Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Big vehicle turning left: Then there was the evening I was leaving work and same kind of thing happened except we were both turning left. (both lanes had that permission.)

Light turns green and I hesitate for just one beat because I can't see over the fucking hood of the car on my left. Within that beat, a goddamm 18-wheeler blows through the red light from my left, looking in front of me like the freight train from the Coors silver bullet commercials.

Had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might not have hesitated. Of course had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might have seen the truck from afar in the first place.

At any rate, it scared the piss out of me and I didn't know what to be angry about.

I also hate it when I'm in the right turning lane to exit a parking lot, and a big car or truck pulls alongside me in the left turning lane and inches up really close to the roadway so that I can't see if there's an opening in the traffic and can't safely make my turn until the person to my left makes their turn.

you know this is easy to resolve, right? you just get out and you kill them

lol i miss the first IA thread where i could freely complain about drivers who don't hang out in the intersection and keep me stuck at another red light because of their dumb lack of decisiveness

-that whistling text alert every fucker on the train seems to use

yes, yes, yes. Every fucker in our lab, too. Or at least one fucker who gets a lot of messages.

i think i killed most of the ants by putting a small buffer of borax where they were coming from. it took about a day but no ants are walking around now.

ugh this is a neverending IA for me

person A: hi i am emailing you with a request that consist of a single question and no instructions
me: hi i need instructions from you to complete this request
person A: ... [no reply]

THAT EMAIL DID NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION IN IT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WALK AWAY FROM YOUR DESK AFTER SENDING THAT NONSENSE

In Chicago, particularly in the downtown business district, pedestrian traffic is very heavy so when people do that bullshit where they pull into the intersection without being able to get through and then the light changes, they suddenly find themselves trapped because pedestrians don't give a fuck about their dumb asses and block their way forward, and then cars on the perpendicular street go crazy with the honking and the cursing and the near misses as they swerve around the blocking car, while the driver just sits there looking like a total idiot. It is beautiful and swift justice and I admit to sometimes catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

haha I do this so much

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

I also bang on their car midnight cowboy style

people seem to get really mad when you bang on their car, which is funny cause I mean it's metal, I'm probably not gonna break it

Teenaged me used to do that to drivers who thrust the nose of their car inside the crosswalk I was trying to use.

I personally wouldn't bang on somebody's car unless I was prepared to have an actual fight, which I never am because I wouldn't even know where to start. I'd probably just drop to the sidewalk and start squealing.

But that's not really my point. My point is that it's interesting that people would respond violently to someone touching their car when, like you said, you're probably not going to break it.

driving a car turns people into monsters and the car becomes part of your monster-body so it's taken as if you physically pushed them

Some drunk dingus spit on the car share car Jeff and I were driving a few months ago, but I didn't get angry because he was so wasted and there's just something so ultimately impotent and embarrassing, like I was really embarrassed for him, about somebody spitting on a thing to express their anger about it. This does not disprove your theory, however, because I wasn't driving, though, and Jeff didn't notice so he might have gone monster car if he had.

Cars dent very easily and cost lots to repair. I think deciding if you're prepared to fight before deliberately damaging someone else's property over an innocuous piece of annoying driving makes sense.

'innocuous piece of annoying driving'

I should probably point out that a hood thump was unlikely if the driver was some kind of large meathead. Best deployed when driver was some kind of annoying preppy mom.

yeah I have the benefit of being bigger than most people

I was more amused by the drunk spitting bro more than anything else.

iatee r u secretly swole, always imagined u as a weedy little nerd like me

'Thieves Like Us' was a key song for me. Getting over & coming to love its 'lol 1980s' sound was a point of no return. Love it unreservedly.

that's quite a subtle way of telling us that posting on the wrong thread makes you irrationally angry

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

I have seen cops just hang out at Bay/Bloor (busy-as-hell intersection in downtown Toronto) and hand out a ticket every time someone did this, which was literally every single time the light was green. It was so AWESOME.

savages itt

you know what's cooler than pedestrians CARS

lately I've started slowing down when I'm in crosswalks with no signal and a car is creeping forward

being given a fork instead of chopsticks because i'm white

just now i passively-aggressively asked for chopsticks in chinese just to drive the point home, but fucked it up and ended up going 'chopsticks chopsticks' in english, which made me even more ia

lol

and i just dropped a dumpling and vinegar went everywhere, so now i'm feeling a massive dick

wait whose dick

lol!

iatee r u secretly swole, always imagined u as a weedy little nerd like me

I'm not super swole but I'm 6'2 and in pretty decent shape so I'm big enough to not find very many strangers intimidating. I will probably just get shot tho.

People who park on pavementsd so pedestrians can't walk by on th epavement and are forced to go in the road. Tends to make me want to walk down the inside anyway preferably with a sharp object protruding. Not that I do that, just feel the inclination to.

Plus furthermore having cars semi blocking pavements with wheely bins adding further to the blockage which is a normal situationon a Friday in one of the estates I have to walk through to get to the training centre.

A car will NOT sustain damage from somebody bangs on it unless they're kicking it or really pounding on a door panel, which I don't think iatee or carl do/did.

I have done it, and for maximum obnoxiousness, I knocked on the cars like you'd knock on a door.

guy parked outside my house, what makes you think i want to listen to the same shitty club music xm radio station they play in the gym

I've never hit a car! I'm afraid of getting beat up!

yeah i would never do that. i always assume asshole drivers are aggressive people who might hit you or worse.

gah last night these douchebags were trying to plow through a very large crowd after they got stuck in that above position on 14th st (a bad place to be stuck blocking the box) and some other proud pedestrian not only banged on their car but refused to move and tried to get the asshole drivers to get out of their car. my friend was quick thinking enough to get their license plate.

