Things That Annoy You

[ItsOver]

I'm on the road, just ate dinner and I walk by a place that cuts hair.  It's 6:30 annd their sign says they're open until 7:00, walk ins welcome. Nope. Can't cut my hair, with one "stylist" lounging in  a chair and another playing around at the regifster.  They're closing.  With that kind of service, I hope they close permanently.

[BobGrau]

the internet is a funny place and manners/civility take a back seat to machismo/asshattery. At the same time, Bellgab is populated by many that have been here for quite awhile. And (at least for myself) many of the conversations/threads.style we have seen before and judgements get made (perhaps too quickly). For someone new to the forum, there is little awareness/understanding of the culture here. If you stay here long enough, you will see most members present an arc in their posting behavior. Few posts, usually explaining contempt for Dave, then a broader presentation of subjects and explaining their positions that differ from others, showing affinity towards certain posters and more challenging thought towards those with different view points. And finally posting with more of a level of understanding the "whole" of the membership. when that arc is different in approach it can cause friction. It isn't good or bad, but it most certainly is.

But how will this fit in the top right corner?

[Sardondi]

I'm on the road, just ate dinner and I walk by a place that cuts hair.  It's 6:30 annd their sign says they're open until 7:00, walk ins welcome. Nope. Can't cut my hair, with one "stylist" lounging in  a chair and another playing around at the regifster.  They're closing.  With that kind of service, I hope they close permanently.

Those are franchises, and while it's notoriously difficult to track down the actual owner, I guarantee s/he would go apeshit to hear that, particularly in this depression and with "stylists" a dime a hundred dozen. Probably easier to contact the national company and tell them. Maybe they'd hook you up with the franchisee. 

[aldousburbank]

Nice move stupid hippie. Chose this weekend to spend in San Fransisco. BART strike. Having fun but traffic so bad it made my hair hurt, and my hair is long. Stupid hippie.

[PB the Deplorable]

Nice move stupid hippie. Chose this weekend to spend in San Fransisco. BART strike. Having fun but traffic so bad it made my hair hurt, and my hair is long. Stupid hippie.

Don't know if this will help, but traffic is always shit on weekends.  And no one takes Bart on Sat or Sun - it mostly goes through the Financial District then out of town (when it finally shows up) - it's almost completely for useless getting around town.

I almost never go over there except for specific events, it's nicer on this side of the Bay.  We even have parking.

[ItsOver]

Those are franchises, and while it's notoriously difficult to track down the actual owner, I guarantee s/he would go apeshit to hear that, particularly in this depression and with "stylists" a dime a hundred dozen. Probably easier to contact the national company and tell them. Maybe they'd hook you up with the franchisee.

Strangely enough, Sardondi, it wasn't one of the usual national franchises.  It appeared to be just a local outfit but it's located in an "artsy/crafty place," close to a university.  I just blew it off and walked across the street to a little, local wine bar.  Pretty cool little place with a friendly, unpretentious owner.  Got mellow on something called "Bicentenario Carmenere."  Smooth, smooth, smooth.  I win. 

[Sardondi]

Strangely enough, Sardondi, it wasn't one of the usual national franchises.  It appeared to be just a local outfit but it's located in an "artsy/crafty place," close to a university.  I just blew it off and walked across the street to a little, local wine bar.  Pretty cool little place with a friendly, unpretentious owner.  Got mellow on something called "Bicentenario Carmenere."  Smooth, smooth, smooth.  I win. 

You know, that should be a lesson to me, because I would have sworn your post included something about it being one of those chain places. But I was reading your post with an overlay of my own experience. "Tsk tsk" on me.

[onan]

Avalanche Sharks trailer




I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Looks like a winner to me.

[Sardondi]

...I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I am in awe at the combination of no taste and low intelligence which made this movie possible.

[West of the Rockies]

Positively craptacular.

