OOT weekly thread: minor things that infuriate you

[tuq]

doucy,

Either that is a spectacularly dangerous bit of traffic engineering, or you don't understand exactly what I'm talking about. Which could be my fault. I'm out.

[Baintz]

Those pr!cks that hog the middle lane on the motorway, causing a stream of cars to have to use the fast lane, jamming it up and slowing everyone down. WTF!!??? Have you used your mirrors lately?? Get the [censored] out the way you blind/stupid/inconsiderate pr!ck and let people travel at a decent speed. They still seem to sit in it even where there is barely any traffic. LEARN TO [censored] DRIVE OR GET THE [censored] OFF THE ROAD, IMMEDIATELY.
Man it makes me so mad I don't know what to do.


My mother also has a tilt inducing driving habit, of which I have pleaded with her to fix to no avail. She has a little 1.3L hatchback, 5 gears, of which 4 and 5 have probably seen about 30 minutes action in 5 years. 0-20mph in 1st gear, but she'll hover at 20 for about 10 seconds, the engine screaming at her that it shouldn't really be doing all this work unnecessarily.
She then pops it in 2nd, and then when she (eventually) reaches 40 mph, she waits again for a good 10 seconds, punishing the engine for a second time. Into 3rd now, and the hand comes off the gearstick and up to the wheel and this is where its staying. She'll happily cruise along at 65, bissfully ignorant of the incessant high pitched bastard noise coming fron under the bonnet(hood).
PLEASE, OPEN YOUR [censored] EARS WOMAN, YOU ARE KILLING YOUR CAR. To make matters worse, when she finally reaches a junction and slows down to a crawl, she then tries to pull away still in 3rd, kangarooing a few yards before finally putting it back in 1st, whereby the whole painful process repeats itself.
It's [censored] torture.

[Klompy]

tuq,

Week looks pretty mild for weather actually.


If you're actually going to be in IA you should head to altoona for some gambling with me at prairie meadows.

[somethingstupid]

- When the audience in a live TV show thinks a joke is really funny, so instead of just laughing and clapping, they start to do that WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thing. Stephen Colbert or whoever has to sit there for like 8 seconds and it totally ruins the flow of the show and it's a goddamn annoying sound AND MOST OF THE TIME WHEN THIS HAPPENS, THE JOKE ISN'T EVEN THAT FUNNY.

- Any commercial on the radio.

[punkass]

Old people in lines in general. It is obviously noticeable at the grocery store, with their slow loading of the conveyor belt and the checkbooks and the counting of exact change ("I think I have 4 pennies, let me look in my pocketbook") and the slowness of everything.

They suck at the bank with the not previously filling out a deposit slip like everyone else did before they got in line.
They suck in their cars (no fail, always a slow old person in the fast lane when I'm trying to get to work).
They suck while walking on the sidewalk 4-wide, blocking EVERYONE both ways.
They suck at Subway ordering their food with their not-knowing what to order even though they had 5 minutes to think about it waiting in line and (ARRRG!!!!) the counting of exact change.
Old people suck. I really hope I am not going to be like that when I get old. I would understand it if someone wanted to hurt me if I was.

[bwana devil]

it's hardly minor but people who take the elevator to the second floor. after they push the button and for the 3 second ride one floor up i am screaming in my head to them "are the stairs broken you lazy fat [censored]!?"

[Borodog]

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it's hardly minor but people who take the elevator to the second floor. after they push the button and for the 3 second ride one floor up i am screaming in my head to them "are the stairs broken you lazy fat [censored]!?"

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Sometimes when my ankle is tweaking I take the elevator 1 floor. Sue me.

[NozeCandy]

People who chew gum on the phone, smack their food/gum in general, or have [censored] table manners in general just infuriate me to no end. Last year I literally had to leave the room every single time my roommate ate anything because he was so awful and just couldn't seem to remember when I politely told him about the immense, irrational anger that disgusting eating gives me. That [censored].

[punkass]

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it's hardly minor but people who take the elevator to the second floor. after they push the button and for the 3 second ride one floor up i am screaming in my head to them "are the stairs broken you lazy fat [censored]!?"

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eh, 1 floor up, not too bad. if you're going down 1 floor, that's just plain lazy.

[Los Feliz Slim]

It would be easier to make a list of things that don't infuriate me rather than things that do.