Dropping things while on a ladder. It seems to happen every time. If I’m installing anvils on your 2nd story wall, you do NOT want to be nearby.
Gas pumps that don’t print a receipt. “Clerk has receipt inside” scrolls across the display. If I had wanted to go inside I would have done so in the first place - and paid while I was in there! Besides, what does the clerk want with my receipt? Are they wallpapering the bathroom?
Mowing the lawn. Hate it. It’s the primary reason I had kids.
Central air conditioner units should only be allowed to be installed outside of the owner’s bedroom. You, and you alone should have to tolerate the noise! Not over on the side under the neighbour’s bedroom window. Especially when the neighbour doesn’t have a central air unit and wants their windows open.
When people leave half a doughnut in a group setting. If you need to count your calories that badly either take the whole thing and eat half of it and throw the rest away or skip it. There’s nothing appetizing about your leftovers.
I’ve come to hate blow drying my hair. It never comes out right and by the time I think I’m done I’m all in a sweat and my hair line is soaking wet again.
I was with you. Then there was the shock, when the youngest kid went away to college and stopped coming home for summers! :eek:
My dislikes are probably in the person walking/driving/stopping in a way that suggests they are unaware of or just don’t care that it inconveniences others. I sort of think of that as consuming greater than your share of common resources.
People who think that “encouragement” means “methodically denying that anything bad can or will happen.” You are going in for a tumor biopsy? Don’t worry, there is NO chance it will be malignant! You are worried about getting laid off? Don’t worry, there is NO chance you will lose your job! Your child is in the hospital with leukemia? Don’t worry, it is IMPOSSIBLE that your child will die! You’re afraid your significant other will ditch you for someone else? Don’t worry, that could NEVER happen! And, of course, if the bad things that you feared do indeed happen, they’ll just shrug – “Well, what can I do?”
And also:
People who say “Thank you” before you have even agreed to do something for them. “Hey, can you do me a favor and give Daniel a car ride tomorrow afternoon? Thanks!” It is rude to assume someone’s assistance ahead of time.
When driving, people who have the right-of-way stopping and waving me through. No no no no no! That’s not how it works! Now that you’ve done that I don’t trust your driving judgement at all!
When I click on a movie trailer on YouTube and there’s an ad before the trailer plays. No, the trailer is an ad; you cannot have one ad playing before another ad. I’m pretty sure that’s in the Constitution.
I have to say, if I’m the last one to the donut box (or coming back for seconds), I do appreciate it when someone who got there before me left a halfsie. Better than nothing. But I respect your dislike of the practice nonetheless! While I will EAT a half-donut, I don’t usually LEAVE one. So hopefully we’re cool.
I dislike – no, hate – tailgating. (In traffic, not at sports events or whatever.)
It is not only annoying, it’s unsafe. And it’s not only unsafe, it’s counterproductive, since it tends to cause traffic to slow down (for complicated reasons I wish I could fit on a bumper sticker or my middle finger).
I’ll add Gas Pumps that make you go inside to pay because the credit card reader is malfunctioning. I will drive to a different station rather than do that. Don’t know why.
Similarly. I have to cross 3 crosswalks with no stop light or stop sign from where I park to the building I work in. Everyone drives way too fast. So I get to the crosswalk and as usual some asshole is driving way too fast coming my way. So I stop and wait for them to speed through. They slowly slowly start slowing down and then come to a stop and wave for me to go. Thanks assholes you just wasted both of our time. If you had just kept being an asshole and never stopped you would have been long gone and I would already be across the street.
This happens on average twice a day. I know. I kept a chart and tallied for 6 months and that’s the average.
I don’t mind scrubbing toilets or doing dishes or running the vacuum. I don’t mind mowing the lawn or doing laundry or cleaning the rotisserie after I’ve rotissed.
But dusting is the worstest thing in the whole world. Worse than cleaning the cat box. We hates it, we does!!
And shouldn’t that chore be called de-dusting? When you ask for a “dusting of powdered sugar” are you wanting someone to remove the powdered sugar from your French toast? No! You want them to put some dust on! If I catch anyone dusting MY house, there’s gonna be trouble…
It is marginally acceptable to cleanly cut a large pastry with a knife and leave half. Breaking off half with your hands and leaving irregular parts behind can be indistinguishable from chomping off half with your teeth.
What is funny to me is the pattern of each person then taking half of whatever is left. So person 1 leaves half a donut. Then person 2 leaves a quarter of a donut. Then person 3 leave one-eighth of a donut. Can’t be the one who takes the last piece! Heavens no! Must be a magic dieting thing I was never taught.
