Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance

Oh sweet summer child, the Bed Fairy cannot be thwarted so easily. As if by magic, a new one will appear overnight.

And the people who stop right at the end of the escalator. :slightly_frowning_face: Maybe take a few steps away from the end of the thing that keeps shoving more people into the same little space!

I’ll broaden that to a broader peeve at folks who are oblivious to pedestrian traffic patterns in general. I suspect it’s some sort of neurological quirk, like not being able to read maps, but it does try my patience when one of these clods stops to think at the end of the jetway.

I’m frequently tempted to complain about folks here on the dope who don’t bother to read what they’ve written before they post. But I don’t because it’s pretty likely my complaint will itself be laced with errors. Case in point, I originally wrote “I’ll broaden that to a general peeve at folks who are oblivious to pedestrian traffic patterns in general.” So I changed “general peeve” to “broader peeve,” thinking that I’d eliminated the repetition. Christ.

So I did get to the bottom of this yesterday. It was in fact a typo in their address, they live a block up the road from me, e.g. I live it 363 Fake Street, they live at 353 Fake Street. I learned this when they came to my house looking for their packages, and I told them I sent them back. I’m really just glad they finally figured out their mistake.

People that use “just sayin’” all the time.

What is the person saying or trying to say? Some kind of implication?

E.g you read or hear someone say, “…well he said he didn’t, but he was there…I’m just sayin’”

What are you “just sayin’”? Someone is lying? Do you know something others don’t? Why not add what you are trying to imply or say! Are you not sure? I don’t understand.

It’s ( in my observations ) used as a lame defection by people who are unwilling/unable to explain or back up a weak or insulting argument.

Lame defLection that is. Missed the edit time frame.

My take on it is that the person who is “just sayin’” has an opinion or a hunch but they are hedging their opinion either because they lack evidence or it’s not a popular opinion.

In the case you cited, they are “just sayin’” yes, they think the person is a liar, but don’t really want to be held accountable for thinking that.

I don’t use it hardly ever but I did recently. I have a FIL who spends most of the year traveling. I’m not getting into the full drama, but we have resentments toward him for various reasons. I recently stayed at his house and he took umbrage when my son, who loves size comparison videos, was watching a video comparing various historical tsunamis (nothing graphic, literally like, a static drawing of a wave and a measurement of its height, and then an even bigger wave next to that one, etc.) My FIL became upset because those were “real natural disasters” and my son was getting excited about people dying. (He was not. He was getting excited about giant-ass waves.)

My uncharitable take when I was discussing it with someone later was, “If you hate natural disasters so much maybe you shouldn’t fly in an airplane for a luxury vacation every damned week and contribute wantonly to the actual cause of natural disasters at the expense of poor people. I’m just sayin’.”

Speaking of things that irrationally piss me off!

I use it sarcastically, with a keen sense of the irony. We who use the phrase are are not all idiots…

Just saying.

My phone just updated. Now everything looks different, and every time I touch it, it gives me a tip on how to use it now. I don’t want to relearn how to do the basic shit I do every goddamned day!

Poor addressing pisses me off. It’s not that hard to do right.

There is a subdivision/area in the County I work for that really screwed it up. Nowadays, the county is in charge of addressing, so we have consistency. My department is in charge of addressing.

The subdivision I’m referencing was allowed to do their own addressing. This was decades ago. They did things like making the first floor of a building 910, the second floor 9100, the third floor 91000 X street. That is so wrong on so many levels it’s hard to explain.

And now I’ve purchased a new home. On a cul de sack. The addresses start out high at the beginning of the street and go lower as you reach the end. The exact opposite of how it’s supposed to be.

Once addresses have been screwed up like that, it’s a monumental effort to fix them. It’s nearly impossible. It’s important to have a standard address system for EMS, don’t care that much about Pizza delivery.

Yes! Not just phones but software I use in general. No, I don’t want to pause as I am trying to chat in Teams with my co-workers so that I can go through a dumb tutorial on how to use the new features I never asked for. To be frank, I opened the app because I am busy doing something. Don’t interrupt me to force me to go through a tutorial.

And I had better never be asked to “rate this app”

That happened to me once when I was at church up front speaking. I was using a Bible app, and while I was reading a verse it suddenly popped up a “Please rate this app!” window. That wasn’t the time or place for me to want to say bad things about app developers and their begging for ratings.

What distinguishes the “beginning” from the “end” of a street, other than the addresses?

When it’s a cul de sac or dead end if you will, it’s quite easy to determine the ‘beginning’ and the ‘end’. Addresses go up in number in those cases. Well they are supposed too…

Loops that circle around are a bit more complicated, and is often thrown to however the wind blows. But there is generally a traffic/travel pattern.

Is it possible that the direction of the street determines the number ordering? Generally, as you move farther away from the ‘center’ of the city, the house numbers increase. Could this be the reason on your cul-de-sac?

Um, no. It’s the only street in the county that has the name. The end of the cul de sac gets stopped at a Railroad line. Not a crossing. It’s a physical, um, no, this road does not and never will continue.

I’ve been doing this for over 30 years, they just jacked it up.

I’ve got an inconsequential thing that does not infuriate me at all, but makes me sigh.

We, like most folks have some flashlights. My wife will use one, and forget to turn it off. :face_exhaling: Whenever I need to use a flashlight, I have to replace the batteries.

Yep, sounds like they screwed the pooch on this one.

Yeah, it’s really just mildly irritating I guess since doing this correctly is part of my job, and I now live on a street that is wrong.