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

*shudder*

thats why no babies are allowed in the city

(also, I believe you can develop allergies you hitherto did not have, but I'm not 100% sure on that)

I think you can. I never had any kind of animal allergies, and suddenly I'm allergic to cats. Never was before.

it's much easier to develop allergies as you get older. i think people are confusing their own allergy-free childhoods with "the old days" in general (and not for the first time)

people who say "correct" instead of "yes" - http://strangersihaveloathed.tumblr.com/

I kind of understand the annoyance on both sides of that one, Jesse. If she managed to make it onto the bus, it seems like an annoyance I could let slide (but then again, that's Boston life in a nutshell; letting annoyances slide).

However, had that women been with 9 friends, all of whom had strollers, and they all had been screaming and attempting to force their way onto the bus, I would be cheering for the driver to step on the gas while they were still hanging out of the door.

I mean, what is the point, especially when there's another bus right on its way? We were at an endpoint, all of the schedules were posted AND it was rush hour! Ugh.

I'm gonna pitch a fit the next time I can't get on a packed train, see if that helps me get my way or if it just makes me look like a jackass.

xxp aha, did not know that. I wasn't seriously freaked out by my new allergies, nor did I wistfully reminisce about carefree childhood days romping with many cats (because those days didn't exist), but it did strike me as a little odd.

Have been known to say 'you must be so proud of that one time you had sex' when sociopaths use MY BABY as a path to high-horsedom. BTW Jesse my skinniness is relative to my mother and sister and I am pulling nobody's chain but theirs. They don't believe in climate change, either.

Elmo, there are perfectly civil ways to ask a fellow commuter to slide over so you can have seats together with a traveling companion and I don't think that was one of them.

You know when people (meaning women, because men don't do this as much) do the 'really?' thing instead of just saying what the basis of their effrontery is? I've taken to deploying 'lady, if you have to ask...' in reply.

Yeah not to be all that person about the fragrances, but to be truthful, "dealing with it" in public usually just means putting up with feeling like crap for an hour or two afterward - just an annoyance but a pretty constant one. It's not perfumes exactly, some kind of chemical ingredients I think, and problem is that by the time I notice something is bothering me, it's too late. I mean, it's easy to avoid fragrance depts in stores etc., but usually it's out of my control. Like about six months ago, was in a shared hospital room (private not available) and the other family had a constant stream of visitors, several wearing absolutely heinous perfumes. I didn't complain but literally had to hold my nose and put up with a terrible headache. Not exactly what I needed at the time, but I accept that most people don't realize that they are having that effect.

really?

i once refused to give up my seat for a husband & wife on the amtrak because of the sheer rudeness of the manner i was approached: he and his wife boarding at the last possible moment and loading their hand luggage into the overhead bin above me before he snorted "can you move?" at me. his jaw dropped when i refused. whatever, i'm sure he walked away from the encounter thinking i was twice as rude as i considered him.

Oh god, this. "I have a baby" = I have the God given right to everything in the universe. It's amazing. A lady with a huge pushchair getting on a train at the busiest time in the morning, could've collapsed it but oh no "I'm looking after my child" she said when one of the very cramped passengers asked her to fold it... I could have, really...

I think you can. I never had any kind of animal allergies, and suddenly I'm allergic to cats. Never was before.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, June 10, 2011 3:26 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

Me too. Lived with cats, even. Now I can't go near them without my eyes streaming. Shame because I like cats.

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

I think everyone understands how much of a pain/hassle it is to deal with a child and a stroller, but... that's kind of the hand you are playing at the moment. Also, if you ask someone to help you, they likely will!

Worst heathens on crowded subways are the ones who lean against the pole that you need to hang on to. So their sweaty backs are against your hand! They make me wish for burning lasers from my eyes.

Kim, that's when you accidentally poke them in the small of the back.

"Yes, I CAN, but I won't move for you." *does a little dance in seat*

Dan, the thing is, she was jammed up against the front door of the bus, so at subsequent stops when people at the front of the bus wanted to get off she would have to get off the bus, or the exiting passengers would have to jam through all the others to get to the back doors. many xps

... like I said, "life in Boston"

In Chicago we kick ladies and babies off buses.

i think people are confusing their own allergy-free childhoods with "the old days" in general (and not for the first time)

I was at one point gently thinking "man, when I was a kid nobody in my friends/class/school was allergic to peanuts", and then I realised:
1. I'm pretty oblivious and was surely even more so then, so probably they were;
2. I remember being told when I was small that I wasn't "old enough" to eat peanuts because they were dangerous and small children choked to death on them, and in retrospect this was probably actually anaphylactic shock rather than choking on a physical nut in the throat
(or was it?)
(and if it was, I don't know if the wrong assumption was all on my part or if this was the general thought of the time)

I too hate how people think they're more important than you.

Once I remember I was airing up my tires which were all low at one of the gas station air pumps, when this lady with an obvious flat pulls up behind.

I'm not done yet (plus it's still my air that I paid for) and she's yelling for me to leave the air pump because she needs it more for her flat tire.

