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

I hate getting the oil changed. If I was half a man, I'd do it myself in the driveway, but I can barely change the oil in the lawnmower without the appearance of blue smoke everywhere.

Bad coffee. Loud TV. You know the guy's going to go "Mr. Baker, we looked inside your güschenbächer and found a leaky sdkl;aksfjdo;aiklsjdga/ls." and even if what he says is true, I'm going to take the "big" stuff to my regular mechanic anyway JUST GIVE ME THE 24.95 OIL CHANGE THAT I GOT A COUPON FOR OUT OF THE PHONE BOOK THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

Flights that are supposed to be one airline but 'operated by' another. Checked in on one and tried to check in on the other to pay in advance for extra luggage (which you can only do after check-in) but apparently they don't have a departure option for the airport I'm actually leaving from so can't access it - tried to do likewise with the 'operated by' airline and once you're checked in you can't pay for extra luggage and have to pay full price at the airport GRGRGAGHHGHGHGHAAAGGHHH

Waitresses who sing along loudly with the radio in diners...fills me with a whitehot rage!

mad men being on at 10 this season instead of 9. i'm impatient!

this doesn't make me angry, but i don't understand people who run to catch the el train when they see it arriving from outside the station. unless you're super-fast, you're not going to get up to the platform in time, and it's rush hour, so there's another train coming in like four minutes. and now you're sweaty and out of breath and gross.

speaking of AMC the line up for this year was supposed to include a weekly episode of Breaking Bad starting with the pilot and culminating in the premiere of season 5. The start date was set for some time in Jan or Feb but then nothing happened.
Now its all MADMENMADMENMADMENMADMEN. Even my iphone app just goes straight black screen when I click the Breaking Bad schedule link. To make matters worse, I've only seen seasons 1-3 on netflix. I need to see season 4. NEED TO. Its driving me crazy. I dont even know what BOXCUTTER means. FUCK

n/a i think that train logic exists all over the world. sydney trains riders used to be the same iirc. unless someone through themselves on the tracks there would be another train coming in like 10 minutes. calm down trainriders.

through = threw DUHHHHHH

it sounds like someone is clipping their nails at their desk

it's driving me CRAZY
I don't want to investigate bcz I don't want to see someone clipping their nails at their desk

Wow, this thread alone is 0.1% of ILX's posts.

Has anyone mentioned food packaging designed to maximize spoilage? I'm thinking of tomato paste in cans and cream cheese wrapped in foil.

I finally found a JAR of tomato paste...tomato paste in cans is the worst invention. Who uses THAT much tomato paste at one time?

unrelated IA: I bought a new girly floral top to wear to work, I thought oh it'll be cute but I am HATING the way it fits. the cut of the neck is slightly too low so I feel like oh hi booby girl and it ties in the back which if it's too loose the neck sags down but if it's too tight it pulls in weird directions and thank GOD I took a light zipup top in case it got cold because this whole thing is just not working for me.

Freeze the tomato paste in ziplock or ice cube trays guys!

Save some glass jars, transfer unused tomato paste to these for storage. I thought everybody had a shelf of empty jars in their cupboard.

Tomato paste in those squeezy roll-uppy tubes is the best. Lasts forever

Yeah, I switched to tomato paste in tubes a couple of years ago, but I still get IA when I see cans of it in stores.

Cream cheese in foil otm

i can never find the tomato paste tubes at the stores near me, so i have to go the ice cube tray route. i stopped believing that they exist, but i guess they do!

I get the practicality of it, but imagining an ice cube tray full of tomato paste makes me want to fucking puke.

Drop tomato paste ice cubes into a glass of vodka for a quick and easy Bloody Mary! /SandraLee

I freeze fresh herbs in an ice cube tray.

Might try it with tom paste next time though I generally get the tubes too.

There's nowhere around here to get tomato paste in tubes, so I finally started mail-ordering mine, tyvm Amazon Prime.

Mail order tomato paste. What an age of wonders!

it sounds like someone is clipping their nails at their desk

it's driving me CRAZY
I don't want to investigate bcz I don't want to see someone clipping their nails at their desk

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:24 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i cut my nails doing 80 on the interstate yesterday. is that okay? noone can hear it

The thing is the cans are like 49c and the tubes are like $6 iirc :(

Veg, do you have Pumpkin soup available where you are (Cali, right?).
Pumpkin soup does not exist in Arkansas and you know sometimes i really really REALLY need pumpkin soup

Why didn't I think of freezing tomato paste?? I freeze everything else.

