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

http://www.roomstogo.com/storelocator/

I don't know how to use that.

I have a weird soft spot for Rooms to Go because the first piece of furniture I ever bought new was a giant blue couch from RTG for $500. Also a friend's mom gave her a houseful of furniture because she moved in with her boyfriend and didn't need it anymore and it was all fully coordinated Rooms to Go sets and it was all so ridiculous that it was ultimately kind of charming.

Automatic doors that don't open until you're 000000000.01 cm in front of them, making you wonder until the last split-second if it's 'read' you and it's going to open.

i wave my arms around and get stared a

at

Searching for Rooms to Go furniture store (my mom needs furniture and is really cheap....) and Google Maps keeps showing me DRIVING DIRECTIONS from "rooms" to "go" or "rooms" to "go furniture" or to "Salisbury, NC."

When I put "Rooms to Go" in quotes it gave me driving directions somewhere in Brasilia, Brazil.....klma;sdfklja;sdflkja;eflkjfa

― Je55e, Friday, May 24, 2013 11:59 AM (2 days ago)

I searched google maps for "ass to mouth" (yes, I am very mature), and it took me from A.S.S. End of Arm Tooling in Livonia, Michigan, to Wendy's in Ann Arbor. seems about right.

xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAX8Im-T8MA

I spend ages thinking about buying the Nico The End remaster and when it finally arrives it sounds like the sound's been hollowed out. Reading reviews of the thing online and it's being talked about asa mrked improvement on previous versions, all instruments being very clear etc.
Damn just wanted this to sound rihght cos it has some of my favourite tracks by her on side of the lp.

When you pull a tissue out of the box and the next one doesn't come out and stick up, so that you have to stuff your hand into the box and scrabble around to get the next one, and you end up yanking out a whole bunch more than you need and then have to stuff them badly back into the box

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:04 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you ever had this happen with Clorox Wipes? Its a give that your coming out of the fix with a couple of very sore fingers

you're whatevs

People changing plans makes me meanly, venomously angry. So far this weekend almost every single social plan I've made has been completely KO'ed by the other parties. Some of their reasons were perfectly reasonable and I'm not mad about those, but some of them are just self-centered lazy flakes. I just reorganized something involving multiple people all for one person who couldn't get it together this morning.

Bus driver this morning who turns up 10 minutes late then by the time everybody has got on the bus is already 20 minutes late He picked up the passengers who would have got onto the next bus normally, & that bus sailed way ahead of us by the time we left the first road we were on. He then drives really slowly all the way.
Somebody rang the bell then didn't get off. maybe got the wrong stop. But this driver opens the door and waits for nothing for a couple of minutes. A bunch of people wound up getting to work late and he didn't seem to care.
Bloody hope he isn't on mornings again.

Bus driver this morning who turns up 10 minutes late then by the time everybody has got on the bus is already 20 minutes late He picked up the passengers who would have got onto the next bus normally, & that bus sailed way ahead of us by the time we left the first road we were on. He then drives really slowly all the way.

this happening pretty much every day last year nearly gave me a nervous breakdown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching

These non-express passengers, as well as others waiting to board, may be told that another less-crowded vehicle is "right behind them". This may or may not be true; in extreme cases, the following vehicle(s) may also be overcrowded or even more severely delayed. On rare occasions, some long-suffering riders have violently expressed their anger at chronically poor service.

When people have "I'm thinking about what I look like right now" written all over their face.

xp I have mixed feelings about this because all of the following are annoying and I guess there is no way not to have any of these 3 options:

- "bus bunching"
- running for a bus you see already at the bus stop which then just sits there, for several minutes, while other buses go past
- buses running early so you've already missed them without realising when you turn up at the stop a couple of minutes before the scheduled time (mildly annoying in the city, downright horrible on an infrequent route)

doesn't the bus just sitting there mean it's too early and is trying to get back on schedule? sometimes you can hit the bus jackpot with those because you think it's going to pull away so you don't run to get it but it's still there when you get to the stop so it's like getting something for no effort. that makes me irrationally happy! the rest of the bus makes me kind of angry though.

