Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I was taught it was polite to share. I just hope I encounter one of these anal twats when they’re lost in the desert. “Would you like some of my water? Ooooh, so now you’ll accept?? Now my water’s good enough, is it? Well you can piss off, it’s mine!”

 

why?

 

When I visited my aunt in the nursing home she insisted I eat some kind of Belvita cracker or something she had in a drawer next to the bed. I try to avoid gluten as much as possible, and that's probably what's it's made from. She used her bedridden status to essentially force me to eat the cracker. I mean, she got really pushy and wouldn't accept no for an answer. I think she took a certain glee in it.

 

I think I missed the "insist" part of @Naomasa298's post

 

mom: dont accept anything from your grandmother [mom thinks we take advantage of grandma's kindness]

grandma: here take this cookie
me: no thank you
grandma: take it
me: mom said no
grandma: [wraps it in a napkin and puts it in my pocket] dont tell your mom


also grandma: heres $20
me: no thank you
grandma: take the money
me: mom said no
grandma: [puts money in my pocket] dont tell your mom


(edit: not saying this is annoying... but it goes with the current topic of the moment lol!)

 

Many people who 'offer' something seem to mistake insisting or pushing for offering, and act like they're being beneficent and saintly.

 

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" being a riddle question but having no answer.
Yes I know that's the point, it still bugs me.

 

Ah, but it does indeed have an answer. Bear in mind it was the Victorian era or perhaps even earlier. Both ravens and writing desks at the time had clawed feet and feathers in their backs (quill pens).

 

I don't want food that your grubby mitts have touched. Do I look like someone who's so desperately in need of your charity? Give it to the homeless guy, he needs it more than I do. If you want to virtue signal, there are better ways to do it.

And going with the current topic, people who insist on opening doors for me. Look, just because I walk with crutches, it doesn't mean I can't open a damn door, especially a car door. Ain't nothing wrong with my arms. But I'll bet the same people wouldn't offer me a seat on the bus.

 

I now see that and several other answers were invented long after the fact, and originally it had no answer. You're right @naruzeldamaster —that was the point. Caroll was a mathematician, and apparently he was chiding mathematicians (or at least Alice was) for asking questions that have no answers.

Her response when the hatter posed the riddle was "I think you might do something better with the time than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."Answers after the fact include:

• Poe wrote on both
• "Because neither is ever approached without caws."
  
• Aldous Huxley ventured, "Because there is a 'b' in both and an 'n' in neither."
• Caroll's own answer was "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!" Originally, it was supposed to be a little funnier than that. Carroll spelled 'never,' as 'nevar' — 'raven' spelled backwards — but a proofreader erased the inverted pun before it was published.

 

The answer to the riddle is 42.

 

And because both are known for producing quoths.

 

"Why is a goldfish like a laser?"

There is a canonical answer to this one.

 

are you good?

 

Next time I'll stop and think WWHD?

(And then I'll do the opposite )

 

I'm the one armed with two beating sticks!

 

Ok I give—what's it from?

 

I like your grandmother's style. She wants to be generous and is gonna be that whether some close to her "allows" it or not. If I were your grandmother and felt prohibited to never, ever give my grandchild even a cookie, I think I'd cry.

That said, the dynamic intrigues my writer brain.

 

It moreso bugs me that the whole point of the riddle is that it doesn't have an answer, rather than no proper answer existing, not sure if I made that clear in my first post haha.

Here's another one that bugs me (this is for all the fellow gamers on the forum) literally every video game ever utilizes something we call 'hammer space' (to non-gamers: this is a wormhole like space that exists in chests/pockets and the like to explain how a given protagonist carries so many items, usually without burdening them with the extra weight. Keep in mind that a lot of games tend to let you stack up to 99 of certain items in one 'slot') to explain the protagonist carrying so many incredible things in their inventory.
However, NONE of the games I've played have bothered to give a lore reason as to how this is possible. Like, I'll even take something as lazy as a 'magic bag of holding' that DND has. Just give me SOMETHING man lol

 

still happens too!
i spoke to her yesterday and she wanted to send me a birthday present. I said she didnt have to and i'm too old for presents. she promptly ignored me and talked about finding someone to drive her to the store so she could pick me out something nice