Things that piss me off

[King Postwhore]

 

Leaving your I-Pod at home.

[Kotowboy]

Leaving for the whole day and your phone is on 5%.

[Prog Snob]

I just need an editor in my life John.

I told you. Blob and I will do alternate weeks and you just have to pay us in beer.   

Screw that, I don't drink alcohol. I demand currency!

Well, since you didn't specify what kind, I'll make sure it's just Monopoly money. 

[BlobVanDam]

I just need an editor in my life John.

I told you. Blob and I will do alternate weeks and you just have to pay us in beer.   

Screw that, I don't drink alcohol. I demand currency!

Well, since you didn't specify what kind, I'll make sure it's just Monopoly money. 

Luckily you're not the one who'd be paying me.

[Prog Snob]

I just need an editor in my life John.

I told you. Blob and I will do alternate weeks and you just have to pay us in beer.   

Screw that, I don't drink alcohol. I demand currency!

Well, since you didn't specify what kind, I'll make sure it's just Monopoly money. 

Luckily you're not the one who'd be paying me.

  Indeed.

[King Postwhore]

Why should I pay you?!  You correct me all the time!

I'll never change.  NEVER!!!

[gmillerdrake]

I was irate on my morning drive to work.

The road that accesses my subdivision is a two lane, 40 mph road with VERY wide shoulders....I'm talking 7 or 8 foot wide. The local high school uses this road for its cross country runs due to it's wide shoulders and slow speed. I say that to set this up....

I noticed a car about 300-400 foot in front of me suddenly swerve WAY off to the shoulder.....like almost go off the road and then jerk back into the lane. After ten seconds or so I was at the spot it swerved and there on the shoulder near off the shoulder and into the rock and grass was about a 5-6 foot blacksnake.....half squished.....the other half writhing in pain as it slowly was trying to figure out WTF just happened and was dying.

        I get it if a snake/turtle/raccoon....etc. gets hit on the road if it's IN the road......but to go out of your way to run an animal over is just friggin' ignorant. I had half a mind to follow the SOB to wherever they were going and lay in to them. But I thought better of it. I'm just hoping that the piece of sh*t had something happen to them today....not life threatening or life altering....but something. Spill coffee in their lap....get handed a 'bad' project.....slam their finger in a door......anything like that. Because they deserve it.

[hefdaddy42]

That sucks.

[King Postwhore]

That really pisses me off too.  No decency.

[Kotowboy]

Because I drive a 125cc bike and have L plates... People think they can pull out of junctions in front of me.

The other day I even got a  face from THEM...

FUCK YOU.

[kaos2900]

Losing power in the summer.

[IDontNotDoThings]

RAM?!?!?!

Aussies prefer Kangaroos !

As opposed to what? Tea & crumpets? 

[Genowyn]

I hate when I'm sort of visibly agitated, and someone asks me "What's wrong?", to which I reply, "Nothing important.", so they say "Well it must be important if you're like that" etc and keep pressing until I'm like "I just caught up on the manga I was reading and it had a cliffhanger so I'm anxious for the next chapter" "Oh well that's not very important"

 

[BlobVanDam]

I hate when I'm sort of visibly agitated, and someone asks me "What's wrong?", to which I reply, "Nothing important.", so they say "Well it must be important if you're like that" etc and keep pressing until I'm like "I just caught up on the manga I was reading and it had a cliffhanger so I'm anxious for the next chapter" "Oh well that's not very important"

 

I hate it when I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, just sitting there and happen to be not smiling, and someone asks me "what's wrong?", which most of the time annoys me, so when I reply "nothing" it sounds like there's something wrong making me angry, except it's just the annoyance of someone assuming there's something wrong just because I'm not smiling.

[pogoowner]

I hate when I'm sort of visibly agitated, and someone asks me "What's wrong?", to which I reply, "Nothing important.", so they say "Well it must be important if you're like that" etc and keep pressing until I'm like "I just caught up on the manga I was reading and it had a cliffhanger so I'm anxious for the next chapter" "Oh well that's not very important"

 

I hate it when I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, just sitting there and happen to be not smiling, and someone asks me "what's wrong?", which most of the time annoys me, so when I reply "nothing" it sounds like there's something wrong making me angry, except it's just the annoyance of someone assuming there's something wrong just because I'm not smiling.

