Odd things that you make you feel irrationally angry?

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Another thing.... After I've gone out for the day and my dad comes to pick me up in his car... I get instantly pissed off because he likes to make pointless conversation while we're on our way home. Sometimes I just can't be bothered. I want to switch off. Last week I went to the cinema, he picked me up after:

Dad: Hello. How was your day?
Me: [Annoyed] Good.
Dad: Did you see a film?
Me: [More annoyed] Yes.
Dad: What did you see?
Me: [Very irritated now] Chronicle.
Dad: Not sure I've heard of that one. What's it about?
Me: [Beyond irritated] Powers.

....That was it. One-word answers. I think he sensed I wasn't in the mood and stopped. I just can't stand it when people think I can switch on my socialness whenever, wherever. I can't. I can't be bothered at all sometimes.

People behind me eating food, wet trash bags in the sink (my mom leaves them in there with her coffee grinds and it's beyond icky), noise of the television, arguments over what to feed the dog. That's pretty much it, I get pissed but It takes a long time for me to get angry about anything and by then I've been told I'm ridiculous for having a difference in opinion on these things and that angers me. Realizing that someone won't do one or two things for me even though I do a million for them. These events are mere recollections of arguments over these issues and with my memory I can recollect every single argument in a matter of seconds. I usually have to leave the room to keep from entering a fit.

obstacles are my main source of frustration.
i get cranky at the supermarket when i enter an aisle, and i see people blocking that aisle, and they are talking aimlessly or inspecting the goods in a very lazy fashion. i then choose the next aisle to push my trolley along, and if that is also blocked, i become quite annoyed.

when i finally get to the shelf where i want to purchase something from, i start huffing and puffing if someone is blocking my access to it.

a classic example is the meat section. it takes me ages to get there, and when i finally get there, there is usually someone standing in front of me inspecting every cut of meat, and i will wait for about 15-20 seconds before i sigh loudly. if they do not get the hint that they should step out of my way, then i become rather annoyed and i may mutter "for christ's sake" as i look at them dawdling through their inspection routine. i can see from behind them exactly which cut of meat i will buy, but they will not stand aside to let me pick up the meat i want. all they have to do is stand aside for 1 second to let me get my meat, but they hog the spot where i need to be to pick up the meat.

i then tell them to get out of my way, and they always become hostile, and i can not understand how they can not spare one second of their time to let me grab my meat and move on and let them continue their sloth like inspection. they seem like useless blobs to me, and i am incensed at their slowness to choose what they want to buy.

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i dislike women who think they are more important than me because they push prams with babies in them. they are easily offended by what they consider "rudeness" from their lofty heights of expectation. an example is when i have a basket of goods, and the aisle is blocked by 2 women with prams ("strollers" for US) talking to each other, and i force my way between them to proceed, and i lift my basket over their child's head (so as to not hit it), and they say "excuse me?!?!?!" as if i have treated them with disdain by passing a basket of goods over their child's head. do they expect me to turn around and use another aisle simply because they are there?

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i do not like people who love themselves to death. example:
one night at the tavern where i used to eat, there was a group of people who were very social and vain. the men had no shirts on and they had tattoos of what looked like seaweed, and the women were drooling and they were very supportive of them, and they did not have enough chairs to sit on, and i was sitting at a 4 chair table by myself waiting for my meal to be cooked.
a very confident vain man came over and said "hey champ i'm just gonna take these 3 chairs" in a very condescending way, and i became instantly defiant and i told him that they were my chairs, and i refused to let him take them. i told him that one of the chairs was for my briefcase, and another chair was for my feet to rest on, and the other chair was an auxiliary chair that i may need if one of the other chairs broke.

he laughed at me, and he got his friends to come over to listen to me repeat my reasons for refusal, and they laughed at me like i was a complete dud, and then they started picking up the chairs, and i rose to my feet and clasped onto the chairs, and they became angry and pugilistic, and before long, a security guard came to see what was going on, and it was decided that i should be banned from the tavern for 4 weeks. i had already paid for my meal, and i wanted my money back, and by that time the girls were also laughing at me and the social torrent dictated to even the security guards that i was mentally incompetent, and they called the police, so i left.

if he had just said "hey mate, can we use these chairs?" then i would have said "yes" and there would have been no problem at all. the fact that he believed he had more right to them and did not need my permission because i was a misfit was the problem.

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i do not like being ripped off. a few years ago, there was the choice of free TV with ads, or (paid for) cable TV without ads, and with greater variety of shows and more channels.
the idea was that with cable, we paid a monthly bill which was cumulatively tantamount to the earnings that the free TV stations got from advertising. so either you get free TV with lots of ads, or you pay and do not have to see ads.

now, there are more ads on cable than program content. i always record things before i watch them so i can fast forward though the ads, but nevertheless, i find that i have to keep hitting the fast forward button every 4 minutes! the program content is interrupted on average every 4 minutes by a series of ads!. the ads go sometimes for about 5 minutes, and i am very annoyed about that.

smiling faces who are ecstatic about ab flex machines (etc) are interrupting my show and i hate their heads. i paid for no commercials and now, by stealth, i see more commercials on cable TV than on free to air TV. they are double dipping, and they make loads of money having the sponsorship of their advertisers as well as my monthly payment.

to rub salt into those wounds, i now see that the shows on foxtel are repeated every day.
every channel i choose to inspect has something on it i have already seen very recently. today i channel surfed to see if there was anything new, and i had already seen (recently) every show that was on.

what manner of gouging is that? it is reprehensible that they provide such a poor service, but i am not likely to terminate my subscription to foxtel because then i will imagine i am missing new stuff, and that is a psychological reality that the scientific marketers have predicted.

so many people want to get money for rubbish, and with the advent of marketing science, they know how to achieve it.

oh whatever. i am getting wound up and my circuits may blow so i will stop here.
i am so frustrated about the divide between what i want and what i get, that the only anwser is to forget about it.

people who, when they're trying to get past you, "have" to touch you on the shoulders or waist.......

