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

bulky toe seams on socks

RAAARAGH THIS

That is bugging me RIGHT NOW!

DEATH TO BULKY SOCK SEAMS

men with long hair brushing it in public

i've never had the sock thing. feel like i'm missing out.

if you don't care how they look, just wear them inside out

(I learned that from Andy Rooney iirc)

getting stuck at a slow pedestrian crossing light changing on a day that started off windy and rainy and became increasingly intense as I waited for the light to change. Haven't seen it rain that intensely in a while.
Torrwents of rain pouring down the top of my engineer boots.
Swear that light is actually slow compared to other crossings.

& not being able to keep my normally waterproofing leather hat on my head in the wind.

Or be able to see the crossing lights properly cos some tall vehicle brushed the crossing lights so they face the wrong direction.

that thing where people crop a photo of someone's face so it stops along the jawline, making them look like their head just burst forth from some insane '60s jack-in-the-box, is driving me up the wall atm

now I have to find an example of what I am talking about

does that come up a lot?

they're always grinning/gurning and they always look like dicks

xp it seems to be enjoying a resurgence

see now I look like an idiot because I can't find an example (there was one in a magazine that I only just deleted)

closest eg i can find

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TX3NLU1WdjM/TxA4OOBBsXI/AAAAAAAAB3E/ogtXwomH-IM/s1600/the+art+of+love+320x240.jpg

but worse, like it was done by a child with a pair of scissors

that is half a century old

you have some esoteric hatreds (which is fine!)

shh let him have this

soz

but I've seen it three times in the past week! I don't know why it's making a comeback

I don't even know what it's called, which is making me even more ia

there there, it's okay adam

downloading the magazine again, just so I can show you

http://i.imgur.com/i8IrQfZ.jpg

he's just some guy, but when they cut around his chin like that he looks frivolous/brain damaged

You obviously don't work on South Park.

picture him talking in a Saddam Hussein Southpark voice and it will all make sense

YES, that sort of thing, but without any self-awareness

i am slightly bent out of shape about about phone etiquette right now

i truly believe that if you leave a message and don't state the reason for your call and yet somehow demand an immediate response you are a fucked up rude beast and you should be kicked in the shins

yo, elmo, this is mh. call me immediately, very important!

why

why

why

can't people ask multiple questions in one single email. When a customer sends you an email asking a question and you know it's tied to at least 3 more followup issues and you spend all afternoon receiving and replying to single followup question emails when it all could have been covered in ONE conversation

I swear

for me the problem has always been people answering multiple questions. put more than one q in an email, most of the time the other person only responds to the first one. i've actually thought about purposely going the 1-at-a-time route.

yeah that's my other inverse IA about email conversations

my upstairs neighbors are loud and invited people over for super bowl which is fine but do they all have to be smokers who stand on the stoop smoking, which means it goes right in my front window (it's not open it's just drafty so i can smell it even from the back of the apt). the older i get the less i can stand cigarette smoke and it makes me ia and a curmudgeon

i.e. i am turning into my dad

You can smell it with the windows closed?? Time to put some plastic seal on those windows, unless you like it very cold?!

- the (coked up, surely) couple in the hotel room who were fucking loudly from midnight to 3am and again from 7am, still at it when we left at 9 for breakfast
-and/or the hotel for having shitty thin walls and crappy beds that creak and bang against the wall
- tired.com

*in the *next hotel room

When a customer sends you an email asking a question and you know it's tied to at least 3 more followup issues and you spend all afternoon receiving and replying to single followup question emails when it all could have been covered in ONE conversation

Better: when the recipients complain that your emails are too long and have too much information/are confusing. So you can only put one thing in each email if you expect them to read it (on their mobile devices). Then they write back, asking the EXACT SAME QUESTIONS YOU HAD ANSWERED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I can't load this thread but

Stephen Hawkins

and yes I know it's yin-yang

when someone has a hair growing out of their face/nose/ear and they refuse to pull it out

they are huge, huge windows. like 8 feet tall, and recessed over a foot from the wall. so i can't make it work. yes it's cold in here.

I'm working on my lecture notes for the chapter on agency and every time I try to type "principal" I type "prinicpal." EVERY TIME.

lol, I do this with research. Resaerch.

I do it with neccesa... nesceaar... nessesary... FUCK.

appliaction

considering I spent two years speccing the appliaction of appliaction forms in a web appliaction it was a p bad word to be fucking up all the time

Ok, I realized my #1 innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry, in terms of the ratio of anger to innocuousness, is this:

Cashier hands you bag, then gives you your change, placing bills in your hands first, THEN a big sloppy pile of change on top, THEN a receipt. The first thing you want to do is slip the bills into your already held and open wallet so you can move on (line of people behind you), but instead you've got this stupid change all over the place fucking everything up.