I am in a really foul mood today. Why the fuck is the world so damn irritating? Do people just have nothing to do and nowhere to go? HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET OUT OF MY DAMN WAY!
1) Roundabouts (also known as traffic circles) -- When you are about to enter the circle, you do NOT need 15 second of clearance to enter! Just fucking GO! A car 40 feet away going 5 MPH does NOT preclude your entering the circle! Also, you do not need to yield to pedestrians who are ten feet away from entering the crosswalk. If they are in the crosswalk, yes. If they are about to enter, maybe. But if they are not yet even at the crosswalk. FUCKING GO ALREADY! Do not stand sit there and stop the world for them. They are on FOOT. Their being delayed from crossing does NOT further delay other pedestrians. But a car that just SITS THERE not going anywhere DOES delay other cars.
2) Cars making a right turn on red – GO GO GO GO GO GO! Why must you make me sit here watching as 10-second gaps between traffic occur one after another. Do you really need ten second to MAKE A RIGHT TURN and accelerate to 30 MPH? Are you serious? What the hell is wrong with you? Then, you finally make the turn, excruciatingly slowly, and of course you straddle both lanes, gradually moving into the left lane instead of completing your turn in the right lane like a SLOW MOTHERFUCKER LIKE YOU SHOULD !
3) Internet Explorer. One time, just ONE FUCKING TIME, close without crashing and forcing me to end program from the task manager. Just surprise me one time, please!
4) Columbia House. Is there a more repugnant loathsome organization in existence? These shitheads sent me an invoice for $50 and when I called to say they must have made a mistake, they said I have an outstanding balance… from JANUARY 2001! Oh, really? I asked the guy is he was serious, because no one in his right mind would actually be serious about that, would he? I was so incredulous that he just said, “you know what, don’t bother, we’ll just remove this from the records.” Fucking right. January 2001. Give me a fucking break.
5) The end of decades, centuries, and millennia – The first year was year 1, not year 0. Thus, the 10th year is 10, and the 100th year is 100, and the 200oth year is 2000. SO why does everyone celebrate the end of a decade or century or millennia in a year that ends in 9? Granted, we are only counting from a fairly arbitrary point in time billions of years after Earth came into existence; but still, if we’re going to do that, can’t we at least do it right?
6) Automated systems are so irritating. They don’t even give you the option of pressing zero for a human any more. You have to just remember that you can do that and hit zero while it is talking. Also, why must a computer voice read back every 10 or 16 digit number we enter, in a painfully slow manner? Today, an automated voice asked me a question and I said, “YES!” It then said, “Was that a yes?”
……… What the fuck!? What do I do now? Should I say “AFFIRMATIVE?” It didn’t understand my first yes, so why would it understand my second one? Also, these things are like a game now, reminiscent of those old “choose your own adventure” books, where if you did the wrong thing, you get a “The end,” often with some sort of grisly death. If you press the wrong button on this phone menu, it sometimes will actually say, “That cannot be done because blah blah blah. Goodbye!” CLICK.
7) Cops. I know there are some good cops out there. Probably the majority of them, in fact, are good cops. But man, they piss me off. Today there were two cops cars parked in the right lane of a two lane road, blocking a lane, with no other car pulled over or anything, standing outside their cars talking. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE ROAD! They could have moved the cars 25 feet into a parking lot nearby. Why are they blocking traffic and causing an unnecessary merge on a busy road in the middle of the day?
8) Rite Aid. What a bunch of assholes. My prescription there is $75. I said, “No thanks.” I went to Walmart and it is $31. Now, I know Walmart is the king of stores and can beat anyone’s prices, but still, $75 to $31?
9) Not being told when there will be a long wait. I was the second customer in line at the storage place. It took 15 minutes for the clerk o handle the guy in front of me. For fifteen minutes I sat there doing absolutely nothing. Couldn’t she have said, “I’ll be with you in about 15 minutes,” just to give me a heads up? People do not expect one customer to take 15 minutes to service.
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10) I had to edit this post and disable smileys otherwise the 8) looked like the "rolling eyes" emoticon.
(Oh wait, I disabled those. GRRRrrr!)
