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

they should just put little signs that say "don't be a douche" everywhere, like literally everywhere

Can this be like the "don't tread on me" flag except the snake is wearing sunglasses?

The fact that in 2012 we have to work hard to opt OUT of getting phonebooks, instead of opting IN if we for whatever crazy reason want one. Woke up this morning to, literally, the third phonebook on my doorstep this year. I DON'T NEED OR WANT ONE.

^^^ Except now the phonebook also comes in a plastic bag with information printed on it about how/where to recycle your phone book. I THINK I CAN SAVE YOU SOME WORK, GUYS.

lol, otm

I've probably posted this here before, but this happens more than once a year at my apartment building and most of them just sit there until the custodian throws them out. At my last apartment, they sat on the front porch and soaked up rain and snow until the ancient landlady lugged them to the Dumpster.

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Of course she only had 6 or 7 to lug, not ~90-some.

Dang, I can't believe you made her carry them to the trash. I leave our sodden phone books for our landlord, but he's younger than me.

I did throw out some of them, sometimes.

please tell me you tore at least a couple in two.

I wish I could tell you that truthfully.

- arranged to meet an interview subject at 10am today.
- interview subject is v nice says let's do interview in shade since it was outdoors & already 100 degrees.
- proceeds to walk & talk FROM the shade TO the sun where I stand with him for a good 20 minutes til I beg for shade
- I was wearing a light sundress but I could still feel the sweat pouring down my back, urgh my *thighs* everywhere the whole time it was so gross
- I sunblocked but STILL got fucking burned rraaaaagh

This transit thing is killing my will to live. (also I agree that mookie's anger is ra rather than ia). It was supposed to be fixed by now. Instead standing outside the subway in the hot sun with no shade nearby on hold with stupid stupid music aggg. How is it taking this long? Is she looking up paper files in the dewey decimal system and cross referencing with other paper files in a maze of filing cabinets?

She's crawling through file boxes piled in off site storage trailers.

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She has to decipher a cryptographic code before being allowed to proceed to the next stage in her papyrus investigation.

the fact that i don't have benefits is rational anger

it's irrational to be angry that you guys do, tho -- you're my dirtbike friends! but i wasn't serious about that anyway

It turns out that the lock on my card will be lifted at 11:59 pm on the 11th. Seems like they could have just fucking told me that it would be lifted on the 12th.

You might really need to leave at 11:59, though.

It's maybe not rational to be angry at other people with benefits, but it's also not innocuous that some people have benefits and some people don't.

A other transit peeve: when you reactivate a lapsed Chicago Card ( the CTA's RFI pass card), you have to wait 3 days from when you request activation before using it. If you try to use it before those 3 days have elapsed, it deactivates again and you have to reactivate online or in the phone and AGAIN wait 3 days or repeat the cycle of deactivation.

I know that there are many things I don't understand about the CTA's system, which things make the delay necessary, but I am very sure that those things are FLAWS, not insurmountable limitations of our current technology systems.

That the trees in the park near where i live don't get a chance to grow because kids keep intentionally breaking them. I just went into town to shop and on the way in I passed a group of girls breaking the lower branches of trees for some reason. Should have asked them why, didn't.
If they'd asked themselves maybe they've stopped?

On the way back here on the other side of the park there was a kid deliberately trying to snap the sprouting shoots that may at some point become bushes or small trees This time I did ask him to stop and asked him what was wrong with him.

Would be nice to see those trees/bushes etc grow to what they were intended to be. Been seeing snapped off saplings for the last couple of years and not liking it. have recently been having to take a shortcut through another location where a similar planting has been done. In this area where they have been allowed to grow and I've liked what I saw.
But I guess it's normal for disaffected teens and adolescents to be destructive? Just would be nice if they picked something else to do it to or somewhere else to redirect those energies to?

Common yes, normal maybe not?

When I'm walking on a sidewalk and someone walking behind me tries to gradually overtake me on the same side I'm about to turn. Obviously they don't know where I'm going, but it leaves me with three bad options: a) cut them off--if they wanted to pass me they should have been quicker about it, b) stop dead and let them go ahead before I turn--awkward and disruptive to the people behind us, c) walk faster--this usually causes the other person to speed up too.

the efforts of a lovely bunch called Freelotto to give me $2,000,000 for a lottery I haven't entered. Apparently they're going to ask me for money and then cause my emailbox to be filled with spam.
have found this site on them and fellow travellers
http://www.419scam.org/419scam.htm#what

Dear online shops, please don't make me register for an account just to see how much shipping is. This basically guarantees I am not buying the item from you, even if you're the only stockist, because it is a waste of my time and the brainpower required to think of a login and password, only to realise that shipping to my country is twice as much as the item and I'm never going to use the account

(and then probably get an email in 3 years saying that your password database has been hacked and to change my login on any sites I used the same pw for, which is great for throwaway accounts I can't even remember the password for - this happened last week with some web forum I registered for 5 years ago, posted one post, got no replies)

yeah, hate having to do that. Should be basic etiquette to have p+p rates in a clearly findable location with universal access.

Even Best Buy and Target do that sometimes. Something to do with the manufacturer's rules or something. Annoying, regardless.

Sponges left in the sink and not next to the sink/out of the sink.

i'm far less irrationally angry than i used to be, if i ever really was, but, and maybe this has been remarked upon already itt: people who walk out of a store or restaurant and just stop and stand there right in the doorway! wtf! take one more step and you'll be out of the way! this happens *all the time* at the place i get coffee at a few times a week. it happened again today! i laughed and rmde.

