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

My biggest (undiagnosed) panic attacks occur at places like the library or electric company where there are three windows open for business, and instead of having the customers go through one line or take a number, you have to pick an individual window. So you do this quick call on the clerk in the window, the mental facilities of the customers in front of you. And you still get stuck in the wrong line.

This happens a lot at the self-serve kiosks at the grocery store. Since this "pick a line" system works well with shopping carts, it's applied to the four check-out kiosks as well, even though a single line would serve better than four rangy lines wandering all over the cramped area. I hate it, and it's irrational, but it's the one thing that really chews my guts.

People who spend a good minute standing in front of the ATM painstakingly reassembling the contents of their wallet after withdrawing money.

OMG chap, I am with you on that one. Or people who decided to do all their banking via the atm....multiple deposits, etc. etc.

Also old farts who still can't figure out how to use an ATM.

Along those lines are the people that have no clue how to use self-checkout registers. The flip side of that, of course, are those super sensitive self-checkouts that constantly freeze up with those "Unexpected item in baggage area" errors.

For my heart, I still go through the full-service lanes. It's the same price, they bag the groceries and I can spend my time with an unoffending issue of People.

they bag your groceries?

Or people who decided to do all their banking via the atm....multiple deposits, etc. etc.

wait, I do this. I mean this is what ATMs are designed for.

also the pedestrian crossing thing upthread reminded me of people who push on the elevator button a bunch of times, presumably because they think this will make the elevator arrive more quickly

I do it because I hope it will wind somebody up.

it's a stress reliever

Haha, that one cracks me up actually, like we were all sitting there watching this latecomer thinking, "gee, why didn't WE think of THAT!".

― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 14:01 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Patron saint of seeing a queue outside a building/shop and goes up to the door and TRIES IT!

the first person to start their own queue on teh other side of the ATM/cashier/whatever

ok, that's not 'innocuous' at all tbf, but kill them kill them all

Never assume that a queue is full of smart people who've tried the door, this is true.

people who check their receipts after each purchase and complain to holy hell if its off by 10 cents. HERES THE FUCKING DIME, NOW BEAT IT.

IQ of a Q is highest IQ divided by no of feet kind of thing

just generally people who don't understand how lines work. If there's multiple ATMs or whatever there should still just be one line and not an individual line for each ATM.

Seriously. And when I'm the only one waiting behind three people, and some other dude pulls up next to me and asks, "So which one are you waiting in line for?", that's when I can hear the blood pump through my ears.

Ah but..

Person : "Oh, which ATM is this the queue for?"
Queue: "This is the FUCK OFF queue."

That's an xpost, funnily enough.

Having to wait for ages to be served at the corner shop, especially if behind someone buying lottery tickets or kids dithering over which sweets to get, and I'm buying sensible things like onions or beer.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:20 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is inocuous, and bothers the living shit out of me too. There's a part of my brain that tells me that I have priority over idiots wasting their money on the lottery, even though I conciously know this is a totally elitist and unfair opinion.

u bros. need to chill maybe go for a walk in the park look at the clouds drink some iced coffee/herbal tea

u will all be dead soon anyway

oh i always get stuck behing the 80 year olds playing their numbers..thinking they are going to win it all before they die. the amount of money they waste is amazing.

noise in teh park when i'm tryna chill, fuck those noisy fucks

LAMP: So which window is this line for?
ME: GO LOOK AT SOME FUCKING CLOUDS, HIPPIE.

"Is there a bus due?"

guess where we are.

took a plane journey with our town's mayor once. he asked the passenger beside us were they going where we were going.

As someone who's gone to Sydney from Arkansas via Minneapolis, I can kinda feel that one.

this was from knock airport to paris beauvais, believe me there was no possibility of wild and exciting detours. i spent some time on the journey explaining to him the differnce between french and irish euros.

