What pissed you off today?

[TheLordOfTheStrings]

A thread to vent. Sometimes that's all you need to feel better. Let it out, my child.

[The Walrus]

Found a shopping cart out of the corral. Starting this thread off right.

[Adami]

Nothing. I don't really get pissed off much.

[hefdaddy42]

Nothing yet, but I will keep you posted.

[pg1067]

So...is this basically the next level thread beyond the "Things I Find Mildly Irritating" thread?

[TAC]

Found a shopping cart out of the corral. Starting this thread off right.

Meanwhile, in Russia, there's a pregnant old lady standing on a bus.

[Evermind]

[PetFish]

Car in front of my stopped at a green light for a pedestrian-activated crosswalk.

If it's just a regular crosswalk, sure, but when it has a pedestrian-activated light and YOU have the GREEN then you DO NOT STOP.  Myself and everyone behind you sees the green light and treats it as such and then you go and stop unexpectedly and dangerously.

Flashing green crosswalk light = go.
Solid green crosswalk light = go.
Yellow-to-red crosswalk light = slow down and stop cuz the pedestrian just activated it.

It feels like this has actually happened to me more times in the last year than in my whole life.  If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

[Lethean]

 If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

What if there's a pedestrian already in the crosswalk?

[JayOctavarium]

 If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

What if there's a pedestrian already in the crosswalk?

Survival of the fittest. Car is fitter than pedestrian.

[jingle.boy]

 If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

What if there's a pedestrian already in the crosswalk?

Survival of the fittest. Car is fitter than pedestrian.

Even your car?

[King Postwhore]

 If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

What if there's a pedestrian already in the crosswalk?

Survival of the fittest. Car is fitter than pedestrian.

Even your car?

 

Jesus Chad.  Jay, you walked into that. 

[JayOctavarium]

I'm missing my back bumper, not my front... so yes, still fitter than a pedestrian!

[jingle.boy]

I'm missing my back bumper, not my front... so yes, still fitter than a pedestrian!

Did you back up into someone?

[KevShmev]

Car in front of my stopped at a green light for a pedestrian-activated crosswalk.

If it's just a regular crosswalk, sure, but when it has a pedestrian-activated light and YOU have the GREEN then you DO NOT STOP.  Myself and everyone behind you sees the green light and treats it as such and then you go and stop unexpectedly and dangerously.

Flashing green crosswalk light = go.
Solid green crosswalk light = go.
Yellow-to-red crosswalk light = slow down and stop cuz the pedestrian just activated it.

It feels like this has actually happened to me more times in the last year than in my whole life.  If I'm wrong I'd like to know but as far as I know you DO NOT STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT EVER.

Ah, so if a pedestrian is illegaly crossing against the light, and you have the green, you are going to just run them over and keep going, because you do not stop a green light ever?

[JayOctavarium]

I'm missing my back bumper, not my front... so yes, still fitter than a pedestrian!

Did you back up into someone?

An F150 as I was backing out of my driveway. Dude was speeding and took a corner too fast for me to notice him... Dude spoke no English, and had to run to his cousin's a few houses down from me ( who owned the truck) to get his insurance paperwork. Doesn't matter though. I was automatically at fault.

[PetFish]

Ugh, ok, LITERALLY SPEAKING, you stop at a green light if there's someone in the crosswalk, but you don't just stop at a green light just cuz someone is waiting to cross, everyone behind you sees the green and that means we're going through and then you decide to stop.  NO!

TL;DR - Still pissed off about these moron drivers who stop at green lights.

[Chino]

Pissed me off yesterday:

My buddy and I co-hosted a BBQ for memorial day. Based on responses, we had planned on somewhere between 16 and 20 people showing up. 8 people actually showed.

It really pissed me off because he and I take that kind of thing seriously. We want to please our guests. I was up until midnight the night before (I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at my kitchen job) and was up at 5 Monday morning to finish prepping. Loaded up my smokers and was at my buddy's house for 6:30 and got everything rolling. I spent close to $200 on food, only about half of which got eaten because so many people who said they were coming didn't show or bother to let us know they weren't coming. 

I mean, I guess it's kind of cool that I now have, among other stuff, 8lbs of pork belly burnt ends sitting in my fridge, but I don't feel like eating that for the next week in an effort to not have to throw it away.

[The Walrus]

Now that's why I like not having people over. Speaking of which...

