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

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Oh yeh!! I forgot that Follow Friday tweets sometimes are sometimes humorous if you think of FF as Fist Fucking.

Hmm. I really like the extra browser space, but I can't figure out how to get to Tools without the menu bar. I use Tools kind of frequently.

That was a plea for help.

not innocuous, just wanna use this thread to get somewhat angry.

so, I have most all of my accounts set up for auto pay, because I make way more than my bills each month, and I'd rather not think about it, cos it's too easy to forget. My credit card accounts, though, I don't have billpay for most cuz most of the cards it's too hard to set up. So this one card, I missed a miniscule payment in July as I thought I'd already made it.

I found out when I went online, no biggie, I was not even 30 days late with it, and I made both the delinquent payment and the current one. Today, I find a letter in the mail (put on my stupid roommate's pile, so I almost missed it) indicating my ENTIRE credit card balance has been sent to a collections agency, and that I need to furnish a payment for the entire $500+ balance within 30 days.

I contact the CC company, they tell me to disregard the letter, that I'm current. The letter was mailed before I caught up the account, but it was mailed only 5 days prior. So they threaten to turn payments over to collections now when they're only 3 weeks late?

aha...so apparently, they had an old address for me, and when I was late, tried to contact me unsuccessfully, so I guess they thought I was a deadbeat. so they notified the collections agency, who had yet to take over the debt, just sent the letter...but they screwed up and instead of just reporting the delinquent balance, said I owed the whole thing.

I don't know how they had an old address given that they've been sending me things in the mail the last two years, but...whatever.

Keep an eye on your credit score.
(Warning: checking your credit score too often apparently dings your credit score.)

I thought that was a myth? if not, www.freecreditreport.com lied!

in any case what I usually do is jump between these services and their free one week trials to get more than one freebie a year...so that's what I'll do in any case.

not a myth. a real for real thing

that's weird cos their site insists that checking your own credit report has no impact on it, it's a selling point they use to keep refreshing your report.

experian also claims this

Yeah, but one of those is a credit agency and probably can check your score WITH THEM without dinging it.

freecreditreport.com is a bunch of shills who are trying to take advantage of the fact the government really does mandate a free report yearly, but they just try to sell you subscription services and auto-enroll you in bullshit

also, their band sucks

Oh I'm aware of their bully practices, I wrote their VP an angry letter just two months ago.

Can anybody shed more light on how the checking hurts score? Interested in learning more.

Why the hell would you write their VP an angry letter? That is their exact business model, and the only way they make money is through misdirection.

Maybe checking doesn't do anything, unless it's a check to determine if you can get a new card. New card applications ding it.

Yea, hard inquiries do if you have a certain amount of them (like 4-6) in a short period of time.

I wrote them an angry letter because in the midst of trying to cut back monthly expenses, I attempted to cancel two services I had with them, which you can only do over the phone...took 30 minutes because they kept trying to talk me out of it in various ways. I said "no" at least fifteen times and I was using my lunch break to do it.

I realize they don't care, but I like getting the last word.

The one to use is http://www.annualcreditreport.com/
See the FTC sitehere.

I mostly only wound up on the FreeCreditReports due to some third party offer (ie, free movie tickets) if you signed up for a trial. That's how they get ya--offer ya free stuff and hope you forget to cancel in time!

Man, I feel mildly weirded out by Charmin commercials at home. I do not need them in a movie theater.

The ones about the bear with toilet paper stuck to its butt? I hate those.

My dad usually screams "I DON'T WANNA SEE A BEAR W0IPING HIS GODDAMN ASS" when it comes on

Your dad OTM

sorry that should be "wiping", he's not from Lower Uncton...

Credit score trackers do a "soft pull" which doesn't affect your score.

when you're out with a couple and everyone is deciding where to go and the couple have to both decide together since they're no longer individual people and then they can't decide and their weird communication problem and possibly years of disagreements drift over the group like a mist. this happened last night and i wanted to say "can you two go outside and come back in when you've made a joint agreement/had a row etc"

lol towards the end me and my first wife wd basically have fist fights in company

at least if it's an outright fight everyone else can talk about whatever or do best to ignore. but when the discussion of what to do next is infected with this, and everyone is like suddenly in this mass relationship, so annoying.

passive tension is so poisonous, tru

it's weirdly rare to find a couple where there's no problem if eg one of them goes home and the other stays out if they want, though those ones do tend to be pretty solid

looks like I'll have to talk to my roommate about how loud he insists on watching his movies. like I know you have a flat screen and surround sound, but the living room is right outside mine, and I get kinda annoyed when your shitty second-tier action flick sound effects are imprinting themselves on top of Common's "Be".

I listen to shit mondo loud and even this is way too loud for me! to think I got asked to turn down my music/kung fu movies multiple times for crimes less egregious than this.

(ok that's it, headed in there now to tell him off!)

