National brands also make spray translucent frost paint. There are varieties of it that are designed to be easily removed when no longer needed.
Yes, but you have posted how you eat way expired, rotten food straight out of the garbage. So someone in your house checking expiration dates seems like the reasonable and safe thing to do.
So benign and appropriate but it still makes him seethe?
I watch a lot of soap making videos on youtube. Like, a lot. I’ve never made soap, I don’t intend to, I just find them interesting. I’m a bit of an armchair expert.
They spend most of the videos making the soap batter and coloring parts of it, only to muddle them all up at the end. Why bother to make separate colors if you are going to swirl them so much that you end up with mud brown. It annoys me so much.
Perhaps they’re preparing food for YOU, and they’re just checking to see whether it’s rotten, curdled or moldy enough.
Or just don’t wear your undies; if they look it’s their fault.
Don’t know which situations this’d work in, but if I put headphones on and don’t look right at people, I become invisible.
I often draw on our front porch. If I’m in the mood and enjoying the people walking by, they’ll stop or at least say hi. But if I’m not feeling friendly, or if I’ve got a deadline, I can grab earbuds or even big noise-cancelling cans, look elsewhere and everyone just walks on by…
I think they’re tuned (biologically, perchance) to think “Okay, that’s not a predator, not looking, not listening, so meaningless.”
I’ll bet if you asked them later “Who was the guy on that porch?” They’d say “What porch? There was a guy?”
Or… due to social norms they realize you don’t want to be bothered. Just a thought.
~Max
Damn, all my anthro-bio-socio-analysis down the drain!
You might just be right. But, darn, I can’t exactly break character to poll the neighbors…
My neighbour is a great guy. He’s a general contractor, and has done a few things for me, around my house, which he’s done well, and even given me a discount (“Hey, you’re my neighbour”), and I’ve done the same, when he’s needed legal help with his contracts.
However. Our driveways are right beside each other, and he has the annoying habit of parking his pickup truck in front of his (his driveway is full of work trailers). His friends often park in front of my place, but so close to my driveway that it makes getting my truck out of the driveway nearly impossible. And if the across-the-street neighbour has friends visiting who park in front of his place (across the street from my driveway), then I’m pretty much trapped from getting my truck out of my driveway. More than once, I’ve looked at the situation, know that I’m effectively prevented from using my truck that day, and just called a cab.
You can do an experiment. Sit out on the porch with your headphones on, and maybe undergarments too. Watch for the turned heads and fight or flight response.
~Max
Here’s one of mine. I’m behind only one person in 7-11 to get my Big Gulp. Of course that person needs to spend over five minutes to decide how to split up their $10 among the lottery scratcher choices.
I’m annoyed this is a norm. I like to listen to music while I work, but taking walk-up questions is part of my job, and I like to help. When I’ve got headphones on, people are reluctant to stop.
I usually just listen with one ear, and scoot one earphone back just a bit to leave the ear toward the door uncovered. That seems to help, along with being really quick to whip off the headphones whenever somebody hesitates at my door.
None of this has been an issue in the last year, of course. I just play my music out loud in my own house, which is awesome.
What gets me is when I’m first to a four-way stop, and the second person waves me on as if they’re doing something nice, and I didn’t have the right-of-way to begin with.
On an escalator and the people in front of me are just standing there, blocking the way.
Stand on the right if you don’t want to move and let people pass on the left (assuming the escalator is wide enough for this).
I just assume they are making sure I see them. What I hate is when they have right of way, but won’t take it. Then you risk them deciding as you are in the intersection to go across.
Totally not benign, nor appropriate.
Oh, yeah! Were I an alien observing humans at a 4-way stop, I think I’d sterilize the planet just to make room for a species that is actually intelligent.
I get annoyed with people who seem to be “following” me on the highway. You know, that car that slots in behind you and they decide to just stay there. They don’t tailgate, but they never try to pass, and never drop off, they just stay with you. You move over to pass a truck, they go with you. You speed up a little, they speed up the same amount to keep up.
I’m certain these people are not police, and I’m also certain they are not actually following me, but rather are just going in the same direction, with the marginal possibility they are using me as a “speed trap shield.” Still, I just hate having the same car right behind me for a long time. Fuck off!
There is a very nice lady at work. Every time she sees me she says my first name by way of greeting or acknowledgement. It’s very irritating because it pulls my attention in a way that just saying “hey….” wouldn’t. I always think she needs to speak to me, but no.