Petty Vents

[Anonymous]

My peeve is male fridge blindness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:#1. I hate when there is an exit and you can see a line for the turn and some @ssh@le drives all the way to the front of the turn off and forces their way in.

#2. I hate people that allow these selfish drivers cut the line.

I am the one who lets them cut but I really don’t want to be a victim of these aholes! It’s not for the love of them it’s out of fear

I’m like this as well. They’re nothing more stressful while driving than an aggressive ahole on your tail. I’d rather them be in front of me.

[Anonymous]

I know that this is terribly silly and petty but I hate when making plans via text, verbally, etc. explain why their child isn't free will say "Billy has travel soccer that day". Does it really matter that they must clarify that it is travel soccer? Can they not just say "Billy has soccer"? And it isn't that I am jealous or impressed or being competitive or anything. I have an older child who plays D1 college level yet I never felt the need to say things like that when he was younger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate the pressure to have fancy stuff. Cars, remodels, certain brands of clothing. Yes I know I don't "have" to take part (and I usually don't) but I hate that the pressure is still just hanging out there. I regret moving to the area after college. DH says its the same anywhere that has decent jobs. I don't know. Ex: I have a 10 year old minivan that literally has nothing wrong with it. But I can just feel my neighbors and parents of my kids' friends dripping with pity for me as they pull up in luxury SUV's that are never more than 3 years old. I somehow want them to know I can afford their car, I just think its a waste of money. Same with lululemon and remodeled kitchens. Yes, this is a personal problem.

Petty vent over.

Lol, we drive a 2004 Subaru as our second car and one of my favorite things to do is to use it as the carpool car when I take rich kids whose parents are like what you describe.

Try not to feel judged! I live in Great Falls and half the high school moms are still driving the vans they had when their kids were in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate my earbud situation. I lose AirPods and wireless earbuds that aren’t connected to each other. I take them out and set them down in random places, or worse, put them in my pocket. There’s not enough Adderall in the world to fix this problem. So I’ve found some earbuds I love in every way except that the squishy part that goes in your ear keeps slipping off. If they’re dangling around my neck rather than in my ears, something will catch and pop one off. If they’re in my ears, it’ll pop off in my ear and I’ll think everything sounds weird for a few minutes until I dig it out. I’m so tired of earbud nonsense.

What about wired headphones?

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t want anything to physically connect to my phone. I do have wireless headphones but I need to have one ear open at work, so I need earbuds. Askew headphones aren’t as good a look while I’m listening to podcasts while I do my job unfortunately.

I’m thinking about some AirPod pros. They seem to stay in DH’s ears and that man has some big ears. I think the new ones have a find my earbuds feature so maybe that’ll save me.

Can you just superglue the squishy part to the other part? That would annoy me, too.

I also can't keep track of ear buds ,but I do love my Boltunes with the neck wire. Have you tried those? (I also have spare squishy things, but they don't come off too often.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My peeve is male fridge blindness.

OMG, relatedly: This morning my DH, who was taking DC to school, kept walking back and forth through the house, clearly looking for something. He opened the front door like three times. I said "are you looking for something?" He said "yes, my sandals." I said "they are next to your side of the bed -- I saw them there when I was vacuuming yesterday." He goes to look. He comes back -- he can't find them. I go to look. They are sitting right where I said they would be.

What is wrong with men??? My kid does this too and when she does it, I know it's because she's not really looking. She's just not focusing on anything, and when I say "it's on your desk" or "it's on the hook by the door," she'll go to look but not really look because she wants me to find it. And when my DH does it, it feels pretty much the same, which is enraging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is really stupid but I hate when people specify something is zero. Example:
"my address is 4160 (zero)"

I know the damn difference between a 0 and an an O.

I'm guilty! I say "zero" because I often mishear people when they say "O". 😬

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Anonymous wrote:This is really stupid but I hate when people specify something is zero. Example:
"my address is 4160 (zero)"

I know the damn difference between a 0 and an an O.

I'm guilty! I say "zero" because I often mishear people when they say "O". 😬

That doesn’t bother me!! That makes sense. I’m only annoyed in a text or an email when you can tell by the font anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My peeve is male fridge blindness.

