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

GD cars that are started in novel, confusing ways, e.g. the 2013 Prius I rented today. The manuals (2 of them) said to have the door lock remote inside the car and press the Start button (and the illustration showed the remote inside the driver's pocket).

Finally called iGo and they told me you have to hold the remote up to the Start button, press the button and wait for the green light. Then press and hold it in until the display to say it was running. But don't move the remote or you have to start over!

And what does "B" mean on the gear selector? The quick-reference manual explained D(rive), N(eutral), and R(everse), but not "B." B(rake)? B(lastoff)? B(ut I'm a Cheerleader)?

people who say 'as well'

'5c from every burger will be donated to charity!! omg aren't we fabulously generous'

how baout (a) i give $3 to charity (b) fuck you

also, baristas who are always up for a fucking chat

the word 'barista'.

Also, the corporate "asking of you" which happens in Waitrose, particularly..

Lateish Sunday:
Asst: "Had a good weekend?"
Me: "Yeah!"

Now, she probably wants to know why, and I am not about to tell her, am I?

I bet it makes her irrationally angry that you won't tell her.

She would be if I did.

Waitrose: fostering irrational anger in customers and staff since 1904.

jesse the B is for engine braking

Oh weird. I never would have expected that.

- when people carry more than two bags on their regular commute (nb I sometimes carry three bags - purse, laptop bag, and grocery bag, and that makes me angry, too).
- when people act weird in elevators. It happened more in my old job where everybody was super weird but it happened here today. Guy got in the elevator and kept half flapping his arms and whispering to himself.
- the guy at Argo Tea this morning who said, "Absolutely not!" when I asked him if they carried any decaf black tea.
- the guy in front of me at the shoe repair shop this morning who spent ten full minutes with the shop assistant picking out shoelaces for his shitty frat boy suede high top oxfords, including dickering over the correct length and color and then pulling his shoes off and slapping them on the counter and asking the assistant to lace them (the assistant seemed happy to do so, so I don't think the actual request was out of line, but at that point this guy could have rescued a baby from a burning building and I would have been annoyed if it meant I had to wait any longer to drop off my sandals).

In conclusion, I should probably work from home this afternoon because I am clearly not fit to be dealing with other humans.

- the guy at Argo Tea this morning who said, "Absolutely not!" when I asked him if they carried any decaf black tea.

I'm not sure if he meant it this way, but one of my IAs is a waiter who thinks he's being funny by saying no.

"And could we get a refill on chips?"
"Absolutely not!"
"..."
"Hahaha, I'll be right back with your chips."

I don't know how he meant it, but I was still fuming over Mr. Picky Shoelaces so it pissed me off.

I was so guilty of making terrible sever jokes when I waited tables. I remember very clearly busing a table and saying to the person with the completely cleaned plate, "Well, you must not have liked your entree very much!" and really hating myself.

My least favorite train bag combo is laptop bag, purse, gym bag, yoga mat. And a newspaper.

It's always one of these gym bags, too:

http://coolhandbagz.com/handbagimages1/VeraBradleySmallDuffelWatercolordUL.jpg

Best line from a server came at a Perkins. Buddy of mine was trying the raspberry pie for the first time and loving every bite. Waiter comes by and asks how's everything, and my pal replies "This pie is orgasmic!"

Without missing a beat, the server says "I'll come back by with some more napkins then."

Now I'm getting IA at myself for getting IA about people carrying all those bags because it would only be two bags (laptop bag and gym bag) if women's clothes had enough (or any) pockets that they didn't have to carry a freaking purse everywhere they want.

xp LOL that is excellent.

- it's not a jeans day, but it's the day before a holiday, so I get that you want to wear jeans, but isn't the comfort of wearing jeans offset by the fact that you decided to wear a jacket and tie to what, disguise the fact that you wore jeans on a non-jeans day?
- This makes me doubly IA because if you're an attorney you can just go ahead and wear jeans to work if you really want to, even when it's not a jeans day, and nobody is going to say anything to you.

Guys seriously all this anti-abortion legislation being snuck/forced through in various states has used up my IA reserves and now I cannot handle the innocuous interactions of every day life. The Carl Agatha Fury Alert Level is Red.

That North Carolina shit is beyond infuriating.

I've IA'd about this a bazillion times but: ppl who order coffee etc and then start a conversation and completely ignore orders being called. When this person does finally approach the bar they will not even GLANCE at the coffe that's been sitting on the bar for 10 minutes because there's no way THAT could be THEIR coffee, they will ask the (ugh I hate this word too) barista 'HAY IS THERE A COFFEE FOR ME" and I just wish they could open the coffee on the counter and pour it on their head

generic labeled toothbrush heads that keep coming off my electric toothbrush while I'm brushing my teeth leaving a long prong of metyal unsheathed to try to poke me in the nose with.
I had several months with an earlier generic type that worked perfectly, but couldn't see what they had been listed as when I first got them.
Now wondering if generic toothbrush brands have been removed from ebay since they don't seem to be up on at least the Irish site and they were a couple of weeks back. Maybe everybody has just been being left with the brush falling off and a lovely piece of metal on a backswing to the face since it tends to happen unexpectedly.

