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

Laurel, I like "Be well," but I just can't bring myself to use it! It's the spiritual connotation that keeps me from saying it. And TBH when someone says it to me or signs off an email with it, it feels a little too personal.

xp - yes, Veg, the hippiness of it would sound weird coming from me!

And the two people I first heard/read say it regularly were both somewhat condescending psychotherapist friends, which is maybe why it makes me itchy now.

frogbs, when I was waiting tables I would often say "Enjoy" or if I knew the diners were going to a play, "Good night. Enjoy Wicked," and half the time they would say "You too," which was funny. Sometimes they would catch themselves and make a joke about it.

I broke myself of "Can I get" and now say "May I have."

Saying "uh-huh" or "yup" instead of "you're welcome" is next.

I'll probably hang on to "Have a good one," though.

It's okay! I don't say "be well" to everyone because, yeah, it's kind of personal. But to people I already like, I do.

the problem is there just aren't very many good responses. "Good night! Enjoy Wicked!" "Yes! I will!"

Thank you! Good night!

the one that always bothered me on a subconscious level was "drive safe" when it's not raining or snowing and its coming from someone who isn't your Mom. because the implication is "please don't get into a horrible wreck" which is understandable but also kinda suggests "wait, am I an unsafe driver? Could I die on my journey?" I mean, all they're trying to do is be nice!

I find it strange when, instead of "Get well soon" people say "Feel better" - it doesn't sound right and I've only noticed people saying this in the last two years or so.

Yes. "Thank you, here is $20" is also appropriate.

xp - YES! It doesn't piss me off, but it's weird. I remember when I was 18 I was leaving work and a co-worker said "Good night, be safe," and I asked her what she was talking about b/c I was driving 2 miles through the country in perfect weather. She said that it's just nice to wish people a safe trip.

Cars are horrible missiles from hell piloted by people who you wouldn't want flipping your burger! I'll take all the blessings I can get if I'm getting in a car.

2 miles through the country in perfect weather.

Perfect weather doesn't hold the drunks off.

Any time I take a cab or car srvc, I do wish the driver a safe evening. :( I guess I started doing it when there was a spate of shootings of livery cab drivers a few years back, and I just kept going. Since I'm usually drunk/half asleep at the time, I don't think I can stop now.

i just say "peace out" or if the cab driver's really cute i'll go for "namaste"

That's very different from someone taking a routine drive home. xp

Why do you think that "routine" = "not gonna die"?

I assume you get my point, so I'm not engaging.

I don't get your point, but I wish you well on your travels, Je55e.

- Cashiers who start scanning groceries and then scan my store discount card.

― pplains, Monday, January 16, 2012 1:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a cashier once asked me if i wanted to give her my card before or afgter. when i asked what the diff was she said a lot of people preferred to have the card scanned after because they like to see all the 'discounts' come up at once. so i guess they just do it at the end now. also, they can start scanning without waiting for every fool to look through their bag/wallet for their card.

Cars are horrible missiles from hell piloted by people who you wouldn't want flipping your burger! I'll take all the blessings I can get if I'm getting in a car.

― beachville, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its just a weird fact of life that every time you drive anywhere theres a small chance that you're going to die in a terrible accident and it sucks to be reminded of that

yeah esp if you grow up in a more rural setting. one of my best friends in high school, another bro's girlfriend, a casual acquaintance on the baseball team, and a couple others i knew were killed in car accidents around town.

I want to see my discounts appear as they happen.

I don't mind people wishing me safe journey's because I think it's a nice gesture but on Long Island a lot of people shortened it to just, "Safe home!" which I thought sort of weird.

journeys not journey's

I don't mind people wishing me safe journey's because I think it's a nice gesture but on Long Island a lot of people shortened it to just, "Safe home!" which I thought sort of weird.

― ENBB, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:45 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've heard this expression before and for some reason presume it to be Canadian.

