Things that frustrate us all

[Sibyl]

Don't know how you went this long without heat. Glad you got it back!

My frustration:

When you say "sorry" out of sympathy and the person tells you (or, in the case of one of my ex-friends, yells at you) that "it's not your fault."

No shit, Sherlock. I was expressing my sympathy for your situation.

 

[Discofan]

People who blow their smoke in your direction because it's outside and they feel entitled to do so. They don't realize or pretend no to, that their behavior makes them loathsome to people that one instant before had no reason to detest them whatsoever!

However social awkwardness seems to be the norm now so...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

how do you cook?

I don't.

 

[John Clark]

Frustration of today was several drivers on the way to work. Ok, for some of there were street lights and I had my headlights to see them, but they couldn't be bothered (or remember) to use their headlights. - On the darker streets, it was more of a pain and none of them seemed to take any notice of anyone trying to warn them

 

[Random_Spock]

People who blow their smoke in your direction because it's outside and they feel entitled to do so. They don't realize or pretend no to, that their behavior makes them loathsome to people that one instant before had no reason to detest them whatsoever!

However social awkwardness seems to be the norm now so...

Oh I hate that as well.

 

[opali]

This is such a little thing, but roundabouts are designed to be free-flowing. For the love of all that is traffic-holy (I say resignedly to the random driver ahead of me almost every day), please don't come to a complete stop when there is no traffic to be seen. It puts to shame the hard work and planning of at least a few civil engineers.

 

[Sibyl]

Frustration of today was several drivers on the way to work. Ok, for some of there were street lights and I had my headlights to see them, but they couldn't be bothered (or remember) to use their headlights. - On the darker streets, it was more of a pain and none of them seemed to take any notice of anyone trying to warn them

People just don't care anymore, nor do they know the etiquette for the opposite.
I can turn my lights off and on all day long and people just go on staring at their phones while driving (had to make an emergency maneuver recently to avoid someone that whipped into my lane while texting).

And on the other end...I almost always DO have my lights on, even during the day (oh, I HATE auto-lights that stay on in parking lots, shining in your eyes), but once I did forget to turn my lights on at night (daytime running lights fooled me). I ended up passing a slow car and as soon as I was passed, they turned their high beams on and LEFT them on! I could have sworn they were doing it because I had passed them (even though they were going MANY mph below the speed limit), so I got mad. When I got home I realized that my lights weren't on. Learn the freaking unspoken "rules" before you get behind the wheel!

And then there's this:

This is such a little thing, but roundabouts are designed to be free-flowing. For the love of all that is traffic-holy (I say resignedly to the random driver ahead of me almost every day), please don't come to a complete stop when there is no traffic to be seen. It puts to shame the hard work and planning of at least a few civil engineers.

We have a series of roundabouts on my way to the main shopping strip locally. There is a small, quiet neighborhood to the right as I get off of the freeway and almost without fail, the people coming from that direction fail to yield to the traffic coming from their left as they're entering the roundabout (remember, we drive on the right side of the road so roundabouts go counter- (anti-) clockwise). I really do believe, even though there is a prominent Yield sign as they're approaching, that they own that roundabout and have the right-of-way. I almost always need to slam on my breaks for them as I'm approaching as they don't even slow down.

Not to mention those that are already on the roundabout that stop for everyone entering it!

Stupid Americans!

As a minor nit, am I the only one that signals my exit from roundabouts to let those approaching that it's safe for them to go?

 

[Avro Arrow]

I don't.

This raises even more questions, but at this point, I feel like I'm prying into your personal life, so I'm just going to let it go.

As a minor nit, am I the only one that signals my exit from roundabouts to let those approaching that it's safe for them to go?

I realized one day that I have this odd habit that if I am exiting the roundabout on the very next spoke from where I entered, I will signal, but for any of the others, I will not. This was totally subconscious behaviour at first, and I didn't even realize right away I was doing it. I suspect it is because entering then exiting right away feels more like a traditional right turn.

FWIW, though, no, I don't usually see anyone signal on a roundabout.

 

[Sibyl]

I do.

It's technically the law, but no one observes it, even the police.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I do.

It's technically the law, but no one observes it, even the police.

