Things that make you irrationally angry

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People with bumper stickers that say "If you can read this, you are driving to close to me." No, Janet, I'm behind you at a red light. And why put a bumper sticker on your car when the point of it is for people to NOT be able to read it?

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Anonymous wrote:People with bumper stickers that say "If you can read this, you are driving to close to me." No, Janet, I'm behind you at a red light. And why put a bumper sticker on your car when the point of it is for people to NOT be able to read it?

Ugh, "too" close, not to. This is what happens when I type about something to makes me irrationally angry...

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have something that annoys you for no good reason? I’m a pretty laid back person, but for some reason I get irrationally annoyed in the grocery by people that just stand there looking at all the pasta sauces, or blocking the whole banana display while they inspect each bunch.

To be clear- I don’t do anything about it outwardly, it’s all in my head. And I know it’s irrational because they’re just doing their shopping. Am I alone in this?

No. I've irrationally high empathy levels so people have to go really out of their way to annoy me.

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Anonymous wrote:When I go on Goodreads trying to find out if I should start some book and a bunch of the reviews are like, “I hated this, there were no good characters, everyone was so unlikeable!!!!!” What do you want?!?! Everyone in real life is unlikeable! These appear to be grown adult women writing this. Do they want the protagonists to all be perfect Pollyannas? It strikes me as immature.

Yes, or people who can’t read between the lines and want everything spelled out for them in the plot.

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When I can’t find scissors I become irrationally angry. Who moved the dang scissors?

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When I go into the kitchen to get myself a small snack and all of a sudden my DH and/or kids materialize right in there with me to see what I'm doing/eating.

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"Science" on this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:The word “resilient.”

No, I don’t possess some special skill or quality that enables me to power through my teenager’s second suicide attempt in a single month and complete lack of support from his dad because he thinks he’s “just seeking attention.”

I’m so terrified and sad I can hardly breathe, but yes I still get out of bed every day and go to work because no one else is going to pay the bills and keep a roof over our heads.

I’m not resilient, I’m completely broken inside. I don’t need a compliment that disguises the very real human cost of what I’m going through.

I’m so sorry. I’ve been there with my teen. My DH had no clue how to manage. I’m sending you good thoughts. I used to crawl into my closet with a pillow and scream.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a coworker that marks every single email as "high importance" with that stupid red checkmark. I sit on her stuff longer than I would otherwise.

I have one who sends emails written in ALL CAPS. LIKE EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY. They also use the high importance red checkmark. Yeah, I ignore those until I want to look at them.

Lol. Maybe that's exactly the reason your coworker treats every email like an emergency - bc you put it off longer.
Chicken and egg

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Parents of young children who take them on a walk or have their bike while their parent walks behind them, and the parent is on their phone the whole time. I have seen a three-year-old staring at his dad, who was behind him and not noticing his child at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. So many things.
1. When people say croissant without a French accent. #frenchitup
2. When people are walking and they cross right in front of me forcing me to come to a sudden stop, especially if those people are men.
3. People who listen to music or watch videos in public without headphones.

LOL - total opposite on the foreign language thing. When non-Spanish speakers overpronounce "quesadilla" or "gracias". Same for Giada and her ridiculous pronunciation of "mozzarella" (yes, I'm sure that's the right way to pronounce it in Italian). French is a bit of an outlier, however - it's really hard to say "le pain quotidien" in an American accent without sounding stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:When I can’t find scissors I become irrationally angry. Who moved the dang scissors?

LOL we have scissors and pens everywhere in our house for this reason. Now, if I could just remember to do this with eyeglasses.....

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My kids' friends chomping their gum. I can tell my kids to knock it off, but somehow feel like a grump if I tell other kids to do it. It's the absolute worst when I'm driving them home and it's all I can hear!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a coworker that marks every single email as "high importance" with that stupid red checkmark. I sit on her stuff longer than I would otherwise.

I have one who sends emails written in ALL CAPS. LIKE EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY. They also use the high importance red checkmark. Yeah, I ignore those until I want to look at them.

Lol. Maybe that's exactly the reason your coworker treats every email like an emergency - bc you put it off longer.
Chicken and egg

Nope, he has been like this for decades, long before we ever worked together, so it has nothing to do with me. Another co-worker waits until this person asks a question three times before responding because he also has a habit of asking a question and then when you open the email maybe five minutes after he sent it and you work on putting together a response he will then tell you after you've replied that he's already figured it out.

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Anonymous wrote:When I can’t find scissors I become irrationally angry. Who moved the dang scissors?

Oh my goodness yes! Where in the world does my family hide the scissors??