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

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oh yeah, horizontal scroll is just plain wrong!

I hate it when I decide to wear a jacket, and then after about 5-10 minutes I realise it's really warm and muggy, and I can't be bothered to turn back and take my jacket home, and will just have to live with the vague resentment I now feel toward my jacket.

I do that!!!

<3 jel

just get an imaginary jacket

When you are in a long line at a busy establishment and the cashier hands you back your credit card along with some frequent customer card or coupon, with the receipt wrapped around them both forcing you to make one of two choices - hold up the line while you untangle everything to put your card back in the proper location in your wallet/purse or just shove the whole wad in your pocket to get out of the way, only to forget where you put the card later and have a minor heart attack when you can't find it.

who the fuck does that

Happens at food places all the time it seems.

I do that all the time...but I have never lost a card. I usually carry a huge bag around with wallet in it and keep my essential cards squirreled away in another location or wallet or even pocket in case of wallet theft. Wallet has stuff like SS card, business cards. For more formal occasions like dinner, work related, I use the wallet. Sounds unprofessional but shit my dad and mom always used the "two wallet" solution.

I would get IA if the cashier handed each item back separately and gave the recipient time to put each in its final destination. Do your sorting out of the line, people are waiting!

DO YOU NOT HAVE SWIpE STATIOMNS INYOUR TOWNE!!

Gas stations and cheap ass fast food places have those, but not everwhere.

I'm not expecting waiting time nickn, I just get IA when the cashier takes the extra step of wrapping the receipt around my card!

Pay with cash, iirc

Not really any speedier because it seems too many cashiers have no idea how to make change.

pay with fucken bitcoins!

Then they hand you a receipt and put the change on top. You can wind up with about five change parcels after a trip to the shops.

My response to a receipt wrapped around a card is PA but I always calmly unwrap, put the receipt in the bag with the purchase and return the card to my wallet before leaving the 'transaction space'. I want the cashier to register 'don't do that'.

why dont you turn around, lower trou and ask that they place it in your ass cracke?

Wrapping everything together gives you a secure packet for stuffing in your shirt pocket, for later disposition.

Some stores have rules about handing the receipt to the customer or at least asking if they want to hold it or have it in the bag. Anyway, receipt and change preference Is as classic an argument as TP over or under, and there is no consensus on either.

'i want to hold the receipt and never let it go'

facebook sookin. on it, or about it.

*sooking

Just catching the inside hem of your trousers with a toe/toenail, and very slightly ripping the hem, so that each subsequent time you put on the trousers, the same thing happens, making the situation worse.

It's also one of those things that you only remember when it happens and instantly forget until the next time it happens.

i have a rip around the knee in my jeans that is like that.

my penis keeps catching it

It is because we're meant to believe his penis is long, do you see?

no

His knee is very high up.

The tip of his penis has a sharp and jagged keratin growth.

It got caught in his zipper and fitted perfectly.

YKK

i have trypophilia and seeing that rip in my knee makes me excited, tis all.

I dont belive you - dont dis the cause

lol ken

It bugs me when a person talks about a thing that the listener doesn't know about and the listener acts like he knows. Real life example:

A tells B: "My new Vibram Five Fingers came in today's Fed Ex delivery!"

B replies "Oh wow, that's terrific!"

A says, "Do you know what those are?"

B: "No! What are they?!"

Second example (specifics slightly modified):

B: "What are you doing this weekend?"

A: "I'm going to watch Salo on repeat for 48 hours."

B: "Oh fun!"

A: "Do you know Salo?"

B: "No, what channel is it on?"

The second is v v annoying, but I kind of feel like the first example is harmless enough, provided A is expressing excitement.

lets not forget those shoes are awful

I take those examples of the Person B getting excited because Person A is excited.

While overhearing that exchange I wasn't sure where to direct my annoyance, at the shoes or B's disinterest. You're right, it was pretty harmless, but her reaction made it obvious she wasn't listening or didn't really care. She could at least have said absently, "Oh, what's that?"

Its worse than sitting with bare buttocks on three pounds of red ground beef!

i think A is more annoying to assume people know what the fuck they're talking about.

or would be interested about vibram five fingers (they are TOES)

i mean, if A was going to ask "Do you know what those are?" in your second question, why did A said the first thing as if you'd think B would know what you're talking about, and then be annoyed that B don't really care to find out about it?

I'd say that the reason that A asked "do you know what that is" is b/c B clearly seemed to have checked out and was essentially saying "that's nice dear."

exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1o8hvhG_o

She could at least have said absently, "Oh, what's that?"

idk if you are shy, sometimes it's hard to say something like "i am not interested in this topic/i am busy, let's wrap-up," so you do it by not asking questions that could branch off into a whole new 20-min conversation. i am biased though because i have a friend who, if i admit i haven't heard of a movie/tv show to her, will describe the whole thing to me in excruciating detail and then give me a detailed critique to top it off. tho i have been able head this off lately by saying "oh i want to see that, don't spoil me for anything!"

as a shy person i also hate when someone tells a joke and i don't get it, but i don't want to say i don't get it because A) embarrassing, or B) i don't care that much, and then one of my friends says TO ME "oh i didn't get that, what did they mean?" now that i think about it, it's that same friend from above who always does that.

I am not particularly shy but your second paragraph aptly describes my reaction to/feelings about a lot of ILX in jokes.

I have a coworker who is incapable of admitting she does not know something, going so far as to make assertions about a thing that she knows nothing about, usually in the form of waiting until I am about 1/4 through what I was going to say and then repeated the beginning of my sentence and extrapolating the end herself. It is just as bizarre, awkward, and annoying as it sounds. Note: I sincerely like this person and she is one of my more normal coworkers.

sometimes I think that I am too irritabloe and that it only makes my life worse - but people seem to be amused by it
I even think such evil thoughts as "old lady walking too slow in front of me - get the fuck out of my way!! roundhouse to the head!!"
but in reality i am very polite

I kinda agree w/ reddening in that I have this one friend who seems to talk exclusively about shit I know nothing about. generally I think as friends you should try to engage topics that are interesting to everyone, it's just this guy has vast knowledge of classical music and opera and finds he doesn't have a lot of people to talk to it about, so I understand.

Still, I feel sheepish because he talks at length about things I've never heard of prior to even confirming that I know what it is about so I practically feel forced to just nod and go "oh yea I know that" or else I have to then sit and listen for another five minutes to him explaining what it is.

(He's a good guy, just...hard to hold your own in a cnovo!)

I have another coworker who is the opposite of this in that she assumes nobody has any idea what she is ever talking about, specifically re: music, which on the one hand I get because our workplace is full of squares but on the other hand, I fucking know who Reverend Horton Heat is, sheesh.