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

i took the Windows Vista sticker off my laptop and stuck it on my camera...

I have a sticker of Ralph Wiggum picking his nose on my laptop.

not innocuous and my anger is rational but I need to vent and don't want to find another thread.

So I'm not doing bad financially, but I've been hit by the economy too, and have bigger debt than I used to. I decided to take a larger 401(k) loan so that I can eventually pay down other forms of debt. Since I had the maximum outstanding, I had to pay an existing one off. Have done this before without incident -- got the money orders (over $1000 worth) from Amscot, printed the USPS Express Mail form online, double-triple checked the address, made sure I made out the money orders right, even took extreme care affixing the label to the envelope, and had the thing at the dropoff box 20 minutes prior to deadline.

I notice something's wrong when I periodically check the tracking number and only get the "Electronic Shipping Info Received" tracking number, and sure enough, it wasn't delivered. Post office couldn't tell me anything other than "this is the latest status we have", so I assume my mailroom screwed up and didn't give my package to the courier despite me meeting the deadline. They inform me they did everything right, there's nothing further they can do, and oh, I should have used UPS and not USPS if it was that important.

So now, I'm stuck with crossing my fingers that this is just being sent a day late, because if the package did get lost, I can't reissue the money orders for 30-45 days, and that means I can't payoff the loan until close to July, leaving me with barely enough funds to cover my bills until then.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Oh dude, that sucks! I've said it before, you are definitely cursed by shipping/postage gods.

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.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

pretty much anything external that anyone cares about is based in some part on self-perception. this doesn't invalidate it though.

like if someone works really hard to help the homeless, i could say "they're only doing that so they can feel good about themselves" and i might be right but it doesn't change the fact that they're helping homeless people.

Surely this must be upthread somewhere, but man do I hate the way pedestrians make a show of hustling across the street in advance of your car, only to slow down as soon as they step off the curb. Guys, all you're doing is hustling directly into the path of my oncoming car! Just wait an extra five second and you can take your time crossing.

like if someone works really hard to help the homeless, i could say "they're only doing that so they can feel good about themselves" and i might be right but it doesn't change the fact that they're helping homeless people.

Umm if someone worked really hard at ANYTHING, I wouldn't be saying that about them. Reserved for people for whom disproportionate vitriol substitutes for anything more productive.

See, for me I feel like killing those cruel to animals (not that I'd do it), because that abuse of absolute innocence makes me feel physically sick.

And I do do lots of stuff to help animals, so yah boo sux

What I hate is the people (all over my FB) who will constantly bang on about animal cruelty and post link after link to dogs in pounds/needing rescue/etc but they dont actually do anything themselves at all. They just post endless links, berate other people's choices, and seem to think online petitions get anything done. But eh. Each to their own.

so apparently my money orders aren't lost, they just got sent a day late. so I'm very very relieved right now. this is why I believe in going directly to the post office and cutting out the stupid middle man.

Why didnt you do an online money transfer? Do they have ebilling type things in the US? I do everything online/electronically now, I wouldnt trust money in the post as far as I could spit.

So much easier paying all the bills and rent from my net-banking portal page.

I'm getting IA lately about people who disrupt a perfectly good set of conventions on a whim, at the worst possible time.. Like the "you go, I go" of merging traffic and someone decides to pay it forward or some shit and let 2 cars in, instead of one. Or pedestrian comes to crosswalk on a busy street,, stops, you slow/stop to let them cross, and they randomly decide to wave you through. Or at busy stop signs when it's the other person's turn to go, and they wave happily to make you go instead. It's your turn! Just go! I get the kindness of it but usually it feels like dopey airheaded naivety, like they're oblivious that cars are backed up etc and are trying to bank sone karma or something. Like, you do realise doing this is making this thing take twice as long as it should? do we really have to make this moment all about you?

And I mean in busy traffic and generally inappropriate settings...quiet streets is a whole other thing, and is usually quite friendly.

@Trayce - I wish it was possible, cuz that's how I handle all my finances. For 401(k) loans though they only accept cashier's check/money order to prevent situations where someone writes a rubber check and then makes off with a new loan.

I ultimately like to do things in a way that involves as few other people as possible.

getting super IA over how when i'm googling for something specific and a huffpo link comes up, only to discover after clicking that its a direct link to a stupid fucking comment

I'm kind of IA every time I end up clicking on a link that sends me to a huffington post article, actually.

i get tired of seeing interesting looking articles on Yahoo only to find out it's video only content -- did we all just get tired of reading or something? especially annoying when I'm at work, where video is disabled*

*yes I'm aware I am supposed to be working at work

agreed. cant stand CNN now because of that.

i get tired of seeing interesting looking articles on Yahoo only to find out it's video only content

Aaarrrghhh I hate this on the Age site too. And ABC/BBC

ugh yes the Age with it's christing autoplay

Apparently theyre gonna get rid of it because of a massive consumer backlash.

GOOD

- iOS apps that provide a field to enter numbers but give you the entire alphanumeric god damned keyboard

- also how-to websites that use a four-minute video to explain three simple steps

yeah fairfax insisted autoplay was what its readers wanted, but then one of its biggest ad placement agencies pulled its advertising precisely because autoplay was pissing off its customers

...people who disrupt a perfectly good set of conventions on a whim, at the worst possible time.. Like the "you go, I go" of merging traffic and someone decides to pay it forward or some shit and let 2 cars in, instead of one. Or pedestrian comes to crosswalk on a busy street,, stops, you slow/stop to let them cross, and they randomly decide to wave you through. Or at busy stop signs when it's the other person's turn to go, and they wave happily to make you go instead. It's your turn! Just go!