I've banged on the back of cars if they almost hit me. I think I've scared the shit out of some people doing it. I think they thought I was a flash mob.

I've banged on cars, mostly the ones who run red lights. I've had maybe two guys yell at me afterward, but what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?

what are they going to do, leave their car in the middle of traffic during rush hour?

Concealed-carry permits are getting easier and easier to come by these days.

I know, you'd think those asshole drivers would think of this when they cross me.

lol

people who make a blatant swallowing noise halfway through a sentence. makes me incandescent with rage.

I'm confident in my speed to run away from any potential conflict. They'd have to leave their car behind and chase me for miles.

I dig scooters but i hate stupid scooter riders. One dude yesterday rolling down a busy 4 lane road holding a coffee in one hand, weaving all over the place & darting in front of cars not signalling. And stupid girl today who parked her scooter on the sidewalk directly in front of handicapped parking (when there were parking spaces and other more suitable areas to park a scooter) so no handicapped ppl could actually use that widened portion of the sidewalk INTENDED for their use

some ppl are idiots

scooters are still cool

i had barely parked in a parking spot and was straightening the car, and some shitbag in an suv tried to pull straight into the next spot and kept parping her horn at me. very, very long time since i've actively wanted to jump out of the car and scream at someone

and then the parking machine swallowed all my money because governments are too special to give change

fuck today is what i'm saying

bleh

My complete irrational anger – because it's completely irrational – is aimed at the motorcycle parked in my crowded lot, taking up a whole space when he could, you know, park in the fire zone or the handicap ramp area.

So I'd rather this guy drive a car? He's got to park it somewhere legal, right? Probably my most irrational of them all.

People have become shockingly inconsiderate with their gadget sounds, including watching TikTok without headphones.

There was this woman on a crowded rush hour train recently who was playing one of those 4-across games with the phone's external speaker turned up so loud it was distorting. She looked like someone who would make a scene if anyone called her out for it.

Remember when someone made a universal remote that would turn any tv off? We need that for cell phones.

That probably belongs in the terrible ideas thread.

(xposts) I glanced over as I left, and yes, chess. Embarrassed--haven't played for 45 years, so as obvious as that should have been, last thing that occurred to me. I'm gone, his phone is still in one piece.

i'm on the special climbing treadmill and this young guy gets on the other special climbing treadmill next to me. he walks for a few minutes then runs for a minute or two, then stands with his feet to the side of the belt while it is still running. i am doing my intervals. i notice he is still standing there. several minutes go by. still standing. the belt is moving. he's on his phone. i look at him and say it's really annoying that he's texting while the belt is running, that it's distracting, that there is only one other climbing treadmill, that he's on it, that someone else could be using it, that he's pretty inconsiderate for thinking that his text and his phone matters more than someone else who could be working out. "congratulations, you win worst person at the gym award, and by the way the chemicals from whatever dogshit scent you're wearing are making me gag." there is more that i said. i see him shake his head. he grabs his stuff and leaves, finally. buhbye. i'm kind of in take no shit mode when people are doing inconsiderate things at the gym and i'm not sorry about it.

if you're having a loud phone conversation, if you doused yourself in cologne, if you're hanging out with your friends like it's a party zone and you have the misfortune of being near me at the gym you will hear about it as i am growing increasingly comfortable with dishing out shit talk to you and making eye contact while doing it. i'm a big dude so i can get away with it. i try to deal it out only when truly justified.

it is 100% guys who do this sort of stuff. on the one hand i really and truly do have more acceptance and non-judgment for folks at the gym, even the talkers and the socialites. on the other, if there is a situation where i have no choice but to be subjected to whatever you are choosing to do that is impinging on my senses and my concentration, i will castigate you for it.

my gym is also very cruisy (gay). i have a body and i wear short shorts so i'm always catching looks and crotch grabs. i tune that shit out but occasionally there is someone who just hangs around like a vulture and i have to tell them to lift some fucking weights already.

I'm glad you're saying the stuff that I can't or won't.

it is 100% guys who do this sort of stuff.

Not at mine! Mostly so, but not always.

Sorry to break in, but one final thought about "check"; I should have thought of online poker, too. If the voice coming from the phone had been John Malkovich's from Rounders--"All night long, theeese son-of-a-beeeech, check, check"--I would have walked over and cheered the guy on.

fuck-chop in the Trader Joe's parking lot that just idles their SUV waiting for that *one spot* close to the entrance, while a line of cars queue up just to get into the parking garage, but NOoooooo, you can't park in that other spot that's like thirty feet away, you have to hold everyone up just to get THAT one spot,

If you’re talking about the TJ’s on Lakeshore in Oakland, it truly brings out the asshole drivers. The ground level at Whole Foods is not as bad … primarily because the lot design is inherently aggravating, people aren’t as aggravating as individuals… if I had a lot of free time, I would scientifically study whether the Lakeshore TJ’s has the most asshole drivers vs the Berkeley Bowl on Shattuck.

I have not been to either store in years because of the horrible drivers …

This is more irrationally annoying than anything, but sometimes I’ll be watching a TV show or a movie and a character will go to a restaurant and order something, then something interrupts them and they never get the thing they ordered, or they leave before they receive it. Why can’t River Cartwright wait 10 seconds for that café au lait? The average restaurant visit in any movie or TV show must be about three minutes.

Or they exit with their food barely eaten. Similarly, someone will travel to another person's home just to deliver a few lines of dialog, then leave after about five minutes. But of course, many television/film characters live in a world where texting apparently never caught on, even though they do have smartphones.