# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/61 "2010-04-26T21:38:35Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Yo, mods! > > This is why I didn’t start a mini-rants thread, or a pit thread. I don’t really care to help start board drama. Right, sorry I drama-ed up your thread. I’ll go. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/62 "2010-04-26T22:14:56Z")
Look Cat; When I need to get up, digging your claws into my shoulder to hold on and hissing in my face is a straight path to unpleasant things happening to you. I don’t like the pain, I don’t like the damage to my clothing, and I still remember when you were new and went berzerk on my face several times when I tried to put you down. Do you remember those times? You limped for several days the last time, after bruising my eye and nearly blinding me. You do it again and you’re quite literally a dead cat. The other thing? You were off and about, had no idea where you were. I was busy working at my computer. Then I push my chair back all of three inches and get you. Tough shit, I have no sympathy for your pain. You should know by now that this is not a safe place to be. Yeah, I’m hurting. My shoulder is killing me and I have a pretty solid headache. I’m not in a good mood. Be a good cat or stay the fuck away from me right now. ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/63 "2010-04-26T23:02:04Z")
Bands that don’t put booking or contact information on their websites! gaaaaah! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/64 "2010-04-26T23:13:22Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > **Jeep** , can you put a surveillance camera on the fence, should he decide to do something stupid to it? Even the thought of someone wrecking a fence that you spent money to put up on your own property is enraging me - keep your goddamned hands off mah fence! (I am very territorial though, I’ll freely admit that.) I have considered this…there are several good spots to install a camera that would pick up the fence. He seems to be in the process of planting some trees along his back line to block my yard, which is fine by me as long as the trees live. (He broke up one of the root balls by stabbing it repeatedly with a shovel.) ---
**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:** [April 26, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/65 "2010-04-26T23:27:06Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Look Cat; When I need to get up, digging your claws into my shoulder to hold on and hissing in my face is a straight path to unpleasant things happening to you. I don’t like the pain, I don’t like the damage to my clothing, and I still remember when you were new and went berzerk on my face several times when I tried to put you down. \ Our old cat is getting like this - she loves to be picked up and marched around liked a queen, but when she wants down, she wants down RFN, and since she has arthritis and her claws stuck in our clothing (or skin), we can’t always disentangle her to her satisfaction. Then she starts hissing and freaking out and making it worse. After going out and doing a little shopping, I’ll say that Sears is currently pissing me right off. I like their clothes and their prices, but the near constant marketing over the intercom while I’m shopping there damned near drove me out of my mind (and out of the store) today. I couldn’t turn my iPod up loud enough to drown out the, “Hi Again! It’s me again, telling you about more specials we have going on today blahblahendlessblah.” You HAD me as a customer, but I’m thinking seriously about not shopping there again due to this irritation. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/66 "2010-04-26T23:29:29Z")
Translink and Wageworks, the two companies that handle my monthly bus pass. Until last year WW did a pretax withholding from my paycheck which was paid over to AC Transit (the bus company here). Each month I’d get a new monthly pass, little bit of indestructible plastic-coated paper with a magstripe. I never had any problems, either with the withholding, the prompt delivery of my pass or the proper functioning of the pass itself. Now they’ve moved to a “smart card” from Translink. It functions physically but loading it up with the electronic pass is a royal pain in the butt. The “debit card” that WW sent me failed the second time I used it (so I had to buy day passes in cash for a while until they sent me a new card), it’s been refused by the electronic Translink terminal several times for days on end, today both of the Translink terminals were broken, they couldn’t help me over the phone except to try and load up the pass which resulted in failure and a 72-hour hold being placed on the stupid debit card, etc. It’s a nice idea executed very poorly. From the consumer end I see zero advantage over the old passes. Yes they had to mail it to me each month. That’s cheap and the amount of time I’ve had to spend on the phone with them has eaten up any savings they might see for several years. And when the purchasing system fails it takes days to get it fixed. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/67 "2010-04-27T00:10:06Z")
My ankle. I stepped in a hole about a month or so ago and sprained it badly. Now it still hurts like a motherfucker and I want it to stop hurting. Right the fuck NOW! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/68 "2010-04-27T00:11:31Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > I have over done it and I am hurting. Looks like another Ben Gay night for me. Will I ever learn? No, you wont. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/69 "2010-04-27T01:35:10Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The weather - it’s April 25th - can we just get rain, and not snow, at this point? I want to start planting things! Okay, we can never plant here until mid-May because of the risk of frost, so I guess this is normal, but I want to plant now! Snow (OK, not a LOT, but still snow) is in our forecast for sometime this week. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_a\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/70 "2010-04-27T01:41:25Z")
