You know what really grinds my gears.......
Posted by shelloid on Oct 04, 2009 · Member since Nov 2006 · 4427 posts
Ok so maybe I'm just a weirdo, but there's silly little things that really bug me for no apparent reason - what about the rest of you? Is there any little thing that really annoys you, but probably shouldn't that much?
Ok I'll start:
I hate it when peolpe jiggle their legs up and down when they're sitting down. Some people will do this continually and I HATE IT. There's no logic to my annoyance but it really bugs me.
It also bugs me when women put their make up on on public transport - just wake up earlier if you want to wear it - and don't give people dirty looks when they stare at you.
When you call some one and leave a message. They see they have a missed call from you AND a voice mail, but choose to just call you back and not listen to the message.
Okay.. I'll just repeat everything i said on the message.
N does this ALL the time and it really really pisses me off. Now I just don't bother leaving a message.
When I don't understand something we're learning in school.
It literally makes my brain hurt.
yes, that too dessie (although I'm not at school anymore!). I remember asking my A Level maths teacher to explain something to me as I hadn't understood her the first time. So she explained it to me again in exactly the same way. Then when I said I still didn't understand she said exactly the same thing again but slower!
If I didn't understand you the first time, saying the same thing again but slower probably isn't going to help.
yes, that too dessie (although I'm not at school anymore!). I remember asking my A Level maths teacher to explain something to me as I hadn't understood her the first time. So she explained it to me again in exactly the same way. Then when I said I still didn't understand she said exactly the same thing again but slower!
If I didn't understand you the first time, saying the same thing again but slower probably isn't going to help.
It's like when you ask someone what a word means and they repeat it. I heard you...I don't understand the word. Stoopid.
"What are "lúcumas?"
"Lúcumas are lúcumas."
Yeah. Right. That's a lot clearer now. NOT.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why there would be *MILK* in *POTATO CHIPS*?!!! Wtf? Grrrr!!!
I just left dairy behind last summer, and haven't eaten much junk food since then... during a road trip recently (actually, I'm still on it-- just had to take a moment to vent), I was looking in the convenience store for some car-snacks... and ALL the potato chips contained milk. I don't get it: slice potatoes; salt lightly; fry. What would you even DO with the milk?! WHY have people contaminated a nice and (one would reasonably expect) vegan snack, with breast milk squeezed from a cow?!
Why would they even DO that?! My gears... are officially ground.
What bullsh*t!!! (please pardon the cow pun...)
potato chips aren't good for you anyway :P
road trips are the best, lucky you.
not much grinds my gears..
People who bring their entire effing family into the dining hall for free. I know, you're technically allowed to bring your depenents in for free, but I think it's abuse of the system to bring in your wife and three (almost teenaged) children and stay for 3 hours. This is NOT the goddam Golden Corral.
....when my washing machine randomly decides to eat my clothes. Lat night I did a wash (not particularly full) and it ate my favourite bra! This really really pisses me off, as I am one of those people that only has about 3 bras anyways. Poop.
People who bring their entire effing family into the dining hall for free. I know, you're technically allowed to bring your depenents in for free, but I think it's abuse of the system to bring in your wife and three (almost teenaged) children and stay for 3 hours. This is NOT the goddam Golden Corral.
Both schools I went to wouldn't allow this. In one school, the dining hall was just a base "price" and you could get whatever you want (for yourself...), but if you wanted to bring someone else in it was $7.50. For the other school everything was a separate price.
I could see it getting out of hand with a rule like that...
.....when people leave recipe 'reviews' saying things like 'this looks good, I'll make this tonight'
that's not a f**king review! Go make it tonight AND THEN review the recipe.
.....when people leave recipe 'reviews' saying things like 'this looks good, I'll make this tonight'
that's not a f**king review! Go make it tonight AND THEN review the recipe.
THIS. Or people whose "review" says "I made this and it was awful"...and then they tell how they changed almost every single ingredient in the recipe. Well no wonder, genius!!
