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

disgusting savage imo. akin to standing next to someone at an otherwise empty urinal.

Lol I sat next to some punk on the subway the oth day who not only spread his knees widely apart but also started JIGGLING the one that was edging over onto me. I just turned my head slightly his way, as if to get him in my peripheral vision, and he stopped.

When he got up, I saw that behind the parka hood and hat and stuff, he was just some kid and I could have easily said something nice and he'd probably have been agreeable, but you never know on the subway, and it just happened that I never looked at him directly.

Two parter:
a) My local independent market has an awesome, awesome deli, including a huge array of salads and samosas and dolmades and all kinds of stuff. But nothing is labelled. There are no prices. And I have never, ever understood why except that maybe someone there thinks it makes it look tacky...or they think no-one will buy anything if they see how much everything costs. but the coldcuts and cheeses are priced, why not salads?

which leads to
b) newcomers to the deli standing at that counter for what seems like hours, saying "So, what's that thing over there?" "Quesadilla" "Is there meat in it" "Chicken, or meatless with cheese." "Oh" and then not order it and move on through 20 other things before they decide what they want.

It makes me IA that they don't have signage, and that these indecisive ppl can't just pick something and go away.

xp If I sit next to someone who's got their legs wide open I first sit down, then lift up for a second as if to correct myself and press my leg adjacent to theirs. They usually move it.

Shops that are too good to put prices on their products really wind me up. I was looking for shoes in Regents Street, and after about 10 minutes of looking on the heel, inside, around the sole, around the rest of the shop, I flabbergastedly asked the lady at the counter for advice on prices as they didn't have any. I was then referred to a miniscule transparent label with gold lettering on the inside back of the shoes that told me the price in tiny writing. Well excuse me for not noticing these.

if I go into a store and there aren't any prices for the things they sell, I generally get out of there pretty quickly.

Oh definitley. Especially clothes. It sends me into a blind panic that I probably don't belong in the store.

What's weird about that market is that they emblazon prices on everything else in the entire store...even $500 bottles of whiskey...but potato salad is off limits, apparently.

When you get up for a minute, go back to your desk and the person next to you is all 'ADAM!! ADAM!! YOU'VE GOT A PHONE CALL!! SOMEONE TRIED TO CALL YOU!! ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM', not that the missed call/voicemail light is flashing its nuts off or anything.

Extend that to people who just generally go into a massive panic fit whenever the phone rings, as though not answering the phone will result in the death of a human being.

or flip it and kill everyone who has the receptionist page you over the office intercom when you step away from your desk for a moment. kill them with FIRE if they are the same people who NEVER answer their phones.

today is a CAPS LOCK day, fyi

xp WAHT

If I sit next to someone who's got their legs wide open I first sit down, then lift up for a second as if to correct myself and press my leg adjacent to theirs. They usually move it.

Am always afraid that if I did that to a man it would be either taken the wrong way, or the press-ee might actually enjoy it. I mean, if they're totally oblivious to their greater insistence on legroom pressing them up against you as you try to make yourself smaller and smaller while they expand like giant blobs, what are the odds they're going to mind (or even notice) if you press back? Bwahooey.

Yeah I don't know if I could do any kind of pressing. I'd like to think I'd shoot a look. But I'd probably just do the making myself smaller thing

- evil white chocolate pretzels at my coworkers desk.
I like chocolate pretzels, they're yum. Never had white chocolate but hey, what the hell. NNNGGGHHH. Wrong.
a) has peppermint sprinkles on it
b) the white chocolate has no flavor

It was like putting a spoon full of white sugar in my mouth, some toothpaste, and then munching on a pretzel.

Bad bad bad. Ruined my morning.

I loved white chocolate until I was told it's not chocolate.

So I suppose facts are what makes me ia there.

I don't mind white chocolate from time to time, sometimes I enjoy the taste of it, if it's nice and creamy...but yeah, this stuff was just like, I don't even know. Dollar store white chocolate, lol.

i realised at the weekend that cushions make me angry. my gf has them EVERYWHERE (well, the sofa* and her bed) but I can see no purpose for their presence other than to get in the way of sitting and to give me something to move into the wrong alternate place, for which i will be rightly reprimanded.

*my sofa fwiw

ohhh yes. cushions drive me crazy. I have one on the couch that I like, but everything else...gtfo. And at fancy hotels where there's 9000 baby pillows. stupid.

to give me something to move into the wrong alternate place, for which i will be rightly reprimanded.

