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

clouds otm -- the volume level in starbucks is ott. I don't know how anyone could sit in there for any extended period of time, even if they liked the music that was played.

Peet's do a better job with the ambience imo, for a large coffee house chain - snooty classical music, but quiet. it's v pleasant in there always. They make p nice coffee too.

Always being asked to confirm appointments/reservations. Doctors/dentists/restaurant reservations. I made the goddammed appointment, I'm going to be there. I don't need your constant reminders.

Being asked: What are you doing?

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 9 AM - routine maintenance, not an emergency. Every time I go to this doctor I wait at least a half hour before being admitted to the room where he's actually going to see me; then I sit in that room for another 15 minutes or so before the doctor actually makes an appearance. Tomorrow is also my first day back in the office after a week of working at home because of the hurricane, and trains from Mytown to NYC are only running once an hour. If I am not actually in conversation with my doctor by 9:30 tomorrow morning, I am walking out the door and finding a new doctor.

right on. bring it!

That really is annoying. One reason I like my PCP is that he is really good about being on time. My shrink, though - I count on him seeing me 45 minutes after my appointment time at the earliest. Which actually works out fine b/c I see him after work and it gives me some leeway and I am fine with reading and relaxing in the waiting room. (Not a defense at all, his dysfunction just happens to fit me well).

not so much for my own sake as the employees can't even lower the volume or change the music. i've worked in that environment and would rather not give money to places that treat their ppl thus

Fair enough, though the benefits for part-timers (20 hrs +) include health insurance, matched 401(k), paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, which would mean more to me than the Muzak that I tune out anyway.

eh, the same song playing every day for months on end is basically a form of psychological torture imo.

When I was a representative for the photo portrait studios in Wal-Mart stores, I could almost set my watch to "Feels So Good" coming on within 20 minutes of 2:30 pm.

sometimes i'll watch an infomercial why not and get really IA because the "content" part keeps getting interrupted by the how-to-order "commercial" part. just show the 10 sec video clip marathon thing i don't need the guys from air supply telling me how much all this would cost me in stores.

those horrible mass-produced folk arty looking Christmas decorations, like wooden angels with wire wings and hammered tin christmas stars that are supposed to look like they were brought in from the back shed but are just fucking UGLY

like these fking things

http://www.atwestend.com/CFN1031.jpg?resizeid=-2&resizeh=600&resizew=500

http://www.atwestend.com/Catalogue/christmas/wooden-sleeping-santa-door-hanging.html

I think the prevalence of that crap kept me from appreciating real artisan crafts. E.g., every Xmas there is a big market (Kristkindlemarket) downtown full of vendors from Germany and their mercury glass (?), cuckoo clocks, toys, and other such stuff that I really dislike b/c it reminds me of the cheapo shit you'd find at Pier One and Target.

I also dislike it b/c I hate Christmas and Jesus and The God of Abraham.

i like christmas decorations & christmas in general, but I like decorations kinda plain & classic (and shiny, lol)

i like fireworks, i do.

but it's been 3 hours a night for nearly a week now.

diwali next week too...

- People who fucking whisper to each other at work... especially middle managers. Do fucking go and kill yourselves please.

A way to induce paranoia...

^^ great post/display name combo

That really is annoying. One reason I like my PCP is that he is really good about being on time. My shrink, though - I count on him seeing me 45 minutes after my appointment time at the earliest. Which actually works out fine b/c I see him after work and it gives me some leeway and I am fine with reading and relaxing in the waiting room. (Not a defense at all, his dysfunction just happens to fit me well).

not so much for my own sake as the employees can't even lower the volume or change the music. i've worked in that environment and would rather not give money to places that treat their ppl thus

Fair enough, though the benefits for part-timers (20 hrs +) include health insurance, matched 401(k), paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, which would mean more to me than the Muzak that I tune out anyway.

― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:32 (1 week ago) Permalink

When I finally wound up at a shrink who made an absolute rule of never starting late, I realized how important and beneficial to the whole process this is.

- People who fucking whisper to each other at work... especially middle managers. Do fucking go and kill yourselves please.

