). I was getting ready for class on Saturday at 7:30 and there was much drunken WOOing going on in front of our place.

happens everywhere, attention hoes is a universal phenomenon imo

Attention! HOOS is a universal phenomenon.

don't even think it's attention, think some people are too thick to even realise that shouting might be annoying.

drunk people are dumb

this is also in daytime... not necessarily drunks.

i think often people having those kind of noisy, braying conversations are kinda looking for attention tho, you get a sense of performance mixed up in the loudness or at least the idea that strangers and passers-by must be interested/amused/impressed by their hilarious shouting

fine line between complete disregard for other people and complete self-regard i guess

such a delicate balance

The wholly mixed up tax-free transit benefit system of our Regional Transit Authority/Chicago Transit Authority. I received my transit card and went to register it on the CTA's website in case it's ever lost or stolen.

- The CTA says they have record of my card b/c the RTA issued it.

- The RTA admits that they issued it they never generated the info necessary to register it with the CTA.

And anyway: Cards issued by the RTA are actually issued by a private company hired by the RTA to administer the program and the CTA tells me that all this hassle could have been avoided if I'd ordered directly through the CTA.

The tax savings are ~$400/year, which is, I suppose worth the hassle, if you break it down by $/hassle-hour.

that is some lack of bureaucratic coordination horseshit

Hey! I was IA about like 5 things just now and I realized that MAYBE a contributing factor was that I forgot to eat lunch LOlakjfdvakljnsdf;

I think when I was 5 the main thing that made me irrationally angry was when kids in the seat in front of me on the school bus would drape their arms around the back of the seat, getting all up in my personal space.

Jesse, the Calming Manatee says "Oh my! You should eat something."

I just ate some chunks o' fresh pineapple and they were DELICIOUS. I'm going to wait another 30 minutes and get some real food!

But real quick IA: this office's addiction to paper. If we need copies of Mr. Smith's bills from 2011, we can run a report and have them in 30 seconds. Those paper copies only exist in case electricity stops existing! ALL PAPER EXISTS IN CASE ELECTRICITY STOPS EXISTING.

DOWN WITH PHYSICAL MEDIA

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

The Chicago Transit Authority's transit benefit system does not accept credit cards. Only paper checks or ACH debits, which is a bookkeeping annoyance. This program needs an overhaul. This town needs an enema.

Just discovered that my phone/organiser no longer has an alarm reminder function on the calendar reminder. Not sure how that's supposed to work as a reminder now then. Used to rely on that feature on my old phone.
Meant i could set an alarm separate to the main one or way ahead of time.
Not likely to be anything other than a mark on a calendar that I'm not likely to look at otherwise.

Not sure what else I could use for that function.

Maybe I should mainly be angry at getting reliant on phones.
Wish they wouldn't junk useful features like that.

people that blindly charge into opening elevator doors without letting people out first

Trying so hard to teach my daughter not to do that.

If you ever see a five-year-old charging in like a loose bull, feel free to knock her down on your way out. Teach her a lesson.

i'm pretty sure your five-yeard-old daughter has more manners and common sense than 90% of the heathens that occupy my building

You know how you see that lady sometimes at the grocery store admonishing her kid severely for, I don't know, holding the bread wrong? I always thought they were evil people until now, since I realize that the kid has probably poked holes into every loaf of bread they've bought since 2009.

So if you ever hear me go LET THOSE PEOPLE OFF FIRST, GODDAMMIT, you know why.

calm down

...and parentify.

soccer moms going down like bowling pins...

People who don't bag their own fucking groceries when there's no bagger at their lane. Even after they tell you that they need a bag and you open a paper bag for them and set it on the register for them.

I want to say "Who the fuck does this??" but the answer is about 50% of people who shop at natural food stores, apparently. Like what is going in your head? People seem perfectly content waiting for me to scan their entire order, take their money/hand change, and then turn around and bag their fucking order for them while they just stand there doing NOTHING.

What the fuck is wrong with you people!?!?

Most cashiers in Canada bag it for you except discount stores :P I always feel like I'm getting in the way if I try to jump in.

