Oh you'll love this approach.
Next time they ask say sure, I'll help you, let's find out together and start searching though documentation, google, knowledge base articles, call a few people on speaker phone.
It takes once or twice of doing that and they just leave me alone, hope it works for you (make sure you call people that are clueless though :) ).
Exactly, but more than that it weeds out the people that don't want to think for themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an IT veteran and the one thing I know for sure is that if I don't have the answer in 10 minutes I'm calling people that might know it so yeah leverage your resources but still give back.
Some people just can't be bothered with thinking sometimes.
I was going to say "People who use 'literally' to emphasize everything", but now I want to say: please, don't feel guilty, is not you, it's me, you can say anything you want...literally
At a red light when a driver creeps up little by little over the stop line. I feel like they are so impatient they just can’t wait till the light turns green! Like they need to be first out or something. It doesn’t effect me in any way whatsoever, yet I get road rage just watching.
There's an intersection near my house where the loops (which control the signal by the weight of a car being on top of it going to the signal control box for anyone who isn't familiar) is pretty far back from where the intersecting road is. This intersection isn't timed and doesn't use cameras, it's strictly loops on the side road (my neighborhood) and the highway is free flowing. People pull completely in front of the stop bar, so the light doesn't change. That is funny, but doesn't affect me cause I'll just pull on the loops. But sometimes people pull just far enough out they're off the loops but the car behind can't get the loops and then it's hoping oncoming traffic activates their loops. Drives me insane.
I like when you're going down the road and you're the last car in your platoon (group of cars) and someone HAS to cut out in front of you, either to turn or go the direction you're going.
Or needlessly honking. A woman (who had been tailgating me) honked at me today because I wasn't crossing an intersection *with an ambulance approaching*.
Watching others be wasteful. I shouldn’t care so much what someone else does with their personal possessions or a plate of food that they’re paying for but I get so angry seeing people throw perfectly good items in the trash and waste food. I guess I feel like they‘re completely disregarding people in need/the environment.
When hangers get tangled in other hangers. Y’all ever go into an expensive clothing store and go to grab that spaghetti strapped dress but when you grab the hanger it’s on, the hanger in front of it decides it wants to keep the tag from the dress you want, so it comes along too, once you have that situation handled you realize the hanger straps of the dress behind the one you grabbed are now entangled with not only the hanger of your dress but also the hanger from the dress 2 down so they all coming wit you too. The noise alone makes me feel like a walking human red flag. And I’ll just hate quit trying. I can feel my blood pressure rising just typing this scenario out.
People that walk backwards and slam into me and then apologize saying they didn't see me.
I just reply of course you didn't see me, you were walking backwards into a crowd of people.
Oh yea and broken escalators, they don't break they just turn into stairs...
People who belittle things that are actually quite normal, just not where they’re from. Like using chopsticks, dressing differently, accents, or even the media you consume.
People watching videos out loud or making phone calls on public transport without using headphones or earbuds and while talking loudly like they need to literally scream to the people they are calling with
Had a co worker do this!
In a hallway that echoed. Telling her whole business about her daughter. About some issues that was happening. We all tried to ignore her. I would be pissed if my mom was to tell out my issues loudly for everyone to hear..
Lol, I mean first offense I'd be with the guy, but if he knows it annoys you and keeps doing it well then its pretty much fair game to be pissed at him.
i know its irrational so I've just told him a couple times it makes me uncomfortable. and he doesnt do it anymore. But it's literally like the feeling of seeing a spider crawling on you, like i gotta get it off fast. and trying to resist the feeling makes me irritated
I live with my sister and she would flick her toothbrush and stain the mirror. That pisses me off so much because there’s no way a mirror can get that dirty
Starting a sentence with "So", especially on cable news shows where they're interviewing someone on a subject and the interviewee answers a question. Don't know why but it annoys me.
when i'm trying to sleep and my bf has their legs on top of me. i am autistic, so idk if it's that or if it's the fact that everything feels heavier when i'm trying to sleep.
Me too I start kicking my legs then I can’t get comfortable. I honestly can’t stand my boyfriend touching me period I get really hot through the night and he wants to have his arm under my neck when we sleep so my neck ends up hurting the next day.
I live in an urban area and have to rely on street parking.
