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

If you're taking a right but your turn signal is off im gonna thinking your going straight cos that is the message you are communicating to the rest of the world in your car.

you will be otm on your deathbed

-potlucks

I hate almost killing or injuring pedestrians on campus - I understand that you have the right of way and I respect the crosswalks and such, but the laws of physics continue to exist and I can't immediately come to a stop if you just walk in front of me without looking.

people abbreviating january to "jan". in writing it's obviously fine but i mean they say "yeah i'll sort that in jan".

is this a new thing?

i can imagine "feb" too but nobody will ever say, "yeah i'm going on holidays in mar"

"let's see how the numbers stack up in jul and sep"

I hate - HATE - a four-way intersection near my house that is yield signs two ways and no signs the other two ways. Approach from the no-sign direction, and you have to basically stop, because there's no reason to believe the other people will actually yield. Approach from the yield-side, and you have to stop, because the other people have no sign. It's as bad as a four-way no-stop, which by default turns into a nervous four-way stop.

nobody will ever say, "yeah i'm going on holidays in mar"

Except rich people going to Marbella

I'm sure I will be hit by a car one day. I run and slow down for the crosswalks and hold my arms up waving making sure to get the attention of everyone at 4 way stops. Only works maybe half the time.

"Jan." is a common abbreviation of January, IME.

The bad pedestrians described ITT are doing something more general that makes me very IA, and thing is behaving like they are the only people on earth. In the same class, and just as horrible are people who block the aisle in the middle of a crowded bus or block the door on a bus or train. You live in a SOCIETY with other people with needs, too!

No one says "jan" or "feb" out loud, that is ridiculous and wrong. It's like when someone says a word out loud that they have only read previously and comically mispronounce it, e.g. "paradiggum"

- when people I follow on Twitter decide to live-tweet an old TV show like they are the first person to every do such a thing or like their input is in any way novel or interesting. For some reason, everybody wants to tweet about Twin Peaks, Star Trek, and the X-files. Or at least the giant dorks that I follow on Twitter want to.

I'm an inveterate jaywalker.

i wish there was a jaywalking world championship cos i would enter and win.

That sounds like a challenge.

We're both going to get hit by cars later today and jerks on the internet will point to those posts as reasons why we deserved.

I'm a big fan of scooping up my kids and jaywalking with them, since they're not quite adept enough to do it on their own.

But then, there are crosswalks where I live, with signs saying it's state law to yield to pedestrians, yet cars do ... not ... stop.

We're both going to get hit by cars later today and jerks on the internet will point to those posts as reasons why we deserved.

"this never would have happened if they had cars themselves."

But then, there are crosswalks where I live, with signs saying it's state law to yield to pedestrians, yet cars do ... not ... stop.

oh god oh god the intersection in front of our apartment is crazy busy (well one street is crazy busy, the other is nearly deserted) and there's a crosswalk and a sign, but the lines on the street are nearly faded away and NOBODY sees the sign or stops. I have harangued my alderman so many times via every method of communication possible and that piece of shit has never even responded to me. I have to cross the crazy busy street to get to my bus stop and even if I'm doing the terrifying "cross halfway and look imploringly at drivers going in the opposite direction" nobody stops. Unless I actually put my hand up like a crossing guard, then they usually stop, but I hate being reduced to such things.

My neighbors probably know me as "that woman who is always yelling 'It's a cross walk! You have to stop BY LAW! FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!' in the mornings."

People are so irrationally angry about the fact that bike lanes or pedestrian walkways exist sometimes! I don't get it. The city had not yet painted the crosswalk in one location but there were large yellow signs on both sides of the roadway and a button you could push that would make lights on both signs blink. I push button, begin crossing with a car about a block back and you would have thought I'd insulted the driver's mother by the amount of rage I saw.

you guys should just get cars and drive everywhere

Thinking about it.

love walking too much xpost

I don't want a car! It's expensive and a pain in the ass and neither one of us likes driving so we'll just argue about who has to do it every time we need to go anywhere.

