Little Frustrations - The Place for All Your Minor Venting Needs

[Morgyn]

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.

[Morgyn]

Turned out to be the Teams program on my work computer. I done fixed THAT.

[peccavi]

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[LurkMeister]

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.

[Aspenglow]

I’m really sick of people stupid-dancing in commercials. Nothing about that makes me want to buy their products.

[Kitten_Mitten]

Yeah, I’ve totally had it with that Jardians or Gardians or whatever commercial.

[TruePisces]

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.

[DrDeth]

@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.

[DrDeth]

@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.

[JaneDoe42]

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.

[SuntanLotion]

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!

[purplehorseshoe]

@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.

[JaneDoe42]

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.

[kayaker]

Been there. They can be sooo good.

[JaneDoe42]

And they are so easy to eat!

[kayaker]

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.

[JaneDoe42]

Or 17, right?

[romansperson]

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.

[kayaker]

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?

[romansperson]

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 …