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

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

GAGAGAHGAHHHHHH ooh la la
watch out bad romance

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.

lol dan

ahaha oh brilliant

i wonder what percentage of the "things" on this thread are driving-related.

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.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains)

Or the people that do leave enough room on the right for your right turn, but between the time of you passing their rear bumber and finishing the turn, they decide that they want to make the right turn too. The couple of times this has happened to me I narrowly avoided a collision, so nowadays I'll usually just sit it out till the light is green and they've moved out of the way.

The other day we were in a queue of traffic, and we reached some lights and they went green but there were still cars in front of us so we didn't move

and then the lights went red again and the cars in front moved to free up like 2 car lengths of road but we waited at the lights (obv)

and then a car behind us moves out into the turn-left lane (which had been free all along) and drives through the red light past us, and is now stuck in the 2-car-length behind all the rest of the traffic

and then when the traffic finally moved he turned left anyway, like he could have done without queueing

???

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.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:49 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do that a lot here, but that's because our drivers are so GLACIALLY SLOW that you can do it comfortably with no danger of crashing into anything. If the car in the other lane doesn't wait six years before pulling away, you don't need to jump in because chances are you won't be held up.

Okay, to paint the picture: Traffic here does 67 km/h. Everywhere. So you can be held up by some dick-cheese doing 67 in an 80 zone, so you pass them, and then it becomes a roadwork 40 zone and suddenly they're trying to push you along at 67.

The other thing they do is form a convoy across highways. 99.94% of all traffic jams here are caused by five cars perfectly aligned across five lanes all doing 67 km/h in 80 zones.

Glacially slow? Dunno where you drive, but whenever I'm in a taxi, he's always pushing the limit and then some. Which, when you're crossing the Bolte bridge on a high wind day hemmed in by semis and everyne is doing 120, is fuckng terrifying.

Oh eff my missing vowels.

They're fine in 100 zones.

I have a pimple up my nose that is making my life hell atm. Add to that the smell of other people's shit in public toilets (I am not in a toilet btw) and today is set to be the ia day to end all ia days.

- figured I'd put this here so I don't derail the 'I'll have the usual' thread. I'm a coffee whore, I go to my local sbux almost every day. And they're nice people, eager friendly etc. On the one hand, it's kind of great that they see me coming and start making my coffee. But it sort of pressures you into ordering the same thing all the time. And when you change your order, it's like the sky fell in. But it's like, a) I'm not so busy that I can't wait the requisite time for them to make my drink, I'm cool with the wait and b) if you don't ask me what I'm having, then...I mean. I dunno. I'm just not that much of a creature of habit that I can order the same thing every day for a million years.

Yeah I hate that too. More than anything I hate being typecast, 'oh, it's the soy latte guy!' etc.

I don't change my drinks ALL the time. But I like the freedom to be able to, and not feel like I'm upsetting some sort of delicate ecosystem that I don't really want them to create for me.

That exactly, and when they remark on your unexpected change as though the world is ending I just stop going there.

I used to get a chicken sandwich thing from a place across the road. They started getting all thing about it, 'oh of course you want that chicken sandwich don't you?' as though I was buying it because I loved it so much, but the truth was everything else they sell is shit. When the woman there started sending me on SECRET MISSIONS I left and never went back.

your my

when you go to a party and maybe you're working the next day or have to be up early or just plain don't feel like drinking and someone asks you what you're drinking and you say nothing and they go OMG WHAT OH YOU HAVE TO DRINK as if their masculinity depended on IT I SAID I DON'T WANT A DRINK FUCK OFF AND SUCK GIRAFFE

Suck giraffe?

when you go to a party and maybe you're working the next day or have to be up early or just plain don't feel like dancing and someone asks you to dance and you say no and they go OMG WHAT OH YOU HAVE TO DANCE as if their masculinity depended on IT I SAID I DON'T WANT TO DANCE FUCK OFF AND SUCK GIRAFFE

sadly I have had those moments too. I feel your pain.