I think part of the problem here is that they are so new in this area, most of the people driving learned to do so before they existed, and when you're first learning to drive is the only time you're looking into the finer details of traffic law.

I had to check just now to see if it was actually even the law here. (Spoiler alert: it is.)

 

[Sibyl]

Yes, you can tell by people's lack of ability to stop at stop signs, use their indicators, and handle 4-way stops that the general public tends to forget that there even are rules for driving.

It's become an all-too-common trend around here that the people turning left at a 4-way stop believe that they have the right-of-way over on-coming traffic going straight. The simple math of it says otherwise (oh, and the law!).

 

[Butters]

Not indicating on roundabouts is the height of rudeness, along with not observing lane discipline on them.

Also annoying, people that want to charge extra for hardwired appliances when selling their house.

No, I won’t pay for your unwanted elderly cooker, take it away and sell it to someone else, if you can. I was going to tear it out and replace it with something nice. It would have been nice to have a cooker until then, but I’ll just have to cope without for a bit.

They don’t need it, they can’t sell it, it’s an inconvenience to them to remove it, it doesn’t meet my needs, and they want money for it.

Make sure the wiring is made safe and clean the greasy space beneath it when it goes.

Pfft.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

When you have work you need to get done and you just can't tear yourself away from the Web. Not that you want to be on the Web, it's just that you don't want to do what you're supposed to be doing right now.

Sounds like an average day at my office. We Germans have a special expression for annoyingly time-consuming paperwork: paperwar. I'm a pacifist!

This is such a little thing, but roundabouts are designed to be free-flowing. For the love of all that is traffic-holy (I say resignedly to the random driver ahead of me almost every day), please don't come to a complete stop when there is no traffic to be seen. It puts to shame the hard work and planning of at least a few civil engineers.

Welcome back, opali Long time no see!
Obeying to traffic rules and applying common sense seem to be two abilities on the brink of extinction. The other day I read that on average the human IQ has been dropping 2 points per year lately. In the light of my daily observations on our roads I tend to believe that statistics misplaced a decimal point or two, like the infamous iron-in-spinach formula.

 

[John Clark]

My issue for today is relatively minor compared to others who will be much more affected, but I've got to reorganise some flights

 

[rhubarbodendron]

my commiserations, John Clark. Wrestling with flight schedules and battling unhelpful helplines for hours is pretty nervewrecking. I wouldn't call such an ordeal minor.

 

[John Clark]

my commiserations, John Clark. Wrestling with flight schedules and battling unhelpful helplines for hours is pretty nervewrecking. I wouldn't call such an ordeal minor.

Thanks, but I say it's minor, because for me, it's just scheds and calls and it's just a personal thing. I've also got a fair amount of time to spare on it.

For others, it's their jobs as that particular airline has stopped all operations so I'm much more sympathetic for them

One of my mates was rather less lucky as the same sort of thing happened to him while he was half way through his holiday, while mine is for a future one. - That said, I used the same airline as he did until they stopped running operations between the two locations I tend to visit.

 

[Discofan]

When you give someone a compliment and it is taken as meaning the opposite then no matter what you say it keeps being taken the wrong way so you decide to just walk away.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This raises even more questions, but at this point, I feel like I'm prying into your personal life, so I'm just going to let it go.

That’s OK, it’s no big deal. I live alone, and have neither the desire nor the ability to cook. So I eat out all the time - sometimes by myself, but my dad and I have dinner together a lot as well. So it’s all good!

Besides, I recently got a CO detector, and I know for a fact that my oven would have set it off. So that was yet another reason why I ditched the oven.

 

[XCV330]

I have a internal defibrulator installed late in august. they had to do a second operation as a wire came loose in my heart when they installed it. I feel wierd talking about things being installed in me.

it has a bluetooth reader that allows it to be monitored and alerts sent through my phone. i keep it unhooked cause the more I think about it, I hate this thing. i dont like having a machine or emitting signal even though i know its keeping me alive. i know i just have to get used to it, but i can feel it, and its not part of me

 

[Discofan]

When you have a second spare key, in case you lose the first one and the day comes when you need it but it takes nearly an hour to remember where you hid it!!!