The last thing that made you get mad?

[Mr Allen]

For me? It was the pointless "interview" at the British Heart Foundation yesterday, they had no vacancies! I was like, WTF?! Walked out, got on the Tram to Home and went on a long swear word filled rant to my carer about how I'd just wasted my time and theirs at a pointless interview which prior to what happened I'd been looking forward to even though I half expected some aspect of it would go Pear shaped, and it of course, did do.

So how about you lot? Anything gone wrong for you and really wound you up of late?

 

[Astroganga]

This morning, when I took my eldest son for his aptitude test, the way the staff were so disorganised and the test ended up running 40 minutes late, really made me feel anxious and I was worried their blasé attitude would make my son lose his nerve and mess up the test, thankfully from the sounds of things he still did very well. But still annoyed.

 

[Mia]

The way everyone in the area I live in drive to do anything. Very few people walk anywhere. They all drive. My elderly neighbors go out sometimes twenty times a day in their car and I've seen then come out of the grocery store with two apples in a bag, which probably cost them a liter of gasoline as well.
Many people stop by grocery stores each day. And it's so annoying the constant traffic, people cruise around in their cars for something to do.
There's very little to do here for them socially, few clubs, actually few places to go. Often the malls are busy with people on a monday morning, when they should be quiet. I'll go into a store to buy something and about three quarters of the people are simply browsing around. It seems such a pointless way to live.

 

[Vinca]

The difficulty I have with organising and ordering thoughts and concepts. I get so frustrated and mad about how difficult it is. I much prefer physical objects as they have clearly defined edges and can be measured. My brain finds it so much easier to organise physical objects.

 

[tyko berglund]

I have just learned of the cruelty being shown to sled dogs during the Iditarod
sled race in Alaska. That, I now include among those things that really anger me.
Those who can be shown to be involved with this sort of cruelty in my view
should be help responsible.(emphasis added)

 

[Cali Cat]

I just had to paid the window guy a other $120 to fix my bathroom window to make look like the rest of the new windows. That annoyed me, but it needed to be done.

 

[Judge]

I just had to paid the window guy a other $120 to fix my bathroom window to make look like the rest of the new windows. That annoyed me, but it needed to be done.

I once had to do that very thing. Thanks to the dreaded and oppressive HOA. Just a single and very small window.

Petty, but then that's always been their stock and trade.

 

[clg114]

My cable bill. $200 a month and I still have to see all commercials. Or record everything and fast forward through them. It just bothers me that I have pay that much for TV and internet service. You know that they are charging the hell out of the advertisers for their commercials. I know that this probably is just the cost of doing business, but it still make me mad.

 

[Astroganga]

My cable bill. $200 a month and I still have to see all commercials. Or record everything and fast forward through them. It just bothers me that I have pay that much for TV and internet service. You know that they are charging the hell out of the advertisers for their commercials. I know that this probably is just the cost of doing business, but it still make me mad.

Wow that is a lot. I don't have cable or satellite tv but they are both much cheaper here, and we don't have as many advertisements. I'd be mad too.

I was annoyed today as I got accused by some Australian woman of 'fencing her in' in the supermarket aisle even though there was loads of space for her to get round me and my small lightweight stroller, I made sure there was. I am very conscious of not getting in people's way or obstructing them. She was huffing and puffing and acting like she could not move at all until I had moved completely to the other side of the aisle.

 

[Cali Cat]

My cable bill. $200 a month and I still have to see all commercials. Or record everything and fast forward through them. It just bothers me that I have pay that much for TV and internet service. You know that they are charging the hell out of the advertisers for their commercials. I know that this probably is just the cost of doing business, but it still make me mad.

I absolutely loathe communications companies. After all the expense, when you call for service, it's never handled efficiently in my experience. There's always some hitch that requires follow up phone calls. And then, they tell you something will be "free," but sure enough, when you get the bill, you've been charged for that free item and have to call again. If it wasn't so integral to my existence, I'd not have any of it. But, that's what they count on, and charge exorbitant prices for. I believe they make a killing.

