start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I was at the store today and a couple parking near me just left their cart in the middle of the lot next to another abandoned cart. Their cart, once left, started wheeling away toward a parked car, so the woman ran back, steadied it, then started to walk away. Then the original cart, not theirs, started scooting toward the same parked car. So I popped out of my car and said, "hey, just return it to the cart return and you won't have this problem!" The woman tried to blame it on her husband, so I said, it really doesn't matter, just return it where it belongs. So she takes the cart and walking away stresses that the other cart (duh) was not hers, so I said, that's fine, *I'll* take the other cart, you just take yours, and everything is good. I take the original cart with me to the store, and look over my shoulder, where the derelict husband is grumbling his way to the cart return.

Lesson? Just return your fucking cart, you'll never miss those 30 seconds, you might get a little exercise, and I won't have to embarrass you in the parking lot. I guess this made me rationally angry?

Over here most carts have a coin deposit €1 or €2. The coin operates as a key that you push the piece of metal chaining it to the next cart/trolley in the stack.
I think that's been the system since I was a kid in the UK. Though I remember using carts to push things around towns so maybe it's not universal. But it does tend to mean they get returned to get the deposit back.

We have that in America too, but usually only at stores where mostly poor people shop, like Aldi's.

I was remembering pushing a cart around Bath. Possibly with a rucksack in. But pavements having a 30 degree tilt towards the road which was a pain to keep the cart straight to counter.

We also have automatically locking carts, where at a certain range the wheels just freeze. Once a lot was crowded and I had to park further away than usual. As I approached the cart just froze, immobile, so I had to carry my stuff to the car a bag at a time.

Another time I picked up a cart that had been left in the lot, figuring I could use that one. It just would not budge. I had dragged it all the way to the front of the store when an employee pointed down and noted that the thing was essentially booted and locked, out of service. So I asked him what it was doing in the middle of the lot!

Getting pretty ra rn

You know, if they've got these things wired to lock up at a certain range, they should be able to make 'em just go back to the buggy corral on their own.

When you're looking up some facts and trivia on a particular song, and the most popular results that come back in a Google search are fucking Phish setlists of when they inevitably covered the song.

These new pop-up art installations that are really more just corporate Instagram backdrops like the Color Factory and the Museum of Ice Cream make me really IA and have me yearning for the nuclear apocalypse.

Over here most carts have a coin deposit €1 or €2. The coin operates as a key that you push the piece of metal chaining it to the next cart/trolley in the stack.
I think that's been the system since I was a kid in the UK. Though I remember using carts to push things around towns so maybe it's not universal. But it does tend to mean they get returned to get the deposit back.

― Stevolende, Monday, August 14, 2017 3:52 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We have that in America too, but usually only at stores where mostly poor people shop, like Aldi's.

― President Keyes, Monday, August 14, 2017 3:54 PM (six hours ago)

my local Aldi has these, which is faintly ridiculous because it's a sprawling, suburban, mostly middle class area with very few pedestrians and thus little risk of people walking home with the carts. the 25¢ deposit isn't even a strong enough incentive for shoppers to return their carts to the entryway, since half the time I shop there I'm able to retrieve an abandoned cart from the lot and return it afterwards for a 25¢ profit.

(as I was returning my cart during my last visit to Aldi, an old man waved a quarter at me and shouted "whoop! whoop! whoop! whoop!", freaking me out for few seconds before I realized he wanted me to give him my cart to spare him the hassle of unlocking one himself)

Old friend of mine who has always been a little on the overblown anger/bipolar behavior side (has frequent FB blowups/flounces etc) decided yesterday to bitterly deride Taylor Swift for her recent court case sexual assault comments, by suggesting she was "milking it" and it was all quite planned. "fuck the corporates" and all that jazz basically

Everyone rightly took him to task for being so cynically dismissive of her comments as a ploy and milking it. 12 hours later he's deleted all his comments then retreated to his own FB page to declare hes "sick of your gender shit, try being in a cancer ward for a day and get some perspective"

The guy is being treated for (likely non terminal) cancer. He's done this before - using his condition to fall back and lash out at everyone.

