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

I cannae stand earbuds, wont wear them. Hate things in my ears, I have the most massive IA freakout about things in ears. So I stick with phat cans on my head. I dont care if I look silly (I only wear em at work anyway, not while out walking - too dangerous. As evidenced by the lass who was hit by a train te other day cos she had headphones on and ignored a shut boomgate....)

and ignored a shut boomgate...

I wouldn't skip over this part quite so quickly.

"What could this protective barrier possibly be doing here, inexplicably next to this train track? Pshaw, it's probably nothing."

Maybe the headphones obscured her vision. Did you ever think of that, Laurel?

That's a good point, she might have been wearing them over her eyes.

Don't zing the deceased

Ha yeah obv she was an idiot for opening a shut gate (i mean wtf) but on top of that she did so cos one train had already gone past and was in the station, she stupidly thinks she's good to go. Ppl start shouting/screaming at her another trains coming from the other direction, she doesnt hear them, splart.

Its happened quite a lot here latetly, Either a lot of ppl are offing themselves via train, or there are a lot of Very Stupid Ppl around.

retail:

Being in a shop, not finding the thing you are looking for.

So you ask.

Good = "Um, no I don't think we stock that"

Bad=repeating the name of the item like it's a totally alien concept and/or imaginary.

Seriously, just say the first. Not reply, spacily, "Self... Raising... Flower?"

haha i was trying to buy a little battery-powered traveller's clock at waterloo station two weeks ago

the salespeople looked at me like i'd said "do you sell steam-powered ipods"

(obv my mobile is a perfectly good traveller's clock, but i was giving a workshop and suspected (correctly) that the room would have no wall-clock, so i would only know how much time i'd used and still had by looking at my mobile (ftb looks rude)) (i was projecting from a laptop and could use its clock, but it still entails a bit of old person's peering)

(i actually bought one from the waterloo boots just last year, same reason, but broke it DURING the workshop as i flailed my arms around making an important point about elegant writing)

That's kind of awesome (about breaking the clock).

i dont understand the dvr beef at all. how about stopping the recording and recording what you want??

- people who force open the lift doors in a building with 500 lifts and service seriously every 12 seconds

- trebly so when they have that "OH HAI I JUST HIJACKED YR LIFT" look on their faces

I have gotten to the point where I actually call people out if they do this and then go TO THE FIRST FLOOR. there are STAIRS next to the lifts.

Seriously, just say the first. Not reply, spacily, "Self... Raising... Flower?"

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and then they go to the shop manager and say "Benny, do we stock.. um... sorry sir what was it you said?"

Similar to the lift thing is people holding open the doors on tube trains: there is another train coming in 2 minutes, people!

Okay, don't call people out because they use the elevator instead of the stairs. You cannot determine just by looking at someone what his or her physical limitations are, and when you act as though you can, you're being a nosy, judgmental, presumptuous jerk.

Shops that say they're 'auditioning' for new staff, rather than 'hiring'.

I always repeat what it is the customer asks for just in case I have heard them incorrectly. nb I work at an airport so some of the accents I hear can be tricky to decipher especially if other customers are talking to me at the same time.

That's fine. I can tell the difference.

• gah the txt files and nfo files and sample videos and screencaps packaged with every torrent.. wtf i don't need all this crap.. even if i uncheck them, Transmission still downloads parts.. horrifying.

Okay, don't call people out because they use the elevator instead of the stairs. You cannot determine just by looking at someone what his or her physical limitations are, and when you act as though you can, you're being a nosy, judgmental, presumptuous jerk.

Yeh, I was gonna say, even though it is annoying to think that somebody held an elevator just to go up one floor when the stairs are available, you really never know if he or she has some impairment that prevents using the stairs. Unless that person stopped the door by doing some Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon moves to stop the door. Then you can feel pretty confident about schooling him or her.

I take the elevator one floor because stairs hurt sometimes.

Man, does it bug me when people drive the same make, model and color car as cop cars.

What does legitimately annoy me is that the dingball who works on the second floor pushes the elevator button and then takes the stairs. I assume he presses it hoping it will come in a second or two, and when it doesn't, he walks. But there is an indicator by the button that says where the car is!

xp haha yes

fish bones

that the google bar says:

+Kerm Gmail Calendar Documents Photos Sites Web More Kermy Kerm 0 Share…

even though i never ever ever use Calendar, Photos, or Sites... rarely use Documents... but I use Reader all day every day and it's under "More".. and why can this bar tell me i have Google+ notices (never) but can't tell me about new gmail? And do i really need my name twice? come on, Googs.

This morning I was near IA about the idiot in front of me that twice (TWICE!) sat through a red light but just as it turned green decided then was the perfect time to start digging in the back seat for something, oblivious to the light changing.

I hope you laid on the horn. That's the only reasonable response.

Eh, no, I hate people who lay on their horn like that. I feel like a couple quick blasts gets the point across w/out being obnoxious.

Kerm, that annoys me as well. There are ton of ppl complaining about this on MSG boards I've read.

Monosodium Glutamate boards

Kerm, that's bugged me for ages. I alway want to use Maps yet I can't move it to the main bar.

this one is innocuous, as i know it has to happen and hence shouldn't be annoyed.

that said, i fucking HATE when i am in a queue and someone crosses through it in front of me, and to a lesser extent behind me. god this is so annoying, i purposely stand close to the person in front to stop this happening.

What else are we supposed to do when a queue crosses a path of circulation? Jump over you guys?

• People in the inside lane of a four-lane avenue that decide to turn their left-turn blinker on after I pull up behind them. Hey buddy, thought we were livin' life in the fast lane.

• On television when (A.) the phone rings too quickly between rings and (B.) the answering machine (answering machine?!) picks up after three rings.

I would get really bored watching a show that accurately portrayed the time we have to wait to leave a message.

Do people not have answering machines anymore? I have one built-in to my home phone. Or is it that people don't have landlines anymore.

Most people seem to use a cellphone exclusively. We have a landline, but it's got voicemail on it. That's just us.

• When I double-click on a word to copy it, you know what? I want the whole word. That includes the 's at the end of Shoney's too.

Same goes for Web addresses. If there are two letters on either side of a period with no space, it's likely all one unit.

Per this CDC study I just looked up, in 2008, 20% of households surveyed had no landlines, only wireless phones. This rate increased rapidly, with a 2.7 percentage point increase in the first six months in 2008. So this figure is surely higher now.

increased rapidly over the two year duration of the survey, I meant to say.

The only reason we have a landline is because I have a hard time hearing on cordless phones, much less cell phones. The international calls are a bit easier to handle on the landline. And ten years ago, I was able to snag a number from the "old" prefix. SKyline-8, yo.

It's not even a real landline though. It's digital voice through Comcast. So in theory, I could take that prefix with me to a cell, but you've still got points 1 and 2.

The old woman in front of me in the queue at the supermarket today, who didn't have any shopping and who I thought was with the person in front until she started telling me off for putting my shopping on the conveyor belt (behind her of course). It turns out she was "saving a place" in the queue for her husband and his bloody massive trolley of stuff.

aw hell no

HULK SMASH

the cleaner just took the plastic cup off my desk and threw it away *whilst i was sat here*. just because it's 'disposable' doesn't mean you can only use it once.