I can't stand it when my brother yawns really loud. Yawning is a natural body function, the noise he makes with it isn't. There is a possibility of yawning quietly. When he yawns loud, it drowns out the noise of chattering in the room, and shatters my nerves too. But nobody seems to take any notice, and yet if my laugh sometimes comes out loud, everybody snaps, ''SSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!! !! !! !! !!'' at me.

What the f**k? Oh, it's just double standards.

I can't stand it when:

- People tell me that an obvious situation does not exist or that I'm over-reacting.

- People would rather let one of their own clique members feel good than act on complaints against that person.

- People whine and cry about how life is unfair instead of, trying to make their own lives better.

- People act as if suicide will solve all of their problems, when all it really does is put an end to their whining and crying (as well as their lives).

- People try to blame me for breaking the promises that they have made.

Psychoanalysis.

Hearing the bass line of the neighbors' stereo (I would be less enraged if I heard the whole song, for some reason - but just hearing the boom boom boom makes me crazy-furious and anxious).

People who are incompetent at their task.

Hypocrites.

People who live for their illness, instead of living beyond it.

People who protect incompetents.

I hate entering a room in front of someone.

People hold doors for me.
I stop and look at them, and say "You first."
They gesture, and say "After you."

"as*hole, IF I WANTED YOU BEHIND ME, WE'D BE INSIDE ALREADY!"

if someone touches my face, my cheek especially, i can barely control myself from hitting that person. being stuck in a slow moving crowd, i feel trapped and want to scream my lungs out. i feel like pushing people aside violently, i don't do it because it's wrong, but i slam my fist in an open palm and growl like an animal. i go crazy and no one notices.
people repeating the same things over and over again in an argument, or talk too long to make a point that could be said in two or three short sentences make me angry, so i turn and walk away so i won't start yelling, because i won't be able to stop.
people trying to dominant and boss me around i might just attack physically.
if you tickle me i'll kill you. all right, not really, but i'll twist the arm of the next person who dares to tickle me behind their backs and pull upward several times.
my very loud neighbors i want to kick some sense into, but i'll go to jail. i have a very low tolerance for noise and maybe some people think they're not so loud, but they're loud enough for me and i want to hit them badly. can't do it even if i wasn't afriad of going to jail because the woman is pregnant. wouldnt want to hurt the baby, but certainly would like to slap the witch around some.

if i had a can of pepper spray, i would employ it in circumstances where people do not let me proceed in a normally sequential way.

for example, i would puff a little squirt into the face of someone who is blocking my access to the meat section. just a short little squirt, and i would tell them that i am sorry as well.

no harm done, and i get to go home with my meat in a timely manner.

Hearing people chew
Hearing people tapping things or clicking their pens
Hearing people breathing too loud or making odd whistling/wheezing noises when they breathe. This is probably the most irrational one because people can't help the way they breathe.
I don't show the rage outwardly but these things make me so angry and I don't even know why.

Strangers who disrespect my physical private sphere. I like to keep a distance to the person in front of me when I stand in line, and for some odd reason that bugs the hell out of other people. Some ask stupid questions like "excuse me, are you waiting in line?", which can already be enough to trigger a panic attack. But some take it one step further and tap my shoulder or poke their fingers in my back.

If I wasn't frozen with fear, I'd turn around and slap them. I also can't have it when people breathe down my neck or elbow me, or force their sweaty stench into my nose. Is it too much to ask that people shower and deodorize themselves before they leave the house? I wish there was a law that required people to keep a respectful distance from strangers. If I don't know someone, they have no right to stand close enough to me to pull my wallet out of my back pocket.

Also annoying: People who stop for a chat in the middle of a store and block the aisle with their shopping carts. If someone wants to have a long and noisy chat with a friend or neighbor, how about inviting them to their home, meeting them at a pub, or using a phone? The same goes for people who block the sidewalk or stand right under my living room window for a chat.

But what annoys me most is smoke. I don't mean cigarette smoke but the smoke of a barbecue or burning garden waste. If people must have a garden barbecue with an old-fashioned coal grill, they ought to make sure that the smoke remains on their property and doesn't waft into my windows. I don't care how they accomplish that. Poisoning my air with carcinogenic hydrocarbons is akin to poisoning my water supply and should be just as illegal, imho. There are electric grills nowadays, so there is no need to burn coal.

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Isn't Germany a bit dog-crazy? I think they'd be cleaner about dog mess over there than they are in this country. Well, they are in Munich, I don't know about the rest of the place.

Also, I've just thought of another thing that annoys me. People hating cats. That is really irrational, I know. I just seem to take people hating cats personally, for some reason. Maybe I identify with them too much.