[b_dubb]

Avalanche Sharks trailer




I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Behold ... "Idiocracy" becomes a documentary!

[West of the Rockies]

Just saw a headline on my "news" homepage:  "Kim Kardashian steps out in short shorts." 

In other words, attention-needy person seeks yet more attention.  Why is too much never enough?  Hasn't she had enough photographs taken of her by photogs looking to make a dollar?  Hasn't her image graced enough magazines and internet sites?  She's not alone; there are some man celebs who are similar.

Anyway, it annoys me.

[coaster]

If you own a dvd, you should not have to be forced to sit through five minutes of previews before you can watch the movie.

[Mels-hole1984]

You know what really fucking annoys me? When you're selling something on craigslist and they say that they're on the way and then you wait and wait and wait and then they text you saying..."not coming" or not even responding at all. Or how about this one that happened today..."On my way"..."I'm really close"...then a text an hour later saying "sorry couldn't find your street going back home". WHAT THE FUCK!!! Thanks for wasting my whole fucking day asshole. I cant count how many times this has happened to me. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! Normally I wouldn't really care, but when you're depending on the money it is completely fucked!

[Eddie Coyle]

If you own a dvd, you should not have to be forced to sit through five minutes of previews before you can watch the movie.

        The 30 seconds(that can't be fast forwarded) threatening us with arrest and execution for copyright infringement usually makes me surrender before the feature starts.

          *The AD/HD makes me give up about 2 minutes into anything anyway.

[Juan]

My asthma is acting up today, so, after watching a little alleged NFL football, I took a nap.  Sometime while I was sleeping, someone carried me out to my car, dumped me inside, then built a high wooden wall between my car and my apartment.  I had to climb over the wall, all the while not breathing very well.  On the other side of the wall, I found that someone had seeded the lawn with black pit bulls.  Somehow I made it to my apartment and found that all the neighborhood cats needed rescuing from the pit bulls.  I had to put each of them on the roof so they could get away.  I was exhausted and lay down  for a nap, but found that every time I would go to sleep, I would walk out on my porch, and the lead pit bull who was on the lookout for me, would bark and alert all the others who would run into the yard and make a really big racket.  When I pried my eyes open, I measured my blood oxygen and it's still one percent higher that go-to-the-hospital level, so I started to call George Noory and ask him what to do, but he's not on the air tonight, so he's probably not at the studio doing show prep.

Dammit, I hate it when that happens.

[West of the Rockies]

I so appreciate low-impact house guests who know to pick up after themselves, contribute a meal or two, are reasonably clean, and can maintain their half of a solid conversation.  It sounds like you really got burned this time around, Crystal.  I think once we reach a certain age, our tolerance for other people's shortcomings diminishes.  It sounds though like you were pretty patient for a while before your friend's "sell-by date" as a guest expired.

[PB the Deplorable]

If there is a prize for the person that tells the most annoying thing that annoys you I deserve it...

Dang, what a nightmare.  You mentioned she was your best friend - you mean up until this, or years ago? 

You did the right thing, so lucky she had another place to go right away.

[RealCool Daddio]

Avalanche Sharks trailer




I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Thought it must have been a promo for a hockey game, but guess not.

[onan]

Thought it must have been a promo for a hockey game, but guess not.

I wish it were...

[RealCool Daddio]

Hotel rooms with broken thermostats really annoy me.  I'm sweating like a priest in a comic store.

[BobGrau]

Lillys annoy me.

[aldousburbank]

If there is a prize for the person that tells the most annoying thing that annoys you I deserve it.

My best friend who I haven't seen in 10 years decided she's going to
visit me for a week last Tuesday. I had the house spotless and her room gorgeous.  But it turns out she has morphed into an out of shape, fat, chain smoking (nothing new just worse.. she would've been lighting one off the other if I had letter smoke in the house) drunk!

