# What's pissing you off today? \[Spring Mini-Rants Can Really Hang You Up The Most\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323 "2010-04-25T19:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/281 "2010-05-08T19:37:12Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > Not _the Flash_. Flash, as in the software. Because it sucks and it’s hard and my teacher sucks and I’m doing it at the last minute. If the Flash was here (any of them. Haven’t there been like three? … checks wikipedia. Four. Forget the Golden Age one. My bad.)… anyway, if the Flash was here, any of them, that would be awesome, because 1) they’re all really really smart and thus could figure out my homework and 2) even if they weren’t all really really smart, they could just read so fast as to figure it out and help me with it. And that would be awesome. Unfortunately… There’ve been at least five Flashes, depending on how you count. Iterations one & two were frankly geniuses. I don’t really have a point. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/282 "2010-05-08T19:38:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > The lack of monkeys in my life. > > Also, the fact that it’s raining. A lack of monkeys is a good thing when it’s raining. You ever smell a wet monkey? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/283 "2010-05-08T20:20:34Z")
I am quite happy not to have monkeys in my life. Was reading a horribly bad “news” story this morning about the harm that robots could do in people’s homes because some grade A morons had run some tests with robots and blades and …surprise surprise, a moving robot with a blade could hurt you! I turned to my boss and said “A monkey with a blade could hurt you too. What idiot thinks this is news?” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/284 "2010-05-08T20:39:49Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Was reading a horribly bad “news” story this morning about the harm that robots could do in people’s homes because some grade A morons had run some tests with robots and blades and …surprise surprise, a moving robot with a blade could hurt you! But… what about the First Law? ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/285 "2010-05-08T23:21:54Z")
Living things do not make good surprise gifts. This includes plants. Yeah, the ones I said I was going to grow. The ones you knew I ordered months in advance for spring planting, measured out beds for, enriched soil for and generally had time to fucking prepare for. Thanks so much for the “gift” of spares I didn’t want or request, don’t have space for, will have to buy materials for, and will have to dig holes for in shitty soil during a 90+ degree summer. For the dozenth time, the thought only counts if you actually put thought into the gift. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/286 "2010-05-09T00:31:47Z")
Late, but honorable mention: I pit/ am pissed off at the lady who called me at my company so I could do her daughters homework for her, because her daughter was too busy with after-school activities to study & get the answers from her books. Yes, it was the daughter who was assigned the homework, and who promptly pawned it off on her mother, who promptly pawned it off onto me. What I wish I was allowed to say: "Why Yes, thats the formula for converting CCF into BTUs. My I have the name of the teacher who assigned the assignment? Oh no reason. I’d just like to send her a thank you note along with my sincere hopes that she fails your daughter the way that she richly deserves. " ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/287 "2010-05-09T00:48:14Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Late, but honorable mention: > > I pit/ am pissed off at the lady who called me at my company so I could do her daughters homework for her, because her daughter was too busy with after-school activities to study & get the answers from her books. Yes, it was the daughter who was assigned the homework, and who promptly pawned it off on her mother, who promptly pawned it off onto me. > > What I wish I was allowed to say: > > "Why Yes, thats the formula for converting CCF into BTUs. My I have the name of the teacher who assigned the assignment? Oh no reason. I’d just like to send her a thank you note along with my sincere hopes that she fails your daughter the way that she richly deserves. " Wait…what is your job, that this happens to you? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/288 "2010-05-09T01:21:16Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Late, but honorable mention: > > I pit/ am pissed off at the lady who called me at my company so I could do her daughters homework for her, because her daughter was too busy with after-school activities to study & get the answers from her books. Yes, it was the daughter who was assigned the homework, and who promptly pawned it off on her mother, who promptly pawned it off onto me. > > What I wish I was allowed to say: > > "Why Yes, thats the formula for converting CCF into BTUs. My I have the name of the teacher who assigned the assignment? Oh no reason. I’d just like to send her a thank you note along with my sincere hopes that she fails your daughter the way that she richly deserves. " Can you just do it really badly? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/289 "2010-05-09T01:28:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Was reading a horribly bad “news” story this morning about the harm that robots could do in people’s homes because some grade A morons had run some tests with robots and blades and …surprise surprise, a moving robot with a blade could hurt you! Thank god I listened to Sam Waterston and bought robot insurance. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/290 "2010-05-09T01:57:27Z")
