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

My mother calls until someone picks up and then she talks so much it makes my ears sweat.

It annoys me when you ring someone back or whatever and they are all "so where were you earlier?". None of yr business!

(Usually this is my parents, and usually the answer is something really quite mundane but bad form to admit to, like "I was taking a crap" or "I'd just sat down to a hot dinner and couldn't be bothered")

Oh I will gleefully tell ppl I was taking a crap so that they stop asking me invasive questions

my boss asked me once at my old job where i was for 20 minutes. She didn't get the answer she was looking for, "Im hungover and was taking a massive shit." I got written up.

Hey, chris. I just sent you an email:

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eh?

Just ringing your phone. Get back at me when you wish.

Students that wear pajamas and slippers when they come into class and/or the library. It's like dignity and self-respect are dead.

eh, one of the great things about being a student is that you have a socially accepted reason to be an outrageous slob

I am just tired of seeing crustiness. My eyes, they hurt.

i dont get it? my phone? does not compute.

Haha.

Yeah, I used to get annoyed with people that would come to class in pajamas in college. I mean, come on, a lecture isn't Wal-Mart. When I felt lazy it just meant that I would throw on a baseball cap instead of doing anything with my hair. But then I visited a friend at her school, which was like the complete opposite. For some reason people dressed up to go everywhere, even the library. It seemed a little oppressive.

It's really sad though, those people were hit on the head as children and therefore change into business suits when they go to bed.

Speaking of pyjamas, I really hate the 'trend' of teen girls wearing pyjama bottoms to the supermarket as though they're sweats. I dunno if it's just a Sacramento thing but UGH

no, I've seen that in Boston too

And Cleveland. All of NE Ohio, really.

Wow. How many times does ilx have to do this one?

well sorr-eeee :)

: ) Just that it's well-traversed ground.

I for one, am all for people wearing pajamas any damn where they please.

Although, I guess you put it in the "innocuous things" thread so...

san te seems so angry upthread

I feel a kinship towards San Te.

love when people get irrationally angry at people who apparently have not read every single ILX post ever made, it's so cute

I'm all for people wearing pyjamas anywhere they want, but the fact that it's just this swarm of teenage girls bothers me a lot for some reason.

Like, okay girls you already wear teeny short shorts and leggings and barely enough of any clothes...do you really want to do the 'widdle girl just got out of bed' thing too? Also I am old and crabby and do not care for nubile antics.

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ok, that's hella cute

HAHAHA! I think we've found this thread's mascot.

HA

aw

whiney weingarten

The sole reason we still have a home phone is for my mother to call us so we can ignore it. If we didn't have the landline she'd call us on the mobiles and we wouldn't be able to get away from her.

This wouldn't be a problem but she goes ON AND ON AND FUCKING ON about the same four extended family members that we haven't seen in several years and in all likelihood will never see again, and if you say ANYTHING AT ALL she gets all shitty and defensive and broods for weeks. Oh and she is a tory bigot.

(OT obv)

This thread has corrupted me. I just sneezed and immediately got a 'bless you' and now I am irrationally angry.

getting mail addressed to me that presumptively calls me mrs instead of ms really annoys me. the irrational part is that i should be used to it by now since it's still common practice here but i am infuriated every time i see it.

have a blessed day

getting mail addressed to me that presumptively calls me mrs instead of ms really annoys me. the irrational part is that i should be used to it by now since it's still common practice here but i am infuriated every time i see it.

― estela, Friday, 10 December 2010 09:22 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

We get letters from family members (xmas cards and such) addressed to 'Adam and Petula' because they refuse to acknowledge the fact that P kept her surname. Makes both of us livid.

(her name is not Petula, I made that up)

I mean srsly, if you're thoughtful enough to send us xmas cards why undo it by being a complete arsehole? Makes no sense.

I didn't change my name when we got married but one of my closest friends still sends mail to me addressed to the married name that *I didn't take*

I mean, ffs my facebook profile is still my unmarried name, my EMAIL address is my unmarried name...she knows I didn't change my name, we've talked about it. And she's not some traditionalist who thinks I should. Drives me crazy. and when I ask her why she uses it she just says, "Oh I forgot that you didn't change it'.

annoying more than enragening but GOD

Why is changing one's name the default to that type of person? It doesn't make sense. The default is doing nothing at all. It's exactly like people just assuming you have kids without even asking you oh god now I'm onto the kids thing I should shut up.

'How many kids do you have? Oh, you don't have kids? Did you... was that...' <tail off into the interrogator trying to think of a nice way to say 'WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU'>

Usually at that point I jump in and explain that we don't want kids, and 99.94% of the time the response is 'ah, well, there's always time to change your mind'

SEE NOW I AM IRRATIO0NALLY ANGRY AGAIN

I mean srsly, if you're thoughtful enough to send us xmas cards why undo it by being a complete arsehole? Makes no sense.

On a tangentially related note, this reminds me that I wanted to stick an xmas card under my next-door neighbours' door but then I remembered that I can't spell her name and have completely forgotten his name (yes, I suck at the whole neighbourly thing, but they have been fielding my post and signing for it, so they are good people)

referring to you as Adam and Petula <> being a complete arsehole. those are your names (well, not petula's).

if shit like this makes you 'livid', it is indeed surprising that anyone bothers to send you xmas cards.

cf: thread title. "innocuous" and "irrational" are the key words here.

spacecadet: maybe you can address the Christmas card to "MY ESTEEMED NEIGHBORS" or "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN THAT LIVES NEXT DOOR TO ME"

"All at no. 36" had sprung to mind (they have some sprogs too whose names I have never been told, probably) but I feared its "shit, I don't know your weirdy foreign names"-ness was a little too transparent

perhaps a bottle of cheap wine and a knock on the door is easier

xxp Yeah what's with people repeatedly missing the point of this thread.

mkproof, they know her surname but they deliberately omit it because they disapprove of her decision to keep it. I hate everything about xmas cards btw.

spacecadet: INTERCEPT THEIR POST

that is a cunning idea, but I think our mailboxes are too robust, and also an Eastern European couple in the UK probably have 98% of their incoming mail wrongly addressed anyway, given that I have about 60% and have no particularly unusual letters in my name

I think delivering a bottle of plonk in person is a solid idea.