# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/161 "2023-05-18T17:55:23Z")
Someone or something keeps making one of my computers PING at me. I don’t know which, I don’t know what program, I DO know I’m getting IRRITATED. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/162 "2023-05-18T21:13:10Z")
Turned out to be the Teams program on my work computer. I done fixed THAT. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/163 "2023-05-18T22:27:24Z")
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**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/164 "2023-05-20T20:22:09Z")
Last week for some reason the Search function on my DVF stopped working. Whenever I try to search for a program I get an error message. I called AT&T and talked to someone at tech services. Restarting the DVR and even having them reboot my whole Uverse/fiber system at their end did not solve the problem. Their proposed solution is to replace the DVR. However, this means I would lose all the programs and movies I currently have stored on my DVR; from past experience there is no way to transfer the contents of one DVR to another. Supposedly this is to prevent anyone from being able to copy the contents of the DVR to an external storage device (which would be a copyright violation). So I guess I’m just going to have to live without being able to search for anything. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/165 "2023-05-20T20:31:35Z")
I’m really sick of people stupid-dancing in commercials. Nothing about that makes me want to buy their products. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/166 "2023-05-20T21:31:46Z")
Yeah, I’ve totally had it with that Jardians or Gardians or whatever commercial. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/167 "2023-05-20T21:43:02Z")
The only thing I asked from my kids was to do some cleaning in the main rooms. Did it happen on Mother’s Day? Of course not. Did it happen at all during the week? Of course not. Did they do anything at all today to help, especially knowing that we have company coming tomorrow? Ha. Ha. Ha. I just finished doing a general clean of the living and dining rooms - straightening the tables, putting the new cover on the couch, sweeping the floor. And, of course, the kids left all sorts of crap on the floor that I then had to bend over and pick up. Which isn’t doing anything for my back. I’m so tired of this being the case every. single. time. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/168 "2023-05-20T21:51:56Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Those goddam string cheese wrappers. You know how they open. You just have to somehow insert your too-short thumbnail into the non-existent opening between the 2 pressed-together bits of cling film that protect the cheese so you can grasp each side and peel them apart. I have spent literal _minutes_ working over a stupid cheese wrapper. I have occasionally resorted to _scissors_. Yep. Those give me trouble also. Then shredded cheese in “resealable” packages- sometimes when you tear it doesnt even come close to be able to open, and then when you try to reseal- maybe. > [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > Another difficult-to-open item is small pouches of cat treats. I forget that every time. They’re part of my cat photo kit and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten in with a cat, gotten everything ready, tried to tear a bag of treats open at the “tear here” notch… > > and found that it’s actually sealed well below the “tear here” notch, so if you tear it straight across or anything but just the right downward angle, it’s still sealed and you have to go get scissors in order to open it. Such a pain in the butt. More or less like that yeah, and yeah kitty treat bags are not a treat for us humans. > [@enipla](#): > > Umm… They put it on the registry because THEY like (need) it. Well, until you see a newlywed in line at Target or etc exchanging a carload of gifts for cash credit. > [@digs](#): > > The first day of retirement, I was home all day. > “So, you’re really going to _Be Around_ all day, every day, for the rest of your life?” Yeah, the wife gets happy when I lave to D&D or the beach or something. > [@TruePisces](#): > > I love board games. We’ve got a couple hundred at a guess. I’ve seen everything from cheaply made to exquisite. But what REALLY bugs me are the companies that don’t think about long term useregarding internal packaging. They know they will have lots of expansions/extra card packs (I’m looking at you, Arkham Horror) yet still put barely any extra room for those expansions. Either that or they put in a lot of filter - strangely shaped cardboard, insets that have long raised portions. They give you a ton of small pieces that are required to pay the game and instead of including either plastic bags to put them in after punching them out or creating a well in the insert for them to go into without flying everywhere. Preach it! > [@kayaker](#): > > When I tell my gf dinner will be ready at 8 pm, then at 7:55 she tells me she’s going to “run out to the barn” (something that can take anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour, depending on why she’s going) it makes me unhappy. Yeah. I do most of the cooking but I do not think my wife has eaten a single meal if fixed hot yet. For breakfast, she comes down as it is plated, sure… but then has to feed the cats, wash their dishes and what not. For any other meal, she “has to go upstairs for a minute” just as I announce food is ready. That “minute” is usually a half hour. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/169 "2023-05-20T21:57:10Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I agree about LLBean stuff~lasts forfrigging ever! When I lived in Boston eons ago I bought some things that I’m still using 40 years later. Orvis lasts a long time also. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/170 "2023-05-21T01:44:55Z")
A while back I bought some some 3 inch tall tomato sprouts and planted two of everything I wanted so that when they got established, I could pick the ones I wanted and whack the others. All of them have flowers and I am not capable of killing plants that are flowering so I’m going to be up to my ass in tomatoes because I’m an idiot who just doesn’t seem to be capable of learning through experience. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/171 "2023-05-21T02:19:06Z")
I came here to complain that the song Jet kept going through my head. Now that I started typing this, I Believe I Can Fly has taken over! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/172 "2023-05-21T06:40:30Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I’m going to be up to my ass in tomatoes because I’m an idiot I can think of far, _far_ worse fates than being awash in homegrown tomatoes mid-summer. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/173 "2023-05-21T21:28:37Z")
I have learned that it is possible to eat too many cherry tomatoes at once. That lesson doesn’t stick either, I seem to have to relearn it every 4 or 5 years. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/174 "2023-05-21T21:30:07Z")
Been there. They can be sooo good. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/175 "2023-05-21T21:34:45Z")
And they are so easy to eat! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/176 "2023-05-21T21:46:47Z")
We always plant a cherry tomato in a planter by the man door to our garage. Come home from work, stop and grab a tomato. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/177 "2023-05-21T21:47:54Z")
Or 17, right? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/178 "2023-05-21T23:01:53Z")
How do you keep the squirrels, deer and dogs out of them? Around here, they’d be gone before we’d ever get one unless we built Fort Knox around the pot. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/179 "2023-05-22T01:06:14Z")
deer used to be a problem. They ate our rhododendrons, azaleas, etc. We tried repellents that worked minimally. Then we gave up and started feeding them. We put out 3 pounds of shelled corn daily, and old hay all winter. They eat that and leave our stuff alone. Coexist? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500/180 "2023-05-22T01:10:04Z")
So no problems with squirrels or the dogs? We don’t have dogs any more, but one year I was blaming the squirrels for stealing the Sungolds until I saw our greyhound Tough picking a few … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-frustrations-the-place-for-all-your-minor-venting-needs/981500.md?page=10)