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

...catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

― carl agatha

This is much better than an evil look or finger.

Big vehicle turning left: Then there was the evening I was leaving work and same kind of thing happened except we were both turning left. (both lanes had that permission.)

Light turns green and I hesitate for just one beat because I can't see over the fucking hood of the car on my left. Within that beat, a goddamm 18-wheeler blows through the red light from my left, looking in front of me like the freight train from the Coors silver bullet commercials.

Had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might not have hesitated. Of course had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might have seen the truck from afar in the first place.

At any rate, it scared the piss out of me and I didn't know what to be angry about.

I also hate it when I'm in the right turning lane to exit a parking lot, and a big car or truck pulls alongside me in the left turning lane and inches up really close to the roadway so that I can't see if there's an opening in the traffic and can't safely make my turn until the person to my left makes their turn.

you know this is easy to resolve, right? you just get out and you kill them

lol i miss the first IA thread where i could freely complain about drivers who don't hang out in the intersection and keep me stuck at another red light because of their dumb lack of decisiveness

-that whistling text alert every fucker on the train seems to use

yes, yes, yes. Every fucker in our lab, too. Or at least one fucker who gets a lot of messages.

i think i killed most of the ants by putting a small buffer of borax where they were coming from. it took about a day but no ants are walking around now.

ugh this is a neverending IA for me

person A: hi i am emailing you with a request that consist of a single question and no instructions
me: hi i need instructions from you to complete this request
person A: ... [no reply]

THAT EMAIL DID NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION IN IT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WALK AWAY FROM YOUR DESK AFTER SENDING THAT NONSENSE

In Chicago, particularly in the downtown business district, pedestrian traffic is very heavy so when people do that bullshit where they pull into the intersection without being able to get through and then the light changes, they suddenly find themselves trapped because pedestrians don't give a fuck about their dumb asses and block their way forward, and then cars on the perpendicular street go crazy with the honking and the cursing and the near misses as they swerve around the blocking car, while the driver just sits there looking like a total idiot. It is beautiful and swift justice and I admit to sometimes catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

haha I do this so much

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

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

Exactly.

if i see one more person do that phony comparison thing on facebook when they want to talk about better ways to do things and how stupid everything is here...and yes everything is stupid here i get that - but when they say "well you know in finland they do your taxes for you and give you chocolates and you don't have to lift a finger and here its a draconian police state nightmare owned by H&R Block..." "oh in finland every child gets straight As and goes on to become a doctor and nobody pays for anything and here all your children are murdered and..." just fucking stop it. there are 330 million people in this fucking world-sized country that includes islands thousands of miles away. there are 5 million people in finland! there are more people in brooklyn + queens then all of finland. if all this country had to worry about was brooklyn + queens i'll bet the recycling pickups would be on time and the post office would get the letter from your brother in queens to your cousin in brooklyn. just shut your fucking finland hole. also, everyone in finland is the same. mostly. do you know how much easier it is to do stuff when everyone is from the same place and speaks the same language? they don't want your tired and poor there. it fucks with the numbers that idiots on facebook beat people over the head with. don't get me started.....

Not saying you're wrong exactly, but this is basically the argument conservatives offer up for "why socialism can't work in America"

Going to start using “just shut your fucking Finland hole!!!”

i'm all for better solutions but adjusting for scale and degree of difficulty is something people never do. this country is just too fucking big. which is why i appreciate the land of Taxxachusetts that i live in. i've had free health care for 20 years!

thank you again, Mitt...

of course i had to have kids and a marginal business to get that free health care...which is stressful and has its own costs. but it was worth it in the end.

it is so much easier to do things when everybody in your country is born in the same place. like, way easier. homogeneousness also pretty big with conservatives. i'm sure most conservatives would love Finland!

I understand that homogeneity may be a barrier to getting things done. But not sure why the things that can't get done are the socialist things, and the things that can get done are capitalist things.

things can get done. things do get done. like i said, i get free healthcare in a state with a much larger population than that of Finland. but on a national scale, its harder to get things done. because there are 50 countries in this country. if we were a tiny country with a tiny population, like....Finland, it would be much easier to get things done. every single state has different laws and statutes and regulations for businesses too. speaking of capitalism.

the ACA has helped a lot of people across the country. there is that at least.

but look we are getting off-topic. the IA is the blithe nature of a stupid FB post like "you know in Sweden...why can't we just do that.." without any mention of what the government is like here. i mean, have you seen them? it ain't ever gonna be sweden. i am totally moving to sweden....

I was in a long queue yesterday, the local onestop is also the post office now and if someone wants postal services then there is only one person on the shop tills. This guy in front was extremely fucking about and taking a long time to pay for a few items. Then he hands a lottery ticket and says can you just check this for me, there is probably nothing on it because I never have any luck.

I was fuming. This young slacker can't even check his own lottery tickets and now after making extra work for the stressed retail worker, now he's trying to give them his life story.

If that was me behind the counter I'd fake-tap the lottery machine and say nah there is nothing on it m8, every time. Save them all up for quite periods and see if I'd made any lazy bastard tax bonuses for myself.

I really don’t like it when people talk loudly in public