What are your biggest angry-makers?

Roz, I quite agree. I am no longer poor, but I once was, and I know the difference. We have to budget our money tightly, and we aren't free to spend on just any old thing we want, but that doesn't mean we are poor. People who can't work, have to wash their laundry in the bath tub because they can't even afford spare change for the laundromat, limit their eating to one package of ramen noodles a day because their food stamps don't last the month, live in subsidized housing where the landlord won't make basic repairs and they hear neighbors fighting or partying all hours of the night, and simply go without whatever health care isn't covered by state medicaid, now they're poor. That's where I used to be.

Being lied to
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Being accused
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Not getting the benefit of the doubt.
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Condescending know it alls.
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People who complain about poverty but they don't have to wonder where tonight's meal will come from.
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Broken promises
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Any noise or chatter during a movie, except laughter.
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People who are afraid of being individual, and have this obsession with 'fitting in'. I don't get, WHY would ANYBODY want to be like EVERYBODY? Whatever happened to being unique?
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People who ask for help, but don't actually want it.
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Fads
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I think I'll stop now.

I'm pretty boiled right now. Some of you have mentioned false accusations, and I agree completely. The father of my grandchildren (my daughter isn't with him any more) says about my husband, "The more he helps you, the more controlling he gets." News flash, you worthless deadbeat: Setting limits, saying no, or asserting boundaries is NOT being controlling. Lending you his car for weeks on condition that you don't smoke in it, is not being controlling. Taking it back and not lending it to you again because you did smoke in it is not being controlling.

I'm also sick of people who try to tell me that marijuana is not addictive and is not harmful. I know too many people who are addicted to it, many of them members of my own family. And I myself have been harmed by it, since it is the nature of stoners to make smoking weed the number one priority in their life. If they can't get a doctor to sign off on a medical condition, they'll claim to belong to some religion that will make them immune to prosecution because f--- all, they're going to smoke it one way or another. And if it's a choice between smoking a joint and saving a baby from a burning building, they're going to smoke a joint. I've seen it too many times.

People who don't understand what those yellow stripes in parking lots are there for.
Neighbors with roosters and constantly barking dogs.

Omg I don't get the rooster thing! And why are you letting them run loose in other peoples yards?! And where are the freaking chickens so it makes at least a little sense.

LOL...there are chickens too. They don't run loose. And they aren't mine
There used to be peacocks nearby too. They were much worse than the roosters.
The parking lot stripes things are a lot more annoying than the animals. I've almost been t-boned several times by people driving across the lines and a while back some idiot pulled through the parking spot next to me and almost took my door off as I was about to get out of the car. Grrr

Oh $h!+, I AM poor after all but I feel young and spry enough to put up with it...and my life is rich in other ways

& off of that...going hungry is a BIG angry-maker for me, and my husband

There are two major angry-makers I have, one of which others seldom understand, because it applies to almost nobody I have ever met.

1.) Calling me by my (legal) name.

It's an unusual angry-maker to most of those I know, but it is definitely among the top two that I have, and quite possibly the worst one of them all. I absolutely hate my legal name and I almost never tell anyone what it really is. Instead most know me as an acronym that combines both my first and middle initials. Only those that have access to legal documents of mine (i.e. government, doctors, schools, etc.) or those whom have known me a long time or whom I trust a lot know what my name is. Why does it upset me so much? I suppose because as a child I had always preferred to be called by the acronym I am known by, but when others learned that calling me by my legal name would upset me, they used it as a way t antagonize me, therefore I associate it with being bullied and antagonized.

2.) Yelling at me

I hate being yelled at. I used to be yelled at all the time in my house because of abuse, and there was always someone yelling in our house, therefore it is something I cannot stand! I never yell.

* Blind conformity and/or group mentality
* Bigotry, especially when it's in the name of religion
* Parents who don't love their children UNconditionally
* Parents who "don't get" why their kid is such a mess ... THEY'RE A MESS BECAUSE YOU ****ED UP when they were little, dumb-***!
* Child abuse of any kind
* When people don't say thank you

My number one angry maker on a personal level is people who want me to know they don't like me so they abuse me instead of them having the guts to say to my face "I don't like you" and telling me why so that I can either reply honestly--either through saying "I'm sorry" if I need to do that or by telling them a hard honest truth which might be "I don't give a rat's behind that you don't like me, go bother someone else." In a global sense my biggest angry maker is people who get away with oppressing others.

• when someone bullys another
• when people refuse to learn
• when people judge others
• hypocrits
• when people act different for others
• people who make me do stuff for them
• favoritisum
• people way to divoted to there job (such as bus drivers)
• jerks

just a bit of what angers me *n.n

When people don't undersatnd something sensitive i am saying to them.

when a grown person makes a selfish / idiotic remark, and I am so shocked they would even say something like that, I don't even know how to respond. All I can think is "who says that?".

And when people park their cars in two parking spaces because they think their car is all that! lol!

I've had it up to my earlobes with people trying to "reason" with me when I'm upset. How about trying to "empathize" with me instead?

Those people on motorcycles who are going 150 mph on the beltway and come up right on your bumper out of no where, I swear it almost gives me a heart attack, and it is so dangerous for innocent people who are just trying to get home from a hard day at work.

And when people can't ever admit when they are wrong, even the possibility that they could be wrong

people who think they're too important to be bothered with lesser folks, i personally don't think anyone on this planet has less worth than anyone else, i'll as happily talk to a homeless person as a high flyer.

Restaurants that serve salads with pretty but uncut vegetables and doesn't give you any knives to cut them into bite size pieces. Am I supposed to stuff them in my mouth or tear at them like a horse?

People who get angry over trivial things while the world is going to hell...

Who decides what's "trivial" and therefore not worth getting angry over?

By what criteria can we decide the world is "going to hell"?

I'm going to pretend that is a friendly curiosity and respond
I think that most of us know what is trivial and what is worth getting angry about.
Maybe our interpretation of trivial is different as is our tendency to being angered.
You decide what criteria you use. I use the condition of the planet and the overall state of its most vulnerable inhabitants.
Aren't you the one who was learning to drive? If so here's a cool tip. If you like riding with your window down, roll the same side rear window down a bit. There will be much less wind turbulence in the drivers area.

Thank you for that. The reason for the snippiness was a couple of threads I started in the general social chat area, where I took your comments to mean, "Gee what stupid topics." I can be passive-aggressive at times, and I apologize for that, especially in light of your very kind and polite answer.

my defective digestive system! (& why don't PC have a vomitting smiley face? )

I have two big anger makers at the moment...illness/death and irresponsible pet owners. I could get really pissed talking about that so I'll let it go.
No apology was necessary but I'll accept it. I don't anger that easy.
I'll have to search and see if that was you who wanted to learn to drive and how it turned out.

Hope that gets better soon
I don't think there are any "bodily fluid function" smileys here. I think that is a good thing

It was me learning to drive. Still learning. Had to put lessons on hold, first for illness, and then for being out of town a couple of weeks. Now that I'm back, I'm sick again. I'm beginning to think it's some kind of allergy.

While on vacation, I did drive some of the trip. Scared me to death, but I did it. Speed limit varied from 25 when passing through a town, to 70 on the open highway, and I found myself accidentally doing up to 80 when going downhill. Those "curvy road" signs really made me feel fear. I didn't have confidence in my ability to take a sharp curve at 60 mph. But I handled it. Made those curves. Didn't hit anything. Got through it.

Just about everything my son n law says or does!