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

That call took 50:21, including 1:15 of actually speaking with the agent who gave me another number to call.

wooow

please tell us more, this is fascinating

Missed three deliveries from UPS because it had the wrong name - but right address! So I got to thinking, hmm, maybe it was meant for me, but just misnamed (though correctly addressed). So I went to the UPS customer pickup center in the middle of nowhere (but not really that far away), and they ask you to sign for the package with the name it is addressed to, which is not me. So I tell them I'm not that person, but it is my address. They ask if it's an apartment, and I say no, a home. They're a little confused. Is this person (the generic name John Smith) a previous resident of the house? No. So they ask if I'm expecting anything, and I say I have no idea, I get things all the time, but given the size of the package it's seemed like nothing I was expecting, but I couldn't rule it out. So they say that it'll just go back to the sender, but I ask what if they just misaddress it again for the same reason and it comes here again? Eventually they open up the manifest and I take a guess that the contents are not for me (though they could have been).

Anyway, not mad at UPS for once, just mad at the idiot who sent something to my house with someone else's name on it. If it makes its way back here again, I'll just sign for it.

Reminds me of a mis-delivered letter that once made its way to my house. I took it to downtown Chicago and just dropped it in a box. And the next day ... it arrives at my house again!

I just bought a new flower pot from Ikea. It came with instructions! In multiple languages!

1. puut die floowar en die pooet
2. floowar weeil groowen

I honestly don't know how people used these fucking things. I'm frustrated to near tears at the moment.

Think about a person who's only used a typewriter and picture them trying to work a computer.

Reminds me of a mis-delivered letter that once made its way to my house. I took it to downtown Chicago and just dropped it in a box. And the next day ... it arrives at my house again!

Ha! Nice work, Chicago postal service.

Think about a person who's only used a typewriter and picture them trying to work a computer.

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Geez, man. I briefly used a typewriter in my affected teen years for high school essays, but I couldn't handle one in a work environment.

I would fucking love to have a typewriter at work. Especially if it was one of those gigantic IBM Selectrics that would sit there humming at you when you weren't actively typing.

You think an office full of chattering keyboards is loud? The sound of those old newsrooms where everyone was whacking away on a typewriter was deafening.

Seriously; send someone under 30 into a room like that, they'd think they'd walked into a firing range.

I like the sound of typewriters and there is something satisfying about the words immediately appearing on paper, but the drawbacks are far greater than the charms.

please tell us more, this is fascinating

I'm gonna.

i took a typing class w/selectrics in hs -- probably the most useful thing i did there, although it's taken years to get past the two-spaces-after-a-period thing.

new ia: shops that whack a 'PLEASE CLOSE THE DOOR WE HAVE AIR CONDITIONING' sign on the door, and are too cheap to spend fifty bucks on a thing that closes the door

just spend the fifty bucks and shut the hell up

close the fucking door you savage jeez

did they spend 50 bucks on the door of the barn you were born in did they huh

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Similarly, businesses in cold climates that don't add one of those extra canvas awning doors to their existing front doors to make a little airlock so every time someone enters or leaves, that person isn't exposing all the patrons inside to Arctic winds.

Also the fact that I have no idea what those are called and can't google my way to an answer or even find a picture of one. What are they called???

hmm one variation is called a flyscreen iirc?

vestibules?

YES! Vestibule enclosures!!!! Thank you, mookieproof!

http://www.signexponyc.com/images/Vestibules/vestibule2010.jpg

IA - businesses, mostly restaurants and bars, that don't have one of those (or a revolving door or a permanent airlock) in the winter.

Also referred to as "winter enclosures" and "windbreakers." I'm so happy right now.

that'd keep a fly out surely

Better than nothing, but that solution just sets up another opportunity to get IA: most people are idiots and just hold open the outer door and the inner door at the same time. People are dumb with doors, believe me. You could put a sign up with door-handling instructions right at eye level and still most people would ignore it. I've seen this happen many times with the kind of door that doesn't close behind you by itself. There is nothing in the world you can do to get people to manually close the door to a restaurant or bar if they are not the type that naturally does it.

on the usefulness of vestibules

^That guy nails it. If you have a pair of couples, or even three people entering the building, that vestibule is worthless.

Sit near the door of a place w/out a vestibule and you'll come to appreciate them. They're nowhere near perfect, but overall they're far better than nothing.

winter is to be cherished while we still have it

i think we can all agree on that.

no

I keep coming to this thread, which has a bookmark on it and not being taken to th ebookmark. Not sure waht's causing that, server or what but I'm just being taken to th etop of th e thread not where the bookmark I specifically put on should be taking me.

Josefa OTM but this also very OTM:

Sit near the door of a place w/out a vestibule and you'll come to appreciate them. They're nowhere near perfect, but overall they're far better than nothing.

mookieproof OTM, too.

Carl OTM

coming off an incredibly busy week, looking at a slightly less intense but still quite busy week, and not being able to sleep in. 6.5 hours last night, 7 hours friday night. i cannot stop waking up at 6.11 am.

Carl OTM

No, you!

coming off an incredibly busy week, looking at a slightly less intense but still quite busy week, and not being able to sleep in. 6.5 hours last night, 7 hours friday night. i cannot stop waking up at 6.11 am.

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I kept waking up at around 5 or 5.30 a.m . during a really stressed out week last week. Think I woke a couple of times during the night too.
So know where you're coming from. Probably find it's something like too much adrenaline being produced or something.

Can you tell what time the cat usually comes in and starts dancing on my head?

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ppl who bring the entire family to the grocery store at the busiest time

ugh this

guy standing in the way of the back door of the bus who, when it became clear that we were going to exit via the back door, moved over about one inch and said magnanimously, "Go ahead." Look pal, I don't need your permission to get off the bus.

did you curtsey y/n

My wife, telling me the guy facing me in the intersection flashed his headlights, giving me permission to turn ahead of him, despite the fact that there was someone crossing the street at the intersection I was turning into, which is why I was not turning. If I did not see the person crossing and heeded my wife's prompting, I would have squished someone. But I did see the person crossing, as well as the guy courteously flashing his headlights at me, because I AM THE DRIVER and am paying attention.

The lid of this biro doesn't fit snugly on the reverse end and keeps falling off causing me to say FUCK fairly loudly in the office.

yeah that's some bullshit

My bank's new "no hats/no hoodies" policy. My bald head gets cold this time of year!

wear a hat that looks like a lush head of hair imo