Petty Vents

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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’ve been thinking of using silicone glue on them. I’m trying to find two that match before I do anything permanent. Right now it’s white earbuds/white cord, gray left ear squishy, black right ear squishy. I’m aware of how ridiculous this is becoming, and I appreciate your empathy.

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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.

You are my kind of person, PP.

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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.)

I’ll have to check them out. I glanced at their website and a lot of the styles are sold out. I’ll look around for some. Thanks for the tip.

My favorites have been the Mifo Plus. I have 2 charging cases and 3 earbuds. Well, I have 2 charging cases with one right earbud in one case in my purse right now, and I think a left earbud floating loose in my purse or my desk drawer at work, and I’m pretty sure there’s another left one in my bedroom. I feel like I saw it recently. The left one in my purse/drawer won’t pair with my right one, so I’m not sure if they’re just messing with me or if they’re from different sets and the earbud gods don’t allow commingling. Either way, it’s inconvenient, because theoretically I have a full set of my favorites, but I can only hear one at a time. I have patulous Eustachian tubes, so I often wear earbuds to mask the noise.

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Anonymous wrote:My petty vent is that my DH's petty vent is becoming unbearable. He hates hearing people chew, so he has to have background noise during all of our meals--and it has to be loud enough to drown out any sound of chewing. If I want to enjoy croutons on my salad, I have to endure him giving me the death stare every time I bite a crouton and all of us have to shout over the dinner music if we want to talk to each other. It's just easier to avoid eating crunchy things at home.

I am a bit crazy and very sensitive to the sound of other people chewing but this is next level. Perhaps he could wear AirPods with a white noise app playing during meals? (I use the SleepMachine app bathroom fan sound when I want to drown out annoying sounds.)

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There’s actually a medical condition where people hear certain sounds (like chewing) extremely loudly. I worked with someone like this and you couldn’t eat in meetings with her or do things like click pens.

My petty vent is people who send text messages where each sentence is a separate text. So conveying a message could be 10 messages!!! I muted her and the group text we’re in together bc I can’t stand having my wrist or phone vibrating constantly.

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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.

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

To say it, out loud? Of course. But don’t text/email/write it that way. Text/email/write it 450. Use numerals where numerals are the context: house number, phone number, SSN, etc.

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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.

+1 I grew up in Atherton, CA (one of the wealthiest towns in the U.S.), and it was definitely a thing for the uber rich families to drive incredibly ancient cars (particularly Volvo, Mercedes, and BMW, but also random old SUVs). Think of it as the automobile equivalent of Steve Jobs' black turtleneck.

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Anonymous wrote:My vents:
-people who take up everyone else's time in the Starbucks line because they've clearly never been to a Starbucks before, never bothered to review the menu in advance, and have 8,000 questions for the barista. Do you not see the line of people behind you? And yes, I could a do a mobile order, but I like ordering my coffee hot and it's not a complicated frilly order that requires advance ordering.
-my husband's inability to find anything in our house nor throw anything out/declutter. Just put some effort into looking for xyz before asking me where it is--usually it's exactly where I say it is and he STILL cannot find it. Decluttering--just not in his vocabulary. Wants to hang onto soccer clears from high school that he will never, ever wear again, random cords to things that are probably long gone, and don't get me started on the menagerie of water bottles that just sit in the cabinet. I have gotten used to just going around him and getting rid of things but how can he possibly not see that these things have no use and we can part with them? It boggles my mind.
-backing into a parking space--why? why do you have to do this? just park normally like the rest of us or drive around and find a pull through. especially if you're not good at backing in. if you can do it in one fell swoop, then fine, you're allowed, but the rest of you who have no business reverse parking, just don't.
-slow texters (again my husband is guilty of this). finish.the.text. don't spend 5 minutes with the three dots only to say "yes." make it quick! that's the point of texting.
-app developers--stop updating your app every 5 seconds. I'd like for once to go into my CVS app or whatever without it telling me the app needs updating and of course it's at time when I'm not on wifi and I have to sit and stare at the little pie shaped thing until it finally updates and I can move on with my day. Maybe all the app people should decide on one day a year where you can update and then we get it all over with at once. This goes for you too HBO MAX/MAX whatever you're calling yourself these days who made me spend an hour on the phone with my elderly mother the other day because she couldn't figure out how to use the new MAX app and for whatever reason her tv didn't want to seamlessly convert over to the new app like the rest of our tvs did. I'd like that hour back.

Yes to all! Please report these to the I've Had It podcasters (except for the backing in one - covered and concurred)

I'm the Op to this--what's the I've Had It podcast? never heard of it. will have to look it up!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just respond “daughter.”

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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.

+1 I grew up in Atherton, CA (one of the wealthiest towns in the U.S.), and it was definitely a thing for the uber rich families to drive incredibly ancient cars (particularly Volvo, Mercedes, and BMW, but also random old SUVs). Think of it as the automobile equivalent of Steve Jobs' black turtleneck.

Thanks PP's. I will try to remember this. I guess my neighborhood is full of strivers because they wouldn't be caught dead in an old car. Just had the old faithful van inspected yesterday and it passed with flying colors and a nice compliment from the mechanic.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Mine do this too occasionally. I always respond with “what?” And leave it at that.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just respond “daughter.”

This is perfect

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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.

I throw DHs random $hit away when he’s out of town. I started a few years ago when we started packing to move. I had no idea he had so much useless crap even though we’ve been married 20+ years. No regrets and he hasn’t noticed yet 😁. Random stuff we “might” use immediately gets tossed now when he’s not here.

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Anonymous wrote:My petty vent is that my DH's petty vent is becoming unbearable. He hates hearing people chew, so he has to have background noise during all of our meals--and it has to be loud enough to drown out any sound of chewing. If I want to enjoy croutons on my salad, I have to endure him giving me the death stare every time I bite a crouton and all of us have to shout over the dinner music if we want to talk to each other. It's just easier to avoid eating crunchy things at home.

my spouse always remarks when my fork touches my teeth, but hasn't yet resorted to background noise.

I only hate hearing my DH chew. It's not that he chews particularly loudly, but somehow he chews annoyingly. (Yes, I know this is absurd.)

My marriage counselor says this is a sign of an unresolved conflict. Little things become unbearingly annoying. I agree with her about half the time on this.

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My mother in law doesn't wash her hands after she uses the bathroom. It grosses me out. Nobody else seems to notice. And my husband always does! Where did she get this from?