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

To plunge to new levels of innocuousness, I get angry when I see strangers working inefficiently. Specifically, a person sweeping the sidewalk with some tiny, old-fashioned broom, especially when the sidewalk doesn't really need sweeping. Grrr, if you gotta do something useless, get a real broom, sweep it quickly, and end it!

oh that riles me too!! my across-the-street neighbor is notorious for that...hosing down his driveway or using a leafblower and just blowing the leaves around in a circle over and over again..RAGH

you know what I HATE? people who have timed sprinkler systems and never adjust the timer EVER under any circumstances. So on a rainy day the sprinklers will be going along merrily...OR running at 2pm on a hot sunny day. MORANS.

that's just irresponsible, people do that over heret oo

Yeah, those are righteously angry-making, VG. I'm talking about something that really doesn't affect me or the world negatively at all. A person (and it's almost always an old person) sweeping something that doesn't need to be swept, and doing it inefficiently, just bugs me.

file under general things that annoy me: I really, really hate the person who walks past a conversation, catches a word or a phrase from the conversation and repeats it back in a smartass-y way

RAGH

Hahaha, how often does this happen to you?

at least 3 or 4 times a day, this one guy I work with...I love him, he's a sweetheart...but he does it ALL the time. You're talking and saying "it made me so mad" and he'll wander by as you're saying it and go "I'd hate to see that" or "ooh! it made you so mad!"

drives me bananas

I was picturing this happening in a more public setting, somewhere with roving bands of teenagers.

lol yeah I didn't explain myself very well

that would DEFINITELY drive me crazy

Things make you so mad 3 or 4 times a day?

yep! (you must be new to this thread)

The opposite of this happens to me:

CO-WORKER: "…and then when she woke up, she was covered in ant bites." [I walk by] "Haha, there goes Plains. I BET HE'S WONDERING WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
ME: [Keeps moving.]

followed by "...stuck-up bastard..." right after you got out of earshot, if I recall my office environments correctly.

Websites that use gray text instead of black text. Why the fuck do you want your text to be less readable?!

badly designed teapots.

Game show contestants who constantly refer to the host by first name. 'Well, Alexander, I've done some travelling in my time. Ho, yes Alexander. Well, Alexander, I'm going to go with Lima. Yes, Alexander.'

Add to that when that same type of person has completed a fucking associate diploma/GCSE/swimming certificate and feels the need to shoehorn it into the response to a question.

When you put your shit down at a seat at a table, and leave temporarily to take a leak or something, and some asshole takes your seat.

1, Biting the inside if your cheek.
2, biting the part of your cheek that's swollen from earlier biting.

3, leaving a cupboard door open, bending down to lower cupboard then banging head on upper cupboard you left open.

4, people parking in front of your home, i have no car, they have every right, but i still feel annoyed. (why?)

5, queueing!

1, Biting the inside if your cheek.
2, biting the part of your cheek that's swollen from earlier biting.

Not innocuous. My mouth is packed with baked-on welts from doing this shit every single day of my entire life.

#4 though, yes, absolutely 100%

(mind i am not going all hardman krew on this thread)

another "rationally angry" one:

the office park where i work is supposedly certified leed* silver, but the majority of the campus is designed for cars, not pedestrians. wherever i walk, i have to compete with drivers. there are a few sidewalks, but they're basically just carpeting between the spaces where the parking lots end and the buildings begin. i don't drive, so when i enter the office park from the street level, this is how i get to work:

-i get off the bus and walk a few blocks north
-i walk up the same hill that the cars use to get in/out
-i walk through a long, flat parking lot
-i climb up a steep flight of stairs to another level of parking lot
-i walk through more car traffic to get to my building, which is way in back, at the very end of a dead-end street

*leed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design

(i mean, it's nice that they put in permeable pavements, native flora, and bioswales. they just forgot about the people.)

btw: if i don't feel like walking up the three flights of stairs to get to my office, that's why. elevator, please.

When you put your shit down at a seat at a table, and leave temporarily to take a leak or something, and some asshole takes your seat.

― San Te, Saturday, April 2, 2011 4:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

And when you politely say something to them about it, they say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know whose stuff that was." Right, because it's about WHO claimed the seat, not that it was claimed.

