I've just adjusted myself to be afraid of being in the way, it's annoying. It's like come on, let's keep shit moving. Also, just not noticing what is going on around them. I have a friend who could be scared by normally walking up behind them because they never look around. They start walking and go into some zone. A building could explode just outside their view and they'll have no idea. We could see a hot chick or a peacock walking down the sidewalk and I'll stop and say "Holy shit, you see that?" "Huh? What?" "THAT BIG ASS BIRD WITH THE COLORFUL FEATHERS DOWN THE STREET" "Nah, didn't see it."
Reading all the bitching about oblivious assholes that won't get the fuck out of the way - Yessss, I am among my people. I had a lean cuisine for lunch, so that fulfills my frozen food celebration requirements. I might honor the day some more tonight if I get a white castle craving. If it is the old school types of fountains, I just shove in next to them and start getting my ice after they've gotten theirs and have moved their cup over to the soda nozzle. Can't do that with the newfangled coke machines that has a thousand different varieties and the ice is in the same portal as the soda. It's extremely annoying those times when I want to get the brewed tea that is in a separate canister, but I have to wait in line to get the ice from the machine.
Not to start a re-hash stream of all the stupid names out there (hold it in Crown, we know, we know), but found out one of my new client's name is Ashly. Now I can tell if I'm annoying or amazed. In one case, someone stole this bitches E. It just gives this bitch another opportunity to indignantly correct people. At the same time, we don't need the E for the sound to be correct. It could be seen as efficient and counter-balancing those goddamn "Ashlee" freaks.
What pisses me off more than people being slow in grocery stores now is assholes who text at stoplights and hold everyone up. Bastards. Whatever.
I have similar rage in parking lots. Dickheads idling in front of a building entrance instead of pulling into the spot five feet away. Lazy assholes parked next to the sidewalk because they or their passenger are just "running in real quick." Chatterboxes having a conversation that blocks the entire lot when there are empty parking spaces right there. Nope, saving the five seconds it would take to actually park your vehicle in one of the hundred available spots is far more important than everyone else around you who needs to get by. Motherfuckers, it's a parking lot. GO PARK.
Funny, I didn't even notice she had socks on until I scrolled down to the next post, and all I could see was her feet. In less than 24 hours I will be in a grocery store for my weekly gathering and gathering of the food items. I do this because my wife loathes grocery shopping, and I want to ensure that we have plenty of beef jerky, cheese, and vodka, three things the Mrsanthropic is likely to forget. Inevitably, there will be dozens of elderly folks staggering around, held up only by the metal basket on wheels, clogging the fucking aisles, blocking my way to the motherfucking high fiber cereal when I, they, and every other cock-knocking person in the whole fucking store knows that they do not work, and have no excuse for being in the goddamn store on a fucking weekend when those of us who pay for their goddamn social security actually have some "free time" to go to the store and BUY OUR FUCKING BEEF JERKY, GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY YOU USELESS PILES OF SHIT!!
I have no idea why fucking grandma has to write a check at the grocery store and then make me wait an additional 5 minutes while she writes down the amount in the ledger for a total purchase of $1.52. I would like to murder anyone who still writes checks at a store that takes credit/debit cards, if you have a check you have a fucking check card, use it old lady and save us all some time.
Ohh my turn!! I want to murder slow walkers. Especially slow walkers who take up the whole hallway/sidewalk, meandering about like they don't know where they're going or, you know, how to walk like a normal, efficient human. I have short little legs and this drives me INSANE, so I can't even imagine how long-legged people feel.
When I was living downtown Vancouver, BC, there would be huge groups of asian ESL students that would fill the sidewalks, just milling around, with umbrellas everywhere. It's quite common to basically just walk through them with your elbows out and push them out of the way. They almost considered it a game to see how much they could interfere with other people getting to where they were going. I'm amazed that nobody has been killed over it.
