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

sorry

"we can't test your hearing because your ears are full of wax"
"WHAT"

exactly

poor bloke though

Yeah, my husband wasn't at all surprised, I guess he's had a habit of shoving random things in his ears for a long time O_o

wat

Like receipts and treasure maps?

Well, not shoving...but absentmindedly scratching his ear with a toothpick or rolled up piece of paper, or stuff like that.

Actually my Mum had some kind of weird ear eczema and she used to do it too, like sewing needles and shit, TERRIFYING. I used to yell at her all the time to stop it and she thought it was funny that it freaked me out.

old people suck.

http://www.eastsidedavecountry.com/wp-content/uploads/ear-horn.jpg

The Thai grocery store by where I used to live sold ear wax cleaners. Little plastic sticks with stoppers to keep them from going in too far. Kind of weird.

Mr Veg was going to buy his dad an ear trumpet for Christmas one year, but the ones he saw on ebay were too expensive for a joke gift so he shelved the idea.

I was reading an article about earwax consistency and genetics and generally people of se asian descent are more likely to have waxy than oily earwax, whereas it's the other way around for northern europeans? idk, there was some explanation about how different genetics leads to different implements having less success

I have really narrow ear canals apparently, so I usually have to get mine syringed at least twice a year, because they don't naturally clean the way they're supposed to :/

anyway I'll cleanse us of the earwax discussion bc I've been remiss in logging recent IAs, of which I have a few

- bought a coffee at Peet's, where a young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."
It kind of drove me a bit nuts. I get kind of IA about slang that doesnt' match the surroundings. Like, maybe if it was a Jamba Juice, or a PacSun store, but dude. They're playing classical music over the PA. It's not a hipster paradise itt. But I also think this IA proves that I am old, old OLD. :(

- local food Co-op has the smallest parking lot known to man. It is alwasy full. It's impossible to get a parking space. On Saturday there were 3-unusable spaces because of crooked-parking assholes making those empty spaces unusable to anyone not driving a smartcar or a mini. fffffuuu.
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young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."

I would have just burst out laughing, in all honesty.

I thought I'd misheard him

and I actually had to bite my tongue from saying "Fuck off" lol

- local food Co-op has the smallest parking lot known to man. It is alwasy full. It's impossible to get a parking space. On Saturday there were 3-unusable spaces because of crooked-parking assholes making those empty spaces unusable to anyone not driving a smartcar or a mini. fffffuuu.

ah, that leads me to another IA -- businesses that have restriped their parking lots in the last few years with narrower slots, to try to jam in one more parking space per row. FUCK YOUUUUUUUU, Walmart and Sam's

Especially you, Sam's, since you have acres of parking and it's never full.

ugh there's a huge parking lot for Office Depot/strip mall that did this, all the normal spaces are compact-size, all the compact spaces are mini-size, you can barely get out of your car even in a normal size parking space where everyone's parked sensibly.
it's moronic.

oh and Trader Joes can eat a dick, their parking lots routinely suck all over the city. It's like they choose the location based on where the shittiest parking would be, with only one entrance/exit outlet and a stream of cars waiting waiting waiting.
I hardly go to TJ's at all just bc of their horrendo parking situation.

There are Trader Joe's with parking?? I...this is making me question everything I thought I knew.

The only one in Sacramento that's worth a damn is in a huge strip mall with a Lowe's etc, so there's gobs of parking...but all the other ones around here have like maybe 30 spaces as an afterthought. LAME

One TJ's parking lot in Chicago is hell. HELL. The other newer one isn't too bad, it's a whole garage. Not nearly as rage inducing.

The downtown TJ's causes so many traffic problems it's ridic, because idiots are always idling all the way out in the street waiting for spots to free up. and there's an awesome independent grocery store just blocks away that is just as good. or just go to the goddamn grocery store, you maroons.

young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."

At my first waiter job in Chicago the computer system allowed tips on credit card transactions to be keyed all at once at the end of the night. Waiters and bartenders and management referred to the activity as "rocking [one's] tips." (every other system I'd used required the tip be keyed in before a new check could be opened for that table)

At first I found this totally obnoxious, but it didn't seem to be an affectation, and finally filed it under "possibly be some kind of nautical terminology."

