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

So, add to the list: jerks who get irrationally angry at a friendly "hey! it's me!" car horn hoot. (but they sound the same! We should have two car horn sounds!)

Yeah, and obv the horns I bridle at so are all desperate husbands driving their overdue wives to hospital - could do with another horn sound for genuine emergencies.

How stupid is it to use your horn at every little inconvenience? It is alarming. There is this one street near my house where, for some reason, people use their horns all the time and since it is crowded, you never know if someone is honking at you or not.

You should only honk when someone is putting you in danger or breaking the law, I find people who sit behind the wheel of their car assuming someone else is an idiot kind of domineering and creepy.

Do not honk at people who are obeying the law. I mean, we had a blizzard and someone honked at me for doing 25 mph on a snow-covered street! Learn to deal.

Friendly "toot" - VERY quick little peep with the horn. If you don't know what that is, don't drive!

Also, you shouldn't do that on a busy street, it is mostly appropriate in parking lots or residential areas.

A general study showed that horns are more useless than effective.

I pretty much never honk unless the person in front of me is napping at a green light and I can see they aren't paying attention.

Doesn't NYC have fines for honking in Midtown?

Which is kinda lol cuz everyone does it anyway...

Next item, places that serve coffee in plastic/styrofoam cups but don't carry those mini straws to go w/ it. I burn my tongue easy!

I wish we honked more. It's supposedly an old law that you're supposed to toot your horn before passing someone. In Mexico, if the cars didn't honk, you'd be a dead pedestrian.

There's an alley I sometimes take a shortcut through on the way to work. I still slow down, but I'd like to honk too before driving across the sidewalk, just so I don't surprise anyone. I don't because I don't think my good intentions would be received as such.

Old law, heck -- the current edition of the Ohio Driver's Manual states:

The limits above do not apply to traffic traveling on a one-way street or on a roadway with two or more lanes for travel in the same direction.
When passing to the left, the law requires that a driver overtaking another vehicle do these things:
1. Sound the horn to warn the driver of the vehicle being overtaken that he/she is about to be passed.
2. Signal the intent to pass.
3. Pass to the left of the vehicle being overtaken at a safe distance and return to the right side of the roadway only after the overtaking vehicle is safely clear of the vehicle being overtaken.
4. Return to the right lane as soon as the pass has been safely completed
and before coming within 200 feet of any approaching vehicle.

There's an alley I sometimes take a shortcut through on the way to work. I still slow down, but I'd like to honk too before driving across the sidewalk, just so I don't surprise anyone. I don't because I don't think my good intentions would be received as such.

― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I always understood the polite-honk-in-an-alley as a basic rule of the road, but I don't actually know anyone who does it. I do it fairly habitually, and only once was I reprimanded for it. An elderly woman in DC -- whom I would have mowed down had I not honked -- flagged me down to patiently lecture me on manners. I patiently lectured her on having not gotten splattered by my car.

nah next time hit her with the car and lecture her as her soul escapes her body, sounds like that is what she preferred

People who start every sentence with "Look,..." Infuriating, even if you're the president of the USA.

mayonnaise should not exist but if it has to, it should be opt-in ALWAYS. so tired of having to be VIGILANT every time i order a sandwich, and getting it half the times you ask for none. and any company that thinks bbq and mayo goes together can get fucked, its like they're trying to ambush people at this point.

Asking me if I want something buttered and using margarine to 'butter' it.

"Do you want this muffin earth balanced?"

mayonnaise should not exist but if it has to, it should be opt-in ALWAYS. so tired of having to be VIGILANT every time i order a sandwich, and getting it half the times you ask for none. and any company that thinks bbq and mayo goes together can get fucked, its like they're trying to ambush people at this point.

― tremendoid, Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:27 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

QFMFT. i can usually deal with a tiny (minuscule) amount of mayo in tuna salad, but most places totally over do it and put mayo *on the bread* as well as in the tuna. my favorite tuna salad in town is mayo-free and is flavored with rice wine vinegar or something. *they* understand.

i just don't like most "creamy" food that much. i also have to be vigilant about getting taquerias to leave off the sour cream.

yeah sour cream is just wrong. i thought tuna salad was lost to me forever where is this place? i suppose in n' out's miracle sauce is an argument for mayo, tough call tho

coral tree cafe: locations in brentwood, century city, and encino.

can't do the in 'n' out sauce; thousand island is p. vile. i always order it without.

cool. in'n out's TI tastes as little as possible like mayo i guess. iirc oinkster's sauce crosses the line but its still tolerable

Asking me if I want something buttered and using margarine to 'butter' it.

― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:38 AM (2 hours ago)

I try to be good about this but it has since been pointed out that actually what I use isn't even marge, it's 'spread'. So now I have given up.

When I ask for "black coffee" in a restaurant 80% of the time I'll get served coffee with a little pitcher of cream on the side; 20% of the time I'll actually get asked, "do you want cream with that?" Never been able to understand this.

sour cream hate should not be tolerated imo.

"Do you want this muffin earth balanced?"

What does that sentence even mean???

http://hippiechick02.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/earthbalance_vegan_vivagranola_margarine.jpg

Do you want this on a muffin
instead of using the inaccurate verb "BUTTERED"

Maybe people should start saying "butteried" for sharing fake butters.

Actually I would do anything to keep Earth Balance the Hell off my food. LOOK AT IT. Then, consider the alternative:

http://www.caviar-line.com/caviar/customer/image.php?type=P&id=17297

I still to this day don't know if I've ever had real butter.

Get some whipping cream and make some by 'overwhipping'.

Apparently Actual Butter in the US has to have colouring added to it cause it isnt naturally yellow? (It is here)

suzy I am in awe, and in a little fear, of your tiny basket butter wrapped in gold!

Probably bigger than it looks (250gm = ~half pound). Damn cute though!

I may not have had real butter until I was 18 or so, my family always bought margerine.

I think the yellow-ness or not of the butter depends on what the cows have been eating? And dairy cows here are almost certainly fed some totally processed, nutritionally sufficient artificial diet that contains no carotene or whatever makes more natural butter yellow, and none of whatever makes real farm butter totally amazing.

I can't see this thread in Zing anymore, I think it's too big.

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Yeah this is broken in zing i think cos of a character in it somewhere upthred.

AA is quite the character

http://www.hellohaw.com/Logo/haw-logo.jpg

I am very princess/pea about pretty much everything to do with butter and rejecting all substitutes. One bite of a sandwich with margarine is enough to ID it and discard. If you go for posh butter, I recommend the versions with sea salt crystals throughout.

I can't stand butter or overly-flavoured spreads. I use such things purely for filling lubrication (sorry), not to have a mouthful of salty yuck (no really, I'm sorry). People have recommended a light use of olive oil instead but I can't get with it.

I just tried to post about Lurpak 3 times and got a weird error, wtf ever, meh. LURPAK. is tasty.

smang te

I can't see this thread in Zing anymore, I think it's too big.

― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Was just about to post the same.

but you couldn't rite

I had to wait to come back from here. And this thread is tailor made for Zing too, with hardly any images or links.

Lady are you really going to let your kids jump onto and run around and then jump off of the bench I'm sitting on. Yea, they were doing it first, but benches are made for sitting, it's the only one free, I just got off a 13 hour train ride, and I'm waiting for my bro who is fifteen minutes late.

Would it kill you to make them play elsewhere?

ie, somewhere where its safe to play and not taking pratfalls off of a bench that is wobbly where the kids could get hurt

Like a lot of tall buildings, my building has two banks of elevators, one set which stops at only the first 8 floors, and another that only goes to floors 9+. They are clearly delineated that way at the entrance to the elevator banks. Nonetheless, as I get on the elevator with six other people this morning, a woman at the back suddenly says, "Wait, does this not stop at 8?" and has to push her way off.

WHY.DO.PEOPLE.NOT.READ.THINGS.

People who have absolutely no concept of how to use public transportation. This morning this girl got on an already packed train and proceeded to push and shove her way all the way to the very rear of the car only to get off at the very next station and push and shove her way through everyone again to get out.

was gonna let this slide, but now since I feel exhausted....

Amtrak is really annoying for many reasons, but I'm getting used to riding it. So last night, as always, I take my placard which says I'm going to Orlando, and put it above my seat like I'm supposed to. for anyone who hasn't taken a train, the reason for this is because they don't make intercom announcements between like 10 pm and 8 am, so they wake up anybody who is asleep when the stop arrives. Good system.

So why then DID YOU COME AND WAKE ME UP TWICE WHEN I WAS SLEEPING TO ASK ME WHERE I WAS HEADED WHEN THE PLACARD ABOVE MY SEAT CLEARLY SAID 'ORLANDO' AND NOBODY ELSE WAS SITTING WITH ME? I was sleeping soundly both times and got pulled out of it.