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

when staff of a shop don't know a single thing about the products available in said shop

when i contact an ebay seller who doesn't know a single thing about the product listed for auction

retail makes me go grr

people who flash their headlights at you to get you to move over to the right lane in the following scenarios):

a. when you're going 15 mph or more over the speed limit already -- srsly, do the math, you're not going to get where you're going that much faster by going 90
b. when the right lane is free and clear for passing. if the right lane is clogged, it makes sense, cuz it's easier for me to move over than it is for you to pass, but if it's wide open JUST PASS.

Granted, I move over regardless of whether I find it annoying because I don't believe in feuding needless road rage beefs, but I also hate when people rationalize it as if it's 'the law' to move over in those instances.

No, it isn't, and in fact it is technically against the law to flash your lights in FL (because it can be mistaken for light flashing as electricsound described above). So I don't *have* to move, but I choose to because no point in having a fight over somethign so stupid.

^that post^

Ray's Outdoors is having a '2 DAY'S ONLY' sale. I am shaking with rage atm.

Fuck you "Rays' Tence Itty"!!!!

it's good for simon day and a member of his family tho

wait what?

yes now i see the error of my post

Introducing a fake competition element into every damn reality TV show to spice it up for the neanderthal viewers who would otherwise think it's boring.
(i.e. Let's follow these crab fishers/tree loggers/ice road truckers/whatever they fuck they think of next and count how many loads/trees/whatever they get by the end of the season!)

(Crab fishers, ice road truckers, canadian tree loggers -> this is all on the History Channel or Discovery Science, evidently)

• When shows like World's Wildest Police Videos dub siren, horn, and screeching tire sounds into helicopter footage of high speed chases.

That can also spoil my enjoyment of nature documentaries sometimes, tbh. (not siren, horn & tires though :-) )

People who watch shows like WWPV are in the stupidity demographic so bells, whistles mandatory.

b. when the right lane is free and clear for passing. if the right lane is clogged, it makes sense, cuz it's easier for me to move over than it is for you to pass, but if it's wide open JUST PASS.

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No, it isn't, and in fact it is technically against the law to flash your lights in FL

I bet it's also "technically illegal" to pass on the right in Florida. In fact, I bet it's ACTUALLY illegal.

RONG

From the Florida Driver's Handbook: Passing on the right IS only LEGAL when there are two or more lanes of traffic moving in the same direction or the vehicle you are passing is making a left turn. Pulling off the roadway to pass on the right is against the law.

In the UK people who don't drive in the inside lane when it's clear ahead are the worst fucking savages on the road.

^^^ THIS IS WHY EVERYONE HATES FLORIDA THAT LAW IS CRAZY TALK

Like, the middle lane of the motorway is not for people who feel like middle lane kind of guys, okay?

mr. Jeb Bush vetoed a potential statute in 05 reserving the left lane for passing only.....

and yes, driving in Florida is awful. granted, I don't have much to compare it to, but the one time I went to Colorado I was impressed by how much more civil the roadways were.

in Florida though people often run red lights when they're in the center lane and the green arrow comes up for the left lane, becuz they're stupid and not paying attention...dude in front of me almost got brained by some asshole that did that two nights ago.

Laws vary widely from state to state, so it can be difficult to keep track of proper left-lane procedure. Here's a simple rule that will keep you straight in the vast majority of situations: GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE FAST LANE.

there are an awful lot of idiots in FL that will drive under the speed limit in the left lane.

And they probably think it's their birthright: "I'm the one who is obeying the law here."

n Florida though people often run red lights when they're in the center lane and the green arrow comes up for the left lane, becuz they're stupid and not paying attention...dude in front of me almost got brained by some asshole that did that two nights ago.

Seeing blinders on stoplights makes me feel real skeptical about the human race as a whole, where they have to disguise a traffic light for another lane so as not to confuse drivers who aren't turning left or whatever.

