Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

When I see someone getting on the bus at the stop that I always get off at.

"Traveler, whither art thou bound? What strange sights, what rare perfumes, precious gems, exotic maidens, and hideous beasts lie beyond the reaches of Route 21 stop 7? Fare thee well, bold wanderer, fare thee well."

 

Turns out it was only the first chapter of Portrait that caused me any real difficulty. Granted, a chapter is about a sixth of the book, but still. After he moved on from children using unintelligible slang and adults arguing 19th century Irish religious politics around the dinner table, it became much easier to follow conversations. Unfortunately, it also became harder and harder to keep my eyes open! Between chapters, I started and finished six other books and polished off two more I'd had sitting around unfinished. I was determined to make it through to the end, but damn! You were right about the root canals.

I wonder if Ulysses is any better. It has to be, right? It's "the greatest novel ever written" after all. I'm a little dubious now.

 

Teenagers trick-or-treating. Yeah, if you're at the I-Can-Grow-A-Beard stage, go dress up and party. Leave the knocking on doors to brats with their folks. Opening up for some grown ass looking man wearing coveralls is how one ends up visiting the local mortician.

 

I was the same age when I got my beard. Looked like Billy Mays sitting down in chemistry. Kids asked if it was cool to shave or if I wad joining the Taliban. Good times.

 

My refusal to spend money... still.

I was out today hoping to pick up a pair of boots and found exactly what I was looking for, but at just under £50 my heart simply couldn't justify the purchase to my brain. It's especially annoying knowing £50 is well within my budget now that I'm working, but before now the most I've ever paid for my footwear was half that and old ways die hard.

 

I'm part Native American which means I'll never have a full beard or proper mustache, which is a shame considering how many people there are I've dated that had a Magnum P.I. fetish. C'est l'amour.

 

Me neither, so I shave to hide my patchy beard, and non-mustache of 40 hairs regularly.

 

Public transportation of any kind. I'm reminded why I love my Jeep.

 

I love my Rubicon! Playing in the mud is much better than buses and taxis.

 

The same the whole world over, then?

 

Nope, you just need to move to somewhere with efficient public transportation.

Japanese companies are required by law to give you a travel allowance that covers your public transport fees to work. Every month I submit a form detailing (most of my jobs have a route that I've registered and simply need to let them know how many days I worked) my public transport fees for the month, and it comes back in my next paycheck.

 

Do you get the whole bus to yourself in Japan? Otherwise, still the same the whole world over.

 

Pretty much. Haven't been to a place where the buses weren't packed like a can of sneezing, coughing, grumpy sardines as of yet.

That's neat. Could work in this city, instead of the shitty system they have in place now for city workers. That is, they'll "help" workers out by taking the bus/train pass fare out of their checks and give them a monthly card. Could just leave the money in the checks so the workers could buy it themselves but...yeah.

 

No, but the last seat on the train/bus is usually next to the gaijin. The occasional benefits of racial prejudice...

 

Probably you smell all so milky.

[Research]

 

No gaijin

Pretty much sums up my trip to Guangzhu, South Korea. Don't plan on going back.

 

Public transport is 'writer transport.' However, it is understood how Jeeps are more tragic.
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[Also] My Daddy owned a Sicily Jeep. He said it was an Iowa Jima Jeep - but that must be impossible, really.

Cars are...kind of shit currency [wank, wank]..but it's understood [again], different in the US [shrug]

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I suppose a proper answer might detail how disdain for 'public' transport is misanthropic, and unappealing writerways, or not.

 

Here's a story for @Iain Aschendale.

My first time in Kyoto. So I thought I'd be a good tourist, and see town on foot. So I went from one end of Nene's Walk to the other, and walked - WALKED - up the goddamn mountain, UP the bloody steep Ichinenzaka, Ninenzaka, Sannenzaka to the Kyomizudera. By the time I got to the top, I think I was dying.

And what do I find in front of the temple? A road leading straight down into the middle of town, and a taxi pulling up, letting out a hoard of fresh-faced tourists.

So yeah... stairs. And the lack of escalators on the Tokyo Metro. I haven't worked out how to use the stairlifts yet, and I need them now.

 

Anybody who uses the phrase, 'your bad self' won't be worth listening to.

 

Two things that annoy me but shouldn't:

The volume changes of movies and tv shows. I watch those on my laptop (I have no TV), and have one external speaker, and the many huge volume changes annoy me to no end - reach up, lower the volume in the video player, sit back to watch the show, sit up to raise the volume, sit back, sit up to lower, sit back, sit up to raise, sit back, lather/rinse/repeat. I absolutely hate shit - Just make the volume relatively normalized for the length of the show! Please!

Oh, and dogs. Dogs annoy me to no end. The very fact that they exist annoys me. Stupid and 100% dependent on humans. A stray dog looks like shit, a stray cat, 9 times out of 10, is healthy and living well on any insects, rodents, or birds it can get its teeth into. Dogs? Nope, eating nothing but garbage, they're ugly, sickly, and mean. They're simply garbage animals.

Edit:
Okay, a third thing:

People who, while driving, think they own the road; think they're the king/queen of the road. Guess what? You don't own the friggin' road! And I will not yield to you if you honk your horn at me again!

 

God yes. There are too many shows and movies where the dialogue is fairly quiet but the action and music stuff is loud AF. And it's even worse when the dialogue varies as well. Like, variation is nice, but sometimes it seems obnoxious.

 

I think that's what the "5.1ch" is supposed to deal with. Things made for the theater are supposed to blow you out of your seat, but the studios are finally twigging to the fact that not everyone needs the dog to piss himself every time they watch an Avengers movie at home.

 

Such an endearing new member post.