My annoyances on all topics. Annoyances on cars, cell phones, computers, drivers, games, moving, people, shopping, socks, taxes, travel, winter, and hundreds of other annoyances.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Loud vacuum cleaners
Vacuum cleaners are so loud it is no wonder people don't clean their house as often as they should.
Labels:
Appliances,
Noise
Bias news channels
I thought all news channels had to be in the middle and not support any candidate?
Labels:
News
Democrat vs Republican
Your friend is a Democrat and you are a Republican. This leaves many topics not open for discussion without arguing.
Labels:
People
Weak toothpaste tubes
The toothpaste getting near the end. You squeeze the tube but the sides start to break.
Labels:
Bathroom
Bathroom floor wet
Someone finishes taking a shower and leaves the rugs and floor in the bathroom all wet from the water.
Station logos
Why does it have to be shown all the time? It would be nice not to see the station logo in the corner of the screen once the show starts.
Labels:
TV Shows
Expensive eyeglasses
Why do they cost so much? They still scratch and wear out after just a few years of daily use.
Labels:
Eyeglasses,
Money
Loud toilets
They still make a lot of noise when you flush them. It can wake the house up at 3 a.m. between that and the door.
Nobody at the IM
You IM someone online but they are always away from the computer. It seems you can never get in touch with them.
Labels:
Internet
Roads blocked off
An accident happens and you have to turn down a different road. Now you get lost going down a road you have never been on before.
Labels:
Travel
Tar pebbles on roads
They just paved the road but leave a load of tar pebbles on the road. They go in your car wheel wells when you drive over them. Why can't anybody sweep them up?
Labels:
Travel
Humidity at 100%
The heat is bad enough, but the humidity is even worse in the summer.
Labels:
Summer
Too many spiders in summer
So many spiders come in the house in the summertime. Where do they all come from?
Too much soap on clothes
Putting too much soap in to wash your clothes making them smell even worse than before you washed them.
Labels:
Appliances,
Smells
Dryer lint screen
Forgetting to change the lint screen on the dryer and your clothes are full of lint.
Labels:
Appliances
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Gum on sidewalks
Why do people throw gum on the sidewalks and parking lots knowing ahead of time someone will step in it?
Labels:
People
Buttons on remote control
You get something with a remote control and find the buttons for everything are in all weird places.
Labels:
Remote Controls
Best news story is last
They put the best news story on last so you have to watch the entire news program.
Labels:
News
Small eyeglass screws
Why are the eyeglass screws so small? How are you supposed to fix them if you have to tighten up a screw?
Labels:
Eyeglasses
Pretend you like the gift
Pretending you like a gift that you really have no need for or really don't like at all.
Labels:
Christmas
Drivers changing lanes
Some drivers seem to use the road as an obstacle course test. They go in and out of cars and keep switching lanes just to get ahead.
Labels:
Drivers
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Phones are too heavy
Some cell and house phones are still heavy to hold for long periods of time. We need some lighter weight phones. Most of the weight is in the battery.
Labels:
Cell Phones,
Phones
Steam showers
Someone taking a steam show that leaves the bathroom so hot it is almost impossible to see anything.
Hairspray smell
Someone who just comes out of the bathroom that used a load of hairspray. It takes forever to clear the room.
Toilet paper used up
The last person who uses the roll up should put a new roll on. Otherwise you have to find a new roll when you are sitting on the bowl.
Low water pressure
Everyone using water for lawns and pools in the summer that you have no water pressure in the house.
Labels:
Summer
Sunset is early
It gets dark out so fast in the winter you have no time really do anything outside the house.
Labels:
Winter
Long elections
The election process seems to take forever. One week can seem like a month hearing the same speeches over and over.
Labels:
Elections
Holiday traffic
Everyone having the same idea and leaving early in their car to travel for the Holiday.
Labels:
Travel
Merry Christmas
Now some people get offended if you say Merry Christmas. Why can't people just relax more and not get offended by everything?
Labels:
Christmas
Squirrels over house
Squirrels that run up the side of your house and make a home in your attic by breaking the attic screen.
