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

Yes.

Dan, what type of backpack do you take to work with you?

Well, yeah, but there are a lot of common courtesy things people should be expected to do, but don't bother when it comes to public transport.

Oh yeah SEE ALSO: kitchen warnings like "hot pan" and "right behind"!! Those things mean, "Stay where you are and don't make any sudden movements." They emphatically do not mean TURN AROUND REALLY FAST TO SEE WHAT I'M CARRYING.

Laurel OTM. Announcing "Behind you!" "On your left!" (or "behind!" and "left!") saves everyone a lot of grief, and they are good for use in daily life outside of restaurants. I also like the phrase a server at my last restaurant job popularized: "Watch your parts!" though it wasn't specific enough to be useful.

Dan, what type of backpack do you take to work with you?

A Tumi computer backpack.

BTW the slide maneuver usually only happens after 500 people suddenly cram onto the train and I've been too engrossed in a book to notice until someone sticks an armpit in my face.

DJP posts itt today are all ripe for "ILM quoted out of context".

DJP must have i: a naturally slouchy posture (bad in singers) or ii: shoulders he can dislocate at will (cool!)

I do slouch a lot but I think the real secret is that I keep my backpack straps very, very loose

People who don't understand the Law of Conservation of Stress. I know your emotional blowup was very cathartic, but you didn't ask my permission before you offloaded your stress into my brain, or thank me afterward. Couldn't you have just screamed into a pillow for ten minutes?

Oh yeah SEE ALSO: kitchen warnings like "hot pan" and "right behind"!! Those things mean, "Stay where you are and don't make any sudden movements." They emphatically do not mean TURN AROUND REALLY FAST TO SEE WHAT I'M CARRYING.

I know it's the most stupid thing you can do (and thus rationally annoying to the other party), but I get startled easily, so coming up from nowhere and saying anything abrupt will make me jump out of my skin. It's just inevitable.

Do you work in a kitchen?

Fortunately for everybody, no.

Probably no harm done, then!

Yeah, but after the first couple times, you know what to do.

It's like folding sheets with your partner, one of you has to lift to the left and one to the right. After a couple times you do it the same way.

After the first couple of times you get a 500º sautee pan to the neck you figure out what to do.

for extremely packed trains or buses, people just need to remove their backpacks before boarding, it's not terribly complicated

Yessssss and then set in on the ground between your feet.

Some clown wearing a backpack with his filthy sneakers tied to it kept brushing the soles of his shoes against my clothes, which required we have a little conversation about train manners and resulted in him removing the bag and apologizing profusely. Cretin.

TBF clowns do have to carry quite large shoes with them

Haha he was wearing chef pepper pants, which are clown appropriate as well.

I do slouch a lot but I think the real secret is that I keep my backpack straps very, very loose

okay but don't many backpacks have the slide-adjuster conveniently located at the front of the shoulder? even if the straps are adjusted tightly, all it takes is a quick flip with your thumb and hey presto, straps are looser!

i understand that space is often hard to negotiate but phrases like "pardon me" and "i'm sorry" are perfectly suited for this sort of situation. simple courtesy is all I ask and expect of other humans, and yet they constantly disappoint.

Also bus-related: When it's packed, and a few people get off leaving empty seats, and the standing people don't sit in the seats even though it would make more room for the rest of the standing people (and usually stand blocking access to the seats as well).

How you have to click twice on someone's FB profile pic if you want to see it properly bc it takes you to the photo album first.

- putting a new game into your xbox that requires a system update and said system update changes your dashboard so it looks wrong and the menus all make slightly different noises.

- Happily anticipating a certain food and then having to eat something else instead.

People who don't understand the Law of Conservation of Stress. I know your emotional blowup was very cathartic, but you didn't ask my permission before you offloaded your stress into my brain, or thank me afterward. Couldn't you have just screamed into a pillow for ten minutes?

thank you for this

- Happily anticipating a certain food and then having to eat something else instead.

― FLIP FLOPPING HILL BILLY! (reddening), Thursday, 1 September 2011 06:43 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

- ordering reliable comfort food that's all completely wrong when it comes out

Happily anticipating a certain food and then having to eat something else instead.

i've found that i am ever-increasingly "upset" by impromptu changes of any sort -- even if the change is to something i might like better. combine this with my general inability to make plans and i've created a recipe for never doing anything happily.

ugh it's like i'm 80 yrs old already

People who don't understand the Law of Conservation of Stress. I know your emotional blowup was very cathartic, but you didn't ask my permission before you offloaded your stress into my brain, or thank me afterward. Couldn't you have just screamed into a pillow for ten minutes?

I really really fervently mentally OTMed this when I read it, but then of course I responded to the crowded-train complaint post because that offered far greater opportunities for hyperbolic blow-ups.

