To my well-intentioned family members: look, I know I have to get up at 10am at most because my train's at 10:40 and if I don't get there in time I risk missing the exam I have this afternoon. That's not a particularly good reason to keep waking me up every five bloody minutes when it's still only about 9am and I'm trying to sleep as much as I can so I'll not be a brain-dead zombie during the exam, kthx.
To the Thief 3 installation on a computer at my local comic/game store: nononono. Stop looking at me like that. I'm not playing my first ever Thief 3 game on a computer in a too brightly lit and too loud computer store. I already have the game, I'm going to play it as soon as I have the time, so stop tempting me. Please?
To the lady who cried in outrage: look, lady. Your kid plays near the heavy doors of a restaurant, which is dumb. You let him do it, laughing and gabbing with a friend of yours and not really looking at what he's doing, which is doubly dumb. Somebody comes out of the restaurant, pushing the doors forward, and when the doors swing back your kid jumps in the path of the doors and is hit. You screaming in outrage at the person because of what they did to your precious kid is really, really dumb. The kid jumped in the path of the doors. The person had already stepped forward and could not physically see the kid (it's not like average humans have eyes on the back of their heads). It's not like they did it on purpose. I'm sympathetic and all, but really, take better care of your kids, ok?
To the "sysadmin" of the university computers: I understand you want to keep an eye on the activities of the students and all that. However, if you do so by installing a firewall / filtering program, you should at least make sure the computer has enough resources to run said program. On the old, old computers the university has, the wonderful program you installed causes the whole computer to completely freeze for 15 seconds every time a webpage is loaded, while the program does its work. Congratulations, brainiac.