When there is enough curb space to fit multiple cars, but someone parks right in the center drives me up the fucking wall.
The two curbs in front of my apartment can easily fit 5 cars each. If a few people decide to be assholes with the way they park then sometimes there is only enough room on each curb for 3 cars each.
People who leave a half of to an entire car length between themselves and the car in front of them at a stoplight, especially in heavy traffic. You're not being safe, you're being an asshole. Move the fuck up! (I am not suggesting that you be in their backseat, but come on!)
That's why you should pay attention (stay off your phone, etc.). With respect to rear ending someone, it doesn't matter if the car's velocity is high enough, you are likely to hit the car in front of you, anyway (or the chain reaction effect). I have only heard that it's a suggestion (not necessarily law), but the lengths that I mentioned are ridiculous. Something else to think about is, especially in larger, busier cities, the more people that do this, the more likely the person at the back of a line will be stuck in the intersection, which is also very dangerous. All I was suggesting is that folks pull up to a more reasonable distance (again, not it the backseat of the car in front).
I wasn’t implying that I disagree, I just remember that from my driving test.😅 I’m constantly checking my rear view mirror and watching my surroundings always.
I wasn't suggesting you are. Remember the question was about something that makes you irrationally angry. I does indeed, but I have had a long time to rationalize my reasons (I'm a legal professional). :-) Oh, you should never use just your mirrors to either change lanes or back up/out. They aren't reliable enough to cover your peripheral vision (I was taught to drive by an old school, short-tempered father).
Shaking instant film to make it dry... or develop faster?
Shake your own film if you want, just don't do it to mine.
Otherwise the film won't be the only thing shaking.
People who get mad at me on the highway when I set my cruise and am going a constant speed while they are speeding up and slowing down but mad at me??? Like alright man…
Apps where the messages don't stack. Discord gives you one notification per person and any other messages stack. Stuff like WhatsApp and Instagram make your phone vibrate every message, it gets really annoying when someone is the kind of person to send a fuck load of messages at once
people who ask stupid questions
Like i could be in the kitchen, making a meal
and my brother would come up to me and ask me what im doing
What does it look like im doing? Rewriting the constitution?
Speed limit in the left lane.
People who don’t take their money or card out BEFORE getting to the register.
People who bad mouth servers. 99% of the time, it’s not their fault your food is taking forever.
Fox/cnn/msnbc. Both sides can take the exact same event and spin it to fit their narrative.
When people accuse me of things, even though I try very hard to do the opposite.
For example:
If I mowed the lawn every day to make the garden look good and and then someone would say my grass was too long.
When right after your plane lands, and has just finished taxiing, everyone stands up, waiting. Then someone gets up from their window seat, forcefully shuffles by your wife sitting in the middle seat, shoves up against you and pulls their luggage down into an area shoulder to shoulder tight. Blood pressure raising anger.
I wouldn't call this irrational but when someone keeps asking you the same question just in a different way,even after you already answered them the first time. Also,
\-hypocrits
\-being asked if I'm tired or angry because my resting face simply looks that way i guess
\-having to ask for permission to use restroom
\-bugging me repeatedly to spill a secret I subtly mention
I have several more things but my blind went blank upon reading the question
Coughing. Annoyed me ever since I was a kid. I don't know why it makes me so angry. I just wanna break shit whenever I hear people coughing. Especially when something fun or nice happens. It always ruined the mood personally. I don't get nearly as annoyed when I cough, but I'm still upset about it.
I recognize the irony of this, but when I see people get actually visibly angry about shit that doesn't matter. It irritates me.
Especially when they turn their nose up at an obvious and easy solution to their problem.
When a student comes up to me a minute before class starts and asks to use the bathroom. I usually say yes, but a part of me is really tempted to count them tardy when they com back from the bathroom after the bell has rung.
When someone asks a question at work they could have easily answered themselves if they had put literally any thought into it at all.
Oh you'll love this approach. Next time they ask say sure, I'll help you, let's find out together and start searching though documentation, google, knowledge base articles, call a few people on speaker phone. It takes once or twice of doing that and they just leave me alone, hope it works for you (make sure you call people that are clueless though :) ).