My son does something like that! I'll send him out the door ahead of me while I set the alarm, then when I come barrelling out the door I find that he's stopped immediately past it, staring out into the street, instead of going down into the yard or waiting by the car or something.

it's a weird one

i also agree with the sponges thing. even tho i used to do that. and with tea bags too. because i was young and dumb. ah, live and learn.

Ha. I just had to ask an attorney FOUR TIMES to move out of my way so I could get to my desk. He was standing in the one access/egress space to where I sit, and I had to get up and walk past him and every time I had to specifically ask him to move, because he was just standing there like I could, I don't know, walk through him?

Guess what? A coworker just told me the other day that she loved running into me because I am always so friendly and cheerful. So thanks, IA thread, for giving me an outlet for my IA and allowing me to fool others into thinking I'm nice.

oh god, CA, I also sit in the inside of a quad that gets blocked ALL. THE DAMN. TIME. I am six foot one for fuck's sake! You can see me!

IA left unattended can cause angina

Yeah, I don't get as IA as I used to either.

Today, a bicyclist came right up the street toward me in my lane and wasn't even looking. You get to a point where you just have to laugh.

Laugh, while not braking either. He finally looked up.

I seriously think with these attorneys it's just pure hubris/disregard for other people. Especially 1) women and 2) women that they assume are subordinate in some way because there are women lawyers? When did that happen?

person standing in the middle of the escalator yesterday, go to hell

couldn't stand to either side, nope

this is the IA support group[

i ACTUALLY AVOID ELEVATORS IF SOMEONE ELSE IS GETTING ON

guy at work would that (accountant). he was a pretty big guy and a raging a-hole. nobody knew what the f*** his deal was

xpost to carl

There should be those implicit association tests as a condition of employment in a mix-gender workplace and if a potential employee associates any pictures of women with "secretary" "wife" "maid" "boobs" or "get me some coffee, honey," they should not get the job.

person standing in the middle of the escalator yesterday, go to hell

couldn't stand to either side, nope

^ this is an heinous crime.

also criminals are the people who get on the bus and insist on standing right at the front, across from one another where there isn't much room to begin with, and who then act exasperated or confused by the fact that people keep pushing into them as they enter or exit. fucking find a seat and sit in it. if you can't find a seat, stand in such a way that you don't entirely block the aisle. it isn't hard. oh, and when the driver says "please move to the rear," like the second or third time s/he says this, you might stop chewing your cud and, i don't know, move back a step or two.

ppl who grab their purses for fire alarms/drills

i want to send them back into the building bc I am a fire drill nazi

I posit that the absolute worst people for clumping right in the doorway of an otherwise roomy train car or bus are CHICAGO CUBS fans. I have no time for that shit and am pretty horrible about telling people they need to get the hell out of the doorway. Same with "Step the fuck out of the train and let people out!" at the dipshits who like to hang out in the door and leave a tiny, anus-sized portal through which alighting passengers can emerge.

Chicago Cubs fans are the worst. #GOCARDS

ugh i totally agree abt the clumping at the doorway. the corollary to that is that when ppl are getting off and you are IN the train, but in those coveted spots right next to the door, sometimes you will have to move out of your spot to let people off the train. you can't just hunch to the side when there is a stampede of people getting off a big stop.

yesterday i was waiting to get on the train, but letting people off like you are supposed to do, and there was this COUPLE just couldn't wait for folks to get off, so they barged ahead of me, holding hands. i got so IA that i walked right through their stupid linked hands and said JESUS CHRIST.

Hahaha nice.

tourists, possibly more tourist kids who take up half the pavement standing in groups when it's difficult enough to walk without bumping into people. Busy streets with everybody vying for space, people not watching where they're going. People cutting across you to get to doorways when you're already trying to work out how to avoid bumping into people coming out.

Plus the circular crowd around a street entertainment which means there's a minute alley around the outside that everybody actually trying to walk on the street has to compete over the use of. & extended families are expecting to stay walking together through. & you're trying to remain somewhat polite.

Good work, rayuela.

Clueless and helpless people who make no effort to correct their conditions are not candidates for even the bare minimum of politeness. The very least they could do would be to be ashamed of their cluelessness or helplessness! I thought about this on the bus on Monday when a gaggle of ditzy kids around 18 years old tried to board my bus. Some didn't have their cards ready, some weren't facing the right way (talking about people facing the right way, not the cards), some tried to put the card in the cash slot - all possibly forgivable problems, but on top of them, NONE of them learned ANYTHING from the mistakes of the others in front of them! Some froze and fumbled and stammered and some giggled.

The bus driver lost patience and dropped all courtesy and started bellowing like a drill sergeant at these idiots "YOU'RE PUTTING THE CARD IN THE WRONG SLOT - PUT IT THERE - PUT THE CARD THERE - PUT YOUR CARD RIGHT THERE IN THAT SLOT RIGHT THERE PUT IT RIGHT THERE RIGHT THERE YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!! and I just wanted to run up there and bellow along with him. I mean, really! I was once 18 and terrified by the DC Metro, but I paid attention and tried my best and tried to mitigate my disruptiveness.

missing limited edition box sets cos you order through something online you take to be the official channel and it turns out you've actually had your order put on hold.

& thinking back it was probably cos the main site kept veering between rejecting the password it then seemed to recognise.

So you've been wondering why this supposedly great set hasn't appeared.
& now you find out why and it's probably just after the thing's totally sold out.
so you panic and forget how to punctuate

Stevolende, if you are talking about the same box set you mentioned on the other thread, the UK Amazon still has it in stock.

I hate when ol dladies bend over and they have white panties on that are showing through their whit4e skirt and they DONT say "enjoyin the view? hehehhe"