Tiny Moments of Stupidity and Woe

Originally Posted by Devoxycontin

Been stuck in traffic for like 30 minutes because people had to stare at a stalled car, no joke.

O man, tell me about it.

We were on a road trip this past summer and we were stuck in traffic for six bloody hours because there was a major wreck on the other side of the highway and people just stopped and stared.

Six hours. Worst traffic jam ever.

Although, I have to admit. I slow down and look too, but I keep up with traffic at the same time. Since we're going slow.

Sometimes, out here, people cause traffic jams from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING though. One assholes in the left lane really loves tapping his brakes. SERIOUSLY fucks with traffic flow.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Sometimes, out here, people cause traffic jams from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING though. One assholes in the left lane really loves tapping his brakes. SERIOUSLY fucks with traffic flow.

No shit right? Just today I was in the left lane and of course some D-bag is going incredibly slow, so I go to pass him on the right, and just as I move, he changes lanes too! Fucking morons!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

There's always going to be things that piss me off about other people's driving, or pedestrians while driving:

-Not using your blinker. Seriously. Its not that hard.
-Pedestrians that cross the street without hitting the button, KNOWING that the light will turn green momentarily.

At home:
-Oddly enough, everyone in my house gets mad at my dad because he doesnt know how to put the toilet paper on the roll. He puts the facing the opposite way from the rest of us, so we cant figure out why the roll isnt unrolling.
-My sister, making little 'nests' of her stuff every where. She has so much shit in our house, she just dumps it wherever she pleases. I get a message from her saying "I'm putting some books in your bookcase." and I have to reply "Taking over another section of the house then?"
-Constantly getting "You're Approved!" Credit Card shit in the mail. Because they include almost all your info, you need to shred it to itty-bitty pieces... all of them.
-These people at the mall that stop you and try to convince you to buy this nail shit by dragging you over to their booth and putting it on one of your nails... or lotion (my friend once started screaming that she was allergic to avoid them).

At school:
-The school's dining common not putting out the main course until a certain time, and taking it away at a certain time. College students dont have a set schedule... leave the real food out all the time!
-Habitat for Humanity... 'Come to our meetings and get free pizza!!!' Why don't you give the free pizza to those homeless people you're supposed to be helping?
-Professors thinking they're helping you out by waiting until November to assign all the big stuff... when all the classes do that.
-Girls that talk in the fake, way too happy voice
-Political and Credit Card people shoving stuff at you or trying to talk to you on campus. I'm on my way to class, I don't need your shit.

I'm sure there are more... I get irritated fairly easily though.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Let's see.

On the job:

-Managers who sit around for 15 minutes with a delivery up. They're taking care of a customer at front counter, okay, no biggie. They finish up, and instead of taking my cash and sending me on a delivery which is due in five fucking minutes to an address ten minutes away they... turn to the make table and start making pizza. I've literally had to wait for 10-15 minutes because my manager refused to take 30 seconds to send me off on another delivery, and there's NOTHING I can do about it since I have neither register access nor the authority to dispatch myself on a delivery.

-Wrong addresses/phone numbers. It's not rocket science people. The customer calls. You take their phone number. If info doesn't pop up on them, confirm the phone number. If it's a new customer, take their address. Confirm the address with them, and make sure it's not an apartment complex. If it is, take down the apartment number and confirm it with them. No, you goddamn moron, EIGHTH PLACE IS NOT THE SAME AS EIGHTH STREET.

-Assholes who don't tip. Look, guys. I have the distinct honor of paying out of pocket just to do my job. I blow anywhere from 50 cents to over 2-3 bucks' worth in gas for ONE delivery. And I get 85 cents commission on each delivery. Do the math: More often than not, I actually lose money for doing my job. The only reason why I'm not is because I get tips. If you're gonna order over 50 bucks in pizza from a fucking trailer park on some retarded-ass backwoods highway, you're damn straight I'm gonna expect a tip, especially since I blew a gallon of gas (which, by the way, is 3 bucks a gallon right now from the cheapest place in town) and a half-hour (that could've been spent delivering pizza to customers that are closer and tip better than your cheap ass) to get your pizza to you on time.

Elsewhere, I'm gonna have to second pretty much everything said about driving on the road. I especially hate rubberneckers. =|

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hm, this is like, therapy:

Going to a bus stop to get on the bus only to find the time schedule changed and it just left
Going to take a shower when...whoops, you forgot you ran out of soap
Shaving when your electric shaver runs out of power half way through
Preparing for a dinner with friends only to get a call fifteen minutes before it to be told they are too busy and it's cancelled.
...and then those friends surprise you the next day by having that dinner rescheduled for that evening...and giving you roughly two hours to prepare.
DOing an assignment only to find the professor changes it hours before it is due just because "it's like the real world"

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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What kind of tiny, insignificant setbacks irritate you most? How commonly do some of these things pop up in your life?

- Getting a wrong order. I don't eat out much and I especially avoid fast food places. The quality of food at most fast food joints sucks, but the startling rate at which they get my order wrong is another reason I avoid fast food. When I say no bacon/sausage/ham, it's for a reason (I don't eat pork). I usually check before I drive off, but sometimes it slips my mind and then I get the pleasant surprise of finding out way down the road that my Egg and Cheese Biscuit has sausage on it and that I don't get to eat breakfast. This happens a lot.