When I picked her up at the airport Tuesday she had already had several bloody Mary's starting at 2:00 am when she woke up and where she never went back to bed.  She got on her early flight she had bloody Mary's at the airport and I'm guessing on the plane and when I got her back to my home she proceeded to drink nonstop until 4:00 in the morning while chain smoking her ass off till she passed out in the living room and started snoring like a giant pig.

I had bought her a bunch of electronic cigarette cartridges and the batteries as a gift, so when she wasn't sucking on them in my house she would go out to the front porch and smoke cigarettes.  So basically on the first day she spent a good half of it on the porch smoking.  Apparently she wasn't even going to take a shower that night but I made her.

This is when it hits the fan.  I wake up the next morning and I'm going to make coffee and she makes a bloody Mary as she's shaking.  We go out on the porch where she smokes her brains out while I'm trying to enjoy my coffee and then I did it!  I explained to her that alcoholics have a smell and if you've ever stood in-line late at night at a convenience store or a Walgreens and had the red faced drunk wobbling his way in getting behind you and reeking of what I call the rotten bar smell, that's spilled beer and cigarette smoke in the carpet over 20 years, then u know what I mean.

Of course I tried to discuss this problem with her while imagining the entire time, not just what I would be spending on her all week plus taking off work where I make very good money and the real pay off, putting up with this bullshit every day and everywhere we went.  She was in complete 100% denial so that conversation went down the toilet.

So I did it!  I told her she "smelled like the red-faced alcoholic in line for cigarettes late at night and the dirty bar room floor all day and night yesterday."

She packed up her shit called a mutual friend, not my friend as much as I know of her, who ironically lives in the area, also a chain smoking drunk, and she left!  But that's not the annoying part.

Like something out of a movie,  mmm, let's say, the Single White Femaleish genre, she proceeded to say to me and I quote, "I forgot how judge mental and brutal you are.  And how your sooo perfect, you are perfect!" < super sarcastic tone btw.

Scary part, I have no idea what the hell she was talking about and since it WAS about me, that's damn annoying!
Oh but what a peaceful week I had.  Even made a killer Bloody Mary and drank a few Blue Moons with lots of orange.

Feel free to comment.

The most telling piece of info here is that this person is your "best friend."  You're so smart, you figure out why.

[HorrorRetro]

My utter paralyzing anxiety over flying is annoying me.  I was never a frequent flier, but since 9/11, I've only flown once, for a very short business trip.  Now my daughter is due to have her baby on Halloween, and I need to get over there.  I'm agonizing over getting a ticket.  It terrifies me.     I'm afraid I'll deck someone at security if they get too grabby or crabby.  Then the flying part is horrible.  I'm thinking of going with Southwest business select.  Ugh.  My blood pressure must be through the roof right now.

[Eddie Coyle]

Lillys annoy me.

     Especially when they pop up like weeds.

[widespread1]

If there is a prize for the person that tells the most annoying thing that annoys you I deserve it.

My best friend who I haven't seen in 10 years decided she's going to visit me for a week last Tuesday. I had the house spotless and her room gorgeous.  But it turns out she has morphed into an out of shape, fat, chain smoking (nothing new just worse.. she would've been lighting one off the other if I had letter smoke in the house) drunk!

When I picked her up at the airport Tuesday she had already had several bloody Mary's starting at 2:00 am when she woke up and where she never went back to bed.  She got on her early flight she had bloody Mary's at the airport and I'm guessing on the plane and when I got her back to my home she proceeded to drink nonstop until 4:00 in the morning while chain smoking her ass off till she passed out in the living room and started snoring like a giant pig.

I had bought her a bunch of electronic cigarette cartridges and the batteries as a gift, so when she wasn't sucking on them in my house she would go out to the front porch and smoke cigarettes.  So basically on the first day she spent a good half of it on the porch smoking.  Apparently she wasn't even going to take a shower that night but I made her.

