What are your triggers? The things that set you off the most.

Robert59 said:
Kids with huge Truck's trying to run me down when I cross the road to get my mail. Instead of them slowing down they speed up. Thank God I don't own a gun. I live on very busy road with people driving between 50-80 MPH.
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Robert who is that in your photo?
 

Robert59 said:
Kids with huge Truck's trying to run me down when I cross the road to get my mail. Instead of them slowing down they speed up. Thank God I don't own a gun. I live on very busy road with people driving between 50-80 MPH.
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Speed limit on this road of mine is 30. Police has told me just cross the road before rush hour traffic.
 
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People who think I want to hear their BS. I want to bounce their heads off a table, preferably an oak table. People who rant and rave to make a point. I want to point them to the edge of a cliff then push them off.
 
Judycat said:
People who think I want to hear their BS. I want to bounce their heads off a table, preferably an oak table. People who rant and rave to make a point. I want to point them to the edge of a cliff then push them off.
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People you know or just anyone? Do they know it's BS?
 
oldman said:
Why?
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There is said to be only one answer to the eternal question, "Why", (is it a number or something in a SciFi movie, " 6" perhaps?).

Can I have a guess why those three things you questioned might offend?

1). Fireworks, too noisy, set the farmers barn alight, or scare the dogs etc.

2). Helicopters the same, (except the firing the barn bit).

3). Suspicious lookin people, well who's keen on them? :unsure:
 
MarciKS said:
People you know or just anyone? Do they know it's BS?
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I should have said people who think I need to hear their BS.
These are mostly people I don't know.
No they think the world needs to not only hear their BS, but live by it, so I doubt they know it's BS.
For instance, There's a guy fixes cars within walking distance from me. I went there once. He fixed my car but I had to listen to his BS the whole time. I wanted to unhook the hood and let it fall on him, but I instead, I take my car somewhere else where the people aren't like that.
 
As regards getting riled up when people don't thank you for holding open a door or letting them cut ahead in traffic, that might cause me a moment's irritation, but no more.

I hold a door open or invite someone to go ahead of me not because of who they are but because of who I am, or more accurately who I was raised to be (and hope I sometimes am), and the karma I want to spread in the world.

Demanding acknowledgement for a good deed strips the kindness from it, making it worse than if you hadn't performed the gesture at all.
Just IMHO.
 
StarSong said:
As regards getting riled up when people don't thank you for holding open a door or letting them cut ahead in traffic, that might cause me a moment's irritation, but no more.

I hold a door open or invite someone to go ahead of me not because of who they are but because of who I am, or more accurately who I was raised to be (and hope I sometimes am), and the karma I want to spread in the world.

Demanding acknowledgement for a good deed strips the kindness from it, making it worse than if you hadn't performed the gesture at all.
Just IMHO.
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I didn't see anyone demanding anything here, but do think what a sad state of affairs it is when someone on the receiving end of someone holding a door open for them, can't pull together enough brain cells to conjure up a simple and respectful thank you.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I didn't see anyone demanding anything here, but do think what a sad state of affairs it is when someone on the receiving end of someone holding a door open for them, can't pull together enough brain cells to conjure up a simple and respectful thank you.
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I get what you're talking about, and demanding was too strong a word, I agree.

People are often distracted and may not thank others for small kindnesses. Why not take that in stride?

Since this thread isn't about minor annoyances, which is how I'd classify that kind of societal infraction, but rather about things that are our triggers and set us off the most, I was surprised to learn that so many people are triggered by lack of acknowledgement when holding a door for someone.
 
911 said:
I must be living on Lidocaine. Nothing seems to trigger me into an angry rut. I seldom get angry and in fact, my wife tells me all the time that I’m not normal because I don’t get mad about anything.

Last week she told me would I please get mad just once so that she knows that I’m not a droid.
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Does she check your pulse at least once a day to make sure that you're still "among the living"? :D
 
Lakeland living said:
I still hold a door open, it was what I was taught, so long ago now. Addicted to saying your welcome if there are others around... angry looks, smirks. lol
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At my godfather's funeral my godmother tried to persuade a good friend of their family who came from Malaysia to sit down, and not get up when another person at the wake came into the room, (especially a woman). He found it almost impossible to do, such was the behaviour he'd been taught in his very respectful culture, and you'd have had to tie him to the chair to stop him at least starting to get up each time! :)
 
I usually just ignore things that people say and do that make me angry. What I can't just fluff off is people who are always repeating rumours about someone even if they don't know if it's true. Also, people that make fun of how a child looks and people who don't appreciate someone that has helped them.
 

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