Invited my friends over this weekend. One of them wants to move in with me which I initially thought was cool, but his stuff has been sitting in a spare room of mine for almost 3 months now. I made a rule to not smoke cigarettes inside, you can step outside and smoke, I don't want that shit clinging to my furniture for days, it's nice weather. Got all uppity over it, eventually just started lighting one up at the kitchen table and brushed me off when I told him to take it outside. WTF? Respect other people's homes. Also asked them to pick up their cigarette butts; went outside the next day and there were literally over 40 cigarette butts sitting around the tree beside the back porch. (He crashed on the couch; I woke up early and went to the gym, when I came back and he left there were cigarette butts in my drinking glass on the coffee table. Motherf...)

Can't even trust your best friends to be respectful when you ask 'em.

[Ruba]

Chino: man that sucks. Did any of those no-show people give a particular reason why they didn't come or was it complete radio silence? The way I see it, if you're invited somewhere and you can't make it/don't want to go, the least you could do is to contact the host and tell them (even a white little lie). Nothing too hard or time-consuming. Indeed, it's not like you snapped your fingers and the table was full of hamburgers, you'd expect at least a little bit of respect from potential guests. But look at it this way; at least now you know who not to invite for the next BBQ.

Katt: that sucks, too. I guess you can't always know what kind of roommate a person will be, no matter how fun it is to hang out with them. I know I wouldn't want to move in with my best friend in a million years though. You're being completely reasonable and if he acts all five-year old about it, maybe he's not some one you want to share your house with.

[Chino]

Chino: man that sucks. Did any of those no-show people give a particular reason why they didn't come or was it complete radio silence? The way I see it, if you're invited somewhere and you can't make it/don't want to go, the least you could do is to contact the host and tell them (even a white little lie). Nothing too hard or time-consuming. Indeed, it's not like you snapped your fingers and the table was full of hamburgers, you'd expect at least a little bit of respect from potential guests. But look at it this way; at least now you know who not to invite for the next BBQ.

One person I invited that didn't show texted me first thing in the morning saying they weren't going to be able to make it. The rest were on my buddy's wife's end. She had invited a bunch of her girlfriends and their husbands, and I guess they just never came. Assholes.

[jingle.boy]

I'm pissed off that Kev made it seem like I was defending the Boston Bruins.

[gmillerdrake]

Pissed me off yesterday:

My buddy and I co-hosted a BBQ for memorial day. Based on responses, we had planned on somewhere between 16 and 20 people showing up. 8 people actually showed.

It really pissed me off because he and I take that kind of thing seriously. We want to please our guests. I was up until midnight the night before (I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at my kitchen job) and was up at 5 Monday morning to finish prepping. Loaded up my smokers and was at my buddy's house for 6:30 and got everything rolling. I spent close to $200 on food, only about half of which got eaten because so many people who said they were coming didn't show or bother to let us know they weren't coming. 

I mean, I guess it's kind of cool that I now have, among other stuff, 8lbs of pork belly burnt ends sitting in my fridge, but I don't feel like eating that for the next week in an effort to not have to throw it away.

That really sucks.....sorry to hear that. Were these people that are normally reliable?

[gmillerdrake]

I'm pissed off that Kev made it seem like I was defending the Boston Bruins.

 

[KevShmev]

I'm pissed off that Kev made it seem like I was defending the Boston Bruins.

 

Welcome to the dark side from which you can never return.

[Chino]

Pissed me off yesterday:

My buddy and I co-hosted a BBQ for memorial day. Based on responses, we had planned on somewhere between 16 and 20 people showing up. 8 people actually showed.

It really pissed me off because he and I take that kind of thing seriously. We want to please our guests. I was up until midnight the night before (I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at my kitchen job) and was up at 5 Monday morning to finish prepping. Loaded up my smokers and was at my buddy's house for 6:30 and got everything rolling. I spent close to $200 on food, only about half of which got eaten because so many people who said they were coming didn't show or bother to let us know they weren't coming. 

I mean, I guess it's kind of cool that I now have, among other stuff, 8lbs of pork belly burnt ends sitting in my fridge, but I don't feel like eating that for the next week in an effort to not have to throw it away.

That really sucks.....sorry to hear that. Were these people that are normally reliable?

I'm not sure on their reliability. Most were friends of friend's wife.

[gmillerdrake]

I'm not sure on their reliability. Most were friends of friend's wife.

That's a tough one....you were basically counting on your buddies wife to come through for ya.

[Chino]

I'm not sure on their reliability. Most were friends of friend's wife.

That's a tough one....you were basically counting on your buddies wife to come through for ya.

I didn't care who I was feeding, I just wanted an semi-accurate head count 

[pg1067]

Still trying to figure out why this thread exists separate from the "mildly irritating" thread.