doesn't the bus just sitting there mean it's too early and is trying to get back on schedule?

yeah it does but it's started happening quite a lot on one of my routes recently (I guess an official change of policy) and it's annoying because I'm usually running late in the morning and I pay my money and think I'm getting somewhere

if I'm running late I've started asking them when they're going to leave, but this probably makes everyone else IA

I used to take a scheduled small town commuter bus to work when I lived in Delaware and when I missed it because that piece of shit was early, it was a total day ruiner. I could either be an hour late for work or drive in and pay $20 to park for the day.

When I get fed up with the CTA and its nonsense, I try to think about all the years I lived carless in smaller cities and college towns with little to no public transit and then I look at the bus tracker on my phone to see when the bus that stops directly in front of our apartment will be coming and all is forgiven.

It's especially annoying when your bus sits there long enough so the next bus overtakes you. I've been told they do this because it's better to have 1 bus be really late than 2 buses be slightly late, for their statistics.

Gah, for their statistics? What about for their passengers' jobs? Fucking annoying.

Come now carl, you've used the CTA long enough by now to notice how little of a crap they give about the riders.

bus bunching may sometimes be deliberately caused by individual bus drivers, so that the bus ahead of them picks up more passengers and decreases their own workload.

but, yeah IA @ this

Yeah, when I was on an hourly bus route buses leaving early were so gutting! (or bypassing my stop altogether, as I saw one do as it took a wrong turning just metres away, but far enough that I couldn't catch up with it)

Especially because the bus was often 10-15 minutes late, so you didn't really start to think you might have missed it until 20 minutes had passed, and then it wasn't worth going home, just standing around for another 40 minutes and hoping the next one came - and knowing that if the last one hadn't run at all then the next one would likely be too full to pick you up anyway. Gah.

xp this sounds uncharacteristically pollyanna-ish, but since I take the CTA nearly every day I really try not to focus on the ways that they suck (hard to do sometimes, granted), but think about how great it is that they even exist. Otherwise I spend 30 minutes at the start and end of every day angry, which isn't good for my health.

Also I really like the new train car layout so every time one of those pulls in I get unreasonably excited. I'm thinking that will get me past any CTA rage for at least the next six to eight months.

And the new cars have the opposite effect on me.

A HOUSE DIVIDED

Conversation that happens every time we ride the train together and step into one of the new train cars:

Jeff: I hate these cars.
Carl: I love them!

Every time.

They have new cars now? That is so cool. I once got to ride on one of the old-old cars (green, old-timey CTA logo, windows that opened).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/new-cta-rail-cars-hit-the_n_2123473.html#slide=1753706

Yup. They have center facing rows of seats, which creates a lot more room for standing passengers and also helps to avoid the natural bottlenecks that the old car design encouraged. Also the ride is smoother and they are quieter. Fewer places to sit, though, which is a bummer, and also if you do get a seat, you'll probably be touching your fellow passengers more than on the old cars.

When you have an exceptionally long line for something that eventually splits into two lines, but it's not clear from the back that there are two lines or where the two lines split, the assholes who try to use the "there are two lines" trick to cut ahead. Several people tried to pull this on me going through customs. Was not in the mood after a 12 hour flight with a baby and loudly told them to fuck right off.

To be clear, I mean people who get into the "shorter" line even though it's clear that everyone is waiting to get into both lines because they either can't see that there are two lines, or because it's too disorderly to have two clear lines all the way back. The civilized thing to do is obviously to go to the back and then split into one of the lines.

One dude actually yelled at me to "mind your own damn business." I told him "this is my business, because you're cutting in front of me."

I bet afterwards the people you yelled at were really. . . "hurting."

;)

LAX used to be terrible for that, I remember one year it was total chaos with people cutting in all over the fucking place. I think we ended up not beating them but joining them after an hour or so, so I was part of the problem. Last couple of times they'd discovered these wonderful inventions that clearly divide the queues up with this elastic ribbon stuff, it's a marvel the modern world isn't it.