I feel like everyone's being on eggshells because of his condition but fuck it, isnt he - ironically - milking it himself? arrgh. I hate people being emotionally manipulative.

when convenience stores have things like toothpaste or Zantac or etc behind the counter and not out on the floor where you can get it yourself, so that when there is a line of people making purchases you have to wait to get to the front of the line to find out if they even have what you're looking for.

xpost oh christ. most people would probably be forgiving of anybody in a situation like that having a bad day, for sure, but to act entitled to a free pass every time you make a shitty comment because you're ill is a bad look. especially when said shitty comments can be hurtful to other people.

The ten cent bottle deposit in Michigan. It probably made sense before the ubiquity of recycling but now I've got to keep a separate box for returnables, every grocery store above a certain size has to maintain a special room for the sorting equipment, I've got to haul the fucking things to the store, can't return all brands at all stores, etc. When I lived here in college it was awesome to pay for breakfast the night after party but now it's such a hassle for the $7.50 I got today.

this probably falls under "rationally angry" but i don't think there's anything that makes me angrier than when a neighbor steals my sunday new york times. on top of that, the delivery guy told me that they take $10 out of his pay check for each paper reported missing. great.

why the fuck does the delivery person automatically get dinged for that? horseshit arrangement.

yours is rational anger yes.

IA of the day - how many motherfuckin' people are going to make Little Shop of Horrors jokes today because of the eclipse. after about 11 people did it, had to update my FB Purity settings.

I hate people being emotionally manipulative.

^rational as hell

don't think this will be a popular opinion but snobby people in cities bug me to no end. Head held high, nose up in the air - shielding yourself from any particular emotion. I think being approachable is a good thing, but then I'm from the country..

my suburban coworkers are bigger snobs than city ppl I know who are GIANT snobs

ah yeah sorry to generalize here, just something i've noticed in vancouver to some extent

See Orlando fits yr description perfectly Ross. And it's undeserved snobbery

Head held high, nose up in the air

What like, literally? Makes a change from noses buried in iPhones i suppose.

Sounds poorly defined and not all that angry, idk

poorly defined? it's the blankest of looks, a serious clinical expression. What more do i need to say?

So apparently today is "Force Friday" and I don't know what that means or why except that I have a whole bunch of emails from different companies trying to sell me Star Wars related shite, not quite 4 months since I had an inbox full of "LOL May the 4th GEDDIT now buy our Jedi bobblehead set in exclusive presentation box TODAY ONLY" nope nope go away

It's midnight and 82 degrees inside and outside and I am IA at everything but especially this weather.

otm

right now, it's "everything and anything anybody does and says, including me". aka summer in Florida. amazed I can be anywhere near sociable when I'm this grouchy lol

That idiotic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' song.

The two people in the song are some of the most obliviously incoherent borefests in pop music history. Everything about the song is so indescribably stock "alternative rock" that I hate it unconditionally. Why am I still hearing it in the grocery store?

This ones probably perfectly rational: the weird trend in proper news articles in Papers of Record and news websites (ie: not buzzfeed or junkee or such) to be putting a load of fucking animated gifs into a news item

Cut it the fuck out! A page full of jabbering juddery gifs of taytay, the kid from stranger things, or what the fuck ever is not wanted!

There are browser extensions that stop those, but I'm not sure about mobile devices.

We have those in the weekly power point presentations at work now, projected behind people trying to tell us what they've been doing recently. It's like everyone has ADHD.

Best part is when you get to sift through PDFs of a ppt and all of the gifs are still.

Its especially annoying when the gifs are really short loops, so its one 2-second image of Dana Scully giving a look over and over, like she has parkinsons.

In a recent meeting we had one of a kid riding his trike into a tree every 3 seconds.