 

[Mr Allen]

I just paid £5 for a Museum visit? I was like, what? I thought Museums in the UK were meant to be free admission?!

 

[clg114]

I've run into the same thing here in the States. We stopped to visit a National Park only to learn there was an admission fee. After some discussion we opted not to go through the park, as we couldn't figure out what our taxes were going for.

Anyone 55 years or older can get a senior pass. It gets you into all national parks & monuments or free. It actually gets everyone in the vehicle in. I have had one for years. You should check it out, these places are great.

 

[Cali Cat]

I've run into the same thing here in the States. We stopped to visit a National Park only to learn there was an admission fee. After some discussion we opted not to go through the park, as we couldn't figure out what our taxes were going for.

Well ... I could tell you what your taxes are going for, but the truth seems unpopular these days. I can guarantee little of it is allotted to National parks and other such forms of traditional entertainment.

Money is in short supply, and we'll be lucky if our parks and beaches aren't shutdown completely, or privatized. That's just what happens when there are too many people and not enough resources (i.e. workers paying taxes).

 

[Judge]

I just paid £5 for a Museum visit? I was like, what? I thought Museums in the UK were meant to be free admission?!

Aggressive revenue gathering. It's a global byproduct of the Great Recession. Not telling what government will attempt to tax these days to make up the difference.

Mostly taxes of the "nickel-and-dime" variety that go easier under the radar than massive and well publicized taxes.

 

[tree]

Last week I felt angry during the preacher's
funeral remarks. I wanted to hit or kick something.

 

[umbrellabeach]

My work schedule. :/ I originally had a lot of free time this week, but they filled some of it up with someone else's shifts. Never mind that there's another bagger below me in seniority whose schedule is completely empty!
I was making all sorts of plans to do things I haven't had much time to do, and now it turns out I still won't have much time. And if a part-time, entry-level grocery bagging job is this bad... I don't even want to think about any full-time job.
I f*cking hate the rat race. This is not how I want to live my life. It's not living at all.
Now I'm wating in suspense for my brother to come home from work so I can ask him if he finally got the chance to talk to the store manager about the days we requested off at the end of the month... I feel we both deserve for them to be granted, but since it's a holiday and the union doesn't consider us people with lives, who knows.

 

[Cali Cat]

... if a part-time, entry-level grocery bagging job is this bad... I don't even want to think about any full-time job.
I f*cking hate the rat race. This is not how I want to live my life. It's not living at all.

I'm afraid this is the way it is. Working doesn't leave much time for anything else. Even the weekends are spent catching up on chores at home.

There are options though. One is finding a profession in which you can be self-employed. You can make your own schedule and work only as much as you need to. Be sure it's something you can do into your golden years though, because you might not have a good retirement unless you plan and save accordingly.

You can find something you love and do it for a living, That way you won't mind so much the time you spend doing it, even if it makes a little less money to start. If you love your work, you will almost always succeed, and you'll probably never retire from it.

Lastly, you can resign yourself to the fact that you will have to spend two thirds of your years working 8 hours a day, and determine to work where you have the best pay and benefits you can get. Then save, save, save for retirement. Get out of the rat race in your 50's, and then do all the things you never got to do before.

I chose #1 initially, but now I'm going back to #3 because I burnt out on #1.

 

[Mr Allen]

Been trying all day to contact Courier company Hermes to rearrange delivery of a package I ordered on eBay last week, that was due to be delivered this morning but the idiot Courier didn't leave a delivery note, even though I was in at 10.23 AM GMT.

Finally managed to get on their live chat with a guy called Dipesh, and they're ringing me on the Home Land line between 09.00 and 09.30 tomorrow before I leave for work to rearrange delivery.

I was planning to go and see the new Warcraft movie tomorrow but instead I'll come back Home after work for the delivery as that's more important.

 

[Astroganga]

^really feel your pain. Hermes are a nightmare.

 

[umbrellabeach]

My hair. I'm still getting used to the new way I'm doing it and this morning it took me a whole hour to get it right because every time I did it, a ton of random stray hair would stick out and wouldn't go back in.
I did it just fine for a whole week and then this... I don't understand it.