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

Have I posted yet about my newest adventures at the crazy, creepy Wendy's restaurant near here? I saw a woman setting her sandwich on the table. Not on the wrapper, not on a napkin, ON THE TABLE.

uuungh

Thanks elmo. I'm sure he's seen - and you've heard about - some, uh, crazy, er, shit.... My ex-friend who is starting a masters in mental health therapy recently started a job as a case worker at some kind of low-income mental health clinic. The last time I talked to him, he was trying to figure out if he was obligated to drive his client to her doctor's office in his car if the client wouldn't shower or change after wearing her piss-soaked clothes for who knows how many days.

The thing is, my irritation - which was about a very small tic compared to what a lot of people deal with - was due to the context. This guy was a lawyer himself at a mid-sized firm, waiting in the reception area of another lawyer's office, you know? And I'd bet dollars to donuts he kept his scalp-picking under control once he met with my boss, or when meeting with his clients.

Haha. That last picture above was not at all an exaggeration of his facial contortions.

Bands who constantly update their website/feeds to let you know about concert start time changes at some place in Spain, but don't bother to let you know they have a new CD out

moments after i read Je55e's post, i walked through the lobby of a campus building and saw a guy working on his laptop with his BARE FEET propped up on the little table meant for magazines. i know this school is full of hippies but FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

― sea jasper, a vagina, rose quartz and quartz (reddening), Monday, 22 August 2011 22:16 (2 days ago) Bookmark

I have a mate who comes round and puts his feet (sometimes with shoes on) on my living room table. Okay it's a cheap Ikea job and I'm not really that houseproud, but still I feel (and get made to feel) like a total house-Nazi if I ask him not to do it. Grrr...

Telling your mate off as if you were his mum is uncomfortable, is what I'm saying.

Eh. go mad, put doilies or coasters under his feet.

i'd hope it was more uncomfortable for him. tell him off for making you feel like his mum as well

good point. think i will do this. he's a nice guy when he's sitting still, just been raised kind of bohemianly so asking him not to stick his shoes up on the table gets me an incredulously raised eyebrow. He also has an annoying habit of trying to practise *fucking* juggling in our living room from time to time. And it's not a big place. I think this is where my aforementioned HATRED of juggling stems from.

as tulisa n-dubz said of la roux, WERE YOU RAISED IN A BARN?

My Mum, who's French used to say "Nous sommes pas chez les cowboys"

"Nous ne sommes pas chez les cowboys", even

rational angry at sitting in my closed, air-conditioned car at a stop light and the guy in front of me blows cigarette smoke out the window, which somehow makes it's way through my air ducts and into my car.

i didn't know your mum was french dl! (she probably dropped the "ne" anyway)

He also has an annoying habit of trying to practise *fucking* juggling in our living room from time to time.

i have gone all dan perry with this one

Tracer, yeah pretty much raised to speak French till I was 4 y/o and then forgot most of it when I went to school. But, yeah, regular trips to the Toulouse area helped me retain enough to have a regular conversation.

also. je55e, your curtain rods sound awesome. what did you use to hold them up?

did your mum keeping speaking to you in french after you went to school?

Not so much. Only on holidays or if we had French guests. It was pretty much impossible. I started pre-school chatting French to all the teachers and students (amusingly, I thought all women spoke French and men spoke English) but my sister and I would soon be coming home and speaking English, so it went.

I would NEVER put my feet on someone's coffee table if I didn't know it was OK, but at the homes of friends I visit most, it is definitely OK, as it is in my home, aka chez cowboys. Not with shoes, though.

also. je55e, your curtain rods sound awesome. what did you use to hold them up?

― kkvgz, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I forget how I explained the project above, but it's a vertical pole going from floor to ceiling, with a T joint near the top, from which another steel pipe - the curtain rod - extends to the wall.

The floor-to-ceiling part is necessary b/c on that side there is no wall to which to fasten the rod. If there were, I would just buy a curtain rod.

Dude on the train next to me this morning that kept looking over at my Nook to stare at what I was reading, in the most blatant and not at all subtle ways. Especially considering he had his own Kindle on his lap.

people who post on facebook shit like "why is Deadmau5 so fucking awesome?"

I posted about this in the earthquake thread, but:

Californians being dicks about 5.8 earthquakes in places that never get them. As if the reaction is about the earthquake itself and not the fact that it is ridiculously novel.

Deep Southerners being dicks about Northern heat waves. Yes, you live in the steaming armpit of our nation. Good job.

Cascading dickishness from north to south re the more southerly people's reactions of alarm and paralysis at snowfall and cold that is routine to the more northerly ones. Surprise, surprise: places that don't get much snow are less prepared to manage larger amounts of snow. Superiority of humanity increases as latitude decreases.

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:51 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Out West, Eye Rolls and Jeers for East

I'm sure some of it is good-natured ribbing, I'm also sure that definitely not all of it is.

sack up, pussy

You joke, but that's the genuine reaction of a lot of people in the situations I listed.

I was trying to think what NYCers annoying stereotypical "pfft that's nothing" would be in reaction to, but I dunno.

Everything besides earthquakes, I guess.

that's what makes New Yorkers so endearing though

Crime? Crowding? The smelliness of trash on the sidewalk in August?

building collapses

here are some driving things that make me IA, a series:

1. people backing into parking spaces when there's no clear reason to (ie they need to load things into the back or... no that's the only reason), especially when they suck at it and waste ten seconds of my time trying

-People in general seemingly think it is just fine not to reply to emails

2. figured i'd draw this one out

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4924/peeve.png

pedestrians in general suck

oh my god YES, infuriating

I mean I am generally a very pedestrian-friendly driver but sometimes I just want to floor it into one of those hypotenuse-tracing motherfuckers—it's the only way they'll ever learn

3. in a busy lot, when parking spots are sparse and there's a huge lineup of cars trying to find them, one car decides to camp outside a spot and wait for a family of four to enter their car and buckle their seatbelts and turn the ignition and back out and leave. and after the campers park in their precious spot, you drive a few spaces past and find an open one right there.

xp i know, how the hell do people not realize that there has been a car lurching behind them for fifty yards

4. people who nearly come to a complete stop when they make a turn, on a 30+ MPH street, nearly causing rear-end collisions in the fifteen cars behind them

You're Parking Wrong

Why it's almost always better to back into a space than pull into it head-on

5. yesterday i saw a bumper sticker that said "the meaning of life is to give life meaning." that is not a meaning. that is a purpose. you could just say "the purpose of life is to give life purpose." you can't answer "what does it all really mean, man" with "TO MAKE FARTS" because that doesn't make sense and it sounds like you weren't listening to the question

slate article: ppl who do not know how to leave a parking spot without getting hit are not parking incorrectly, they're just bad drivers

bonus IA: people who give their pets ironic/ironic pop culture ref names. if you're committed to taking care of a sentient being for however many years, at least have enough respect to name it "buttons" and not "baberaham lincoln"

how about 'stephen meowlkmus'

btw where do you live?

meowriel pink
joanna mewsom

Or the classic, "Chairman Meow"

d.c. purrman

cat literally on the tv on the radio

DC area xp

haha well okay that's a pretty bad area to drive. i would still much rather drive there than in nyc, but the beltway/66/95/270 is like an exercise in 'what the fuck are you thinking'