News items seem to have started coming with self starting videos recently. I thought it was something website designers were dissuaded from doing but maybe I'm just opening more news pages recently.
I'll have several pages open as I go through a thread opening things in new tab to get back to, then have to find where the voice is coming from to hit pause which may then only last a few minutes til it automatically restarts.
I did think people were being persuaded to give the reader the option of playing whatever media or not as personal choice. &bombarding the reader with autoplay was a faux pas.

let's face it, people suck

there are also options built into web browsers for this stuff (about:config), but they are multitudinous and obtuse.

in firefox changing the flag to stop videos autoplaying stops vimeo videos from playing even when you click the play button.

and, again, mobile platforms (where the data usage is actually more important) are more difficult to customise.

JUst been reminded. Somehow got stuck in a revolving door for a moment last week. I thought the door would rotate allowing several people in each of 2 sections to move through the door.
But somehow door closed at one end and didn't open at the other so people in each side were stuck.
There's a sensor somewhere to detect movement, but there were about 9 or 10 people involved. A wheelchair plus attendant on my side, plus me and maybe another person followed in by a couple who squeezed in just as the section was rotating past the doorway. & then the door stopped rotating when bothsections were closed off. People in the other section were trying to signal something to us. Not sure what.
I worked out there must be a sensor somewhere and walked towards the front of teh section.
But if that can happen then it can surely happen at other times. I'm not sure if there is another door at that part of the unit so not sure what would happen in the case of a fire.
I'd taken a free lift over to the hospital, popped into the hospital to use the toilet and went to exit that way.
So wondering if something like that happens with any frequency there and how long people get stuck. Though i guess if people start moving around to see what the problem is it would possibly sort itself . But too many people crammed into the same space might prevent movement.

Nods

it makes me angry that my closest grocery store rarely puts enough baskets by the door. there are usually 0 of them and the first thing i have to do when i go there is go hunting for a basket by the self checkout where there is always a pile of about 30 of them.

Our local Lidl got a load of new ones about a month back. Used to be none by the door & hopefully some by the checkout stands, though often not. Frequently would be several left on the other side of the tills where people exited and they rarely seemed to be gathered up and returned to where people could access them easily.

I'm assuming that revolver door thing came from slow pace of the first group into that section of the door system, the 2 or 3 people with the slow moving wheelchair. I and the other person next to me went in as the door revolved and probably stood pretty still expecting the door to just continue turning.
Then people came in behind us. & the door stopped for a minute or two. I had enough space to move down beside teh central wall which I wouldn't have done following the wheelchair group.
Just seems to be a design flaw to have a door taht can do something like taht as the main exit on a hospital. I don't think there are other doors immediately around it.
& if there is likelihood taht people are going to be stuck behind a slow moving group like that the chances of that repeating regularly seem high, but like something you'd want to avoid.
Just surprised that if there is a motiuon detector it wouldn't detect 9 or 10 people inside the revolving door.

ia at our toilet paper rolls & the way they glue down the top layer - you can clearly see the seam but there's no free edge to pull so you have to gouge like 4 layers down & it's a goddamn mess i tell ya

My son actually got stuck in a revolving door at Ikea the other day. He was just doing an extra rotation (because he's 9) after we left the revolving door and the door just stopped. I had to go back and have my hand in front of the door for it to start again. So yeah, the motion detectors on these things are maybe not that great.

Hate supermarkets that offer tiny shopping carts for little kids to push around. Not only do the kids leave them all over, not only does it encourage them to fill up with all sorts of shit you as a parent have to put back on the shelf, but they never look where they are going. You either have to constantly evade them or protect your toes and shins.

at an employment resources centre and the person across from me thinks it's a good time to watch movies and laugh loudly and comment constantly. fucking people

It would be interesting to read industry-insider publications regarding the purpose of those tiny grocery carts.

people who say "hello?" in an agitated voice if there is a .0222 nanosecond pause on your end when answering the phone.

had a humorous phone call w/ my mother once where we both kept saying "hello?" at each other and thinking the other couldn't hear us until one of us finally clarified "I can hear you, I was saying 'hello' in response"