In Missouri, they put blinders on the STOP SIGNS. LIke, some guy came to a screeching halt in the middle of four-lane U.S. 63 and caused an accident because he saw a stop sign off the corner of Old Festus Road.

I've been getting more and more annoyed at a simple natural process.

However, it's the circumstances in which it happens. Some lowlife dog owner somehow manages to let his (big, by the looks of it) dog shit on my pavement every couple of days.

Not in the gutter, no, on the pavement. Where people are guaranteed to step into it late at night or early in the mornings when it's dark. Why the fuck do I have to clean it up?

I've tried dog repellent but that washes away when it rains, of course.

I'm seriously considering sittin in my car in front of the house for a whole day to see if I can confront him/her when I catch them doing it. But I also know myself, sitting there all day would stress me out so much that the owner is very likely going to have to eat his dog's shit before I let him go.

What DO you do in my situation? I doubt the police is going to send a team to keep an eye on my street for a couple of days. Maybe I should report it just in case though. If they get a complaint about my pavement then they'll know I'm not at fault.

See? Why the hell do I have to clean up some stranger's big smelly dog shit AND waste my time even thinking about dog shit at all?

GRRR.

My longest post ever? lol

get therapy.

leave a passive-aggressive note

Maybe I should do something creative - take pictures and blog them, or collect the turds until I find out who it is and then leave a giant one on their own pavement. Oh, and therapy. Good idea.

Webcam? My mum's dog Willie used to go to the neighbours' to hang out with their Bichon and crap in their front yard. My mum died of LOLs when Mr. Neighbour was angry enough to leave a napkin full of Willie's turds on the roof of her Cadillac (she couldn't really blame him for being cross).

- women who don't know how to walk in heels but do it anyway

Agh this kills me. They walk like deranged flamingoes!

CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP

with the deadly serious OH HAI IM A RUNWAY MODEL AT THE GROCERY STORE look on her face (cue my doubled over laughter)

insisting she's a size 8 despite the spillage

New irritation: Chinese takeout place has this one annoying guy who takes phone orders - either he is hard of hearing or insists on answering the phone in the middle of the noisy kitchen. You end up literally yelling down the phone at him, and he'll say "Can you speak up I can hardly hear you" IM ALREADY SCREAMING SIR HOW ABOUT YOU MOVE YOUR GODDAMN PHONE You have to say everything twice or three times to him. And its only him, the other 2 who take the orders are fine.. My friend stopped ordering from there bc he drove her crazy.

predictive text spelling out "he" when i want "if" and "in" when want "go".

Yeah, those two and "home"/"good" are the worst, because those are about 50/50 as to which you'll actually want, so even if your phone keeps a probability count it's still going to bring up the wrong one irritatingly often

i worked in a chinese restaurant exactly one night when i was a teenager. they made me answer the phone, which was in the kitchen, and FUCK if i could hear anything on the other end. probably messed up every order i got. never returned to get the check for my 5 hours.

xpostzz

call me crazy, but I'm starting to hate NACHOS

U CRAZY

probably seems irrational to some but yeah nachos pretty much make me irreversibly furious

CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP

finding it difficult to type - I am so angry

Every single day the guy that sits next to me makes oatmeal in a little plastic container for breakfast, which is fine, it never emits any noticeable smell. The problem comes when he spends a good 15 minutes ensuring that he scrapes every last molecule out of the container with his plastic spoon. I can assure you that 15 minutes of listening to a plastic spoon scrape a plastic bowl is maddening.

can get behind that, just from description

flatmate does this when she decides to cook food at 3am, walloping the spoon of the bowl, that's after you've been woken up cos she can't chop things, she instead hammers them into pieces using a knife.

*off the bowl

checking the balance on more than one card at the cash machine and then making withdrawals on each

one of my brothers has the habit of hitting the spoon off his teeth while eating cereal. capital punishment offence imo

annoyed by people doing anything that takes longer than the amount of time i clock myself taking when using the cash machine after a slow person.