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

[Captain Syrup]

When people back into parking spaces I get so pissed off. What are you running from?

Probably so they can make a clean getaway from a kids' soccer game. Very intense. Very necessary.

I can’t help but chuckle, it always makes me think of Stamp in The Limey barking “Bring the motor round! Pointed down!"

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

**Thread tax**: Is it that hard for a store to calibrate the self-scan scale or allow shoppers to mute the robotic voice that blares the price of the jumbo pack of Magnum XXL condoms (ladies ) and Reddit-Whip dessert topping to everyone in the vicinity?

This reminds me of the Fresh Prince episode where Will is working as a cashier in the college bookstore and uses the PA to say, "I need a price check on an athletic support, size SMALL!" and embarrasses the student trying to check out. Besides, these kind of moments probably give the store staff something to laugh about on what would otherwise be a shitty day.

While waiting to pay (no check was received at the table in many hours and we were waiting at the register for 10 minutes) a group of vibrant youths dined and dashed. Normally this would incense me, but the owners/managers of the establishment were SOOOO lax in their staffing (I am being held hostage for 15 minutes just WAITING TO PAY) that I legitimately considered this the equivalent of jumping in the tiger's den and blaming the tiger.

The urgent care closest to me had some sort of billing system issue where they didn't send me a bill for one of my visits. I had to go there in person to say, "I want to pay my balance, but you haven't sent me a bill. Please take my money." Meanwhile those that actively avoid paying their bills see little consequence.

Here's my thread tax. As part of my duties at a store I used to work at I was to watch for theft and report it.

At the place I first worked at, we were supposed to have a secret code to use on the paging system for a suspected shoplifter. Unfortunately, only one person seemed to care enough about addressing shoplifting and he was the only one to nab one during my time there.

Pisses me off when parents have obvious bias/favoritism towards one specific child which either leads to them getting away with everything or getting blamed for everything depending on which category they fall into.

Growing up, one of my neighbors felt their kids - especially their oldest - could do no wrong even when the rest of the kids in the neighborhood knew the oldest was an absolute brat. I may have discussed this in the childhood thread, but my friends and I got back at the kid when his dad got mad at us and told us to share the sidewalk with his kid and choose a half of it. As soon as the dad was out of earshot, one of us quickly said, "We get the top half."

Am I the only one noticing how gas pumps nowadays are breaking more often? I'm aware of how some scammers will tamper with these things, but how is it that these things are so prone to breaking every single damn week now? I don't remember it being as prevalent 4 years ago.

I imagine it's all the electric technology and the shitty display screens that can be used to display ads of whatever sort that leads to the increased downtime.

Thread tax: I’m officially over the flood of AI-generated celebrity deepfakes hawking miracle sludge in online ads. The fact that I keep getting blasted with this dreck only proves to me it's working on wide eyed rubes.

My thread tax version: I'm sick of all the AI-generated clickbait that is either inaccurate or flat out wrong even when it doesn't involve celebrities. It makes articles from the National Enquirer or The Onion look more credible.
Edited for spelling.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

People who comment about how much they love bacon on pet pig videos. You're just being a dick.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

People who comment about how much they love bacon on pet pig videos. You're just being a dick.

People do this with every animal. You'll see a video of a really happy cow rescued from being killed and it's just running around and hopping in a field it's never experienced before and there's a "HAPPIEST STEAK I EVER SEEN" type comment. You'll see a rabbit showing how smart they are doing a puzzle for a treat and someone will comment about eating it. I have to assume it's rage bait, or people met with the reality that animals do feel things and it bothers them deeply because they eat them and have to justify viewing them as simply just food with no ability to feel anything as living creatures.

 

[polaris_VII]

My Gen X father has a habit of always calling me for every single simple thing, I've tried getting him to text me instead about stuff and he never listens. This is autistic but if I'm relaxing/playing a game and he calls I get absolutely fucking furious, it's the one thing that can send me into a blind rage if I don't try to calm down. Like I'll be happy one second and then my stupid ringtone will go off and suddenly my mind's engulfed in hellfire. Odd. I love him, I really do.

If anyone has some ringtone recommendations I'd like to hear them, because I can make myself hate even the least jarring stuff.

 

[AnOminous]

If anyone has some ringtone recommendations I'd like to hear them, because I can make myself hate even the least jarring stuff.