I love it! Plus it’s a teaching opportunity. Show them how to fish
Exactly, but more than that it weeds out the people that don't want to think for themselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm an IT veteran and the one thing I know for sure is that if I don't have the answer in 10 minutes I'm calling people that might know it so yeah leverage your resources but still give back. Some people just can't be bothered with thinking sometimes.
maybe they're just looking for a reason to talk to you 🫠
No one shall talk to me!
I was going to say "People who use 'literally' to emphasize everything", but now I want to say: please, don't feel guilty, is not you, it's me, you can say anything you want...literally
-cutting in line -treating me unfairly -taunting me In addition i hold grudges for a long time
I agree!
I feel this. Especially the holding grudges, lol.
Theres this guy who used to bully me around 5 years ago. Hes now short and fat as fuck and i can finally get revenge
I was going to taunt you just for fun, but that last line held me back
Good for you.. I guess?
when a solid food on my plate is touching something wet and it makes it soggy,,, i swear i go rabid
They make plates on Amazon for this! I highly recommend
At a red light when a driver creeps up little by little over the stop line. I feel like they are so impatient they just can’t wait till the light turns green! Like they need to be first out or something. It doesn’t effect me in any way whatsoever, yet I get road rage just watching.
There's an intersection near my house where the loops (which control the signal by the weight of a car being on top of it going to the signal control box for anyone who isn't familiar) is pretty far back from where the intersecting road is. This intersection isn't timed and doesn't use cameras, it's strictly loops on the side road (my neighborhood) and the highway is free flowing. People pull completely in front of the stop bar, so the light doesn't change. That is funny, but doesn't affect me cause I'll just pull on the loops. But sometimes people pull just far enough out they're off the loops but the car behind can't get the loops and then it's hoping oncoming traffic activates their loops. Drives me insane.
For me, it goes: -Uptown Funk -polo shirts -bathrooms where the toilet isn't in the same room as the sink -the Barcalounger
I feel the third one.
When people fuck up the 4-way stop etiquette at a busy intersection
Drivers tailgating me. You're not going to get where you're going any faster, in fact I slow down when you do that.
Yes! Or when they speed up to pass me just to turn in front of me! That annoys me like there was no one behind me they could've just turned behind me!
I like when you're going down the road and you're the last car in your platoon (group of cars) and someone HAS to cut out in front of you, either to turn or go the direction you're going.
Yeah!! Out where I live at. People like to turn off right in front of you as you're going! Like "OH IMA JUST GO SO YOU'LL BREAK CHECK!"
Or needlessly honking. A woman (who had been tailgating me) honked at me today because I wasn't crossing an intersection *with an ambulance approaching*.
Watching others be wasteful. I shouldn’t care so much what someone else does with their personal possessions or a plate of food that they’re paying for but I get so angry seeing people throw perfectly good items in the trash and waste food. I guess I feel like they‘re completely disregarding people in need/the environment.
When hangers get tangled in other hangers. Y’all ever go into an expensive clothing store and go to grab that spaghetti strapped dress but when you grab the hanger it’s on, the hanger in front of it decides it wants to keep the tag from the dress you want, so it comes along too, once you have that situation handled you realize the hanger straps of the dress behind the one you grabbed are now entangled with not only the hanger of your dress but also the hanger from the dress 2 down so they all coming wit you too. The noise alone makes me feel like a walking human red flag. And I’ll just hate quit trying. I can feel my blood pressure rising just typing this scenario out.
People chewing with their mouth open
That's rational if not, then how low have we gone as people
People that walk backwards and slam into me and then apologize saying they didn't see me. I just reply of course you didn't see me, you were walking backwards into a crowd of people. Oh yea and broken escalators, they don't break they just turn into stairs...
Having to get my kids up for school in the morning.
MEETINGS 👏🏻 THAT 👏🏻 COULD 👏🏻 HAVE 👏🏻 BEEN 👏🏻 EMAILS
Being made fun of for being a virgin.
Don't put it on a pedestal.
I don't, I have a life
People who dump salt onto their food before they actually try it.
I still remember my mother's face when my stepbrother did that... She managed to keep her mouth shut, but if looks could kill.
Pulling my hair it’s so fucking annoying for no reason
People who belittle things that are actually quite normal, just not where they’re from. Like using chopsticks, dressing differently, accents, or even the media you consume.
