You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[DavidS877]

At an intersection when the light is green but there isn't a designated turn arrow, those turning left yield to oncomming traffic. Once clear they are free to make a left hand turn. What these people are doing is stopping as if it were a stop sign and waving to the car making a left hand turn to go first.

And the car in the next lane over slams into the left turning car because they had a green light and weren't retarded enough to stop. Similar to the idiots who let people out of side streets or parking lots to make a left turn on a multi-lane road.

 

[General Patton]

abebooks is a great source for almost anything.

Thank god for Abebooks. I think I've seen people whine that "It's connected to Amazon so it's bad." LOL, fuck off. It gets me hard to find books for cheap so I don't give a fuck.

In fact, people ranting about decent book sites like Abebooks because they're butthurt over Amazon really grinds my gears.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

Today I went to McDonald's to buy a coffee, and a couple was standing right in the doorway talking and playing around with a phone. I waited behind them for a few seconds. The man looks at me and goes back to looking at the phone. The woman turns around, points at me, and tells the man "what's his problem?". They both go through the door, and I follow them annoyed.

I have no idea why people around me cause problems, then act like I'm the one causing a problem. I've been in situations like this where I try to talk to the other people, but they don't listen, they just walk away complaining to themselves about what my "problem" is.

 

[General Patton]

I have no idea why people around me cause problems, then act like I'm the one causing a problem. I've been in situations like this where I try to talk to the other people, but they don't listen, they just walk away complaining to themselves about what my "problem" is.

I once had a lady act like an asshole to me because she tried to cut in front of me when I was in the line and looking at some stuff while in line. When I told her, "Hey, I'm in line," she proceeded to act like a bitch to me and get an attitude the entire time.

 

[internet friend]

Dear lycra-clad faggots: shouting "rider" or "on your right" is not an appropriate substitute for ringing your bell. Just move your thumb the requisite 2-3cm and ring it, you colossal cretin. Kind regards, someone who uses their bell.

 

[The Hardest R]

Today I went to McDonald's to buy a coffee, and a couple was standing right in the doorway talking and playing around with a phone. I waited behind them for a few seconds. The man looks at me and goes back to looking at the phone. The woman turns around, points at me, and tells the man "what's his problem?". They both go through the door, and I follow them annoyed.

I have no idea why people around me cause problems, then act like I'm the one causing a problem. I've been in situations like this where I try to talk to the other people, but they don't listen, they just walk away complaining to themselves about what my "problem" is.

I once had a lady act like an asshole to me because she tried to cut in front of me when I was in the line and looking at some stuff while in line. When I told her, "Hey, I'm in line," she proceeded to act like a bitch to me and get an attitude the entire time.

We are at such a low point in society that any inconvenience to someone is now treated as a personal affront. The amount of people with main character syndrome is out of hand.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I once had a lady act like an asshole to me because she tried to cut in front of me when I was in the line and looking at some stuff while in line. When I told her, "Hey, I'm in line," she proceeded to act like a bitch to me and get an attitude the entire time.

A few weeks ago I was in line with somebody at Subway. Some woman behind me yells out that I shouldn't be ordering because I'm behind her in line, and the worker skipped me and started taking her order. It messed up the entire flow of people getting their meals and paying.

It's gotten so bad that problem people think that everybody else is a problem and don't want to listen.

 

[General Patton]

We are at such a low point in society that any inconvenience to someone is now treated as a personal affront. The amount of people with main character syndrome is out of hand.

She literally gave me resting bitch face the entire time, including when the cashier was ringing me up, and when I couldn't find my wallet for a moment. I also remember her kind of laughing and I was just like, man, you petty, lol.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

Dear lycra-clad faggots: shouting "rider" or "on your right" is not an appropriate substitute for ringing your bell. Just move your thumb the requisite 2-3cm and ring it, you colossal cretin. Kind regards, someone who uses their bell.

I hate all bicyclists. They always come close to sideswiping me on the walk path. Bikes should only be allowed on bike lanes.

 

[blackshirt]

Stop politely waiting for oblivious idiots to get out of the way. Cultivate a resting murder face and just shoulder check your way through the door. If you aren't constantly radiating 300-page manifesto haver, you're just going to keep getting steamrolled by cutters and blockers. Start looking mean. None of this oblivious main character shit stops unless they get called out, and passive aggressive wimps just enable it. The high trust society is dead. Act accordingly.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

Stop politely waiting for oblivious idiots to get out of the way. Cultivate a resting murder face and just shoulder check your way through the door. If you aren't constantly radiating 300-page manifesto haver, you're just going to keep getting steamrolled by cutters and blockers. Start looking mean. None of this oblivious main character shit stops unless they get called out, and passive aggressive wimps just enable it. The high trust society is dead. Act accordingly.

I'll start calling people out then. It's better than doing nothing.

 

[Squanto Airi]

I once had a lady act like an asshole to me because she tried to cut in front of me when I was in the line and looking at some stuff while in line. When I told her, "Hey, I'm in line," she proceeded to act like a bitch to me and get an attitude the entire time.

Similar thing happened to me. And when some rando let her cut in front of him, she loudly said "why thank you for being  such a gentleman".

Tax: working on Saturdays. Not because it's Saturday, but because the people who I am supposed to contact in case things go awry don't answer. But then they throw a fit if I don't immediately answer whenever they need something.