That's one thing I <3 about Trader Joe's, that they clearly distinguish the lines all the way back and have a person standing there to force people into line in order of arrival. It satisfies my desire to see "justice" imposed, I guess.

Yup. They have center facing rows of seats, which creates a lot more room for standing passengers and also helps to avoid the natural bottlenecks that the old car design encouraged. Also the ride is smoother and they are quieter. Fewer places to sit, though, which is a bummer, and also if you do get a seat, you'll probably be touching your fellow passengers more than on the old cars.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hm. I dunno, I would miss being able to sit staring out a window. Then again, I could count the number of times I got one of those seats during rush hour on one hand.

you just gotta live way at the end of the line like i do! it's seats galore. lots of window staring possibilities. also kinda why i don't like the new seats. i have to stare at a person before i stare out the window :-/

When you have an exceptionally long line for something that eventually splits into two lines, but it's not clear from the back that there are two lines or where the two lines split, the assholes who try to use the "there are two lines" trick to cut ahead. Several people tried to pull this on me going through customs. Was not in the mood after a 12 hour flight with a baby and loudly told them to fuck right off.

I said this about 10,000 posts in this very thread, but that's one of my biggest social anxiety triggers. And I am not a mental case.

The "corral" way of lining up is the most efficient. The bank does it with ease. Even the post office. In which place would you rather have to stand in line – a busier than fuck McDonalds or a busier than fuck Wendy's? But oh no, when there are not cattle gates or velvet theater ropes lining everyone up, we get to go back to good ol fashioned supermarket anarchy style. Every man for himself.

Some places you have to do it supermarket-style, such as a supermarket. You can't have 20 grocery carts queueing up in one line for three registers. But then there are those awful self-serve kiosks where folks will try to cut and stand behind their favorite station. Drives me crazy, and when some friendly manager suggests to me that the self-serve registers are open, it takes everything for me to not tell him to go fuck his mother.

Feeling you. I almost always go to a cashier, even if the line looks longer, than deal with the stress of how to line up for a self-checkout station.

I'm delighted by the line for a cashier while tumbleweeds pass by the self-check terminals. I'm happy to wait to be served by a person with a job, rather than contribute to the kind of automation that deprives people of employment.

using the self-check counters employs the people who operate the robots who make the robots who make the self-check equipment

btw I also get really nervous about those moments when you're in one line and then they open another line, and it's not made clear who gets to go in the second line, and sometimes arguments break out between the every-man-for-himself people and the first-in-old-first-in-new people.

I get so IA in the Aldi on the way home because I am usually just buying like 1-3 items and when they open a new line someone with a trolley of a week's worth of shopping always gets there first. I always feel like people should go "oh, you only have one item, go ahead" but I admit there is no particular reason they should

(I do let others with conspicously fewer items ahead of me occasionally but I am usually on the fewer-items end of the scale what with not having a car, so I'm not really entitled to write the universal rules of supermarket engagement)

Old lady offered me a go-ahead in Waitrose today; she had six things to my three. Declined offer even though she told me 'I've got all the time in the world...'

Awwww

instructors who are hired solely off their "field" resume rather than their ability to teach the subject matter.

instructors who don't know how to put together a competent, snappy, and effective powerpoint that's easy on the eyes, and instead just copy/paste ENTIRE paragraphs onto slides, so there'll be like an entire slide of text in a small font

and then test you on the minutiae of those giant paragraphs rather than the important parts, but it doesn't matter because you don't even know what the important parts ARE, because he's seemingly incapable of just whittling down the good stuff into easily digestible bullet points

and test you on the chapters in the two 1,000-page textbooks that we read for homework but never talk about in class, so again: we have no idea how much of this is FYI and how much we're actually supposed to absorb

instructors whose first language is english but who have really bad grasp of the written language, and the spelling errors don't bother you but you're frustrated as hell when you have to read a sentence three times to figure out what he's trying to say, and it's still ambiguous and poorly constructed. but you don't call him out on it too many times because you want to stay on his good side.