The petty things that wind you up.....

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....but probably shouldn't.

I think I'm possibly the worlds most intolerant person and it would cheer me up no end to hear your rants. What little habits do people around you have that make you grit your teeth in fury? What stops you exploding?

There's a guy in our office who finishes every statement by slapping his hands on the desk, 'da da dum' style. If he only did this two or three times a day I wouldn't even notice, but it's every five minutes.

Other colleagues probably don't notice this, but I'm sitting working myself up into hysterics. Sigh.

So yeah, anyway, share. Da da dum.

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

People who come out of shops, without looking if people are coming, then walk out into the middle of the pavement and then just STOP.

Would they do that if they were in a car? No! I feel like just colliding with them and knocking them down.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

My one annoying co-worker making any noise at all.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

People putting THEIR CRAP on my desk. Especially the bloody auditors we've got in at the moment. We're squished in so tight no one can move coz we've got three seats on two desks. And then the dude E X P A N D S.

My rule is, if you put your stuff on my desk, you have to do my work. Grrrrr.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

My coworker who shakes his yogurt instead of stirring. The sound it makes is sickening and I race to put my headphones on whenever he gets it out.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

I get irrationally peeved about people getting in my way on public transport. I know this is pointless and I probably do a lot of these myself but I get really incensed by people who stop at the bottom of escalators, stop as soon as they get on the platform, stop as soon as they get on the tube instead of moving down so other people can get on, standing on buses blocking the stairs when there's seats upstairs etc. As I work in Soho I have to deal with bloody tourists etc and I start seething inside and have to just think come on now, they probably held up you by 0.5 seconds stop being silly.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

PEOPLE WHO STAND BY THE DOOR, AND REFUSE TO MOVE when everyone is trying to get off, and thusly reduce a 2-person stream to a 1-person at a time stream. I'm not even talking at rush hour, there are people who just seem to like to stand by the doors, even though the carrige is nearly empty. Argh!

I should really stop clicking this thread because I am trying to be a nice, even-tempered person and not get wound up.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

"Baby on Board" signs. If anyone dares to tell me they are using one to genuinely mitigate the chance of accident and not just to proclaim to the world that you've now got children I will laugh like a fucking drain. Word of advice: the bloody thing makes me WANT to drive into your car at high speed, you self-congratulatory MORON.

PS. Only in Essex: "Little Princess on Board". I nearly haemmorhaged with rage.
PPS. Yes, I do know that children are the most magical thing in the word ever, before someone tells me, and I can completely understand why.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, those fuckers too. And especially when people start piling on when people are still getting off. I just barge straight through them.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

My Sweet Sixteen. spoiled brats. (I guess that's not neccesarily petty but it winds me up unneccesarily)

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

On public transport, I often wish I could electrify myself. Or emit a loud aggressive beeping that sounds like that VEHICLE IS REVERSING GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY sound. Sometimes I forget, and actually start doing it out loud.

And then there are probably people who are really, really wound up by that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Kate and Colonel Poo: lack of good manners in general winds me up beyond belief. The same thing happens with lifts a lot of the time re: people getting in before they've given people a chance to leave. Bloody annoying.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

More worse car sticker!

"The driver of this car is a parent of an HONOURS STUDENT at xxxxxx PRIMARY SCHOOL"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Grocery shopping - which can be a very pleasant task - really pisses me off if the store is too crowded. Like, people just stop in the middle of the aisle and wander away to sniff the melons, or something. I feel like starting a demolition derby.
Thus, I only shop with a cart when I know the store won't be crowded.
Because parking lots piss me off too. Soccer moms in huge SUV's or stupid minivans idling in order to get the nearest space to the store entrance...that's why they have shopping carts, bitch! So you can trolley your purchases to your huge vehicle! Your huge vehicle which is blocking my way!
Large vehicles piss me off. Driving pisses me off.
I'm kind of an angry person, I guess!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Everything irritates me. That's why I drink.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

more on my co-worker (way too much time spent with just two other people. . .) We have a newly remodled office with brand new, expensive furniture. He puts his feet up on everything. We can have a full crowd at our conference table and as soon as someone leaves, he drags their leather chair around and throws his feet up in it. Rude! Who wants to sit where your dirty sneakers have been? One day, I swear I'm going to say something.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

"The driver of this car is a parent of an HONOURS STUDENT at xxxxxx PRIMARY SCHOOL"

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTOHGODNO

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

i hate the way gin always sounds like a good idea at 1:30 in the morning but at 6 when i have to get out of bed to go to work it suddenly reveals itself to be a really really bad idea.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

The people getting in the way thing - are they stupid or just ignorant?? When I'm shopping, or on public transport or whatever, I'm totally aware of how my behaviour could annoy others, so I do my damndest to be as inobtrusive as possible, it's only right!