I’d just like a solid week where nothing hurts. If it isn’t my head, it’s my right shoulder, or my left shoulder + neck, or my hips, or knees, or jaw, or TMI stuff. Is a week too much to ask? A day? I’m 25 and half the time I’m hobbling around like I’m 80! ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/71 "2010-04-27T01:56:15Z")
I would love to know who is in charge of the temperature in my office. It’s 50 degrees out, so the air conditioning is on. Last week when it was in the 80’s, the heat was on. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/72 "2010-04-27T02:12:18Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > I would love to know who is in charge of the temperature in my office. It’s 50 degrees out, so the air conditioning is on. Last week when it was in the 80’s, the heat was on. The same people in charge of mall heating and cooling around these parts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/73 "2010-04-27T04:38:32Z")
You’re probably right. Of course, rumor has it that the maintenance guys mess with the HVAC to keep this psycho woman in Admin happy—she’s a bazillion years old, nutty as a fruitcake and has no internal thermostat. I can say with 100% certainity that she’s nuts—she’s convinced that anyone who wears boots is a lesbian. Also, she prays out loud to Jesus in the bathroom when she’s going. Yeah. State government, can’t beat it with a stick. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/74 "2010-04-27T11:31:33Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > Also, she prays out loud to Jesus in the bathroom when she’s going. Begone, thou emormous foul fecal demon! IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST I COMMAND YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/75 "2010-04-27T12:33:10Z")
Stupid PMS induced crying jags every ten minutes this morning that caused me to call in sick with a migraine. And stupid office management that decided not to hire a temp to cover for the guy on parental leave because he’s ‘only gone for three months’, meaning that nothing had better go wrong today because there are only two people on the phones now. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/76 "2010-04-27T14:00:06Z")
> [@zut](#): > > Begone, thou emormous foul fecal demon! IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST I COMMAND YOU! I soooo wanna make this my Facebook status. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/77 "2010-04-27T14:07:59Z")
> [@lezlers](#): > > Dude, no doubt. Of course, upon coming in this afternoon I have learned that two more employees are pregnant. That would make 6 over the past 12 months. Since there is obviously something in the water, maybe it’s _not_ food poisoning… :eek: Note to self: do not get within a thousand miles of **lezlers** ’ office. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/78 "2010-04-27T14:49:30Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > I would love to know who is in charge of the temperature in my office. It’s 50 degrees out, so the air conditioning is on. Last week when it was in the 80’s, the heat was on. When I worked in the truck gate, some bright boy decided to set the heating and AC to be TWO degrees apart. Drop to 68, kick on heater. Get to 70, turn on AC. Unfortunately, when the system kicks in, it intentionally drops the temperature 2-3 degrees below the set point on the theory that it should then not have to run again for a while. So we’d end up with dueling systems. Cool to 68. Heat to 70. Cool to 68. Heat to 70. The best part? The thermostat was LOCKED. We had to bust the lock and then hack the system to change the system to be 5 degrees apart so that this wouldn’t happen. Then the bigwig who locked it flipped out and I (as Supervisor) had to explain why we broke into it and hacked it. So the moron changed it back and forbade us to change it. :rolleyes: But we did it again anyway. And just didn’t tell him. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/79 "2010-04-27T16:17:58Z")
One of my job search sites is almost completely useless; it’s just the same jobs, over and over. Why do they never change? I only search on the jobs updated in the last day; why isn’t there a better way to search so that I don’t have to scroll through the same useless jobs every damned day? If companies put their jobs on this site and then just leave them parked there for months on end, it doesn’t really qualify as a new job ad, does it? Gah! While I’m bitching about my job search, I just want a simple, couple days a week part-time job in an office somewhere. This seems to be an exceedingly rare thing - either you work full-time, or you don’t work at all around these parts. What pisses me off even more is that I have HAD a couple of part-time office jobs, and every time I get one, there is some crazy bag there who makes it her life mission to make my life miserable and chases me out of it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-pissing-you-off-today-spring-mini-rants-can-really-hang-you-up-the-most/537323/80 "2010-04-27T17:46:27Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > After going out and doing a little shopping, I’ll say that Sears is currently pissing me right off. I like their clothes and their prices, but the near constant marketing over the intercom while I’m shopping there damned near drove me out of my mind (and out of the store) today. I couldn’t turn my iPod up loud enough to drown out the, “Hi Again! It’s me again, telling you about more specials we have going on today blahblahendlessblah.” You HAD me as a customer, but I’m thinking seriously about not shopping there again due to this irritation. I was about to ask you to [write to Sears and complain](http://www.sears.com/shc/s/nb_10153_12608_NB_CSeMail?adCell=W3), but looking at the amount of information they want to send them an email, I’m guessing it’s not worth it. Ads over the loudspeakers drive me out of the store too. The person who came up with the idea should be beaten, along with the person who decided ads in the “hold music” for southwest airlines was a good idea. [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=3) [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=5)