Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

i might've complained about this before itt but i'll do it again cause i take very busy roads home every night during rush hour --

people who, in congested but not stop-and-go traffic, where everyone is basically going 5-10 mph below the speed limit, act as if this is perfectly normal traffic and act as though the people in front of them should go faster. people who will literally weave through the space between like two cars and then get stuck going the same exact speed as everyone else, as if it makes any difference. people who tail cars that are literally going as fast as they can go given the queue of five cars right in front of them going the same speed. what the fuck is wrong with these people.

act as if [...] and act as though

lol i hope this makes someone IA

Hah, my dad apparently had this favorite motel of his in West Memphis, Ark., that he liked to stay at when visiting his family in the real Memphis. When my grandma died, he got us rooms at a sweet price. I just didn't realize when I was following him to the funeral, that when he turned right out of the parking lot, we were turning right on to the interstate.

(I don't know how to do it justice except to link here and suggest you do a 180º. Weirdest fucking three seconds of my life.)

Eek that's not right.

There are ramps onto the Kennedy Expwy that have traffic lights to keep drivers from trying to merge when the lane is full. Idk but it feels unnatural and confusing.

http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/researchenews/2011/06/images/ramp-metering.jpg

I think meter ramps are the bee's knees.

Dammit people, just because using mobile phones you CAN have a loud conversation while riding the bus, does not mean that you SHOULD.

ia at this very strange checker at winco today

I've gotten my routine down pretty good to where I put everything on the conveyor in the order that I want to bag them. That way when they get scanned, the checker sends them down the final conveyor in pretty much that order.

Except this dude today. He seemed kind of...unwell, and he sat on a stool instead of standing, and he was very slow and meticulous. Which was fine, I wasn't in a hurry. Except that when he started checking my stuff, he just sort of stacked it right next to him, setting them up to slowly form a cube. There was no one bagging down the end, he was clear to move them down, but I guess his method was just to set them all there and do whatever his OCD was telling him he needed to do I guess idk. I had all these cans, and he built this weird little fort around my cube of stuff, the small ones stacked 3 high and the big ones stacked 2 high, completely impenetrable to surprise enemy attack hooray. So I had to pick through my weird cube fort of stuff to bag all my shit, it was so strange.

It was amusing, but part of me wanted to yell NOOOO DUDE NOW MY FLOW'S ALL RUINED!

I know just how you feel. West coast grocery stores are lousy with bag boys and the bag boys are all lousy at putting shit into bags in sensible order. JUST LET ME DO IT, I KNOW WHERE SHIT'S GOING IN MY HOUSE AND ALSO I KNOW CANNED GOODS DON'T GO ON TOP OF FRUIT.

Damn. And I get annoyed when they don't bag the milk or catfood.

There's a checker at one store here who always double-bags my milk and I don't know whether to be more pissed at her for doing it or myself for always forgetting that she's going to do it if I don't say something to her about it.

recently watched one beautiful minded twit put a 5 pound bag of cereal on top of two paper-wrapped sandwiches. I squawked & then checked myself & said, 'um could you put the sandwiches on top so they dont get squashed' [you fucking dim bag of mostly water]

get one brain, jesuschristonabike

bagging is a lost art, seriously

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who orders my groceries on the belt so they are bagged according to how I put them away.

IIRC, you organize your shopping list to match the layout of the store, too, VG. We'd be a good grocery shopping team.

I don't care how they are bagged I just don't want the dumb Trader Joe's cashier to talk to me.

There's a scourge of double-bagging going around, IME.

When I worked at grocery stores management was obsessed with reducing the use of bags. A Food Lion district manager pulled me aside for some counseling after saw me bag a gallon of milk. I explained (officiously/obnoxiously, I'm sure) that I didn't usually bag milk, but the customer had specifically asked me to. His response: Going forward, I should explain that bags cost 3¢ each and reducing their use was a way of keeping prices down.

My point was, why all the bag waste? Doesn't management care anymore? Everybody, cashiers, baggers, managers, regularly double bag orders like eggs and bread or a box of cookies and a handful of apples.

Bag the milk. Bag the cat food. Bag the Drano. Here's 9¢ for your troubles.

i'm the fuckin customer, if i tell you i need double bags then believe me i need double bags, when did profit-seeking entities get so goddamn uppity

If you don't double bag milk here, the bag will break while you're on the bus :( We pay 5c each for the world's flimsiest bags.

lol at that story je55e. hey food lion just make like ikea already you beige version of piggly wiggly.

For a few weeks we were using misprinted bags that said FOOD LOIN. In retrospect, management was probably thrilled b/c free bags!

I prefer double bags, especially at TJ's since the handles tend to rip off and I usually walk .7 miles home with two or more bags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqf0yX5r4A

all of this is solved by buying a Bag For Life. or reusing the bags you got given last time (or was doing your weekly shop a surprise?)

i use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags, or do you think i should reuse the same garbage bag every time too

bagging is worse when they use my bags. that's when they REALLY dont give a shit

Yeah, I used plastic bags for cats shit.

