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

Wow. Is there anything we can't learn from ILE?

We get Friday, Monday AND TUESDAY off thanks to some wars. FIVE DAYS.

ASSHOLES, ALL OF YOU ;_;

FIVE DAYS

SHUT IT

FIVE

we have 2 consecutive 4 day weekends due to easter and royal wedding / mayday.

(that said, i went into work for 1/2 a day today to alleviate the bank holiday boredom.)

oh maaan, I wish some pointless shits would get married here too

the word "lecithin" is really pissing me off atm

Just look through the NYT society section, you'll find plenty of 'em xp

your "here" is not my "here"

People who don't scan far enough down the road and don't break on the highway during congestion

Cuz two doofuses got in an accident behind me for just that reason!

getting out of work early only to be caught in a traffic jam for 30 minutes because some dude ploughed into a concrete divider. BALLS.

Not innocuous, and my anger is not irrational, here's one for the home-based freelancers and one-person shops: when you've been waiting on a call all morning and the phone rings just as you sit down for a crap.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/cordless-telephone-ge-intact2.jpg

Yeah, I have one of those goldurned newfanged devices. I just don't like phone calls when I'm on the can.

okay, last night i was at our local pizza haunt with two friends. we go there often enough that the waitress is friendly with us. it's Easter Sunday, so the place is kind of empty. right after us, this couple comes in, and sits down. they look like Oakland Hills or Berkeley types, but i didn't think much of it.

so, the Fugees are playing over the stereo at a volume that is perfect for conversation, but also perfect enough to hear every note. the female member of the couple asks to see the manager after they've ordered, and starts to complain about the level of the music. when the manager says she's sorry and that they only turn it up that high on slow days, the woman says snootily, "it was that loud the last time i was in here, too. i can't even think with music this loud." the manager then tells the woman that she'd be happy to pay for her meal, and the woman says, "yes, i think that's fair."

note that i heard this all from across the room, while this purportedly 'loud' music was being played.

essentially, this horrible yuppie not only acted like a totally entitled, self-absorbed NIMBY, but got a free meal out of it. i wanted to throttle her. eugh.

So you were in Oakland Hills or Berkeley? Because otherwise, she wouldn't be a NIMBY type because you, you know, have to be complaining about something in your neighborhood/back yard. It's an entire different thing to go somewhere not near home.

Not sure if dissing her as a young urban professional is really the word to use here

The woman, still a total jerk.

/nits to pick

She may have auditory processing disorder and not know it--I have it, and I have problems concentrating on conversation if there is any other significant sounds in the room.

I kind of think you're not a total bitch about it and would say something before eating your meal, though.

The "not knowing" bit is the key, in the same way that someone with a mold allergy might blame someone's cat for their breathing problems.

But it's more likely that she's a jerk.

Yeah not too many people are going to come over to your house twice, and then start randomly bitching you out for even owning a cat.

Would be tempted in that scenario to tell the woman I could hear her bellyaching over the music JUST FINE.

xp "Not too many," because I've seen so-called human beings do things like that.

mh, yeah, i suspect that she probably lived in the condos across the street. so, dressed in the manner and cloaked with the attitude of Hills/Berkeley type, but 'slumming' it along San Pablo Ave in a stupidly expensive, out-of-place condo.

Christine, i totally understand what you're saying— i know people who have the same problem. but to come into a place twice and have this bone to pick, it's like she was fishing for a free meal or something. which is fine if the service is bad, but really, it's just some low-level mid-90s hip-hop.

When you eat a sub and all the meat/veggies/sauce starts coming out of the back and you only get a mouthful of bread, after a few more bites the sandwich cannot be saved, whoompo chuck sandwich against wall

I can't think of anything really. I am a freak probably. :-((

I saw something weird at the movie theater last week.

I'm sitting in the back row with my friend, and we're three seats in from the aisle. There's an older woman in the row in front of us, sitting one seat in from the aisle.
We're sitting through the trailers and a young couple, guy and a girl, comes and sits in my row, behind the older woman. At one point the girl kicked the woman's seat. Hard enough to make her turn around. The woman turns and looks at her, and the girl says loud enough for me to hear, "Oh I'm sorry." Sincerley. No big deal, she apologised, end of story.

5 minutes later the couple end up move across to the other side of the theater, in the same row as the old woman (empty except them) but all the way over the other side.

So. TWENTY minutes later, the old woman grabs at her neck and turns around and looks behind her, I guess expecting to see the couple. And then she looks at me. "Where did they go?" I point and say they moved over the other side of the theater. She says, "Did you see her kick my seat?" And I look at her thinking okay this was 20 minutes ago WTF. And I say, "Yep! She apologised, right?" Woman stares at me and says "She kicked my seat really hard". And I say again, I little more evenly, "But she apologised. And you accepted her apology, right?" She doesn't say anything, just kind of glares over at the girl and turns back around.