Just buy a cheap broken down car and park it in the crosswalk. Crossing problem solved!

they finally replaced the Crosswalk of Death by my house! For years it had just been tiny flashing lights embedded in the blacktop, halfheartedly painted lines and a whole lot of misplaced trust in the ability of drivers to Do The Right Thing. This on a four lane arterial road (two lanes each way) by a hospital with a fuckton of pedestrian traffic. I saw SO many people almost die on a daily basis, it was a horrible, horrible crosswalk. They repaved the road a few months back and took the whole thing out...so for a while there was nothing at all (of course pavlovian dogs of idiots would try to cross there anyway. wtf. sorry, you're dead.) This month they FINALLY put in a beautiful fully operational crosswalk! Giant overhead traffic lights that stay off until the person activates the crosswalk then the lights start flashing and then stay red until the person has crossed! And painted lines and the whole nine yards. I don't even cross on it myself but I'm so overjoyed that I don't have to watch pedestrians risk their lives anymore.

Fuck cars. I would have 2 cars right now if other people knew how to fucking drive. I've only been in 2 major accidents and both of them i was rear-ended by a idiot driver that totaled my car. Both on the same road, in fact.

No one says "jan" or "feb" out loud, that is ridiculous and wrong. It's like when someone says a word out loud that they have only read previously and comically mispronounce it, e.g. "paradiggum"

Man, I'm not comprehending well this morning. You're right. I thought the OP was referring to "Jan." in writing.

Chicago has installed a lot of signs in the middle of streets in crosswalks with little stop signs that say that under IL law, cars must stop for pedestrians, and it really works. I love it.

I am pretty aggressive with drivers that seem like they're not going to stop. When I see a car that's looking like it's not going to stop, I make a point of walking right out in front of it (not in a dangerous way) so they have to slam on their brakes. Fuckers.

Fuck drivers and fuck pedestrians.

They should ban cars and just having moving walkways all over the city like they do at the airport.

Maybe I'll just move in to O'Hare.

I don't find someone saying Jan so annoying, but abbreviating any of the other months definitely is.

what's wrong with abbreviating Jan. ??? who cares?

months you should be able to shorten with no IA:
Jan.
Feb.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.

kind of pushing it:
Mar.
Apr.
Aug.

don't even think about it:
May (to M.)
Jun.
Jul.

welp. those are the rules.

Jan'ry

I get IA when months are not consistently shortened - Jan-June would kill me. Three characters, or all characters.

agreed

you guys should just buy cars and abbreviate all months all the time but use irregular month abbreviation lengths

i will drive over anyone who fails to consistently abbreviate all months

YOU'RE ALL ON NOTICE

Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Sma

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07hwwhVlR1qcbx7lo1_500.png

We could have 2-letter appreviations if not for those bastard months march, may, june, and july!

abreviations, even!

Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.)

LOL

JA
FEBR
MARC
A
MAYY
JU
JU 2
ARGH
S
O
NO-V
DECEMB

Ugh, every once in a while you see those fiscal year calendars and the like that have the months abbreviated like J F M Ap Ju J Au S O N D and those are just some bullshit.

hot sauce bottles that make some kind of joke about how your ass is going to hurt as a result of their use.

http://www.hotsauceplanet.com/humorous-funny-hot-sauces-snacks-s/72.htm?searching=Y&sort=5&cat=72&show=100&page=1

16-month Calendars.

Like, who buys a calendar in July and just sits patiently staring at the same page for four months? "Can't wait until January to look at that SNOW SCENE!"

You could say, "it's more of a reference in case you wanted to see what the date was on Labor Day blab blah blah" but then it would make more sense to give the extra four months to January-April of the next year, since sometimes, it takes awhile to get around buying another calendar.

TV Guide should publish the last four days from the last issue, just in case you wanted to go back and check to see who played in the afternoon game on CBS.