Petty Vents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate how my neighbor brings in my trash cans every week. Every week I tell her it’s my DC main weekly chore. Every week she brings them in before we have a chance. I think it makes her feel neighborly, but it annoys the crap out of me.

This sounds actually lovely.

Perhaps she is doing this for you on the off-chance that should she need a neighborly favor in the future, she will feel more justified.

If that is the reason she is doing this > then she sucks. 👎🏽

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why is your fork touching your teeth?

[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 hate that my husband routinely does #1 as I hide and cower in the front seat while yelling at him not to!

Ugh, I also hate it when my DH drives recklessly or really aggressively like this. I feel like I am constantly having to remind him that getting somewhere 10 minutes faster is not worth being a total jerk to other people or putting anyone in danger. He agrees with me but in the moment he gets road ragey and impulsive.

Getting very close to the point where I may just have to drive us everywhere and put up with him complaining I'm not going fast enough.

[Anonymous]

I have to leave the room when DH eats. I can’t stand how he shoves sandwiches in his mouth, bites on forks, and how he chews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

I don't generally hate hearing DH chew - like if we sit down to dinner or he's just eating near me, I don't even notice his chewing.

But he loves to get out the noisiest possible snacks when we watch TV at home and it drives me nuts. We'll start a show, and THEN he'll go get chips or pretzels and start rustling the bag, or getting himself a drink and filling a tumbler to the brim with ice first. So it's like the second I've settled in on the couch to enjoy something, there's always 5-15 minutes of him making noise in the kitchen and getting out a noisy snack and then eating it as loudly as possible. Why then?! Why not do all that before we start the movie? I'll never know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 62yo and tired of working. Just tired of spending so much time on work, and sick of workplace politics.

56, but otherwise ditto.

[Anonymous]

Weaponized incompetence.

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[Anonymous]

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)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I let people pull in front of me while driving and they don't give me the "thank you" wave. Is it SO hard to put your hand in the air and shake it to acknowledge that I just did you a favor??

I drive with my windows closed and though I raise my hand in front of the rear view mirror I am not sure you can see me.
I am still grateful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day when it’s nice outside, people in the apartments across the street bring out a large low quality speaker and blast some combination of GoGo or rap with explicit lyrics that denigrate women. Half the time it ends by 10pm, but sometimes it goes much later. I can generally still hear it with my windows all closed and AC on. Cops don’t do anything. Their landlord doesn’t do anything. Unfortunately it was midday and peak hot when we toured our apt so they weren’t outside, otherwise we would’ve noped out of here. Even when it’s not late, it just makes me mad now. We are going to move. I hope it rains every evening until then.

I hear you! My windows are facing a parking lot and you won’t believe how many people think everyone wants to enjoy their loud music when they park. Plus the neighbors who are listening to music.
I turn on opera music for them to enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My petty vent is people who don’t check their messages for days (I can see it hasn’t been read since it’s in a chatting app).
I know it’s nothing super urgent but also I am not asking a super complicated question either

My petty vent is people who use chatting apps. If you have something important and direct, text me directly. Chatting apps are not the place for messages that require a response.

She doesn’t respond to texts either, but ok I will update my vent.
People who are on chatting apps but do not check them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I let people pull in front of me while driving and they don't give me the "thank you" wave. Is it SO hard to put your hand in the air and shake it to acknowledge that I just did you a favor??

I drive with my windows closed and though I raise my hand in front of the rear view mirror I am not sure you can see me.
I am still grateful!

I see you! Every time.

[Anonymous]

I can't stand it when people state their age as "x, going on y". We can all count.