The other day I had a long elevator IA post planned but I forgot it by the time I got to my office. It was about people who get on the elevator and say "Going up?" when there is an indicator light showing which way the elevator is headed.
Wait did I post this already? I can't even remember anymore.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
This actually happened to me while reading your post while riding the elevator back from lunch a minute ago.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
I said that this morning to someone in the elevator with me at my kids' daycare. We were in the lobby and there are only two floors. I thought I was hilar.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have one coworker who is not able to ever ride an elevator in silence. She's lovely, quite pleasant to talk to normally but it's like the confined space makes her nervous so she will gab away about her lunch or her shoes or her hair or her jacket or whatever for the entire elevator ride (thankfully only 2 floors). I always want to hug her and say 'shhh it's okay, it's okay"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Stop. Sharing. George Takei. Posts.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
old people who mention in general conversation how they're probably going to die soon.
My dad's side of the family is notorious for this, but not in a self-pitying way. My dad and his sisters were all late-80s to mid-90s when we last spent holidays together and their small talk was, "Yah, 88's old enough."
"Yah, that's for sure. I don't want to live as long as Papa or Ma. Even Uncle Ludwig lived too long."
― Je55e, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Putting zombies in everything. Over-saturation of zombies has really grated on me.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
OMG yessss. He's just like everyones weird old uncle who just discovred the internet. THATS NOT FUNNY.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Stop. Sharing. Andy Borowitz. Posts.
fixed
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
the elevator at work has front and back doors, leading to even more awkwardness
tbh nearly everything in this thread involves rational anger -- my biggest truely irrational anger is when ppl try to talk to me (in person) when i am on the phone. that is also rational, but it enrages me way out of proportion to its objective offensiveness. fortunately this doesn't happen much since i stopped working in bookstores
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
and/or truly
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh gosh yes I am like that about phonecalls too. I'm like "ffs I cant listen to two people at once". Esp hard thanks to hearing loss in one ear.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
ppl who leave radio/music playing while they are watching tv.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
On the flip, I'm not crazy when people on the phone are all "So yeah we're going to meet -- oh shit. What's going on? There's .. like.. some blue lights up here. Everyone's slowing... Huh. Just a guy pulled over speeding... I wonder how fast he was going?"
SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO MEET, YOU WERE SAYING?
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
I used to have a friend who'd call me at random when he was bored at work (worked nights often) and, every time without fail, while talking to me something to do with his job would cause him to say "hang on gotta take this" and put me on hold/put the phone down while he did work things. Frequently, the call would be 90% me sitting there waiting for him to finish work shit. I got fed up with it eventually and told him to stop calling me WHEN HE CANT TALK BECAUSE HE IS BUSY AT WORK.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha my ex had a friend who would basically only call her when she was in cabs or something because she was bored
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
you guys have cool friends
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
the opposite is just as bad. I used to sit next to a friend of mine at work and he'd start telling me something and I'd reply and as I was about to start replying he'd say 'Hold on I'm on a call'...and I'd be like RRAAAGGGH DON'T START A CONVERSATION WHILE YOU'RE ON THE PHONE YOU JERK
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 01:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
the best was when I first moved here, I had to call my mother in law about something, who was a teacher at the time. I call her cell phone and she answers it and I start talking and she says "Um I can't talk right now I'm TEACHING A CLASS". I was mortified. Like holy shit dude let it go to voicemail then! The thing I found out later was she didn't know how to retrieve voicemail so she habitually answered ALL incoming calls, no matter where she was.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 01:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
!!!!!!!!!
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 02:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
I don't mind taking phone calls at work, I find it snaps me out of autopilot, sometimes you get lonely sitting in a cubicle.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 02:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
Jesse calls me at work and puts me on hold bc he's busy and I just hang up. He always calls back.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
People who can't be bothered to review the material before coming to an important meeting...when they have been specifically assigned to a committee and asked to review the material.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Read that as "Jesus" first. Didn't know carl was a Nashville songwriter.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Jesus, Hold My Calls"
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
This. I don't know what it is, but I get this massive surge of contempt for people who leave multiple sources of noise going? I want to shake them until their heads snap and then turn everything off and start over.
But I'm also the fuckin killjoy who says you can either listen to music in the car, or talk. Not both.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha, i recently spent time in the company of someone who listening to music while playing online games with the sound effects on, i was all set for strangling.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Didn't know carl was a Nashville songwriter.
