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

I am totally not a photo person either and I was delighted recently when clearing out a drawer to find a packet of photos of my university years, including a couple with me in - I thought I had no photos, appeared in no photos, and I don't have a degree, so I was (without realising it) kind of bummed that these years disappeared with no evidence whatsoever

what some photos of a bunch of drunks wearing black tie in a dark bar is going to tell my grandchildren about me, I dunno, but there it is

(though they are pretty faded already - as a kid I thought 70s photos had that weird washed-out blue/sandy look because of some special thing about 70s film, but now my own past from just 12 years ago is beginning to go that colour)

when someone mistakenly puts your name on a group email and for the next week all these random replies from people you don't know keep popping up in your inbox

corollary: when people respond to a mailing list with "please remove me from this mailing list"

I personally have a shit memory, so past a certain point I remember the picture moreso than the actual event. Like I don't remember visiting Santa's Village as a kid so much as I remember looking at the picture of me visiting Santa's Village for years and years afterward, and associating it vaguely with memories of cold and my friend that was with me and striped poles etc.

Wow, this is so OTM for me. I don't really have any concrete memories of being at Santa's Village, but I can distinctly recall each of the photographs of me taken at Santa's Village, photos I haven't seen in 15+ years.

San Te's Village

I clearly remember the fire engine ride, so I win!

I don't think I went to Santa's Village...and I don't have any photos of it...but maybe I went and I don't remember! ;_;

For me, the value of photos is more for the people who come after us or won't have been there, so they can know something of you.

Though, having been helping my wife sort through a whole bunch of her very recently deceased grandmother's photos, many of them are just mystifying. "Who are these people?" "Why is there a photo of a hideous caravan?" "Are these important rocks?"

"Look at that guy. Well, at least we know that's the Lincoln Memorial in the background."

lol James

--people (ie, waiters, or chat support help) who don't even give any sort of greeting, just stand there in silence and expect you to order/ask your question.

what the fuck?

Encountered my worst IA this weekend: disinterested clerk who only breaks her conversation with another clerk to tell me the price of the item I'm buying. And that gripping conversation centered around craving watermelon. I dont want you to kiss my ass, I don't want you to curtsy, I just want your full attention and some goddamn eye contact.

this dude at the local Circle K has full on convos while he's doing people's transactions, and he isn't even pretending to give a shit. he's all like "nah dawg, NOW, i don't give a shit, you know, he fucked me and he gotta live with it. man, them bitches is crazy. (aside) debit or credit? (back to phone) yea man her titties were like wow. (aside) thanks have a good night".

he's a nice dude tho. and a narcoleptic (he has some apparatus around his neck)

one time the toilet water overflowed and filled teh store and this idiot dude was still wading though it to get something and he was like, to the customer "MAN, DON'T EVEN FUCKIN WALK IN THAT, MAN. THAT'S FUCKIN DOO DOO WATER, MAN"

Haha I think I like that guy lol

yea he's nice even if not your typical professional guy. he liked to talk Wu-Tang Clan w/ me when I came in w/ my wu-tang shirt.

San Te's clerk is the best local store guy ever, apparently.

You know you're a local when you have a rapport with people like that.

jelly beans where the purple color tastes like paint and is bitter and gross and you need a glass of water to rinse your mouth out

peh! yuk!

- when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

people referring to annual leave as annual leave.

instead of waiting for one of us to ask you what you're talking about, why not just jump to the explanation now

things that make you IA: being cryptic on the IA thread.

sry, didn't think i was being crytic. it just irks me when people talk about booking time off work or going on vacation as being "on annual leave", which is the official term for it and perfectly reasonable to use.

I'll call it AL to my boss, but only whenm I'm saying "can I have AL on these days". I dont kick back with a beer saying "yeapp... I'm on ANNUAL LEAVE" to my mates at the pub.

yeah, within the office - use the jargon. with normal people, talk like a human. makes sense.

Louie Spence.

^ not irrational at all, imo

kick back with a beer saying "yeapp... I'm on ANNUAL LEAVE"

can totally see you doing this

yeah me too, wtf trayce

Aww hey

Dammit Nick just agreed with you guys wtf.

i heard the voice and everything xpost

hhaaa

;_;

when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

no revelations are ever made in the men's room. it's a tense place

Just last week I walked into a men's restroom with an inexplicable line. I rolled my damn eyes, said "fuUuUuUck!", spun around and walk out.

it would make my whole week if I could see someone do that

when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

at first I thought this was a John Stamos joke

i do that shit all the time.

ok except maybe substituing "fuUuUuUck!" with an almost inaudible sigh

Arse bingo

something that makes me irrationally angry: the voice of one of my coworkers

it's really high and pinched and nasal and every time he speaks it basically cuts right through my skull, which is unfortunate because he's really a nice kid

people listening to music on their mobiles like its a transistor radio annoys me

Opposite of irrational ^^

yeah that's awful

surely youve got headphones!

Bathrooms are tricky!! Ours has two urinals, but someone pissed all over the floor near one of them, so I use the other one...I finish up and as I'm walking to the sink, my boss walks in! What do you do in that situation? Do you say, "hey that's not my piss on the floor"? Do you make a joke about it? Or do you just look guilty knowing that your boss is probably going to peg you as "most likely culprit to have peed all over the floor"? There's no rulebook !

something that makes me irrationally angry: the voice of one of my coworkers

A co-worker of mine has a deeply frightening, guttural, and really fuckin' loud post-laugh inhalation. "Ha ha ha...EEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNN."

"hey that's not my piss on the floor" ftw.

"See that piss? That's not mine."

people listening to music on their mobiles like its a transistor radio annoys me

― Michael B, Thursday, April 7, 2011 9:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Similarly, people who talk on their cellphones by holding the phone up to their ear to listen, then pulling it away and holding it in front of their mouth to talk, back to the ear, back to the mouth, back to the ear . . . it has both a speaker and a microphone, they work at the same time, WTF is wrong with you?

xp But can you really say that? There is a chance he wouldn't have noticed it anyway. Besides, saying stuff like that makes you look guilty and defensive, something I don't really need help doing