When people encroach on my personal space. I have lovely defined space bubble, STAY OUT OF IT! Unless of course I give you permission to enter. UGH. I hate this.
When people encroach on my personal space. I have lovely defined space bubble, STAY OUT OF IT! Unless of course I give you permission to enter. UGH. I hate this.
Unless said bubble is iridescent and visible, I'm afraid you can't blame people who don't have the issue for "encroaching." They can't see something that isn't actually present. Particularly if you are living in a culture different to the one you were born in, which most likely has a different concept to yours of what constitutes "enough space."
I'll tell ya what grinds my gears, though...people who are always late. They know what traffic in this city is like. They choose the class or meeting time. But they are always at least 20 min late. No matter if you are the one to go to them, or they come to you. No matter if you meet in a coffee shop or at your own house; there is that one person who you know will be late. Or if you go to their house at their invitation, they're not ready to recieve you at the time they told you to come!!
Dude! Leave the house earlier! My brother used to do this. He would leave the house about 10 minutes before he was supposed to be wherever. He always had a dozen last things he just "had" to do before leaving the house.
One of my favourite students is guilty of this. I love her in all other ways...but I hate, hate, hate her perpetual lateness. When it's the same person, and they always have a "valid excuse", it starts to feel like they were just to lazy to get it in gear, or that whatever came up is more important than their standing agreement to meet with you. Particularly since in this case it is a tutoring session to help her.
.....when people leave recipe 'reviews' saying things like 'this looks good, I'll make this tonight'
that's not a f**king review! Go make it tonight AND THEN review the recipe.
what annoys me about this is that they almost never report back.. which leaves only one assumption: it was terrible.
....when my washing machine randomly decides to eat my clothes. Lat night I did a wash (not particularly full) and it ate my favourite bra! This really really pisses me off, as I am one of those people that only has about 3 bras anyways. Poop.
arghhh, I know! stupid machines! I have a horrible time finding bras that are comfortable that actually fit me.
When people say "Who cares?"
If I didn't care, I wouldn't have mentioned it.
When I can hear people eating or chewing gum, right in my ear.
ahhhhhh. my mom does it all the time and it kills me!
"it is what it is"
i hate when people say that. what was MLK Jr. thinking during the civil rights movement? certainly not "it is what it is"
bleh... apathy
When people say "Who cares?"
If I didn't care, I wouldn't have mentioned it.
When I can hear people eating or chewing gum, right in my ear.
ahhhhhh. my mom does it all the time and it kills me!
"it is what it is"
i hate when people say that. what was MLK Jr. thinking during the civil rights movement? certainly not "it is what it is"
bleh... apathy
What's the difference between Ignorance and Apathy?
I don't know and I don't care.
English nannies used to have a little ditty they said to kids:
Don't care was made to care,
Don't care was hung.
Don't care was put in a pot and boiled till he was done.
I prefer the Southern US saying: "Can't do is like don't care. Neither one of them has a home."
"It's all good." I am getting so tired of hearing this. Especially because most people use it to really mean "whatever." Where did this irritating vocal tic come from?
English nannies used to have a little ditty they said to kids:
Don't care was made to care,
Don't care was hung.
Don't care was put in a pot and boiled till he was done.
English grandmothers still sometimes say that to their twenty-something grandchildren.
... or so I have heard.
The reverse of all these 'I don't care' posts: I find it really annoying when people badger me for an opinion I don't actually have. 'Should we have silver tinsel or red tinsel on the tree?' Seriously, just pick one. It's tinsel. Whatever makes you happy. Usually it's not tinsel, of course... more often it's some kind of bureaucratic nit-pick or something. Honestly? Whether we have to wear this item of uniform or that on a certain day because of circumstance X is not an earth-shaking decision. So stop asking me. The honest answer is 'I have no particular opinion on the matter,' and asking me thirty-five times won't make me form one. It will just annoy me. Come back when you're asking about the ethics of dairy farming or the science behind the theory of evolution or the schism in the Anglican church over same-sex marriage or the artistic merits of Western-drawn manga or something.
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