Otherwise I'd have to buy cat shit specific bags.

> bagging is worse when they use my bags.

ah, see, here they don't bag for you, they just scan and push it into the bagging area for you to handle / pack how you want. makes sense - i'd just be stood there waiting for them to finish otherwise. division of labour...

(although now you have to use the card machine yourself they end up sitting there waiting for you whereas before they'd be sorting out the payment whilst you finished packing)

winco and foodsource (large discount supermarkets) you have to bag your own

'regular' supermarkets usually have a bagger and a checker - you hand them your bags and they'll bag it for you. if there's no bagger I'll bag my own.

This one really is irrational but I get annoyed in the supermarket when I see a "any 3 for £x! mix and match!" label and then there aren't any other products with the same offer

I don't want 3 the same, I want to indulge the stupid part of my brain that wants to buy 3 different fruit juices when I only really wanted one, just because, hey, variety! and also, 20 pence cheaper than buying 3 separately! even though I only wanted 1

hmm, maybe I should thank them, now I think about it

My grocery store has a merry-go-round/lazy-susan dealie with bags on it. The checker puts the items in the bags, and then rotates it away from the customer, presumably so that the checker can place the bags in the customer's cart once all bags are full. But if they rotated the bags towards the customer, we could place them in the cart ourselves. I sense that some management directive told them to rotate the full bags away from the customers, lest the customers think they are being asked to do extra work.

I really need to stop thinking about this.

you should shop at a co-op with signs in each lane scolding you for presuming that people who are prone to repetitive stress injuries because their jobs call for repeatedly doing things should assume the risk of bagging your groceries for you when you're certainly capable of doing it yourself

that will make you think, about your privilege, of being a shopper rather than a worker, a worker there i mean

i realized what i really hate is any time you're in an audience or a crowd and some emcee is like "are you ready for this?" and sure, you cheer, but then they're all "i can't hear you!" and this might go one for two or three more times, and the emcee will inevitably be disappointed in your response at some point, "haha come on you guys can do better than that!" man, i can't because i don't care that much.

haikus

xp, yeah I know what you're talking about. I think unless the emcee is someone huge it feels kind of presumptuous to go overboard with the "make some noise!" schtick. Like, who the fuck are you? Why don't you say a dope rhyme first and then I'll make some noise.

the fact that this performance is a whole step down from the record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTrQ7vUZsIo

ppl who call everything that can be read a text

When a really great solo is followed by the leader of the band saying "____ on tenor saxophone everybody!" Such a buzzkill.

The image rotation metadata thing which means you take a picture on your phone and it looks right on your phone and you download it to your computer and it's the wrong way round so you rotate it to post to ILX or email to your Granny or w/e and when it appears it's the wrong way up again and you should probably just have left it alone, except whatever do you it's probably the wrong way up for half of the recipients, because apparently all software just flips a coin about whether it's going to look at the rotation tag.

People who reflexively complain about how their city handles a snowstorm no matter how it's handled. Guess what guys, sometimes snow just sucks and it's not the city's fault!

i am impressed (not) at the ability of every person to make fun of how people who live south of them can't handle snow, can't drive in it, etc.

Yeah I am also getting sick of that. "New Yorkers complain when there's only a foot of snow. Back in Winnipeg..." yeah, and in Winnipeg 75% of the city's budget is for snow removal and everyone has great snow gear because it snows all the fucking time so shut up now please thank you.

Yeah. I've been guilty of that in the past but it's a pretty jerky attitude.

My editor is stuck in NYC because fashion week and impending Snowmageddon, and I admit I did throw 'LOL I'm from Minnesota, only worry if MSP airport is closed, NYC = pussies' but OTOH when strangers complain about cold to me and ask if I am also freezing, I do say 'no, because I grew up in a fucking snow drift' or similar.

sure, I've been guilty of it too, and I didn't even grow up in a particularly snowy place

Last week, they closed school on a Monday because it merely looked like it might snow. Instead, we got a hard cold rain.

And then Friday, they said it would snow again, but in the evening. Three inches fell and holy shit, there were ten-mile traffic jams, people abandoning their cars in the street and walking home, so much sand on some overpasses it was like being at the beach.

It warmed again on Saturday. Then the forecast called for snow on Monday. Not a loaf of bread to be found at the store on Sunday. Not a flake fell. And people were pissed that the weather guys got it wrong again.

You can't win you can't win you can't win.

What is it about snow storms that make people want to suddenly increase their milk and bread intake?

Life: still not fully optimized in 2014.

i am guilty of northern snow smugness and lashed out at my maryland-native coworkers for making fun of georgia but i am annoyed at them and not at myself, of course