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

free samples are great, what's wrong with you people

please, I beg you to stop eating them! think of the children!!!

I'm contributing to the elimination of free samples by accepting the free samples and then not buying the product.

You're welcome.

thank you - you will be richly rewarded for your heroic bravery in the next world

I'm down with samples, but I hate the crowds of seagull-people who go to Costco seemingly just to eat samples, like that's their cheapskate lunch...it grosses me out a little

Obviously the samples are a dessert after you eat one of their $2 hot dogs

ugh that cafeteria is the worst...Chez Diarrhea

Seagull-people! Hahaha

I know people who go to sam's club to eat samples as their breakfast

In bulk

Shopping websites that only show 4 - 10 items per page when there's about 100 to view, and don't have a 'view all' button. Worst is when you have to pick from a drop-down menu and it's still "see 12 per page" "see 16 per page" NO I WANT TO VIEW ALL, NOT CLICK "NEXT" 10 TIMES!

I mean I get IA at even having to click a 'view all' button at all so this enrages me. Just parade every single one of your goods before my eyes all at once, please.

Agreed kinder. Also, when you use Amazon's :highest rated" feature and due to a "computers can't think" failure it shows you things with one rating that is 5 stars - I guess they need "highest rated that people are actually using and rating in large numbers, not just the guy who is selling from his shetty site astroturfing himself"

Ha, you two remind me of this "Click to Zoom" image here.

Agggh!

maybe that is the actual size - maybe its a backpack for suriname toad babies

I'm down with samples, but I hate the crowds of seagull-people who go to Costco seemingly just to eat samples, like that's their cheapskate lunch...it grosses me out a little

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 27, 2011 12:34 PM (1 hour ago)

My brother told me he took a girl to do this as a date. I thought, good luck, buddy. But maybe he will luck out and find a gal who loves being a thrifty weirdo too, like my other brother did.

I guess I gross out VegemiteGrrl a little. When I lived in a town with a Costco, on days when I had a big-box shopping run to do, that would be my dinner. I never went there just for the samples though.

you dont gross me out WmC <3

I hate the crowds of seagull-people who go to Costco seemingly just to eat samples

I've noticed this, too. One woman in particular tried to horde five or six samples for herself because, she claimed, she had children elsewhere in the store. Even if she were telling the truth, it's still NAGL.

yeah the seagull-people hover for multiple samples, or line up in front of the potsticker table before theyre even out...it's pretty ugly

When you are waiting at a train platform where a train either goes to place A and terminates or goes to place A and then carries on to place B. You live at the place B so when trains say they're terminating at A you don't get on them. Then a B train comes you get on at it and 1 minute before you arrive at A they announce it's terminating there and you have to cross over to the other platform for a B train but now you've lost your seat and have to stand the rest of the way. If you'd have known it was going to do that you'd have waited at the first station until a B train came so you could sit down, it's not like you haven't been sitting down all day already. Oh wait.

This thing about free samples sounds so weird to me. The folks offering samples at our grocery stores may as well be trying to hand out Westboro pamphlets the way shoppers duck and cover. I usually take one just to be nice to the septuagenerian trapped behind the booth.

And I'm surprised because My People are usually more than willing to (A.) take something for free and (B.) especially if it's served on a stick.

Once I walked past a sample booth twice and took a sample each time and I felt kind of shameless, but now I know I have some way to go to join the ranks of the truly shameless

May you never achieve such depths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foe8jrYeqko

and who stuck all those subscription forms in the cracks of magazines - bashtards! I hates it!

indeed! death to them. and greater death to the disgusting perfume sample strips that must be torn out yet still taint many adjoining pages with their foul stenchery. grarrrrr!!!!

omg yes. The first thing I do with my Vanity Fair is tear out all the perfume ads. HATE those fucking things.

sobriety despite significant spend and effort in attempting otherwise

oof. yeah darragh otm.

We always called that "vapor lock."

indeed! death to them. and greater death to the disgusting perfume sample strips that must be torn out yet still taint many adjoining pages with their foul stenchery. grarrrrr!!!!

Those things are impervious to death. Went through/threw out some 20-year-old issues of Rolling Stone recently, and they all stunk like a right-wing frat boy.

Sample ppl in grocrery shops make me a bit sad now, cos my housemate's dad, who is a skilled, middle aged AV expert, has had so much trouble getting work in recent years hes had to resort to being a sample hander-outer in Woolworths :( I just feel so bad for him.

Mind you it did mean we scored 2 boxes of free food the other week.

When people dress inappropriately for the weather. Yes, it is 58 and cloudy now, but it's going to be 70 and even if it weren't, you do not need a winter coat, scarf, and hat, you fucking dummy!

This is Florida winter in a nutshell. I walk around in shirtsleeves in 60 degree weather, but very few other people who've been here as long as I have (~ 25 years) do.

Chicago's mercurial transitional seasons are challenging to dress for, I admit, especially when you're looking at a 20-30 degree difference in temperature throughout the day. It reached 70 for about ten minutes, and then it rained and got pretty chilly. Still not winter coat weather, though.

people who insist on starting a convo with me when I'm clearly doing something that conversation would interrupt (ie, reading, or playing a video game)

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Giving them the raised index finger and "be with you in a minute" and then not stopping what you were doing is always fun. xp

- people who leave their shoppong carts in the middle of the aisle while browsing. pull it off to the side, jeez.

-coffee shop customers who leave newspapers & empty coffee cups on tables when they leave. how hard is it to put your shit away?

i steal newspapers that way sometimes tho

also get enough coffee cups w/ residuals left at the bottom, pour into empty cup, and now you've got a Mulligan coffee....

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Ha I did that a few weeks ago and the comic-reading dude in question was NOT impressed. He was always on that route reading comics and every day and it was hard for me not to be like 'zomg Love & Rockets' or whatever he was reading but his evil icicle glare made his feelings clear the first time so I resisted!

This was a bus, not a train, though. Important detail!
Whenever I read comics on the bus, invariably a child sits next to me when I have it open on a sex scene.

I also hate when people who have read the book ask you shit like "HAVE YOU GOT TO THE PART WHERE SO AND SO IS REVEALED TO BE BLAH BLAH"....

well if I haven't, I'm going to be mad pissed, no?

xpost HAHA

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Was this friend me?

Nope. Jealous?

You dirty two-timing.... who else were you riding the bus with??? This doesn't make sense. I need you to call me right now. Why are you not picking up your phone? I'm coming over as soon as I get a cab. ;__;

irrational anger about browsing a couple of recommended blogs about writers/writing/etc and discovering they write exactly like choire sicha.

STOP IT

i'm not saying it's bad that he writes that way, but it's bad when your blog is nearly indistinguishable!

goddammit people, don't write so much on blogs, just post pictures of fashion and cats, your writing is mostly terrible. i learned this because i read the awl quite a lot? and now i prefer to end sentences in the form of a question constantly even though i'm pretty sure i'm right?

People that act like it isn't possible for any kind of writing to be 'deep', ever, and mock any attempt at it