This is when it hits the fan.  I wake up the next morning and I'm going to make coffee and she makes a bloody Mary as she's shaking.  We go out on the porch where she smokes her brains out while I'm trying to enjoy my coffee and then I did it!  I explained to her that alcoholics have a smell and if you've ever stood in-line late at night at a convenience store or a Walgreens and had the red faced drunk wobbling his way in getting behind you and reeking of what I call the rotten bar smell, that's spilled beer and cigarette smoke in the carpet over 20 years, then u know what I mean.

Of course I tried to discuss this problem with her while imagining the entire time, not just what I would be spending on her all week plus taking off work where I make very good money and the real pay off, putting up with this bullshit every day and everywhere we went.  She was in complete 100% denial so that conversation went down the toilet.

So I did it!  I told her she "smelled like the red-faced alcoholic in line for cigarettes late at night and the dirty bar room floor all day and night yesterday."

She packed up her shit called a mutual friend, not my friend as much as I know of her, who ironically lives in the area, also a chain smoking drunk, and she left!  But that's not the annoying part.

Like something out of a movie,  mmm, let's say, the Single White Femaleish genre, she proceeded to say to me and I quote, "I forgot how judge mental and brutal you are.  And how your sooo perfect, you are perfect!" < super sarcastic tone btw.

Scary part, I have no idea what the hell she was talking about and since it WAS about me, that's damn annoying!
Oh but what a peaceful week I had.  Even made a killer Bloody Mary and drank a few Blue Moons with lots of orange.

Feel free to comment.

It is called scorning indolence and it  proves that you are still completley immersed in the ego.  This means that in reality you are no closer to finding yourself than your friend is. It is a tough one to get past so dont feel too bad. It is my observation that you are extremely bitter because after all that you have invested and as educated as  you are, you are still unable to get past this stage. Depending on your age, this might be something to worry about.

[FallenSeraph]

My utter paralyzing anxiety over flying is annoying me.  I was never a frequent flier, but since 9/11, I've only flown once, for a very short business trip.  Now my daughter is due to have her baby on Halloween, and I need to get over there.  I'm agonizing over getting a ticket.  It terrifies me.     I'm afraid I'll deck someone at security if they get too grabby or crabby.  Then the flying part is horrible.  I'm thinking of going with Southwest business select.  Ugh.  My blood pressure must be through the roof right now.

That sucks. Can you get a Xanax prescription or something? I always load up on them when I fly, but mainly it's to deal with weird passengers who inevitably sit next to me. Once I sat next to a woman who tried to yank the emergency door open mid-flight.

This woman recently had a psychotic break when her plane was landing:

Woman Freaks Out On Airplane Flying To Tampa! "GOD YOU ARE MY SAVIOR!" (ORIGINALVIDEO)

DON'T END UP LIKE THAT!

And then there's this lady. She's got the right idea. Whatever she was on, I want some:

Crazy Lady on Airplane!

[FallenSeraph]

My utter paralyzing anxiety over flying is annoying me.  I was never a frequent flier, but since 9/11, I've only flown once, for a very short business trip.  Now my daughter is due to have her baby on Halloween, and I need to get over there.  I'm agonizing over getting a ticket.  It terrifies me.     I'm afraid I'll deck someone at security if they get too grabby or crabby.  Then the flying part is horrible.  I'm thinking of going with Southwest business select.  Ugh.  My blood pressure must be through the roof right now.

LOL - my first response came out a little wrong. "Oh, you're afraid of flying? Hey, look at these crazy people on planes!" Sorry 'bout that. I meant that I'm sure you'll be fine â€" chances are good you won't end up on a YouTube video. Do you drink? I always have one before and usually during the flight.

[WildCard]

This woman recently had a psychotic break when her plane was landing:
Woman Freaks Out On Airplane Flying To Tampa! "GOD YOU ARE MY SAVIOR!" (ORIGINALVIDEO)

"God doesn't care about people in coach. Poverty is more of a Jesus thing."
-tosh.o