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

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

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that the google bar says:

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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.

Did you tell the cleaner to give it the fuck back?

koogsy, I had to write "No es basura" on my cup that I used to keep on my desk. In our current offices the cleaning staff only takes out what's in your garbage can, but at the old place they used to throw things away from our desks every night!

cup is usually on a coaster a metre to the right (because computers and liquids don't mix) and i can't see it unless i turn my chair. so i didn't notice the cleaner take it until i went to fill it up.

Weird.

Our cleaner doesn't throw things away unless they are in the trash can. Though I've never used them, we have stickers that say

PLEASE THROW OUT

POR FAVOR TIRALO

PROSZE WYRZUCIC

We used to have these cupholder shelves in the hallway of the radio station since you weren't supposed to bring liquids into the studios.

Too many times I'd be producing an evening show, open the door a crack to reach for a Coke only to find it had been taken away by the cleaning crew. 65¢ for nothing.

Grrr. That reminds me of working at Ruby Tuesday where wait staff used styrofoam cups on a designated shelf for soft drinks during our shifts. Each shift, it was the side work of the last server cut to throw away any cups left on the shelf. There was one guy who, if he was on cup duty, would throw them all away the minute he was cut. Even though everyone was still working and using their cups, and even though he would still be around for HOURS.

He was a little weaselly prick who was in the Army Reserves and he liked to be act very "by the book" about shit like that.

And he always labeled his cup and signed his check-out paperwork with his Army ID number.

That last bit is really the key.

Also, he was 19 years old, gay and out. Or he was gay and out until he "chose" to be straight because it was the practical thing to do.

It turns out she was "saving a place" in the queue for her husband and his bloody massive trolley of stuff.

pretty sure this is actually illegal

Guantanamo-able, I reckon.

even better if the husband was doubling down in another queue, where she could join *him* if he got to the front first.

I'm amazed and made IA by the number of people who (and the frequency with which they do it) say to me, "Wow, you've lost weight!", when my weight hasn't changed in at least 5 years. Obviously I register in people's memories as a big fat lump.

Maybe you just have, in their minds, a "big" personality?

My IA is the tendency for people to say Euro over Euros, when referring to an amount. Do you say dollar or pound or yen? Well, maybe you do say yen, but still.

Man, I hate that weight thing. I usually say something ornery like "Oh no! I hope not!" or "You're right! I'd better have pie for lunch before this gets too out of hand."

I get that a lot, even though I have weighed the same thing for about five years, too. I think it's because people want to compliment me but their broken little brains can't think of something nice to say about how a fat person looks other than to suggest that I've lost weight. Not to say that the same goes for you, JM. That's just my theory for me. Also my coworkers are almost universally cretinous boobs with no social skills.

Some people say pound singular

I don't like people who leave long voicemail messages asking you to do them a very big favor the next week (like watch their kids), then never get back to you with confirmation before the day arrives. And then you finally reach them and ask what's up, and they say, oh, sorry, I flaked, I figured it out myself/got someone else to do it.

they are thinking about changing BST / GMT again. every fucking 6 months they say this and nothing ever happens. wish they'd shut up.

That's such a permanent peeve on my part (moving daylight savings/summer time around) that I hardly bother to mention it anymore.