What makes you mad?

[Trek420]

In line with the other happy and sad threads and keeping this in the helpful, friendly, kind, supportive, fellow TE'r environment of this forum, what makes you

Bullying, anyone picking on another person. Racism makes me mad. Also people with superiority complexes, acting or speaking in a way that indicates they are better than everyone else. This is not to say some aren't deservedly better. Whatever you do with skill and have achieved you should be proud of it. I've no problem with anyone being proud of being the best doctor, cyclist, artist, writer ... It just does not entitle one to get ahead in the supermarket line or go through the 10 items or fewer with your whole cart because of it.

Elder abuse makes me mad.... Oh, now you've got me started.

[Blueberry]

Intentional helplessness. I have a family member and a couple of acquaintances (extricating myself from friendships) who do this all.the.time. They are perfectly capable human beings (one is enrolled at a great college), but they don't know how (and aren't willing to find out) how to do anything for themselves. They ask SO many questions (that could easily be googled), don't listen the first time (or learn from past experiences), and take up so much time that it's easier to do whatever it is they want, rather than help them (because that's the lesser amount of time). Of course, that was the plan all along. It's an issue I'm constantly battling - and makes me angry.

So that's petty - but it's my frustration this week (been reading this and thinking about what brings me joy/frustrates me/what is worth keeping in my life.

[lph]

People who like being martyrs. Assumptions of moral superiority. Assumptions in general. Unspoken rules. And bike salmon.

[Crankin]

People who don't help themselves and stay stuck. Of course, my job is to help these people... I mean my friends and family who don't do anything to change a situation they complain about.
Women who constantly brag about their kids.
Those who think "bad stuff" only happens in poor neighborhoods.
Racists, sexists, and those who generally try to tell me how to live my life.
People who have no regard for education.

[Pax]

Bigots

Uninformed, ignorant people who loudly parrot others ideologies

Groups that refuse to acknowledge their privilege, and further, believe there is no discrimination because THEY haven't experienced it

[ny biker]

Too much to mention and thinking about it will just make me mad.

[OakLeaf]

People who profit from others' suffering. And all of the above, though any more a lot of what used to make me mad, just makes me very, very sad. I was young and idealistic and angry once ... now all the hate just wears me out.