I cook rice and freeze it. I also freeze cooked pasta. Best time savers I've ever done.

that's the thing. say you use a third to half a can of tomato paste. you've got 50 or 60 cents worth of leftover tomato paste to deal with. if that investment is important to you, then freeze it, or come up with some other tomato-paste-requiring thing to make in the next couple days. if not, then just accept that it's gonna go to waste, like the rest of that bunch of cilantro you bought for making salsa.

think the 6oz can of tomato paste thing stems from a time when most americans used tomato paste only to thicken tomato sauce. couple cans of sauce and/or tomatoes, one little can of paste, a pound of hamburger, some garlic onions & herbs = family spaghetti night.

my "thing" in ref to stevie d's:

The thing is the cans are like 49c and the tubes are like $6 iirc :(

Figure I've thrown away at least $20 in furry tomato paste over the years, so it's a wash, roughly, except for destroying the planet with my big ol' carbon footprint.

I got over the aversion to wasting money and food w/r/t tomato paste, but I want to save the leftovers for convenience's sake.

think the 6oz can of tomato paste thing stems from a time when most americans used tomato paste only to thicken tomato sauce.

What else do people use tomato paste for?

I use it in place of tomato sauce for things like meatloaf or pizza because I find regular sauce too watery. I just throw spices into the paste, stir and use.

What else do people use tomato paste for?

cook your onions, celery, carrot base with tomato paste and put it in stews and soups

Unrelated to tomato paste (I buy the tube).

It makes me IA when a business won't return my call/email when I am trying to arrange to give them my money in exchange for their goods or services, and it makes me double IA when the business is located in the south or somewhere rural and I start to feel like maybe I'm just being one of them Type A City Folk who talk too fast and want everything yesterday and that my expectations are unreasonable.

cook your onions, celery, carrot base with tomato paste and put it in stews and soups

yeah, slightly caramelized tomato paste is a great thickening/flavoring agent for all kinds of stuff

Tomato paste in those squeezy roll-uppy tubes is the best. Lasts forever

sadly that's not what the packaging says (tho if I should just ignore the packaging and keep using the tube please let me know), the tubes I get say "use within 2 months of opening" and even then I only make it about a quarter of the way through

(this was true even before I started living with someone who doesn't like tomatoey sauces - tbh now it's more like a small thumb-shaped dent in the tube in two months)

I think you can ignore the packaging. I've had a tube that lasted 4 months and one that lasted 6 months, no apparent problem either time.

personally I use it until it actually shows signs of perishing

the flu/cold that's going around. & had me not wanting to move yesterday. didn't leave the flat.

A hard drive on my computer starting to beep when i got up this morning. Which presumably means that its the 3rd one that gave up the ghost over the last few months and I don't know what's on it, just that it's not backed up.
thought it was the most recent one so started redownloading a few live sets and have now found out it's not. So, well I guess I do have some stuff in a couple of places now.

getting uptight about not being able to read smallish print spending minutes to see if something read 5 or 6 in the supermarket. Well i did manage to get the discount offer that should have expired yesterday. but fuck, worried about fuzziness of my eyesight.

I start to feel like maybe I'm just being one of them Type A City Folk who talk too fast and want everything yesterday and that my expectations are unreasonable.

I sometimes think about if I seem like City Folk when I have to call courts or govt. agencies in rural Illinois or Iowa. The court clerks are usually much friendlier and accommodating than the ones in Chicago, so I feel like a jerk if I don't engage in a slightly longer "how are you" type exchange. Or I wonder if they assume I'm going to have a Busy and Important Chicago Law Firm ,LLP snotty attitude or that I'm going to think they're bumpkins. I usually don't say I'm calling from Chicago.

re tubes, tbh I used to just keep it in the fridge until the tube was actively cracked or grease-faded, which I guess was 6 months at least? and never noticed any ill effects

but now I am afraid the tomato-phobic mr spacecadet will find the tube in the fridge and read the instructions and become further convinced that I am just storing up poison in tomato-tube form

As long as air can't get into the tube, that stuff'll have the shelf life of a Twinkie.

You actually want a little air, that way anaerobic bacteria can't grow!

Being in a public place and listening to anyone talking on a phone. I know the world has adapted to this abomination but I will forever be knocking cellphones out of hands and yelling "Shame, you noise polluter!"

Ppl who don't pause/hangup when ordering/paying for coffee or going through a checkout. Takes these idiots twice as long to do EVERYTHING ragh I hate them so much

I sat next to a woman on the train this morning who was doing her makeup, which annoys me but I can cope, except that I swear it took her ten minutes to put on foundation. She just kept getting a teeny little bit out of the tube, and then rubbing it on her face, getting a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, and then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face. I think it was more the repetitive nature of the motions than the actual make-upping that was making me batty but phew, I was on edge until she switched to eyeliner.

a dumb, obvious observation i'm sure, but i'm sometimes struck (or freshly re-struck) by the deeply sad weirdness of the fact that so many women basically can't face the world without first applying a colorful goo-based mask.