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

in a travel mug is acceptable, thermos no. my opinion, as i have a lot of issues with people and coffee ever since that mcdonalds commercial with that asshole walking around.

I used to bring a Thermos of coffee, but stopped because it was too much hassle. At my current job I was in a coffee pool, but now I have my own machine and grinder. Why drink mediocre coffee 5 days a week?

Is a thermos acceptable if you work 50 stories in the air on an steel beam?

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yeah, I guess I can see why this enrages some people

lately I've been getting more and more IA with ppl who set up at Starbucks or wherever like it's a studyhall, or their office. I saw a girl studying at my local sbux with her legs hanging over the arm of a chair, shoes off, papers everywhere. Guess what: YOU DON'T LIVE HERE. And dickwads with their bluetooth headsets and laptops conducting phone meetings at sbux giving you dirty looks for having a conversation with a friend. Oh, I'm sorry, you can't hear? BLOW ME.

Ok, yeah, I'm totally with you on the "business" douchebags that jabber loudly on their bluetooth, but getting IA at people studying in a coffeeshop? Part of what a coffeeshop is for, right? I mean, what's next? Getting IA about people studying at the library?

thats the exact one hipster fuck face had!

(x-post) No, that's what S-bux's new Trente is for!

Thread about irrational anger lives up to name.

chrisv is always IA, iirc, must be a pleasure to be around

xxpost jon -- my problem isn't with straight studying at Sbux, it's taking off your shoes and spreading out all over an area that other people might want to sit and generally making the area your den of squalor.

Studying at starbux, i'm totally down with.

haha jon im actually pretty decent to be around, i just hate people. ;)

Sinks with mirrors above them that are IN A CORNER, so I can't raise my arms for hair or make-up purposes without smacking an elbow into the tile. Forget blow-drying.

xpost - people AND thermoses

Okay, sorry VG, I guess I was misreading your post. The people that sprawl out annoy the shit out of me too.

:)

not IA, but want your take.

is it rude to 'pass' by someone in a hallway or on a sidewalk if you're in a hurry, and they're walking too slow?

I mean, to me it seems like thea nswer is 'no', but I never want to do it as I feel like it sends a vibe of "lol ur too slow for me", plus ya know yer supposed to be on the right side of the sidewalk/hallway to prevent running into other people.

i care too much about this.

it's not rude, I do it all the time, people should be allowed to walk at whatever speed they are comfortable with

peter otm, if I was afraid to pass slow people walking down the sidewalk, it would take me about four times as long to get anywhere because there is always some inconsiderate asshat talking on their phone or texting and walking at a snail's pace

I love sending the vibe of "lol ur too slow 4 me" and do it with great relish.

that's kinda how I felt too but I guess I was being too conscious of looking like a dick.

I guess that's cuz one time in the hallway some heifer blew by me and rudely said to me "slow traffic keep right" (I was walking at a normal pace, she was running). but that's different. besides twat doesn't work there anymore so jokes on her.

Yesterday I was walking on the narrow footpath on Little Collins st and a guy kind of diagonally cut in front of me to dash across to a doorway. I didnt think much of it, just dodged him, but I was suprised that he stopped and said "oh I'm so sorry, cutting in front of you like that!" and went on his way. I thought it was so nice!

Holy shit Trayce, you saw a unicorn!

- little stringy bits sticking to the side of a banana when I try to peel it.
- digging my fingernails into banana flesh to remove them

dunno how innocuous this is, or even it's worth putting on the IA but this is my go to 'have a whine' thread and this situation was really weird and it kind of annoyed me.

(this is a bit of a long story but I have a point, I promise)

The past couple of years I developed a pretty tight music-based friendship with a senior co-worker. He's an older dude, used to play in a band, eccentric as hell but we are both the kind of nuts who get excited about songs and we just kind of hit it off. We'd trade cds and he would call me into his office to listen to an old Monkees jam or the Electric Prunes or whatnot and we'd just shoot the shit a lot.
About 18 months ago he got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and he had a pretty rough time of it, spend a lot of time in hospital and out of work, but thankfully he has come out the other side and is now slowly getting back to health. He retired in December, and moved back home to Pittsburgh.
He came back to visit this week. We do this thing at work once a month where someone gets up and talks about 'what inspires me', and they asked him to do his. So he just stood up and did it on the fly, and gave a pretty emotional speech about people who had boosted his spirits while he was in the hospital, and along with a couple of other people, he mentioned me in particular and that I had made a bunch of cds for him when he was in hospital, and some more for his move back to Pitt.

