When I am walking down the street and I see people with their face in their phone and not paying attention I purposely want to bump into them.
I used to live across from a couple who would leave their shoes in the hallway outside their front door. I often thought about arranging the shoes in patterns or moving them.
Share your socially inappropriate thoughts so I don't feel like I am abnormal. Or maybe I am the only one who thinks this way.
Post by thelongroad on Aug 27, 2015 22:59:51 GMT -5
When I'm walking near a person who is engrossed in their phone, I certainly don't move out of the way when I see us on a path to bump one another. When they look up and apologize, I admit I snarl at them.
It takes a lot of self control not to correct people when they use improper grammar in everyday conversations. I do it to my children all the time but I understand that most people wouldn't appreciate my help.
Also, I really want to slam on my breaks when people are tailgating. There is always the possibility of injury or death, so I don't. However, I think it would be a fairly effective way of curing someone of their tendency to tailgate.
When I'm walking near a person who is engrossed in their phone, I certainly don't move out of the way when I see us on a path to bump one another. When they look up and apologize, I admit I snarl at them.
When DH and I are walking and see someone engrossed on their phones, or walking 3 abreast, I want to run in to them, but DH will move to get out of their way. That's when I walk in front so then I get to decide on the path we take, then I get to bump into them. Then, when they look up, expecting an apology, I just shrug and give them a "Huh."
Liked for the tailgate hate @forcuatro I have a friend/ acquaintance with whom I refuse to ride because of what a terrible tailgater/ speeder/ all around driver she is. People joke about it, but I literally fear for my life when riding with her- UGH. And secondarily, have to shamefully hide my face from the tailgating victims while passing.
Phones don't bother me, but walking 3-4 across on busy sidewalks (NY, Chicago) makes me RAGE. I'll admit I intentionally haven't pulled my bag in a few times resulting in partial collision.
When I let people go ahead of me in traffic and they don't give a thank you hand or nod, I want to give them the finger .
When people cut me off, I want to crash into their car, so then I could delay whatever the hell was so important that made them be a dick in traffic.
I fantasize about telling two people I know why exactly their lives are trainwrecks, but the last time I did this, I was called a judgmental asshole and lost a friend , so I'm just going to shut up lol.
I don't know if this fits exactly, but sometimes, on my way out, I see my former teen bride, now widowed neighbor outside with her dog and I duck back in the house because I don't want to talk to her. We've never talked about it, but I'd bet money she is a Trump supporter.
Phones don't bother me, but walking 3-4 across on busy sidewalks (NY, Chicago) makes me RAGE. I'll admit I intentionally haven't pulled my bag in a few times resulting in partial collision.
This. I see it most at work when I walk to/from the restaurants across the street. People walk 3 across when coming towards me and don't have the common courtesy to move aside. I refuse to move and have bumped into people before. And then I say "Excuse you" and keep walking.
I frequently want to ram the excessive number of horrible drivers in my area. It's like car manufacturers did unnecessary work by installing turn signals, because they are so rarely used.
Post by tacosforlife on Aug 28, 2015 8:13:05 GMT -5
I keep most of my socially inappropriate thoughts inside, but not ones related to traffic.
I have yelled "Dick move!" at a cyclist who ran a red light and nearly clipped me while I was walking. "It's a stop sign!" to another. Yesterday I yelled "What the fuck?" at a driver who nearly ran me over while he was running a red light.
Post by OrangeBanana on Aug 28, 2015 8:27:36 GMT -5
You know those people in the grocery store that stop right in the middle of the aisle that hold people up going both ways? Takes their time trying to decide which can of corn to buy, talking on their phone? Yeah, I want to ram my cart into theirs until they get the point that they need to MOVE out of the way.
Yesterday I was stopped at a green light because I was turning left and it was not a protected left turn so I had to wait for oncoming traffic to clear. The person behind me decided that he didn't want to follow the rules and drove into the oncoming traffic lane and turned left right in front of the oncoming cars. He almost got hit and I wished so bad that he had. I would have felt horrible for the innocent person that hit him but I wanted the asshole to feel pain or at least be seriously inconvenienced for his stupidity. Unfortunately he made it through because the other drivers were observant and were able to stop in time.
I always wish that idiot drivers get into single car accidents whenever drive stupid.
You know those people in the grocery store that stop right in the middle of the aisle that hold people up going both ways? Takes their time trying to decide which can of corn to buy, talking on their phone? Yeah, I want to ram my cart into theirs until they get the point that they need to MOVE out of the way.
This makes me hulk rage. Move along assholes.
When I see/hear customers be abusive to waiters/waitresses and CSR's that are really trying to do their jobs, I want to come unglued and tell the offending customer to step in and show us all how it's done. I may or may not have intervened a time or two.
Actually pretty much everything listed above makes me consider inappropriate action. This must be why I avoid people.
