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

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.

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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!

they dont actually hit pedestrians though. maybe give 'em a scare, but cabbies toe the line pretty well.

I've seen three people hit by cabs in the last six months!

Not like, bone shattering hit, but nicking them by engaging in exactly the behavior I described above!

no, they do hit people. and not uncommonly. i mean, as somebody who's seen car vs. pedestrian. pedestrians are unprotected idiots clad in textiles, whereas cars are idiots hurtling through space in gigantic hunks of metal. certain rules protect everybody, like the crosswalk. crosswalk is easy: don't go through it if somebody is in it or about to be in it. the end. if you're in a crosswalk and somebody comes screaming past you, you're well within your rights (if unwise) to smack their car.

Not like, bone shattering hit, but nicking them by engaging in exactly the behavior I described above!

but not enough to actually knock anyone down? tbh i've never heard of that happening but i'll take your word for it

i agree with remy here, pedestrians can be stupid too. here they just run out in the middle of the road, forcing 4 lanes to slow down for them. nobody's good at it.

many xps - makes sense, Abbs, I like it! Thanks!

An Open Letter to the NYC Cab Driver Who Hit Me

(trigger warning: Cracked.com)

I friend of mine was hit and killed by a car a little over two years ago and ever since then I occasionally get really really nervous while crossing the street. Just the morning I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye and my heart sort of skipped a beat. I rarely jay walk because of this too. R's right, btw, cabbies are pretty much the worst when it comes to reckless driving.

A friend not "I" friend, obv.

Due to a few diagonal streets, there are several 5-way intersections in Chicago. Those make me particularly nervous when crossing. There is one near my apartment that basically cars will not yield to pedestrians because they fly through it at such high speeds, including a good 5 seconds after the light has turned red. I always have to do a blind spot check and then eventually yield to cars because I don't trust them to stop. This is the worst when a car is turning off the diagonal street onto the N/S street.

Ive stayed in Mexico for a few months and everything you guys are complaining about goes tenfold for some of the cities there. I think the unspoken rule of traffic is that busses have the right of way first, then cars, then pedestrians. Actually busses don't so much have right of way as they are exempt from all traffic laws entirely.

People thinking the phrase "u mad" means "u crazy"

IA: old white men* who treat me like a god damn secretary.

*Before you get your boxers in a twist, I am specifically speaking of the five old white men who do not work here yet who have come into my office asking me to type things, take messages, and deliver documents for them this morning.

People thinking the phrase "u mad" means "u crazy"

Wait, it doesn't?

instead of "old", "white", or "men", can you just say "particular individuals" next time?

Nope.

either way, nothing irrational about that

I thought "u mad" (meaning angry) originated from the camron/bill o reily interview but mYbe I'm wrong?

I thought it did too.

I have no idea! I just always read it as "crazy" unless the context clearly meant "angry." I'm realizing this turns on the presence of a question mark.

U mad? = are you angry?
U mad! = You're crazy!

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IA: old white men* who treat me like a god damn secretary.

I used to sit catty-corner to the office door of a top executive. He had a secretary who sat directly outside his door, but if she wasn't there, red-faced, fat-jowled old white men would come to my desk instead and ask me to do administrative stuff like check his appointments or answer his phone or etc. None of which I could even DO, because I DIDN'T WORK FOR HIM.

Bonus points for when they call you "Honey" or "Sweetie" or ask you to do them "a strawberry flavor."