# Little Frustrations - The Place for All Your Minor Venting Needs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500 "2023-03-22T15:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/221 "2023-06-02T19:26:19Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Nothing quite so unsettling as discovering you’ve peed all over your food, I think I am speaking for everyone when I say EWWWWWW! I hope you never have to do that again. I also hope I never have to do it at all cause what a PITA. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/222 "2023-06-02T19:28:36Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I hope you never have to do that again. I also hope I never have to do it at all cause what a PITA. Thanks, me, too, on both counts. And my reaction was exactly the same!!! What’s especially irritating is how careful I was to ensure that lid was on securely each time. Each. Time. And still it leaked. So gross!!! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/223 "2023-06-02T19:37:56Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I had to take a 24-hour pee test (don’t ask why). This involves collecting every drop of one’s urine over a 24-hour period, then keeping it in a container, which must be refrigerated, until it is returned to the medical facility. A friend did that for pay (a drug study) during college. He brought his one gallon milk jug to a party with him. When he left, very drunk and with a cast on one arm (from an earlier mishap) he fell going up steep steps. Face first onto concrete, smashing his face up and smashing his urine container. He then had to walk home wet, bloody, and stinking of piss. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/224 "2023-06-02T19:44:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Face first onto concrete, smashing his face up and smashing his urine container. He then had to walk home wet, bloody, and stinking of piss. We’ll agree my mishap wasn’t as bad as that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/225 "2023-06-02T19:44:26Z")
It’s been raining all day, but not REALLY raining, just enough to make doing things outside unpleasant. If yer gonna rain, RAIN dammit. I’ve dusted, washed windows, vacuumed and mopped the exercise loft, cleaned the kitchen. All out of ideas other than the Dope and maybe a book. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/226 "2023-06-02T19:48:38Z")
**EWWWWWWW!!!** (yes discourse, that is indeed a complete sentence that says everything needed) ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/227 "2023-06-03T04:14:03Z")
I think I’m going to have to break down and ask my doctor for a GI referral. Over the past year, I’ve been having a lot of gastric upsets, and I’ve been blaming them on things like eating too much or too late in the evening. But it’s getting clearer and clearer that certain of my favorite foods trigger it - I can’t drink red wine anymore, chile and curry tear up my stomach, and I’m currently sitting up uncomfortably instead of going to bed because the moderate portion of spaghetti pomodoro I ate at six o’clock is threatening to make a reappearance. But I don’t _want_ food restrictions! ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/228 "2023-06-03T15:59:36Z")
I keep some work papers in a 3-ring binder, and bought a set of those Avery section dividers with little tabs to slip labels into. The label sheet suggested using Avery template #whatever, which the last time I did that 20 years ago, was easy and worked well. This time, Avery _made me sign up with an account_ – the saving grace here is it let me use my go-to account email [JoeBlow@hotmail.com](mailto:JoeBlow@hotmail.com), password Password123. I get the template going in Microsoft Word; of course it is clumsily created so that the tab key doesn’t work to move between table cells, and you have to click in the exact center of each cell to type, lest you select the wrong element. I get half a page of labels typed in and looking good, put the sheet in and printed it, and — of course the template is wrong. It’s for labels almost twice as big as the ones on the sheet saying right on it, “use Avery template #whatever” which I carefully did. I want my 20 minutes back. Screw you, Avery. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/229 "2023-06-03T16:21:41Z")
That must have been Avery frustrating experience. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/230 "2023-06-03T16:40:17Z")
Well, I got my wish. Now it’s really raining! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/231 "2023-06-03T16:45:23Z")
Here’s my ongoing pet peeve: Amazon customers who _rate_ but don’t bother to _review_. I routinely check out amazon reviews when shopping for different things-- not just books, but appliances, makeup, clothes, electronics, vitamins, etc. I’ll go to the page for an item and there will be, say, 45 ratings with at least a third being one-star (unsatisfactory), but NO REVIEWS with the one-star ratings. 😡 Or just a one-word review: “crap” or “not good.” Thanks a whole fuck of a lot. Geez, Louise, people, help a fellow shopper out! OTOH I very much appreciate amazon reviewers who take the time to write out long, literate critiques of the product or book, noting the pros and cons, and spelling out exactly why they find the item satisfactory or not. There is a special place in heaven for those people. 😇 The husband of a friend believes that **ALL** amazon reviews are bogus and computer-generated. I guess now that ChatAI is everywhere, his skepticism will get cranked up a few more notches. I know this isn’t true, because _my_ reviews have appeared on amazon. There is a site (with a browser extension) called [https://reviewmeta.com/](https://reviewmeta.com/) that uses an algorithm to screen amazon reviews. But it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to identify blatantly bogus reviews. Anyway. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/232 "2023-06-03T19:40:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Face first onto concrete, smashing his face up and smashing his urine container. He then had to walk home wet, bloody, and stinking of piss. Ah College, the best years of your life. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/233 "2023-06-03T20:46:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I dislike it when paying a bill with a tear-off slip to be returned with the payment. The slip usually doesn’t match up with the perforation, making it hard to tear properly so it will fit in the envelope. I concur. Really annoying. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Amazon customers who _rate_ but don’t bother to _review_. Yeah, I am a “top” Amazon Reviewer, and I like and count on well done reviews. I often check out the 4\* and 2\* reviews, as like you say _“crap” or “not good.”_ reviews are useless. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > OTOH I very much appreciate amazon reviewers who take the time to write out long, literate critiques of the product or book, noting the pros and cons, and spelling out exactly why they find the item satisfactory or not. There is a special place in heaven for those people. You are welcome. Altho even I admit that when I get a cheap item I am supposed to review for Amazon, the review will general be short and pithy. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/234 "2023-06-03T21:12:41Z")
Funny - another of my little frustrations is the unending requests for reviews. The tiniest thing you buy or the most fleeting customer service experience leads to someone pestering you for a full review, and I’ve gotten sick of it. That’s a lot of writing no one’s paying me to do (so is this, but you guys are special). I bought your doodad, and unless it’s exceptional in some way, good or bad, I don’t feel compelled to write a blurb for you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/235 "2023-06-03T21:50:53Z")
I know people get those requests, but for some reason, I never do. I do a boatload of online shopping-- I sometimes get two or three Amazon deliveries in a week-- but I can’t remember the last time I got a request to review something. Why doesn’t anyone like me? ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/236 "2023-06-03T22:29:03Z")
I bought edibles from the weed store and before I got home, I had a text and two emails asking me how I rated their service. I…pointed to what I wanted and she gave it to me correctly? There’s not a lot to say. I go to the dentist for cleanings twice a year and almost always see the same hygeinist I’ve been seeing for the past 15 years, and they email me asking for a review. Now, I absolutely love her, and I enthusiastically recommend the practice every chance I get, but it gets really old writing a heartfelt paragraph about her twice a year. Google, creepily enough, tells me it’s noticed that I’ve gone to businesses it lists and asks for full reviews. I finish a library book on Kindle and “Goodreads” (aka Amazon) wants my thoughts. I never finished my English degree; I’m rarely in the mood to write a book report now. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/237 "2023-06-04T02:27:35Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Funny - another of my little frustrations is the unending requests for reviews. The tiniest thing you buy or the most fleeting customer service experience leads to someone pestering you for a full review, and I’ve gotten sick of it. Reviews and/or surveys. No, I’m not going to do a survey for every business I bought something from and every medical appointment I went to. Especially since, in my experience, there’s never any way to say what I’d actually want to say on the survey (which is all too often something like ‘the person(s) I spoke with appeared to do the best that they\* could, but you appear to have your organization structured so that nobody communicates with anybody else. And while we’re at it, your phone tree is horrible.’ \*Note how convenient it is to have a singular ‘they’! The same word also works when the referent could be either singular or plural! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/238 "2023-06-04T13:02:38Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Google, creepily enough, tells me it’s noticed that I’ve gone to businesses it lists and asks for full reviews. Heh, I do many reviews for Google and Google Maps. I especially enjoy doing restaurant reviews and Google says I’m in the top 5% of restaurant reviewers. I’m currently working on helping answer their questions about each place I visit. So the other day I stop at the local farm market. I answered about a dozen questions: Can you buy oranges here? Did you have to wait to get in? Is this place trendy? Is there a handicapped entrance? Google sent me a cute pin. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/239 "2023-06-04T20:55:04Z")
A few months ago the hinge for the lid on my toilet seat broke off. The hinge for the seat still worked, so I put off buying a replacement until I could get a friend to give me a ride to Lowe’s. I had installed the original toilet seat myself, so I figured I could handle installing the new one without any problem. So this afternoon I decided to tackle this project. The first step, of course, was to remove the old seat. When I went to do this, however, I ran into a problem. The old seat was mounted to the toilet with a plastic nut underneath, and I could not get a grip on it with my wrench to loosen it. This was complicated by the fact that I’m not as flexible as I used to be, so I couldn’t get under the toilet to see what I was doing. (When I finally gave up and tried to get off the floor, I literally had to crawl out of the bathroom to be able to get support to get my knees under me so I could stand.) I really don’t want to hire a plumber or handyman to remove the old seat and install the new one. From past experience, this will require paying a minimum service call fee of at least $50 for what will be less than thirty minutes’ work. I posted a request on NextDoor in hopes of finding a helpful neighbor, but I’m really irked that what should have been a minor repair has turned into a major project. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/240 "2023-06-05T11:33:34Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > The old seat was mounted to the toilet with a plastic nut underneath, and I could not get a grip on it with my wrench to loosen it. I had that problem once. This is complicated by the toilet always being tucked into a corner or squeezed between the vanity and tub. I’m a very handy person with lots and lots of tools. This simple job turned into a giant pain in the ass. I think I ended up drilling the entire nylon bolt out from the top. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500.md?page=13)