The Things That Anger You Thread.

[Maztinho 0]

New management in a place you've been going to forever that screws everything up, and rotates out all the cool workers.

 

I live across the street from a Subway so I get lazy and eat there quite a bit. Most of the workers know me by sight, but the last two times I've been in I didn't recognize anyone. Today I got some fat bitch who watched me walk in, and then decided that she needed to go to the back and get more supplies... that's fine, whatever. I wait for a minute or two and she comes back out and asks for my order.

 

"Prime Rib on Monterrey Chedder."

 

They are out of Chedder, that's cool, I'll go with Italian Herb instead not a big deal. But instead of starting my sandwich right then she opens the pastrami and pepperoni packages she brought out (neither of which are needed for my sandwich) and then starts rotating the product with my bread just sitting there on the work place.

 

She asks me, "What was your sandwich again?"

 

"Prime Rib"

 

"Toasted?"

 

"Yeah, with Pepper Jack."

 

I got a call and wasn't paying attention, so partly my bad at this point, but I've never had problems before, but she grabbed the Philly Cheesesteak Meat appearantly at this point. I was checking some pic texts my ex sent me of our son, and was just telling her what else to put on it without looking up.

 

"9.__," she says when she's done.

 

"Uh... isn't this on for the 5 dollar deal?"

 

"No, it's premium."

 

"I got it yesterday for 5 dollars."

 

"The Philly Cheesesteak is Premium."

 

"I asked for Prime Rib, twice."

 

"Oh... well I gave you the Philly meat."

 

"Not my problem, I didn't order the Philly."

 

"It's a premium sandwich."

 

"I didn't order a premium, I order the Prime Rib or the Spicy Italian every time, neither of which are premium."

 

At this point another customer who was eating pipes in.

 

"He said, Prime Rib."

 

"Oh..."

 

And then she charged me proper price and I got the Philly Cheesesteak, which isn't that great by the way. I'm used to people being completely idiotic customers so I try and not be "that guy" but sometimes your service is just horrid.

[Guest Smues]

I hate people who own cats and then let them roam around outside all the time. I've got a neighbor who lets the cat out of the apartment constantly, and often leaves it out there over night. The damn thing was meowing like an infant all night yesterday. I subsequently got a stellar 30 minutes of sleep, which made me useless at work this morning. I'm considering taking the cat to another area where maybe the owner will give a shit about it.

 

I don't mind the cats that like being outdoors (so they don't meow all day) + are behavied and stay in their owner's yard or at least out of other's way/property. But yeah the ones that meow all the time because they, gasp, DON'T WANT TO BE OUTSIDE are annoying. Ditto with barking dogs that are left outside all the time.

[Guest Smues]

New management in a place you've been going to forever that screws everything up, and rotates out all the cool workers.

 

I live across the street from a Subway so I get lazy and eat there quite a bit. Most of the workers know me by sight, but the last two times I've been in I didn't recognize anyone. Today I got some fat bitch who watched me walk in, and then decided that she needed to go to the back and get more supplies... that's fine, whatever. I wait for a minute or two and she comes back out and asks for my order.

 

"Prime Rib on Monterrey Chedder."

 

They are out of Chedder, that's cool, I'll go with Italian Herb instead not a big deal. But instead of starting my sandwich right then she opens the pastrami and pepperoni packages she brought out (neither of which are needed for my sandwich) and then starts rotating the product with my bread just sitting there on the work place.

 

She asks me, "What was your sandwich again?"

 

"Prime Rib"

 

"Toasted?"

 

"Yeah, with Pepper Jack."

 

I got a call and wasn't paying attention, so partly my bad at this point, but I've never had problems before, but she grabbed the Philly Cheesesteak Meat appearantly at this point. I was checking some pic texts my ex sent me of our son, and was just telling her what else to put on it without looking up.

 

"9.__," she says when she's done.

 

"Uh... isn't this on for the 5 dollar deal?"

 

"No, it's premium."

 

"I got it yesterday for 5 dollars."

 

"The Philly Cheesesteak is Premium."

 

"I asked for Prime Rib, twice."

 

"Oh... well I gave you the Philly meat."

