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

barging through people to get somewhere-- several levels above innocuous, tbh

I am totally That Barger. No apologies. It's rush hour at one of the largest transit hubs in the largest city in this entire country; plan your tourism for another time of day or get to one side. These are your options.

yes.

Ditto the Euros in the cafe trying to get a sit-down breakfast and taking 17 minutes to read the overhead coffee menu board and asking what PANCAKES are, when 8968929023 hungry office workers are due at their desks in 10 mins.

I remember a couple of years ago there were these two ladies in their 50s going down a really long escalator standing side by side talking and being annoyed at always having to move aside to let people pass and one of them says "if they want to walk why don't they just take the stairs?" and it really annoyed me that they had such a fundamental misunderstanding about how escalators are supposed to work.

On Escalators:

In transportation hubs, yes, keep moving. We're on a schedule and you can relax once you're at the Diamond Joe's Coffee Beanery next to your gate.

At the mall, hold your horses. I've gone through hell and back for wrought-iron soap dish holder, and for now, I'm just going to relax for 20 seconds as I ascend into the clouds toward the third level. I can smell the beans from Diamond Joe's from here.

every one of these posts really deserves a comedy followup from the point of view of the angry-making person

Well, I'm sure the gorgeous French/Italian/Spanish/German family with impeccable grooming and accents and beaming little children who look 300% cooler than American kids and are paying top dollar for breakfast in Midtown on their holiday, they probably hate me and all my kind. I don't care about them, though, is the thing. They just came here to shop and "see America", and will go home and do nothing but talk about how much worse New York is than European cities.

ITT ILX posters attempt to make every stereotype about people living in large cities into a reality

btw 8 hours of Christmas music on loop at work? YES PLEASE (esp if I get to program the music; I will carol your ASS)

(I am thinking I shouldn't continue too far into the holiday season with this display name)

in your place of employment for 8 hours straight, is not
I'm trying to distract a coworker long enough to disable his computer's speakers.

― kate78, Monday, December 6, 2010 9:44 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol dan otm. i work with a kate too AINT HAPPENING HONEY

http://www.pandora.com

Station: CHRISTMAS

well okay actually the current station is The Knife but it is about to be CHRISTMAS

ugh, but he's cranking a horrible radio station that plays two bad country Xmas carols, then 10 minutes of commercials, then they open the phones so daft Newfoundlanders can bitch about the weather or whatever minor scandal is gripping this shithole of a province this week.

xpost: no pandora in Canada

aw

I am listening to a very poorly sung version of Carol of the Bells on the Classical Christmas station and not even that can make me hate Christmas music.

(the Rutter schlock they served up before that almost did though)

I love Carol of the Bells. And Oh Holy Night. And Christmas Wrapping. sigh.

Dan, what's your position on the 22-hour rotation of "Frosty the Snowman"/"Jingle Bells"/"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"/LeAnn Rimes' Country Christmas?

got a xmas playlist with a billion tracks, most people can't hear anyway afaik but i'll turn it down if it gets too trumpety or w/e
in exchange for making the bush tax cuts permanent
maybe

I'm pretty sure that's the line-up playing at the drugstore next to my apt, and the employees all look exhausted already.

22-hour rotation of "Frosty the Snowman"/"Jingle Bells"/"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"/LeAnn Rimes' Country Christmas?

personlly love this.
la's most beloved soft hits station turns itself over to boilerplate yuppie christmas 24/7 from early nov.-early january and thats when it gets preset status in my ride. there's people like this out there

quite frankly the most objectionable thing in that list is LeeAnn Rhimes

And I listen to a shit-ton of Christmas music and haven't heard "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" in about 15 years, so I don't know why it gets name-checked all the time.

Agreed there! I went to see this flute player yesterday (as part of a thing I was also in); this is Christmas music I can get behind! Flute in at 3.30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bv7-ugsIpk&feature=related

Was agreeing w/r/t LeAnn Rimes, but I may also have fudged "Grand Got Run Over by a Reindeer" on that list.

yes see, that is Christmas music and it is awesome

like I play shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGQU5VMPdI

CHRISTMAS MUSIC OWNS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm3fZDZxiko&feature=related

OWNS, I SAY

I've been doing the 'Christmas songs not on Christmas albums' thing a bit on Facebook this month -- I love what you can find out there.

And besides, as I linked yesterday:

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

I can attest to 'Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer' being in high rotation on the Sacramento area soft-rock-turned-Christmas-music station.

I love love love Christmas music but that song is the worst.

I bought an awesome 4 cd box from Costco years ago that is a random collection of awesome Christmas music (Brenda Lee, Burl Ives, Donny Hathaway, The Chipmunks!!!)...and I try to buy myself a new Christmas cd each year.
This year: "Soul Christmas", a comp I found for cheap on ITunes.

