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

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

i think aisle blockage is more of a design problem than a user problem, like people should be able to stop and think about what they're buying without blocking the flow of other shoppers

they should. but it's not too much to ask that ppl also be aware of their surroundings and not just stop dead in their tracks when a thought enters their head. move to the right, let others pass, stand and ponder a while won't you...

sub-section of this is people just abandoning their shopping carts in the midle of the aisle, or in stupid places where no-one can get by. pull it off to the side, out of the WAY you fucking idiots.

Saturday was a hellish shopping day for me, as you can tell lol.

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

The woman trying to get out of the building behind him had a few choice words for the fellow.

a swift kick to the lower back oughta do it

Yeah hate that people stopping randomly in front of you. Hate it more when it leads to somebody behind you barging into you.

Also hate getting off a bus at a stop where there's a surge of people trying to get on before people get off.

aisle blockage may have an excuse but entrance/doorway blockage doesn't. some people do this huge pause without even thinking they're in a doorway, just walk on a bit and find somewhere to do your WHERE DO I GO NEXT drooling

x-post people trying to get on before others get off drives me up the fucking walls, JUST WAIT.

Also hate getting off a bus at a stop where there's a surge of people trying to get on before people get off.

Yeah, I hate this so much too. I've been known to loudly let those jackals know just how disgusting and savage they are as I push through the crowd.

Fucking people ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS do this though! More so on trains than buses IME, but it doesn't matter - you stupid fucking people move out of the way!!! How can you not see that you are fucking not only the passengers who are alighting (ha) but YOURSELF.

FUKC I"M SO IA RIGHT NOW JUST THINKING GOUBT IT>

goubt it goubt it

I have an embarrassing IA that I'm not at all proud of:

lines for women's bathroom at two local venues. at both venues there's a HUGE amount of bathrooms, and the women insist on standing at the doorway peering their head in, instead of walking all the way in and finding an empty stall. there's always a ton of empty stalls. ALWAYS.

It drives me insane. So I will walk to the front of the line and enter the bathrooms through the adjacent exit, and get an available stall. My justification is if one day I walk in and there are NO empty stalls, or only 1, I will go to the end of the line. I have never had this happen, there are ALWAYS at least 10 open stalls.

But I am still kind of a jerk for doing this. I know.

I will offer you absolution if that's of any use to you. That sounds like you're modeling smarts for the others.

ty Je55e

and I usually give a heads up as I go in, like "Just walk in! there's plenty of stalls! Just walk in!"

I think I jumped a lengthy bus queue y/day but everyone else was just standing behind the queue for getting on another bus which had pulled in 30 seconds earlier and I know from experience that if you don't run past that queue - like, run the long way round instead of politely excusing yourself all the way through the middle of it - the bus driver just drives off. IA but guilty!

(plus I have a prepaid bus card which only works on that bus but nearly everyone else could get on either bus to go where they want for the same price)

"laaaater dudez"

We should list innocuous things we do that would make others irrationally angry. (cutting in line, etc.)

There are two stoplights I go through in the mornings, and if you don't gun it out of the chute at the first light, you get stopped at the second light. (The first car can usually make it through on a yellow.)

Most people don't know this, take their fashionable time to drive the block and then sit at the red light again for another five minutes. So if I'm at the first light and there's a car in the lane, I get over in the inside turning lane and hit the gas as soon as the light turns green.

For that block, I think the other driver might be thinking "Gosh, he's in a hurry!" but then when they get stopped at the light and see me going down the rest of Ninth Street, maybe they get why.

absolution for you too, spacecadet.

xp - pplains, I'll think about giving you one, too

Oh that a reassuring tale

Moderate annoyance: this train conductor keeps saying "please stand clear of the doors are closing."

Argh. Maybe not "moderate." Gets more irritating at every stop.

Coffee machines that stop working properly at the worst possible times.

xp there was one blue line driver that would say, in a quick staccato: "staaaand clearofthedoors, the doors are closing, step aaaall the way in for your safety step aaaall the way in, doors are closing"

It's the mashed together clauses (?clauses?) tht are bugging me. I keep following with corrections in my mind: stand clear of the closing doors or stand clear when the doors are closing.

Which reminds me, are they no longer required to say "do not attempt to board, doors are closing" (required after that woman jammed her stroller in closing doors and dumped the baby on the tracks)?

I haven't heard that in a while. And I'm on a different train now and the conductor isn't saying anything re the doors.