OMG, relatedly: This morning my DH, who was taking DC to school, kept walking back and forth through the house, clearly looking for something. He opened the front door like three times. I said "are you looking for something?" He said "yes, my sandals." I said "they are next to your side of the bed -- I saw them there when I was vacuuming yesterday." He goes to look. He comes back -- he can't find them. I go to look. They are sitting right where I said they would be.

What is wrong with men??? My kid does this too and when she does it, I know it's because she's not really looking. She's just not focusing on anything, and when I say "it's on your desk" or "it's on the hook by the door," she'll go to look but not really look because she wants me to find it. And when my DH does it, it feels pretty much the same, which is enraging.

I always say “What do I win if I get up and it’s exactly where I said it was?” and that usually encourages them to check one more time. Because they know I’m going to rub it in!

[Anonymous]

My son doesn’t believe in using tissues. He just makes disgusting sniffling/snorting sounds

My daughter constantly sends texts that just say “mom”. Eventually, after i respond, she might get to her point, but i always get the pointless one word text first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is really stupid but I hate when people specify something is zero. Example:
"my address is 4160 (zero)"

I know the damn difference between a 0 and an an O.

I'm guilty! I say "zero" because I often mishear people when they say "O". 😬

Kind of related. A person gave me their address as "twelve hundred two," and they meant 1202. I thought it was 12002. Just say 1 2 0 2!

Also, there's the phone number rhythm and the SSN rhythm. I have to ask for people's SSN sometimes and I don't understand why some people are like 0 (pause) 1 (pause) 5 (pause) 9 (pause) etc. Like I need 2 seconds to type in each number. Or they give me their phone number like 918 twenty one four two three thirty two.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We've lived in our house for 9 years. For 9 years my husband has one box of crap that he has not unpacked. The box is bursting at the seems. It gets moved from his dresser to the floor in front of his dresser. I hate that F'ing box.

He left to visit/take care of his mother for 2-3 weeks. He told me the box better be there when he gets back, because "he will take care of it".

Same chorus for NINE years.

The box “better” be there? Of eff that noise. I’d put that sh¡t in the attic/basement stat. He doesn’t get to make that threat after 9 years.

Throw everything in the box away. Fill it with newspapers or magazines or old books or dishes. Then put the box where it was. It’s there when he gets back.

Doesn’t solve the box still hanging out in the bedroom but it would give me a little smirk every time I saw it.

[Anonymous]

When I get in my Mom's Lexus to drive while visiting and *every* time I put the car in Reverse, and Drive--the rearview mirrors tilt to her preferences and I can't see anything (yes I know there's a way to set a second set of preferences but it's so hot in FL where she lives I just want to get out of the car as fast as possible.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really stupid but I hate when people specify something is zero. Example:
"my address is 4160 (zero)"

I know the damn difference between a 0 and an an O.

I'm guilty! I say "zero" because I often mishear people when they say "O". 😬

Kind of related. A person gave me their address as "twelve hundred two," and they meant 1202. I thought it was 12002. Just say 1 2 0 2!

Also, there's the phone number rhythm and the SSN rhythm. I have to ask for people's SSN sometimes and I don't understand why some people are like 0 (pause) 1 (pause) 5 (pause) 9 (pause) etc. Like I need 2 seconds to type in each number. Or they give me their phone number like 918 twenty one four two three thirty two.

Honest question: if my street address is 450 Main Street, is it ok to say four fifty?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is really stupid but I hate when people specify something is zero. Example:
"my address is 4160 (zero)"

I know the damn difference between a 0 and an an O.

I'm guilty! I say "zero" because I often mishear people when they say "O". 😬

Kind of related. A person gave me their address as "twelve hundred two," and they meant 1202. I thought it was 12002. Just say 1 2 0 2!

Also, there's the phone number rhythm and the SSN rhythm. I have to ask for people's SSN sometimes and I don't understand why some people are like 0 (pause) 1 (pause) 5 (pause) 9 (pause) etc. Like I need 2 seconds to type in each number. Or they give me their phone number like 918 twenty one four two three thirty two.

But 1202 is twelve hundred two. 12002 is twelve thousand two. Place value.