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

I'll wait for a pedestrian to cross the street. I'm not going to park in the middle of the road and spend 30 seconds waving someone out to come join me from the sidewalk.

Yeah, I have seen drivers waving people (pedestrians and turning drivers) across traffic when they were in one of two lanes, and there was no one waving in the second lane. wtf, are they waving you past their car into certain doom?

Trickery

(i'm not that fussed about the waiting tbh, it happens in doorways too, it's people wanting to be the most polite. it's more the invisible finger waving that annoys me, irrationally)

(wasn't there something about the POTUS(?) and someone else not wanting to be the first through a door?)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/11/21/bush2_wideweb__470x358,0.jpg

-things that are slightly difficult to open (medicine bottles, kids toy packaging, battery covers with tiny screws, etc.)

(xp & presidential exits, etc)

Kids toys are a nightmare now. Every little piece bolted into place with those plastic traps. Battery lids no longer pop off. The worse ones are Furbees that DON'T HAVE AN OFF SWITCH. You have to "tell" it to turn off by saying "goodnight."

Here's my IA submission for the day:

http://i.imgur.com/p1oEQRH.jpg

Hey, Mars Inc.? If I had wanted to buy a bag of M&Ms, I would've bought a bag of M&Ms.

We live on a pretty busy street that I have to cross to get to and from the bus stop. There are painted cross walks but not stop signs and even though cars are supposed to stop for pedestrians at crosswalks, it's rare. Sometimes, though, especially when I'm trying to get across the street with an adorable baby strapped to me, people will stop but then just as often, the driver behind the car that stops will whip around and try to pass the stopped car on the right.

This intersection has done more to make me militantly anti-car than anything else in my life.

Also that picture (any picture) of GWB makes me IA.

so annoyed with toys that talk, particularly the ones that automatically say something after a couple of minutes of inactivity, as if they think the child has somehow forgotten about them.

Hammer's got that mean teddy bear from Toy Story 3, so every once in awhile, I'll hear the disembodied voice of Ned Beatty announce from inside his closet, "Have you forgotten about me?"

There's one of those KEEP CLEAR sections near work that allows cars to make a left turn from the median into a small strip mall. You know the ones, where it's basically so that if the traffic is completely backed up they have to leave room for you to turn in or out. But no-one really has to observe that section if the traffic is flowing normally, you just wait for a clear spot and turn, nbd.

But every now and then there'll be a really stupid driver who will treat that 'keep clear' section as a stop sign and literally come to a halt in normal traffic and try wave you through. Meanwhile the other lane of traffic is just whizzing on by. And this car is getting pissed at you because you're not going and you're trying to point to the other lane of traffic til you're like ENOUGH WITH YOUR WAVING YOU MORON ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCKING KILL ME

ugh

I have discovered that any time anyone (other than a trained flagger) waves you ahead, they have no clue if it is safe or not; they just want you out of their hair and lazily start waving you on.

yeah pretty much

It's not going to happen and more often than not, one of the outer lane cars will wave a grocery store person out who will then get hit by someone traveling in the inside lane.

omg i HATE this. now, in general, if I'm leaving a grocery store, I will only wait to try and reach the center or left lane if there is absolutely nobody behind me waiting patiently. however, that happens a lot.

and then this person stops in the lane closest to me to let me out, and of course I don't go because that's not where I'm trying to land, and the driver looks at me angrily because I didn't accept his goodwill gesture, nevermind the fact that people are zipping by him in the lanes adjacent to him and would t-bone me if I jumped in front of them.

you're basically making a promise you can only keep 1/3rd of!

When you hang out w friends and they got to the store and buy cigarettes and then an hour later ask you to buy them beer because they have no money.

when you're in line for something and you're momentarily distracted and don't immediately notice the teller/agent has become available, and instead of telling you 'excuse me, sir' to get my attention, the people behind you decide you're no longer in line and cut in front of you to get to the agent.

happened last night at check-in for a casino cruise and it infuriated me - I literally turned my head for two seconds, right as they became free, and four people in a party cut in front of me w/out apology.

hex screws or whatever you call them that won't budge despite being soaked in WD40 for hours and subsequently mean you can't use the sewing machine you need to finish things on.
Wonder if I'm missing anything here. Would the hex turn in the same direction as a normal screw or what? Just don't seem to be able to get it to budge.

Does it need something attached perpendicular to the shaft of the hex key to give leverage and thereby be able to move it? Doing my head in. Was hoping to get a pair of jeans finished which are well underway.

Seems the needle bar on my sewing machine got shifted 5mm from where it was in sync with the bobbin thread and now the machine no longer sews since the timing is off. Couldn't work out why I couldn't catch the thread from the bobbin when I tried to thread the thing yesterday and then having actually managed to hook the thread I tried to sew a test piece of the material I was using for a shirt only to find that solely the upper thread had stitched. Actually that's a bit weird itself since if timing was ff you'd expect there to be nothing to hook that down and it all to come back up with no trace apart from needle holes as it did later.

