Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

People who buy bottled orange juice labelled as having half the calories without realizing the OJ has been diluted by half with plain old HOH.

 

Realtor friends showing you the market gain on your own property without being asked.

Like, I know they're having fun with all their new tools after they get their license. I also know I would do the same to check up on my friends are doing just out of curiosity. But I definitely know these motherfuckers are not only assessing my net worth, they're fishing for a sale. If you're a homeowner in CA, you are literally spammed with multiple attempts daily to get you to refinance, buy new, or sell your home. When I see my friends doing it I'm happy that they have a job they're working at, but very unhappy their assessing my value without me asking.

Honestly, they just need to fuck right off. I'll never use a friend as an agent anyways because I know how horrendously meticulous I am with paperwork. Just because I mention maybe moving in a few years at a party does not mean I need to get a value assessment of my home every couple months. That's none of their God damn business unless I tell them it is.

 

Having a friendship turned into a business connection burns my grits every time, and I don't care if it's realtors wanting to sell my house or mothers sending their little dealers to my house with expensive boxes of cookies. I don't mind so much seeing the club members in their colors standing at the door of grocery stores peddling their thin mint dope, but I hate it when the boss's wife brings her personal little thugs to the office and puts the squeeze on underpaid worker bees.

 

Among the things that annoy me but shouldn't: the word trope. No, no, don't bother defending it. I don't care. It annoys me.

 

Evelyn Woods awaits your call.

 

You get that crap in Ohio too. I got two postcards yesterday alone with offers to come appraise my house and make a cash offer on the spot.

 

The iPhone 12 has an annoying little feature. The phone monitors your headphone use and volume. If you exceed a certain cumulative time and or volume over a given timeframe, the phone will automatically lower the volume- to protect your hearing. My problem is that I don’t use headphones, not even airpod type things. I plug into the auxiliary jack on my car stereo, and because the cord still plugs into the charge port/headphones jack, it still counts. But the phone doesn’t take into account the volume is from the stereo, not the phone. I’ll be driving along and all of a sudden- no music. Then I have to turn it back up. The real annoying part is not being able to disable the feature or fine tune it in any way.

 

Gotta love Apple making decisions for you. I will never buy from that company.

 

In related news, your Alexa Echo and your Ring camera are spying on you and everyone in your house: Skynet Went Live June 8! Attn: Alexa Echo and Ring Owners

And from a comment under the video: "All smartphones are listening...even when switched off." Edward Snowden.

Also: Opt OUT?! Amazon Sidewalk - What you NEED to KNOW!

This reminds me of—which Dark Knight movie was it where he linked into everybody's cell phones? I think it was the 3rd one. Of course he just used it once to stop terrorism and then shut it down...

 

Got another one of those post cards in the mail today.

 

The way so many Brits have adopted the Americanism “Can I get...” when asking for things in shops. If I worked in a shop and got that, I wouldn’t be able to stop myself responding with something like, “No, because that would require you to come to my side of the counter. Tell you what, in that I’m already here, why don’t I get it instead?

I wonder how long before we start using ‘bring’ instead of ‘take’? As in “I’m going to see my friend for his birthday. What do you think I should bring him for a present?”

 

A continuing annoyance, I see

 

I had an inkling I’d said it before, but you need to factor in two things; One, my brain is old, fogged and easily confused. And two, the guy in front of me at Greggs said it when I was waiting to buy my steak bake at dinner time, so it annoyed me all over again.

 

I get where you're coming from, OurJud. Maybe you could get a prescription for antianxiety meds to get you through those times that get you so het up?

 

Well, we are Americans. We start training our children at an early age to annoy Brits.

 

Actually it just came up in one of my classes this week. The scenario was there was a table at a banquet with an extra chair, and another table in need of one. We were working through "Can I have this chair?" vs "Can I take this chair?" when a student asked about "Can I get this chair?," which is incorrect even in American. But somehow I remembered it was a pet peeve of yours, then you mentioned it again.

 

The correct form would be snag.

 

Or cop.

 

Nab.

 

Doesn’t annoy me when the speaker is American, even if they’re in this country at the time. It only annoys me when a Brit says it.

 

Grab.

 

that must have been a truly awful experience. I am so sorry.

 

It was tough, I won’t lie.

 

Aw, man, let me get you a chair.