Oh and Ned, I'd never heard that Prince song before you posted it on the Prince thread...if I wasn't already swearing undying love for the man, I'd do it all over again for that. Amazing.

gonna see my dad sing in a program next week, his church seems to switch every year between stately chorale and crappy contemporary guff, crossing fingers

transporting yourself to work really provokes ire beyond control, but i do agree with darragh, the more angry i get the more ashamed of myself i feel. i've been trying v hard recently to not get annoyed by people doing shit like this but i dunno, i guess my philosophy on the underground is walk as quickly as possible up and down all escalators and through all corridors and then you're out of the horrible place sooner. i also think if i walked really slowly i'd be aware of people being behind me or whatever. there are some serious lemmings out there who wouldn't notice someone walking behind them even if you said "excuse me".

there are some serious lemmings out there who wouldn't notice someone walking behind them even if you said "excuse me".

omg i HATE these people so much. what is wrong with people that they have to dawdle through tube stations? so fucking inconsiderate and they deserve all the barges they get.

I should have gone into big pharma; all of your future blood pressure medication would pay for my future yacht

you'd be so busy you'd literally rape a man out of the way on your way to work each day

i remember you could walk in the street, now you are literally destroyed in a seething vortex of incredibly important commuters.

Mind you put me behind the wheel of a car and i'll grind babies under the wheel to gain ten yards tbf

omg i HATE these people so much. what is wrong with people that they have to dawdle through tube stations? so fucking inconsiderate and they deserve all the barges they get.

This! I've missed two trains in the past week due to idiots dawdling on the escalator or stairs and not moving over to one side because their texting is far more important than getting up to the platform to make the train we can all hear rumbling to a stop. Even worse when practially shouting "EXCUSE ME" gets no reaction either.

There are people who are slow or walk funny or women who took on a little more heel than they can handle that morning and are clomping along at a rate of about one corridor per hour, or whatever, and they're annoying to me but that annoyance is my own problem. People who stop in mid-stride, however, while exiting the Grand Central Terminal subway escalators, deserve the trampling that results.

You just fought 100 other people to cross the tiny plaza from the turnstile to the stairway, didn't you notice they were ALSO all going your way? There are only two ways out of there, my leather jacket-clad, stylish glasses-wearing friend, and you are blocking one of them.

trains where there'll be another one in a minute, or another one in an hour?

One was five minutes, one was twenty-five minutes. The five-minute one was why this is in the "innocuous things" thread.

lol commuters i guess. Glad i dont have to deal, y'all seem not psycho in other threads

Thread derail, can anyone tell me if there is an underground passageway that leads from Grand Central straight to the foyer of the Chrysler building or is that a myth? Tried to find it once, ended up emerging from under the bridge on Vanderbilt instead.

Continuing on the public transport thing:

People who, when there are no seats, stand in the aisle of the bus but only up the front, refusing to move down the back to let more people on. So you end up with 12 people crammed in next to the ticket machine because two schoolkids playing with their mobile phones can't be bothered to walk a few extra metres.

Yes, and the people who stand next to the exit door all "Oh, I don't want to take up a seat" but as a result require everyone to navigate around them to exit.

And those who, at a stop, try to enter before the people waiting to exit can get out (applies to elevators too).

James Morrison: your complaint has a Vancouver ring to it (constantly happens on the buses here), and your fake name suggests you've been to Coombs. Y/N?

Sadly no--Adelaide, Australia is where my bus incompetents are travelling

thread of calm. peaceful reflection.

Well, I'm sure the gorgeous French/Italian/Spanish/German family with impeccable grooming and accents and beaming little children who look 300% cooler than American kids and are paying top dollar for breakfast in Midtown on their holiday, they probably hate me and all my kind. I don't care about them, though, is the thing. They just came here to shop and "see America", and will go home and do nothing but talk about how much worse New York is than European cities.

I don't think the problem is with European cities, to be honest. In Helsinki, and every other big European city I've been to, the real city folk know the correct escalator code of conduct: stand on the right if you're not walking, and let the people who are in a hurry walk on the left side. When I'm visiting other cities as a tourist I still follow this code. The people who don't seem to know how to behave in escalators are, based on my observation, country folk who are just visiting the city or have recently moved to the city. Apparently this is because there are no escalators on the countryside? Still, what I don't get is that these people don't seem to learn the proper behaviour by watching the other people in the escalators. Unless this is the very first time in your life you're using an escalator, you should've already picked up how to do it. If you can't learn how to act in the big city, don't move here.

It's having a metro or not that's the issue. Whenever I go back to Dublin everyone at the airport just stands fucking everywhere. The concept of standing on the right doesn't exist without a tube.

you'd think that people would be capable of NOTICING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING AAARGH

Other people are not terribly observant shocker.

this is why they have to be barged