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

Or waddling. I live in fear of being a waddling walker.

My walking IA is when women in high heels have terrible alignment or wobble and I can just picture their hips and knees torquing into dreadful shapes, or worse, imaging their little ankles snapping in half when they inevitably take a tumble.

Laurel, I think we have talked about that before.

Also?

I promised myself a long time ago that no matter how short and stocky I was, or became, I would keep up the habit of walking like a fit/thin person.

ME TOO. I recently went through a terrible phase where I seemed to be constantly whapping people with my hands when I walked and believe me, I got that under control right quick. But yeah, I am very intentional about how I walk. That's also because I live in fear of falling in some spectacular and damaging way so I'm very mindful of where my feet are going.

wide-armed walkers.

I'm glad the three of us are united in this irrational hated! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and like I belong.

I have a new IA:

This person I know how uses "'n stuff" as a verbal tic similar to "like." It's so awkward and terrible. Just try it! Try to say a sentence and instead of saying "like" or "um," say "'n stuff."

XXXPHas anyone else noticed that while walking, some people lift their heels differently from others? I have noticed this since grade school and I have only ever talked to one person about; that was in 9th grade and he thought I was crazy. I tried googling it once but I couldn't come up w/ specific enough terms.

Anyway, the thing I'm talking about is that while walking, some people lift the heel of their trailing foot in one motion and others do it in a two-part motion. (Sometimes those people bounce, but not usually, in my observation.) The two-part motion goes: lift heel about 1/2 of full height, infinitesimal pause, lift heel to full height.

It seems like maybe the first part is the heel lifting and the second part is the weight shifting to the front of the foot?

Please somebody tell me you know what I'm talking about!

― Je55e, Monday, June 18, 2012 12:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom. All from her walk. Of course she does claim that to walk correctly in heels one must walk toe-heel toe-heel.

I had the worst tic of saying "stuff like that" or "things like that" when I was a teenager.

Completely agree that if you're saying ---- uh, stuff like that --- you had better be trying to fix it.

girls in too-high heels who walk like praying mantises have been a peeve/amusement of mine for a long time

I don't always notice walkers but I have a weird thing about how people run. I don't even run myself, I just somehow always notice bad/weird form in ppl who run

How about when someone laughs at something someone said, then says "You're like," and repeats the thing that made them laugh? Total IA.

Even worse, though not as common, is when someone says something that makes someone else laugh, which in turn makes THEM laugh and say "I'm like," and repeat what they just said.

Veg im the same!! and then i think to myself 'well at least theyre actually out there trying, lazy ass loser!' (but im still secretly grossed out)

xp YES! That upsets me! Stop repeating what you just said to each other! Think of some new material!

I've been in social situations where this starts happening and I usually have to excuse myself until it passes.

omg yes, they get caught in a loop of recapping what just happened until I'm like, um YOU WERE ALL THERE! I haaaate that.

oops I just said 'I'm like' -- sorry!

Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom.

Sunny, your post starts off spooky. I was hoping that you saw your mom emerging from a candle-lit, smoky room, her feet having been transformed into the hooves of a goat.

I have no real problems walking in high heels. I don't do it very often, but it's not that hard except for watching out for grates in the sidewalk and other obstacles.

xp It was used in acceptable context imo. :)

I hardly wear high heels and when I do I'm paranoid the whole time that I'm walking awkwardly

xp :)

i never walk in high heels because her advice completely confused me as a child. I couldn't work out how you could move forward with this strategy. Seemed like moonwalking or something.

i used to wear heels all the time in high school. now they're like little torture instruments in the sense that i can't walk down a set of stairs without feeling hobbled. i do keep heels in the office though, and change into them when i get here.

This person I know how uses "'n stuff" as a verbal tic similar to "like." It's so awkward and terrible. Just try it! Try to say a sentence and instead of saying "like" or "um," say "'n stuff."

I like to drop an "and whatnot" into the mix every now and then, but not as a nervous placeholder, and only when it's completely nonsensical. "How many fried eggs would you like, and whatnot?"

Would you like a, yknow, or whatnot?

I say "and thing" sometimes

I have a friend who says 'and doodadoodoadoo you know' -- like a yadda yadda thing, most of the time I'm okay with it but every now and then I'm like, wait, what are you not telling me?

My gran-in-law is totally awesome and adorable, and for years has said 'wotsname' if she can't precisely remember a word, or for 'and stuff'-type usage. 'that bread's all wotsname' etc

Wee hundred words a second woman on the train today constantly using "i was like that..." and "she was like that" in place of "I said" and "she said". Also her accent and dropping of letters everywhere made it sound like 'ah wiz li' 'a' "aye right" an' she wiz li' 'a' "shu' up!"'.

I'm irrationally angry at Scottish people basically, despite being one.

Always liked that one song from Revolver, "She Was Like, She Was Like".

^I lol'd

I know she's not Scottish but reading yr post onimo, all I could think of was Kelly from 'Misfits'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox0EckmB9tQ

Youtube/Channel 4 blocking what was free to air content in the UK makes me rationally angry.

oh boooooooo what a boonch of cooonts

sorry dude :(

it's ok I know who you mean, the fookin rocke' scien'ist

C4 lets me watch three complete series of Misfits on Youtube but not an 18 second clip wtf

http://www.youtube.com/show/misfits

I seriously love that show so much. especially her

Paying with a card for anything that cost less that $10 - carry one cash, people!

I used a debit card on a $6 purchase at lunch. But I was buying bird seed, which is an expense that my husband & I share - so I comes out of our joint account! I know $6 is a quibbly amount but damnit, half my money is in that account and it adds up since I do 90% of our grocery/etc shopping!

I used a card twice today for £5 purchases. Fuck one cash, it's time we got rid.

When we get some Oyster-like RFID shit, yeah - when it takes you an extra 30 seconds for the computer to talk to the bank via the internet, get the hell out of my way.

Omino, I imagine that you saw this person on the train http://i.imagehost.org/0444/vicki_pollard_lead_203x152.jpg

numerous xps

You stay outta MY way, Farrell. ;D

You have not been stuck in line behind an older person or a lady w long nails, poking through their purses or wallets for that last nickel, and then making the cashier bag their coffee and packaged food item individually? Because shut up, it doesn't take even half the time for me to swipe a credit card.

Haha yes fair enough - I had forgotten that most US credit cards require you to swipe and sign (and sometimes not even sign?), which is closer to the RFID stuff, but without any of that inconvenient security.

YOU MAY PASS, AMERICA

Swipe and key in a PIN. Although some places have RFID (or similar tech by another name) capability. I've seen it at some drug stores and McDonald's.

I think a lot of places where speed is a thing, like breakfast and lunch cafes near big office buildings, will swipe and not even sign if it's under $10 or something? Supa-fast.

yeah credit cards are way faster for me. it's easy access (i keep it in my back pocket with my subway card) and i can just swipe--but if I need cash, I have to rummage for my wallet and then get out the cash and then take the change and put it back in my wallet and then put the wallet back in my bag and then grab my things and THEN i can go

I've been meaning to go to an atm to get some cash for something like 3 weeks, but I'm actually getting used to making all these $5 credit card transactions

My ATM is this place called Walgreens.

Nothing like going through the line with a box of diapers and a Frappacino to end it with "yes that's right now you GIVE ME the money."

Starbucks does the swipe and no sign/no pin thing. The Walgreens/McDonald's things I'm thinking of have a little... flange at the top and you just touch your card to it and it debits your account without need of a pin or a signature.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8413/30820hipaypass.jpg

Like so.

On further searching, it seems this process is known as "contactless payment."