[Chino]

I consider "mildly irritating" to be similar to "first world problems". For example, my refrigerator only displaying in Celsius is mildly irritating, but it doesn't piss me off.

[jingle.boy]

I consider "mildly irritating" to be similar to "first world problems". For example, my refrigerator only displaying in Celsius is mildly irritating, but it doesn't piss me off.

Converting Americans .... one appliance at a time.

[JayOctavarium]

I got one, but cant go into details. Basically a series of events caused by people who are not me who are supposed to manage things and have their their finger on the pulse of things screwing the pooch and causing a chain reaction of events that let to someone getting into our gym at work and possibly taking photos of kids in a pool.

And the person who witnessed this did not inform my guy, the uniformed security officer standing outside, whom they walked passed when leaving, but waited 2 hours and had their significant other call with vague details, and then give different details, which caused it to take 2 days to even find the event on camera.

So people... people pissed me off today.

[PetFish]

Now that's why I like not having people over. Speaking of which...

Invited my friends over this weekend. One of them wants to move in with me which I initially thought was cool, but his stuff has been sitting in a spare room of mine for almost 3 months now. I made a rule to not smoke cigarettes inside, you can step outside and smoke, I don't want that shit clinging to my furniture for days, it's nice weather. Got all uppity over it, eventually just started lighting one up at the kitchen table and brushed me off when I told him to take it outside. WTF? Respect other people's homes. Also asked them to pick up their cigarette butts; went outside the next day and there were literally over 40 cigarette butts sitting around the tree beside the back porch. (He crashed on the couch; I woke up early and went to the gym, when I came back and he left there were cigarette butts in my drinking glass on the coffee table. Motherf...)

Can't even trust your best friends to be respectful when you ask 'em.

Gross.  What is it about smoking that makes people act like total turds anyway?  This turd is being exceptionally turdy and you need to tell him to fuck off:

1)  Smoking outside but leaving butts everywhere.
2)  Smoking inside.
3)  Leaving butts in your drink.  This is passive aggression at its finest and clearly shows he thinks less of you than you do of him and he needs to fuck off.

[cramx3]

Pissed me off yesterday:

My buddy and I co-hosted a BBQ for memorial day. Based on responses, we had planned on somewhere between 16 and 20 people showing up. 8 people actually showed.

It really pissed me off because he and I take that kind of thing seriously. We want to please our guests. I was up until midnight the night before (I worked all day Saturday and Sunday at my kitchen job) and was up at 5 Monday morning to finish prepping. Loaded up my smokers and was at my buddy's house for 6:30 and got everything rolling. I spent close to $200 on food, only about half of which got eaten because so many people who said they were coming didn't show or bother to let us know they weren't coming. 

I mean, I guess it's kind of cool that I now have, among other stuff, 8lbs of pork belly burnt ends sitting in my fridge, but I don't feel like eating that for the next week in an effort to not have to throw it away.

Lame, OOC though, did this head count come from a facebook event?  I've found from hosting my old (since I didn't do it last year) yearly BBQ that about 1/3 of the facebook attendees wouldn't show. 

Now that's why I like not having people over. Speaking of which...

Invited my friends over this weekend. One of them wants to move in with me which I initially thought was cool, but his stuff has been sitting in a spare room of mine for almost 3 months now. I made a rule to not smoke cigarettes inside, you can step outside and smoke, I don't want that shit clinging to my furniture for days, it's nice weather. Got all uppity over it, eventually just started lighting one up at the kitchen table and brushed me off when I told him to take it outside. WTF? Respect other people's homes. Also asked them to pick up their cigarette butts; went outside the next day and there were literally over 40 cigarette butts sitting around the tree beside the back porch. (He crashed on the couch; I woke up early and went to the gym, when I came back and he left there were cigarette butts in my drinking glass on the coffee table. Motherf...)

Can't even trust your best friends to be respectful when you ask 'em.

WTF, how disrespectful can you be?  Cigarette smoke is pretty nasty and really sticks to the walls and clothing.  And then leaving a butt in your glass?  I'd be livid and throw his shit to the curb  if he isn't paying rent, I can't see how he has any say in smoking in your place.

[TheCountOfMinnesota]

I consider "mildly irritating" to be similar to "first world problems". For example, my refrigerator only displaying in Celsius is mildly irritating, but it doesn't piss me off.

Dude, here's the all-time example of 'first world problems' for you: my wife and her friend were complaining at happy hour about how much they hate it when their diamond engagement rings bump into things, like table edges. I called them out on it, and made some joke about their rings 'accidentally bumping' into their cleaning lady's face. They realized how ridiculous they sounded.