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

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Imagine having such a crippling fear of being alone with your thoughts that you can't even shower in silence.
 
Today I was waiting at the roundabout, and the guy behind me started honking because I didn't pull out in front of a car that was passing in front of me. Dickhead.
 
Right now; my family and my dog.
I can’t go anywhere in the house to be alone. They find me to ask be re tarded questions they could ask their father.
Spouse is a miserable prick and always yelling about something and the god damn dog stares and me and follows me everywhere from the minute I wake up until I take her for a walk, even though she knows her walk time is 4pm.

It’s been a rough year
 
I ordered a book online recently. I got an e-mail saying it got delivered, but I never got it. The worst part is, it was on my day off, when I was home for most of the day. I asked my neighbors, and they hadn't seen it (they're not the people who would lie about this kind of thing, either). I doubt it was stolen, unless the USPS guy was dumb enough to not put the small book in the mailbox.

So I e-mail the company that sent it. They said it was from a third party company, so they'd have to contact them. They were nice enough to give me the options of allow me a refund or ask the third party company to send a replacement. I chose the latter.

A few hours later, I get an e-mail from the third party company, paraphrasing, "We're sorry, but we're not sending you a replacement book. Our records show that you received your package on (day). Did you ask your neighbors or check your bushes to see if the package ended up there?"

I just backed out and asked for a refund. The main company that sent it was at least nice enough to allow that.
 
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davids877 said:
People who stop in the roundabout to let someone in. People who stop when approaching them when there's no traffic. Cities who put stop signs at the entrances(not traffic circles, just normal should-be-a-yield roundabouts). People who go through them at 2 miles an hour in case their car may explode.
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Roundabouts. I don't give a FUCK what some computer model says-- they're inefficient because people are stupid. There's only so badly you can fuck up a four-way stop, but people really make a cock of traffic circles.
 
Sped Xing said:
Roundabouts. I don't give a FUCK what some computer model says-- they're inefficient because people are stupid. There's only so badly you can fuck up a four-way stop, but people really make a cock of traffic circles.
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Well I mean, doesn't this go for everything? You can have the most efficient, most common sense and easy to use thing imaginable, but there are STILL going to be people who fuck it up. The only way to make something as bulletproof as possible is to automate it, putting downtime down to maintenance and nothing more.

Plenty of retards in Bongland who don't seem to understand the 'give way to your right' rule.
 
nigger of the north said:
Well I mean, doesn't this go for everything? You can have the most efficient, most common sense and easy to use thing imaginable, but there are STILL going to be people who fuck it up. The only way to make something as bulletproof as possible is to automate it, putting downtime down to maintenance and nothing more.

Plenty of retards in Bongland who don't seem to understand the 'give way to your right' rule.
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No, my point is that a traffic circle is more vulnerable to bad drivers than a four-way stop.
Retards will inevitably fuck up. The best idea is something where the fuckups cause as little disruption as possible. Jumping out of order through a stop isn't as bad as going too slowly or too quickly through a roundabout, or failing to yield while entering or slamming on the brakes to let someone enter.

Or going the wrong fucking way, which people manage to do frequently on the circle on US 77 in Waco.
 
clusterfuckk said:
the god damn dog stares and me and follows me everywhere from the minute I wake up until I take her for a walk, even though she knows her walk time is 4pm.
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Wait a minute...
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That's actually something that bothers me, procrastinating with a dogs needs. When I had a dog the first thing I did when waking up was piss and put on the coffee then rain, blizzard or sunshine we were out the door for a brief walk within five minutes of me waking up, sometimes in pajama pants and a winter coat with nothing under it. It was a priority. I like to piss when I wake up so why wouldn't a dog? That first walk was purely a toilet break, five-ten minutes, then breakfast, then a better walk.
 
