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

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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.

They are doing construction in the parking lot adjacent to us and its been shaking our entire building every 30-45 seconds all day, every day for the past week and a half. Really fucking annoying.

Ooo that's annoying in a way that drives you completely mad so subtly that you don't realize it until it's too late.

Yeah, its been tolerable, but all of the sudden about 3:00 yesterday afternoon it was driving me nuts. And when it started up again this morning, I got all IA.

What happens when it's too late??

They were replacing gas lines by my building all last summer and the constant low tremor + occasional jarring blast made me feel like I was going nuts. My poor lizard brain didn't get why we weren't fleeing for safety.

It's like when there is a high or low pitched noise that is almost out of range of human hearing or is very quiet and you don't know why you're all antsy and crabby all day until it stops.

What happens when it's too late??

Yeah, I can't lie that I keep looking at the old wooden beams holding this place up and start to wonder...

http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_jen/REALMTAsign1011.jpg

^^ that makes me especially IA because they missed a golden opportunity to use "newer/fewer" or even just "new/fewer" for the internal rhyme.

i also hate their pattern. of using choppy sentences. that make me want to vomit.

if they made it all lower case
and spread it out without punctuation
they could say
e e cummings is writing
their ad copy

pajamas that have no button on the fly

lol I usually rip off the button if there is one

and you just walk around the house with your peen falling out half the time or what

GGGGRRRRRRRREEEEE MOOKIE that sign makes me grit my teeth uncomfortably every fracking time I see it.

I can't wear anything with buttons to bed.

Whaddya gonna do, rub your peen against a button all night?

i also hate their pattern. of using choppy sentences. that make me want to vomit.

― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

fragments. not sentences. word barf.

bump this thread every time mh's peen falls out of his pyjamas

whaddaya got? some kinda peen pillow that you can rest it on when it inevitably flops out of there?

http://images.quickblogcast.com/82086-71861/pilopilo.jpg

oh no

nothing innocuous makes me angry

you have a knack for making innocuous things maddening though ;)

I dunno, buy pajamas with a better flap positioning or without a flap? I somehow have worn boxers without stuff falling out all the time, although I've had the occasional pair where that's an issue

or stop wearing tight pants to sleep, that could help

Most of my pajamas I have received as gifts. I don't even know how I got so goddamn many. It's not the tightness. It's the loose construction of the fly. I should probably just toss most of them and buy ones I like.

Do the rest of you get like TONS of pajamas as gifts from people? Now that I think about it, I'm sorta IA about that.

http://www.pajamacity.com/images/JD1135-PD-pink-duck-footed-pajamas.jpg

I wish I got tons of pajamas as gifts. I love pajamas.

Don't wear clothes while you sleep.

ooo er

I've got one set of pajamas and I never wear them.

my nightgowns are mostly cheapo dresses i've bought from ross or kohl's.

i'm wearing one right now (hi from home). it's a knee-length dress that shrunk considerably after being washed too many times.

when people treat what are clearly marked one-lane streets with cracks down the middle of the pavement as two-lane streets

when motorcyclists ride down the stripes between the lanes instead of in the actual lanes.

Now see, there's a street that I go down each day with a crack in the middle serving as a defacto stripe, and yet, there are folks straying across it all the time.

It's not clearly marked as a one-way though people seem to think it's one, despite the row of cars parked on either side in both directions.

when motorcyclists ride down the stripes between the lanes instead of in the actual lanes.

This is not innocuous in the least and is horrifyingly unsafe. My uncle, who is a big motorcycle guy, is constantly railing against riders that do this and how they give all motorcycle riders a bad rep.

^^^ Illegal in all US states except California. Bikers claim it's safe to do and reduces incidence of rear-end crashes. It's, like, a controversial deal in a lot of places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_splitting

xp

that reminds me, another innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry is bike lane abuse - mopeds in bike lane, going the wrong direction in the bike lane, running the wrong direction in the bike lane and not getting onto the sidewalk to let bicyclists riding the right way in the bike lane through, etc

ugh, i didn't know it was actually legal in my state. that's horrifying. the roads are unsafe enough with all the crazy drivers.