Fuckers, don't they realise that if people are having to push past them or say "Excuse me", or tut loudly behind them a dozen times a day that they are perhaps getting in the goddam way? Are they really so vague and dozy?

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

many people are just so self-centered that they don't care if they're in your way.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also, ASDA. Everything about it annoys the living daylights out of me. The worst bit of it is that every recipe you have in your house will have at least one thing that ASDA doesn't sell (i.e. it's not beans) or has run out of. I'm absolutely certain that my local ASDA (which unfortunately happens to be on my doorstep, between my house and the station) has at least one piece of CCTV footage of me getting so annoyed that I drop my basket where I'm standing and storm out, glaring at the "welcomer" as I go. I should just go to Sainsbury's, but that involves driving when I don't have to and hence environmental angst.

In defence of the indefensible, however, I will say that ASDA is very good at making you feel very good about your looks, for very obvious reasons. Stand in the middle of the store for five minutes and you'll feel like a supermodel.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

People who want me to confess to stuff and expose my foibles in public just so they can feel better about their own irrational pettiness. Who the hell do they think I am, Louis Jagger?

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

(/mostly joke)

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

The new Charlie Card system here in Boston is incredibly annoying not only because it's poorly designed, but also because people are idiots and can't follow instructions!!!! Along the same public transportation lines are the idiots who sit on the aisle seat on the bus or put there bags on the seat next to them so that they block the free seats.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

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― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i HATE it when people press the button at the pedestrian crossing, then cross without waiting for the little green man, leaving all the cars to wait at the intersection for nothing. if people want to use the little green man, i'm more than happy to stop for them. but if they're just going to cross regardless of the lights, i wish they wouldn't press the button.

― gem, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

It's all "Anarchy" in the UK.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Baby on Board" signs. If anyone dares to tell me they are using one to genuinely mitigate the chance of accident and not just to proclaim to the world that you've now got children I will laugh like a fucking drain.

You're right that it doesn't reduce the chances of an accident, but that's not what it's for. It's to alert the emergency services who attend the accident that they should look for an extremely small living person in the wreckage. Feel free to assume it's there to wind you up and laugh like a drain though. lol dead babies, etc.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Large, SUV-type vehicles OTM. Especially the drivers who own them and have no fucking concept of how large the vehicle they are driving is! The other day I come out of a store to find my car sandwiched between two SUVs, the one on my driver's side left me a scant four inches to squeeze into my car. I was very tempted to slam my door very hard into the side of the shiny thing, but I stopped when I saw the owner's wife was still sitting in the passenger seat. Instead I squeezed between the two cars, made a very obvious show of how I couldn't get into my car, then followed it up by pressing my middle finger up against the glass of her door (probably four inches from her face). Then I walked around and climbed through my passenger side and away I went.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Wouldn't the sign be smushed in the accident?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

caek, I didn't know that. But, I would bet that most people who have one don't, either. The last bit is harsh: read my PPS.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Thing is, people leave them stuck on the window whether the child is with them or not and potentially waste precious fire service/ambulance time looking for a small person that isn't there.

― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Fair enough. Also, I now discover there's an untrue urban legend which may be responsible for starting the belief in their efficacy (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp). Doesn't mean they're not a good idea though.

FWIW, I felt the same irritation as you, until I took the piss out of my dad's wife, who has one in her car for my baby brother, and she got very upset and explained why they're not just there to irritate the childless. I considered myself pwned.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

xpost, natch.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still ROFFL-ing over the Charlie Card. Is it really to get Charlie off the MTA? That's so awesome if they're really called that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Everything irritates me. That's why I drink.

laurel, as always, otm

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, ok, ok. Can I still get annoyed at ASDA, though, please?

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly! You're very OTM re: the supermodel thing. When I was in Bristol my local supermarket was Asda Bedminster which sold nothing but sweets and crisps and pies to greasy five-foot-tall women. Good times. They had a McDonald's on site.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Thank fuck for that. You nearly ruined my day ;)

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

greasy five-foot-tall women.