Anyway. Another manager at work came up to me that afternoon, and he fancies himself as the 'nicest guy in the universe' and is always big on showing everyone what a big heart he has and he has made a big huge song and dance about my friend's cancer and making sure that we all know how supportive he is etc etc and just overdoing it to the point where it pushes credulity and starts to seem like passive-aggressive attention seeking.
He comes up to me and he literally THANKED me for giving the CDs to my friend. "That was a great thing you did and I just wanted to say thank you."

It really pissed me off. you're THANKING me for being a friend to someone I consider a friend? I didn't up my friendship with this guy because he had cancer, and that was sort of the implication that came with this guy's thank you. I don't make cds out of charity, and I don't make friends out of charity either.

I work with a guy like that. Sends out urgent emails for us to come by his desk where we discover that he wants us to sign a card for a co-worker's dead cat. I'll do something that sticks out at work, and he comes and thanks me, even though he doesn't own "thanking" rights.

I give him the benefit of the doubt and figure his mother played the church organ when he was little and forced him to learn cherry pie recipes. I still don't want to give him the satisfaction, but I don't want to needlessly work the guy over. So I always tell him simply, in the best Joe Friday voice I can muster, "It's my job. Nod and walk away.

You can try the same, except simply say "He's my friend." and drop the conversation like the chewed up gum it is.

Maybe he listened to the Golden Girls theme song too many times and he's just thanking you for being a friend. Not to him, just being a friend.

thank me for being me

Wow. Yeah, fuck everyone who claims false thanking rights and fuck that mgr at your work, Veg.

People who immediately reply on FB to take Airborne when you say you're sick.

Shit has not been proven to have any cold remedy value, hence the lawsuit in 08.

Might as well swallow dog shit in pill form with a glass of orange juice.

uh huh. ^^^^

NyQuil rules all. Doesn't cure shit afaic but I sure sleep good :)

Left my bag at home which means no building pass and no iphone charger garghgrahgrharhghhhh. I do this like twice a month and I want to punch myself in the face for it.

my problem isn't with straight studying at Sbux, it's taking off your shoes and spreading out all over an area that other people might want to sit and generally making the area your den of squalor.

Yes! Also, the bus is not your living room either. Keep your shoes on, your feet off the seats, your ass on one seat somewhere towards the back of it, and your knees together somewhere around knee level. And don't clip your nails.

(Assuming the bus is getting on for full. If there are plenty of double seats left, sprawl all you like, but I still mean it about getting yr dirty shoes on the seats or clipping yr goddamn nails, AAGGH, srsly the nails thing is the worst)

Oh man, I am so bad at having my work keyfob with me. So awkward having to beg the receptionist for the second time in as many weeks.

lately I've been getting more and more IA with ppl who set up at Starbucks or wherever like it's a studyhall, or their office. I saw a girl studying at my local sbux with her legs hanging over the arm of a chair, shoes off, papers everywhere. Guess what: YOU DON'T LIVE HERE. And dickwads with their bluetooth headsets and laptops conducting phone meetings at sbux giving you dirty looks for having a conversation with a friend. Oh, I'm sorry, you can't hear? BLOW ME.

grr.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 05:26 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

+1

I'm detecting a theme with your posts lately Schlafsack :)

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+1 for forgetting work fob/card. Our building is shared, so the receptionist doesn't have a key card for our office. I just have to stand knocking on the door until someone stops pretending they can't hear me and gets off their seat, or someone else goes in/out.

Yes, and while we're here:

"Please do not knock on the glass door for access"

OK, I'll just stand here and miaow.

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wtf

this was just installed in the common kitchen area on the ground floor of a building that holds about 2,000 people

Polite Notice is meant as a "misread this as Police Notice plz", usually.

or even "Coffee is for Closers!"

i didn't even want to use it in the first place but now that this sign is up i want to make like five cups of coffee in a row and pour them down the drain

replace the coffee beans with hallucinogenic plant seeds

Stand next to the machine with a raised fist with a post-it note on saying "polite notice that this fist is reserved for YouView staff only"

^^^^^^ win

Lol got mocked by cashier in cafeteria for talking to myself.

But she was like not mentioning it in passing, she looked at me with accusing eyes, mocked what I was doing for what felt like eternity until I was sufficiently uncomfortable,, then rung me up.

When my bowels are nice and agitated later, I will make sure to dispel fetid gas at her register.

- when you order four games from the uk and two of them turn up in separate envelopes

(and the other two don't)

leisure suit larry?

lol no