June 30, 2011
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It takes a lot to make me angry.
I know–it’s kind of hard to believe since 90% of my posts are about things that piss me off. But the fact is I can put up with a lot of obnoxious and frustrating crap without becoming much more than medium-rare annoyed…Like when I drove 40 miles in bumper-to-bumper traffic in the middle of a hot-ass 100-degree day, basically being cooked alive because my car had a busted air conditioner. Oh, and the time I was taking the multiple choice portion of the bar exam back in February. I was already fighting off a period-induced diarrhea attack when the test proctor confiscated my watch because she thought it might have been shady. I say “might have been shady” because she wasn’t sure exactly which types of watches were banned from the testing area, so she took mine to get verification from the head proctor. I didn’t really care though because she was supposed to give the test-takers a 5-minute warning anyway, so even if I didn’t get through all 200 questions, I was still going to have enough time to at least fill in all the answer bubbles. But guess what? Instead of a 5-minute warning, she gave us a 5-second warning–and I ended up leaving 20 bubbles blank. But at least I got my watch back…a day later. *mutter* *mutter*
So yeah, I think I’ve got a decent temper, and thanks to that most things don’t set me off. Most things. There is one situation that, when it happens, turns me into a crazy backyard wrestler with ‘roid rage and rabies. I’m not joking here. When someone does this, the threshold is automatically crossed. I’ll go from ambivalence to anger management; balanced to behemoth of b*tch slaps; from…from…damn! I can’t think of one that starts with “c.”
Anyway, this is the sh*t I’m talking about. This!
Yes! That’s the thing I was talking about: someone stepping on the heel of my slipper! I mean, why aren’t you watching where you’re going? More importantly: why the hell are you walking so freaking close in the first place?!
Argh! You’ve just made me sort of lose my balance! No apology can save you now!
Okay, fine, that’s not really how I react. I’d like to, but I don’t want to go to jail and shame my family. I just stick with this instead:
Fake smile plastered on my face!
…Great, drawing those pictures pissed me off. Time to get a Cinnabon.
Got anything that automatically pisses you off to the point of no return?
Comments (37)
There are a decent number of things that piss me off. Sheer lack of respect is a big one, and obviously this manifests itself in an almost countless number of ways.
My boss at work. I only work two days a week, and every time I come in, I get asked to do things “the old way” that I “always used to do it so well.” And then I get promptly bitched at for up to an hour for not doing it right because there’s apparently a “new” way to do it that I was never informed of because I just started working again. So I learn the new way.
The next day, I come back to work and get asked to do things. I do them the new way… and get bitched at for doing it terribly because it’s nothing like the old way and the old way was better. Oh, and the next week, the process repeats itself. I just can’t win.
And then I get lectured about having morals and values by one of the shadiest bosses I know. This goes on for the rest of my shift, which is hours and hours long. All I’m allowed to do is smile and nod and admit defeat because it’s an Asian business and I have to show respect in the face of retardation of this magnitude.
I don’t know if I can take this much longer…
I do that all the time but not to strangers. It’s creepy to walk all up in someone’s business if you’re not with them.
Oh my god, seriously like… your posts make me so damned happy. DOES THAT PISS YOU OFF????
And christ, I thought I was the only one who suffered PID! (Period induced diarrhea!) THAT KINDA PISSES ME OFF… but no, not to no return. What really pisses me off apparently, are roomates to constantly eat my food, and take MY PRIZED FUCKING BIKE without permission. That, and people who define the parameters of an artistic commissions AFTER I’ve finished drawing it… or who assume that logos/illustrations/graphics just fall out of my ass as easily as period diarrhea and ask me to “whip one up” for them for free, like i”m some sort of photocopier.
ANyway, enough about me. I loved this. THE RAGE WAS PALPABLE!!!
Protip: Carry a gun. Acquire using magnets.
people who assume things piss me off….
i love your drawings!!!
Obvious injustice. Automatically pisses me off like no other person, place, circumstance, or thing can.
But I could see how having your personal space invaded would be a pisser.
I thought it was when exes or gf’s of exes calls u!
When I’m standing in a line of any kind and the person ahead takes even a half step forward the people behind me tend to bunch up in back of me, as if that extra 8 inches or so will somehow get them through the line faster. And I can smell them and feel their hot breath on the back of my neck, but if I step forward then I’ll just have to smell the person in front as well, because they’ll keep bunching up closer and closer as the line moves. Ah well. Much of what people do piques my ire, but it’s a long fuse to that big charge and with practice I’ve learned to reel out more slack before things get out of hand. Any shortcut to my inner backyard wrestler would be far too serious to mention here.
@B2yan_C - *”always used to do so well”
@nimbusthedragon - Say, can you give me a logo sometime… like… tomorrow maybe?
