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

How have I turned into the anti-poo campaigner all of a sudden!

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96. People who only go one stop on the bus. They could walk, most of them. Obviously, it'd be mean to chastise the elderly or the infirm for going one stop. Though, it's probably a good idea for the elderly to keep active.

On the occasions I've had to take the bus that goes by the University I've got on before the nearby student area, or am going to the far end of the service. There are normally queues of students who don't want to do the 10 minute walk to the campus waiting for the bus. Always has struck me as absurd.

Also where I live they have put bus stops every 250 yards or something in a couple of places. I feel guilty at times stopping the bus so that I can take the longer walk across the park to get home.

I've noticed a lot of people doing that on my way home at night. I've watched people wait 20 minutes for the next bus, then get off two stops later - a walk that would have taken 8 minutes top. Its insane.

-People who back compact cars into parking spaces. I can see why people who drive big vans want to do this, but are you that bad a driver that you can only leave the parking lot without incident if you can drive straight out? Or you're trying to save thirty seconds leaving?

Killer is they always drive through the empty parallel space instead of backing in. And it's technically illegal to park this way in FL but it's not enforced.

Okay, besides being illegal in your state, what's wrong with pulling through a parllel space? I do that when I can, it does make it easier when you leave, but I wouldn't go out of my way to do so and I never back into a parking space.

-people who leave eBay/Half.com/Amazon Marketplace as if it was a review of the product.

Left feedback for a seller the other night and noticed the guy had another negative rating. This buyer had left him two stars for a live DVD he bought, his reason being "the band didn't seem too interested during this performance".

Jon - nothing, if you're in a relatively empty parking lot during a quiet time of day.

Everything when you do it in a crowded work parking lot between 8:30 and 9:30 am when there is heavy traffic.

I one time almost got smashed into head on because I was pulling into a space and the jackass on the other side had decided he was going to 'back into' that space so he tried to pull in from the other side.

Apparently he thought I was supposed to assume that he intended not to park, but drive through the space in front of me.

Also when I carpooled some moron chick hit my friend's car when trying to back in! My friend didn't care as it just left paint smear, but it dented the offender's front end very noticably!

people who park cars on the pavement so its difficult to walk on the walkway. probably not that innocuous and always strikes me it must be hell for a single parent with pram and young walking children to maneuvre round, plus the elderly having to walk out of their way thanks to some idiot's selfishness.
Should have said something to a friend yesterday when he parked on the pavement, but I think there was room to get around him. Anyway, next time i will point it out.
Anyway a pet peeve.

When I try to post on here and it goes to servelet

I was surprised to see that it's MANDATORY in some Australian car parks to back into a spot.

ugh I hate ppl who reverse into their parking spaces. The parking lot at Mr Veg's office is full of people who do that, drives me batty because after I've dropped him off I'm usually idling in the parking lot for 10 minutes waiting for a bunch of morons to drive in, turn around, line themselves up and atempt to reverse in at least twice. If you're a bad enough driver that you can't reverse OUT of a parking space, logic should tell you that reversing IN is not going to help you. I hate them all.

Why it's almost always better to back into a space than pull into it head-on.

n.b.: I never back into a space

but I always do the pull through a parallel space thing, it would be stupid not to.

It's cool to pull through if the lot is split up in 90º angles.

Not cool if the spaces are angled toward drivers approaching from a certain direction (so that if you pull through, you're facing oncoming traffic when you leave.)

I don't think I agree with that article at all, especially since the concept of 'difficulty' is subjective and not something that can be standardized. Take my example from earlier, where a girl who had no trouble backing out of spaces smashed into my friend's car when she tried to back into it.

Likewise, backing out of a space doesn't require perfection in your manuevering as much, as you're backing into open space, whereas it is confined in the latter scenario.

Finally, they do build rear view mirrors and teach the overhand steering technique for a reason!

I don't really think it's a big deal either way, but it seems pretty obvious to me that you're more likely to get into an accident while backing out of a spot into moving traffic than while backing into a spot where your only obstacles are parked cars.

If you visit FL, you'll learn that hitting inanimate objects is sort of a speciality our drivers have.