Labels:
Animals
Late appointments
You make an appointment for someone to come to your house for a repair but they are always late.
Labels:
Appointments
Bathroom interruptions
As soon as you get undressed to go in the shower someone has to use the bathroom.
It comes with no cables
The cable you need to hook up a DVD player or VCR is sold separate. Then you find out the cable cost $20 or more to buy.
People who park close to you
People parking so close that you can't open your door without denting their door with your door when you get out.
Labels:
Parking
People who hang up
Someone calling but not leaving a message on the recorder. It only takes a few seconds to say your name and what you are calling for.
Labels:
Phones
Flashlight batteries
They cost a lot of money the batteries but they never seem to last a long time when you put them in a flashlight. The light gets dim pretty fast.
Garbage cans in street
Garbage passing early and people not picking up the cans until late at night. What is worse is on a windy day when they are in the middle of the street rolling around.
Labels:
Travel
Dry air in winter
Air is too dry in the winter. It makes your skin dry and you also get thirsty all the time.
Labels:
Winter
Magazines full of ads
Magazines with not many articles and pictures but ads throughout the magazine.
Labels:
Magazines
Left or right newspapers
Why not have all newspapers neutral? Have people report on both sides rather than one sided articles in the entire paper.
Labels:
Newspapers
Mouse button broke
This is the worst when it happens when you are online in the middle of something.
Labels:
Computers
Short power cords
Why do they make the power cords on some things so short? It is almost impossible to reach the outlet sometimes.
Labels:
Electronics,
Household
No privacy online
Since nobody has any privacy left online anymore, why bother to list a privacy policy on web sites?
Labels:
Internet
Forum registration
On some forums you have to fill out so much information before you join. Then you have to click on an email to activate your account before you can post anything.
Labels:
Internet
Drivers using cell phones
People talking on the cell phone while driving and forgetting to put on blinkers when turning.
Labels:
Cell Phones,
Drivers
Loud commercials
The commercials on TV get so much louder than the show is sometimes. You always got to have your hand on the volume control.
Labels:
Commercials
Loud furnaces
These things make a racket. I hope one day we can have a furnace that heats the house that is silent.
Labels:
Noise
Dented cans
One can is left for the item you want but it is the dented can which nobody wants.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Chocolate melting
Going out to buy chocolate and then having the chocolate melt in the summer before you bring it home.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Live audio problems
How come in 2008 some live shows always have audio problems? The sound sometimes goes out or does not work right.
Labels:
TV Shows
Electronics product colors
Why make just silver in some TV sets and other audio/video products? Black looks nice also.
Labels:
Electronics
Keyboard key broken
One key is not working so the entire keyboard is useless. Words that have missing letters when someone types are a sure sign someone has a broken key.
Labels:
Computers
Loud lawnmowers
Someone who runs them at high speed all the time making the sound twice as loud. Some of these lawnmowers can make you deaf. They do have a low speed which works just as well.
Labels:
Noise
Dirty money
Getting money that is dirty rather than crisp new bills all the time. Where has this money been?
Labels:
Money
It is broken
When you finally saved enough money to buy something, then something breaks costing a fortune to fix.
Labels:
Money
Wrong stocks
You try making money in stocks but you picked the wrong ones and they all lost value.
Labels:
Stocks
Cost of living
You make more money but the cost of everything has gone up so you can't break even.
Labels:
Money
Bank CD rates
You want to open a bank CD but the rates just dropped near savings account levels.
Labels:
Money
Commercials before movies
How many previews and commercials do we have to see before the actual movie itself?
Labels:
Movie Theaters
Dogs on lawns
Why do other peoples dogs have to go to the bathroom on your lawn? Why can't they go on their own lawns?
Labels:
Animals
Food ingredients
Most of the ingredients on the food labels you have no idea what they are and what they do.
Labels:
Food
One hand out the window
Why do some people have to drive with one hand out the window of their car?
Labels:
Drivers
Time for appointments
They never seem to have the hour you want for your appointment. Everyone always picks the same time.
