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

today i got a parking ticket because the ticketing officer put the wrong space number into his doohickey they use for phone payments (this is outside my apartment, it's a service where you can pay the meters with your phone, i've used it probably 200 hundred times without error)

now i have to schedule a court date to argue it and i might not even win cause i can't prove definitively that i parked in space 2290001 and not 2090001

probably it'll work out but i still need to fucking go to court

not irrational but who cares about the rational thread not me

i got one where they put the wrong block on the ticket and i was so excited to win but then i misremembered the court date and had to pay it anyway. i think you will win though. i'm a lawyer.

thanks!

one time i got a ticket for running stop signs and the cop literally told me "if you contest this you'll most likely win" but he was using a ticket pad from the previous year, which had the previous year's rules for requesting a court date on it (wait 15 days and you'll get one vs. write back letting us know you want one) and i missed my chance at a court date and had to pay the ticket. yay!

i hate people w/ cars

esp ones that go faster than mine

^ parking enforcement officer

*counts stacks*

of TICKETS

*people who say "namecalling is a sign of a lack of intelligence" when you call them an idiot when they say something willfully ignorant. No, it's a sign that I think you're an idiot. Quit drinking your paint thinner milkshake and catch up.

i reread my post and it sounds like i am a horrible person but i was not actually running stop signs (he saw me not-fully-stop at two) and i (legit) had gotten a call from a friend who needed to go to the hospital and i was panicking which is why he said he'd side with me in court

again totally rational i win again

also i'm white

Where I live (South Australia) senior citizens get to travel on the bus free after 9am. I recently started getting a later bus to work, and every stop from 8.45am is full of a cavalcade of geezers chancing their arms and doing the over-70s version of batting their eyelids to try to get the driver to let them on, despite his monotonous cries of, 'It's not 9 o'clock yet, it's not 9 o'clock yet!', and it sloooooowwws the bus right down and makes me late for work.

that is simply amazing.

1) People who stop to chat at the top of stairs/escalators, preventing you from passing.
2) Drivers that impatiently honk or motion at you, thinking they are doing you a favor by letting you turn even though they don't realize you're not turning because there is a pedestrian in the way.
3) Kindly letting a driver cut in front of you only to have them do something obnoxiously stupid, like making a u-turn in the middle of bumper-to-bumper traffic or cutting straight across four lanes.
4) People who don't answer direct questions because they think you know the answer already.

"What are we having for dinner?"
"I already told you!"
"Well, I'm asking again because I forgot!"
"You should have been listening!"
"I was listening, but I forgot, so just tell me again!"
"You really can't remember?"
"No! That's why I'm asking! Argh!"

Leaves room, slams door, hops in car and cuts across four lanes of traffic.

reminds me: my friend, who I despair of ever getting relevant information out of because she only responds to about 25% of questions. I thought it was just me and then the other day she was like 'ugh! my mum just texted me like 5 questions. If she wants to know, she can phone me'.
ARGHHHH

1) People who stop to chat at the top of stairs/escalators, preventing you from passing.

I see this and raise you...

People who park themselves in the middle of a lane in a parking lot, either waiting for somebody, or having a conversation with someone outside the car, preventing people from passing them on either side. jesus fuck if you need to idle PULL INTO ONE OF THE GODDAMN HUNDREDS OF SPACES AVAILABLE.

Yes, that one happens a lot around here.

People who rush to get in line in front of me at thrift shops and then pay for $8 worth of merchandise with a $100 bill, which a manager inevitably has to be summoned to examine. So I'm waiting for five minutes, usually to buy a book or two, wishing I could just throw the money on the counter and leave.

People who are myopically chivalrous. Example: when a train stops and the people on the platform form two lines (to the right and left of the door) and take turns getting onto the train. Somehow there's always a gentleman who, when it his turn, stops and lets everyone from the opposing line go in ahead of him, even though there's a pregnant woman standing right behind him.

Right now, it's people who never have any credit on their phone or don't have an email app on their phone, or never pick up their phone because it's always on silent and then make out that it's your problem to deal with because "it's not my fault I didn't get back to you when we agreed, my phone doesn't send text messages" or whatever dumb excuse....

I am currently trying to organise an event with two other people, one of whom only uses Facebook messenger because for whatever stupid reason he can't check his emails on his phone, is this even possible or true?

People who are myopically chivalrous. Example: when a train stops and the people on the platform form two lines (to the right and left of the door) and take turns getting onto the train. Somehow there's always a gentleman who, when it his turn, stops and lets everyone from the opposing line go in ahead of him, even though there's a pregnant woman standing right behind him.