- On that same note, menus at restaurants that do not tell you everything that is in the dish annoy me. When I order green beans as a side order, I don't expect there to be bacon all over them. This doesn't happen too much anymore because I know now to ask what is in everything.

- Nothing will put me on the verge of an apoplectic fit like trying to find a spot in a parking lot and getting stuck behind those people who insist on walking in the middle of the road. You would think this would most often be old people, completely oblivious to the world around them as they push themselves along on their walkers, but no, plenty of younger people do this too in my experience. This happens every time I go to a store that isn't the grocery.

- Getting behind someone who has to go 10 mph under the speed limit. Usually this is an older individual who, when turning a corner, also takes the curb. This happens probably once a week.

- People who tailgate me irritate me. I usually do five over the speed limit when the speed limit is under 50. I'm young and my insurance is high enough. I don't need speeding tickets to make it any higher. Riding my ass will not make me go any faster, either. In fact, getting on my bumper will just turn our trip down the small road we're likely on into a giant setback for the both of us because I'm going to slow down to the speed limit just because they tried to intimidate me. Them waving their hands and cussing at me will just make me feel like I've accomplished something for the day. If people are in such a hurry they should pass me. This happens a lot because people are always in a hurry.

FELIPE NO

An addendum, inspired by this weekend:

- People who don't have their headlights on when it's dark or shitty out. I had to drive in horrible, foggy, rainy conditions this weekend, and it was made worse by the fact that many people didn't have their lights on, making them all but invisible (they were usually driving silver cars too, which blended perfectly into the gray morass of the day). They're like ostriches, assuming that if they can see other people, other people can see them.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I'm annoyed by people who will ride your ass while you're doing 90 down the highway, but as soon as you change lanes to let them pass, will slow down to 75.

People who talk loudly on the train really fucking piss me off too. There's insufficient leg room for someone my height, so I'm feeling cramped, trying to relax as best I can, I do not need some shrew of a hag sitting three rows behind me loudly telling everyone around her how she told her boss how it was going to be, because she knows best about everything. God damn that's annoying. Same goes for teenaged girls and thugs. Trains should be quiet places, with murmured conversations and a lot of people sunk in their own miserable solitude.

Going with what lurker said, I'm not a fan of that whole incomplete information thing either. A few times I've been asked to do something, only to realize once I begin that I need access to something that I don't have access to yet. Of course, the reason I'm assigned to these things is because the higher ups are busy with other things. This means they're generally not available to get me access to whatever it is I need.

Also, sometimes the underlying assumptions are wrong. This pisses me off because you'd think the people closest to the issue would have the best understanding. This is not the case. I've had to, on occasion, actually read through entire contracts looking for specific terms and conditions because we find out after the fact that oh wait, the initial scope of the assignment was too narrow.

One other thing that's been getting on my nerves more lately, though it doesn't necessarily impede me in any way is the blatantly naive pronouncements made by people high school through college age, about the injustice and tragedy of every god damned little inconvenience in their lives. My sister got a nose piercing, and then found out that her job doesn't allow for it. Weeks and weeks of bitter complaining that free speech was being curtailed. Similar pronouncements that everyone should fall in line with their unique standards of righteousness and justice. "What? People way back-country in the mountains are still racist? Well we should bring in some black people and make them accept them!"

Along those lines you also have flaming gay people who insist that not only must they be tolerated, but they must be accepted by everyone, universally, and it should be a law, and we should have the death penalty for people who are mean.

You know, these kids aren't kids anymore. We're talking 18+. Childhood needs to be cut short again. These people can vote and they haven't removed their heads from their asses yet.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

- People that walk 6-8 abreast in groups

Oh yes >=( If I were more outgoing, I would continue to walk straight into their faces, then upon receiving their stares say "oh whoops, I didn't realize that I wasn't allowed to walk on the sidewalk, you know, like everyone else" then go on an even longer tirade.


I'm sorry, I like to complain a lot:


On the bus:

- When people don't move to the back of the bus. This really angers me excessively. It's as if they're scared of sitting, let alone merely standing at the back of the bus. They'll clutter up the front in hopes that the bus driver will give up and just go, when 2/3rds of the back aisle space is completely open. It just wastes time since the bus drivers are then forced to yell "move to the back of the bus!" and 5-7 minutes is spent because of stupid people who grumble or inch backwards at the slowest rate possible.

- When people ring the bell to stop, after you or someone else has already rung it. It's as if you didn't pull it or do it right, they couldn't see the bright red sign saying "stop requested", they couldn't hear the loud "ding!" sound, and that the bus won't stop if they don't do it. Sometimes people just continue to pull it aimlessly then almost shout at the driver for their own ignorance.

- When people (mostly guys) take up two or more seats because they spread their legs wide open as if they'd crush their privates by sitting like a normal person. There's no need to block space like that at all.