Don't know how innocuous it is. Finding out that you can't buy a weekly ticket starting on the next day when you live a bus ride away from where you can buy a ticket. You can only buy one starting on the present day. So you either need to buy a weekly ticket including a day you're already covered for or pay a separate fare to get to where you can buy the longer term pass.
Annoying, hope it only lasts until the main station ticket office gets a refit soon, rather than long term. Or if they've managed to outsource selling tickets during this period they get it together to sell them from a branch of the same shop local to where I live.

ia (probably rationally angry tho): non-compact cars that park in spaces marked "compact." i'll let you off the hook if you're a medium-size sedan or something, but i've seen hummers and trucks squeezing into compact spaces. that is some "dick move of the century" shit.

I never feel too bad about doing this because my 2001 Rav 4 is smaller than the Camry that was built on the same chassis

On the flip side, mopeds or small-size motorcycles taking up a regular-sized space.

I let it go because they have to park somewhere, but it still merits a good cussing when I pull around and see that Tater didn't carpool today.

Ripping dvdr/cdr bootlegs or other copies cos the plastic of the dvd case they've come in is tougher than the actual disc. Happened a couple of times a few years back. Friend sent me a comprehensive Iggy dvd and it ripped as I tried to get it out of the case.
& a cdr of Van Morrison live at the Rainbow in '73.

Friend sent me a 2nd copy of the Iggy but man that was bad news.
Think it took longer to replace the Van.

belongs here i guess
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/02/sidewalk_raging.php

little tiny compact cars/mini coopers/scooters that pull all the way into a parking space, right to the front, so it looks like it's an open space until you get all the way up to it...raaaggghgh!

that is pretty innocuous/irrational. :-)

(bows) thank you!

I am the WORST sidewalk-rager, I walk really fast and get the shits when someone ambles in front of me especially if they're 3 or 4 abreast and staring up at walls like stunned goats. GET OUT OF MY GODDAMN WAYYYYY.

My mum hates shopping with me because she's still country-town, and walks p slowly and thinks the big city has addled my brains or something.

I am the WORST sidewalk-rager, I walk really fast and get the shits when someone ambles in front of me especially if they're 3 or 4 abreast and staring up at walls like stunned goats. GET OUT OF MY GODDAMN WAYYYYY.

^^^^^^^^^^^

it is so satisfying to just let yourself ram through them.

Pedestrian rage is morally satisfying sometimes, because the ire targets are usually a) cars b) tourists or c) the inconsiderate. I lose my shit with the slow and multiply-abreast pavement users of London and have been known to surprise them with 'move it or lose it!'

I've been known to announce 'move it or lose it, tourist' on the Tube escalator in my finest American accent.

― Exotic Flavors of the Midwest, available in corn, bacon, or beef (suzy), Monday, December 6, 2010 11:29 AM Bookmark

:-D

I definitely hit into people. Too distracted to notice you're not the only one in the world? Then so am I.

Don't worry, I am going to hit into myself for abuse of the English language there! ;)

The story doesn't change, PP.

People referring to different types of tea or alcohol as "flavors"

mmm vodka flavoured alcohol

People referring to different types of tea or alcohol as "flavors"

But aren't there flavor variations even among the different types of tea?

variations in flavor, yes, but i get IA when someone refers to the different types as flavors.

you've come to the right place

:D

Asshole cop directing traffic at Magic game, and doing a horrible job. Light turns green, I'm second in line, but we wait for the cop's signal.

He begins waving and we start going. Inexplicably as soon as I am a quarter of the way through, he's already started waving pedestrians across. He turns, sees me, and ERUPTs into an arm flailing tirade at me.

I was about to flip him off then realized 'disorderly conduct' would not be a good look for me. But wtf, you never wave one car thru by itself, and he clearly did not tell me to stop.

Asshole.

Your Magic: the Gathering games have cops at them?

Abbott writing what I was thinking.

same here

lols.

People who don't say thanks when someone holds open a door, or worse, continue a conversation obliviously as they walk through the magically operated portal...

People who enter the lift and do this to someone who is their junior or presumed social inferior: 'four, please.'

Not that I don't agree with the sidewalk complaints, but just out of idle curiosity, how do y'all behave when you visit an unfamiliar city? Do you walk/move as quickly and efficiently as you do at home?

Pretty much - people who are idiot pedestrians probably spend too much time in cars and I don't drive. Also the people who obstruct the local flow in London or NYC tend to wear the usual low-grade tourist signifiers, which I find helpful in avoiding them from a long way off. I do not dress like that and I don't act like that - coincidence?