My anger at lines is directed at Rite Aid and other retailers who don't clearly demarcate how people are supposed to queue up. So in the instance of Rite Aid, they'll have 4 cash registers or so, usually only staffed by two cashiers. The most fair and efficient way to do this would be to form one line. That way, as one customer leaves, the customer who has been waiting the longest can approach the available cashier.

The way it often ends up however, is that customers form multiple lines waiting for an individual cashier. The problem with this is that the customer who has been waiting longest may end up stuck behind someone who is writing a check or needs a price check while the other line(s) zoom along.

but you got two short lines.

i mean this isn't a clear cut as you guys are making out imo

Sometimes it's even worse when the lines are demarcated. The Walgreens pharmacy has a "drop-off" and a "pick-up" window, but by 5:30 on a Friday, it's all the same thing.

when I'm the only one waiting behind three people, and some other dude pulls up next to me and asks, "So which one are you waiting in line for?"

This has only happened to me once. I said "whichever one is free first", he said "nah it doesn't work like that", WHY NOT, YES IT DOES, FUCK YOU

lines for huge bathrooms at stadiums/concerts drive me bananas.
All the silly bints stand at the entrance and peer in to a huge cavern of bathrooms instead of *walking in* and seeing that omg there are 42 open stalls.

I'm usually a very patient line-waiter even in the most maddening situations but when it comes to the line for the bathroom at Shoreline Ampitheatre, I go in through the exit because i'm yet to walk in and not find 17 empty stalls. The day I walk in through the exit and find the stalls are all full, then I will dutifully resume my place in line. But I refuse to join a line out of sheer stupidity. I know that makes me a bad person but honestly, people are morons.

years ago at a sunny day real estate show in boston the line was outrageous for the bathroom. luckily i was sandwiched between a wall and a garbage can, so i unzipped and pissed right there.

Again, not innocuous to me, but it may be to the people that do this, but people that show up two minutes before a band takes the stage, shove their way to the front of the crowd, then spent the entirety of the show pushing their way back and forth to the bar for a constant stream of beer.

"spend"

Oh I hate that! Or people who shove their way to the front only to spend the entire concert talking amongst themselves or being drunk and falling on me

I remember some girl pushing up to the front of the stage, pointing at Paul Westerberg who was six inches away and asking me "So who's that?"

UGH

Totally jealous of those guys. I couldn't be arsed with all the pushing and dirty looks from Pickers of Shelves so I just stand near the back for easy bar access.

xxxp

People who double click on hyperlinks. I tell them they are losing several milliseconds of their life every time they do this. They don't care.

When people tag a bunch of people in a Facebook picture who aren't really in the picture.

I'm not talking about the lol gags where dogs playing poker are tagged with friends' names. It's people taking a picture of a baby and tagging it with everyone in the world who could remotely possibly be related to that baby. So I'm cruising Facebook and see that oh, hey, there's a new pic of my weird co-worker, click on it and

it's a baby.

^^^^ YES. My sister did this this past weekend with like 50 of my nephew's homecoming pictures. She tagged everyone in the family and all her friends and all his friends. So I kept getting these notifications on my iPhone, "So-and-so who you've never heard of and is 24 fucking years old has commented on a picture of you." THANKS, SIS.

s/24/14

Jesus Christ, starting your own queue should be illegal. Back in the UK, my local Sainsburys wasn't laid out to deal with big queues so people often queued all the way up the product aisles, leaving a gap between the queue and the tills so people could get around the shop. One time I was paying at the till and this fucking woman just came and stood next to the till. She might not have seen the queue of about 20 ppl glowering at her down the aisle, so I said "Sorry, that's the queue there" (didn't affect me, I was paying). She actually said "no it isn't". I said "I'm pretty sure it is" and shrugged helplessly at the queue. worst thing is when the cashier doesn't give a flying fuck and just serves whoever turns up. I actually saw that woman around my workplace and started doing bitchy things like not holding the lift door if I saw her coming, haha.

people who hold the elevator door for me even though I'm still pretty far away so I have to hurry to get to the elevator so they don't wait too long

disgusting savage thread entry ^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5MJyEHKGo