:(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think the "Baby On Board!" signs could serve that purpose.
having stickers on house windows for children/pets is a good idea - for fire fighters/emergency personnel -but I find it hard to believe that, um, a car is like a house! If the accident is so bad that the EMT's need that information, the sign itself would have flown off of the window.
But, if it makes parents feel better, so be it.
Just don't have a Garfield window suction cup thing, ever.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Or an "I'm the parent of..." sticker. I stand by my reaction on that one.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, they're really called that but it's after this annoying character they've created named Charlie, sadly.
I also never knew that about the Baby on Board signs. Last night I saw one that said, no joke, Pit Bull on Board. I wonder if that's to make sure emergency personnel know what they may encounter. Heh.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

No, Charlie far predates any stupid character - he's from a folk song from, like circa 1948 or something!

I've been investigating this, because I wanted to do The MTA Song at a local folk open mic night - because I swear, people can get trapped inside the tube with Oyster cards and all that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't believe it, especially as it was a PRIMARY SCHOOL!

Not a univ, not even a secondary.

Our Alice got a 'outstanding' at nursery for her dancing/movement class. I didn't get teh STICKER in t' car for it.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

the MTA song!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Pit Bull on Board

...which is exactly the kind of thing that makes me think that people generally use them for the "oooh, look at us..." value. Also, I don't think it helps that all of them are done in Comic Sans ;)

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

For me it's Somerfield. They never have anything, bastards. There's no other supermarket within walking distance of my house - I can't count the number of times I've stormed out of that shop, fuming.

They have a 'Customer Comments' book just past the tills, I've considered leaving my rage in writing for them, but one day last week I saw about four cashiers standing round the book laughing their guts out so I decided against it.

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I love that someone has gone and actually mapped out which line Charlie must have got stuck on.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Every day I thank Tesco, our Dear and Glorious Leader.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

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Also, from the Flickr thread - people who troll the posts of strangers and leave "prizes" (yes, "The Father", I'm looking at you you old nonce)

― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Washing dishes in the sink has become an epic adventure of cussing at cutlery and plates instead of the calming theraputic session it should be.

Once a spoon slipped from my hands and down the side of the bowl 3 times in a row! After a heated telling off to the spoon I put my head in my hands and shouted at myself "for fucks sake ste it's a fucking spoon you mad twat!"

― Ste, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

did you get detergent foam in your hair? that would really annoy me.

― estela, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

People who take little plastic bags out when they walk their dogs, pick up the poo, tie it off AND THEN LEAVE THE FUCKING BAG ON THE KERB?

That is mental, unless it's some weird protest to the council to provide more bins. It really annoys me when I'm out walking my dogs and I pick up their poo and have to carry it around for half an hour because there's no bloody bin to put it in.

I would not leave it on the side of the road though.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

People in the kitchen making tea who ask you how your job is going, and when you tell them it's horrible they smile at each other and look at you as though you are a freak for being really annoyed at your annnoying job.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I said something on my blog a while ago about how my back pain had become something that really defined my life, and since then this one friend of mine always asks me how my back is when she sees me, and it fucking winds me up, because I know she's just thinking "Oh, better ask about her back". I cringe when it comes up in the conversation.

Plus it really annoys me when people suggest that I should leave my dogs on their own in the house overnight and come into the city and stay out all night. I have had this argument with people on several occasions, and because I don't want to sleep on a sofa and then come home next morning to a lake of dog piss in my kitchen, I am somehow "spoiling" my dogs. I also refuse to leave them in the back garden all night long. Wow, I am such a fucking weirdo.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

people who come into a shop while eating something. extremely impolite! i really want to yell "bugger off!" but then i'm too polite myself. just now some german bag came in slobbering over her ice cream yelling at me "do i put the cards in that postbox??? THE POST COMES AND PICKS IT UP, NO?" i really wanted to say:"no you daft cunt, they leave it there, it's been collecting post since 1940."

― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Having to listen to other peoples music on public transport.

Yes. I can get a scarily high level of rage going from this one.

Also, people (99.9% of smokers, please correct me if I'm wrong, does anyone who smokes NOT do this?) who seem to think cigarettes don't count as 'litter' and drop them where they're standing at a bus stop, or out their car windows. I spend hours of my life trying to think of the best way to tell these people off. "Wow, you're disgusting" doesn't seem to cut it.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think it is petty to get pissed off at the ciggy butt thing

― gem, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we need a "Seriously, stop doing that" thread.

