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

- people who tell someone they're 'so funny' when all they do is repeat a saying/phrase that's been a cliche for 5 years, ie "I just threw up in my mouth".

^ indicates deeper self-absorption. I really really really hate people like that. Can't even begin to explain what I mean.

normally i'm very sympathetic to retail/food service people. not always, though.

this afternoon, at subway:

dude: "may i help you?"
me: "hi. i'll have the turkey on 9-grain bread, footlong."
dude: "you want that toasted?"
me: "no, thanks."
dude: "wait, what kind of bread?"
me: "the 9-grain, um, 'omega 3'." (they have this now. i feel silly ordering it, but whatevs.)
dude (grabbing the bread): "with what?"
me: "turkey."
dude: "footlong?"
me: "yeah."

oh yeah, and he asked me a second time if i wanted it toasted. i still didn't.

bloke in front of me in shop today must've picked up and looked at all 2 dozen oranges twice each before settling on one.

sandwich 'artists' r doofus

re bicycles vs pedestrians: when it's don't walk at a crossing, green light for traffic -i'm riding on the road and over the crossing, but people decide it's okay to walk because its not a car but just a bike and somehow I DUNNO MAYBE IT WOULD HURT LESS IF I HIT YOU BUT ID STILL RUN YOU OVER YOU FUCK

people are in such a rush to get anywhere.

also sometimes my ear gets itchy for no reason and that makes me angry and i can't scratch inside it grr

In my town, some asshole cyclists ride on the sidewalk and in the crosswalks. Nice invitation for a clothes hanging.

Especially the guy who gave me the egg eye as I was coming out of an alley as he was biking the wrong way on a one-way on the sidewalk.

which is worse

the existence of the term sandwich artist.

http://image56.webshots.com/56/0/33/1/423003301jNFsBW_ph.jpg

lately the thing I can't stand is bicyclists who can't just STOP at a traffic light, they have to weave and wobble and generally make a show of how awesome they are.

Eh, in their defense it's a lot easier to get pedaling again with your feet already/still on the pedals than from having to lift a leg off the ground. But yeah, some people are dickishly showy about it.

these gale force winds england has right now are irrationally fucking me off. trying to ride your bike or just even walking against them outside is a mighty challenge

yeah and when all the other rich people in their cars are driving around and stuff and it doesnt affect them and im totally struggling on my two wheels like putting all my effort in and shit

-people that think signing facebook/internet petitions ACHIEVES SOCIAL CHANGE.

jesus christ give me a fucking break. that isn't the type of demonstration that has any visibility.

Um, considering how many people use Facebook every day, I do think it has decent visibility. But I am with you on being annoyed by 99% of them.

The lady sitting next to me on the train that elbowed me every single time she turned a page in her book.

i mean visibility in that they're going to achieve anything. I find letters to congressmen are far more effective as they're more than names on the page.

the egg eye!

@jon -- re the elbowing, that shit annoys me. any type of repeated physical contact in a public place that could just be ceased by taking the time to recognize you're making physical contact with the person next to you and taking a simple step TO FUCKING STOP IT!

so u otm

I find letters to congressmen are far more effective as they're more than names on the page.

lol I wish you could see the replies to every letter I have written to John McCain. "Sorry, I still hate gay ppl. Love J. McC–" Not that I'm gonna stop or whatevs, it's just funny to me, I always start thinking of "The Odd Couple" theme when I think abt me & him communicating. Life is funny.

i'd like to send him a letter that merely says "EAT A DICK" in comic sans font size 36.

People who apply for jobs and don't consider setting up an appropriate email account for themselves. Who on earth thinks they are going to get an executive level corporate sales post when their email address is something like xxsparklycutiepiexxx @ whatever . com

Awh I really wanted that job :'(

that's not as bad as like "fistfuc✧✧✧@vaginam✧✧✧.c✧✧"

This has been brought up I think, but it bears repeating: on a packed out train, don't leave your bag/coat on the seat next to you. Did you buy two tickets? Well then. Also people who sit in the aisle seat so you can't easily sit next to them without squeezing or having to ask them first.

^^^ srsly wanna stab these cunts

Don't they realise that the 'nice' people won't bother, so what you get instead is the people with ISSUES!!! asking to have the seat!

- my brother is flying in tomorrow from Australia and we are having all kinds of last minute arrangements bc of flights arriving earlier than planned and late hotel checkin times and I'm so excited to see him, I haven't seen him in person in almost 4 years, but the planning and last minute changes are making me GAHAAHAHAH mental. I'm really kind of ocd about planning and knowing what I'm doing when and at what time and it makes me almost completely unable to adapt and change at the last minute. huge weakness, I know.

in a nutshell: today can seriously fuck right off

still in a good mood, but some minor irritants:

--Local parking lot for this one particular shopping center is vast and complex, and invites idiocy. why just this afternoon....

1. There was a big gap in a queue of cars wide enough for me to legally pass through to get to parking lot for my store. I signal, I wait a beat, space is still there, and start to converge and only THEN, the asshole suddenly decides he wants to close the gap before I get through. I manage to force my way in, and flip a nice bird.