Labels:
Appointments
Changing time on clocks
Changing times on all the clocks in your house either ahead an hour or back an hour is annoying with all the electronics people own today.
Labels:
Seasons
Loud speakers
Loud voices on the speakers they use to page people. This is annoying especially in the morning.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Express lines
The supermarket express line is as slow as the regular lines because of more people using it.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Supermarket readers
People reading about products while blocking your wagon so you can't move.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Broken wagons
When you go to the supermarket and you get a wagons that does not wheel right because a wheel is broken.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Phone taxes
The taxes on the phone bill are more money than the cost of the phone calls.
Labels:
Money,
Phone Company,
Taxes
Phone features
How many new features do you need on a house phone? It seems something new is out all the time.
Labels:
Phone Company
Experation dates
The expiration dates are always seem not long enough on the food you buy.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Long deli lines
Waiting on the long deli line. The deli line seems to be the longest line in the store all the time.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Can't hold a conversation
Someone who can't hold a conversation in person. You usually do all the talking during the date.
Labels:
Dating
Election promises
Nobody ever does what they promise they will do when they give the speeches.
Labels:
Elections
People who don't let you voice your opinion
Everyone should hear other peoples opinions on things besides just their own.
Labels:
People
People who love to argue all the time
Some people seem like they will do anything just to start an argument with you.
Labels:
People
People who talk over you
Some people seem to talk over you all the time as if they can't hear you.
Labels:
People
Monday, October 27, 2008
People who never agree
People who don't agree with you on any topics. It sometimes seems like they purposely don't agree with you just so you get more annoyed.
Labels:
People
Tooth cavities
How can such a small thing like a tooth hurt so much when you have a cavity?
Labels:
Teeth
Dental floss
Sometimes this gets stuck in between teeth because of a filling. Try getting it out when this happens without taking the filling out with it.
Labels:
Teeth
Teeth get yellow
Teeth seem to stain or get a yellow color over time. Teeth are a hassle to keep the same color it seems your entire life.
Labels:
Teeth
Fillings come out
New technology so fillings last a lifetime would be great one day.
Labels:
Dentist Visits
Numb gums
The needle still pinches bad when they inject the Novocain into your gums.
Labels:
Dentist Visits
Microwave too small
The microwave oven is too small to heat many things in at once.
Labels:
Appliances
Car brakes
Brakes still don't last long enough on cars. No new technology yet to make them last much longer?
Labels:
Cars
Car controls in wrong places
Controls like knobs still get put in the wrong place sometimes even after all these years.
Labels:
Cars
Cheap car interiors
The interiors of most cars are still made of plastic and feel cheap.
Labels:
Cars
Expensive cars still break
No matter how much money you spend for a better car, they still break all the time.
Turkey time
Everyone in the family always wants to eat the Thanksgiving turkey at a different time. Maybe we should average the times outs?
Labels:
Thanksgiving
Christmas gifts
It is hard to keep picking out something to buy someone year after year. After awhile they have everything.
Labels:
Christmas
Bloated stomach
Eating too much food for Thanksgiving. Your stomach comes out about 6 inches more.
Labels:
Thanksgiving
Turkey is dry
Working hard to make a nice turkey for Thanksgiving, but the turkey comes out overcooked and dry.
Labels:
Thanksgiving
What to do for Thanksgiving
One person in the family wants to eat here, the next person wants to eat at another house... .
Labels:
Thanksgiving
Christmas lights
Buying Christmas lights and getting home finding out they don't work.
Labels:
Christmas
Online handles
Some online handles are offensive. Why not pick a less offensive one?
Labels:
Internet
Paint brushes
Rinsing out the brushes and rollers when you are done is also a big job.
Labels:
Painting
Moving furniture
Moving the furniture out and then back in the room is a job in itself if you are going to paint.
Labels:
Painting
Dryer breaking
You can't dry your clothes. But worse is all the lint that is on them all the time.
Labels:
Appliances
Off paint colors
Paint colors never look the same on the wall as they do on the can or color charts.
Labels:
Painting
Stepping in paint
Paint dripping from ceiling on floor and then you step on it. It is not even possible to usually remove it all.