Maybe 5 or 10 minutes later she gets up and marches along the empty row across to where the couple are now sitting. She does this whole whispered "You kicked my chair" and the girl looks like she's apologising again but kind of confused and a bit pissed off. No real yelling, but a weird low level confrontation.

Woman goes back to her seat and sits down.

Half an hour later I get up to go to the bathroom. My friend tells me later that the girl gets up out of her seat and goes over and has a go at the old lady saying 'wtf I apologised I don't know why you're making such a big deal about this'. and then goes back and sits down.

Totally ridiculous!

Why did these people not just deal with this whole thing in the 5 minutes they could have when it happened? It was like some kind of Upstairs Downstairs soap opera the way they dragged it out.

and the arguing wasn't even that much of a spectacle. It was just how LONG they waited to have these exchanges each time was fucking mind boggling.

xp That's when you start using a fork.

Actually, you could probably use a fork in VG's story. A nice sharp one.

gonna start carrying one in my purse

Is all this happening while the movie is playing? Because that would annoy me more than anything else.

Last night, my girlfriend and I went for a sushi snack on the way home from the market. We went to a new, and ostensibly tasty, minimall-type sushi place. We were one of only two couples in the restaurant, and were seated promptly. First off, the waitress – GINA – loitered uncomfortably close to our table (3-4 feet away) on the other side of a potted plant and tilted her head to listen to her conversation. Like, very obviously eavesdropped...? Since Ms. Bean and I were only interested in eating a snack, we decided to order two pieces of unagi and a spicy tuna roll. When the waitress heard – through the bush – that we were ready, she rounded the foliage and stood, one hip cocked bitchily forward and the opposite elbow jutted nearly into my girlfriend's face. She asked us what we wanted – actually said "whaddya want?" – and then, when we told her, she informed told us we hadn't ordered enough. I told we just wanted a snack, but she didn't leave. Ms. Bean and I kind of looked at each other, confused. She said 'how about a Cambridge roll' (banana, avocado, cucumber)?' and Ms. Bean said, 'no thanks, I'm allergic to avocados and bananas' and the waitress, Gina, said 'an Elvis roll (banana, avocado, bacon, and mayonnaise - gross, right?) then?' and again my girlfriend said 'sorry, allergies.' The waitress rolled her eyes, and said 'what, then?" and I said something about inari so that she'd leave. The meal came – typical mall quality sushi – with a UP BANANA GARNISH on the plate. And, when we were just tucking in, say 2-3 minutes later, GINA came back and interrupted us with a check and a 'how's everything good have a nice night' before she left us with a bill for $26.60 for (1) spicy tuna roll (2) pieces of inari, (2) pieces of unagi, and (1) small hunk of killer banana. IA IA IA IA IA IA I wanted to call the board of health on them in revenge.

That's rational anger!

Besides, who the fuck charges for garnishes, whether or not they KILL?

right? right?

I'm pretty easygoing in restaurants, but I would have been asking where "minimum order required" was on the menu early on, and asking for the manager by the end of it.

OK, leaving to one side the URGH of the Elvis Roll concept, I cannot believe you paid up without complaint and I am truly thankful that I've never been served like that by any waiter (the only problems I ever have with service are flagging down one of them to order or get the bill). However, if you don't give GINA's manager a call after that...

when my dad gets all butthurt on the one occasion that I don't want to watch some ole movie w/ him or I feel like reading a book. if I've entertained ya for 4 consecutive days, I'm gonna need some 'me' time sprinkled throughout, it isn't personal.

football teams in the UK being referred to as 'franchises'. rrrrrrrrrrage.

essentially, this horrible yuppie not only acted like a totally entitled, self-absorbed NIMBY, but got a free meal out of it. i wanted to throttle her. eugh.

― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, April 25, 2011 7:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

as opposed to getting a free meal the punk way by stealing it from whole foods amirite

remy, where was this place so I can be sure to never eat there

(could they've been sat nearer the speakers than you?)

people who succumb to hyperbolic, irrational rage. friend of mine is talking about how some piece of shit who slit his dog's throat should "get the electric chair". yea, that makes sense.

That seems like a pretty understandable and reasonable (yet still irrational and hyperbolic) reaction to some piece of shit slitting a dog's throat, especially if it is yours. :(

It's not theirs, it was the dude's own dog.

This same girl said Michael Vick should have gotten the chair.

Jail, sure, but chair? I don't even believe in capital punishment when humans are killed.

She's being serious, too.

well now she's backed off at least. another person quipped that the dude should be treated the same way sex offenders are.

I understood that it was her dog whose throat someone else slit.

If she's being serious, that's just ridiculous.

on re-reading my original post, I can see how that was unclear! my bad.