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

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

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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.

but it's infinitely more polite to aim for 15 mins early than chance being 15 mins late.

My wife is really bad at understanding that sometimes. She'll ask me what time she should pick me up at the train station and often gets frustrated that I can't give her an exact time. It's like, yes, I would love to say I will be there at precisely 6:04, but there are too many variables to even narrow it down to a 10 minute window most days.

Of course it is, ledge, but you don't know when the train is coming in the first place, so you leave your house, then you walk to the station, maybe that's 10 minutes, you don't know how rushed to be, you might JUST miss a train you could have caught, who knows. Too many variables. Next thing you know, you're on a G platform at 11.30pm, trying to text the person you're meeting. :/

My original point is in contrast to, say, walking or driving somewhere, where you have an infinite number of times you could arrive. If I'm making any sense.

i understand, and sympathise. but if your appointment was to catch an actual scheduled unmissable train, you'd make damn sure you arrived on time. why treat your friends differently? even if it means potentially being early by half an hour, isn't that better than making your friend wait around for half an hour?

maybe i'm spoiled as the tube is frequent enough to not make this a major issue, but for my whole damn life i've been the person who arrives on time, and then has to wait around on their own for everyone else who can't be fucked to make the effort.

Oh I totally agree with you ledge and I'm usually one of those people that ends up leaving 30 minutes before I need to just to make sure I'm not late. But one of the big problems with Chicago's CTA system is that it is notoriously impossible to follow the schedule. The line I take to and from work is supposed to come every 5-6 minutes during morning and evening rush hours, but it isn't uncommon to either see two or three trains coming in one after the other or have to wait 10-12 minutes for one to come. Then, because of those ones that get bunched up, you'll end up sitting between stops for 5 or 6 minutes. So the same trip I take every day varies from about 35-55 minutes, depending on how smoothly things happen to be running. Its really annoying.

the trick is to not say 'meet at 10:30' but 'meet between 10:20 and 10:40'. and then choose somewhere where waiting 20 minutes isn't an issue (ie bookshop and not somewhere cold / full of hobos)

and if someone's visiting and staying in, say, south ken don't agree to meet him in E1.

I am a late person, mostly cos I cram too much into my time. But I also tend to meet people at bars or similar so it's not a hardship for them to be there.

What made me irrationally angry this weekend: People.

yeah i can get behind that.

A woman at the museum where I performed all weekend was trying to rush to the arriving ferry boat, instead she tripped and hit her head on a cement walkway and was quite badly injured. It turned out that the reason she was rushing her group along was because some of the kids on the tour had to get back home for MASS.

So 150 people on the trip were put at risk for falls & injuries so that a handful could go home in time for some rote religious observance.

Meanwhile, as she's being picked up and examined by bystanders and my friend hops off to get Security and an ice pack, some kid from their tour is standing 40 feet away yelling at them to HURRY UP and get on the boat. Fucking savages.

A couple from Long Island who arrived around 4pm, as the island was closing, who were upset that they missed all the performing groups WHO HAD BEEN THERE SINCE 10AM, PERFORMING.

We invited them to see us next weekend but they said it was too far to drive, and the wife proclaimed, importantly, "I don't TAKE public transportation."

Re people getting hurt, it might seem like I'm being IA but actually a person fell down some cement steps on Saturday, too, and had to have medics come from off-island and load them onto a body board and take them away. So the rushing-to-mass lady was actually the SECOND victim we'd seen of people running to the ferries.

that's awful. I can see why you'd be IA, that would mske me crazy

So 150 people on the trip were put at risk for falls & injuries so that a handful could go home in time for some rote religious observance.

I never understood this line of thinking. Surely you know that to some people, this stuff is actually important?

Then they should have stayed home. If it were actually important.

Home from the day-time event, that is. Would have given them plenty of time to get to mass.

I never understood this line of thinking. Surely you know that to some people, this stuff is actually important?

Sorry dude, I just can't see any event ever that is more than the safety and well-being of two, let alone 150, people. If your religion is THAT important to you, fine, fair enough, but then make sure to plan your life accordingly.

insert "important" between the "more" and "than" in the first sentence

So am I to understand that they were literally barreling through people and cracking heads open to catch the ferry