You can't win. If you smile all the time, people think you're weird too. I've tried both approaches.

[King Postwhore]

I don't believe Blob smiles.  I need a picture for proof.

[Stadler]

Sooo.... people who don't think the rules apply to them.   

At a graduation last night (by the way, I could start an entire thread on this graduation), and the flier said clearly, in bold caps, DO NOT RUN UP TO YOUR STUDENT AND TAKE PICTURES WHILE THEY ARE WAITING TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMA.  It doesn't take Nostradamus to see where this is going:  We weren't even out of the B's when this dude in a tank top, beach shorts, and flip flops comes strolling up to take a picture of his darling little tramp, and we weren't even out of the C's when some girl strolls up, puts her arm around her friend/sister/cousin/perfect stranger to take a selfie.    By that point (and for the remainder of the 200 kids, there was a pack of about 15 people rotating in and out to take picture swith the students while they were waiting to receive their diploma.  It should be noted that there were three professional photographers taking pictures before during and after the granting of the diploma. 

And as an aside, most were dressed like they were on their way to or from a Jimmy Buffett concert.

I know, I know "get off my lawn", but what happened to a little common decency and respect for your fellow man?  Believe it or not, I'm not one for blinding following rules, but most rules have a reason. 

[Chino]

Sooo.... people who don't think the rules apply to them.   

At a graduation last night (by the way, I could start an entire thread on this graduation), and the flier said clearly, in bold caps, DO NOT RUN UP TO YOUR STUDENT AND TAKE PICTURES WHILE THEY ARE WAITING TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMA.  It doesn't take Nostradamus to see where this is going:  We weren't even out of the B's when this dude in a tank top, beach shorts, and flip flops comes strolling up to take a picture of his darling little tramp, and we weren't even out of the C's when some girl strolls up, puts her arm around her friend/sister/cousin/perfect stranger to take a selfie.    By that point (and for the remainder of the 200 kids, there was a pack of about 15 people rotating in and out to take picture swith the students while they were waiting to receive their diploma.  It should be noted that there were three professional photographers taking pictures before during and after the granting of the diploma. 

And as an aside, most were dressed like they were on their way to or from a Jimmy Buffett concert.

I know, I know "get off my lawn", but what happened to a little common decency and respect for your fellow man?  Believe it or not, I'm not one for blinding following rules, but most rules have a reason.

Continuing the graduation bitching... We just got an invite to a junior high graduation party... Are you fucking kidding? A whole weekend afternoon and a gift is expected because some kid finished 6th grade?

[cramx3]

At some point you (not you specifically) got to either enforce or just ignore those "rules".   I'm kind of a go with the crowd guy.  When the highway is buzzing at 75 mph, that's the speed I'm going to go too.  If the graduation ceremony says no pictures, yet everyones doing it, I'm going to snap some pics then too.  I'm pretty obedient up until the point that I'm the only one playing by the "rules" which also by that point has become clear that there are no "rules" 

Granted, it probably made the ceremony last longer and I would be more annoyed by that because graduation ceremonies are such a long boring process.

[Stadler]

At some point you (not you specifically) got to either enforce or just ignore those "rules".   I'm kind of a go with the crowd guy.  When the highway is buzzing at 75 mph, that's the speed I'm going to go too.  If the graduation ceremony says no pictures, yet everyones doing it, I'm going to snap some pics then too.  I'm pretty obedient up until the point that I'm the only one playing by the "rules" which also by that point has become clear that there are no "rules" 

Granted, it probably made the ceremony last longer and I would be more annoyed by that because graduation ceremonies are such a long boring process.

Well, I separate the two, because with speeding, there is a consequence, and if I'm willing to pay that consequence that relieves some of the contradiction independent on the impact to others (and this is why I say I'm not a slave to the rules).   But what's the consequence of running up and holding up the line?   There is none, except that 1000 OTHER people are inconvenienced.   That's the point.  Total disrespect for the crowd and putting yourself up like you're more important than anyone else with no consequences.