 

[blackshirt]

I'll start calling people out then. It's better than doing nothing.

I usually have to be in a very specific already pissed off mood to even bother with it. But certain things I will always do like people taking up the entire sidewalk, they're getting shoulder checked. One time this jeet-trio had the balls to call me out like "hey just tell me to get out of the way next time" I was ready to fight all of them.

It's easier said than done. It's hard if you're naturally empathetic or overly analytical. Your brain is busy thnking over the entire social dynamic of the situation and they're just being mindless and selfish. But honestly, forcing yourself to learn how to be confrontational and selfish is mandatory survival training in this hell world now. You just have to override your programming and do it. It really is a doggy dog world out there.

 

[Token Faggot]

Dear lycra-clad faggots: shouting "rider" or "on your right" is not an appropriate substitute for ringing your bell. Just move your thumb the requisite 2-3cm and ring it, you colossal cretin. Kind regards, someone who uses their bell.

I always use my bell, and I also have an airhorn as a backup for fuckwits wearing headphones

Thread Tax. Retards who walk on shared paths or bike paths or anywhere in public wearing headphones. Quite apart from the risk to yourself and inconvenience to cyclists, you're also setting yourself up to be robbed/ assaulted because you cant hear your surroundings

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Tax: working on Saturdays. Not because it's Saturday, but because the people who I am supposed to contact in case things go awry don't answer. But then they throw a fit if I don't immediately answer whenever they need something.

I still remember the time I was told to come work on a Saturday to get something caught up, only for my boss to not show up and have what I needed locked up with no apparent way for me to unlock where it was being kept. This was before everyone had a phone in their pocket, so my calls to the boss and someone else who might be able to help me went unanswered - presumably because they were out and about on the weekend. I called my dad to let him know what was going on as a way to cover my ass and that I was coming home since I was unable to do the work I was supposed to do.

On Monday, the boss was absolutely livid I didn't get the work done even after I pointed out my unsuccessful efforts to call her and the other person. I forget what else she said I should have done, but it was something that needed to be communicated to me before Saturday and not after the fact.

Thread Tax. Retards who walk on shared paths or bike paths or anywhere in public wearing headphones. Quite apart from the risk to yourself and inconvenience to cyclists, you're also setting yourself up to be robbed/ assaulted because you cant hear your surroundings

I've lost track of the number of times I've had to brake hard because a pedestrian in my downtown area is so engulfed in whatever is on their smart phone or listening to headphones and totally oblivious to the fact they entered an intersection without looking for cross traffic like they should. Naturally, I get the evil stink eye or a fist shaken at me because they think it's my fault even if I would have been deemed to have legal right of way.

My corollary (and thread tax) is people who walk at night in dark clothing. I almost hit someone who was dressed in all dark colors or all black because I couldn't see them in the darkness crossing where I wanted to turn. Once again, I got the dirty look as if it was my fault I lack infrared or x-ray vision to know someone is crossing the street in clothing that all but conceals their presence in the darkness.

I've even had close calls with bicyclists wearing dark colors and lacking night lighting or the usual front and rear reflectors - having only the orange reflectors on their pedals tipping me off to their presence.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Stop politely waiting for oblivious idiots to get out of the way. Cultivate a resting murder face and just shoulder check your way through the door. If you aren't constantly radiating 300-page manifesto haver, you're just going to keep getting steamrolled by cutters and blockers. Start looking mean. None of this oblivious main character shit stops unless they get called out, and passive aggressive wimps just enable it. The high trust society is dead. Act accordingly.

Or just say "excuse me" like a normal human. If they are troglodytes and don't understand, you might say, "are you going in," or just start making your move forward through or around them. Most people will wake up and apologize (and I will of course say, "oh, no worries, thank you!"), and some will shuffle their fat asses to the side or grumble, but idc bc I've already sailed by and got where I needed to go.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

The speed of which employers respond back. I have waited two weeks for a response before and it angers me to no end.

 

[Captain Syrup]

The high trust society is dead. Act accordingly.

The West is mostly just freestyling it, people don't care about the future and they have no real love for the average person. Nothing matters.

 

[General Patton]

Dear lycra-clad faggots: shouting "rider" or "on your right" is not an appropriate substitute for ringing your bell. Just move your thumb the requisite 2-3cm and ring it, you colossal cretin. Kind regards, someone who uses their bell.

It's always those asshole cyclists (you know which ones, the ones that ride in groups and toss their trash on the street.) that do that bullshit.

Thread Tax. Retards who walk on shared paths or bike paths or anywhere in public wearing headphones. Quite apart from the risk to yourself and inconvenience to cyclists, you're also setting yourself up to be robbed/ assaulted because you cant hear your surroundings

Most of the time I end up having to move way out of the way because I'll hit my bell over and over again and they don't hear me.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

It's always those asshole cyclists (you know which ones, the ones that ride in groups and toss their trash on the street.) that do that bullshit.

Calling out "on your right" etc is the standard among US road cyclists. The bell is more a Euro and/ or leisure bikerider thing. And tbh calling out which side they're coming up on is better than a bell.

But lol, those pelotons are a menace. I haven't observed trash-tossing, though I believe it bc some of those folks are assholes - but they're supposed to put the trash back in the pocket it came from.