My default ringtone is silence, no vibration.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I sort of hate that airsoft is associated with and is full of weirdo loser man children because it does actually seem like a fun thing to do and you get some exercise in and you learn some basic firearms tactics And safely maneuvering them around and engaging targets that also can shoot back. But a bunch of these fuckers take it way too seriously, to the point where average normal people that can see the benefits of it don't want to get into it including me.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

My Gen X father has a habit of always calling me for every single simple thing, I've tried getting him to text me instead about stuff and he never listens. This is autistic but if I'm relaxing/playing a game and he calls I get absolutely fucking furious, it's the one thing that can send me into a blind rage if I don't try to calm down. Like I'll be happy one second and then my stupid ringtone will go off and suddenly my mind's engulfed in hellfire. Odd. I love him, I really do.

If anyone has some ringtone recommendations I'd like to hear them, because I can make myself hate even the least jarring stuff.

Turn off the ringer.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

People who comment about how much they love bacon on pet pig videos. You're just being a dick.

What a unique and esoteric palette!!! I wonder if other people like bacon?

 

[M3xus]

People who don't work and then complain they have no money.

I've got someone like this in a hobbyist Discord server I'm in. It's pretty small and tight-knit, but this one faggot keeps dragging the mood down when we talk about getting tools and the like with shit like "I wish I could afford that" or "I guess I can't get that because I have no money". Motherfucker, I can tell you're fishing for someone to gift you shit, knock it off!

A little extra to add: When you tell someone to do something simple with clear instructions three times and they still fuck it up. Goddammit, how are you an adult if you fail at simple shit like that?

 

[Señora Airi]

People who don't work and then complain they have no money.

Sounds like who I work with: a bunch of people who, when busy season rolls around and you can get as many hours as you want, dont show up. But when it gets to the slow season and we have to run skeleton crews essentially, thats when everyone wants their hours.

Tax: people who have to "flex" on people. No, I don't care that you got a new car or new gun. I just want to finish work and go home.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

How the fuck do people not work during the week, where do all these freaks come from and why are their kids not in school

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Ive got someone like this in a hobbyist Discord server I'm in. It's pretty small and tight-knit, but this one faggot keeps dragging the mood down when we talk about getting tools and the like with shit like "I wish I could afford that" or "I guess I can't get that because I have no money". Motherfucker, I can tell you're fishing for someone to gift you shit, knock it off!

They're always the ones who you know also just bought something fucking retarded like a really expensive replica of a video game sword or something. I knew this guy who lived in a trailer and complained about not having money. He had expensive ass guns like a Hellion and spent money on like some really expensive custom light saber. Hed literally do payment plans for guns and shit. And his trailer was in disrepair. Like what the fuck dude

 

[M3xus]

I wish I could blast him for that, but he claims he used to work and no longer can due to an injury. From what little bits he's let out, it seems physical. I sympathize, but I wish he was self-aware enough to see how he drags the mood down with his "poor me" schtick.

Tax: I found out earlier today I'm in the unenviable position of "we'd love to promote you, but you're actually too valuable to us where you are, so we're not promoting you unless something changes". I never wanted to strangle my boss more than when I found that out.

 

[Brain Power]

How is pleather supposed to be "ecologic"? It's plastic! I miss when real leather was cheap and ubiquitous.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Are you familiar with the time that Jennifer Garner was on Conan O'Brien and played this out in real time? She"corrected" him with "snuck is not a word Conan, you went to Harvard, you should know this." He proceeded to bring out a dictionary and read "snuck, past and past participle of sneak."

She's 52 now but I hope she's ashamed of how she wore that dress; I am not titillated by your tits, Ms. Garner. No one is or was ever.

Tax: uh... hmm... hard to think of anything that doesn't involve brown people or the endemic ailments of society (brown people)... kind of been having a great time lately actually. Although the worn flex plate on my transmission is probably grinding my gears.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

People who niggerspend their way into debt and then start shaking a tin cup.

 

[FrogMinutes]

When people say "bless you" and you didn't sneeze
I don't know why, but when that happens I feel rage and have to go:
"erm actually, that wasn't sneeze it was a cough"

I think I'm the only one capable of getting upset over. This isn't a joke but this has lead to some pretty heated arguments
over "bless you" consent, and "just change the order of when you say bless you"

 

[Captain Syrup]

The big guy who plants himself squarely in a doorway, blissfully unaware that other people might actually want to use it.

You could tell him to move, but after watching enough people grimace and awkwardly shimmy by, I realize no one bothers anymore. And so the world turns, dumb as ever.

My default ringtone is silence, no vibration.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

People at work complaining about the same God damn shit day after day. Constantly spreading their negativity. Trying to eat lunch in peace at work is impossible, and if someone goes to their car, they gossip that the person is doing drugs. I'd like most of these people to die in a fire.