 

"Not my problem, I didn't order the Philly."

 

"It's a premium sandwich."

 

"I didn't order a premium, I order the Prime Rib or the Spicy Italian every time, neither of which are premium."

 

At this point another customer who was eating pipes in.

 

"He said, Prime Rib."

 

"Oh..."

 

And then she charged me proper price and I got the Philly Cheesesteak, which isn't that great by the way. I'm used to people being completely idiotic customers so I try and not be "that guy" but sometimes your service is just horrid.

 

Oh god Subway, I always have problems it seems, even when I go to the same one over and over and they all know me/what I order. I never get veggies, yet I always seem to have to stop them as they're about to dump lettuce on there "NO NO NO WAIT, PLEASE NO VEGGIES JUST MUSTARD AND IT'S DONE." And of course there's always the ones that give me grief about not getting veggies, because making their job easier is apparantly bad. And I swear it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to make a sandwich without some vegetable getting on their. I mean I understand when there's a sandwich in front of and behind mine so veggies get spread over, but even if mine is the only one on the counter they always manage to get some lettuce or an olive wrapped in with my sandwich. Every single time.

 

Edit: More on Subway. It angers me that the healthy sandwich I get there (turkey) is not on the $5($6 in Anchorage) menu, and in fact is $7, but the really unhealthy one I get (meatball) is on the $6 menu, so in addition to being tastier, the unhealthy sub is also cheaper, making it harder for me to get that healthy turkey sub when the cheaper tastier sub is right there.

 

 

[Maztinho 0]

Today was the first problem I've had with this location in 6 years of living in this town. And it was an employee I'd never seen before.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Edit: More on Subway. It angers me that the healthy sandwich I get there (turkey) is not on the $5($6 in Anchorage) menu, and in fact is $7, but the really unhealthy one I get (meatball) is on the $6 menu, so in addition to being tastier, the unhealthy sub is also cheaper, making it harder for me to get that healthy turkey sub when the cheaper tastier sub is right there.

 

Your Subway sucks, dude. All the standard one-meat sandwiches are $5 at all the ones around here.

[Nighthawk 0]

I've also noticed that some Subways charge straight up $5, and some charge $5 plus tax.

[Maztinho 0]

The two I've been to around here are always 5.37 so it's tax added.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I hate people who own cats and then let them roam around outside all the time. I've got a neighbor who lets the cat out of the apartment constantly, and often leaves it out there over night. The damn thing was meowing like an infant all night yesterday. I subsequently got a stellar 30 minutes of sleep, which made me useless at work this morning. I'm considering taking the cat to another area where maybe the owner will give a shit about it.

 

I don't mind the cats that like being outdoors (so they don't meow all day) + are behavied and stay in their owner's yard or at least out of other's way/property. But yeah the ones that meow all the time because they, gasp, DON'T WANT TO BE OUTSIDE are annoying. Ditto with barking dogs that are left outside all the time.

I talk to its owner pretty regularly and she says the cat always meows because it wants to go outside. Even if that's the case, deal with it. Our landlord allows cats if you keep them indoors, but no one's supposed to let their pets outside. A lot of people in the complex have cats and yet, hers is the only one you ever see outside. It doesn't help that this jackass in my building puts food and water out on our porch for the cat, even though its home is like only 20 feet away.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I'm pretty sure that somewhere in these 22 pages or some time last summer (because this problem seems more rampant in the summer for obvious reasons) in the Movies section, or perhaps some facebook blog I've mentioned this, but I really hate young folk at movies who think it's open mic night. Want to make a sarcastic comment about a lame ad or trailer before the film? Go ahead, I do it all the time (usually just to the people I'm with, not loud enough for everyone to hear). We don't need your commentary track turned on during the movie though. Just shut up and watch the movie, and if you NEED to talk to your pals, WHISPER. I also don't know that the PC way to say this is, so I'll just say the above is even more annoying when the people in question aren't speaking English. That said, someone yelled out "You can do it!" ala Rob Schneider during Neo's building jump in The Matrix and we all found that quite funny at the time.

