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

[Rick Nekieta]

Customers in gas stations with complex lotto ticket spreads (5 of these, 2 of those, 3 of that, etc) and clerks who allow them to trade in winners for new tickets without making them take their tickets, scratch them while in line and redeem on their next cycle through the line, allowing others to be served while the lotto player does his complex rigamarole.

 

[Fyrnite]

Keep watching it, it gets good after 8 episodes.
Keep reading it, it gets good after 400 pages.
Keep playing it, it gets good after 18 hours.

No, it never does.

That's just people's way of luring you into trying to like something they like. No, bullshit, I won't fall for it.


I have a rule of thumb when getting into new things and what people show me. A show has 5 episodes to get me interested. A game has an hour and a half to get me wanting to play it more. A band has at least 3 songs before I decide I want to continue listening to their discography. The lengths are lessened the more I start finding things I don't like about whatever it is I'm presented.


I hate these people that just want to waste your time by telling you this bullshit that it will "start to get good" at a certain point. Who asked you to curate what I want to get into?

 

[Lady Bizness]

Has everyone been taking retard pills consistently over the last 2 decades?!

I'm not a fucking woman or a child. You can tell me shit and maybe I can deal with it.

I work primarily with women and children and these people should be able to deal with it too.

Anyway, these two quotes are related, regardless of gender or age. I have such scar tissue with giving feedback. You never know how people are at coping, and more and more these days people lash out, and to an increasing degree. So I'm dropping the ball because fuck it, I'm not going to have my day, month, or life ruined because some asshole has a hard time with an honest "do better or else."
The consequence? Quality of services has plummeted. You can't trust anyone to do quality or thorough work. All these social justice types will slack off on the job, phone in hand, so they can tweet the hottest of takes for racial justice, meanwhile misfiling some marginalized person's medical insurance papers.
It's such a universal opinion that school sucks and is so conformist, and just, like, makes you a cog in the wheel maaaaaaaan. But society needs cogs to run. Most of us are little more than cog worthy. What the fuck is the problem? I'm fine with being a cog. I do my work, I get paid, and then I'm able to spend some time having fun and raising my family. But we're quickly approaching a world where we can't outsource anything anymore because everyone is so fucking fragile and unskilled. And they don't even know it. And I'm part of the problem because I never again want my free time filled up with someone's threat of litigation because of fee fees.

 

[Captain Syrup]

My mom spent the last two years inhaling 8 hours of political podcasts a day like it’s fentanyl, and I’ve officially hit my limit. I can’t even look at her when she’s on her phone.

The best part is she still can’t figure out how to send an email attachment. Incredible.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

The fact that reporters covering salacious news don't say "take the time you need to process, then reach out to us when you want to talk", but rather aggressively push them to answer questions without regard to their comfort levels. They do not relent or base their pacing on the welfare of their subject at all, they just push the aggrieved without a moment's pause or hesitation. They are barely human.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I cannot stand people who are so pushy about trying to be your buddy. Like man I've met you like a couple times. I don't really know you. just because I mentioned being free one day a month from now as part of conversation doesn't mean I want your phone number and want to go get lunch with you and do all this shit with you, okay. I verbally say I'm not interested in anything that you mentioned and you still insist on me having your phone number. Also he asked me to go to a strip club and I'm married. Immediately on the shit list

 

[internet friend]

I hope I'm not alone in this, but single person "comedy" sketches are never funny and always obnoxious. I wish only misery and heartache on these unfunny, self absorbed cunts that think they're comedic or insightful.

 

[Cranky Old Broad]

Years ago, after seeing something like this, I wondered if journalists had to take Dumbass Questions 101 in college. I was only halfway joking. Shoving a mic in someone’s face after a tragedy just to ask, “How are you feeling?” is appalling.

 

[Lady Bizness]

I cannot stand people who are so pushy about trying to be your buddy. Like man I've met you like a couple times. I don't really know you. just because I mentioned being free one day a month from now as part of conversation doesn't mean I want your phone number and want to go get lunch with you and do all this shit with you, okay. I verbally say I'm not interested in anything that you mentioned and you still insist on me having your phone number. Also he asked me to go to a strip club and I'm married. Immediately on the shit list

This is the real reason I have "no friends". I mean, I do, but they are the rare people that I just go get a coffee with once in awhile, have fun at a cocktail party when the come up etc. But everyone has family and are respectful of that. I've got scar tissue from all the times my parents were roped into MLM pitches so I'm already shy of pushy friendly people.
Anyway, you think being invited to a strip club is bad? (It is.) Try being invited to a 10 am dentist appointment that runs one hour late, takes another hour while your friend is in the chair, and another two hours to wait for an X-ray or some shit I do not remember. And this was an era before smartphones. When I close my eyes I can still see that Brad Pitt and Jenifer Aniston cover of People Magazine.
I was just in it for the promise of brunch but the restaurant was closed by then. Consider that friendship dead. You don't fuck around with my breakfast burrito.

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

I can't stand the troons. I'm in Los Angeles and they're everywhere. There are three at my local coffee shop, and another at the Del Taco across the street. They're all mid-twenties Mexicans and have clearly been on opposite sex hormones since before they got out of puberty, because they're all freaks. They're either 5'1" obvious females with a bad beard, or a 5'10"-ish obvious male talking in an anime voice.

 

[Lovely Kin]

You can call your country retarded, make fun of your fellow retarded countrymen, hate it, but don't make being one of the good ones you're entire personality. Even when you go "I'm such a dumb American" or "I'm a stupid American but..", you aren't gaining respect, they are only keeping you around to make fun of you behind your back. Most of the time they don't see you as a good one, they will keep you around to belittle you, have you dance like a monkey for their entertainment, and use you in arguments against your own country.