Talking objects in commercials make me irrationally angry

Also shops like butchers or chicken&chips outlets who have as a mascot a cheery-looking version of the animal they kill and serve on a plate. Worst near me is a butcher whose mascot is a big wearing the stripy apron and holding a big knife.

a PIG i mean

http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/

http://thumbnails.hulu.com/228/40022228/40022228_384x288_generated.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1171/952588483_f0ac7095f7_o.jpg

(Found that here - http://www.weirdomatic.com/creepy-ads.html - which is full of greatness.)

in aswer to the thread q.

having to read or, not read but at least look at/register, the sign on name "Aphex Twin … in my vagina?" 50 times per day.

i mean, come on.

Does she even post that much? Or are you boning up for an exam?

she posts a lot. enough for me to notice it.

I was expecting Neanderthal to report back quickly.... Is he ok?

it's weirdly rare to find a couple where there's no problem if eg one of them goes home and the other stays out if they want, though those ones do tend to be pretty solid

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any couple for whom this isn't at least a slightly awkward point at the time is on the rocks imho

This makes me rationally angry: unsolicited opinions from strangers.
Two examples:

1. Last winter, Corey and I were at the grocery store, picking wine to
go with a spicy meal. I chose a muscato that I was reasonably sure was
fruity with a little residual sugar. A young woman who was previously shopping for yogurt stepped over and advised that, maybe I didn't know this, but moscato is a dessert wine and it was way too sweet to drink with dinner. She added that she used to sell wine, so she knew.

I tried to brush her off, but she went on a standard helpful-waiter interrogation, asking what we were looking for in a wine, and what we were eating, finally coming to the obvious conclusion that what we wanted was a Riesling (Corey was patient enough to answer some of her questions).

I filled her in on the gaps in her knowledge of muscato and put the wine in the cart. She said "Okaaay..." with that pained, pitying look of a parent who knows she has to let her child learn from his own mistake, however much she would like to protect the child from the inevitable pain.

2. Today at Home Depot as I was having a worker cut and thread some steel plumbing pipe, another customer asked what I was making. I told him I intended to screw the pipe into flanges on the walls for use as a curtain rod.

He found the threading and use of flanges preposterous. Did I not realize that I was playing with about a 1/16" tolerance?? EVERYONE knows that you use closet rod holders for a project like this! I was throwing away $15 b/c there was no way to achieve the kind of precision necessary for such a project!!! The hubris! THE OVERWEENING PRESUMPTION!!

I told the dude that I was aware of the gamble, and I had planned for errors, and if the whole thing failed, I'd start over. All he had to say then was, "Well, it's not gonna work. You're wasting your money. You need to get closet rod brackets."

Outcomes were that the wine was exactly as expected. The pipe was too short, but I unscrewed it a couple turns, and it is now a curtain rod of NASA-grade perfection.

God that's a long post.

Read it anyway.

i'd think moscato would be a little sweet, but i'd never tell you not to buy it.

Well yeh, syrupy dessert wine is the first think I think of when I think of moscato or muscat grapes, and probably most people do, despite there being a fairly wide variety of styles. My problem isn't with misconceptions, but with that person being a nosy, and being a know-it-all who didn't know what she was talking about.

I appreciate others' helpful observations or suggestions if the person isn't pushy or nosy. Like if I'm looking at a public transportation map and someone asks "Where are you trying to go?" and they are helpful, that is great.

OTOH, if I were saying to a friend "Let's take the #36 bus" someone jumped in with "Where are you going? You're not going to Wrigley Field are you? If you're going to Wrigley, you need to take the Red Line," that'd be overstepping and obnoxious.

There've been times I've been on a bus or tram and overheard ppl talking about something and GETTING IT WRONG but the last thing I'd do is step in and correct them. Thats just effing rude.

Well unless perhaps they were about to swap trams and go the wrong way and didnt know, but tbh even then I've just sat there and thought "eh, they should have looked at google maps before they went out".

I once stepped into a conversation in a music shop when a lady was asking for DVD recommendations for her grandson who was going travelling. The clerk said they didn't have anything like that as it was a small shop, but I jumped in and suggested Koyanisqatsi (sp?) and she bought it and he clerk thanked me :-) But yeah, there's a difference between that and SMDHing at strangers who won't take advice.

I've barged into people's conversations on public transportation when they were clearly going the wrong way. I am really polite about it. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but overhear that you're going to the Museum of Science and Industry. You can take this train there, but it's south and you're heading north." And if they are indeed lost, I'll tell them how to get on the train going the right way. I really like helping tourists, though.

If I overheard people planning a route but it wasn't clear they were headed for certain disaster, I wouldn't say anything, though. I once offered unsolicited assistance to a couple of people trying to get downtown after a baseball game rendered the train inoperably crowded. They had some ridiculous plan involving multiple buses going in a large square when all they had to do was walk a half mile east and take one bus and I just couldn't handle the inefficiency.

I like helping tourists too, and I will sometimes offer help to confused looking folks, by which I mean I wi say something like, "Do you need help?" not saying "where are you trying to go?" or just giving advice based on eavesdropping.