You seem very...understanding of this assault upon your dignity and good sense. Have you ever said that you hate them and you refuse to deal with them anymore?

i think my (saintly) restraint stems from the realisation that this is an innocuous thing and the anger is irrational. it's a cushion ffs.

'er indoors doesn't do cushions thank god but she DOES do shoes. Oh my god. We seriously have like two packing boxes and two milk crates full of shoes, in addition to her half of the wardrobe, the shelf above the wardrobe, the wall along her side of the bed (three shoe boxes deep in some places) and under the bed, as well as everywhere I want to walk. I don't know how I haven't died from a shoe-tripping incident.

Oh that's simple: she needs a bigger closet.

idgi with people who have a bajillion shoes. Do they wear diff shoes 365 days a year?

cushions can be useful if you want to lie down or sleep on a couch

I'm perhaps the wrong person to question this mind you. I think Docs go with everything up to and inc wedding gowns.

i have one pair of shoes and they have holes in

wet shoes make me IA

I actually think unnecessary decorative pillows are fairly annoying. If you need 4 of them behind your back to make your couch comfortable, you bought the wrong couch. If you DON'T need 4 of them behind your back, what are they doing there?

I do like a lot of pillows on the bed but only real pillows in real washable pillowcases. I lounge in bed, eat in bed, sometimes smoke in bed, and anything that lives on it is eventually going to need to be washed. So unwashable decorative bed thingies are an IA to me too.

I dunno. I guess my thing about shoes is that almost every pair of shoes I own will eventually become painful in some way. I just can't stand or walk much without foot pain creeping up on me. So my shoes are prob calculated to each hurt in a slightly different way, so I can rotate through the sore spots.

Add to that having to match to things: black flat, black heel, red flat, red heel, brown flat, brown heel, leopard flat, metallic flat, I mean color and texture are everything here. Skirt or pant length will also affect what cut or heel of shoe looks good. So unless you dress the same way all the time, there could be lots of call for lots of (types of) shoes.

it's only the unwashable, decorative kind of cushion that irrationally enrage me. they are also silk and i spill things a lot - which bothers me less, oddly.

thinking about it, i suppose i should forgive her the cushions for the fact that she only has three pairs of shoes. that i've seen.

vege: wahhht were they these? If so I got very addicted to them over Christmas!

I'm a dress the same way all the time person. I go through phases where I think I should have a pair of heels, then I wear them and go into a homicidal rage and I end up donating them bc I never wear them. I have a couple of pairs of boots and various comfortable shoes...a couple of flats for work, sneakers, cons, etc but I try to keep it confined to the shoe space I have in the closet, and only keep the ones that I actually wear regularly, that are comfortable...if I don't hardly wear them, or if I hate wearing them, they end up getting donated.

I kinda wish my wife did the mad shoe collecting thing; it would make my own obsessive book accumulation seem more reasonable.

xp Village, apparently they were these.
http://reviews.crateandbarrel.com/7258/22395/white-snowflake-pretzels-reviews/reviews.htm

Which explains everything. Never trust snacks from a furniture store, lol

ah yeah they look decidedly inferior

and apparently they're the most delicious snacks in the universe according to the weirdos who reviewed them, wtf

is there anyone that stays in a hotel room and *doesn't* chuck the 20,000 pillows on the floor?

Laurel is right, if they're just pillows, like regular size washables, that's nice. It's cool to have some extras for reading or eating brekky in bed...but all those stupid throw pillows and whatnot, ugh, no wonder they're called 'throw' pillows lol

idgi with people who have a bajillion shoes. Do they wear diff shoes 365 days a year?

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No, they put them in milk crates and never ever wear them ever.

lol

really hate when you go to a drive through, hear a recorded voice go "hi, welcome to PoopieVille, may I take your order", and then you start talking, and a different voice comes on and goes WHOA HOLD ON A SECOND HOLMES BE RIGHT WITH YOU

"Hi would you like to try an Iced Coffee today?"

'Would you like to upside that?'
'Do I LOOK like one of your customers?'
'...'

haha one time that happened to me at a KFC – and the second person said, "I'm sorry, we got a lot of shit going on back here." Genius! It was the best moment in fast food!

there's also another Pizza Hut/Taco Bell location near me that it seems every week has trouble with the drive thru. you go through and they go "can you come inside, my drive thru isn't working" (yet....you're able to speak through the box)?

I'm always kinda like HOW ABOUT PUTTING A SIGN UP YO.

lol I love it when they're candid with you. I worked it once and it is a crappy thankless job where you go home wearing three layers of grease....they deserve to be able to talk to you freely and openly

A sign that says "we got a lot of shit going on back here." xp