Police: This road is closed! Turn around!
Me: Ok, but what's the detour? How do I get to where I need to go? How much of this road is closed off?
Police: Uh, I don't know.
Me: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Yeah, that is awful tokyo. As part of my job in college at a highway department, I was the guy who got to sit and tell people their roads were closed. It was never fun, but I always carried a county map with me so that I could direct them to the most convenient detour.

- savages at the grocery outlet who leave their carts just willy nilly on the sidewalk in front of the store, so no-one could actually ever walk on the sidewalk even if they wanted to without shoving 10 carts out of their way

- after a weekend in Napa I pretty much hate anyone over the age of 45 who wears their sweater knotted around their shoulders. I really love wineries and winetasting but GODDAMMIT I hate the people it attracts.

you saw jay-z in napa?

lol no

Quite probably not innocuous cos it looks like household sewage has been pouring into the street I have to walk through to get home. Anyway, I tried to report it earlier thinking it would be something that would be sorted out rapidly & needed to be.
BUt I couldn't remember the number since it wasn't directly on my estate & have now noticed that there is a number on a sign right next to the bubbling drain.
Looks like a combination of rain today, which normally means that road gets flooded, with an existing blockage in the drain. So there's a brown coloured lake wityh a flood bubbling up into it.
So when I got home earlier I rang the council and tried to tell somebody where it was but couldn't remember exact layout of the estate, I tend to walk home a different way and out on the other side of the road.
Just hoping they can actuually do something about it so there isn't crap pouring into the street all night. Has occured to me that there may Be further complication about whose designation that falls under cos I think most of the estate is let by a letting agency.

UPDATE: Finally saw somebody hanging out on a balcony of one of those apartment buildings I pass every day.

I think I've posted about my annoying douchebag neighbor who obsessively insists on keeping his brand new Audi stationwagon covered, and parked in front of our house.

we were wondering about how the whole parking permit thing would play out. so now on the street side of the car, scotch-taped to the cover is a typed sign that reads 'VISITORS PERMIT # XXXXXXX - DO NOT LIFT COVER!!!'

With every passing day I become more convinced that the only course of action is to add a post-it note reading 'DOUCHEBAG PERMIT # XXXXX"

I hate him so much. Especially now that I know he's only on a fucking VISITORS permit. But it gives me hope that maybe he will leave? idk

contrive a way to drop a bowling bar onto his car from a great height. cover not so useful now, is it

ooh I like the way you think

I get super-mad even when I see him now

lately I'm really being annoyed by the british writing quirk to say "all the *insert noun* of a *stupid wacky example*"

eg "all the personality of a lump of cheese."

it's ubiquitous and i instantly stop reading when i see it.

the fact that some airlines have stopped giving you peanuts/pretzels on flights, and try to get you to buy snacks

I mean, I can bring my own damn peanuts, nbd, but there's just something so stingy and gross about it.

xp ha ha I hate that expression too, but I can't think of any other examples but "personality"

maybe if you think "about as x as y" it frees up some new ones, "about as talented as..." or "about as clever as..."

About as exciting as an old shoe.

xp Airlines are for the most part cheap, stingy and gross. I'm still reeling from when they switched from handing out almonds to the peanuts/pretzels.

all the generosity of a budget airline

^that one is fine with me

i think the "personality" ones are problematic because the only fixed thing with an agreed lack of personality is a robot, and that'd be a cliché. and then after that it's that issue of "boring" being a boring criticism.

These examples are making me angry, good work

using "absolutely" to indicate assent

"would you like your sandwich toasted?"

"absolutely."

"Indisputably!"

"could i get another beer?"

"apodictically."

I would like it absolutely toasted. Just completely blackened. Scorched bread.

indubitably

axiomatically

aren't those personality similes lifted from stereotypical school reports?

"eargasm"

It's rational enough that the word would make me angry but I had no idea it'd make me so angry, when a smiling girl said it over and over to me about how much she liked something

The only use of 'eargasm' permitted is to describe the mining of one's ear canal with a cotton bud. If someone says that word about a song, shoot them.