You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

Moderna said:
Something that makes me mad is how public restrooms seem to be replacing paper towels with hand dryers. They basically undo hand washing by spewing bacteria all over your hands and they upset my autistic hatred of loud noises. I get that people in general are animals who don't know how to clean up after themselves or make it into the trash can but come on, don't take away the only option other than walking around with wet hand stains on my pants or knowing that fecal matter particles of everyone who used that bathroom before me are now on my hands (:_(
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And then the door opens to the inside. I personally am not a fan of touching the inside door handle for how many people I saw (as a janitor) piss or shit, flush, and then just walk out
 
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Reddits and online forums where there's stupid micromanaging rules about everything. For example if you're trying to find a specific movie but can't remember details, you post a "what movie is this?" post with what information you have, but then your topic gets locked because apparently "this post belongs in this all-purpose topic nobody ever uses and you won't get notifications about." It's like they basically want their communities to have no practical purpose.
 
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When people screw up the usage of was/were, is/are with subjects in incorrect quantities.

I.e., is there perfect parries are there perfect parries

It mucks with my ADHD making it so I can't focus on the content being provided and having to do the grammar myself. I sometimes read machine translated novels so I relent there unlike with native English speakers.
 
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skykiii said:
Reddits and online forums where there's stupid micromanaging rules about everything. For example if you're trying to find a specific movie but can't remember details, you post a "what movie is this?" post with what information you have, but then your topic gets locked because apparently "this post belongs in this all-purpose topic nobody ever uses and you won't get notifications about." It's like they basically want their communities to have no practical purpose.
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Did you try /r/TipOfMyTongue? That subreddit has been useful to me.
 
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Vaguebooking (aka vague posting): When someone makes an emotional status that is highly vague and generalized. eg, "I HATE people who are disrespectful!! I am just over today!"

This is one of the many reasons I have rid myself of social media. Back when I was on boomerbook, I'd see these statuses all the time, clogging up my feed, and making me lose respect for my old friends and coworkers. It comes off to most as a low effort way to grab sympathy, but without giving justification at all. Usually it was from a bi-polar drama type, typically female or LGBT, who would make these vague posts quite often.

If asked what the specific cause was, often they would say, "I don't want to talk about it.." THEN WHY DID YOU POST ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!?

The worst part of this is the generalized blaming of the universe. "...This ALWAYS happens to me." or "Why does the universe hate me?" "Life sucks so bad!!" This is clearly dysfunctional thinking. The individual is externalizing and generalizing blame in such a way that they are perpetually a blameless victim with no responsibility or reason to fix their own problems.

I want to clarify here that yes, we all need to vent once in a while, and there's nothing wrong with giving or receiving some compassion. But this is taken to the point of enabling dysfunction, and inconveniencing others unreasonably. Those prone to doing this, in my experience, don't just do so once in a while but habitually. It became a reason for me to remove repeat offenders.
 
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Not so much pissed off, but more baffled and need to vent...

A sort of neighbor (they live on the same street, but a block away) mows their lawn n the most schizophrenic way. Now this is just a strip that's outside of their fence, about six feet by maybe 80, would take me maybe 5-10 minutes to mow completely. First off- every year they wait a week or two after everybody else in the neighborhood has mown their lawns before they start their weirdness. Then they mow a single stripe down the length of that strip. No more. Two or three weeks later they'll either add another stripe in a different place than the first or they'll do a perfect square somewhere along the strip. They'll continue to do one or the other every week to two weeks until sometime in mid July when somebody in the house apparently loses their temper and does the whole strip at once.

This then restarts the cycle. I think that whole strip gets mowed all at once maybe twice a year.

It's just so weird. I mean when it godawful fuck hot out I'll frequently only do half of my lawn one day, and the other half the next day. But this just confuses me.
 
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I'm being dragged over to help my friend clean and rearrange her classroom (she's a pre-k teacher getting things ready for summer classes) along with her bf and my bf. I didn't even get asked if I wanted to help. Just told I'm "getting kidnapped" in a cutesy way like it's totally cool. Trying to see the best way of worming my way out because it's my fecking day off and I have tons of housework to catch up with.

This friend (and her bf, theyre always together) is mostly my boyfriend's friend. They're over at our house literally almost every day for one reason or another. Normally I just ignore them and do my own thing. But I always try to plan meals a week at a time and this friend is stupidly picky so I have to change everything because she doesn't like what I planned to cook. I'm so fed up with the annoyance.
 
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I'm being dragged over to help my friend clean and rearrange her classroom (she's a pre-k teacher getting things ready for summer classes) along with her bf and my bf. I didn't even get asked if I wanted to help. Just told I'm "getting kidnapped" in a cutesy way like it's totally cool. Trying to see the best way of worming my way out because it's my fecking day off and I have tons of housework to catch up with.

This friend (and her bf, theyre always together) is mostly my boyfriend's friend. They're over at our house literally almost every day for one reason or another. Normally I just ignore them and do my own thing. But I always try to plan meals a week at a time and this friend is stupidly picky so I have to change everything because she doesn't like what I planned to cook. I'm so fed up with the annoyance.
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Tell your bf how you feel and if he doesn't fix the situation leave his ass.
 
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