OK, this is really petty. I want to do my own laundry. I’ll take care of it. But my wife will mix my laundry in with hers and do a load. We keep our dirty clothes in separate areas.
And I often find it in the dryer and have to put it away. My stuff goes on a hanger or one of two drawers.
My wife has 9 drawers, in two dressers. and of course things get hung up too. Some of it is work out clothes. I never know where to put her stuff, so the search is on. I have to analyze and compare drawers.
We really aren’t traditional in the husband/wife duties thing, so why does she insist on mixing this all together, it makes it a real pain in the ass, and takes me four times as long to put stuff away.
We talked about this, but she keeps doing it. I have come up with a solution though I think. When she mixes it up, I just put her stuff on her side of the bed. Otherwise I’m not gonna put it in the right place.
Google searches that yield results that say “Missing: word | Show results with: word”. If one of the words required by the search isn’t included, then why are they wasting my time with it?
That was me and the copier back in the early 90s. After a while I refused to stop doing my job to take care of an inane task anyone could do. But they got me. If it ran out of toner or paper or the toner disposal was full they would just not use it. So when I had to use it it magically got “repaired”.
Searches that yield “did you mean to search for [other word]” and then give me a batch of results for the other word and no fast way to say “no, I meant what I typed.”
I once saw an expiration date that listed the second. I’m sure they were too lazy to set up a second printed line that would pinpoint when it came out of the equipment so they just bumped the date on the one they had two years, but I amused myself imagining the bag turning black and smoking like one of Mr. Phelps’ recordings.
One that occurred to me today: a group that gets on public transport together and stands in the gangway to have a committee meeting about which of them is going to sit where, thus blocking everyone else.
This is kinda important, or was. I ordered a Yamaha piano from Amazon. The best Electric piano Yamaha makes. Weighs in at 170 lbs. From what I read, for something like that they where supposed to bring it into the house.
The delivery time was between 8am and 8pm (thanks for narrowing it down )
At noon, I check online to see the ‘progress’. It says it was delivered. Um, look on my porch, no piano. Huh? Oh, there it is sitting in my driveway.
They didn’t even ring the freaking doorbell.
Now my wife and I are both healthy and quite strong. But we are not spring chickens, 170 lbs is a bit more than we can handle. This has to go up three stairs no matter which way you go.
My wife and I got it into the garage so at least it would not get rained on, but we needed help for the trip into the house.
I called a neighbor to give us a hand. He is as big as me. He, I and my wife managed to wrangle the thing into the room that it now resides.
Except of course, I still need to put it together. The instructions for that are printed on the box. Steps One and Two are covered over by a big ass shipping label.
I’ve purchased several large and/or bulky objects (air compressors, table saws, generators, power washers, etc.) and I believe that delivery to a location within the house MAY be offered and MAY require extra delivery fees. Several of my large items were delivered by third parties using lift-gate trucks and even a pallet-jack, but nowhere along the process did they offer or promise to deliver anywhere except my driveway or porch. I just checked Amazon’s policies and that seems to be the rule.
As far as the labels, I have also seen the labels cover important instructions and information. Annnnnd speaking of labels, I hate products that have those stupid fold-out labels you have to peel up at “this edge.” in order to learn how to mix the product before application or how many pills an adult should take. It’s a PITA and now i have a bottle with two pages of instructions hanging off the front.
Airport waiting areas. As departure time approaches, and more people arrive at the gate, the people who got there early and placed bags on the seats around them just sit there obliviously, doing nothing to free up seats for the newcomers. Assholes!
Apologies if this has already been mentioned here or elsewhere. (I searched the thread and didn’t find any reference to this.)
I don’t fly all that often (2-3 times a year, maybe), but it never ceases to amaze and somewhat infuriate me when virtually all the people seated in the aisle seats in an arriving plane stand up as soon as the plane is parked at the gate. Really, people, you won’t get off the plane any more quickly than if you remain seated until it’s your turn. (Unless, of course, you are behind me and move into my space so I have to wait for you go forward before I can stand up and grab my carryon. And that REALLY pisses me off, even though it delays me by no more than 20 seconds at most.)
I usually try to sit in the aisle seat, and like @doreen I stand up when we get to the gate because I want to stretch my legs, not because I think I’ll get off the plane faster.
I believe I already mentioned this in this thread a few months ago, but the thing that really infuriates me about air travel are the people stand up and try to start lining up to board as soon as the first group starts boarding, even though they’re in boarding group 5 or whatever – “gate lice”, frequent travelers call them. They’re just getting in the way of the people who are boarding. I get particularly annoyed when I go line up to board when my group is called, stand behind someone who appears to be in line, only to realize they’re in a later group that isn’t boarding yet and are just hovering around the gate.
I really never understood the urge of some people to board first/early. Every passenger has their assigned seat, it doesn’t matter when you board, and is the time spent in the still grounded plane spent better than at the gate?
I never worry about space in the bins - but we always check a bag. We each have a personal item that fits under the seat in from of us and my husband has a CPAP which is way smaller than a carry-on suitcase and always fits somewhere. If it ever doesn’t, they aren’t going to force us to check a medical device so that someone else’s carry on doesn’t get checked.
The people who worry about bin space have only a carry-on and no checked bag. And they don’t want end up at baggage claim ( which happens at least sometimes with gate-checked bags)
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