I like the assholes walking in the parking lot directly in the middle of the lane. They KNOW your car is idling behind them, just waiting for them to get out of the fucking way. But, no. They don't dare walk closer to the parked cars. They walk right in front of you almost daring you to run over them. I always feel like laying on my horn to scare the shit out of them or get them to fucking MOVE 4 feet to the right. Idiots.
I'll add backing into BUSY parking lots, particularly when I see a sweet spot up ahead that someone else gets because I'm waiting on your ass to back in so you can have a quick getaway. Bonus points if they screw it up and have to back up a couple times to get it right. Also, what's with people that cross parking lots or roads on a diagonal? They see you're waiting. And they just stroll along. Not trying to cut it shorter. So I just keep creeping forward so I'm right on them. For every inch they move forward, so does my car.
You DON'T do this? Those are driving lanes, not walking lanes. If someone was walking in the middle of the street, I'd honk at them to move. I don't drive on the sidewalks (usually), so you don't walk in my lane. So if they're walking down the middle of where cars are driving, I'm honking at them to remind them they're not doing shit right. Those lanes between the parking spaces are extra wide on purpose. Walk on the sides, drive in the middle. There's nothing rude about getting a little horn-y when the granny pushing her cart in front of your car insists on living out the last few moments of her senile life holding up the flow of traffic.
Well I live near the hood so there's a chance granny's packing heat. I don't honk or flip the bird just because I'm irritated. If I lived in BFE or the suburbs it'd be a different story.
So I grew up Catholic and my idea of a priest is, therefore, a rather monastic, serene, old Irish man. In my adult life I have, of course, come to meet priests of other denominations socially, which means that I now know priests and their wives. And I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's a really weird feeling to see a priest's wife and think "damn pastor Dave, good job". Or to wonder if they're into swinging. Because some priests totally are, they're just under wraps about it.
That reminds me: I think this Mormon was attempting to convert me. In ICU. While on morphine and a cocktail of other drugs. There is no graceful way to exit the Mormon Truth shpiel.
This. The University I went to was big on the ESL program. For some reason, whenever they would be walking down the halls in a group they would walk side by side and fan out to take up the entire width of the hallway. When I would have 15 min to get to my next class on the other side of campus, it was like a constant game of 'Red Rover'. Luckily they were generally tiny and I could plow right through them.
It drives me nuts when people clog elevators. People here act like they're elevators or something, oh, I'll get on and then just stand here. This magic device will just take me where I need to go. No need to move at all. Time to waste space - Move the fuck over to the right people! People can walk up escalators too! You wouldn't know it though judging by the way people behave here. Saw this happen in DC. Super frustrating since I'm Asian - why you tourists gotta us look bad? We were walking on a side walk and this giant group of Asian tourists in front of us had taken up the entire sidewalk and spilled onto the street, blocking some bicyclists. My friend (pretty big guy) solved it all though by yelling over their heads for them to move out the way. It was pleasing to see the surprise and shock in their faces. Though the groups of Asian exchange students at my university weren't like this at all. They still traveled in packs but moved with so much more awareness
I knocked an old man to the ground in a Wal Mart once. I was walking one way and two old folks were walking towards me, side by side. With the end cap and displays set up in the center of the aisle, the walking area was just wide enough for two people. Now, I'm pretty big and hard to miss coming towards you and I figured as we passed, they would fall in single file. Because there was literally nowhere else for me to go unless I scrunched up against an end cap and let the geezers pass. I figured (Wrongly) they didn't get that old by being stupid. As we got closer and closer it became apparent they were giving no quarter. So I kept as far to the right as I could and lowered my shoulder for the impact. BOOM! Splash one old fucker. I didn't feel a thing. As far as annoyances that drive me nuts...Old, retired cocksuckers that go to banks on Friday, especially between 11 & 1, while working folks are trying to cash their paychecks during their lunch 1/2 hour or hour. Inevitably, they have gone to the bank to transfer funds between 8 different accounts. A few years ago I went in to cash my check at lunch and some ancient fucker had 9 ammo boxes on a hand dolly, full of rolled coins. According to him it was 20 years worth and the best time for him to take it in was noon on Friday.