My problem is my overconfidence that the first sheet will tear properly if I use the bandaid removal strategy. I yank it hard, but most often only manage to undo half the glue. This results in half the roll with a 2-3 layer head start. I then have to sacrifice a few more layers to get it all consistent again.
To continue the theme of packaging, I’m struggling with opening cans right now. My favourite brand has done something screwy with their tins, as no matter how many different kinds of can openers I try they fail to open them cleanly. They slip, snap, or slide around, and do a half-hearted dangerously jagged job of it.
Unfortunately I seem to be suffering alone, nobody online seems to have this same issue. I have no idea what I may be doing that’s counter to expectation.
My mother, who by all accounts is an intelligent, well-educated woman with multiple Master’s degrees to her name, a decades-long teaching career, and no dyslexia to speak of, struggles to discern between the infinitive and present form of verbs.
I cannot for the life of me rationalize how someone so well-educated can be incapable of internalizing something that the vast majority of elementary schoolers manage. The occasional proof-reading of work she intends to submit has me all but embarking on an expletive-filled tirade. It is mind-boggling.
I thought I was the only one who was noticing this! I hate it too.
Another possible answer is “have you told them?”
There have been times someone was complaining that “they” hadn’t fixed something which had been a pain in the ass for yoinks, and I asked “have you told them?”
Nope, nobody had told them. In a couple of instances, “they” profusely thanked us because “they” knew that was wrong, but, since no customers had complained, “they” weren’t allowed to fix it. Another time, a “they” overheard us and asked if we’d file a report so “they” could fix it pretty please.
My mother complains that those “easy-open” cans and jars are “easy-open” only if she happens to have an adult child handy. There have been known instances of people in the same building going up and down to other units until they found someone between the ages of 15 and 65 because “I can’t open the damn bottle!”
That’s because you bungled the first sheet.
In your haste to get past the original problem from the OP you tore at the roll, only to get one ply to tear. Then once that unraveled, solving the glue problem, you ended up with the two plies paired with the top layer a few squares shorter and now on the bottom. Since the circumference of the roll is not always a whole number of squares, you have perforations that don’t line up.
My answer to this will always be, “Improper use of the apostrophe.”
Oh, and first-knuckle-deep pockets in womens’ pants. I HATE that! I have lost enough things out of girlie pockets when riding my bike that it makes me really, really mad. I don’t want to carry a purse. I tend to lose accessories that aren’t attached to me. I don’t like having to carry things. I want to put things in my %&*#@!!! POCKETS and I can’t because I can’t find any cool black womens’ skinny jeans with deep pockets.
Yes, I know that deep pockets full of money and keys sorta defeat the purpose of “skinny” jeans. I don’t care.
It is striking how many well-educated people can’t write for sour owl poop*. During my career I have had to deal with documents written by our highly educated staff, and was struck by one particular Harvard Law graduate whose prose was almost illiterate. I am not complaining about convoluted style or dense boilerplate (these are attorneys, after all), but simple things like subject-verb agreement being completely absent.
Gaudere’s Law being what it is, I probably have at least two grammatical errors in the above.
(* Harlan has quite a way with words, no?)
THIS!!! Especially “it’s” as a possessive. No pronoun possessives get an apostrophe. My, your, his, her, its, our, their . . . no apostrophes.
POCKETS YES! major peeve of mine. I want big, deep pockets on every single pair of pants I own. I’ve actually resorted to buying men’s jeans and pants for this purpose. Did you know men’s pants not only have plenty of pockets (I love the carpenter’s jeans) but they also come in multiple lengths? Who knew clothing manufacturers had actually noticed that people come in a variety of heights rather than three standard ones.
"He who takes
What isn’t his’n
Must give it back
Or go to prison.
Burma Shave
yeah, women’s clothes come in petite, junior, old fat ladies and I thought there was another size.
Apparently us women are basically all the same height.
Mens are classified with waist and length, a shit load easier to buy
Another thing that bothers me about clothing is that the bigger the waist the bigger the legs get. I do not have fat legs rather a wide middle!
My complaint of the past 5 years +/- is that directions on packages of ANYTHING are getting smaller! Aren’t most Americans these days baby boomers? Aren’t we the majority now?
We must not have a say anymore but we should :smack::eek:
HEY that missed my 
How dare!
Ok, just remembered another thing that bugs me big time
Why cannot people understand why I need to question what they say when I am merely trying to understand my mistake
The office apprised me of a mistake I made and I wrote back asking about it…she got mad by the third email, assuming the upper case letters she used.
What I did, did not make sense to me so I needed more explanation.
Must be another of their ten+ commandments
Thou shalt not question authority (this is something I always do and all my life I’ve done)
Thou shalt mail back pertinent papers within 24 hours after being served, they shall be watching post marks for this.
Thou shalt only do what’s necessary/following our few rules we were told of, and nothing extra to find defendant. Go to address, ask for defendant, report back if defendant is not living there. Do not ask for further information unless of course the office tells us to go back and do so. (Yeah and we get to make another 60 mile round trip to retrieve this info-with no additional pay)
Thou shalt not expect pay check for weeks on end even if we are told it is to take “up” to 14 days to issue. No direct deposit either so we have to depend on when they stick it in the mail and when the post person wants to deliver it. When they decide to cut the check and when we were suppose to get the check cut and when we actually get paid could be weeks to a month.
Thou shalt not ask what is taking so long for our pay. Pay lady then makes sure she does not cut check for extra week
Thou shalt not believe ANYONE that comes to the defendants door and states the defendant does not live there or for God’s sake died…thou shalt return over and over until the office is told by the attorney/client that they believe sufficiently that the defendant is indeed dead
Thou shalt not accuse any office personnel of their mistakes, they make none. EVER.
Thou shalt drive 60 miles round trip to serve someone that the said address residence is bank owned and not occupied. (FRICKIN IDIOTS AT OFFICE AND THE ATTORNEY)
The job is worth keeping but they do stress me at times
I have the same problem with lots of other people understand me so…yeah. Oh and good money too, most of the time AND when you can get your check.:dubious::(:mad:
Oh and their STUPID email program is worthless!
I seem to always miss a bit of the pokey thing when I buy a new shirt/pants and get stabbed all day at work. Those little things hurt!
Our copier/printer machine goes to sleep if nothing is sent for 5 minutes. I hate having to constantly go poke the wake-up button; first-world problem, but it is infuriating.
Texas license plates. Because Texas issues window stickers to show that the tag is current, when you move out of the state, there is no reason to register your vehicle in whatever state you currently live in because the local officials don’t really pay attention to that. I know people who have driven for years on expired Texas tags.
Usually there is a setting for that deep down in the device settings. If your machine doesn’t require a password for administrative functions, try digging around to see if you can find it.
If it does require an admin password, spam the IT department until they fix it. 
Back to toilet paper: does it bother anyone else that the cardboard tube has increased in circumference, meaning you’re getting less paper? For the same price as before? Or maybe a price increase to boot?
oh be careful with that one. When I switched states I also had window stickers from the old state and didn’t bother to register the car. Was planning to, just never got around to it. Until I got a speeding ticket and the alert officer noticed the problem. Big fine.
I’ve bugged IT, but apparently it’s part of our new “going green” initiative – same reason all the printers are now set to 2-sided print default and the timers on office lights go out after 10 minutes.