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

I passed the guy in another aisle and I shook the bottle of Petrifier at him and said "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, asshole."

People who rsvp 'no' to my meetup events. Who gives a shit! I've got 800 members i'm pretty sure most of them won't be coming! And then they leave comments, 'I will try to be there. I will know for sure later this week'. Whatever! Tell someone who cares!

Journalists mangling the use of percentages to no end, as in "The number of women working in professional computing jobs dropped 8 percent to 25 percent between 2000 and 2011 while the number of men climbed 16 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics." (NYT)

In the course of five words, "percent" is used two completely different ways, resulting in confusion. "number dropped by 8 percent" =/= "share of the total dropped by 8 percentage points"!!!

Young college-student neighbor renting in giant house next door has a very fancy shiny new Audi station wagon. it's clearly his pride and joy, disgustingly so. For the first week he showed up, I swear he was outside washing his car every night when we got home. We have a couple of elm trees that have poopy bugs that leave crap everywhere, so it's kind of a little bit understandable. They do mess up your car. But every night? OCD much? And besides that, he could just park down the street a little further and it wouldn't even be a thing. But of course noooo he HAS to park in front of our house, which is the other annoying thing. But LOL we go away for the weekend and when we come back, he's now got a freaking COVER for his precious Audi. Which he still parks in front of our house. Mr Veg sprayed it with the hose the other night on purpose while he was watering the garden. Tee hee.

pressing a bus stop bell as we left the busstop before I wanted to get off only to have the driver missing the stop I wanted. I said 'you're missing the stop' he then claiming I only pressed the bell as we passed it. So either the bus driver is a bs artist or the bell isn't working properly.

& this after the bus arrived very late or skipped 2 for some reason.
Definitely skipped 1 anyway.

Mr Veg sprayed it with the hose the other night on purpose while he was watering the garden.

haha awesome.

He completes me, lol

love that, VG. A & I definitely sit on our front porch and bitch to each other about people driving the wrong way down our one way street (some do this to get to an arena just north of us. BAD PEOPLE.)

omg that would send me round the bend

the arena *is* around the bend! Hahaha.

lol

in other IA news, I put on the wrong socks this morning and raaaaaaaagh they won't stay up and are wrinkling around the heel and I have to pull them up every 20 minutes and its making me fucking crazy

- when people eat bananas on public transportation. The smell of bananas in an enclosed space is so gross.

I hate when my shoes eat my socks! On that topic:

- that those clever little footie socks for wearing with flats only go up to a size 10, which they really don't even go up to a size 10.

ugh i hate bananas in general so yes
xpost

xpost and they fling off your feet like little slingshots when you try to wear them because they're really designed for size 8?
liars

pressing a bus stop bell as we left the busstop before I wanted to get off only to have the driver missing the stop I wanted. I said 'you're missing the stop' he then claiming I only pressed the bell as we passed it. So either the bus driver is a bs artist or the bell isn't working properly.

Reminds me of this experience, which I remember b/c of otto's response:

I think I'll call the CTA. The fucking bus fucked me today. I pulled the cord and it went 'ding!' and said "STOP REQUESTED" but the driver drove on. So I did it again at the next stop. HE DROVE ON STILL.

I tumbled to the front of the bus and said, "Excuse me, why are you not stopping?" He said "The bell doesn't work." Then I blacked out.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, May 9, 2006 2:51 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it would've been better if he said "because you're not on the bus".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, May 9, 2006 2:53 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

:D

- when people eat bananas on public transportation. The smell of bananas in an enclosed space is so gross.

― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:58 (Yesterday) Permalink

The smell of almost any food becomes extremely gross in a subway or on a bus. This is not innocuous, it is noxious!

And it's also fucking savage.

A friend and I got on the train at Midway Airport followed by a guy eating a bowl of spaghetti. Besides being wrong and and a weird thing to eat on the train, it's baffling! Where did he get a bowl - not a to-go container - of spaghetti at Midway, which is a terminus?