Dear Entitlement Bitch - When someone (me) points out that it is illegal to park in a handicapped spot if you don’t have a handicapped plate or hanger, you don’t make yourself look any less entitled by yelling about how you only parked there because your grandmother is handicapped, and you were hardly there for any time, and what would I know about how haaaard it is to take care of grandma, a toddler and a baby!!! Going on to claim that I have to have a special license plate to use those spots (I don’t and _you_ didn’t have one anyway) and besides I don’t look handicapped, so I don’t need the spot as much as Grandma (if she is that bad off, where is her hanger?) just makes you look worse. All this because I was feeling grumpy and said something, instead of calling the police or security. Sheesh ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/291 "2010-05-09T04:47:01Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Excellent username/post combo there. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/292 "2010-05-09T05:14:59Z")
I have monkeys in my life and some of them are pissing me off! There is a group of migrating males called the ‘Lost Boys’ and they just run all around the forest, making us get up at ridiculous hours and drink insane amounts of water to prevent dehydration. And, even though there are eight of them, most of them are subadults (including two juvies who have no business migrating) and, because they are so young, they get scared of males in other groups, even when those groups only consist of two adult males (and one of those males is missing a hand)! YOU HAVE THREE ADULT MALES! KICK SOME FUCKING ASS AND MIGRATE ALREADY! And NOT to the group that loves hopping back and forth over crocodile-infested waters when they aren’t running around a hellish territory composed of vine and bamboo infested hills pockmarked by huge cliffs. I do love my monkeys most of the time, but sometimes, I just want to strangle their little necks. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/293 "2010-05-09T13:00:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Wait…what is your job, that this happens to you? “I’ll take ‘Questions that need to be asked in a PM’ for $100, Alex.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/294 "2010-05-09T13:50:08Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > For the second time in 10 years, a regional medical center, the [Beth Israel Medical Center](http://www.wehealny.org/patients/BI_home/bi_index.html), has crossed up my records with someone else and I am getting that other person’s bills. No bills involved, but my bro has been going to the doctor for ear trouble. He got there a bit early and after chatting a bit with the other patients, figured the doc was running late. After some time, the nurse calls up a patient group including me. Bro assured the nurse that my ears are fine, serious, they had listed the wrong sibling… Yeah, we have an unusual lastname. But there’s nine people in town with the same one, please make sure you grab the right medical history! I’d rather not get “assigned” the Alzheimer’s of one of us and the bad kidney of another, and I’ll get mighty pissed if someone wants to check my prostate. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/295 "2010-05-09T14:10:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > And down to -5ºC tonight. Wah. All the poor trees and shrubs and tulips and plants that are trying to grow and getting frozen and snowed on every day. It’s snowing like it’s New Years Eve outside right now, though it’s not going to last long, the sun is coming out in the west. But it sure looks bad! I hope the temperature at least stays above freezing tonight, Mr. Sali planted a bed of oriental lillies just coming up, and he is beside himself ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/296 "2010-05-09T17:26:18Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > It’s snowing like it’s New Years Eve outside right now, though it’s not going to last long, the sun is coming out in the west. But it sure looks bad! I hope the temperature at least stays above freezing tonight, Mr. Sali planted a bed of oriental lillies just coming up, and he is beside himself Sending warm thoughts your way - I don’t have my new beds made or planted yet, so I only have a couple of plants to worry about. I’m hoping that all the new growth on the trees and shrubs here aren’t all frost killed. ETA: After this spring, I’m thinking about looking into proper frost blankets. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/297 "2010-05-09T17:55:38Z")
I am pissed off because it is my first fucking Mothers Day and my husband scheduled himelf to work a 12 hour day. He is the head of his department, and makes his own schedule, but still even after I pointed out that it is mothers day chose to work today. He didn’t even get me a card. The only thing he left for me is a huge fucking mess in the kitchen that I have to clean up. I wasn’t asking for much, I even told him that for Mothers day a hanging plant would be lovely. Or even saying happy mothers day would have been a first step. I knew that today would suck so yesterday I treated myself to a haircut. I came out looking like Linda from the Wedding Singer, but I didn’t have enought time to make the hairdresser fix it, and really I don’t want her anywhere near my hair ever again. To top it off I wont have time without a baby to get it fixed for about two weeks. I am embarresed to even leave the house, but luckely enough I have to every day this week. Its a good think it is freaken SNOWING right now so I can at least wear a touque! Bah Humbug! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/298 "2010-05-09T21:38:50Z")
To my friends back East- look, bitches, you need to stop texting me at 5 am. Just because it’s 8 am there and your day is in full swing, doesn’t mean I’m not still snoring in a dark room. I use my phone as an alarm clock, but I don’t want to be awake at 5! I would tell you to your face, but I know some of you will be all “I just won’t text you anymore then!” and you don’t need to be like that. Just wait a couple more hours! Damn! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/299 "2010-05-09T21:47:03Z")
Text them at 11pm your time. After all, YOU are still awake, right? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/300 "2010-05-09T21:55:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Text them at 11pm your time. After all, YOU are still awake, right? That might work, except I go to bed ridiculously early. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323.md?page=16)