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

Let's both change our names to our last initials!

Corey, whose name would go first?

the couple behind me in line at the coffee shop that was loudly making out, complete with audible lip-smacking and moans, the entire duration of my wait.

also, this was at 7:15 a.m.

xxp yours — it rolls off the tongue with the single syllable coming at the end.

obviously taking full advantage of the post-toothbrushing pre-coffee breath minutes

ages ago I got a ride to work with a friend of mine, freeway was totally empty except for one car way up ahead, and it was swerving drunkenly across 2 lanes fairly intermittently.
as we were passing them we discovered the driver was not drunk but making out with the female passenger while trying to keep one eye on the road.

it was freaking 7.30am! I mean, it's cute that you can't keep your hands off each other, but a) you will probably die before you reach your destination and b) I'm not a morning person so I can't really fathom those kind of shenanigans anymore (lol old)

"you're welcome"

seriously, this phrase should be fucking retired.

what?

when meant sincerely, it's fine. when mumbled flatly and not at all in a friendly way, it basically means "fuck you" imo

oh ok, got it

agreed

Or Tweets that say things like "To get to the top of the page you're looking at on the iPhone, tap the clock. You're welcome."

Mystery noise in my apartment - intermittent, quiet howl or whistle, like bus transmissions sometimes make, only very quiet. Turns out it's my still new laptop. Either the fan or the hard drive. Identifying the source of the howling didn't make me feel better about it, just gave me a place to focus my annoyance. Shut up, computer!

We had a mystery noise for ages a while back - really faint, super-high pitched sort of alarm-sounding whine. Eventually I figured out that it was the cordless drill battery Mr Veg keeps on a charger in the back room, the battery had given up the ghost and was sending out barely audible distress signals, lol

I really hate any kind of beeping or alarm-sounds, they just make me immediately agitated. Even when I set the timer on the stove, I get mad at it when it goes off.

"I'll just put this roast in" (30 min. later) "GOD STFU OVEN I'M COMING JESUS CHRIST."

ps I don't know how long to cook a roast I am a vegetarian

lol Phil that's a pretty good interpretation, actually

I decided I would make a horrible mother when I realized just the sound of a whistling kettle makes me go "FFS SHUT!! UP!!", never mind a crying baby

the other morning I had one of those moments where wakefulness encroaches upon dreaming, and the sound of my alarm buzzer took the form of a snake screaming at me.

O_O

Feeling drained all the time, having to wake up too early.
& waking up in the middle of the night then having to try to get back to sleep to wake up at 6.30.

Then I get a day off yesterday, think I've taken the alarm off only to have it go off at 6.30 anyway. Damn phone.
Alarm tone is Blixa Bargeld screaming from Zeichnungen der O.T. or one of its tracks. Kind of eerie thing to wake up to at times.

Easter is making me irrationally angry because I don't celebrate it and I keep forgetting other people do until I need goods or services and find a place to be closed.

stupid store sold out of stupid milk & stupid potato chips, stupid jesus

this is kinda lame, I feel mean for even saying it but

I published a story online about 3 years ago, which is pretty much forgotten about. Every now and again I'll get a review notification and I'm like 'oh yeah, that'. and then, occasionally, I get a crazy obsessive person who publishes a review of every. single. chapter. as they read, so I get like 20 emails in two days. which is still nice. but they're also not so much reviews as commentary, at least the ones that are flooding in atm. like 'omg I can't believe he/she said that!!! but I think he has a point etc etc' and it just makes me kinda O_o, like 'you know it's not real, right?

anyway yay for email filters.

Usually i frown on PDA but this morning on the train in to work there was this couple that was kissing and being super cute and in-between smooches the guy was making jokes about tax rates. Ughhhhh.

So yeah anyone that uses taxes as pillow talk, in public.

gross

"I'd like to itemize HER deductions!"

"Oh, baby, depreciate my tangible assets."

69-9-9

again the stupid counterintuitive design of my phone's alarm clock, which meant that despite resetting it, as I thought I'd done when it woke me on Friday it was still set to go off this morning.

Not getting myself in the mood to spring-clean cos I'm feeling rundown with flu or cold or whatever. & having a new landlord who wanted to look around the place a couple of weeks back. I did at least mop the floor I guess.
But the long-weekend off is pretty much gone and I feel i didn't achieve what I might have done. Or gone up the country as the alternative possibility might have been.

That stupid book "The Art of Fielding." Hated it.

lol, Josh that's pretty beautiful in its simplicity

I think there's a strong overlap b/w people who pay full price for new cloth releases at their independent bookstore and distrust ereaders, and people who read that book.

I was hoping it was a critical treatise on Henry Fielding.

Ok maybe this is a temporary thing but the next time i hear a band play a song (or 3! or 4!) with the "Be My Baby" drum beat, it's going to take all my power to stop from bashing my head into a bloody pulp.

o - t.m.

we used to call that 'the forbidden drumbeat' when I was a teenager and playing in bands

- "keep me logged in" checkboxes being checked by default

drivers who don't slow down right before an intersection, so i have no idea whether they're actually going to stop for me before i try to cross the street. i mean they just stop at the last possible second, and i'm like "are you gonna run me over or...?"

or the corollary, people who slow all the way down and THEN put on a turn signal. at that point, why bother?

tHAT THERE'S NO cTRL-? STYLE SHORTCUT...

That there's no Ctrl-? style shortcut to transpose capital and lower-case letters, so that when you type a whole swathe of stuff with Caps Lock on without noticing you can fix it without having to retype.

I accept the TSA making me separate the few little liquids I need to take in my carry-on luggage by putting them in a little baggie etc. It's kinda dumb but whatever.

I'm really just annoyed at having to go out and buy QUART-sized ziplocks especially for my trip. I have gallons, I have sandwich-sized. I don't really WANT a box of quart-sized ziplocks.

also: posting IA complaint in totally wrong thread makes me IA
;_;

I think I put my little bottles in the wrong sized ziplock every time and nobody has ever noticed.

Well, immigrating made me more ocd about TSA rules/etc, so I'd rather buy the stupid things than worry myself into a ball of crazy thinking they're going to catch me for using the wrong bag

welcome to my brain

I've left my ziplocked bag inside my toilet kit (instead of separating it out for the conveyor belt) I don't know how many times, and it was never noticed/commented on.

i pretty much always fly with a lighter in my pocket or carry-on backpack

Oh man, I was coming home from Las Vegas and some lady in front of me had half full full-sized liquor bottles in her bag!

Well, immigrating made me more ocd about TSA rules/etc, so I'd rather buy the stupid things than worry myself into a ball of crazy thinking they're going to catch me for using the wrong bag

welcome to my brain

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:13 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hadn't thought of that, but I would be more cautious, too!

"You used the wrong bag! DEPORT HER."

oh dude you don't even know