That North Carolina shit is beyond infuriating.

goddamn it really is not cool when you consult a newspaper to find out about one infuriating news story only to discover ANOTHER kind of infuriating news story, isn't there only supposed to be one of those at at time IF AT ALL

doesn't really fit thread though. not innocuous

Oh god what did NC do now?
What's wrong with "barista"? It's what they are.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/07/03/north-carolina-gop-tack-multiple-abortion-restrictions-onto-sharia-law-bill/

:( I last lived there in 2004, so I have this misconception of NC being very conservative, but not quite as fucking horrible as all that.

It went blue in 2008 and then all the conservatives got scared, did some gerrymandering and have pretty much taken over. It has one of the worst governments it has ever had now.

The thing is, though, is that by all accounts it is getting LESS conservative. So that's probably why the GOP is shitting themselves in terror and passing monstrous legislation to try and retain their foothold, bunch of fucking turds.

xp yes, that.

Fucking gerrymandering, fucking VRA, fucking Supreme Court.

I was actually actively wishing death on a few members of the Supreme Court this morning, which makes me feel horrible.

Virginia Fox needs to die. Where is her district, I wonder.

NC is weird in that there are an abundance of nice, tolerant folk, but there are pockets of these crazy fucks spread out throughout the state.

My parents live there and there is one asshat that puts tons of obnoxious, gigantic signs on his lawn, promoting hideous shit not at all removed from the shit in the article above.

I didn't realize that Sharia law was still kicking about, much less that a special session had been conducted for it. When Libertarians ask me what my problem with 'states rights', I point to state records on abortion.

Foxx, rather.

Just checked, and no surprise, her district is in the shitstain mountain county I used to live in.

I actually think that NC's tolerant people/turdbrained fucks set up is that weird. Actually, I think that's how it is in most states. The problem is that the turdbrained fucks now have the power to redistrict and make sure that they get reelected by other turdbrained fucks, effectively gutting the democratic process so they can keep on passing laws that actively harm their constituents.

It makes my head hurt to even think about how these walking piles of garbage justify their actions to themselves.

DON'T think it's that weird, I mean. Sorry, blinded by rage and despair.

NC is weird in that there are an abundance of nice, tolerant folk, but there are pockets of these crazy fucks spread out throughout the state.

See, I'd say that there are pockets of nice, tolerant folks bobbing in a sea of mean assholes.

xp

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Blogs/Poking-the-Hornets-Nest/May-2013/North-Carolina-a-Petri-Dish-for-Art-Pope-and-the-Koch-Brothers/

It's sad. You thought it may actually have gotten better when Jesse Helms (5 years ago as of tomorrow!) died and they voted for a black man for president.

Good grief at that URL though: north-carolina-gop-tack-multiple-abortion-restrictions-onto-sharia-law-bill-requiring-literacy-tests-for-voting-and-making-killin-because-he-needed-killin-a-misdemeanor

Buying a glasses repair kit where the screwdriver is non-magnetic. What fucking use is that?

I'm carrying three bags on the train. ;_;

Sometimes I carry three bags to work, although one is my lunch bag, so I don't know if that counts.

so tired of america's bottomless need to mouth empty platitudes about the troops

it's a thursday -- thank you for your dedication and service. it's the middle of the seventh inning -- we are forever grateful for the preservation of our freedoms from the predation of landlocked central asian tribes

i mean i guess there's no point in celebrating congress or whatever, but maybe there are a few things to consider apart from militarism

we are forever grateful for the preservation of our freedoms

apart from abortion, of course

mookieproof otm.

one thing that used to irk me about NFL football games was that the recognition of the military was often given by the Priest doing the pre-game prayer (which is ALREADY fucking awkward and RONG to begin with). Like, ok, I get that liberal Christians recognize that every now and then, there's a need for war (although no such conflict we've been involved in recent years has fit that description), but it is a little creepy for the heavy military message is coming from a dude of the cloth.

I'm not mr. "anti-military", though I am a pacifist and don't believe in war in general. basically means that I don't post anti-military messages or disrespect for the troops, but I also don't spend 25% of my day going "thank you troops" because while I do support their livelihood and returning home safe, I'm sick of the constant message that suggests that it is the MILITARY that is keeping our freedoms intact and that if they had misstepped once in the last decade, we might be under a foreign country's rule. We ain't fought a meaningful war in decades. STFU.

I do have military friends and I'm not one of those libs that goes "MAN, I DIG YOU, BUT I DON'T DIG THE SYSTEM YOU FIGHT FOR, MANNNNNNNNNNNN", so I don't want to paint that picture, but lord, like you said mookie, it's overkill and a bit eerie.