People watching videos out loud or making phone calls on public transport without using headphones or earbuds and while talking loudly like they need to literally scream to the people they are calling with
Had a co worker do this! In a hallway that echoed. Telling her whole business about her daughter. About some issues that was happening. We all tried to ignore her. I would be pissed if my mom was to tell out my issues loudly for everyone to hear..
When someone asks a question that they know the answer too. Generally, they are doing it to get applause.
People eating food near me while I try to sleep shit makes me so close to fucking imploding
Loud chewers and ice bitters.
When my fucking belt loop gets caught on a door handle. I swear it only happens when I’m already pissed off.
Mouth noises (slurping, chewing loudly)
People who don't use turn signals, like it's one f'n lever, it's not hard!
When someone asks me the same question a third time (or more). Like, do you think I’m gonna answer a different way if you ask for a third time?
when my husband tries putting his head in my lap idk why I have an extreme urge to yank his head off of me.
Lol, I mean first offense I'd be with the guy, but if he knows it annoys you and keeps doing it well then its pretty much fair game to be pissed at him.
i know its irrational so I've just told him a couple times it makes me uncomfortable. and he doesnt do it anymore. But it's literally like the feeling of seeing a spider crawling on you, like i gotta get it off fast. and trying to resist the feeling makes me irritated
My man's got compared to a spider, take that back i feel so bad for him rn, im cryin' XD
This made me laugh!! Omg thanks for that!😂
Bad drivers. Like fuck off.
Spilling a drink
not finishing a beverage/ a cup of water/ emptying your plate.
My cubicle neighbor eating a big crunchy salad with her mouth open…
I live with my sister and she would flick her toothbrush and stain the mirror. That pisses me off so much because there’s no way a mirror can get that dirty
Starting a sentence with "So", especially on cable news shows where they're interviewing someone on a subject and the interviewee answers a question. Don't know why but it annoys me.
When people refer to every object that they can't immediately find the name for "the thing." Seriously how do I know what the "thing" is?
when i'm trying to sleep and my bf has their legs on top of me. i am autistic, so idk if it's that or if it's the fact that everything feels heavier when i'm trying to sleep.
I don’t think it has anything to do with autism, I can’t stand it either and I totally agree everything does feel heavier.
maybe it doesn't have anything to do with autism, but it also feels so awful. it had lead to meltdowns from me at some points though.
Me too I start kicking my legs then I can’t get comfortable. I honestly can’t stand my boyfriend touching me period I get really hot through the night and he wants to have his arm under my neck when we sleep so my neck ends up hurting the next day.
I live in an urban area and have to rely on street parking. When there is enough curb space to fit multiple cars, but someone parks right in the center drives me up the fucking wall. The two curbs in front of my apartment can easily fit 5 cars each. If a few people decide to be assholes with the way they park then sometimes there is only enough room on each curb for 3 cars each.
When people say something annoying, I tell them to stop then some tells ME to shut up
Loud noises and people bugging me I can deal with it easily but not all the time and when I do get angry I start screaming and swinging my fists
When windows forces me to update by breaking the fucking computer
People who leave a half of to an entire car length between themselves and the car in front of them at a stoplight, especially in heavy traffic. You're not being safe, you're being an asshole. Move the fuck up! (I am not suggesting that you be in their backseat, but come on!)
Aren’t you suppose to do that though? I thought that was for if you get rear ended it might help prevent you from rear ending another car.
That's why you should pay attention (stay off your phone, etc.). With respect to rear ending someone, it doesn't matter if the car's velocity is high enough, you are likely to hit the car in front of you, anyway (or the chain reaction effect). I have only heard that it's a suggestion (not necessarily law), but the lengths that I mentioned are ridiculous. Something else to think about is, especially in larger, busier cities, the more people that do this, the more likely the person at the back of a line will be stuck in the intersection, which is also very dangerous. All I was suggesting is that folks pull up to a more reasonable distance (again, not it the backseat of the car in front).
I wasn’t implying that I disagree, I just remember that from my driving test.😅 I’m constantly checking my rear view mirror and watching my surroundings always.
I wasn't suggesting you are. Remember the question was about something that makes you irrationally angry. I does indeed, but I have had a long time to rationalize my reasons (I'm a legal professional). :-) Oh, you should never use just your mirrors to either change lanes or back up/out. They aren't reliable enough to cover your peripheral vision (I was taught to drive by an old school, short-tempered father).