 

Another one I know I've mentioned before but since the theatre was full of them tonight (much like talkers), I was reminded how angry I get when people assume the friendly "shut your cell phone" off notice is for everyone but them. I will admit tonight was the first time in a LONG time my complaint about this is actually related to the fact I could audibly hear a phone ring followed by the person talking brielfy (I think the last time this happened was when a couple went to see Halloween last year and it was quite obvious the female half had no interest in being there, so she kept talking on her phone), but don't people realize that opening their phone to check the time, send a text message, read a text message, etc., shines a distracting beam of light in a dark room?

[Nighthawk 0]

Ever tried telling someone in a movie theater to shut the fuck up? It's pretty effective.

 

Still, it's hard to find a balance, because I really do think some movies are ok to yell things out in. I don't have any way to express which ones are ok and which ones aren't, though. I just instinctively know.

[treble 0]

I will forever love the guy who yelled out, 'That was fucked up' after the helicopter crash in Cloverfield.

 

The kids who kept laughing every time they said 'Fingerlings' in The Number 23 can die, though (although, that was obviously an awful movie).

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Ever tried telling someone in a movie theater to shut the fuck up? It's pretty effective.

 

Still, it's hard to find a balance, because I really do think some movies are ok to yell things out in. I don't have any way to express which ones are ok and which ones aren't, though. I just instinctively know.

 

Our group did tell people to shut up frequently last summer, but teenagers often don't listen and I'm also not a confrontational person. As for yelling things out, it's about timing. The Matrix shout out I described happened at a non-dialogue part of the movie and was funny. Telling your friend "Hey Tom I thought that was funny!" during dialogue is not. I'm probably coming off like CandyColoredBlues here in being so easily annoyed but really, it pisses me off.

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

That comment about me wasn't necessary, but, yeah, that shit pisses me off too.

 

Me, and everybody else in the fucking world.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I was trying to be funny.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Ever tried telling someone in a movie theater to shut the fuck up? It's pretty effective.

 

Still, it's hard to find a balance, because I really do think some movies are ok to yell things out in. I don't have any way to express which ones are ok and which ones aren't, though. I just instinctively know.

 

Our group did tell people to shut up frequently last summer, but teenagers often don't listen and I'm also not a confrontational person. As for yelling things out, it's about timing. The Matrix shout out I described happened at a non-dialogue part of the movie and was funny. Telling your friend "Hey Tom I thought that was funny!" during dialogue is not. I'm probably coming off like CandyColoredBlues here in being so easily annoyed but really, it pisses me off.

 

The best therapy for that is to work at a cinema for a while. I did for a few months and the unbridled power to tell noisey fucks to leave was amazing. The best line is "Leave now without a scene, or get I 'mall security to escort you out and everyone will watch you leave and you get banned from the cinema."

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

I was trying to be funny.

 

 

[Slayer 0]

A response like that just validates Venkman's original remark

[Guest Smues]

Edit: More on Subway. It angers me that the healthy sandwich I get there (turkey) is not on the $5($6 in Anchorage) menu, and in fact is $7, but the really unhealthy one I get (meatball) is on the $6 menu, so in addition to being tastier, the unhealthy sub is also cheaper, making it harder for me to get that healthy turkey sub when the cheaper tastier sub is right there.

 

Your Subway sucks, dude. All the standard one-meat sandwiches are $5 at all the ones around here.

 

It's Alaska, everything cost more. The Subway $5 value menu is the $6 value menu, the McDonalds $1 menu is the $1.50 menu, and that $.89 cheesy double beef burrito at Taco Bell here is the $1.29 cheesy double beef burrito.

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

A response like that just validates Venkman's original remark

 

Oh Jesus, it was a fucking joke.

[Guest Smues]

RE: people at the movies. I agree that talking, texting, bright light from a cell phone, all that is fine and dandy during the pre-show bullshit, the commercials, and the trailers, but once the movie starts there are very few times it isn't annoying/distracting. Once in a great while when someone yells something it's well timed and funny, but more often than not it's just distracting. I will, however, always remember getting a good laugh about half way through Blue Crush when some guy in the back yelled THIS MOVIE FUCKING SUCKS. I don't think anyone in the theater disagreed.