- figured I'd put this here so I don't derail the 'I'll have the usual' thread. I'm a coffee whore, I go to my local sbux almost every day. And they're nice people, eager friendly etc. On the one hand, it's kind of great that they see me coming and start making my coffee. But it sort of pressures you into ordering the same thing all the time. And when you change your order, it's like the sky fell in. But it's like, a) I'm not so busy that I can't wait the requisite time for them to make my drink, I'm cool with the wait and b) if you don't ask me what I'm having, then...I mean. I dunno. I'm just not that much of a creature of habit that I can order the same thing every day for a million years.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, January 7, 2011 3:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah I hate that too. More than anything I hate being typecast, 'oh, it's the soy latte guy!' etc.

― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Friday, January 7, 2011 3:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

OMG this! Or at least could they not make all sorts of comments about you "switching up my drink"? I've had a cold this week so I switched from my usual coffee to some tea and I've had to live through 4 days of the "sky falling in"/"whats wrong with you?" commentary. I mean, yeah, I appreciate the eagerness and friendliness, but sometimes a guy just wants to order his morning cuppa whatever without a hassle.

I've had the opposite of this! In the italo-deli I go to I always buy their delish home made spring onion dip. Its great, and EVERYONE I serve it to raves about it.

The other day I went in, scanned the deli counter in confusion for a bit... the lady behind the counter smirked and said "spring onion dip? sorry we're out - we didnt make any since the xmas closure... WHY DONT YOU TRY SOMETHING ELSE, you always buy the same thing!!!"

She was being nice/funny about it but I ended up buying some smoked salmon and cream cheese shit out of a sense of obligation, gah.

Mind you, it was nice.

When I was trying to lose weight last year I switched my latte to non-fat milk...the server girl is all "So how come you changed your drink?" and I had to say bc Im trying to lose weight bc I couldnt think of anythibg else to say and it was kinda humiliating...boo

Yeah thats not nice/awkward :(

tbh I'm amazed that, of all the soy mochas I've ordered in my life, only once has someone said 'the chocolate is dairy, are you okay with that?' I'm not mortally allergic to lactose but people who order soy coffees frequently are, and it wouldn't take much chocolate base to kick off an anaphylactic explosion or whatever.

There's a place I sometimes go for lunch where the waitress still serves me warm tap water without ice.

I asked for it when I was sick THREE YEARS AGO and since then, I haven't thought of a subtle way to tell her to stop without getting my CT scans spread out across the table.

On that, ice in drinks makes me ia unless it's 40C or something. Especially bad when you're in a country that has contaminated/unreliable drinking water and risk a week of gut hell.

Ugh I esp hate that with cider. OK i know its a "thing" to serve a pint of cider with a pintglass full of ice, but ffs the ice waters down the cider! If the bottle's come out of the fridge - which it has unles yr a SHIT BAR - I do not need the ice ruining my drink thank yew.

No one ever serves beer with a pintglass full of ice! Why is cider different!?

ice in the cider trayce. stop disrespecting your pop culture roots!

Fuk dat shit.

Wait I've just realised I'm missing a ref.

OMG! *lightbulb*

*eats cake to soak up the booze*

YOU DO NOT INVITE YOURSELF TO MY 40th BECAUSE YOU ARE ALSO 40. I BARELY KNOW YOU, AND YOU ARE BORING. DO NOT PUT ME IN THIS HORRIBLE PUBLIC POSITION TO SAY NO SORRY HAVE PLANS. I DONT. BUT UGH.

Seriously. I made the stupid mistake of saying "hey this year is my 40th" on fb and some chick I barely know is all "hey lets have a shared party!". Like ffs ... NO.

WAHT

Rational anger imo, tell her to fuck off.

Deleted the whole post. I am not diplomatic enough to deal with nerdy people I barely know muscling in on my space.

I think chick was joking.