Yesssssss or people who insist that passengers exit the elevator based on gender rather than efficiency.

One of the local grocery stores now has those karts where you have to insert a dollar coin in order to get a kart. I of course had no idea and had no spare change at all on me. I was so angry that I just walked right back to my car and drove to the next grocery store.

Do you get the coin back when you're done? I would've done the same thing either way.

Baggers not bagging my gallons of milk, cat food or laundry detergent is getting ridiculous. Are these magical items going to carry themselves or what?

I guess the rationale for not bagging the milk is that it already has a handle? Fair enough, but I can't stick my arm through that handle like I can with the bags. The milk's condensation collects on my car's carpet, not the bag when it rides alone. Twice a year or so, I'll get a gallon that leaks, and I'm always very happy that it had a bag to drain in. It's stupid.

Detergent has a handle too, but like the cat food, they don't want to bag them with food that humans eat? Listen, there's a fine line anyway between what I'm buying for myself and what I'm getting for the cats, but safe to say that I'm not too worried about their respective packaging touching each other. And if the detergent leaks like the milk and hits my Planters peanuts, I do have enough sense not eat either.

4) People who don't answer direct questions because they think you know the answer already.

Or the flip side, which is when people ask the same thing repeatedly because they weren't really listening/they don't care/they care but it's not the kind of information they remember (names, dates, whatever). The second time I'm cool. The third time I'm annoyed. The fourth time, I'm not telling you.

yeah, you get the coin back. The whole point of the thing is to encourage people to bring their karts back.

xp

^^^ YES. Especially if they asked the first time just to see if I had the info, knowing they can ask again later when they actually need the info, which is definitely a thing I've dealt with. xp

Really by the fourth time I start lying ridiculously about the details. "What are we having for dinner again?" "I thought you jellyfish flambe."

Er liked

Why don't they put buttons on the TV anymore? Not this touch-sensitive bullshit. You know how hard it is to turn it off in a dark room after everyone's gone to bed and the remote control is nowhere to be found?

Also forces me to memorize that "<>" is for channels and "-+" is for volume. It makes sense, but I shouldn't have to think about it.

Touch sensitive? Sounds horrible. Mine's four years old and while it still has buttons, they're around the side so I still have problems figuring out what they're supposed to be even in the daylight. "Sure sweetie, I'll make My Little Pony louder. Oh, wait a minute. Shit. AV2? What's that - the Playstation?" etc. etc.

^ More often than not, yes.

And honestly, the majority of homes haven't used their channel selectors in 25 years. Why SOURCE is just one button that you have to loop around with while there are still two buttons reserved for anything other than Channel 3 is beyond me.

These TV related IA posts are all very OTM and relatable to me.

I do know where the power button is on the side of the TV but damn, I turn the channel instead of turning down the volume about 3 times out of every 10.

And since we're almost always watching something on Netflix, turning the channel tells the TV that I want to stop watching Netflix and watch channel 142-QzzbLLT-8 or however the fuck over the air HD channels are numbered, which is always static.

I sent poor Jesse a barrage of Andy Rooney-esque texts the other day in which I complained heartily about how hard it is to find over the air HD channels and longed for the ease of a UFH knob and managed to remember all of the UHF channels of my cable-deprived youth.

That's what it's like to be IRL friends with me. I'll text you to tell you there's a really cool show on PBS you would probably like and when you ask what channel, I'll send you 30 text messages bitching about modern technology.

ooh TV-related ia's! let me tell you them

- we have a bluetooth PS3 remote control that will switch the PS3 on if you touch ANY button on it, so even if you pick it up to move it you'll probably turn on the PS3 without even trying to

- we have a volume controller for the receiver that just...i fucking hate that you can't just press ON to turn it on, you have to press ON and then AV1 and then whatever function and there's like 9000 other buttons on there that we never use, like I wish you could just customize it from the beginning and have them removed. whyyyyy

- DVR was created by my inlaws, or my parents...everything about it is so infuriatingly moronic and un-intuitive. and it's sooooo slow.

She was telling me to hurry and watch a show on PBS about Seventh Day Adventist schools.

My brand new enormous flat panel TV has one little 4-way joystick nub on the bottom. You depress it to turn the TV on or off and then for things like volume and channel, you follow on-screen prompts. It's not my favorite way of doing things.

