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

1. Narrow sidewalk, v fast moving foot traffic single file in each direction, woman with a wheelie bag stops short out of nowhere to pull something out of her purse causing person behind her to run into her and me to run into that person. Bonus LOLs bc it's 9F out and everybody is booking to get inside and is covered in warm clothes with just a little visibility window between their hats and their scarves, so we look like idiot padded penguins plowing into each other on an ice floe.

2. I took a shortcut through the drugstore rather than walk around the corner to the main entrance of my building (9F!) and some tool rushing in behind me stepped on my heels TWICE, prompting me to say, "Watch it, asshole," which shockingly caused him to pause to hold the next two doors open for me (not in an "after you" chivalry way, just in a pausing in the door to hold it so it doesn't slam in my face regular politeness way), which was weird and annoying bc if he's in such a hurry he should just own it and live with the consequences. He seemed actually chagrined to be called an asshole.

Not IA about either thing, actually. Just amused at human behavior.

wheelie bag

This was all you needed to say for me to be IA too

13,590 messages so I've probably said this before but:

If you're turning left at an intersection and the light turns from yellow to red, you may still (quickly) make your turn. It's acceptable.

Otherwise, you're going to be sitting in one place, waiting through a lot of signal cycles (and we will too, sitting behind you.)

xxp Arrrghhh, people stepping on my heels makes me soooo IA.

I am a sometimes heel-stepper. I take my punishment (which is to be publicly recognized as an asshole, which I am).

I think both episodes were general examples of how dressing like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fqmEVXfZbjI/SXAIrLCJ2vI/AAAAAAAAD-4/DYal0LTZPtA/s1600/070205_chicago_cold_hmed_3p.h2

limits your awareness of your surroundings in a fundamental way (the heel stepping happened seconds after entering the building so we were all still bundled up and in "WALK FAST WE ARE ALL GOING TO FREEZE TO DEATH" mode).

I like my personal space too much to be a regular heel-stepper but if I'm walking w/ someone I know and therefore trying to keep up or hold a conversation I am terrible for heel-stepping or just plain walking into them if they stop suddenly.

Plus I confess I've probably passive-aggressively heelstepped on someone for walking out in front of me and then annoying me. Someone barged into me this morning (I was waiting behind an obstruction for someone else coming the other way and the woman behind just walked straight through the middle and into both of us on the way) and that put me in a bad mood so I barged into her in return when she paused a few moments later and then felt very childish for doing so.

Damn my childish passive-aggressive impulses. I also suspect that a fat ugly woman like me walking into people is seen as approx 6000x ruder and stupider than the slim blonde 20-something who walked into me, which it might pay to remember, annoying as it is.

Yes, fat women definitely aren't smiled upon for taking up space, that is for sure.

it hurts me a little inside when you do yrself down, spacecadet

not that this makes me irrationally angry, just think hey let's be proud of the cool people we are. not you, CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT

Im proud of the cool person im steadfastly not

i mean cool in the sense of delightful rather than in the sense of Fonzie

haha, kinda enjoying picturing dmac as the fonz

Fuckin delightful, he sez

you're delightfully curmudgeonly at least

fair

darragh is a perfect example of a curmudgeon being delightful

charmudgeon

If you're turning left at an intersection and the light turns from yellow to red, you may still (quickly) make your turn. It's acceptable.

Otherwise, you're going to be sitting in one place, waiting through a lot of signal cycles (and we will too, sitting behind you.)

― pplains, Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

YES. THIS. FUCK.

That's when I reach for my revolver turn up the radio and press down on the horn until the light turns green again.

I sat behind a car that pulled all the way out into the middle of an intersection to make a left turn...the light went from green to yellow, they waited, light went red...that's when you just fking go right? Nope. SAT THERE. For a whole signal cycle. Cross street traffic had to weave around them and they sat there like lumps! No amount of horn parping could budge them

insanity

lol maybe they were parking.

fking idiot middle-aged yuppies is what they were

Yesterday at the grocery store a man and woman were coming around a corner toward me, not yielding at all, so I pressed myself against the corner, and they still didn't move an inch. The woman just walked straight into me with her shoulder, still prattling on to the guy, and didn't seem to notice that she'd hit something, even after I inquired, "What the fuck??" I wanted to throw a jar of peanut butter at her head.

you should have

Yeah, the thing to do in that situation is to shove her right off her feet and then apologize while extending a hand to pick her up.

If you're turning left at an intersection and the light turns from yellow to red, you may still (quickly) make your turn. It's acceptable.

this is the only way to make the turn in some places! i get totally IA at cars in front of me at left turn yields who don't immediately set themselves up in the middle of the intersection for this.