So new pastime which I am improving on needs to be put on hold until I can get this to shift. Or somehow come across an alternative machine.

hex keys are traditionally right-angled so you can apply some torque, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key

i hate when at work, someone instant messages you to ask if you have a moment to chat, and you say 'yes', and they immediately ask if they can call without any information on what the call is about.

well, perhaps I could answer that question if I knew what the hell you were calling me about - so I could determine how long it will take or if I'm even the right person to talk to!

A coworker at my old job used to email me blank emails that just said "r u in" in the subject line. I refused to respond to those because come the hell on.

-waiting in the barbers and they're taking ages tidying up what look like perfectly finished haircuts to me

I can see that for a complex hair styling but when they're doing it on a regular run of the mill haircut like mine, it almost seems to me like they're too nervous to say 'all done'.

this happened on my last haircut, where the lady would finish only to retouch something a second later and then I got home and realized she had shaved off a solid strip of hair off on my left side about one inch above the ear whereas she hadn't done that on the right and it looked ridiculous.

A coworker at my old job used to email me blank emails that just said "r u in" in the subject line. I refused to respond to those because come the hell on.

― carl agatha, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf

is she trying to conduct mob deals via email?

These are standard guy cuts. Short back and sides some off the top. Sometimes a guy just wants less hair.

I get emails like that from an executive vp at work.

is she trying to conduct mob deals via email?

She was really into ~work drama~ and the dissection and perpetuation thereof and was not very smart? So she mostly wanted to tell me about some perceived slight she suffered at the hands of a coworker and did I think she could file a grievance/complain to management.

She took on some public school related issue in behalf of her kids and won and was featured in the paper and she kind of took that to mean she was a crusader for justice and was thus insufferable.

She was actually pretty funny and good company when she wasn't on a mission from a God (so like twice in the five years I worked with her).

My dad will text me messages that say "call me."

Jesse just did that to me yesterday.

hex keys are traditionally right-angled so you can apply some torque, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_key

― koogs, Friday, June 20, 2014 12:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the Hex keys I have were given to me by Maplin's when I bought a hard drive some years ago. Those ones are straight with a handle, possibly for use on a computer which would presumably be more delicate.
I hadn't linked Hex keys to being the same thing as allen keys until I was looking in a shop this afternoon and found them to be a reverse L shape as standard, think I was thrown by the set I already had which were the only things I'd come across calling themselves hex keys to that point. I bought a pair of those with the short shaft and long handle but have yet to try the one on the problem nut. Hopefully it will shift as soon as I apply it.

yeah, shifted in about 30 seconds once I used the right angled one.

Now to get myself acquainted with all the rest of the world of everyday tools I think I already know but actually only have not very useful approximations of with inherent design flaws etc.

I really hate "call me" texts, because I tend to take them as urgent and the degree of urgency is never clear

I generally consider "call me" texts to mean "call me when you have some free time". If it's urgent, I assume the person would just call me.

Let me give Jesse credit - he will tell me whether it's important in the actual text.

I text 'call me' when I can't be sure the person isn't in the middle of something.

Just leave a message or call back later.

When coworker's voicemail message says "leave your name & the time you called"

technically I need not do either, but I will give my name bc it's polite... but ffs our phone system timestamps every goddamn message, why do I need to tell you the bloody time

might be a holdover from the bygone days of cassette answering machines.

it's kind of adorable, my best friend still timestamps all of his voicemails to me and my phone already tells me when he called. but that's just his professional demeanor for the most part.

mighta said this one already but bears repeating - I'm real glad that you want to brag about your sold out show, mr. Local Theatre owner, but it tends to be less impressive when your theatre seats a whopping 35 people.

also, when you respond to everybody's theatre invite with a "Break a leg from _______ Theatre", everybody knows you're doing it to secretly pimp your own theatre.

so one of my close friends decided to have a b'day dinner tonight, which is the same night of the Eyehategod show that I've been looking forward to for months (and already have tickets to). my friends *teased* me about picking the show over my friends good naturedly, but then I sat there for 30 minutes writing the "Oh I can't make it" response out of fear of offending someone when really it's like "fuck it, I had these tickets in advance, it isn't the guy's actual birthday today, and he has missed my b'day dinners before".

the IA? I dunno, at me for always overthinking stuff like this? lol

My dad will text me messages that say "call me."

― pplains, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:39 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesse just did that to me yesterday.

― carl agatha, Friday, June 20, 2014 10:42 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey! That's not right. I said to call me when you had time b/c I had some interesting and exciting gossip that would best be shared with you via talking. And I did that out of respect for your time. (I learned my lesson some time ago that it's not cool to simply say "call me.")

Oh, sorry, I rushed to defend myself and then went back and read your post giving me credit.

Anyway, please call me tomorrow b/c I have some interesting and somewhat exciting informational gossip about one of our close friends that I would like to talk with you about.

call me

You are very respectful of my time, it is true. I'll try to call you l8er - work is bananas and the baby is home today which means

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The fact that, for the past ten years, 90% of mens' jeans seem to have some kind of ridiculous douchebaggy "wash"

Like with the fade marks where the jeans manufacturer thinks your knees should be?

First GIS result for "jeans"

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