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

They do? I never heard of that.

It's not an officially stated rule, but it's one that our local expressway authority admitted to following on their message board. IE, they waited until 3 violations until they sent you a warning. Most of the locals are aware of it, via word of mouth.

The main reason is that there are many booths that are now completely unmanned, with two lanes: one for people with transponders (ie, prepaid tolls, which I do), and then the Exact Coin lanes. Some of the transponder lanes don't even require stopping, they're just open lanes with little sensors on a tower up above that scan your transponder. So lots of people not native or new to the state get confused and go in this lane by mistake.

In addition, some people go to the unmanned lane with bills needing change, and can't get it because there's nobody there. So they don't penalize you because of these inconveniences (before I had a transponder, the unmanned lane thing really pissed me off).

That's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it uh-huh uh-huh...

That's the way you're welcome no problem I like it cheers yea you got it

and when i say "you got it" i make a little pistol with my hand and make a "pew pew pew" motion at them, then blow the "smoke" off my finger

a Paul Edward Wagemann motion? what would that look like?

34. When I say 'Thank you', don't say 'Uh huh."

I've started to say "alright" which is just as bad I think, and I don't know why I started or how to stop. I find it hard to say "You're welcome" - maybe because I'm English? I used to say "no problemo" which must have been v. irritating.

When I first came to Britain, 'you're welcome' was a vulgar Americanism.

See we say "cheers" or "no worries" or "yr welcome" and you lot always complain thats cheesy and weird, but it works dammit.

You could rock the white South African thank you response: "Plezha".

a Paul Edward Wagemann motion? what would that look like?

A mime involving an invite to contribute to a blog. (The rest has been advised against)

They do? I never heard of that.

It's not an officially stated rule,....

I see, US rules. I guess it wouldn't work at the Tyne Tunnel then.

"It's my pleasure" is also British.

54. (Waiter recollection) People who go to the bathroom immediately after being sat, meaning the waiter comes to the table to take the drink order, and not all of the people are there, and nobody knows what they wantedto drink, so you have to COME BACK SEPARATELY and take the drink order. CAN YOU HOLD YOUR PEE FOR LIKE 10 SECONDS AND JUST AT LEAST PUT IN YOUR DRINK ORDER OR AT LEAST LEAVE IT WITH SOMEONE AT THE TABLE?

Hey, they may have just gone to wash their hands...

I don't care I'm an underpaid waiter I DEMAND JUSTICE.

--(me circa 2003)

looks like some people spend their whole lives irrationally angry

xp pretty sure you're actually there for their convenience while they pay to eat in the establishment, and that's from someone whose waited tables aplenty amongst other shitty jobs.

I get sorta ragey at bicyclists who either wear headphones in traffic, no helmet in traffic or Ahh-Argle-Bargle headphones without a helmet in traffic.

I haven't waited tables in years and the main reason was cuz of customer attitudes. and crappy long shifts and never knowing when your shift would end.

i suppose in fairness it is the 'innocuous' thread so yeah ok pass.

ppl speaking too loudly on the phone, society needs to invent a way to make this complaint in a way that doesn't make you seem pedantic

55. Not so innocuous, but people who have loud personal phone conversations in public areas. Look I don't want to hear the messy details of your impending divorce, and I'm sure nobody else here does either.

56. Sloppy walkers. I mean in a really mean way. Walking behind people who slop their heels on the ground at every step, anyone whose feet point way in or way out, women who're dressed nicely but walk like elephants or football players or something -- all this infuriates me. Also: people whose wrists are so loose that their hands flop helplessly on the backswing, fingers all splayed out.

57. People who have (loud) conversations even when they're not in the same room. My girlfriend's entire family does this, really annoying.

58. People who stand on those flat walking escalators instead of walking on them, but stand side by side so that you have to struggle to get past them.
59. People who say "makes you think".

first one isn't innocuous

let's get pedanitc up in this

60. People who challenge whether posts in the "innocuous things that make you irrationally angry" thread are innocuous or not.

:)

see now that's innocuous

61. People who look up and go stationary when at railway stations. Because the people behind them aren't bothered about catching that train 50 yards ahead of them that the platform attendants are waving at each other and blowing whistles...

The last three weeks I've had to take a later train from the farmer's market because someone just plumb stops in the middle of the passage to the Central line. The next one's getting winded with a large bag of vegetables 'by accident'.

People standing two abreast on any moving walkway or escalator I KILL U WITH GUNZ.

You go ahead of me then.

the color yellow

gerunds

oligarchies

shoes with lights on them

arhythmic tap dancers

spanks(tm)

62. PEOPLE WHO DON'T NUMBER THEIR LIST OF INNOCUOUS THINGS

the lack of Sojourner Truth Day as a national holiday

capital letters

tpyos

the existential crisis caused in young children by the denial of Snufflupagus's existence

mods that act with unbecoming lack of dignity when threads annoy them

i mean rly

the fact that no one else could see Snufflupagus

see, one person sets the precedent for not following the rules, and everybody else falls in line. THERE'S ALWAYS A RINGLEADER.

other people's jealousy at your overwhelming leadership skills

now we've got fodder for the other thread!

People behind me on the sidewalk who walk at my heels.
People in front of me on the sidewalk who walk too slow.
People who stop at the top of the subway entrance and block your path while they finish their phone call or just peer down and contemplate what to do next.
People who talk on cell phones above a murmur, especially if they are behind me nipping at my heels.
People who try to hand me things on the street.

81. knowing that there is a mosquito somewhere in my house