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

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.

Whenever people react disproportionately strongly about animal cruelty, I just assume it's more about them than the animals. You know, like for instance that they see themselves as A Friend to Dogs or whatever. A champion of the downtrodden and a voice for the voiceless blah blah blah.

It actually makes me really ia, the dripping sentimentality of it. I don't hate animals! And my heart pitter-pats watching dogs be rescued and everything and I'm pro- lots of animal welfare issues. But could something NOT be about YOU for a second?

there's a lot of that, too. anytime something happens to an animal, this same friend of mine posts in all caps on FB, long screeds about the things that should be done to them.

some of these same people act irascibly if you dare to suggest they're overreacting.

Otoh I'm a foaming-at-the-mouth stan of women's issues and get all earnest and angry immed so ymmv.

tbf people are a lot less enlightened on those and they affect you more directly, so that makes sense...

People who use their social media to inarticulately hammer at a single issue 24/7 are usually disgusting savages imo.

Okay now I'm worried you've been reading my updates.

LOLLLLLLL the operative word here is *inarticulately* eg. 'wont sumbody thikn of teh PUPPIEZ'

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There's a park near our house with a lake and geese and occasionally, one goose gets run over by a car. After one particular bad week where three were hit and after some members of my neighborhood google newsgroup were dismissive of more cop patrols and 24/7 cameras, one poster exclaimed "You wouldn't be so cavalier about this if it was YOUR KID laying dead in the street!"

another public transpo ia:

when i have an aisle seat in a two-seater row, i don't move all the way into my seat. i leave some room on the inner side and let my outer leg straddle the edge of the seat. i keep my arms folded in a little, even at the shoulders. i think this is the polite way to share a row with a seatmate. so i get ia when *i'm* in the inner seat and the seatmate leaves me no choice but to end up squished and pressed up against the window, with hardly any room to, like, hold an open book.

this is mainly a problem on l.a.'s metro buses, where the seats are tiny and uncomfortable.

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.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Saturday, April 30, 2011 11:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

perhaps your 'friend' is so angry about this its leading her to feeling extreme repercussions for this piece of fucked up shit are justified but you know i certain id be a whole lot less fearful in life and have a lot more faith in the human race if people like this ceased to exist. How do you raise a creature that is completely reliant on you and, assuming it has the nature of most pet dogs, repays you with a level of unconditional love that humans aren't even capable of then one day just decide to slit its throat? i cant even get my head around it. if someone is capable of that level of cruelty what else are they capable of?
Generally I consider people who think humans are the pinnacle of all species are first rate dumbasses but people who think this hey im going to slit my dogs throat shit is okay or that its not reasonable to be angry about it are royally fucked in the head.

Generally I consider people who think humans are the pinnacle of all species are first rate dumbasses

YES i hate this line of thinking. humans are not "better" or "more important" than animals. insects can fuck right off though.

Totally change of gear, sorry but: plus size clothing for women. Browsing through racks and online I'm convinced that it's part of some elaborate prank. Capri harem pants? And have we not exhausted every HI IM FAT pattern yet? Can I just get a plain tshirt? Jesus fuck.

for the record, I think the dude who slit the dog's throat should be jailed and is a piece of shit...my family took in a dog that had been abused prior (sadly he passed away in 08) and the image itself gives me shudders...just, death penalty?

she later admitted she was being a little hyperbolic though.

Was in an online discussion once re that New York guy who threw his girlfriend's cat out the window, and someone else said he was worse than Hitler. Conversation was kind of impossible past that point.

Hitler would have saved the cat!!!

nothing is worse than people on the internet prescribing what the appropriate levels of anger are for every possible scenario...

i hate birthers and think they should all die horrible fiery deaths