Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

These people are simply safety-conscious. They're leaving easy access for the paramedics.

 

My parents both bathrooms. And the cats have learned to open one of them.

I think it's stupid, so not defending it - but those who live with it usually do accept that a closed door means that it's occupied. Or at least my family always did.

Except the cats. The cats are bastards.

 

I was woken up in the middle of the night by some guy who wanted to chat. I told him I was asleep, thinking it as a shorter and nicer way of saying "you woke me up, you bastard. Ever message me at this time at night again and I will *insert threat*"

Twenty minutes later when I had almost fallen asleep again I get a new message - "Why are you answering if you're sleeping."

I know people can't read my thoughts, but if someone tells you they're sleeping they most likely do NOT want to be disturbed!

So I did say "you woke me up you..." okay, I did a nicer but obviously more annoyed version of that text. It ended with him blaming me for not muting my phone when I was asleep. I never had problems with people texting me in the middle of the night before, I'm sorry I didn't mute it specifically for you.

I shouldn't complain about my sleeping since I know a few here suffers insomnia, but I've slept really weirdly since I moved. I can sleep through an entire night, so I get my hours in, but don't feel like I've had a proper night of sleep. I rarely remember dreams anymore, which often makes if feel like I've just closed my eyes and opened them again. Eight hours just gone. I've always been able to remember most dreams before, so it's weird for me. I'm almost starting to believe that my dream catcher really works!

 

When I started reading this my first thought was of some rando dude sitting on the edge of your bed and softly trying to induce a bit of palaver. Finding that only mildly annoying would definitely make you a stronger woman than I. But, no, he doesn't' really sound like much of a keeper.

 

And I read it as a "radio dude" and imagined a radio turning on somewhere near my bed (I don't even own a radio) and the host starting to talk directly to me.

 

Pot smokers are rather annoying. I probably shouldn't really care, but do they really have to smoke weed right on the balcony of the second floor of the math building at 11 am? I mean, jesus christ, I know I'm in college, but have some standards for behavior people. You smoke weed after hours, when all of the week's (or at least the day's) business is in order and you're trying to have a good time.

 

I mis-posted for another thread so, I guess one more annoying thing then. People who drive 20 mph on main streets. People who drive 40-50 on highways. People who turn left slowly or too widely/narrowly. California traffic.

 

Those posts on Facebook that try to guilt you into hitting like. "99% of people won't like this post of a 9 year-old who just recovered from leukemia", "A naked girl can get 1,000 likes in ten minutes. Let's see how many our troops can get", etc. I make a point of ignoring each and every one, regardless of the underlying sentiment.

 

They might, but another guest might not, so might barge in. It actually seems impolite not to have a locking toilet door. It's like you're telling you're guests you don't care about their privacy or comfort.

I completely agree

When my sister had her first baby, she was up all through the night and used to text me in the middle of the night and it would wake me up. I would ask her why she did it, and she'd say it was because that's when she was awake and when she had a free moment to text me. I'd tell her it woke me up, and she would ask why I don't turn my phone off at night. I'd remind her that I don't have a landline, so if people want to get hold of me in an emergency they'd have to call the mobile. But she didn't seem to get the message. Sometimes people are just too inconsiderate

I don't understand what they are implying. Is it that 99% of people don't care about this girl they don't know?

 

In fact, I'd like to know how they arrived at the figure of 99% in the first place. Presumably the proportion of people who didn't 'like' the post is much higher, considering most people won't see it. So presumably they have taken a representative sample of the population of people who did see it, and asked them whether they 'liked' it or not. I demand an explanation!

 

My Facebook feed has something like that. It shows a disabled (usually missing a limb) person with the caption that everyone thinks they’re ugly and they have no one to celebrate their birthday with — press like to send your wish. Or they show you a picture of a kid in a hospital.

