This one is geeky, but:
I hate it when I get a GRUB error.
I really hate it when I get a GRUB error when my bootloader is LILO!
I really hate it when I sit down on the toilet, having just made the race to be seated before my butt explodes, and then it explodes.
And only then do I notice that there’s no TP on the roller, and I’d meant to bring a new roll in when I next went to the bathroom.
(And I live alone, so I can’t yell for someone to help me.)
And what if your bootloader is STITCH! :eek:
OK, I confess I really have NO idea what GRUB errors are, I just couldn’t resist!
I hate it when software comes with hideously long and complicated verification codes.
I really hate it when you type the code in slowly and carefully, making very sure that you have got everything there, then look up at the monitor and realise that another window had the focus and you have to enter it all over again.
I really, really hate it when they make you type the hideously long and complicated verification code twice!(yes, I have had software that did this)
I hate programers that use a drop menu for items over 10 choices. Let them type it in and run a check that it’s a valid entry.
The whole remainder of the form can be fill in the blank, but they instist on a drop down menu for the two letter state, and I’m in WI. Check the input with the other’s at submission and if wrong say sorry change it. Worse is a drop down form for your country, when it’s every one they can wind in an atlas. Once again run a routine to modify what I typed into the exact form you want to store it as.
They also display only capital letters when you type in the code, but keep the keyboard input in it’s original form. Sorry that’s incorrect, try again. You call them up and they say “You have to type it in small not capital letter’s sir.” The printed code is in capitals and the program aparrently will show only capital letters during the input, but typing capitals will fail and request you to try again. One offender of this was some older version of Windows during OS installation.
I hate it when you wait for a streetcar at the exact same spot that you caught a streetcar last week, but then when it comes it whooshes right past you because you didn’t realize you were standing at a Sunday stop.
(What the hell is a Sunday stop, anyway? I know, it’s a stop that they only stop at on Sundays. What is the point of that, other than to confuse people like me and make us miss our streetcars?)
I really hate it when you take off running after the streetcar because, it being College Street, the stops are really close together and the traffic moves really slowly, and you actually make it to the next stop just in time, and the driver (who saw you standing like an idiot at the Sunday stop, and subsequently take off running when you realized you’d been passed) closes the doors in your face and takes off again.
But I really love it when you take off running once more, and manage to get to the next stop in advance of the streetcar, and get on it. It’s nice to be able to outrun streetcars once in a while.
It must be, because that’s what I do. I suspect a thief could get away from stealing from my account for a long time if he only spent $38.23 at Amazon, $41.23 at Wal-Mart, etc.
Hit the “W” key on your keyboard, then either use the drop-down box from there or keep hitting the “W” key. I only have to hit “T” twice to get TX to show up.
W gets you WA in the window and the state selction drop meus are close to the bottom and they tended to extend beyond the monitors bottom a lot. You then scroll up the window for the aplication and that closes the drop down. You finaly get to the WI after a going through the drop down again, and find the box has WA in it because the click was just a little off. I would have been done in about 4 seconds, and I had too piss around for a minute minimum.
The country thing is still the worse though “USA”, “North Ameriaca USA”, and many variations leave you searching the colmn wondering where in the order to begin. I’m sure other countries are just as big a problem.
How do you tell if it’s wrong? If the user types in MI, how can I programmatically tell that they mean Minnesota, not Michigan?
What they really oughta do is have a reverse zip code look up - type in your zip code first, the it brings up a small list of cities and the state. But that’s a whole lot more work, and it only works in the US.
There are 50 two letter combinations that work and nothing else. anything other than one of those is an invalid state, ask for a correction. What you ask for is the same as clicking the wrong state in the first place. You just need to make sure invalid combinations don’t pass to the database, and bugger the programs. That is why they use a drop down menu in the first place, less errors and variations by limiting input. It’s a very good way to make sorting easier. It is not a good choice for input for more than a few items. You should run an input filter on the data at that point, as a 50 choice drop down menu is not a user freindly implimentation.
A task in data base entry is a pain on drop down menu entries for items that change more than once a day. In the case of almost all entries being the same, then using a drop down with the default set to that entry works good.
This is something I hate, and that’s the thread topic. I won’t post here on this again.
C’mon, it’s not like the Underground is a real subway. 
:dubious: 
No, they’re not all bad as I’ll prove with this story that is very similar to the OP’s with an exception or two:
So, I see the bus is at the stop longer than usual but I don’t want to run because I know I look like a llama in heat (actually, in my case, a hippo just getting out of a pool after being in the water too long and has gotten rubber legs) and I know he’s going to pull away at any second.
But he doesn’t and again, I debate gallumphing ahead. I don’t and I eventually get there and the bus hasn’t left yet. I get on only to find the driver is one whom I’ve ridden with many times and he saw me and figured I was probably on my way to the stop so he waited for me. Then I feel foolish for holding everyone up.
I hate that. Especially when I know that there’s another bus in ten minutes and I’m in no big hurry. But I thank the nice drivers who have done this for me.
Another thing I hate is when I’m spending a long night rolling about in bed trying to get to sleep and, to pass the time, I’m thinking up threads I could post here at the Dope. The next day I click onto MPSIMS only to find my “I Hate” thread idea has been stolen not once but twice! Gee, thanks, guys!
Oh and I hate that I can’t even think of the thing that made me want to start an “I Hate” thread in the first place. Gee, thanks, me!
When I started this thread I also had another idea for a thread which was unsurpassed in its brilliance and originality - by the time this thread had been created, that part of my brain had been reformatted and I have no recollection of what that thread was going to be about.
It’s brilliance, however, grows with the passing of time.
Grim
I hate it when I’m walking to my bus stop only to see my bus turning the corner. (meaning I just missed it)
I REALLY hate it when I’m walking to my bus stop only to see two or more buses turning the corner. (Queens buses resemble fish in that they often like to school together)
I hate it when I’m on the subway car and there’s no one at all in front of the door, and as we approach my stop, I get up and fold my newspaper and zip up my jacket and walk to the door and stand directly in front of the door, looking alert…
And someone who has been sitting down watching me do this walks up behind me and says “Excuse me.”
That’s right, this person wants me to move out of the way so they can exit the train first.
Mind you, the person has just observed me get ready to exit and walk to the door. There cannot be any question at all in this person’s mind that I intend to exit. Nor do I look slow or unready. I won’t hold the idiot up at all – he or she simply wants to go BEFORE ME, and brazenly says so.
It’s happened about a dozen times this year.
I swear, the next time someone does that, when they say “Excuse me,” I’m going to smile reassuringly and say, “It’s okay, I can barely smell it.”
Sailboat
I hate it when my car hits a patch of ice and I slide into the ditch, requiring a tow and a lot of expensive auto body work.
I REALLY hate it when my car hits a patch of ice and I slide into the ditch flipping over, exploding into a ball of flames and I die.
I get this on the aforementioned bus. Depending on crowd, I will stand at the exit door on the bus rather than sitting. Most anyone who gets on at my stop or afterwards will be exiting at the final stop (subway transfer). So as we approach the stop, people will either “Excuse me” or try to shoulder in front of me. It’s not like it’s the last stop or anything…wait, it is the last stop and EVERYONE is getting off. Even worse. Sardine can full, and someone sitting will ask “Excuse me” in the same circumstance. Yeah, I’m in danger of impregnating the woman in front of me and I’m worried you might not be able to get up and get off before me.
I feel your pain.