The Rear brakes contain the parking brake mechanism which VERY MUCH complicates the job. I have hired this job done and also performed it myself when $$ were precious. Nasty mean job, just one step above replacing exhaust. Good luck!
Yeah, I suppose it’s harder than I remember. But… they had it for four hours and only managed to rotated the tires.
the closed captioning and AI narration in a video … if its so bad ill just give up watching even if its something i want to see
Chairs with spindle backs, especially the ones with lumps in the spindles. You can’t lean back without nearly bruising your spine.
When my husband asks me a question while he’s listening to music through his earbuds. He can’t hear what I’m saying!
When my wife tries to talk to me when I’m obviously watching a video on my phone (and streaming to my hearing aids). She gets upset if I don’t respond, and yet multiple times a day if I try to talk to her I get completely ignored because she’s so wrapped up in her phone.
I don’t mind AI narration as much as I used to, as it’s super natural and really only breaks my suspension of disbelief when it pronounces “lead” like “lede” when it is talking about the metal, or some similar gaffe.
What does annoy me is baked-in captions. No, I don’t want to see the words as I hear them. It causes my brain to enter some weird mode where I neither read nor hear the words well. Just let me shut them off. Better yet, leave them off and I’ll turn them on if I want them.
Oddly I am the opposite. Poor hearing combined with excellent reading skills means I always want captions.
Another computer-related one here. I hate when I click on a button or link and then I wait but nothing happens. A few seconds later I click it again and it works. So annoying. Especially when I’m trying to show somebody something and we’re both waiting there like idiots and nothing is happening.
Even more annoying: when it’s a link that opens in a new window or tab. I click the link and nothing happens. I click a few more times. Then all of a sudden 5 new tabs spring up all at once.
Supermarket carts that have trash in them. It bugs me that the next available cart from the corral has receipts, store flyers or wrappers in the bottom that I have to deal with or find another cart. 
Nothing odd about it. Captions are an excellent tool for what they do. I turn them on when I want them (like when I watched “The Full Monty”). I just want the choice, not “baked in”.
Saturday evening I wanted to rent a movie from Amazon Prime Video. I thought I had some of those promotional credits from choosing “no rush” shipping on some past purchases, but Amazon said I didn’t have any credits. After doing a little digging it looks like all my credits expired on March 31. Dammit, I could have saved like $4 if I’d rented that movie two weeks ago, but now I had to pay full price, and I effectively got nothing in return for choosing the slower shipping. Why can’t Amazon send me an email to remind my that my credits are about to expire? (I know, because they don’t actually want me to use those credits).
I go to Burger King and request the #9 meal, an Original Chicken Sandwich, fries and drink. Their meals come in small size, and I request Medium, mostly for the bigger drink. No problem, total price about $12. Cool, the meal is 9.99 plus upsize and tax.
I’m waiting for my food and what do I see? On the far side of the menu board they have a “Pick 2 for $5, Pick 3 for $7” deal what’s on it? Like 6 or 7 things, including… Original Chicken Sandwich, Medium Fries, Medium drink.
I paid like $4 more than I needed to, and was pissy about it the entire evening. And no, I’m not going to harangue the employee over four bucks.
The GPS system in my 4Runner. It’s a moron. It’s never worked right. It is always lost. I’ve updated new data to it, so that’s OK. But shit, it gives random instructions.
I’m a GIS application engineer so I KNOW digital mapping. I understand proper GUI’s That’s why this pisses me off even more.
We bought a new home to retire to. Cool. But, I’m a little lost. Don’t DARE put an address in the thing, you will not go where you want. Just for fun I put in my new home address, and the system started making random phone calls.
And then I COULD NOT SHUT IT OFF. It would not shut up. Can’t control the volume of the smarmy voice, nothing. I could not turn off the route. Where it was going is anyone’s guess.
This is sort of important, because in todays world, GPS/Navigation systems are just expected. What really infuriates me is this is the kind of shit I do, and I can’t figure it out because it’s so, so, poorly designed, or just totally jacked up. GAAAAAA.
That’s bad all right. I read through the scrolls about that problem and as you wrote it’s seemingly unsolvable. That’s lousy!
Here’s what irritates me: I see a bunch of carts, all nested together. I go to the front cart and pull on it. It doesn’t move because it is stuck to the cart that it is attached to. I pull harder, but it is still stuck. I’m impatient and do not want to waste 10 or 20 seconds trying to to figure out how to free the cart, so I will find a cart that is not stuck to another cart.
A small annoyance.
Why is Siri so crappy in 2025?
It was neat a decade ago, but it’s like Siri has not kept up with the times.
I want to talk to Siri like I talk to ChatGPT, getting contextual and well thought out responses.
But no, I get things like “I can’t help you with that.” or “Here’s what I found on the Web.”
Apple is one of the richest companies in the world. You would think they would have upped Siri’s game, but today, at best, she will offer to ask ChatGPT your question.
I don’t know why they stick, and haven’t had the energy to be bothered with close inspection.
But this happens all the time! Typically there are three or four sets of nested carts near the door at my supermarket, and it is not unusual that the first cart in at least two of the sets of carts is stuck.
Once I was there when the cart jockey was bringing some in, and he instantly unjammed the cart I was trying for, but I couldn’t see how he did it. This is annoying.
Same thing happened to me recently. I was certain I had the technique, and, indeed, the next time I encountered a stuck cart, I freed it with little effort.
But evidently that was a learned skill I could only use once. I’ve been unable to repeat this small triumph.
On my work laptop, they have set the Home page for both Edge and Chrome to our corporate intranet Sharepoint page. But it doesn’t always go there directly, sometimes it has to do the Single Sign On thing first, so there’s like a five or ten second delay. I will frequently open a browser to do a search or go to a specific URL, and I’ll be about halfway through typing it in the address bar when suddenly I get routed to the corporate home page, have to wait for it to finish loading, then go back to the address bar and start typing again.