That shit drives me mad too ! I’m like “you almost broke my f*cking flip flop !” and my heel ! errrr ! lol
stupid people.
and tourists.
sometimes they’re the same.
nice post sylvia, most common would be just the awful awful drivers the ones who are literally on your ass when driving in traffic and cut people off all to end up in a traffic light right beside me, the ones who drive half the speed limit, and the assholes who turn right without turn signals when there’s traffic behind them. Then there’s the jerks who throw you under the bus at work blaming their mistakes/missing their deadlines on you. k I’m good now lol.
How about I draw a cartoon of myself staring at your legs.
Oh, so you only show illustrate your FAVORITE annoyances, then? I like it.
A lot. You reacted far better than I would have.
One time this girl bumps into my while walking behind me with her big belly. And not the pregnant kind of big belly. She turned around and yelled at me. -____-. Like WTF are you doing WALKING SO CLOSELY BEHIND ME?!
well, at least you got a nice cinnabon in return!
This happens all the time in Hong Kong! It drives me nuts. I always turn around and glare at the person who stepped on me.
Okay. I know you were seriously pissed the hell off (I would’ve been as well), but the damn cartoon made me giggle.LOL
Do a drop kick!
People being mean to other people with NO justification is what does it for me.
Although I also hate when people assume that they have the right to touch me for any reason.
“OMG YOUR HAIR IS SO CUUUUUUUTTTTTEEEEEEEEEE” *grab grab grab*
FUCK OFF. MY HAIR. MY BODY. MY RULES.
I would piss you off to no end… Dx I constantly flat tire people. But it’s usually not because I’m not watching where I’m going. I’ve got a monstrous stride, and most of my friends takes shorter strides, and it’s a constant doing of me telling them to walk faster.
As for me, I don’t really hate people until I get into my car. That’s when they piss me off. Otherwise, I’ve got a pretty long line of patience. Oh, except for those families that think that buying their children ten bags of candy at the checkout in the grocery store will make them best friends with their children (also to get them to behave/stop crying/stop annoying the hell out of everyone). And they wonder why their children look like mini sumo wrestlers. *facepalm*
YaY for cinnabons!
There are soooo many things at home that drive me nuts. I hate a dirty house. I hate seeing things that I cleaned up just mintues ago, tossed back around. I live with a toddler and a grown man and of the two, I’d say the toddler is a bit cleaner. At least he helps clean up when asked. I go nuts and start screaming and yelling and bitching and moaning on and on about how nobody else does anything. I work two jobs, take care of the toddler, clean the house, and my day starts at 7:30 and ends at midnight and I never once truly get to sit down. I eat quick meals standing up so I have maximum cleaning time. So when I get home from work at 9:30PM and find my husband sitting on the couch with a mess all around him, I LOSE IT.
I’d give you a million e-props if I could do cuz you’re drawings are hilarious.
The part where the girl stepped on your slipper, I was imagining ‘HELL NO.. OH NO SHE DID-INT!”
Little things pissed me off though.
. . .Cinna-happy to Crazybitch. . .
i get super annoyed at that too! and at the “PID” which sucks as it seems to always happen with exam season
I work in a local market’s deli in a small ass resort town before you hit Vail/ and Aspen CO (which home 2 main ski resorts), so in the winter we get tons of idots who are beyond rude, because they don’t understand why other people would be going at the same time that they decided to go. Plus in the summer, our town is big on river rafting in the spring because of the snow that melts further up in the moutians, nearly flooding us. Those idots are even more rude. So basicly, rude jerks who yell at me for things that aren’t my fault (trafic, the fact that they come 5 minutes before closing time and we don’t have any more supplies, that we aren’t better priced than WalMart), makes me mad to that point.
Now I want a Cinnabon
Incompetent people piss me off (=
Hahaha. Yeah. I find this very annoying. Love the drawings!
When people ask to return clearance items, and get mad when I won’t let them. It’s a common thing to not be able to return clearance items, people – seeing as how that’s what the word clearance means!!!
people who don’t signal when driving.
people who don’t pay attention when talk/text. (i just walk into them to make a point.)people who put their bags in an empty subway seat. (i just plop my ass down their stuff.)
When I get cut off at that one intersection by Shaw’s auaaaaauuuggggg. I try to block the merge lane with my civic but it fails and people swerve off the road to pass me anyway. NOTHING WORSE!
Okay, I actually really hate when someone steps on the back of my flip flops, but it’s worse when they don’t even acknowledge that they did it!
Generally I end up apologizing for them in my best sarcastic voice, “Oh, yeah, sorry about putting my foot underneath yours – totally sorry. Really.”
people’s who’s voice mailboxes are always full, like there’s no way to contact them. that’s super annoying.
yes the stepping on my flip flops thing, and people getting all up in my personal space is just ugh.
telemarketers who try to guilt trip you somehow. those charitable donation calls that accuse you of not wanting to help poor innocent children by not contributing a million dollars to their charity/cause (hello I’ve donated before but now I’m broke go away.) haha ok so there are lots of really annoying things. I will uh…stop there though.