2. I'm backing out of my spot and this lady, has just made a right turn onto the road, coming the opposite way. local 'common courtesy' is to stop and let the person finish backing out, even if they're on the opposite side, to give them room. This is also a very tight road.

I assume she's going to do that, but the twat just keeps coming, not slowing down once. I'm a pretty good driver so like I backed out fine but i mean would it have killed your stupid ass to wait 3 extra seconds? flipped another bird!

Scrolling down on a website with the wheel and the cursor hitting a YouTube video and stopping. Have to manually move the cursor and start scrolling again.

HUGE PROBLEM.

i'm in favor of bird-flipping bad drivers whenever possible

Saving seats in crowded cafes. Not only does it lack class, it's inefficient - one person sitting at a table for ten minutes, holding it for friends getting the food, while people already with food stand around, frustrated.

Instead of flipping said bird, I honk, wave, and smile, even if the other driver does something unforgivably dickish (short of smashing into me or another car). Whenever I've done this, the driver looks at me with utter confusion on his/her face ("Shit, do I know that guy I just cut off?! He's waving at me!")

haha that's a good one

Scrolling down on a website with the wheel and the cursor hitting a YouTube video and stopping. Have to manually move the cursor and start scrolling again.

otmmmm

I hate having to use blue-tip pens when no black-tip pens are to be found. Don't even get me started on other colors.

mentioned this in 'breakup' thread, but my most recent ex has started texting me and FB-messaging me. which in itself is fine, cuz it was amicable and we're still friends, but it is the content that annoys me.

Last night, she asks me what I'm up to, and then underhandedly mentions that she got a new job and wanted to celebrate, but she was home on a Friday, feeling lame. obviously trying to bait me into doing something with her. Not trying to be mean, I asked if she wanted company, and suggested a few things we could do, all of which she wasn't in the mood for, and then she says "I might not be great company anyway". At that point I quit suggesting cuz I'm like, well what the fuck did you mention it for then.

She then goes into stuff that's bugging her, similar to things that bothered her when we dated. I talked to her as a friend but was careful not to give any false impressions.

So today, she does the same thing. Bitching about how she hates auditions, knows she didn't get the role, and thinks she can't do this (theatre) anymore. Same ole bullshit griping she started to pull the last week we dated -- annoyed me because she's been doing theatre for one year, auditioned for maybe 4 shows, and she acts like failed auditions = an atomic bombing. I've done it for 13 years and I was probably 1 for my first 5 tries when I started.

Anyway, though, I just gave more 'pointed' advice while still being polite, but I'm a little concerned as to why she's latching to me as the shoulder to cry on. certainly I'm still fine being friends with her, but not 'best friends', in my experience it's always been weird and messy being that close with an ex after a breakup except in really special circumstances. plus, I don't want to lead her on, as it seems like she might want to get back together, and I don't.

After all, she broke up with me, and I gave her a week and a half to decide, so it is not like she exactly 'rushed' into it. but honestly I don't even miss the relationship that much -- wish she'd just move on, it'd be easier to stay friends with her if she awsn't making it awkward.

guess I'm kinda annoyed at how she tried to guilt me into hanging out w/ her last night, while dumping it in my lap at the last minute. like, my decision to stay in wasn't 'wrong'!

Yeah, if she dumped YOU, she can get fucked with all this crap

This one is probably very irrational but it is a great irritant of mine. People who sniff. This slackjawed dopeyfaced 16 year old bint on the train today clearly had a cold (hence the mouthbreather dopeyface, I suspect). She sat there the whole 15 min train trip sniffing, hard. Her sniffs were rattly, plhelgmy and loud and she compulsively sniffed over and over.

And then sneezed everywhere without covering her damn face.

Had I had a packet of tissues in my bag I would have had no compunction about throwing them at her face. I HATE SNIFFING. BLOW YOUR DAMN NOSE.

If I end up with a cold imma be mighty pissed off, sayin'.

oh god i've been dealing with that here this morning, told em off but was advised that there wasn't a lot they could do about it. didn't feel bad for mentioning it though, the sound was making me want to scream ralph and bill at the tiles

That type of sniffling annoys the hell out of me too, but in her meager defense, there are some nasty colds and sinus infections I've had where blowing my nose just doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Those times I try to leave my sniffling at home, but it happens sometimes.

i really dislike when you're 500 feet away from someone, you cough a few times, and they wheel around and glare at you like you're spreading bubonic plague.

I'M COUGHING DEAL WITH IT YOU COCK

haha once on public transport i inhaled something tangible which stuck in my throat and wouldn't dislodge, so i got to spend the whole half hour trip home coughing constantly. i felt like saying to all the freaked out people around me, "it's ok, i'm a smoker"

I cant get with sniffing for ANY reason, even if you have a cold. You shouldnt sniff. It is really REALLY bad for your eustachean tubes/ears/sinuses. Prime way to get a nasty ear infection. Makes me want to tear my own ears off when I hear sniffing.

OK maybe I am the one with the neurosis on this issue, granted.

i believe there was a Seinfeld episode about sniffing

I HATE SEINFELD AS WELL.

...Im sorry, I havent had much sleep.

can we get this thread locked? i'm pretty sure you guys have listed every possible irrational thing to get angry about

i mean, approx. 3,500 posts. that's got to be about it, right?

well i just thought of another