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

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.

People who complain about the prices in charity shops

(ok to be fair, I've seen some ridiculously overpriced records in charity shops in my time, but I used to work in an Oxfam shop and had to deal with so many people who think the "charity" is supposed to be for them)

Actually, the charity is supposed to work for both parties, shopper and shop. But when you go in there and stuff is higher than its retail price, and that 'stuff' is a coat from Zara or Primark from 2006, that's worth querying. FWIW I'm always giving my local shop my own castoffs for the same charity cuts both ways reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDmkuBlEnUE&feature=player_embedded

this is making me irrationally angry

not even for sacred cow reasons, but because she doesn't have any clue of how to sing/express the song

TS: Casey Abrams vs. Miley Cirus

lol well I'm the one person in America who liked Casey's performance even though I wanted him to do "Come As You Are" instead, so

When a guy at work sees you leaving the building for lunch, and asks you to pick something up for him. I dont know why, but it bugs me

Because him asking you to run his freaking errands is totally rude, maybe?

When a guy at work sees you leaving the building for lunch, and asks you to pick something up for him. I dont know why, but it bugs me

When someone says, "Hey, can you pick me up something while you're out?" I say, "Can I!" and keep going.

san francisco-oakland beiberidge

wow lol wrong thread

Picking up lunch for people is such a bitch bcz you have to either go through the nonesens of ordering both your foods at the same time, paying together, and then sorting it out, or placing two separate orders and keeping your changes separate and foods too and just ugh.

(ok to be fair, I've seen some ridiculously overpriced records in charity shops in my time, but I used to work in an Oxfam shop and had to deal with so many people who think the "charity" is supposed to be for them)

It makes me sad when charity shops have way overpriced things, and you know nobody's going to buy them and when they haven't been sold within 3 weeks they're going to go in the bin, but you also know that making an offer of a third of the price tag is only going to make you look bad, so you don't

(I don't know if the big charity shops like Oxfam throw out unsold donations, maybe not when they have so many other branches and online operations to shunt them between, but the smaller charity shop near me definitely does within a fairly short time)

I think it depends shop to shop but the one I was in dated the prices on the stickers and would mark them down if no-one bought them. They didn't throw anything out though unless it wasn't fit to be sold in the first place. Anything unsold after marking down a couple of times would either go to a "bargain" branch or be recycled.

when someone texts you "wanna do dinner?", then you text them to ask where, and they give you a destination, and then you go "when", and they don't text back for like a half hour, so you have no idea if you should be showering/getting ready and wind up sitting around just waiting for their text cuz you dont' wanna start anything up you can't finish.

it's like, did you only have enough free time to send the two texts?

couldn't you CALL them...?

well yea, I left that step out. add:

and after ten minutes, you call them, and it goes straight to voicemail.

I have told some Oxfam shops when they have overpriced stuff (on one occasion the wrong album was in the sleeve), but *never* if it was something I wanted.

One time, it was something I'd have bought at a reasonable price, but hey.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp in my uni days I ordered food from a KFC and the bloke brought it out with blood running down his thumb. I told him his thumb was bleeding and he said "I know". Anger was irrational because I ate the chicken.

conversely, I hate when you're in the shower, someone calls you, you see it ringing right when you get out, but don't answer in time, so you pick up the phone and dial back and they don't answer, try again 5 mins later, they don't answer, and leave no voicemail.

from now on, I bring my phone in the shower

along with my laptop

Blood thumb blood chicken is hilarious!

offtopic but the restaurant I worked at once got sued before I got hired because a pregnant lady found a bandaid in her dinner, and she thought it was bloody. turned out it got in there because the idiot line cook was using a bandaid to tape an instructional sign on the wall...instead of, you know, TAPE.

KFC should strive to shock and disgust in new ways every time. I mentioned once the time they could not take my order because (quote) "we got a lot of shit going on back here." If that had involved someone bleeding, it would have been even better.
(This might mean the world would get more Popeye's franchises.)

(Also it is hilarious!)

(Also I think angry people are funny – never stop, you guys.)

there's a Popeyes right across the street from the closest KFC here. I like to think that after each shop closes for the night, the employees visit each others' stores and sabotage each other

OMG you are right ––– Popeyes is not a possessive.

lol -- I didn't even think about that to be honest

They named their restaurant after more than one Popeye = fucking A

the link between Popeye and Popeyes happened retroactively

sometimes this makes me irrationally angry

Did you know that sweet peas were not called such until after Popeye ––– they got named after the baby?

Same with olive oil, which had a totally different name before pOpeye. Pizzas used to be called "Blutos," though; sort of the opposite thing happened there.

In fact, yams used to be called popeyes. Popeye also invented the Smurfs.

the vehicle known as the JEEP was named after the popeye character Eugene the Jeep

I don't believe you.