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

Ok so this aint innocuous except in the fact that it didn't affect me directly.

So heading to work this morning, I head into the toll lane, the E-pass lane, and I notice this empty car just parked in the Exact Change lane blocking the lane. There was a car behind him trying to get by.

Then I see the driver of the unmanned car, dressed business casual with a Bluetooth, and he's walked to the toll window, apparently not realizing that its an unmanned booth (as most exact change lanes are in Cent Florida - budget cuts).

He then walks grinning over to the annoyed driver who is trying to get around his car and apparently asks the driver for change as I guess the idiot had cash only.

FFS YOU ARENT GOING TO GET A TICKET VIOLATING ONCE AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE SIGN THAT SAID EXACT CHANGE YOU M0R0N AGGGRGHHHHGGI0O00CYCLOPSARGHHHHHH

-just broke two glasses (one wine, one pint) within 30 seconds
-cf spilling things upthread, swore very very very loudly
-neighbors aint home
-feeling better

u kno ur too tightly wound when breaking a glass feels like an emotionally exhausting experience

^^ omg truth bomb, and a familiar metric for "how stressed am i"

- dropping coins. The attention-getting noise they make, the sad pitying looks, people trying to help you which is almost worse than them standing around but I like that they're trying to be nice, scrabbling round like a moron trying to pick them up
Fuck a coin.

p much

like srsly was like whew i need to sit down, take stock of things. dude it's a fucking wine glass, relax

xp

also wrt coins---unless they're quarters, i just let em roll.

Jeanne Dielman to thread

Coins are arseholes. Anything less than 50c can get fucked.

'Oh here, you forgot your 5c change'
'NO I DIDN'T'
'But it's your 5c'
'FUCK OFF FUCK OFF'

- our haunted HP Officejet printer and it's stupid alerts that go off every day when the ink is barely half empty and that doesn't really work properly and probably needs a clean but holy christ it's so NEEDY now that it's crapping out on us. Work. Don't work. But don't flash your alerts at me and have me troubleshoot you when you're only going to do half the job.

- taking down the Christmas tree. It's pointy and scratchy and now is when I wish we had a real tree that I could just drag into the street for the garbageman to take away.

If you live in the country, real xmas trees that have dried out are awesome to set on fire.

here we have to break our tress into segments and put them into plant waste bins, which means lazy people have taken to sneak-dumping their trees in odd places, like the side of highways, the middle of public parks, etc.

I'm surprised they haven't implemented that in Sacramento. Must be a huge pain

I dunno what people do with their trees here. Bins are not obviously full of trees but nobody's fly-tipping them either.

Always sort of a sad sight post-Christmas seeing all the tree corpses lying in the street

a copse of corpses

haha!

Adam: rly? You never notice all the dead trees on the nature strip in Jan-Feb? Ppl here just hard-rubbish em, I think.

It always depresses me. Holidays over, air hot, mood down, sad dead trees lyimg in gutters.

- the phrase 'back to school'

'Oh here, you forgot your 5c change'
'NO I DIDN'T'
'But it's your 5c'
'FUCK OFF FUCK OFF'

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Dudes, if you dropped a crummy receipt for a latte, you would pick it up, right? So why not pick up that 1p coin if it's just going to clutter the place? Plus, there's that possibility that a toddler will see the coin and go ooh, and attempt to pick it up but overbalance and land on their head and oh wait...

I'd take the coins and put em in the charity slotbox/tip jar.

In that scenario the shop assistant is waving the coin about the place, not dropping it on the floor.

and shouting "Look everyone, Sheikh yahmani, yeah? ha ha ha"

this happened today - shopkeeper* dropped coin 'ha, i'm thowing it away'.

* tesco till monkey

i like the take-a-penny, leave-a-penny thing they do in america.

Instead of saying "NO I DIDN'T", you should just say "KEEP IT, OR GIVE IT TO THE NEXT GUY" or even "I DON'T WANT IT."

THIS:

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* bus drivers who, when they stop to pick up or drop off riders, do not pull in completely parallel to the sidewalk but instead leave the back of the bus sticking out into the road, thus completely blocking a lane of traffic until it starts moving again

pennies. they just keep accumulating in my pockets and I never use them.

roll them and cash them in! or put them in a tin or something.

I used to give them to homeless people, but they always seemed disappointed and sometimes almost angry about getting pennies (completely understandable by the way).

I think I fully realized how completely useless pennies were when I was buying a drink in a bar a couple of years ago and I'm paying in coins (this is in Canada, so 1 and 2 dollar coins) and I had like 4 or 5 pennies lying around in there so I also give those to the waitress and she just picks out the pennies from the coins I gave her and throws them in the garbage.

i guess inflation has done for 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'.

I always pick up dropped change and would never throw money away; most UK small shops have a charity box if I truly don't want my small change. Pennies are also useful as a defense against getting more pennies in change, eg. you're at the shops, your total is $16.02 and you slide them two cents to avoid 98 cents' worth of change.

They raised the price of a sandwich at one of my lunchtime joints from $5.48 to $6.02. The cashier told me she was already hating it.

* bus drivers who, when they stop to pick up or drop off riders, do not pull in completely parallel to the sidewalk but instead leave the back of the bus sticking out into the road, thus completely blocking a lane of traffic until it starts moving again

And the corollary, drivers making left turns who do not get into the left-turn lane until the last possible second, leaving their asses hanging into the thru traffic lane.

Or, what I see in my town, cars taking up the whole lane at a light they plan on going straight through, not allowing room on the right for those cars who want to turn.

No, there aren't two lanes marked, but there's plenty of room.

^ this might be caused in part by the dbs who get into the right-hand turn "lane"/space and then instead slam on the accelerator and go straight through the light as soon as it turns green (ie use that lane to jump ahead of a couple of cars instead of turn right)

see this a LOT in chicago, think it's almost accepted as part of the city's driving culture now

That would be an asshole move. At most intersections around here, you'd find yourself slamming into the first parked car up ahead, especially if the original pole position had a bigger engine to play chicken with ya.

We have some other issue where people who are turning left think that if they go through really fast when the light turns green it's cool, instead of yielding to oncoming traffic.

I am not as much angry as aghast at that one, though. Seriously people, do you want to... die?

I think that's normal driving as well? I was never very brave in situations requiring acceleration because I drove a diesel. But I'm sure other people did that?

When you click on a trending topic on twitter to find out why it's trending and you get pages and pages of people going "OMG Peppa Pig is trending!" "Why is Peppa Pig trending?" "LOL Peppa Pig is trending!"

lol @ "peppa pig"

Wait, that's a real thing. I was hoping it was made up :(

I would have made up an example but that actual trend seemed apt. I assume someone made a swine flu gag that was retweeted 1000 times or something.

Instead of saying "NO I DIDN'T", you should just say "KEEP IT, OR GIVE IT TO THE NEXT GUY" or even "I DON'T WANT IT."

Oh and another one: WHEN THE IPHONE DOESN'T REGISTER MY FULL STOPS GAGAGAHGAHHHHHH