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.
Monday, November 17, 2008
No results until the last minute
Waiting for the results of a live reality show, but they wait until the final few minutes of the hour before they tell you who is going home.
Labels:
TV Shows
Certain size for avatars
Sites that want your avatar to be a certain size and no bigger. Why can't they resize it for you? This is annoying having to resize the picture.
Labels:
Internet
Using picture of a girl for avatars
A lot of people with profiles pick a picture of some girl for their avatar so you click on their profile.
Labels:
Internet
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Too old to run
How can a candidate be too old to run in an election? Some younger people can't think as well. Some older people can think far better.
Labels:
Elections
Foes then friends
The candidates talking negative about each other, then when the election is over everyone is friends again.
Labels:
Elections
Slow people in malls
People who walk in crowded malls in slow motion, holding up everyone behind them.
Labels:
Shopping
Stores going of business
Finding that your favorite local store is going out of business.
Labels:
Stores
Friday, November 14, 2008
Food packages hard to open
Why do they make some food so hard to open? Can't they first test and see if it is easy to open before they put it in the supermarket?
Labels:
Food
Make a good news cover
We need more front cover pages of newspapers listing good news for a change. Why the constant bad news on front covers all the time?
Labels:
Newspapers
Wild people on game shows
Why do all the game shows always have wild people on for contestants?
Labels:
Game Shows
Audience clapping on shows
The audience on TV shows always seems to go crazy when someone comes on a show.
Labels:
People,
Talk Shows,
TV Shows
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Expressway tailgaters
These are the people who ride right behind you hoping you will move out of their way so they don't have to change lanes.
Labels:
Drivers
Knocking on bedroom door
Someone waking you up in the morning knocking on your door to tell you something that is really not that important.
Labels:
Bedroom
Toilet takes too long to refill
They take too long to refill with water again before you can flush them.
Labels:
Bathroom
No TV in room
Going to a doctor for a test with a usually long waiting line and finding out there is no TV in the room while you wait to get called.
Labels:
Appointments
Refrigerators are too small
Most of the refrigerators don't have enough room to store enough liquids on the upper shelf.
Labels:
Appliances
No leash for dog
People who walk their dog with no leash and the dog run all over the place.
Labels:
Animals
Friday, November 7, 2008
Digital banners at games
Some of the digital banners on the sidelines of sports games flash too much now.
Labels:
Sports
Tree sap on cars
Tree sap is hard to get off your car. Never park under a tree in the summer.
Labels:
Cars
Salesmen calling at dinner
It always seems near dinner time or later that someone calls. Worse is on Sunday when you don't want anyone calling.
Labels:
Salesmen
Street sweepers
They clean your street in the summer with them to pick up the dirt, but your car is in the way so they can't clean near your curb.
Labels:
Seasons
Talking on checkout lines
Someone in front of you telling the cashier their life story while you are in a hurry to get out of the supermarket.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Slow motion people on checkout lines
The person in front of you on the checkout line in supermarket moves in slow motion testing your patience.
Labels:
Food Shopping
People putting you on hold
Sometimes you have to wait forever on the phone until someone gets done taking another call.
Labels:
Cell Phones,
Phones
People eating while on phone
Why do people eat while talking on the phone?
Labels:
Cell Phones,
Phones
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Election polls
Everyone going by the polls the entire election, but when the final day comes nobody really knows who will win anyway.
Labels:
Elections
Alarm clocks at 5 a.m.
Having the alarm clock ring loud early in the morning scaring the heck out of you.
Labels:
Bedroom
One sided articles
You can sometimes tell from the first few sentences if the article is going to be bias or not.
Labels:
Newspapers
Newspaper print too small
Some of the print in newspapers is just too small to read good enough. We need a bigger font.
Labels:
Newspapers
No good news in newspapers
It would be nice to see some good news in the newspapers once in awhile instead of printing just bad news all the time.
Labels:
Newspapers
Getting oil on your phone
When someone uses your phone and gets oil and dirt on the handset after they are done.
Labels:
Phones
Root canal cost
The cost of a root canal is more than most people have in the bank.
Labels:
Dentist Visits,
Money
Cheaply made board games
It seems the older board games were made better. They had wooden pieces and fancy boards. Now everyone seems to use plastic pieces.
Labels:
Games
Beach sports
People who decide to play a sports game right where you set your space up.
Labels:
Beaches
People sitting close to you on beach
With all the room on the beach, why do some people have to sit so close to your space?
Cost of cereal
Why is cereal so expensive? It does not last very long if you have it every day.
Labels:
Food Shopping,
Money
Toys in cereal
Why do they put the free toys at the bottom of inside the cereal bag where you can't reach it?
Labels:
Food Shopping
Not your frozen vegetables
Going to the supermarket and not seeing the frozen vegetables you are looking for. But they have so many other kinds of vegetables that you do not like.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Buying the un-salted crackers
Buying crackers in the supermarket without the salt by mistake instead of the ones with the salt.
Labels:
Food Shopping
Rain wearing out the wood
With all the rain, you can't have wood outside a house that last very long.
