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

Sitting on the toilet and not realizing the lid you sit on is already up and you get your bottom wet. It doesn't happen often but when it does, I curse the world.

having a mixed fruit salad and the last piece you eat does not taste as good as the others.

doesn't make me necessarily IA but uh, inconsistent fruit.

i hate it when i catch my arm or something on the cord of my in-ear headphones as i'm walking along and rip them out by accident.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, October 19, 2012 2:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this riles me up to no end. everytime.

it's traumatic alright

oh that is the worst.

maybe this is rationally angry:

when you preorder something from an online store with an order, and agree to wait until the preordered item is released for your whole order to ship, only to be notified at that time that one of the other, already released items, is out of stock

I understand that setting aside the other stuff requires extra effort, but seriously?

ugh that's evil mh. I got that a few weeks ago ordering clothes - wanted a blazer, added on jewelery to get free shipping.. got charged for jewelery and shipping as the blazer went out of stock between me placing my order & them shipping my stuff. DIE.

with my luck it's always a record that goes out of print

Bus going by me as i negotiate the path past overgrown trees up to the bus stop with my arm out to hail it. Bus driver is looking down for some reason. So I wound up having to walk home on the day that I need to turn around and go back out to another course. Buses only being every half hour and all. Bugger.

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

Vivian Stanshall's Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead not being in the EAC database already when I went to rip the disc to computer. & probably about to reject my submitted version.
What do you categorise the record under though?

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

How do drivers say to themselves "Oh Boy! No other cars are around, so I don't have to bother with the .5 second action of turning on my signal anymore!"

Seems like that would take more work than just automatically flipping the turn signal lever.

ppl have so many dumb reason for not using their turn signals, NONE OF WHICH ARE VALID

I use my turn signals at all times, when parallel parking, when turning in parking lots, all the time

Me too!

i just leave my hazards on all the time so i don't have to remember to use the turn signal

It's not always the driver's fault! I was making a turn yesterday, had my right turn signal on and everything, waited for the cyclist crossing the street to finish crossing, started to make the turn – only to realize just in time that the cyclist had decided to do a little loop back out onto the crosswalk just for fun.

I know I've already mentioned approaching a stoplight on a four-lane street. Getting behind the car in the inside line because lol at slowpoke on the right.
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But guess who's laughing when the light turns green and the car in front of me goes, Oh yeah, I'm turning left, here's my blinker.

Seems like that would take more work than just automatically flipping the turn signal lever.

It makes me extra IA when I see police cars not using turn signals.

But I do kinda think it's funny when they use the whole damn blue lights for a second when they turn or go through a stop. Oh, yes, that must have been much easier to do.

Not using turn signals, they don't even stop at red lights! xp haha

What part of Keep Me Signed In do you not understand??!?!?!???!!?????????????????????

if it's ilx you're probably following some links that jerks using ilxor.com and www.ilxor.com separately made that lead to the one you don't have that checked on

No, this time it's iCloud but also a work app that I use constantly that logs me out all the time.

ugh

I spent time over the weekend stressing about this stupid computer issue I was having. I have a pretty sweet desktop mac that I got used and tweaked that I use for home software stuff and some games and the fucker kept crashing. Swapped out components one at a time over the weekend and it's still glitching. Just so irritating, I'd use it for a couple hours, leave for a bit and come back and it'd have crashed.

Thing has been rock-solid, zero crashes until the last week. :(

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

This affects me every day. I do a little pantomime movement of stepping across the road and then jerking back when the car that I knew would turn signalless turns signallessly. I don't know what to do. Many of the cars on my route that would try to hit me in this way then turn into a car park that I have to cross. I have a notebook on me always and want to leave notes, but I feel the effort might age me.

It makes me extra IA when I see police cars not using turn signals.

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, October 22, 2012 1:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is maybe pet peeve #1 for me, it's SO RARE for cops to signal ever fireworks should go off when they do

i also hate the "putting my lights on for two seconds cause i'm tired of waiting at this light" thing

i've probably put these in this thread alrady

The shoe string on my right shoe becomes uneven every three days, by a dramatic amount. Never my left shoe, just the right. Makes me rage.

Ugh, I was biking to work this morning, and there was a car behind me at one point so I was hugging the curb ("kerb") and he just kept hanging back, hanging back, wouldn't pass me, making me edgy, so finally I reached out with my left arm and waved him around me, at which point he turned on a right-turn signal for whatever he intended to do. I AM NOT PSYCHIC YOU ASSHOLE PLEASE DIE.

i hate the seams in the corners of socks that rub in the wrong place in your shoe and make you want to killkillkill

phil, i know so well how you feel.

i try really really hard to never exhibit frustration or anger to a vehicle that is showing me consideration and using extra care. even if the driver is mfing dipshit.

more difficult not to lose my shit at cars who purposefully hinder bikers, like the limo waiting at a redlight that moved as close as possible to the bumper of the car in front of it, just to block me from getting out of the turn lane and into the bike lane (which is to the left of the turning lane)

also fucking limos, give me a break

blue plaques that commemorate someone culturally significant having lived somewhere when they didn't live there very long.

oh I just remembered:

I don't understand and am always kind of disheartened by car memorials. Like, if you love the person so much surely there's a better place to memorialize them than on your giant Escalade? idgi

^^ anything that says "in memory of" too. I mean, isn't that usually what you put on things that you're dedicating, like an endowment or donated park bench or something? I keep thinking things like, "Wow, you bought a F-150 to better remember some guy"

totally!

I'm IA about chips that are stale from the moment the bag is opened. (Only happens with Fritos, in my experience.)

yeah fritos steez seems to be 'always stale, never fresh'

hence why I am always kinda bummed whenever I eat fritos

a cliche in the world of IA, but: today my flatmate left the gas oven on unlit and, as we both have colds and blocked noses and didn't notice for ages, probably almost killed us. and that's fine, it happens innit. BUT. you've put the toilet roll on the holder in an underhand fashion? OMFG WHAT ARE YOU THINKING.

Our upstairs neighbors were having a screaming row, just complete knock down, drag out, and that didn't make me that IA even though I'm stuck working all day because it just sounded so fraught and upsetting. But now they seem to have made up and are listening to music and, as far as I can tell, aerobicizing and I would like to throttle them both.

possibly jazzercising?

aerobicizing

hahahaha

MAYBE

Like, can't you two get into another fight? At least when one of you is lying in bed, sobbing and the other one is glumly staring at the TV and trying to act like nothing was your fault, you aren't constantly stomping around your apartment.

I don't want to do any more work. I've been sitting here all day making lecture outlines and power point slides and I want to drink beer and sit in another part of the house.

our tiny house and it's zero storage space

like, not even for 'junk' but for things like FOOD WE EAT. ugh. Stupid tiny old house.

my neighbors have sex too loud. today i saw them at the gym ellipticalling next to each other and i wanted to say i thought you guys already got enough exercise. looking at them makes me angry.