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

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.

I try to be a polite motorcycle parker by a) parking near the back of a spot so drivers know the spot is taken before they get their hopes up and b) by leaving enough room for another motorcycle or parking next to an existing motorcycle who has done the same. I've come out of stores or the gym to find two other bikes in the same spot with me.

D'aw.

I'm IA at my own internal clock. Every time I set an alarm now, I wake up 15-20 minutes early -- but I really wanted those few minutes of sleep!

And when I'm too hot with the AC set on 76, and too cold when it's set on 75.

^both way too hot imo

* voicemail systems that make you listen to a playback of your message before you have the option to delete and re-record. it normally takes me at least 3 tries to record a message I'm satisfied with, and having to listen to all my screw-ups is an excruciating waste of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXYTu6un78

This dude I know always speaks in this half-stoned drawl, asks questions, then basically walks away half way through the answer, citing his short attention span. Yesterday he pressured me into letting him and his friend play my guitars. He's never played electric, so he kept asking questions. "So what does this do?" Oh, you turn that and ... "Huh, this thing called treble, what does it do?" Well, you use it to ... "Do you have another amp?" Yeah, right over ... "What is that plug for?" Etc.

Then he asked me how to get Jerry Garcia's tone, which I rudely dismissed as "crappy" (out of annoyance, I admit), and he got all "hey, man, it's not cool to say it's crappy, it makes me feel really bad." I was all, you're playing guitars in my house, which I didn't want to do with you, so sorry if I'm snippy.

I almost hit him.

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.