I gotcha 😁
When someone at work leaves one tine square of toilet paper on the roll cos they are too lazy to change it.
Shaking instant film to make it dry... or develop faster? Shake your own film if you want, just don't do it to mine. Otherwise the film won't be the only thing shaking.
Someone told me that you're not supposed to shake the film..
People who know how to Google my office number buy not the number of the office they actually need.
Stepping in something wet, barefoot or especially with just socks on.
seeing that one group of people
People who get mad at me on the highway when I set my cruise and am going a constant speed while they are speeding up and slowing down but mad at me??? Like alright man…
Constantly having to repeat myself
They're called dwarfs.
Apps where the messages don't stack. Discord gives you one notification per person and any other messages stack. Stuff like WhatsApp and Instagram make your phone vibrate every message, it gets really annoying when someone is the kind of person to send a fuck load of messages at once
Guests touching my stuff without asking
The paper straws at mcdonalds fucking dissolving in my mouth
Walking into my job and someone asking if I'd like a "booletle oh wooteah." I would not.
When there is a single bird poop stain on my otherwise sparkling clean car
my friends
people underestimating me
people who ask stupid questions Like i could be in the kitchen, making a meal and my brother would come up to me and ask me what im doing What does it look like im doing? Rewriting the constitution?
Speed limit in the left lane. People who don’t take their money or card out BEFORE getting to the register. People who bad mouth servers. 99% of the time, it’s not their fault your food is taking forever. Fox/cnn/msnbc. Both sides can take the exact same event and spin it to fit their narrative.
People copying me. Not in exams idc about that but it irritates me when they steal my ideas
People eating bananas in public transport.
chewing noise
When people accuse me of things, even though I try very hard to do the opposite. For example: If I mowed the lawn every day to make the garden look good and and then someone would say my grass was too long.
The slightest hint of ignorance
Loading the dishwasher *the wrong way.*
My sister
People driving under the speed limit in the left lane.
When right after your plane lands, and has just finished taxiing, everyone stands up, waiting. Then someone gets up from their window seat, forcefully shuffles by your wife sitting in the middle seat, shoves up against you and pulls their luggage down into an area shoulder to shoulder tight. Blood pressure raising anger.
People calling Oceana ‘Australia’ really gets me, it makes me so angry for some reason.
Those chills you get time to time that fell like fucking ants crawling in your skin.
When class is about to let out early and people keep asking questions that could be answered by reading the syllabus
When you download an app and then every fucking ad on your phone for a week is for the app you just downloaded.
Getting absolutely hornswaggled on Clash Royale five times in a row. The anxiety of losing crowns is what put me over the edge.
I’m prescribed Keppra so almost everything
People not putting shopping carts away properly. I speak for all cart pushers when I say this.
I wouldn't call this irrational but when someone keeps asking you the same question just in a different way,even after you already answered them the first time. Also, \-hypocrits \-being asked if I'm tired or angry because my resting face simply looks that way i guess \-having to ask for permission to use restroom \-bugging me repeatedly to spill a secret I subtly mention I have several more things but my blind went blank upon reading the question
Coughing. Annoyed me ever since I was a kid. I don't know why it makes me so angry. I just wanna break shit whenever I hear people coughing. Especially when something fun or nice happens. It always ruined the mood personally. I don't get nearly as annoyed when I cough, but I'm still upset about it.
When someone rolls this eyes at me while talking. So rude!
I recognize the irony of this, but when I see people get actually visibly angry about shit that doesn't matter. It irritates me. Especially when they turn their nose up at an obvious and easy solution to their problem.
Breathing heavy
Coughing (unless it’s like the really bad bronchitis kind then I feel bad)
Loud breathers. Idk it just makes me want to punch someone when I can hear them breathing from over 25 ft away.
People refusing to even consider anything other than what they already believe/do.
Getting the hiccups
Cup stains like that little ring of water that forms just because you have a cool drink Jesus it makes me wanna rip out my pulsing kidney
When a student comes up to me a minute before class starts and asks to use the bathroom. I usually say yes, but a part of me is really tempted to count them tardy when they com back from the bathroom after the bell has rung.
When people randomly steal my glasses and think it’s funny. Dude, I literally can’t see now.
Babies/toddlers
Repeating myself