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

I haven't waited tables in years and the main reason was cuz of customer attitudes. and crappy long shifts and never knowing when your shift would end.

i suppose in fairness it is the 'innocuous' thread so yeah ok pass.

ppl speaking too loudly on the phone, society needs to invent a way to make this complaint in a way that doesn't make you seem pedantic

55. Not so innocuous, but people who have loud personal phone conversations in public areas. Look I don't want to hear the messy details of your impending divorce, and I'm sure nobody else here does either.

56. Sloppy walkers. I mean in a really mean way. Walking behind people who slop their heels on the ground at every step, anyone whose feet point way in or way out, women who're dressed nicely but walk like elephants or football players or something -- all this infuriates me. Also: people whose wrists are so loose that their hands flop helplessly on the backswing, fingers all splayed out.

57. People who have (loud) conversations even when they're not in the same room. My girlfriend's entire family does this, really annoying.

58. People who stand on those flat walking escalators instead of walking on them, but stand side by side so that you have to struggle to get past them.
59. People who say "makes you think".

first one isn't innocuous

let's get pedanitc up in this

60. People who challenge whether posts in the "innocuous things that make you irrationally angry" thread are innocuous or not.

:)

see now that's innocuous

61. People who look up and go stationary when at railway stations. Because the people behind them aren't bothered about catching that train 50 yards ahead of them that the platform attendants are waving at each other and blowing whistles...

The last three weeks I've had to take a later train from the farmer's market because someone just plumb stops in the middle of the passage to the Central line. The next one's getting winded with a large bag of vegetables 'by accident'.

People standing two abreast on any moving walkway or escalator I KILL U WITH GUNZ.

You go ahead of me then.

the color yellow

gerunds

oligarchies

shoes with lights on them

arhythmic tap dancers

spanks(tm)

62. PEOPLE WHO DON'T NUMBER THEIR LIST OF INNOCUOUS THINGS

the lack of Sojourner Truth Day as a national holiday

capital letters

tpyos

the existential crisis caused in young children by the denial of Snufflupagus's existence

mods that act with unbecoming lack of dignity when threads annoy them

i mean rly

the fact that no one else could see Snufflupagus

see, one person sets the precedent for not following the rules, and everybody else falls in line. THERE'S ALWAYS A RINGLEADER.

other people's jealousy at your overwhelming leadership skills

now we've got fodder for the other thread!

People behind me on the sidewalk who walk at my heels.
People in front of me on the sidewalk who walk too slow.
People who stop at the top of the subway entrance and block your path while they finish their phone call or just peer down and contemplate what to do next.
People who talk on cell phones above a murmur, especially if they are behind me nipping at my heels.
People who try to hand me things on the street.

81. knowing that there is a mosquito somewhere in my house

have fun living in MN

82. The one or two guys I work with who obsessively & exclusively talk about Fantasy Football, in the manner that 10 year old boys talk about dinosaurs. I don't mind general, occasional chatter about FF, as a football fan I kinda enjoy it, but if that's the *only* thing you can talk about then AAAAGGGH OMG OMG STFU

83. the fact that wasps/hornets only exist in order to live out their darwinian purpose of being dicks

these are all very rational things to get angry about

the point of this thread is not to show how other people are dickheads, it's to show the ways in which you are a dickhead

i was talking about wasps/hornets, which are not people

neither are mosquitos

or dollar bills with things stamped on them

84. Ppl on my bus in the morning who don't pull the stop cord for the train station stop b/c they assume the bus is going to stop there anyway.

85. The cheerful guy whose entire job is to hand commuters copies of the Red Eye (free, terrible commuter paper produced by the Chicago Sun Times) b/c if I want this piece of shit publication, I can grab it out of the ubiquitous paper boxes in front of the station. I don't need you to mock bow and sing out "Good morning!" and flourish the paper in my face as I enter the station.

86. People who wear sports jerseys to work. You're a grown up in a professional job. Dress like one.

wish to register protest at #86. proper grownup jobs let you decide to dress yourself

Protest all you want. It will not change that it is an innocuous thing that annoys me.

- when other people arrive like 10 minutes late to work, on the one day that i'm not 15 minutes late to work

"what slackers" i say to myself

"they should take this job more seriously" i think, as i munch a muffin and check my personal email

"do they really think no one notices?"

then i show up at my normal time, 15 minutes late, for the next two months

88. slowmoving massive line to get into a large, multi-stalled women's bathroom....where over HALF the stalls are actually empty.
the reason for the line is that PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING RETARDED THEY STOP DEAD AT THE ENTRANCE AND STARE FOR AN HOUR TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH STALLS ARE EMPTY. JUST WALK IN YOU FUCKING SHEEP. WALK. IN.

89. People who talk about Glee to say anything other than "it sucks"