Labels:
House
Old carpets
As the carpets in your house get old, they start getting all bumpy. It is like walking on rocks.
Labels:
Household
Long waits at restaurants
Going when it is crowded to a restaurant and having to wait 30 minutes to get a seat and then wait another 15 minutes for the food to be served.
Labels:
Eating Out
Forgetting the sunscreen
Looking like a red lobster when you get home because you forgot the sunscreen.
Labels:
Beaches
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Basic model cars
Why sell the basic level cars when they usually don't have enough features in it to actually drive it?
Labels:
Cars
Expensive hub caps
Usually it does not pay to get the higher end hub caps on cars since they will be stolen before long.
Slow rear window defrosters
The rear window defroster always takes a long time to actually warm up and defrost the window.
Labels:
Cars
Bathroom blow dryers
Someone blow drying their hair all the time after a shower. They take forever before they are finished.
Labels:
Bathroom
Bathroom readers
Someone who always brings in a paper to read while they are in the bathroom.
Labels:
Bathroom
News network rating
How come they just can't all get along? Who has higher ratings and so on just gets a little boring after hearing it for the 20th time.
Labels:
News
Wrong order on fast food
Getting your order wrong and forgetting a hamburger, but not knowing it until you drive home and find it is missing.
Labels:
Eating Out,
Fast Food
Dew getting your shoes wet
Walking out in the morning and your shoes getting all wet from the dew on the grass.
Labels:
Weather
More glossy pictures in magazines
Every picture in a magazine today should be in glossy color. Not just the cover of the magazine.
Labels:
Magazines
Web pages keep changing
Leave it the way it is. Some sites change the design of the page all the time. Too complex of a design makes it confusing. If it works don't fix it.
Labels:
Internet
Hard drives breaking
Having to replace everything on a hard drive is a nightmare if it breaks.
Labels:
Computers
Smiles all the time
It is funny how everyone smiles on the news all the time, but when you go out in public nobody ever smiles at you.
Labels:
News,
People,
Talk Shows,
TV Shows
Too much makeup
Just how much makeup do people on TV put on? Their faces look like a wax figure sometimes. I never see anyone look that good when I go out in public.
Labels:
TV Shows
Dropping soap in bathtub
When you are in the shower and drop the soap bar in the bathtub. Then you have to pick it up and use it still after everyone has stepped where the soap was.
Labels:
Bathroom
Eyeglasses wearing out
After you own them for so many years they look nothing like they did the first day you bought them. Scratches are all over the lens.
Labels:
Eyeglasses
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Menus are dirty
Knowing a million people touched the menu before you that you now have to hold.
Labels:
Eating Out
Can we pick the seat?
Not being able to pick your own place to sit at a restaurant.
Labels:
Eating Out
Everyone eats at the same place
Everyone eats out at the same exact place at the same exact time it seems.
Labels:
Eating Out,
People
Walking fast in crowds
Walk slower in crowds so you don't go knocking everyone over. Saving a few seconds won't help much.
Labels:
People
Not quitting the election
How come nobody ever quits elections even when they have only a 1% chance of winning?
Labels:
Elections
Speeding cars
Is getting to your destination 10 seconds faster really mean that much?
Labels:
Drivers
Clothing sizes are too big
Large, extra large, and extra extra large are the only sizes you find all the time when shopping for clothes. Why no small sizes?
Labels:
Shopping
Everyone is blonde on the news
How come every lady on the news has blonde hair now? What happened to black hair? I hope we don't all start wearing the same clothes next.
Labels:
News
Wall paint fades
Paint fading over the years. Painting the walls takes forever, so we need a paint that last 30 years with no fading.
Labels:
Painting
Letters wearing out on keyboards
I hate the older keyboards where the printed letters and numbers on them fade over time if you use them to much.
Labels:
Computers
Backing out of driveways
Cars backing out of driveways without seeing other cars passing on the road behind them.
Bad pollen in summer
Sometimes pollen is so bad in the summer. It gets on your car, windows, and everything else outside. Sneezing from it is another problem.
Labels:
Summer
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Forever for appointments
When you schedule an appointment and there are no openings until weeks and weeks later.
Labels:
Appointments
Not resigning chess games
When you are ahead by many chess pieces, and you have to trap the king and play until the very last move. The other player can't win so why does he bother to still play?
Labels:
Games
Smell from self-cleaning ovens
Can the smell get any worse when you clean the ovens?
Labels:
Appliances,
Smells
Car horns blowing
Drivers parked on a driveway and just blowing the horn waiting for their friend to come out.
Labels:
Drivers
Can't turn music off in game
In some games I bought over the years you can't turn off the background music it seems for certain parts of the game.
Labels:
Games
Books and magazines not staying open
How many times do you buy a magazine or book and it is too big to stay open while you read it?
Labels:
Magazines
Thumb tacks falling out
The thumb tacks never stay in the wall. Calendars are the hardest to stay put.
Labels:
Household
Dust on picture frames
You can never get rid of dust and it always winds up on the picture frames all the time.
Holes in socks
You always got a hole in the big toe of socks, or the heel part of the sock just wears out.
Labels:
Socks