 

The worst is large groups of teenagers. In small packs "Could you please be quite" or "SHUT THE FUCK UP" usually works, but in large groups nothing short of the theater staff will shut the fuckers up.

[bob_barron 0]

I'll respond to more later, but as I said in the Movies folder- old people at movies are just as bad, if not worse.

 

I get that you can't hear what's going on because you're old and fucking deaf, but too bad- shut the fuck up and accept that you missed a line of dialogue. By asking your other old hard of hearing friend what they said, now, I'm missing dialogue

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

The worst is large groups of teenagers. In small packs "Could you please be quite" or "SHUT THE FUCK UP" usually works, but in large groups nothing short of the theater staff will shut the fuckers up.

 

Nothing is worse than them. I was with one group of people during some bullshit movie - I think Herbie: Fully Loaded (we snuck in too, so we didn't waste any money on it) - and they were all jumping over the seats and fighting with each other. I couldn't help but feel bad for the people who had to deal with us. Anyway, when the wife and I saw Get Smart and WALL-E, there were annoying ass high school fuckers yelling stupid shit in both. During Get Smart, one dude yelled "I'd Fuck Her!" everytime Anne Hathaway was on the screen. It was KINDA funny the first time, then it was just SO annoying the second, third, fifth, and tenth times.

 

Shits.

 

 

And I apologize Dr. Venkman, I was just trying to be funny too.

 

 

Sorry, man.

 

 

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

Sorry, I just read Barron's, and dude, I feel ya on that one. My dad and I went to see Grindhouse, and this old dude kept saying to his wife: "This is too violent!" and "What did he say? I missed what he said. What did he say?" like they were watching it in their living room. Annnoooooooying.

 

Also, when people that you're with ask stupid questions during a movie that you're both watching for a first time.

 

"Who's that guy?"

 

"What's that thing he has?"

 

"Why did he do that?"

 

I DON'T FUCKING KNOW!! WATCH THE MOVIE AND FIND OUT!!

[bob_barron 0]

Agreed!

 

My grandma's basically deaf, so movies are hard for her, but she gets through it.

 

At Notorious, the woman in my row kept shushing the woman behind us, and the old woman responded by shushing back.

 

Meanwhile, there's a movie going on!

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

Agreed!

 

My grandma's basically deaf, so movies are hard for her, but she gets through it.

 

At Notorious, the woman in my row kept shushing the woman behind us, and the old woman responded by shushing back.

 

Meanwhile, there's a movie going on!

 

I saw a movie in Arizona with my buddy, and there was this "spicy Latina" in there talking on her cell-phone, full volume. The girl sitting in front of her turned around and told her to be quiet, and Spicy said, "Fuck you, bitch! You uglyyyy, girl!"

 

We laughed, but meanwhile, I missed why Tyra Banks was dancing on a bar. Kinda bummed.

 

And to re-iterate on my other annoyance of people asking questions during a movie: My friends that are mainly responsible for that just graduated from film school. They KNOW whats annoying during a movie, yet during SO many movies (mainly There Will Be Blood), it was "Wait, is he digging for gold?"," Why did he kill that guy?," "Where does this take place?," "Who's that guy?" ALONG with, "Oh, look at that dolly shot," "He shoulda used a wide angle lens there," "You can see the boom mic shadow,"

 

Jesus Christ, just shut the fuck up and watch the fucking movie.

[bob_barron 0]

The best therapy for that is to work at a cinema for a while. I did for a few months and the unbridled power to tell noisey fucks to leave was amazing. The best line is "Leave now without a scene, or get I 'mall security to escort you out and everyone will watch you leave and you get banned from the cinema."

 

Okay, that's just sad.

 

I'm pretty sure that somewhere in these 22 pages or some time last summer (because this problem seems more rampant in the summer for obvious reasons) in the Movies section, or perhaps some facebook blog I've mentioned this, but I really hate young folk at movies who think it's open mic night. Want to make a sarcastic comment about a lame ad or trailer before the film? Go ahead, I do it all the time (usually just to the people I'm with, not loud enough for everyone to hear). We don't need your commentary track turned on during the movie though. Just shut up and watch the movie, and if you NEED to talk to your pals, WHISPER. I also don't know that the PC way to say this is, so I'll just say the above is even more annoying when the people in question aren't speaking English. That said, someone yelled out "You can do it!" ala Rob Schneider during Neo's building jump in The Matrix and we all found that quite funny at the time.