Labels:
Painting
Painting with corner brushes
Corner brushes never work and make the job harder. The paint usually still gets in the wrong spots.
Labels:
Painting
Paint smells bad
Paint smells terrible and the smell sometimes does not go away for weeks even after the room is finished.
Volume level on TV shows
It seems that each channel has a different volume level. Why can't they all be the same volume level?
Labels:
TV Shows
Tube sets that weigh a ton
Old TV sets that weigh more than solid led does. Try lifting the old 27 inch TV sets.
Labels:
TV Sets
TV channel switching time
The delay between switching a channel and when the picture comes on on the digital cable boxes.
Labels:
TV Sets
TV tube warm up time
The old TV sets that take a long time to warm up before the picture comes on.
Labels:
TV Sets
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Driver cutting you off
Drivers who cut you off just to save a few seconds. This won't really add much to saving time for the day.
Labels:
Drivers
Super dark windows on cars
Cars having dark windows so you can't see who is driving or in the back seats.
Labels:
Cars
The fruit is rotten
Getting fruit and not checking it in the store. When you go home almost all of it is rotten.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Buying pulp orange juice
You forget and buy the orange juice that has the pulp in it instead.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Air conditioner noise
When you plug your new a/c in, you find out that it makes a racket.
Labels:
Appliances,
Noise
Small TV sets
You bring home the new TV set which hardly fits in your truck, then find out that the screen size you got is not big enough.
Labels:
TV Sets
Milk containers leaking
All of the milk containers that are left are the leaking containers.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Light bulbs burn out too fast
The bulbs are always burning out at night in the kitchen so you have to eat in the dark until you change them. Can't we make bulbs yet that can last 10 years or longer?
Labels:
Household
Bills for mail
You wait for the mail for something that you ordered but the mail is just all bills that are due.
Labels:
Mail
They never have your shoe size
You finally find a great pair of sneakers but the size you want is usually never there.
Labels:
Shopping
Snow plows blocking your car in
You are happy they are finally plowing your street. But after coming plowing, your car is buried in snow from the plow now. Now it is time for the shovel.
Labels:
Winter
Hot vacations
Heat waves happening just the week you are home from work. Then when you go back to work the weather cools off.
Labels:
Vacations
Repeat episodes on TV
Waiting all week for a show and finding out that it is a repeat of a previous episode instead.
Labels:
TV Shows
Monday, October 20, 2008
Expensive video game systems
They stopped making games for your old video game machine. But the new video game system cost $400.
Upgrading computers
Your computer can't run the latest software. You either have to buy more ram or another computer.
Labels:
Computers
Having to upgrade the computer O/S
Can't we stay with the same O/S on our computers if we want to?
Labels:
Computers
Big car repairs
You bring in a car for a small job like an oil change, and then find out you need $1,000 worth of repairs.
Order mistakes
Waiting weeks for a package then you get it and find out they shipped you the wrong size or color. It takes forever to send it back and get the right one.
Labels:
Shopping
Dirty car exhaust
Driving behind someone that has not cleaned their exhaust for years. You have to drive behind a smoke screen the entire way.
Labels:
Cars
Not using turn signals
Waiting to make a right turn while the other car didn't put his blinkers on to let you know that he is turning. You could have made your turn a long time ago.
Labels:
Drivers
Talkers at barbershops
The guy in front of you is telling his life story to the barber so he takes extra long before he can get to your hair.
Labels:
Haircuts
Drivers going too slow
Getting behind someone on a road while you are in a hurry and they see you in the rear view mirror but still go slow anyway.
Labels:
Drivers
Rain on vacations
Planning a vacation for an entire year, then it rains the entire week that you are home.
Labels:
Vacations
$300 food bill
Going online behind someone who didn't make a shopping in a month and has the entire wagon filled with food. They had over a $300 food bill.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Cable outages
The cable goes out right before the show you waited an entire week for.