It bugs me that my horrible new work computer (an enormous all-in-one Lenovo touch screen thing) has all buttons in a 2-inch strip on the side in front of the CD/DVD tray. All about the same size. So I have to stand up and lean over my desk to see if I'm pressing a button for volume, power, or to eject a disc.

And when I flick a bug or some dust from the screen, I forget that it's touch sensitive, so I wind up closing a window or waking a menu that harasses me until I remember how to kill it.

-that i was looking for a standalone usb mic at best buy yesterday and they only had receptionist/gamer style "headsets" (i don't want your crappy headphones. i specifically brought my good headphones on my trip, even if i forgot my good mic and audio interface). actually, strike out most of this post and leave "best buy."

-how much i notice the crazy amount that alcohol factors into people's lives when i'm not drinking (on bleecker street with two hours to kill, looking around at my options: bar, bar, bar, bar. i go home instead of waiting the two hours).

-the way my parents always find little ways to insult me (dad, after me telling him i've lost a not-insignificant amount of weight: "so are you going to lose any more?") (mom, after me coming home from a sudden rainstorm with my wet hair glued to my head: "what happened to your big poofy hair?")

Here's one of the most irrational of them all.

The parking cop in our neighborhood here at work always stops by our office and hangs out with our receptionist before continuing on down the street where all of our cars are. With that much fair warning, we'll get an announcement two or three times a day that Mr. Park is here in the building and is about to go back out there and do what he has to do. Those of us parked on the street then go out and plug a quarter and rest easy for the next few hours.

My desk faces the window and I can see him drive up in his little scootermobile, so I get a head's up on the head's up. I usually park in a free area a few blocks away anyway, but today, I'm out there on the meters since it was raining. Dude's been here for 20 minutes and I haven't heard the announcement yet. I don't want to get into a project to have it interrupted five minutes from now so I can run out there in the rain with my quarter. I don't want to put my earbuds back in or I'll miss the announcement.

So in other words, I have this public official doing me this very generous favor of letting me park on the street for 50¢ a day and I'm pissed that he's not gone back out there in the rain yet.

I bought some new Vans online in order to spruce up my california uniform. When I lift up my heel, a pocket of air gets trapped between my heel and the sole of my shoe every time. When I step down on my heel, the air is pushed out of the shoe, making a repeatably pitched fart sound. So it sounds like I'm propelling myself around the office with small bursts of flatulence.

Is there a California uniform? Shit, no wonder everyone looks at me like a weirdo out here.

it's possible that your shoes are also making fart sounds

a pair of cheap grocery-store insoles will fix the fart sound. I had the same problem, and it drove me CRAZY. just get some of those thin, rubbery-feeling insoles and all noises will cease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChS0dOgO-g

xp VG bringing solutions to the table. I will have to buy those. Thanks!

:D

It takes me like 4 trips to town, maybe more to remember to buy a sewing machine bulb. Despite the thing remaining thankfully unbroken in my waistcoat pocket for the last week or whatever since a needle snapped and the light went out. It looks darkened by smoke or whatever inside but didn't shatter neither did fragments of needle hit me, just snapped something went flying and the bulb went out.
So I finally remember to buy it and have to try several shops to find a screw in not a bayonet. 3 places that stock them coincide in not having them in at the same time. Actually 4 since I make a stop off from the bus cos a few are up as being in the other branch of a place I've checked but it turns out to be an inventory glitch. Lovely.

Technology foibles! I bought a B&N Nook (a poor man's Kindle) and I love it, although I find holding the thing really awkward. I can't really hold it like I would a book, I have to clutch it around the edges with the tips of my fingers or else I accidentally end up flipping the pages witht he touchscreen function. What inevitably happens is I start drifting off and having a microsleep and before I know it my stupid fingers have gone and skipped ahead 8 pages which makes me very confused.

Wait whats a sewing machine bulb!? Like, a light to see where you're sewing? #dumbquestionprobably

Talking about tvs & remotes as people were yesterday, I'm finding the set up with horizon which is the new system with UPC really frustrating. Half the time the signal doesn't go from the remote to the machine or it reads the number twice and you get asked to input a real number and dropped on the Customer channel.
I don't know what the story is, if it's just not getting the same pressure on each of the remote buttons or something but Christ, you get 2 numbers into a 3 number and then the 3rd either doesn't register or whatever. Problem also happens when trying to get the machine to record something, you get part of the way through the set up and are left wondering if it's just taking a moment to register or if it does need to have you press the button again.
Not sure if it's me, teething trouble with the set up, which I think was introduced last year and had a lot of negative response I've read, or inherent flaws in design but it is pretty frustrating.