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

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.

Yeah that peeves me too, I end up kind of using the bills as a plate to slew the coins into the zipper bit of my wallet and then I'm standing there clutchinc cash and a flopping around wallet and the bad and receipt and ARGH.

I was waiting for a home delivery of bookcases from Argos (delivery between 7am and 8pm, thanks m8s v specific), but my downstairs neighbours answered the door, and when I got my box from the vestibule it turned out Argos got the delivery wrong and I had received some other inadequate-to-my-needs storage unit. Now that's a fairly reasonable thing to be annoyed (if not angered) about, but where the real innocuous anger comes in is that I have something valid to complain about, but it is so amazingly banal that complaining seems like the most boring thing imaginable. Not only have you robbed me of my bookcases, Argos, you've robbed me of my God-given right to unselfconsciously whine.

Able-bodied people who use the handicap-assist button on doors, even though it makes the door open more slowly than if they just pushed the damned door open.

Also, people terrified of entering a revolving door if someone else is in it, so they're standing there on the other side waiting for you to come all the way around, making you feel obligated to push the door more quickly. These people do not get the point of revolving doors.

fuck revolving doors

ha they are probably the same people who wait at the top of the stairs for you to finish climbing before they start down. i don't know if it's superstition or a strange idea of manners but it happens here at least once a week and i get ia every time. never speed up or say thanks.

xp what, revolving doors are the best

Able-bodied people who use the handicap-assist button on doors, even though it makes the door open more slowly than if they just pushed the damned door open.

Also, people terrified of entering a revolving door if someone else is in it, so they're standing there on the other side waiting for you to come all the way around, making you feel obligated to push the door more quickly. These people do not get the point of revolving doors.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Monday, 4 February 2013 11:33 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think these are justified. Firstly - it's not always obvious that it's a handicap assist button and some people might think it's just the normal way to open said door. Secondly - people who use revolving doors can be dicks who push the thing really fast or jump in/out at a weird opportunity. The number of times i've come close to snapping my foot/head off in the revolving door at work, it's a wonder I'm still alive.

That the first time I get vomiting sick for ages is at the exact same time that my course aptitude test for the next thing I've applied for is starting. SO came out in clothing I'd wiped off thinking I might as well do the test anyway only to find the tester is strict about punctuality,so I can't taske the test at the scheduled time. Well it has at least given me a chance to come home and change and stick clothing in washing machine.

Why the sink I filled had to be so small that I got hit largely by splashback is another peeve.

I think these are justified. Firstly - it's not always obvious that it's a handicap assist button and some people might think it's just the normal way to open said door.

The button has a picture of a wheelchair on it, text that says "Handicapped push to open door," it's 5 feet in front of the door and the door has regular old handles on it.

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/53404/53404,1215226113,1/stock-photo-handicap-button-14527534.jpg

I worked at a place where we were told off for opening such doors using the handles, because it was somehow better for the door if everyone used the button.

Opposite day IA: when people with wheeled bags/strollers/huge packages/walkers use the revolving door however cramped and weird and dangerous and scary it seems to be instead of just going through the accessible door.

Although living in Chicago, I am generally very appreciative when people who are able to use the revolving doors use the revolving doors. It's cold outside!!!

I get IA when people don't use the revolving door. Make me feel like an idiot for not using the fire exit like you.

In my building it makes me triply angry because there are signs posted on all the fire exit doors: PLEASE USE REVOLVING DOORS. My building is practically right on Lake Erie, and in the winter the area in front of my building is like a wind tunnel, so for obvious reasons they don't want those doors used.

And of course, people use the fire exit doors, because YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD, BUILDING MANAGER! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

And of course, they use the handicapped-assist button, meaning the door stays open longer than it otherwise would.

People are awful.

They changed the front door of the building where I do my evening class a year or two ago to have a wheelchair access button, and in the process they made it so heavy and resistant to normal pushing that I felt like maybe I was screwing up the mechanism by forcing it and for a while I pressed the button just in case, so I'm sympathetic to other people thinking the same.

Lately whenever anyone arrives the receptionist just presses their own door release button, so I guess it's been causing a lot of people confusion.

Also I often wait for people to get out of my work's revolving door but it's very small, only takes about a second to go all the way through, and gets stuck if you push with very slightly too much or too little force, so I don't trust it to cope with two people pushing different sections at once.

Doors where the wheelchair access mechanism makes them difficult to open by pulling the handle are, by my definition, broken. Providing an affordance for part of your audience isn't supposed to reduce functionality for the rest.

since moving to pdx i see what seems like an abnormally large amount of people driving around with one headlight out and it's come to be something that drives ne nuts.

Doors where the wheelchair access mechanism makes them difficult to open by pulling the handle are, by my definition, broken. Providing an affordance for part of your audience isn't supposed to reduce functionality for the rest.

It doesn't though. You can open the door with the button, too.

Well, if you define the functionality of a door with handle as "allows a user to easily open door, with handle, and close it in a timely manner so as to not let the cold weather in" then it fails miserably.

The library's door is like this. It's got a disabled button, and yet, even when you push it, it sort of opens itself like HAL. It definitely doesn't behave like a regular door anymore.

The good news is that the door leads to a vestibule (pod bay) with a final automatic radar sliding door. So no cold air.

People who open to door with the button but them grab it and yank it open manually anyway.