The degree to which I freak out and seethe internally about this is probably a bit petty, though.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't mind the smoker litter thing. Then again I'm just jealous of them being able to find teh courage (and stupidity hahaha) to smoke. ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Littering in general makes my blood boil, but the cigarette thing more so because most of these people think of themselves as fine upstanding citizens who would never dream of throwing their other garbage on the ground. It simply never occurs to them that they're doing anything wrong, and that other people might not want to wait for the bus ankle-deep in 3 months' worth of their filthy cigarette butts.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

yep i know just what you mean franny, littering drives me crazy too. i think there is an element of guilt there about the ciggy butts though as i was just like those other smokers for 10 years till i gave up. and you're spot on, i would never have dreamed of ditching any other kind of rubbish on the ground.

when i was at boarding school we had a special little courtyard we used to sneak out to for a smoke. i remember once trying to bury some of the butts as the pile was getting a tad out of control. it was at that point that we realised it must have been the special smoking spot for the girls who came years before us... the butts went to a depth of half a foot or more. the little brown paper had gone off the filters, but the filter was obviously not biodegradable. ewww. imagine all the filters floating round the world now.

― gem, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

The nearest I've got to getting in a fight in 15 years was after telling some dick to pick up his litter. He refused and it all got a bit nasty. I was probably only not pummelled to a pulp by this guy and the big burly friend I hadn't previously noticed by a train guard doing a fucking great job and telling us there'd be no trouble on his train. I could have kissed him, srsly.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

That's the whole thing with calling people on their littering: is it worth a confrontation and the risk of physical violence? I have been angry with myself so many times for not being brave enough to yell at some disgusting person, but it's scary and I am a wimp. The closest I have ever come was waking up a person on the subway to say very sweetly, "Excuse me, you DROPPED your banana skin" and making bloody sure he took it with him when he got off the train. It felt good.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

When friends talk for half an hour about their relationships and when you say something, look at you like "You're single, probably forever, so what the fuck do you know?" This has happened to me multiple times with certain friends, and by this point has probably led to multiple hours of me sitting in silence, so it makes me mad now. I want to start dating someone random just so I can join the fucking conversation.

this used to really annoy me, I don't think they mean it though, I could never be sure if I created these scenarios or if friends did in fact think "yeah you are single forever".

it doesn't just happen with being single though, I think it's just some people are a little quick to put you in a box, or judge. I know even in the last few years of illness one or two close friends still almost act like it's my fault or somehow karmic retribution or something.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

People who just generally refer to people they know but are unknown to the majority of their 'audience'/people reading. Seriously, stop doing that!

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

People who do that on blogs as if their friends are minor celebs=scum.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

it's their blog! what do you care?

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Because I don't know what you're talking about, I now have a horrible feeling that I do this and have somehow become scum without realising it.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sam fair point, I guess cos I am cranky and don't get out enough!

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

we are all cranky. that is why we are here.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I get pretty wound up when people interrupt and finish my sentences for me or just plain don't let me finish saying what I'm saying. I happen to be pretty soft spoken but I don't see why some people do this. it happened at a work meeting recently and after this woman did it for the third time and finished with "is that what you were trying to say?" I'm like, well yes, I was TRYING to say it and I guess it finally dawned on her that she'd been cutting me off every time I opened my mouth..

― daria-g, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting real tired of banks trying to get all down-home and folksy. I went to make a deposit yesterday and the frat boy bank manager dude was all GOOD MORNING, HOW YA DOIN' TODAY? I said to him, "just making a deposit..." While I'm at the teller window, he's screaming about all of the barbecue he's going to eat at lunch and how fucking fat he's going to get. As I'm walking out, he says NOW YOU HAVE A NICE DAY AND STAY DRY, Y'HEAR? Goddammit, knock it off. Just wear the overalls and blue vest to complete your look, you fuck.

The commercials here are all WE KNOW YOUR NAME and WE ALL WEAR GOLF POLO SHIRTS WITH NAMETAGS and FORGET THOSE BIG NAME BANKS WHERE YOU'RE JUST A NUMBER. If there's one place in society where I really don't mind being "just a number", it's at the fucking bank. Give me the revolving doors, the big marble lobby, the silent security guard, and the professionally dressed teller who calls me by surname. I don't need to walk into some trailer building where some Casual Friday attired employee is saying HI FRANK, YA GET THAT TAX REFUND YET?