It’s all just to tug your heartstrings and make you feel bad for scrolling along. Hitting that ‘like’ button isn’t gonna do shit for the armless person, or that kid in the hospital. Sorry if I sound overly cynical and harsh, I’m just tired of the guilt-baiting ads and posts. It’s no better than the ads shoving an image of a starving, crying child in your face and implying you’re a horrible monster for not taking five seconds out of your day to give money to a ‘charitable cause’. It’s just a scam to fool the easily gullible.

 

I get e-mails to my phone and I sure don't want to be notified of THEM fifteen times a night, so I have the notifications turned off during sleeping hours.

If someone has an emergency, they should call 911. I'm closed during non-business hours.

 

Unless they happen to be the only one to be able to save your life, then you should hope nothing horrible
happens to yourself before 0900. Why the hell do people have their email on their phone anyway? I leave
my house and my internet stays at home, so do not have to deal with such frivolous things until I get home
and opt into to checking them.

Iphones and smart phones seem to be more of a pain in the ass than they are worth. Notify you every time
something happens on a site that you are socially connected to. Glad I don't have to deal with that kinda
annoyance.

 

Deal breaker...not because he woke you, but because you clearly stated your wants and needs TWICE, and he ignored you, then proceeded to blame you for having them. Get the bastard out of your life, pronto.

 

I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't have a lock on their bathroom door but I guess I'd consider that one "their house, their call." I'd assume the house just didn't come with a bathroom door lock they didn't give much thought to it, figuring a closed door means "do not enter." Or maybe there's a safety concern, as someone mentioned, especially if there are small children in the home or someone with a medical issue. ?

The late night caller, hmmm. Long distance (or in person) booty call attempt, perhaps? Did he sound under the influence? I've had to tell people not to call me in the early morning or late night though, who seemed unaware that I'd leave the phone on if I was sleeping. Since I have close loved ones out there, I definitely want to be reachable in an emergency.

 

'Yeah, so she texts me at half past two in the morning...'

'What the fuck?'

'I know, totally crazy bitch, uhuh...'

'You're so right, Jason.'

'Then at 3am she texts me again, said she loved me.'

'Jesus Christ...son of God, did you call the cops?'

'Well of course I did, and got a good night's sleep. She's doing 140 years at Sleep Sleep, whatever, Sing Sing.'

'Fuckin A.'

 

I have some experience in this, a 3-storey house, plumber at the front door, wife sent him straight up. I was sitting on the loo with a paperback. Y'know, we said hello and stuff, but he went away, thank god.

 

It's probably best to wet a giant glop of toilet paper in the sink for flinging at any possible bathroom pervs.

 

I guess I shouldn't care about a bunch of morons people eating laundry detergent pods as some sort of challenge (Darwin and all that), but why do these things exist in the first place? Too much effort to pour a capful of liquid soap into the washer?

 

My grandma didn't understand why we needed to spend a lot of money on fancy washer-dryers when her wringer-washer and clothesline worked just as well. I expect her grandma thought my grandma was lazy for using a wringer-washer instead of a scrub board.

Progress = increased laziness?

 

I got into the habit of using them when I was on the road a lot. Much easier to grab a zipper baggie or tupperware with a half a dozen of them and keep them in your truck than having a big old jug of detergent that 9 times out of 10 will leak everywhere and 100% of the times it does leak, leaks on something important.

 

It sounds like full storm almost every night over here and it always get me on edge.

We usually don't have dangerous storms. We've had bad ones, but compared to where some of you probably live, it's totally safe. So I don't know why I get that bad feeling every time the wind roars.

 

The animation style and humour in these modern day adult cartoons (Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, South Park, Rick and Morty, et all). Oh, look, animations drawn by chimps, but it's really clever and cool because they use adult humour and satire, and have swearing and everything. And it's really really funny when one of the characters says something shocking and all the other characters just stare blankly at the camera.

 

I never liked Family Guy, even as a child. There are plenty of individual lines I find amusing, but the sum effect just feels... pointless. Like everyone's a terrible person, so why should I care about them? A lot of adult cartoons strike me that way, come to think of it. I'd rather watch children's animation in many cases.