― pplains, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:33 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I once had a dream I won an award for a country sing called "You Changed Your Heart (Why Won't You Change Your Mind)." I'm going to write that sng one day.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
bosses/managers/higher-ups who fuck something up for you and instead of saying 'whoops, nevermind', they just stay the course, attempt to justify it, and make everything worse for everyone
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
Failure and Rescue, by Atul Gawande
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Argh! Why? Music can play in the background. Are you also against music in bars? My boss does this. She, a co-worker, and I had to take two two-hour rides to and from a meeting and she would turn off the radio at the slightest conversation, so we wound up sitting in silence for long stretches.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Strange, I was on the phone at the bus stop and some guy started conversing at me about somebody walking by barefoot. He just kept on chatting while I was talking.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
I can't hear when there are more than two things going on at once.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
It makes me anxious. I usually turn down the car radio when I talk, and then turn it back up again. If I'm at a bar and there's music and a group of people talking, I either talk to the person next to me as best I can, or I just don't even try. It makes me feel like I'm going deaf or something, I hate it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like to have music on in the background when I have friends over for drinks and we're chatting, but obviously not at "have to shout to be heard" level.
On the other hand, I have a mate who would come over with a ton of his vinyl, expressly to listen to certain albums, like *listen* to them, and halfway through the first track he starts blathring about how it is really awesome how the guitar break in this bit goes doodlyoodly and then he goes off on a tangent and I'm like "why are we doing this"
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Still, thats better than the dour, silent IDM listening parties my ex and his buddies would sometimes have at our house lol jeez. 3 hours of srs chin-stroking to Autechre. EXCITING.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
went to the local restaurant around the corner with the kids. i like the place. i support it. i have friends who work there. a friend of mine waited on us. after we got drinks (which my pal the bartender paid for) and some chips and salsa and were enjoying ourselves another waitress came over and said: i have some bad news. what? we have to ask you to move. why? we have a table of 8 we need to fit. really? then after i look all mean and sad she says we don't HAVE to move but of course i would feel like a jerk if i didn't and my friends are there but we were comfortable! we were waiting for our food! but we grabbed everything off of the table and moved to a booth next to the kitchen. grrrrrrrrr....
it made me irrationally angry. but i kept my cool. nobody has ever asked me to do that! ever! and i get so irrationally slighted in my old age its the kind of thing that makes me want to stop going there. but i like it there! (the waitress who asked us to move has pissed me off twice before. she's the only person there who has ever pissed me off. this probably had something to do with why i got mad.)
i felt like saying, you know what, take the table. we'll take our food to go.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
i mean i get it you don't want an 8 top to walk away and go somewhere else, but, hey, you sat us there! no take backs!
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
music on in the background isn't the same as listening to it
i can't drive and keep music loud and talk at the same time. i'm usually a very good driver when i only have one other thing going on in my head. music + conversation makes me a terrible and dangerous driver. wouldn't surprise me if others were the same.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
scott that is not irrational at all. restaurants aren't supposed to do that.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah that's a shitty thing to do.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've only been ever asked to move to accommodate a larger party once, ever, at a Pizzeria UNO in Virginia. The party looking for seating offered to pay for my and my wife's dinner, and in fact they did. I am extremely bribebable.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
well that sounds fine. but this was just the waitress wasn't it? like, eight people walked in, they wanted the money of eight people, so they were dicks to the smaller group.
i'm a huge annoying stickler about tipping well, but if this happened to me i might not tip much! if the waiter/waitress made the decision themselves it's pretty clear where their priorities were anyway.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
she wasn't even our waitress. the one who wanted us to move. my friend was. i HAD to tip my friend good. and she didn't know anything about it. we were just all of a sudden at another table and i told my friend we had been moved. she took the chips and salsa off of our bill. still pissed me off...
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
was the waitress who moved you serving the table of 8?
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
probably. i refused to look at the table of 8. my friend wasn't waiting on them. that much i know.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
they are your sworn enemies, it's only right
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
i just need to let it go. its a good place. they do good things. the owners are good to the people who work there. they are all about the local and all that. they just shouldn't piss off the local business owner from around the corner with a big mouth who loves to bitch about rude/annoying service! i wouldn't have been treated like this if i'd had 7 kids with me!
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
the only other reaturant-related innocuous thing that makes me mad is the craze among waitstaff to be too cool to write things down. 9 out of 10 times they forget stuff or get an order wrong. maybe that just makes them cooler. they are too cool to care if they get it right! (not talking about my friend here. she's a great waitress.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:47 (11 months ago) Permalink