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Sped Xing said:
Roundabouts. I don't give a FUCK what some computer model says-- they're inefficient because people are stupid. There's only so badly you can fuck up a four-way stop, but people really make a cock of traffic circles.
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Cities and companies both keep clinging to the idea that computer models can accurately predict human behavior, or that they can change human behavior with something a computer came up with. Personal experience has taught me that a lot of people actively resist any attempt to alter a given behavior and frequently act out in a manner that goes directly against what the would-be "behavior shaping" is trying to achieve, presumably out of spite but it might not even be a conscious thing so who the fuck knows anymore.
 
Hothead said:
Cities and companies both keep clinging to the idea that computer models can accurately predict human behavior, or that they can change human behavior with something a computer came up with. Personal experience has taught me that a lot of people actively resist any attempt to alter a given behavior and frequently act out in a manner that goes directly against what the would-be "behavior shaping" is trying to achieve, presumably out of spite but it might not even be a conscious thing so who the fuck knows anymore.
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I make it a habit to talk back to robotic commands, and you should, too. Obviously the robot can't hear me, but I can hear it, and I must not allow myself to be conditioned to obedience.
 
Sped Xing said:
I make it a habit to talk back to robotic commands, and you should, too. Obviously the robot can't hear me, but I can hear it, and I must not allow myself to be conditioned to obedience.
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On the occasion I get a robocall/automated spam call that doesn't get appropriately flagged as such by my phone so I can just swipe down and kick it to voicemail (which it hangs up on) I have started swearing at the robot in random foreign languages.

It's not quite as satisfying as doing it to a live spam-caller.
 
The major things pissing me of are:

1.) Communists, especially those American teens and twenty-somethings going "uwu Communism's so cool"

2.) Bicyclists in general. Especially those cutting traffic in the most dangerous of ways and those who drive break-neck-speed down the sidewalk and almost knock every pedestrian over no matter the age and get pissy if you force them to slow down. It almost feels like once a decent human climbs on a bike they lose all of their brain and common sense.

3.) Parents letting their children kill/squash insects and other invertebrates for fun and/or because they're ugly/nasty looking and sometimes even encouraging them. I hate to see it in the city. I loath to see it in the forest. If you don't like them don't go where those critters are for gods sake.

4.) Reckless drivers. I always hope that they just kiss the next (poor) tree in a high-speed crash instead of killing someone. I swear, almost every crash involving such a brain-dead asshole, they live with minimal injuries and the other innocent party dies.
 
Shitted Scaredless said:
When people come into the kitchen with me. Its completely irrational but something about it pisses me off.
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People who hover around while you are trying to do something for them. GTFO asshole. It's not going to go any faster because you're staring at me like a fucking retard.
 
Meat Target said:
It's been a month since I did my taxes, and I still haven't gotten my refund. Pay up, Joe!
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IRS has been slowed down by COVID restrictions and last year's shutdowns. Some departments had no in-person work from March through July of last year.

Some people that had to paper file their 2019 returns for whatever reason still haven't had them processed because they were put into temporary storage trailers and that particular backlog hasn't been totally cleared.

The past 15 months have been a big mess in terms of Federal income tax processing.

Meat Target said:
In general, if I get a call from a number I don't recognize, I don't answer it. This caused me to miss my doctor's office calling to schedule an appointment.
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Something similar happened with my parents recently. They received repeat calls from a number with generic caller ID and let it go unanswered. It turned out to be a doctor's office appointment reminder number. My mom told them that the generic information was why they didn't answer. (However, due to how easy it is to spoof caller name information, it can't be relied on exclusively).

davids877 said:
Cities who put stop signs at the entrances(not traffic circles, just normal should-be-a-yield roundabouts).
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I believe in some areas of the US, stop signs and pedestrian-activated traffic signals have been put up at roundabouts/traffic circles in response to ADA lawsuits alleging that disabled people can't easily cross at these intersections.

Hothead said:
On the occasion I get a robocall/automated spam call that doesn't get appropriately flagged as such by my phone so I can just swipe down and kick it to voicemail (which it hangs up on) I have started swearing at the robot in random foreign languages.
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I've confused the robocalls using interactive AI by asking off the wall stuff such as, "Is this scam?" or "Are you a rat?" Many times, the system abruptly hangs up as if it doesn't know how to respond to those questions.
 
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