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

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"??

chortlez

wow. "sorry that we were trapped in a wormhole"

would be more appropriate

I'm sayin

Now I'm kind of curious to know what their cut off was before they apologize? Only 12 months?

At this one intersection, there's a left turn lane, a straight-only lane, and right turn only lane. Today and one other time in the last month cops NOT on cop business illegally turned from the straightaway lane and made a left turn.

Today resulted in him forcing cars to block traffic as they hadn't anticipated his turn.

Lead by example, amirite...

The crook of the elbow, hand in air, wrist cocked backwards style of handbag carrying.

aka "i'm a little teapot"

lololol I'll second that emotion.

dude, at the gym, with headphones in, and weightlifting gloves, grunting and groaning with every fucking rep, and it's early in the morning so nobody has turned the radio on, man, fuck you. and burping every now and again. you're an asshole. and occasionally singing along to whatever the ef you were listening to.

plus you appeared to be doing nothing but bicep exercises? with shitty form? the fuck is with you man.

he picks things up and puts them down

Puts the lotion on his...well, anyway.

People who pronounce salmon "sahl mon"

I've heard the "sahl mon" thing so often lately I'm worried that this pronunciation is taking over. I think it starts with ESL restaurant wait staff or chefs, then it gets passed down to younger native-born wait staff who don't know better. Perhaps it's all exacerbated by confusion with the word salmonella. Which, perversely, many people now pronounce as if it has something to do with the fish. (In fact it was created in a lab by Dr. Sal Monella).