I've said it/heard it a lot when people are leaving on bikes, because it really really matters that they have a safe trip, because there's hardly any such thing as a fender-bender on a bike, up against cars.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa309/njhancock/Braves/JeffFrancoeurSafeAtHome.jpg

http://www.safeandvaultstore.com/images/tiles/Home-Safes2.jpg

Have not heard this expression but it is full of enough purity of soul and glad tidings that it could be one of ours.

I actually say it now sometimes because it makes me feel like someone's Italian mother with a fabulous hairdo and great accent and I sort of love that.

"Safe home" is very common in Ireland

The thing about "be safe" type greetings, or even with family, saying "I love you" as the last words of the conversation –––– it is this built-in memento mori. "You could die soon, don't let that happen, goodbye!" That is defs the reason my mom & dad taught me we always say "I love you" to one another before hanging up the phone or leaving home. It is nice to hear from loved ones that you love them but all the stories of "I told her 'be sure to pick up a post-hole digger' on the way out, and she got crushed by a tractor. I wish my last words had been 'I love you' and not a to-do list; I will always regret that." It is like some talismanic insurance against death-related regrets.

NOT THAT THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE; families can be together forever & etc.

ha frogbs said it less like an eyeliner kid; good for him

It is like some talismanic insurance against death-related regrets.

totally but i still do it in the form of 'drive safely' every day to pp + kids as they leave. it annoyed the hell out of pp for the longest time so now i just whisper it as they walk out the door like a little prayer to the universe.

when i lived in australia my cat was an outdoor cat so every morning and night i would say to her 'be good, be safe, be happy'. now she's an indoor american cat so i dont say it anymore.

oh and it annoyed my cat too but everything annoys my cat because shes a cat

NOT THAT THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE; families can be together forever & etc.

not everyone's religion has a 'be together forever' clause, abbbottt :P

abbs, what's an eyeliner kid? Never heard that term!

Not innocuous by any means, but I'm getting increasingly pissed off at drivers wanting to turn right on red and are so impatient with you for daring to cross the street IN THE CROSSWALK AND WITH THE WALK signal that they inch forward at you. Just an fyi people, this will only make me walk SLOWER.

I definitely drag my feet, even pause, when jerks do that. Especially when it's cold! Fuck you, warm single driver!

-not putting "to" after write, as in

"Write Congress Now!"

abbs, what's an eyeliner kid? Never heard that term!

I guess whatever catachall term for whatever eyeliner-wearing death-obsessed subculture of the day my 8th graders are in that leads them to end their stories with "AND THEN SHE COMMITED SUISIDE" bcz I am p sure they don't get called goths anymore.

I mean I was totally one of those kids in my day "DID YOU KNOW EVERYTHING IS ABOUT DEATH" and I guess I just toned down the eyeliner over the years but not the purple prose.

automatic response "Thanks, you too"

Which doesn't always work with "Happy Birthday", for instance.

"SU-SU-SUISIDE...
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...WOAH-OH!

Not innocuous by any means, but I'm getting increasingly pissed off at drivers wanting to turn right on red and are so impatient with you for daring to cross the street IN THE CROSSWALK AND WITH THE WALK signal that they inch forward at you. Just an fyi people, this will only make me walk SLOWER.

I have been known to stop and explain "RELAX. I HAVE THE FUCKING LIGHT." I'm kind of an aggro pedestrian and going to get shot one day.

I've been honked at for crossing on the walk signal. Oh to carry a golf club...

tbh, I've often slapped the backs of cars that've nearly run me down in the crosswalk, as they're passing. It's great fun, but it'll probably end w. me shot

I've done that before, mostly to cabbies who are the WORST at such behavior. Been tempted to hock up a nice muscousy loogie on the windows before, but that would probably end with shot.

you have to excuse the cabbies a little. big city cabbies have such a miserable job, you have to expect them to be crabby

Uh no I don't have to excuse anyone threatening to hit my with a car!