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

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 :)

^_____^

+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.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5390780360_856b929bbc.jpg

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

like our iron fist govt would let me import that

Scat Gorillas 3?

still waiting for Paint the Taint 2

Today I was on the highway, passing the slow ones and getting passed by the fast ones, and thought I wish everybody who was driving and messing with their phone at the same time would just burst into flames, right now.

yea, you people who, on seeing congestion in your lane, DIVE OUT and change lanes, and weave back and forth as if all of the other lanes are going to be free and clear when in reality they're backed up too....you all are the reason the congestion is as bad as it is.

dont know about angry but it bugs me when i can see random junk stacked up against the windows of an office building (looking from outside). invariably this happens with rec centers and nonprofits for obvious reasons (low paid staff, got better things to do than worry about it etc.) and it's not like outside facing windows have to be some kind of 'showcase' but it's like, stack stuff lower, hell, tape construction paper on the windows = the building is 50% more respectable and it didn't cost you hardly anything.

this sort of grosses me out more than makes me IA but:

- eating "knife and fork food" with your fingers. My friend does this all the time and it almost makes me nauseous. Like say a grilled chicken breast and vegetables on a plate in a restaurant, and she'll tear pieces of the chicken with her fingers, and just not actually ever properly eat. Even burgers, she sort of takes them apart and tears off pieces, like a very slow autopsy or something and ugggggghhhh I hate it.

I don't know why I hate it so much. Mr Veg thinks I'm a nut because I got mad at him for eating a whole battered fish fillet with his hands at a pub once. Wrapped in newspaper at the park, hands are fine...at home, sure...but at a sit down pub where they give you a knife and fork and a plate. I don't think that's super crazy. Hmph.

- eating "knife and fork food" with your fingers. My friend does this all the time and it almost makes me nauseous. Like say a grilled chicken breast and vegetables on a plate in a restaurant, and she'll tear pieces of the chicken with her fingers, and just not actually ever properly eat. Even burgers, she sort of takes them apart and tears off pieces, like a very slow autopsy or something and ugggggghhhh I hate it.

Fuck, that's subhuman. In a restaurant, where everybody can see her? Does she scratch her ass and sniff her hand, too?

lol, no thank god.

all good imo but not the whole meal, gotta be at least 2/3 finished so it looks like am casual offhand adjunct to your normally civilized habits, instead of the way you get down every night watching THE WHEEL

exactly!

like if you're done and you casually pick at a few green beans afterwards, that's cool. But watching someone eat a whole meal with her fingers is just vomitorious to me.

How about chicken pieces with bones? I try the slicing meat off a breast thing at first, but eventually pick it up with both hands and gnaw.

dont know about angry but it bugs me when i can see random junk stacked up against the windows of an office building (looking from outside). invariably this happens with rec centers and nonprofits for obvious reasons (low paid staff, got better things to do than worry about it etc.) and it's not like outside facing windows have to be some kind of 'showcase' but it's like, stack stuff lower, hell, tape construction paper on the windows = the building is 50% more respectable and it didn't cost you hardly anything.

― contrflowvers-e (tremendoid), Friday, January 28, 2011 2:34 PM

Sounds like you've walked past the new Europane in the Western Asset building, Keith. The public half is a very nice, modern cafe, but the other storefront half is their kitchen, and it's not an "open kitchen" style presentation, it's shelves with beat up pots and pans, boxes of garbage bags, etc. I kind of cringe when I see that, but I wouldn't call it anger.

xpost No, that's cool. In a knife and fork situation, slicing off as much meat as you can and then going at the bone is pretty okay imo. For me it depends on the setting as to whether picking up the bone is cool or not though. I'm usually mindful of who I'm with, where I am, that kind of thing. Home eating and 'out' eating can be kind of different.

xp ha i haven't seen that but i was thinking of the "innovation center"? up the street from PCC, i always notice it.

D'oh! Not the Western Asset building, btw, it's in the Montana condo building to the west. $1M+ condos with that on the ground floor.

I know the innovation center building (Alexandria something?) you're talking about but never noticed that.