Is it because you "don't know how" to do it properly bcz I watched a training video when I got a job at ShopRite at age 17 it's real easy you just put heavy things at the bottom and then put lighter things on top of them don't put your cans on top of your bread capisce?

wait that wasn't aimed at *you* ffm

I mean I do bag it but we have a very small store with one register open (two if it gets busy for a bit) and we only have paper bags, no plastic ones, so I mean it's v clear that there is A) an empty paper bag on the register, B) several groceries that have already been scanned that need to be bagged, and C) several more groceries that are still on the belt that I will need to take the time to scan before I can start bagging anything. I mean a lott people either don't take a bag or bring their own (bcz we are *that kind of store* or w/e) but like seriously just put your fucking soy flour in your fucking shopping bag yourself and get the fuck out of my store.

I bet part of it is we charge so much for shit (like $3.69 for a bunch of organic kale that comes out to be 1/4-1/3 of a lb depending on the bunch, or $1.29 for og bananas) that people *expect* it or something? But seriously people I"m getting paid $9/hr; no one is making bank off of this shit and everything will go a lot faster for *everyone* if you just DIY

I bag groceries myself at TJ's when I remember to bring my own bags (which is 80-90% of the time), but if I forget, I usually just let the cashier do it, since IIRC the store bags are under the register.

in my experience uk cashiers are shit at packing, will fight to do it myself

Do other stores in your area have baggers at every cashier, Stevie? Where I grew up and then where I went to college, everybody bagged their own groceries unless there was a bagger. There was even a special line for self-bagging. But in NC and (so it seems) Chicago that's more frowned upon, at least in big grocery stores. I've started bagging my own groceries and a bagger will RUN over to my lane and "Here, let me get that for you, ma'am" as though they'll get in trouble if somebody sees a customer bagging groceries.

I do bag my own groceries at Trader Joe's, unless there's a bagger, but that's what it seems like I'm supposed to do (paper bags are at the end of the counter, jaymc), but I still worry that I'm stepping on somebody's toes sometimes.

So I guess I'm saying maybe people just don't realize that's a thing they're supposed to do, because it's not a thing they do anywhere else. Or they want to bag, but they feel weird because in other stores with similar register set ups (Walgreens, for example), the clerk does the bagging.

Not to play captain save-a-yuppie-health-food-shopper or anything. They are probably all assholes.

The cashiers also bag at shops here, like the bags are held open in this little cage thing and they just drop the goods in as they scan each one, pull off the full bag, start a new one, its very fluid and prob faster than a second bagger (which seems like an absurdly excess job, to me)

Does that mean you have to put the items on the conveyor belt in a crush-proof order?

A second bagger is also pretty rare in the UK - most shops you bag your own goods, occasionally the cashier does it but I've only seen that when I've only had a few items so I don't know what they do about weight differences

do you not? 8)

i always arrange for heavy stuff that goes in the backpack to be first on belt, lighter, less bulky, crushable stuff in carrier bag (i take my own).

it is a bit ridic to just stand there and wait for cashier but uk supermarkets have gone just a bit too far the other way these days - they scan whilst i pack. but it used to be that i'd then give them my card and they'd run it through the till whilst i finished packing. now i have to chip and pin the card myself, and then finish packing, whilst all they have to do is close the till and get the receipt.

and don't get me started on self-scanning. (tesco now charge you for bags if you self scan but not otherwise so it's more expensive despite YOU doing the work for them. then the receipts say on them 'how did we do?' you did NOTHING, i did it all)

(slight xpost there)

I never bag. Fuck that.

It's hard enough to contain my rage in TJ's. Impossible if I have to bag it up.

Speaking of, I really hate TJ's paper bags. They rip. even double bagged the handles rip off when carrying long distances. I'm going to start taking in my own non-reusable plastic bags.

(xps to koogs) Hm, I rearrange things a bit before they go on the belt but do more rearranging as it piles up in the bagging area. Not always easy to arrange things before scanning because heavy things are probably at the bottom of the basket/trolley and there's probably an assortment of baying hounds behind you waiting for you to finish and put the divider down.

Whereas my way you take longer at bagging and the impatient fuckers just barge into you or roll their eyes while the cashier drums his fingers instead of turning the divider and sending their stuff into the other half of the bagging area.

Don't mind me, I have a cold and my misanthropy gland is swollen

I've mentioned before that I don't bag while the order's being scanned because I'm getting my coupons together, keeping an eye on the kid and watching the computer screen like a hawk to make sure everything's getting priced right. Also it's a big store and another bagger usually shows up halfway through.

Walmart's a different story. The cashier has this little plastic bag carousel next to them that they spin around, bagging items as soon as they've been scanned. And then I take 'em and put them back in the cart.