Yes, there was a car in front of me.
Does the appropriate space depend a lot on what is in front of you that you don’t want to hit/be hit by?
I was confused, sorry, others were talking about being pushed into the intersection.
That’s pretty much what came with ours as well. I assume yours has holes for aeration like mine does, and in ours there is also a low trivet-like rack so the bottom of the food can also be aerated. But when the recipes tell you not to pile the food on top of itself, and to keep the individual pieces in contact with the airflow, you can’t do much with the basket. We have the larger size Instant Pot, but using only the bottom of the air-fryer basket it’s hard to prepare enough for even two people, let alone a family.
I hate the fact that the Instant Pot company doesn’t at least sell the multi-level rack separately or tell you whether you still need to use the basket if you have the multi-level rack.
I have a couple of driving-related ones.
(1) You’re driving down a busy four-lane street and you need to turn left in the middle of the block. While you’re waiting for a break in the opposing traffic, someone in the inner, faster lane wants to be nice so they stop. But it’s no help unless someone stops in the outer lane too, and chances are you can’t even see what’s coming at you in the outer lane. They should just stop it; it’s not helpful.
(2) People jogging/running in busy areas, when they won’t use their special pedestrian powers to give you a break when you need to turn left. Usually it went like this when I lived in L.A. I’d be waiting to turn left, and a runner would cross the street on the far side of the intersection. Seeing that people wanted to make a turn, they would run in place for a few seconds so we could make the turn. But every once in a while, you’d get somebody who just cuts the corner, and you can actually hit them if you’re not careful.
Indeed I have witnessed a very bad accident (multiple people left in ambulances) that occurred because of this. Unfortunately I have to make this turn almost every day. I just wave them on. There is a traffic light about 200 feet down. Sooner or later that creates a gap between that I can get through.
I don’t think you can use the rack in the basket style - I got annoyed about the same thing and got rid of the basket style and got an oven style fryer with racks. Which means I have an both an instant pot type appliance and an air fryer
I wonder how many people have a fear of being pushed into an intersection because of this scene from Spielberg’s movie Duel?
I’m going to guess 100% of all idiots “drivers” were inspired to their foul deeds by that movie.
New infuriation upon attending mass this evening: yeah, enough with the strident bleating right into my ear, lady. That’s super great that you know the Nicene Creed and the Confiteor and the Gloria in English.
Maybe just tone it down a little bit, lady. I already had a jacket and tie on…what, did you think you needed to convert me?
No kidding. Important safety tip.
Maybe I need an AITA check on this
I have three Pyrex casseroles, two large, one medium. Almost always this is sufficient for home use. Sometimes I take things over to my stepson/DIL’s in one of my casseroles like a cake or brownies or potatoes or whatever. They keep it when we leave to store the leftovers and that’s fine. Here’s the infuriating part: next time we go over, I have to ask for my casserole back. And they do it, but with an attitude that I’m putting them out. Like how dare you ask for this back; why shouldn’t we be allowed to keep it? Then for Christmas, they got me more Pyrex. AITA that I was offended by this (didn’t show it). It’s not like I don’t have enough for my use, but that also means no, you can’t keep my Pyrex because then I’ll have none OR on rare occassion not enough with all of the leftovers. And gifting me more seemed like, “Here you go ahole. Now stop bitching about wanting your dishes back.”
I don’t know if you are the asshole, but in my family we don’t expect each other to keep track of who owns dishes intentionally left behind. If i bring something over in my dish, i scoop it out into their tupperware if I’m leaving leftovers with them. And i take my dish home with me. (Sometimes washed, sometimes unwashed, sometimes i take it home with some of the food still in it.) None of us is organized enough to keep track that the dish in the fridge belongs to this other person.
There is an asynchronicity where we go over there 90+% of the time so if I didn’t get my dishes back, I’d soon have none.
I like that idea. I’ll do that next time.
Right. That’s why we just don’t leave dishes behind. I have the best house for entertaining, so i host 70% of the time. But my sister and brother often do some of the cooking and bring food. At the end of the meal, we divvy up the leftovers. Everyone takes their own dishes home, and we use cheap disposable containers (the nice plastic ones that takeout food comes in, that tend to collect) to send stuff home with everyone.
I don’t think my own frustration with these activities fits this thread (“Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance”) because this behavior is dangerous.
I get quite frustrated when drivers cede their right of way, in any manner, even if it helps me. No, don’t stop as you are driving straight at an intersection to wave me through on my left turn, even if there are no other lanes. When you give up the right of way, it confuses everyone, and now you don’t know if I will go and I don’t know at what point you will say “I guess he isn’t going” and start moving. Heck, we might both start at the same time and have an unpleasant encounter.
Right of way rules exist to remove ambiguity!
I drive in places where if no one ever ceded their right of way, there are turns that would just be impossible at various times of day. The local convention is to flag your headlights to say, “I’m about to pause to let you go.” But there are certainly times and places where it’s a horrible idea.
You are not the asshole in this situation. This really irritates me, too.
I rarely leave a dish behind and I no longer trust people to return anything. If I plan to leave leftovers, I bring an inexpensive food container with me to “donate” to the hosts in case they don’t have a storage dish handy or they’re otherwise occupied when I’m ready to leave, something I’m fine with not getting it back. I’ve lost/nearly lost too many treasured items to trust folks anymore. I have very few items from my birth mother, and while they are easily replaced if lost, nothing replaces things that are cherished mementos.
One of my most treasured kitchen items is a very old heavy duty flour sack cloth I use for making bread and rolling out pie crusts. It was my grandmother’s, then it was my mother’s, and now it’s mine. I don’t loan that out, obviously, but I’d be so sad if it were to disappear for some reason.
Something that annoys me … when you’re approaching a junction where
someone’s waiting to pull out or turn in, so you flash them to alert them
they’re safe to go … and they’re not even looking. Don’t know why it
annoys me - it’s their own time they’re wasting (and everyone else waiting
behind them).
If this behavior continues, maybe buy them some (cheap !) tupperware containers
for Christmas next this year.
This.
Now, if it’s ‘grid lock’ and you allow me to enter from a parking lot or something, that’s nice. But other wise NO. You don’t see what I see. Maybe it’s a pedestrian, or a car coming fast behind you.
This is certainly the case on the North Shore of Boston. We moved here 3.5 years ago, and I was as infuriated as @minor7flat5 when people yielded to allow others to cross in front of them or let them into their lane.
But after a while I saw, as @puzzlegal says, that the nature of the roads and lights and traffic in this region makes the practice, if not necessary, at least more desirable and advantageous than one might expect. After a few months of resisting either taking the offered ROW, or yielding it to others, I now do as the natives do.
I will concede this point. Living in New Jersey, there are definitely places where certain moves just can’t be made. And I suspect that flexibility in right-of-way is necessary for real life traffic to actually function, kind of like how big trucks have to double park, block traffic, and make sweeping turns that cut across multiple lanes in order to get their job done in big cities, otherwise deliveries could never be made.
Unless it’s one of those scary multi-lane things, if someone waves me through a difficult turn, I take it, feeling bad for grumbling inside at the person for showing me kindness, and then feeling like a hypocrite for accepting the offer.