- When people at the front don't offer their seats to older people. I can understand if the old person wasn't very feeble or if they already said "no thanks", but if you see struggling old ladies with lots of bags inching their way forward, you could at least offer.


At School:

- Cell phones on during lectures. I can understand the odd forgetting, maybe once a month. If it happens more than once in a class or repeatedly, I really just cringe. You could at least set it to vibrate instead of letting the world hear your latest CPop/KPop ringer when your friends call you during class. Nothing could be so urgent that you absolutely must hear it in class and disturb everyone else. It just strikes of superficiality. On that note, picking it up and talking in class is even worse!

- People that complain after a test that none of the material was on it and subsequently that the prof sucks, when it was clearly there and you know they didn't even skim the notes/text or attend lectures.

- People who don't hold the door. Uni already has very congested halls every 50-60 minutes, so it just irks me a bit when people slide through the doors and let it slam on the the faces of people behind them. I know I'm sometimes tired of holding every single door, but thinking about it from someone else's perspective, I wouldn't want a door closing in on me, or have to reopen it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The one I've been noticing lately is people who don't realize that there are others around them while shopping in stores. These slow people tend to stop abruptly in the middle of aisles. Also, when they see that other people are trying to walk by them in a narrow area, they don't make room by stepping aside to let others pass.

I'm also not too pleased when people tailgate me on the freeway or anywhere. I go at least 5 over the speed limit, and if I see that someone stays too close behind me, I actually slow down.

Traffic puzzles me as well. Luckily I've never had to wait longer than an hour, but there are a lot of drivers here who like to slow down to check out an accident on the freeway.

The last one I can think of is people who don't hold open doors. It's a minor irritation, but I suppose not all people can act the way I do.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

- When people (mostly guys) take up two or more seats because they spread their legs wide open as if they'd crush their privates by sitting like a normal person. There's no need to block space like that at all.

I do that, when I sit in the seats that hold two people and are perpendicular to the length of the bus. If someone wants to sit down, I always get up, or at least sit on the outside seat.
I'm not being a jerk -- my knees literally can't fit inside a single seat.

Probably the only annoyance is my younger sister not washing the dishes after herself.
Also people who talk during lectures. It doesn't happen anymore (gotta love third year) but I remember it used to make my blood boil in first and second year.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm from Puerto Rico so one of the things that really ticks me off is when someone asks if people from Puerto Rico need a green card to get into the US or is the currency in US dollars. I mean come on, are you really that ignorant?

Also, I used to work at a place called the Laminate Store where they only sold wood laminate flooring. I used to have these stupid customers who would walk around the showroom and have already been helped by a salesman just to come up to the register and ask me if we only sold laminate floors or if we carried any engineered wood or hardwood products. HELL NO we don't carry real wood floors only laminate you idiot. L-A-M-I-N-A-T-E-.....oh just forget it.

How ya doing, buddy?

People who drive in inclement weather without headlights, as someone else already mentioned, are a big annoyance. They are almost always in the left lane driving 80+ even given the weather. All I can do is stay to the right and hope they eventually kill themselves, preferably far enough down the road that it doesn't inconvenience me.

I also, really dislike people, who use commas, like this. I know, it's my job, but when I proofread something, with this many commas, I wonder, how the person made it, through fucking elementary, school. It also, reminds me, of girls who are, stereotypically unsure of themselves, and speak in bite-sized sentences? With rising intonation every time? This also annoys me, you know?

Finally, I really dislike it when people talk down to me - not in a rude manner, but when they soften their speech. I realize that I probably bring it on myself sometimes due to my personality. For example, I was working alone in the office conference room last week, since my normal computer wasn't working. This one girl walked through and said "You should blast some music in here or something. It's OK, no one will yell at you!" The way she said the last sentence had that peculiar half-coddling tone to it, and I don't like strangers or casual acquaintances using it with me.

I'm sure there are many more, but these are what come to mind at the moment.

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I'm with quiet fox. Patronization enrages me beyond reason. It's especially frustrating because there are nuances to most things which give me pause, which apparently don't concern other people. People treat my ignorance of the nuances of a given situation as general ignorance, I assume because they are simple. Those people especially give me violent urges when they speak down to me.

FELIPE NO

1. Being in a room with a terrible boaster who acts like he's the king of the world. Plus he likes to tease others intentionally, changes opinion easily, accused other people for something he did (and everyone knew he did it), and blames things which are not to be blamed for causing him trouble. I had to bear it for a year before graduating from high school and I even wonder why there were no one hurt.

I was wrong.

2. Stuck with someone who asks questions way too much. Come on, they are not idiots with IQ of -54. Yet they keep on questioning simple things like what to do (though the tutor had explained clearly what to do) or simple problem solving.

3. Score freeloaders. Especially in college. Really want to erase their names from the papers my group made.

4. Hypocrites. The person in number one also match this, since he always tried to be good and praised teachers to get their attention, but talked bad things behind them. Now I get people sniffing the lectures' ass for some god damn "A"s. Give me a break.

5. When queueing and some bitches just break the line. Can't force them to go to the end of line and you just have to stand still, chewing your tongue, trying hard not to smash their heads to the windowpane.

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