Had a woman leap onto a bus with several slices of vegemite on toast a couple of weeks ago--that's smelly and dangerous stuff to be waving around as you stumble down the aisle of a moving bus

Last night i was at a grocery store, i had just bought some food and was now out front putting some of it into my backpack for the walk home. There was a bum just sitting on a bench like 50 feet away and when it was clear that i would be in that spot for more than 10 seconds he started shouting "Hey! Hey! Yo dude!" to get my attention. My policy w bums in these cases is to not acknowledge their existence, so i didn't. When he started saying "I know you can hear me", i got so mad i wanted to go over and tell him off.

But i didn't, cos i couldn't hear him, cos he was a piece of shit sitting in one spot yelling at people, so i just walked away.

I don't mind homeless people asking me for money in general, but yeah, it's happened a couple of times when I've been completely LADEN with bags, moving slowly and with no free hands, and I've been purposefully approached because I can't really get away, and I'm just LOOK MATE, even if I *had* any money to give you I wouldn't be able to access it, just FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE. In my head, anyway. In reality I'm very apologetic.

When this happens I do tend to liberally abuse the caps lock function in my mind.

(10 hours late post)
Bus drivers who tell people not to get on the bus with their rancid garlic-stinking kebabs are my heroes. But those people always seem to manage to get on the bus anyway, dammit.

When I lived further from town the one late bus home would always have someone who turned up at the last minute with a kebab and then go "c'mon mate, it's the last bus for 10 hours, I just bought this" etc etc every week until they were let on.

Man eating the most delicious-smelling chipshop chips on the bus on my way home when I'm starving hungry *quietly drools behind his book*

Lady at the store refusing to sell me cigarettes cos my license is expired. Give me a effing break!

Once got turned down like that because the cashier thought the three in my birthyear was a 9.

that's such baloney! don't get me started on ID and cigarettes, god they used to drive me up the wall with that shit when I immigrated

My ID is funny in that the geniuses thought putting a second black and white version of my photo in the background behind my birthdate on the license was a good idea. The thing is, my shoulder directly lines up with the year part making a 1 look like a 4

I remember showing my passport and the cashier saying 'oh sorry I can't accept that it has to have your height and weight on it' wtf

do states still put weight on licenses? they cut that from ours.

O the times when someone six years younger than me would be too young to buy smokes.

No kidding, no matter which way my license is interpreted, I'm legal to do whatever.

IL has it on theirs. Mine is 25 pounds off.

It's not on MA. Just height.

Yeah CA has it on theirs, mine's at least 20 pounds shy

I would change it but I'm probably going to end up gaining weight back so maybe it will be correct again.

I'm 31, and I don't drive, and I told her, yeah, I don't drive, I know that's against the law. It's one of those moments where someone just chose to be a jerk about it. Maybe it's common for 15-year-olds to go around using expired licenses to buy $20 worth of carrots, grapes, strawberries, other produce, and cigarettes.

I got refused cigarette papers once. What the hell is wrong with your country

- when people eat bananas on public transportation. The smell of bananas in an enclosed space is so gross.

― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:58 (Yesterday) Permalink

YES. i once almost puked in a class because someone had eaten a banana and thrown it out. i had to move the trash can out of the room.
the banana ice cream thing disgusts me also. i hate the taste of very ripe bananas and very smooth mushy food textures make me gag.

I had no idea that bananas and their smell were so completely loathed!

Same here!

i sometimes eat on the tube when i'm rushed. now i feel bad about myself.

I like bananas and don't mind very ripe bananas and the other week I took 3 overripe bananas and mashed them and baked banana bread and my whole flat smelt of bananas all day and it brought me JOY

but still, when I eat one and throw out the skin, within 20 minutes I'm reminded to seal or put a lid on whatever container it's in, or it starts to take on a whole new level of smell which is not good at all imo

also I get bothered by long-lasting strong food smells which are not from my own food, e.g. I complained upthread about kebabs on buses and probably also about my officemate eating curry at the desk, but I eat kebabs (occasionally) and curry myself and find curry smell pleasing if it's my own dinner or a quick blast of smell as I walk past a takeaway

ia: the 240 bus goes to devonshire, but the recorded announcement always pronounces it "devonshore." like with an o.

When people refer to their toddlers as going to "school" when they mean "daycare".

^^^THIS

or adults when they mean university

Yeah but that's specifically a UK v US thing. Here school means kindergarten - college for most ppl.