Phones don't bother me, but walking 3-4 across on busy sidewalks (NY, Chicago) makes me RAGE. I'll admit I intentionally haven't pulled my bag in a few times resulting in partial collision.
This. I see it most at work when I walk to/from the restaurants across the street. People walk 3 across when coming towards me and don't have the common courtesy to move aside. I refuse to move and have bumped into people before. And then I say "Excuse you" and keep walking.
I always wish I did this when I encounter this situation. I always wuss out, though, and move over.
When I rode public transportation to work, I often wanted to start SCREAMING at people. The fact that I did not, reassured me that I had good mental health.
Nothing brings out the angry in me like parents dropping their kids off at school.
Crosswalks? Who needs them! I can use pop out between cars right here.
I need to let my child out right here! Of course I should double park and hold up traffic instead of pulling forward into a designated space.
Illegal u turn time!
But, as has been pointed out to me on many occasions, it can be chalked up to a mommy thing that I wouldn't understand.
Oh God. You are taking me back with this one. I wish I could draw a map, but when I would drop DS off at middle school, you were supposed to drive past the entrance, make a left into a small street that made a left into another small street, then a left into another small street which would bring you into the entrance. This was so that, invariably, by the time 3:30 or so came (dismissal at 4), and there were 100+ cars waiting for pickup, we weren't causing a huge line down the street, but instead clogging up these small streets. All of the time, some asshole parent would just cut by everyone who went through the maze and just pull up behind the entrance. I hated these people with a hatred ordinarily reserved for mass murderers. I truly hated them.
I keep most of my socially inappropriate thoughts inside, but not ones related to traffic.
I have yelled "Dick move!" at a cyclist who ran a red light and nearly clipped me while I was walking. "It's a stop sign!" to another. Yesterday I yelled "What the fuck?" at a driver who nearly ran me over while he was running a red light.
I do this. It never works. The cyclists around here like to act like they don't see pedestrians no matter what. It's so refreshing and insanely rare to see one who actually stops at lights.
related, but yesterday I was walking into a store while some lady was walking towards the same door to exit. as soon as she saw me, she started to speed up her pace in an attempt to beat me to the door (only wide enough for 1 person). I got there first and... opened the door and held it for her so she could exit. she didn't even flash a smile, so I smiled at her back and told her she was welcome. lol.
I get irritated at people who can't walk their carts back to the cart return area at grocery stores. Sometimes I actually call them out on it - and they are shocked. I don't want your cart to come crashing into my car or think a spot is empty, but it's not since there is a cart there.
I also get mad at people who can't throw their own garbage away. Once a woman in Costco tried to put her dirty napkin on the conveyor belt. I called her out, too: "Ew. Nobody wants your dirty napkin." and she picked it back up.
I get irritated at people who can't walk their carts back to the cart return area at grocery stores. Sometimes I actually call them out on it - and they are shocked. I don't want your cart to come crashing into my car or think a spot is empty, but it's not since there is a cart there.
I also get mad at people who can't throw their own garbage away. Once a woman in Costco tried to put her dirty napkin on the conveyor belt. I called her out, too: "Ew. Nobody wants your dirty napkin." and she picked it back up.
Ugh, I hate both these people! I also hate the able-bodied people who let the senior citizen baggers take their carts to the car. *stab stab stab*!
tacom, I am always tempted to let the door go and hit those people, but that would be socially inappropriate.
I guess I am walking around with a great deal of rage, gosh.
Post by dr.girlfriend on Aug 28, 2015 10:52:39 GMT -5
There's this guy on my train who always gets on the Quiet Car and then mutters under his breath the whole time with a litany of complaints. A few times he sits on the aisle seat in the two-seater I'm on and then grumbles about "making him stand in the aisle" when I have to get out at my stop. At one point, people were lined up to get out the door and the conductor hadn't opened it yet, and he was going on and on about we were all like "lambs to the slaughter" and should open the door ourselves. It's not like he was even getting off. I really want to tell him to shut up, but I'm pretty sure he's mentally ill and more than a little scary. He almost got in a fight with the conductor about not putting his feet up on the seat in front of him and I was hoping he would get banned from the train, but no such luck. :-P
I also get mad at people who can't throw their own garbage away. Once a woman in Costco tried to put her dirty napkin on the conveyor belt. I called her out, too: "Ew. Nobody wants your dirty napkin." and she picked it back up.
I saw a kid at the playground drop a food wrapper on the ground. I asked him to pick it up and pointed out that the garbage cans were 20 feet away. The kid picked it up walked halfway to the garbage can, looked back at me and dropped it again. He then ran out of the park right past the garbage can. My first thought was asshole!
Today I passed a guy with his arm in a sling and I thought "I could just punch that guy right in the arm" He literally did nothing wrong (well aside from not returning my 'good afternoon' head nod)