It so happens that my stepdaughter was upset that her brother couldn't be there as he was graduating from boot camp earlier that day in Virginia.  Unbeknownst to her, he arranged to graduate first thing and hop on a plane, so he strolled in about halfway through the ceremony.  As the respectful soldier he is, he stood at attention next to our row, and when it was time for her to walk up, I told him "get your ass over to your sister, soldier!".  I hate myself a little for doing that (two wrongs don't make a right) but why should she suffer?   And if you want to pick nits, he didn't take a picture he just gave her a hug and everyone ELSE took the picture (including the local paper).   I won't lie; I was crying like a girl at a One Direction concert.

[cramx3]

Yea, that hold up is what would piss me off the most, more so than just a "someone broke rules" part.  I really don't like when people think they are more important than you or other people, and your example is one that shows that.

[King Postwhore]

It's becoming more and more of a selfish world.  It's all about me!

[Kotowboy]

It's becoming more and more of a selfish world.  It's all about me!

Why you ?

[King Postwhore]

Not me but that is how most are.  I hold doors for people,  I do not block the isles when shopping.  The little things.

[Kotowboy]

Not me but that is how most are.  I hold doors for people,  I do not block the isles when shopping.  The little things.

I was joking

You'd have to be pretty fat to block a whole Isle

[Prog Snob]

It's becoming more and more of a selfish world.  It's all about me!

Why you ?

I think he was using it as a trope.

[King Postwhore]

 

You wouldn't believe how many people look at product when their cart is behind them blocking the whole Isle.  Then get huffy when you ask to pass by.

[Kotowboy]

Isle = Island

Aisle = supermarket corridor

[King Postwhore]

Oops. Lol. Though there are food islands at the grocery store.   

I tried. Lol

[cramx3]

You wouldn't believe how many people look at product when their cart is behind them blocking the whole Isle.  Then get huffy when you ask to pass by.

Talk about things that piss me off.  Essentially people who are not self aware.  Such as your example.

[Kotowboy]

I find that the elderly are constantly just bumbling around being in everyone's way. Standing in doorways. Walking unbearably slowly two a breast on a thin pavement ( sidewalk ).

My Grandad has had a computer for years and he *STILL* reads every textbox that comes up thoroughly despite knowing exactly what it says...

Or if he wants to close a window he'll hover the mouse over the red x in the top corner and go back and forth over the red x and the maximize button.

Every time... :/

[King Postwhore]

I can forgive the elderly.   Too much going on for them.  Sensory overload.  Now younger?  They just don't give a damn.

[KevShmev]

I was irate on my morning drive to work.

The road that accesses my subdivision is a two lane, 40 mph road with VERY wide shoulders....I'm talking 7 or 8 foot wide. The local high school uses this road for its cross country runs due to it's wide shoulders and slow speed. I say that to set this up....

I noticed a car about 300-400 foot in front of me suddenly swerve WAY off to the shoulder.....like almost go off the road and then jerk back into the lane. After ten seconds or so I was at the spot it swerved and there on the shoulder near off the shoulder and into the rock and grass was about a 5-6 foot blacksnake.....half squished.....the other half writhing in pain as it slowly was trying to figure out WTF just happened and was dying.

        I get it if a snake/turtle/raccoon....etc. gets hit on the road if it's IN the road......but to go out of your way to run an animal over is just friggin' ignorant. I had half a mind to follow the SOB to wherever they were going and lay in to them. But I thought better of it. I'm just hoping that the piece of sh*t had something happen to them today....not life threatening or life altering....but something. Spill coffee in their lap....get handed a 'bad' project.....slam their finger in a door......anything like that. Because they deserve it.

Hmmm, well, I operate under the logic of "the only good snake is a dead snake," but that is definitely pretty stupid to do.

[gmillerdrake]

Hmmm, well, I operate under the logic of "the only good snake is a dead snake," but that is definitely pretty stupid to do.

I know many a folk who subscribe to the same oath....but, to go out of your way to kill ANY animal in the manner that D-Bag did was just ignorant....snake or not.

[SystematicThought]

Losing power in the summer.

This happened Saturday night. It was around 10:30 PM and the power goes out--I was asleep but woke up sweating so much so that my pillow was sopping wet because all of my fans went out. It was about two hours before the power came back on. It was about 80 degrees out at the time and my room doesn't get the air conditioning very well. So hot and miserable