 

[Local Fed]

You can call your country retarded, make fun of your fellow retarded countrymen, hate it, but don't make being one of the good ones you're entire personality. Even when you go "I'm such a dumb American" or "I'm a stupid American but..", you aren't gaining respect, they are only keeping you around to make fun of you behind your back. Most of the time they don't see you as a good one, they will keep you around to belittle you, have you dance like a monkey for their entertainment, and use you in arguments against your own country.

It's the same thing with "white ally" types. Prostrate yourself all day if you want, but in the end you're just a bitch that's shucking and jiving for massa.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Bullshitting and blowing smoke up someone's ass.

The truth hurts still, but it hurts far less than having issues gaslit into being "non-issues". Absolutely gets on my fucking nerves.

In order to resolve an issue, one must acknowledge said issue. Then *maybe* it can be dealt with.

I'm not a fucking woman or a child. You can tell me shit and maybe I can deal with it.

Christs sake why do people think I'm so right wing? Lmfao

Ok: if you getting pissed because you’re fucked up and people aren’t handling you how you want, etc., inevitably leads to insulting people who have nothing to do with you and your issue (WOMEN) for no fucking reason, then you are a miserable son of a bitch with fucked-up priorities and you should get your head out of your ass.

Direct enough?

Now go deal with it, as you promised you would.

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And my gears are pre-grinded today bc yesterday I made the mistake of comparing cars and costs online through Car & Driver’s site, which yes lets dealers know you’re curious about certain cars. That was yesterday evening. By 9 am this morning I had 9 texts and 5 phone calls. The phone calls started a minute after 8 am. And woke me up 3 different times until I just gave up trying to sleep in.

I am not taking business calls at 8 am Saturday morning, fuck off.

And my phone is set so that only certain calls are supposed to actually ring/vibrate. How did all of these get around that???

 

[Lovely Kin]

It's the same thing with "white ally" types. Prostrate yourself all day if you want, but in the end you're just a bitch that's shucking and jiving for massa.

Right. I recently witnessed a Russian trying to make himself one of the good ones someone from France kept insulting. I was hoping that he would insult those French bastards and mention about the decline of Paris. Sadly he never did.

 

[Captain Syrup]

"WFH" types in Starbucks.

Radiating an unearned confidence usually reserved for TED Talk speakers, laptop, phone, charger, second charger and as much table space as possible, as if their laptop contains state secrets instead of a half-finished Substack.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Despite the fact that my car has low miles and runs very smooth, my engine light went on. I am 90% certain it is because it is in need of an oil change. I call two automotive places to ask if they can run the diagnostic device on my car and change my oil. BOTH have automated call center service with a modest automated telephone tree. I hate that you can't call a place of business a mile up the road and talk to someone local to your area to just ask a question that can be resolved in 10 seconds to a minute, depending on if there is a followup question or two. Instead, the caller has to spend 3 minutes navigating menus and several times the time frame to explain WHICH location they are calling for to a person who is less equipped to answer questions than the person making the direct observations. It was upsetting enough when every huge company went to call center practices, now even local and small ones are doing it. I miss the world where calling Jones' Garage would connect you with Jones or one of his direct employees.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

It's the same thing with "white ally" types. Prostrate yourself all day if you want, but in the end you're just a bitch that's shucking and jiving for massa.

And it's the same thing with minorities who do it, too.

I don't care how much you shit talk whatever race you are while praising the whuite man. You're still one of them, and you doing shit like that doesn't endear yourself to me. It just makes me not like you more because it's such a cowardly, and pathetic thing to do.

 

[BeckhoffAX5702]

Oh I know one, motherfuckers who would park halfway between my driveway and pavement (and blocking me in unless I do some car gymnastics) to drop off their kids at school. Learn to drive ya cunts!

 

[internet friend]

Despite the fact that my car has low miles and runs very smooth, my engine light went on. I am 90% certain it is because it is in need of an oil change. I call two automotive places to ask if they can run the diagnostic device on my car and change my oil. BOTH have automated call center service with a modest automated telephone tree. I hate that you can't call a place of business a mile up the road and talk to someone local to your area to just ask a question that can be resolved in 10 seconds to a minute, depending on if there is a followup question or two. Instead, the caller has to spend 3 minutes navigating menus and several times the time frame to explain WHICH location they are calling for to a person who is less equipped to answer questions than the person making the direct observations. It was upsetting enough when every huge company went to call center practices, now even local and small ones are doing it. I miss the world where calling Jones' Garage would connect you with Jones or one of his direct employees.

If you haven't already fixed it yet, go to a local auto parts store and ask to borrow an engine code reader. Most places will lend you one for free and you can see what's the problem that caused the check engine light. They won't fix it for you, but at least you can know what the problem is.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

If you haven't already fixed it yet, go to a local auto parts store and ask to borrow an engine code reader. Most places will lend you one for free and you can see what's the problem that caused the check engine light. They won't fix it for you, but at least you can know what the problem is.

Thanks, there's an O'Reilly's close to me and topping the coolant didn't do the trick. I'm just minimizing travel til Monday when I get my oil changed. It's only been on for like 20 - 40 miles (saw it when I was 20 miles from home).

Thread tax: The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get the least expensive oil change. 15-20 was standard not *that* long ago and now you're incredibly lucky to find them under 40 without a coupon. If you want them under 50, you have to shop a bit. The dollar has devalued, but come on, not that much.