You know, I'm willing even to be extraordinarily patient with cars that sit behind the line instead of inching up into the intersection (like they're supposed to.)

Just make the damn turn when the light changes, that's it.

speaking of traffic, just bali traffic in general. i wish they would just go ahead and pave paradise and put up a parking lot. or 10. cause paradise, combined with gridlock in 100 degree weather +3rd world motorcycle smog, caused by mf's parking on the side of a 1 1/2 lane road because there's no parking to be found anywhere because that would cost the government money they would rather line their own pockets with, is no longer paradise, and makes me TOTALLY FUXKING IRRATIONALLY ANGRY

Yesterday at the grocery store a man and woman were coming around a corner toward me, not yielding at all, so I pressed myself against the corner, and they still didn't move an inch. The woman just walked straight into me with her shoulder, still prattling on to the guy, and didn't seem to notice that she'd hit something

Fuck. FUUUCK. This happens to me ALL THE TIME. Am I invisible? THERES A WALL HERE I CANT MOVE ANY FURTHER OVER OW.

is this thread now people hating on yummy mummies themselves (HUBBA HUBBA) or the prhase

For people who don't see me when they are walking, I just stand my ground and throw my shoulder into them. It happens when there are people coming towards me on the side walk, 2 or 3 abreast. It is their job to collapse into a line that will allow two way traffic, not mine to walk on the grass/snow/mud to let them pass. Fuck that.

And ugh shitballs who look indignant when you don't move into the grass for them when they're walking side by side.

Haha what?? Those people are high, that is not a reasonable thing to do! Shoulder checking 4eva

Yeah, I play a lot of sidewalk chicken.

- getting a momentary whiff of someone's stale/bad breath

I should really home work. Almost all of my IA is for strangers I hate on my way to and from work.

I do the same, also for people who are blindly walking while texting.

the angry looks and low growls I make at pedestrians who don't fit into my ideal pedestrian model will get me stabbed one day

same - though this year i've tried to curb it as a determined resolution. it's just not worth being irritated by people's "night of the living dead" impressions.

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Hahahah you get Dwell Magazine.

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I used to get Dwell for free then my sub ended. You might say the Dwell ran dry.

Wondering why the whole of Africa was represented as a single fighter when I watched the Quest last night. Might be enough that I was actually watching the film but struck me as odd. Seemed to be a representative per major country in Asia, Europe & South America, but Africa (a continent that happens to have black people indigenous to it?) is represented by one individual.
Just wondering where taht shorthand is coming from Jean Claude Van Damme, the studio or the writer.
A tad racist surely?

The US has a long-standing tendency to see Africa as a monolith, like one big country as opposed to a continent made up of extremely diverse countries/regions/people. This is unquestionably super racist. As more people loudly point out this tendency and encourage people to readjust their perception, it is getting better although it is still a significant problem. The Quest, which I have never seen, is 1) from 1996 and 2) a Jean Claude-Van Damme action movie, both of which are going to exacerbate this. That's not to excuse it, because like I said, it still happens quite a bit, but just to say that the overall trend is improving.

Also, we are the country who brought you "World Music" sections in record shops (read: any music that is not from the US, Canada, or Great Britain) and the country who is only just now recognizing that food specific to Mexico, a country that we border and with which most US residents are very familiar, is vastly different depending on which region it's from and involves something more than red sauce, cheese, and hard shell tacos.

All of that is also unquestionably super racist, too, btw.

If you're turning left at an intersection and the light turns from yellow to red, you may still (quickly) make your turn. It's acceptable.

Otherwise, you're going to be sitting in one place, waiting through a lot of signal cycles (and we will too, sitting behind you.)

― pplains, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:46 AM (Yesterday)

This isn't really the same thing, but I hate it when I pull up to the line at a "left turn yield on green" intersection(light is green but oncoming traffic is bumper-to-bumper and it's clear that there won't be an opening) and the person behind me honks their horn because I refuse to pull forward and wait in the middle of the intersection. Sitting in the intersection is dangerous and stupid unless the oncoming traffic is light enough that you can count on getting an opening fairly quickly. No matter what I do, the people behind me won't be able to turn anyways until the light cycles from green -> red -> green arrow, so pressuring me isn't going to speed things up one bit.

I mean sometimes I'll time things so that I can pull into the intersection during the last few seconds of the green light and make my turn just as the light turns red, but I'll never just wait in the intersection for a full minute (or however long the green light lasts) when oncoming traffic is really heavy.