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 6:49 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

o god yes this

- the last drop that always gets in your pants

Fucking capillary action!

Or pedestrian comes to crosswalk on a busy street,, stops, you slow/stop to let them cross, and they randomly decide to wave you through.

This happened to me the other day. HATE IT.

ugh it is so much worse when i am on a bike, and i stop because that car clearly isn't stopping for me, and then i'm at a full stop and they wave me through

uh, no YOU GO.

- ppl i dislike and ppl i like getting on with each other

i really fucking hate bicyclists w/o helmets who weave in and out of traffic. like, if you're gonna needlessly endanger your life, pls don't do it in front of me. in boston, at least, i feel like the bicyclists are far, far, far, more of a danger to themselves than the drivers are to the bicyclists. most of the (near) accidents i have seen have come from bicycles behaving unpredictably and drivers getting confused about where they should be going.

p.s. i am not fan of drivers and i'm not repping for, like, their crazy-awesome abilities – i walk and take the bus whenever i can.

YES.

I almost hit someone the other day who appeared out of nowhere and just cut in front of my car. They drive me nuts, especially the ones w/o helmets.

i always wear a helmet and ride conservatively on backstreets whenever possible fyi
it's the stop signs where drivers insist that i go ahead when doing so clearly means using physical energy and my shitty knees to squonk squonk squonk peeeedal in front of their car and they can feel good about themselves

i know it's IA -- i don't really get IA very much so this is my thing

Boston cyclists are trying to get killed

I understand why in the case of couriers, since they're on a clock and have to take chances in order to complete their jobs, but the assholes biking down Clarendon in the middle of rush hour weaving through traffic can fuck off.

I am likely in the minority (surprise) but I would MUCH prefer it if cyclists would just take the whole lane instead of trying to squeeze themselves in, because then I could reliably SEE them and expect that they are going to follow traffic rules rather than darting out in front of my car at the last second when I have a green light. (Although cars do this too; Boston is maybe not the best example of traffic sanity.)

I'm getting IA lately about people who disrupt a perfectly good set of conventions on a whim, at the worst possible time.. Like the "you go, I go" of merging traffic and someone decides to pay it forward or some shit and let 2 cars in, instead of one. Or pedestrian comes to crosswalk on a busy street,, stops, you slow/stop to let them cross, and they randomly decide to wave you through. Or at busy stop signs when it's the other person's turn to go, and they wave happily to make you go instead. It's your turn! Just go! I get the kindness of it but usually it feels like dopey airheaded naivety, like they're oblivious that cars are backed up etc and are trying to bank sone karma or something. Like, you do realise doing this is making this thing take twice as long as it should? do we really have to make this moment all about you?

My wife does this all the time and it drives me bananas. I never say anything though because she backseat drives all the time*, which also drives me bananas.

* She recently went to visit her sister, who backseat drove her about not going 90 down an unfamiliar-to-her highway in heavy rain and now swears she will never do it again.

the other day i was crossing the street with my baby strapped to me and this bicyclist had to swerve a little bit to avoid me and she said "REALLY!?" in this exasperated voice, apparently not recognizing that 1. i had the walk signal and 2. she had just run a red light

Boston is maybe not the best example of traffic sanity.

Yeah, there is this but STILL.

IA: people who meet life's challenges with 'REALLY???'

UGH. Also people who say 'epic fail' out loud.

the prices in the oxfam bookshop in glasgow

^^^the prices in Oxfam, full stop.

local swimming pool taking ups of 10 mins to serve anyone, meaning i just walked out and decided to go for a run instead. if you're working at a counter and are standing with a customer staring into space, presumably waiting for something, TELL THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM WHAT'S HAPPENING. this was at two tills as well...

oh man i hate people who do not know how to do flip turns in the pool, but insist on doing them anyway and ruin circle-swimming/lane-sharing with their slow, flippy, lane-filling nonsense

agree with the stop sign waving thing. i know you're trying to be considerate to bikes, but it's your turn! i've even had people stop in the middle of the road where i had a stop sign and they didn't, holding up traffic. and yeah, there are some bicyclists who think they're above the law, but most of us just want to be treated like normal traffic.

Ugh Garda otm.

Was at a KFC last week, crowd of people waiting and 2 customer service ppl just standing, staring at the order screen and moving pcs of chicken around. Having worked there I knew this is as the international sign for "waiting for chips to cook".
TELL customers theyre coming up, offer alternatives when they are ordering and DONT STAND THERE LIKE A FUCKWIT.
Was ready to leap over the counter and knock their heads together.

Also dude sweeping the restaurant, sweeping *under chairs ppl were sitting on* without excusing himself. Cardinal sin of fast food restaurant.

What I wouldnt have given to be a mystery shopper, lol.

*"having worked there" = worked at KFC 20 yrs ago, not at that partic restaurant, lol

Also dude sweeping the restaurant, sweeping *under chairs ppl were sitting on* without excusing himself.

Ugh, yes, this! Happens all the fucking time to me!

Better sweeping than mopping a bucket of bleach towards me.