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

When someone asks for podcast recommendations and all a person can recommend is NPR ones.

A guy on my bus just turned around called to a person across the aisle and two rows back to turn down his music bc it is sort of audibly leaking from his ear buds. Is that weird? It was only about as loud as paper rustling or the sound of typing on a computer. He's not obviously a weirdo or anything.

Not IA but this seemed like the place to ask.

SWEATING. I AM SO TIRED OF SWEATING. WHERE IS WINTER??

It's over here, come and get it whenevs.

When people walk their dogs along busy streets without a leash.

This for all the logical, obvious reasons that should be clear to any thinking person, but also bc personally a former neighbor with a fantastic Aus Shep named Duke who the neighbor swore did not need to walk on a leash and, yup, Duke got hit by a car, right in front of our house, and I heard the impact from my apt and it sucked.

As the frequent walker of a tiny dog that looks like a rodent or a snack to very large dogs and is sometimes an asshole to other tiny dogs, I hate those people. "Oh but my dog is nice, it's fine". Fuck you.

Maybe I'm getting really old here but I have found myself getting IA at girls older than say 10 years old wearing winter hats that look like stuffed animals. This seems to be a really big thing amongst a certain segment of the undergrad population that surrounds me.

Similarly there is a girl here at work who added this Animal Ears extension to her headset and she looks completely ridiculous. And sticks out like a sore thumb (since y'know nobody else has em). The novelty got old fast...

xp Hahaha YES. To both of those things, but I'm laughing only at the second. I saw an honest to god old lady wearing an animal hat a couple of days ago and that was absurd enough to be great. But if you're older than 16 or younger that 70, no.

Although standing on the platform and catching site of one in a speeding train makes it look like there are raccoons riding public transpo and that is a nice benefit.

i will say that these hats are pretty damn awesome:

http://billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com/store/osc/images/IMG_4777.jpg

I saw a really bro-y meathead guy wearing one at an airport and lolled on the spot

Barky little dogs that don't know their place, for the millionth time. Last night I passed a lady walking a very small dog (chihuahua probs?) that clearly wanted to eat my face off, what with the snarling and practically choking itself to get to me as I walked by. I think the owner was on the phone and did nothing about it.

or this one

http://billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com/store/osc/images/IMG_4778.jpg

Never seen anyone wearing either of those hats. Hope to maintain this spotless record.

I will rep for animal hats. My little sister wears them and she's adorable.

my friend knitted me a hat with devil horns on the top and little strings that I can tie under my chin with whatever you call the pointy bits at the end of the devil's tail or a pitchfork? ;_; but tbh I rarely wear it out because it does make me feel a bit too old for stuff like that.

I got my girlfriend a woolly hat that looks liek a cheezburger. She doesn't wear it very much though :-(

ahhh, memories

http://i.imgur.com/mHWGB.jpg

frogbears

I can get with the hyper realism hats here to some degree, I'm just hating the cartoony ones.

I blame this for some reason on Pokemon, which along with energy drinks are the biggest "I am old and will never understand" generation gap markers for me.

I like the animal hats trend. Wouldn't suit my personality *at all*, mind.

I've seen guys on the CTA wearing cutesie animal hats or pixie-ish knit caps with really long tops, which bugs me way more than young women wearing them (I'm willing to consider that I might be the victim of outdated gender norms) but this I saw a really bro-y meathead guy wearing one at an airport and lolled on the spot seems like it might be kind of cute? Like he's a gentle giant with a heart of butter. (shutupjenny)

yeah I don't see what's really wrong with it. I mean this is a culture where grown men buy Cookie Monster T-shirts and wear them at parties. the animal stuff is cute. also, kind of sexy. but, not really.

I prefer full on furry attire. Don't half ass it.

http://in10words.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/furry2.jpg

L-R frogbs, Jeff

When that finally loaded on my phone I was drinking water and it is the closest I have ever come to an actual spit take.

hahaha omg

I can't possibly the be only person who wants to know the background on that Frogs hat, can I??

I mean on the picture of him and some other guy with the hats and the matching shirts.

http://www.anatomorphex.com/images/news/08cTropicThunder.jpg

hahhaha

Wow, I totally forgot about that movie.

I live right next to a huge university med center, and you can drive through/around most of it on regular surface streets, since it's right in the middle of a very built up neighborhood.

At least once a week if not multiple times in the week as I drive home from work, I get trapped behind the slow-driving not-know-where-they're-going people who are looking for visitor parking/emergency entrance/general admission (on the other side of the campus)...they ALWAYS come in from the wrong side and drive soooooooo grandpa slow and put on their turn signal and just about to tur- oh, wait, not there...swerve as they look at directions on printout etc...turn signal turning her- oh, wait, not there either...round the roundabout at least twice...zzzzzz

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

--people who see an elevator filled with a decent amount of people but with still enough room for several more people to get on, grimacing, and going "ehh, I'll just take the next one" as if it's too full to get on.

--conversely, people who don't move all the way back when they enter the elevator so even though there's plenty of room, the elevator appears full because everybody is all bunched towards the front

— elevators

elevators are the new tube trains

--people already seated in the aisle and middle seats on an airplane who, instead of getting up and moving into the aisle and letting you in (if you have the window seat), just pull their legs up and force you to squish by them.

actually almost cut myself last time that happened cuz the space was so small I tripped on the middle guy and landed hard in my seat, with my arm smacking the armrest

plane crashed too iirc

eh it happens.

I don't get the irrational hate for people waiting for the next elevator since it seems like a win/win situation for all parties. (1.) Person who waits for the next one gets to roll the dice on a more spacious elevator and if they've got the time, what's the hurry? and (2.) People already on the elevator don't have to share breathing space with that loser and get to stretch their elbows they own damn selves.

The real elevator crime is when people call multiple elevators to the floor and take the first one that arrives, leaving the others to open to an empty floor. Only works when there's at least one that is on a separate system from the rest, but I see greedy and callous people doing this in my building often.

^^i would do this

I do this as my school bc I never know whether both elevators are working.

Today someone was running for our elevator and I went to push door open and instead pushed door closed and felt terrible.

I am the "never mind" person that balks at a semi-crowded elevator. It's mainly claustrophobia. The more people in an elevator, the more anxious I get, even if there's room.

Don't worry, Jenny--I think "Door close" is a fake button in almost every single elevator.

Yeah, BUT there were a lot of ppl in the elevator and I was really laying on that button to get the door for her so it looked like I was actually trying to close it in her face. My guilt is that I could have opened the door of I pushed the correct button and also I looked like a horrible person.

People who say "i-r-l" irl; etc.

Ha ha. I have started saying "tbh" irl.

tbh in full form isn't much better, but it's a few levels less annoying than starting a sentence with "actually"

I don't care what you do re: elevators so long as you don't take it for only one floor when you appear to be physically able to take the stairs that happen to be right next to the elevator.

(hangs head)