(This has happened to me on multiple occasions. Never fails to baffle.)

I have the ia to end all ias:

EGGS THAT DON'T CRACK PROPERLY

lock thread

ha, had that this morning

wow i always blame myself for that. *thats a load off*

You should take those eggs back to the store.

And likely, get in line ahead of me.

When you order a coffee and the cream comes in a cute little jug with the smallest imaginable notch as a spout, so pouring the cream at a reasonable velocity sends it all down the front of the jug and out behind it all over the table.

fucking hate that ^^^

kids in school who were on the cusp of the next grade in a class (ie, if 90 is an A, they had an 89.4) and bitch about how the teacher "won't give them the tenth of a point".

A. Why are you entitled to it if you didn't earn it?
B. 89.5 is still not an A. 90 is. You are asking the teacher to give you a tenth of a point you didn't earn, and THEN to round your grade up. Yea, that's perfectly reasonable to be angry at the teacher for not doing that for you.

perfume ads in magazines (Vanity Fair). Yes I still read magazines stfu.

ca plane pour moi is being used in time warner cable ads

when people are late on a recurring basis and the excuse is "you know how far away I live".

um...if you are going to a regular engagement/gig and you know how long it takes for you to get there, that isn't an excuse. Yes, once in a while, if traffic is bad, obviously that's going to impact you more if you live farther away, but in general, YOU SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO BE THERE ON TIME.

It's ridiculous.

1, Biting the inside if your cheek.
2, biting the part of your cheek that's swollen from earlier biting.

Not innocuous. My mouth is packed with baked-on welts from doing this shit every single day of my entire life.

Ditto. Had bands/braces as a teenager, and those motherfucking little hooks would gouge into the inside of my mouth each night--every morning had to unhook them, cue bleeding, so now have handy little pads of scar tissue which I keep accidentally chomping on.

Also, those foil seals on some juice bottles (under the screw cap) with the little tabs that, when you try to pull them off, the tab rips off and the seal stays in place. Cue farting about with knife, sudden breaking of seal, gout of juice flying out of bottle everywhere. Fuck!

Ugh that happens to me all the time. That and ringpull cans, milk cartons, etc.

Mind you I'm finding it hard to be IA about anything much at the mo. Too tired I think.

Actuaslly I just changed my mind. My workmate keeps SIGHING DESPERATELY every five goddamn minutes like he's dying of consumption/out of breath, it is quite irritating.

Won't you feel like the ass when he coughs blood in to his hand & collapses five minutes later of the dropsy?

No, I'll be glad it's now quiet again.

Actually the way he's kind of "ahhhhh" sighing and now going "oh god" whinily to himself it sounds really skeevy can I go home now ewwww.

he couldn't possibly be jackin it....

He isnt, I think he just has a cold or somehting but ugh it so totally sounds like that yeah :/

when people are late on a recurring basis and the excuse is "you know how far away I live".

um...if you are going to a regular engagement/gig and you know how long it takes for you to get there, that isn't an excuse. Yes, once in a while, if traffic is bad, obviously that's going to impact you more if you live farther away, but in general, YOU SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO BE THERE ON TIME.

Fair enough... but I often get IA for the opposite reason: when people who live clear on the other side of NYC from me seem to believe that I can arrive at their place within a 5 minute window of my choosing. When in fact there are so many contingent factors - especially on weekends - that any proposed arrival time can be no better than a wild guess. Because living far away means "how long it takes for you to get there" is not a single value but a stretched out bell curve of possible values. Only way around it is to leave ridiculously early.

The most aggravating scenario for me is when someone calls & says "hey, we're drinking at [name of bar 5-6 neighborhoods away, possibly an hour's journey]...get over here right now!

that taco bell commercial with the two guys who crash the Shrimp parties. Fucking drives me bat shit insane.

Oh god yes, taking the subways means your possible arrival times can only happen in certain increments, depending on how far apart trains are running. Like, you can be 15 mins early, right on time, or 15 mins late...and if you happen to miss the train in the middle there, you will be the "15 mins late." Multiply that by having to connect from one train to another, and the possible arrivals get even further apart.