 

Agreed. It all depends on the context. Sometimes it can be really funny and totally work, but most of the time, you're just a loser interrupting a movie. My friend and I riffed on I Know Who Killed Me, but we at least tried to do it not that much and quietly.

 

I was reminded how angry I get when people assume the friendly "shut your cell phone" off notice is for everyone but them. I will admit tonight was the first time in a LONG time my complaint about this is actually related to the fact I could audibly hear a phone ring followed by the person talking brielfy (I think the last time this happened was when a couple went to see Halloween last year and it was quite obvious the female half had no interest in being there, so she kept talking on her phone), but don't people realize that opening their phone to check the time, send a text message, read a text message, etc., shines a distracting beam of light in a dark room?

 

The cell phone thing amazes me. Really, it's 2008 and you don't know to silence or shut off your cell phone? Really? When I went to the movies on Friday, someone's phone was on low battery, and it kept making the low battery beeping noise.

 

When I saw Brokeback Mountain, the scene where they find out Jake Gyllenhall died, a cell phone went off right there- perfect timing, since it completely ruined the movie. The person of course couldn't find the phone as well. Perfect.

 

I check the time a lot when I go to the movies, but luckily I don't have to open my phone up to do that. You paid $10 to see the movie, watch it!

 

Still, it's hard to find a balance, because I really do think some movies are ok to yell things out in. I don't have any way to express which ones are ok and which ones aren't, though. I just instinctively know.

 

That's a good talent to have. I think there was one movie where I just blurted out loud "What IS THIS movie?" It worked.

 

Also, I saw the Strangers recently. It was pretty scary, but at this point, I know to differeniate between false scares and real scares. The girls sitting near me, who screamed at every little thing, did not.

[bob_barron 0]

I saw a movie in Arizona with my buddy, and there was this "spicy Latina" in there talking on her cell-phone, full volume. The girl sitting in front of her turned around and told her to be quiet, and Spicy said, "Fuck you, bitch! You uglyyyy, girl!"

 

We laughed, but meanwhile, I missed why Tyra Banks was dancing on a bar. Kinda bummed.

 

I don't think you missed much in Coyote Ugly.

 

My friends that are mainly responsible for that just graduated from film school. They KNOW whats annoying during a movie, yet during SO many movies (mainly There Will Be Blood), it was "Wait, is he digging for gold?"," Why did he kill that guy?," "Where does this take place?," "Who's that guy?" ALONG with, "Oh, look at that dolly shot," "He shoulda used a wide angle lens there," "You can see the boom mic shadow,"

 

It seems a lot of people don't get that during the movie, you watch the movie. After the movie, you discuss the movie.

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

Oh, I didn't miss shit in Coyote Ugly.

[King Kamala 0]

I mentioned this before but I'm in total agreement with my man Bobby B about old people being as bad as teenagers at movie theaters. A group of old biddies sitting behind me's unneccessary comments ruined I Heart Huckabees for me. All through out the movie they kept commenting how weird and/or silly the movie was before walking out two-thirds of the way through (And really, if you're going to walk out of a movie, what's the point of doing it that late into it?). I had a similar experience during Big Fish, two old biddies talking about how odd the movie it was. No shit. It's Tim Burton!

 

 

I've got to say the worst movie experience I've had in a while was Michael Clayton. There were a couple of 13/14 year olds running up and doing the aisles and horsing off all through out the movie. First off, they shouldn't have let them in! Second, why would a bunch of 13/14 year olds be at a showing of Michael Clayton? Cause it's cool to sneak in an R-rate movie no matter what the movie is? This kind of shit only seems to happen to me at good movies. Why can't it just happen to me at Halloween or Click?

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

Second, why would a bunch of 13/14 year olds at a showing of Michael Clayton?