At my next waiter job at regular (land-based) restaurant the staff - including a bunch of grey-haired veteran waiters who were not hip to the youth slang - also "rock tips" like, "I'll be out of your way as soon as I rock my tips."

I'm still not sure what or why or what. Is this a thing people say?

I've heard it at other restaurants when I've been eating out, too.

This kid was like, college age. I figured he was just dropping annoying dude-speak on me.

I've googled rock + tips in various ways and w/ various other key words and also rock + cost, etc. and I can't any evidence that it's something that people say outside of my restaurant experiences and your Peet's experience.

Making me ia right now: the fact that many Simpsons clips, including one I wanted to post on this board, aren't on YouTube.

Bart: The beauty of it is, each parking space is a mere one foot narrower -- indistinguishable to the naked eye! But therein lies the game.

Milhouse: I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away.

xpost: maybe we both have a rare hearing disorder

Food I cook not turning out right.

the TJs in my town has a horrendous parking lot

http://www.youparklikeacunt.com/

Love that website.

The concept of needing parking at the store is so foreign to me, I dont drive, I just go to the shops on the tram.

finally my suburb gets its own web site xp

Locally several of the car parks have signs up saying "this is ----'s car park there is a time limit of ----. If you are seen parking here and leaving the car park for any business elsewhere your car will be clamped with a release fee of €30" or something very close to that effect.

I don't drive but do think it's a major nuisance. Especially in the case of 2 shopping areas being across the road from each other with parking areas separated by the road. Must use up unnecessary fuel for one thing.
Also had me wondering about private firms being given the right to clamp personal cars, or taking that right to themselves.

- google and youtube popping up a T&Cs warning every day for a month with a shitty "this stuff matters" message. that stuff didn't matter even for them to increase privacy.

- healthcare professionals who share a workspace and a patient (me) but act independently of each other forcing me to be the middleman who handles communication

even = enough

Dicey IA, but our office announced a new wide ranging health & wellness initiative, not mentioning that they pretty much have to do it to keep insirance costs down, which I would have appreciated more, and instead making it sound like "Hey we really care about you so we're going to get all up in your business even more."

Would make me less IA if a coworker hadn't recently become an evangelical fitness nut sending unsolicited emails to "friends" she thought might "need a boost"...one guy in particular replied to her email with "So you think I'm fat, is what you're saying."

I know it all sounds benevolent but I guess I just find it irritating. Harrumph.

- When rental property owners set up the kitchens so the fridge and the stove are directly next to each other.

- When my sweet, cuddly cat curls up on me in the middle of the night and proceeds to engage in hardcore grooming, waking me from a lovely sleep.

xp As a relatively healthy and also fat person with a history of disordered eating funtimes, I find those health initiatives to be anything but benevolent. Yuck.

- healthcare professionals who share a workspace and a patient (me) but act independently of each other forcing me to be the middleman who handles communication

― knocked over like the last act in Mackbeth (onimo), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think that innocuous

– when you get bad gas due to i.e. sickness or dietary issues, and everybody everybody feels compelled to point it out to you every time let one go, even if you excuse yourself or w/e

xp As a relatively healthy and also fat person with a history of disordered eating funtimes, I find those health initiatives to be anything but benevolent. Yuck.

Especially bc it gives nosy coworkers a free pass to be "helpful" in policing others' health or fat.

haha wtf who points out other people being gassy?

#replaceband/song/filmwithrandomword trends on twitter. Tonight's is #replacebandnameswithpancake.

The innocuous bit is that they mean #replaceonewordin..., if they followed the letter of the hashtag every tweet would be the same.

people who stop on the way out of shops

ugh hate these ppl
people who stop in aisles, who stop in front of me for any reason, death from above in serious fashion

I was stalked on Saturday around the food Co-op by an elderly couple who seemed to wait til I was coming up behind them every single time to stop DEAD in the middle of the aisle to discuss how many tomatoes they needed or whether they had enough tortilla chips and do you think Angela likes this kind of coffee, I'm not sure we should ask her

of course I had a pounding headache so I'm sure they were actually kind of sweet and lovely

Haaaa somebody was exiting a revolving door this morning and just full on STOPPED immediately after exiting, without moving to the side to let others exit, fully blocking anyone else from coming out of the building.

I was passing by, and so was unaffected, but I thought o this thread.

that's when I get loud and pushy, vs my normal polite quiet deferential nice person