Um...wait thirty seconds? Also just putting air innit ain't gonna help if you don't fix the flat

Also, customers that try to return products simply cuz they don't know how to use them

i once refused to give up my seat for a husband & wife on the amtrak because of the sheer rudeness of the manner i was approached: he and his wife boarding at the last possible moment and loading their hand luggage into the overhead bin above me before he snorted "can you move?" at me. his jaw dropped when i refused. whatever, i'm sure he walked away from the encounter thinking i was twice as rude as i considered him.

That is just... I mean, was the wife pregnant or elderly or something? Why would anyone think that someone would just give up their seat to them for no reason?!?

Today's public transport related IA at IT is:

people who choose to walk down the left side of the escalator and then walk REALLY REALLY slowly.

I was once denied entrance to a crowded Chicago bus because I had a giant (like three feet tall) bag of dirty laundry I was hauling to the 'mat. The driver told me I could board if I collapsed the bag and I protested with a huffy, "But it's full of dirty clothes!" Which in hindsight probably wasn't the best way to plead my case. It was on wheels so I just dragged it the five or so blocks, cursing all humanity the entire way.

I am very pro-baby but def get frustrated with large strollers on public transit during busy times. Also doublewide strollers on city sidewalks. Pretty much any clueless stroller pushers who forget that, wonderful as their baby may be, other grownups are also wonderful and deserving of obstruction-free passage to their chosen destination.

basically, unless you're actually commuting to work, don't get on the train at 07:50 on a weekday morning.

It is funny that the largest, most unwieldy strollers seem most popular in the city. I can sort of understand not wanting to take your kid out (mine actually got injured on a crowded bus because I had her in a body carrier) but I never took anything other than the tiny maclaren (folding umbrella stroller) on transit. The only excuse for a larger one is if the baby is still in that newborn, immobile stage and can't sit upright enough yet. Sort of a necessary evil that they need to be horizontal.

Actually, one think that makes me IA, is when old women wheel their mothers around in a wheelchair, around clothes shops. Particularly the shops that sell clothes that are much younger than the woman pushing.

I know it's quite possible that the grandma is looking for stuff for the grandkids, but I've yet to see them actually with any clothes/items. (The worst case was one such pairing pusing into Claires Accessories.

I know, I am so cruel... It wouldn't matter if the aisles were big enough for everyone. They tend to fill them so the space between racks is approx 3 foot.

maybe grandma really wants a butterfly belly piercing

baby bjorn?

Yeah Mike, she was in a bjorn. Bus was super packed and her foot got smooshed.

:( I would have scolded all the seated motherfuckers who didn't give me a seat. Hmph. Poor baby.

Also people who try to circimvent rules.

No customer can drop off paperwork at our building cuz we're a call center on private property, so we do work for thousands of companies. They have to either mail or fax in.

Despite all sorts of warnings that it was private property, this dude tried to circumvent the process and sent HIS FRIEND to drop off paperwork for him.

He of course got denied entrance to the building, and the customer called back angry that we didn't let his friend into our private building, even though had he even made it in, he wouldn't have been able to drop the form off ANYWAY.

Ironically it was because someone pretty much insisted that I take their seat - with baby strapped to my chest, people so tight I couldn't see where her feet were and would have been better off on my feet. People had good intentions there at least.

Ilx dilemma - would you give up a seat to someone who supported hen fap

A couple days ago, a woman placed their five-year-old onto the bus, then started to wrestle their pushchair down while discussing something with a friend and getting the toddler into position.

At which point the bus left. With the five year old.

The people left decided that they actually needed the bus I was getting on, then realised they'd lost their 5yrold. At first,the driver refused to contact the other bus, until he realised what had happened and then did contact the depot with urgency.

The mother was furious with the driver who drove off, possibly understandibly but unfairly.

Not an IT, and nobody was IA, just a small tale.

my shuttle bus driver drives so fast my stomach goes into my mouth - I sometimes walk out of fear

"DBA" - what the shit? doing business as... liar!

the way andrew zimmern describes the food he's eating....hey baldino i dont care that those balls taste like grass and berries.

That dude seems ok but that show's premise annoys me

"hey, look at the crazy shit these foreigners eat!"

someone should eat him. "hmm he tastes vaguely like lard and grass"

• "Every Day Carry"
• related: pocketknife nerdery

oh man, there's an everyday carry blog I go to for epic lolz

the best is people with HANDGUNS

the epic lolz barely balance out the epic YOU FUCKIN DORK WHAT THE FUCK A FLASK AN A PINK HIGHLIGHTER GO FUCK YOURSELF

Most of the ones I've seen are mostly all black items and full of mini-flashlights and knives

I have never heard of the term til just now, but when I googled it, I realised it is every sysadmin/programmer/network architect I know. They all have at least a very expensive Leatherman, if not also the mini torches, and sometimes little tool kits.

Its a "thing"? Isnt it just "its practical cos its like, my job"?

Is this a guy thing, more to the point because dudes, women have done this "check out the shit i carry in my handbag" for years in magazines.

3" knives that cost $100 and have carbon-fiber handles, and lithium Surefire 'tactical' flashlights for signaling aircraft = i'm infuriated

OK yep definitely a guy thing.

yeah it's an unholy union of guys carrying crap around they don't actually need or use, spending tons of money on tools that never get used, and thinking "this is how i'll be ready in case ZoMbIeS" or whatever. I mean yeah it's innocuous, i don't care what's in somebody's pockets, but GARAGHAHAHH I DON'T CARE WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKETS!!!