On a slightly related note to the backpacks in peak hour thing: whats with this sudden trend of businesspeople using those long-handled wheely bags AS DAY TO DAY WORK BRIEFCASES. Theyre for AIRPORT TRAVEL, not for you to be a lazy cunt who cant be bothered carrying your laptop in a regular briefcase or satchel in yr HAND. The amount of tools I have seen blithely walking around Flinders st station concourse, dragging one of these fuckin things behind them in such a manner they wildly careen all over the place and HIT PEOPLE IN THE ANKLES... &^%%^$%#

ia: getting stuck sitting next to the batshit aspie for the whole 2 weeks of the work training course

update: the aspie "will not be with us any longer," per the manager

they're going to kill him?

People who set the body text of their emails to any size bigger than 13pt, like this bright blue 18pt monstrosity I just got. Are you emailing a longwinded query to your colleagues, or are you designing a metre-high poster to stick up at reception?

Argh yes we have one customer who sends emails using that dreadful Outlook Express stationery stuff, so all his emails have a background on them to make them look like a bloody spiral notebook. And his company logo/sig file thingy is in Papyrus. Ugh. Lovely old bloke but really. So unprofessional! :/

a few people get off leaving empty seats, and the standing people don't sit in the seats even though it would make more room for the rest of the standing people (and usually stand blocking access to the seats as well)

this is annoying but on the other hand if you and several other people are standing and 1 or 2 seats become free it looks bad to rush too eagerly to the seats, esp if other people standing might have a better claim (older, more awkwardly positioned, have been there longer, etc)

so you leave it a moment in the hope that someone else will make the first move, and then nobody ends up sitting down. mental note to be more decisive about claiming one at this point, and not imagine everyone else thinking "oh well you're really fat, of course you took the seat"

grrr at people who get on a bus with loads of free seats but still stand in the narrow bottleneck by the exit

xp: i overheard two of my colleagues designing some invitation or something and one of them starts talking about how the font looked "egyptian". i can't wait to see if it's papyrus.

- Happily anticipating a certain food and then having to eat something else instead.

― FLIP FLOPPING HILL BILLY! (reddening), Thursday, 1 September 2011 06:43 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

- ordering reliable comfort food that's all completely wrong when it comes out

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:17 (9 hours ago) Bookmark

I was ill with a bad cold last winter and managed to drag myself to Waitrose across the road to get some nourishment. I came across a French onion soup, which I thought would be perfect to soothe the winter bug. I love French onion soup - it's one of life's pleasures, but sadly when I got home and flung it in the microwave, I found it to be tasteless, watery and way too sweet. Really disappointing - I know it's a shop-bought soup, but still Waitrose are supposed to be better than this, non?

Oh readymade soups are the worst for disappointment. There's a place downstairs at my work that specialises in soups and rolls, and I got a minestrone from there a while back and it was all mealy beans and watery tomatoey liquid. I could have made better myself. I gotta stop being lazy about bringing lunch in, I make it better than shit i ever buy.

/braggin.

Fennel Seeds on a bun - why?? How would this improve anything??

cosine with having to barge through people standing in almost-impregnable clumps in the middle of the bus just so i can take one of the like EIGHT luxuriously empty seats in the back. do people think those seats will take hours to come back from? that they'll somehow miss their stop? i mean in some ways i should just be like whatever, more seating for me.

On a slightly related note to the backpacks in peak hour thing: whats with this sudden trend of businesspeople using those long-handled wheely bags AS DAY TO DAY WORK BRIEFCASES. Theyre for AIRPORT TRAVEL, not for you to be a lazy cunt who cant be bothered carrying your laptop in a regular briefcase or satchel in yr HAND. The amount of tools I have seen blithely walking around Flinders st station concourse, dragging one of these fuckin things behind them in such a manner they wildly careen all over the place and HIT PEOPLE IN THE ANKLES... &^%%^$%#

i actually don't understand people who bring a bag or briefcase to work every day. are you working at home? for FREE?

I with i had a breifcase - I d feel like Dad

I with youth hadth onthe tooth

yeah, I see yoru place in the Astros

Oh yeah SEE ALSO: kitchen warnings like "hot pan" and "right behind"!! Those things mean, "Stay where you are and don't make any sudden movements." They emphatically do not mean TURN AROUND REALLY FAST TO SEE WHAT I'M CARRYING.

I would always make the dadjoek "Hot stuff comin' through... and also I'm carrying scalding liquids"

a sign near my house warns walkers to use EXTREME CAUTION where the footpath goes to a sidewalk - as if the sidewalk has dragonso n it or something

I would always make the dadjoek "Hot stuff comin' through... and also I'm carrying scalding liquids"

x-D

Corey I don't know how to tell you this, but that's happening and countless restaurants all around the world right now and around the clock.

I admitted myself it was lame!

Knitting on the train during crowded rush hour traffic. What makes you think this is okay?

I do it jon and will continue forever as Jesus holds my hands

Well Jesus doesn't ride my route, so go for it I fuess.

He is in your heart always, and sometimes your liver