Labels:
Cable TV
Long wait at barbershops
Waiting 2 hours in a crowded barbershop because everyone decided to go right before the holidays like you
Labels:
Haircuts
No appointments
You wait weeks for an appointment and they tell you that you don't have any appointment since they forgot to write it down or wrote the wrong time and date.
Labels:
Appointments
Mail comes at end of day
Being on the end of the route so that you don't get mail each day until 4 p.m. while others get it at 10 a.m..
Labels:
Mail
Printer ink sold out
The stores are always sold out of the ink for your printer model, but they have all the ink for the other printers.
Labels:
Shopping
Hat sizes are too small
Why not make all hats adjustable? Everyone has a different size head.
Labels:
Shopping
Newspaper ink
I would love to read newspapers with ink that does not come off on your hands.
Labels:
Newspapers
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Too many program updates
Having to download updates for programs all the time. They take forever on a dial-up. The worst is the game updates.
A big red X for the picture
Sites where some pictures do not load. The big red X is there instead of the picture.
Labels:
Internet
Ads that float across the screen
Ads that move across the screen while you are on a site. How annoying can you get?
Labels:
Internet
Browser crashes
Browser crashing and you forget the web address of the page you were on.
Labels:
Internet
Modem disconnects in middle of filling out forms
Disconnections when you are in the middle of filling out a form. All the information has to be typed in again.
Labels:
Internet
Videos to slow to download
Your dial-up connection is to slow to download videos. You can start downloading one and make lunch by the time it finishes.
Labels:
Internet
Dripping sink faucets
We need a sink faucet that never drips. The drips keeps you up all day and night.
Labels:
Bathroom
Not enough electric outlets
With all the electronic items we own today, you need a house that has a place to plug something in like every few feet.
Labels:
Household
Big TV screen sizes
They make them bigger all the time. What if they can't fit in your room?
Labels:
TV Sets
Too many different models
You search for a VCR or a DVD player but you have like hundreds of different models to choose from.
Noisy birds waking you up
The worst thing is when birds decide to get up at 7 a.m. and make a bunch of noise while you are still sleeping in bed.
Too many leaves falling
In the autumn, so many leaves fall off the trees it turns into a bigger job cleaning them up than cutting the grass.
Labels:
Autumn
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Laptops are too heavy
We still need to work on lighter laptops that don't put a dent in your bed mattress if you use them on there.
Labels:
Computers
Dust under laptop keys
If you use it in a bedroom, before long all keys have either dust or hair underneath them.
Locks on cars freezing
The ice storms sometimes freeze the locks so that you can't put your key into it.
Labels:
Cars
Colors on web pages
Some websites the colors make the page hard to read. Some use a rainbow of colors.
Labels:
Internet
Fonts are too small
Some fonts on the Internet are so small you can't read the page. Others are so big you can go blind reading the page.
Labels:
Internet
Too many ads on web pages
Some pages have so many ads that you have to scroll the page down before you get to any content.
Labels:
Internet
Too many pictures on web pages
Some websites have so many pictures on the page, it takes forever to load if you have a dial-up modem.
Labels:
Internet
High stamp prices
I think one day it might be cheaper if you walked to deliver the letter if prices keep going up.
Labels:
Mail
Friday, October 17, 2008
Remotes that don't light up
How come remotes still don't light up at night? It is hard changing channels in the dark. I guess you have to keep the lights on.
Labels:
Remote Controls
Too many kinds of cookies
Too many kinds of cookies now to choose from can take a long time to select one.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Empty shelves
Going early to beat the crowds but nothing is stocked up in the supermarket that early in the morning.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Small print on food labels
The print is so small on some food labels you usually can't read it in the supermarket.
Labels:
Food
Sports clock time is forever
One minute in a sports game left is really like 10 minutes. Waiting for your show to come on takes forever.
Labels:
Sports
Music in commercials
Every commercial now on TV has a song that is played in the background.
Labels:
Commercials
Too long to paint a room
TV shows show a room being painted it seems in just a few hours time. How does it go so fast on TV?
Labels:
Painting
Paint getting on the rugs
Every time when you paint the baseboards in rooms, paint always gets on the rugs.
