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

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?

Almost certainly. (See also "confirmation bias.")

The most beautifully dressed and behaved tourists are visitors to Venice Bienalle pre-opening events, and they are as gormless as your basic mook in those streets.

I do think the cars thing is really relevant - it's a different sort of spatial awareness than being a pedestrian on an actual city street.

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

― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:35 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

Huh. I sometimes do this in a crowded elevator if I'm not near the buttons and someone is already pressing them. But I usually say, "Could you press 4, please?" and then thank them. I don't think it's a big deal.

Where I work, the unspoken protocol is that whoever is nearest the buttons (usually the first to get on) proactively asks "What floor?" for everyone else.

People who can't figure out how to use the automated kiosks at parking lots downtown. THERE ARE WORDS ON THE SCREEN, READ THEM. THERE'S A PICTURE OF A DOLLAR BILL IN THE PROPER ORIENTATION, LOOK AT IT. NO, IT WILL NOT TAKE YOUR DOLLAR BILL UPSIDE-DOWN IT READS THE FACES WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?

During one of my few trips to NYC, I bunked with some old friends from back home who had moved up there. We went out to eat at a diner one morning and old friend was nearly halfway up the block as I took my first dozen steps. It wasn't because I was in awe of the brick townhouses on Gates Avenue either. I think it has a lot to do with people who are used to walking a lot versus those who don't. Since I've started working in the downtown of my much, much, much smaller city, I walk more. And my speed has gotten faster too.

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?

I have to admit that no, I don't. I was in England earlier this month and when walking around London I was moving pretty slowly. Not because I was gawking at the buildings and whatnot, but just because unlike New York, I didn't know where I was going. I was looking for a general category of place (record store, somewhere to eat) but didn't have a specific destination in mind. So I was kinda looking around a lot and not just thundering along to my destination. But I stayed the hell out of other people's way as much as possible. Also, I didn't find the streets as crowded as Manhattan's.

I was kind of a mess when I moved to the states, as far as walking went -- I've always been a fast walker, but I just kind of weave through the crowds and in Melbourne it doesn't matter what side of the footpath you walk on, you just go. Here, well in Sacramento at least, I learned pretty quickly that there's two flows, like car traffic. Mr Veg was always digging at me because I was walking on the wrong side of the footpath. I figured if I wasn't in anyone's way, and I was moving at the speed of the rest of the people, who cares. But he worries about such things. lol

Things like this: I was laid off from my old job in October of 2009. In December of 2009 I was frantically looking for volunteer positions to fill time while I was job hunting. One of the volunteer positions I applied for and really wanted was for the local library. Today, in FEBRUARY of 2011, I got a voicemail from them to see if I was still interested and saying, "sorry for the delay". "Sorry for the delay"??

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