10 Things That Irritate LA Residents I Follow on Twitter By Lons [148 more lists]
This is a list of 10 things that, in my experience, seem to really aggravate certain residents of Los Angeles. Namely, the LA residents I follow on Twitter. (For the record, though there's obvious bias in my selection of the sample group, I do follow a somewhat diverse cross-section of LA residents. So hopefully this isn't overly Silverlake-focused or what have you.)
I'd like to stress that, though some of these things DO irritate me, it's not based on my own personal tastes. Even in those cases when I'm writing in the first-person, which is intended for comic effect.
- 1
Barack Obama Visits
Los Angeles when Barack Obama visits is a lot like America when Barack Obama is president: There's total gridlock, everyone's pissed off at one another and no one can get to work. -
- 2
Food That Isn't Prepared in a Truck
The only time I hear positive reviews of new eateries, they are mobile and have a Twitter account with a punny name. 90% of the actual restaurants I go and try out are empty, but if you want to stand in an alley off Spring St. between a billowing exhaust pipe and a 2-foot wide urine puddle and stuff an overpriced, flash-fried ball of diced chicken meat down your gullet, prepare for a 2 hour wait. - 3
Movies and TV Shows That Are Set in Los Angeles
"500 Days of Summer" and "Entourage" are so totally unrealistic, says the city that brought you "Terra Nova." -
- 4
The "No Ketchup" Policy at Father's Office
Based on the amount of complaining I hear about Father's Office on Twitter, you would think they were serving ketchup hand-made by a gloveless Charlie Sheen inside a public restroom out of fetuses and goat semen. You could remove every scrap of edible material from every restaurant and market in the city besides Father's Office, and I know at least a few people who would have no choice but to starve purely out of spite. - 5
Traffic Warnings That Don't Come to Pass
If the news promises really poor traffic conditions, then damn it, Angelenos expect the gridlock to live up to its reputation. If enough people actually heed the warnings and stay off the roads, everyone gets sort of bizarrely disappointed. Kind of like how people got really mad at Harold Camping after the world didn't end in May. Were they sort of hoping it would? Like they had jury duty the week after they'd really rather have gotten out of?
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10 Things That Irritate LA Residents I Follow on Twitter at 9/27/2011 11:26 AM