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I feel the same way

― RJG, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

it happened at a work meeting recently and after this woman did it for the third time and finished with "is that what you were trying to say?"

My mother and I both have the exact same reaction whenever our very helpful husbands try to do this for us. We just stop talking completely and refuse to start again until they promise they will shut up.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

OFFICE POLITICS.

Small bug in a procedure on our test server which stops us from testing out new feeds. Took 3 minutes for me to find the problem - someone changed the collation on the tempdb (apologies to non-SQL people). I'm not allowed to fix it because "it's not our problem". Argh.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I get pretty wound up when people interrupt and finish my sentences for me or just plain don't let me finish saying what I'm saying.

otfm

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

when people ask "how are you?" and i say "oh, okay" or something noncommittal like that and ask how they are, and then they're like "oh well i didn't get enough sleep last night and i have 2 papers due." i would never answer "how are you" that way unless it was to a really close friend who i know would ask that because s/he actually cared, and not because that's the polite thing to say when you randomly meet an acquaintance on the street. so then i have to commiserate with them about how much their lives suck. it frustrates me that i can't tell, when someone says how are you, what kind of conversation they are imagining, and say "fine" if we're on the same wavelength and somehow cut the "ooh i'm so sleepless and overworked" off at the pass if we're not. (again, this does not apply to good friends.)

wow i am really a bitch! hahaha. this thread is great though.

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, Maria, if someone asks me how I am, I'm not going to lie unless I despise them and need to get out of convo ASAP. Still, if details are unwarranted, usually a brief "I've been better" will do.

― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I used to say "oh I'm ok" in a world weary voice, as though to indicate that I was not ok but understood that conversational convention dictated that my reply should be brief and upbeat. But then I realised that that was kind of dickish.

― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

People in front of you in the queue at a shop who decide to talk on their mobile phone just as they get to the cashier/salesperson, yet still expect to be served (and usually are). How rude is that? I always feel like saying to the cashier/salesperson "don't serve that rude wanker, serve me instead because I'll treat you as though you actually exist".

Rudeness rudeness rudeness

― AbdyJack, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

There's an Italian food place near me which has signs saying you won't get served if you're on your mobile.

― Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

slow walkers who use both lanes or fail to speed up in a single lane

tourists who don't get that the volume appropriate to the cornfield or the cul-de-sac may be inappropriate on the subway or the sidewalk

non-efficiency-maximizing subway space-taker-uppers

escalades

― gabbneb, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty much anyone doing anything on public transportation or walking more slowly than me on a sidewalk pisses me off, I am so not made for city life.

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

tourists who don't get that the volume appropriate to the cornfield or the cul-de-sac may be inappropriate on the subway or the sidewalk

hahaha!

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't just get annoyed by people standing on the left on escalators. I get annoyed by people who intend to stand on the right, but amble up in the middle or even left hand side, and take a good five seconds to shuffle their arse over to the right, making me shoulder past them rudely in my determination to get everywhere without a single moment's delay.

xxpost No! It's they who are not made for city life!

― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

uptight yankees who just really need to chill.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

People who leave sockets switched on with no plug in them. It's probably perfectly safe but it still irks the hell out of me.

― braveclub, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hate plugging in things to find that they were left on. It scares me, safe or not. My boyfriend does this all the time.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

― Anna, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

That feels better even if I only typed it.

― Anna, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

people who eat noisily at their desks at work and do it really s-l-o-w-l-y. Like a packet of crisps:
R-u-s-t-l-e r-u-s-t-l-e
ccccccccrunnch!
crunch. crunch. crunch. c-r-u-n-c-h
[loud lip sound]
rummage rummage RUSTLE
[big pause]
ccccRUNCH

repeat till I go insane

― stet, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

postmen sprinkling red elastic bands on the street. this needs an entire thread of its own.

― Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit, yes. Elastic bands are lethal and they last forever. I collect them, but why are the postbuggers allowed to do this?

― Zora, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I picked up about 20 on my street the other day. I needed elastic bands. But yes, until I actually needed elastic bands, very annoying.

― Zoe Espera, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

what do they use them for? (the postman)

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Holding a household's mail together I think.

― Zora, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

ahh. . .I think ours just digs around in his bag for the right ones which explains why you often get your neighbor's mail

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, "postal workers".

there is a sorting office right by a bus stop i use. sad to say i have collected the bands on my walk to the stop and scattered them on the drive of the sorting office. i am sure other ppl are doing this too.

i am going mad

― Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

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