Labels:
Painting
Never paving popular roads
It seems as though some popular roads get paved once every 30 years or so even though potholes are every few feet from each other.
Labels:
Travel
Late running sports shows
Why can't they show a little box in corner if a game is running late so you can see the show at the same time that is supposed to be on?
Labels:
TV Shows
Shopping carts all over parking lots
Every place should have a central location where you can return them rather than having to leave them in parking slots so people can't park their cars.
Labels:
Parking
Not enough TV time for guest
They always say we only have so much time for their guests.
Labels:
People,
Talk Shows
Everyone talking all at once
Why do the guests and the TV host have to talk over each other all the time during an interview?
Labels:
People,
Talk Shows
People smelling the milk
I hate when someone has to smell the milk to see if it is still good or not.
Labels:
People
Toast crumbs in the butter
Wipe the knife off before you put it back in the butter if you are having toast.
Labels:
People
Too many wires
With all the electronic items we all have now, the rooms are like a jungle full of wires with everything plugged in.
Labels:
Household
Changing presidential polls
Why show the polls if they change every day? Someone leading today is behind the next day.
Labels:
Elections
Boring presidential debates
We need more interesting questions asked at the debates.
Labels:
Elections
Too many online passwords
Having so many online accounts and having to remember all the passwords for them.
Labels:
Internet
Filling out forms online
Filling out a form online to register for something, then something goes wrong and you have to re-enter the information all over again in every field.
Labels:
Internet
Lightning storms
A storm coming fast and your house gets hit with a bad lightning strike.
Labels:
Summer
Raising hands all at once
How come nobody raises their hands for questions? They all talk at the same time at news conferences.
Labels:
News
News conference delays
How come they tell you 5 minutes before it starts but it usually is another 20-30 minute wait.
Labels:
News
Sloppy track for horse racing
Waiting all weekend for a big race but it rains and the track is sloppy and many of your favorites horses are scratched.
Labels:
Sports
Expired dates on food
Forgetting to check the date on food when you buy it at the supermarket and finding out it is spoiled when you get home.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Clothes for Christmas
Buying someone clothing then finding out it is the wrong size and does not fit them.
Labels:
Christmas
Too much Halloween candy
You buy a load of candy for the children, then not many come around and you get stuck with too much candy to eat.
Slow modems
The web pages take forever to load on a dial-up today. In the 1990s everything came on the screen faster.
Labels:
Internet
Poor voice quality on cell phones
How come after all these years peoples voices still drop out on cell phones? The voice is usually too low also.
Labels:
Cell Phones
Repetitive news all the time
The same news on TV 24/7 or writing about the same news story frequently in newspapers.
Labels:
News
Noisy garbage trucks
The garbage truck passing by making a 100 db noise while you are still sleeping. Hearing that truck go by in the morning can wake the dead.
Labels:
Noise
Commercials on TV all at once
All of the TV stations taking a commercial break at the exact same time. You can't flip the channel and watch something else.
Labels:
Commercials
Part missing when you buy something
You buy something and one part is missing and the store says you have to return the entire box rather than give you the part you are missing.
Labels:
Shopping
Paving roads during rush hour
Rush hour road construction is not the best time to pave a road.
Labels:
Travel
Wrong weather forecast
You plan you weekend because you hear it will be sunny. Instead it rains the entire weekend.
Labels:
Weather
Long traffic lights
Waiting for a 3 minute traffic light while you have ice cream in your car from the supermarket.
Labels:
Travel
Construction work time
It always happens when you are either going to work or coming home from work. It never happens at 3am when no cars are out on the roads.
Labels:
Travel
Eating during movies
Someone in front or behind of you eating during the entire movie. Popcorn and potato chips make too much noise.
Labels:
Movie Theaters
Tall people in movies
Having a tall person sit in front of you so you can't see the movie.
Labels:
Movie Theaters
Store sales
You see a great advertisement in the paper for something. When you go to the store, they are all sold out or never got the item in yet.
Labels:
Stores
Store openings
They don't open the doors until the exact minute, even though it is 10 degrees outside and everyone is freezing.
Labels:
Stores