You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

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Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
Naturally, this makes sense. The problem is the prevalence of warped views - that autists current day people take literally of "how men are" and "how women are."
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Nothing is really 100% but you can often read something written by a woman or a man and say "no actual woman would say all this" after about two pages.
 
internet friend said:
When a comedy goes too far with the punching bag character and it just transitions to being plain cruel. It's funny when a fatrick type gets his comeuppance, but it's because they're an asshole. It's not when someone is just getting everything they ever done shit on no matter what.
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I always feel confused because a lot of times the character is doing nothing wrong, or at least not enough to warrant all of existence shitting on them. It's way more cathartic to make these characters assholes, but writers seem hesitant to do that for some reason.
 
The first mosquito bite of the season, because where I live the mosquitoes are mutant monsters that, instead of a little dime-sized raised area, leave a silver-dollar-sized thick lump under the skin.

Also thinking that 40 leaf bags left over from last year would be enough for spring beds and naturalized planting area cleanup, but running out with definitely 30-40+ more needed.
 
When you look online for "Things to do in XYZ region" and every fucking result is just food. I like having a meal as much as the next guy, but how many fucking times a day can you realistically eat? After I've had a lunch or dinner, what else is there to do? I can't just hop from one restaurant to another constantly.
 
Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
The first mosquito bite of the season, because where I live the mosquitoes are mutant monsters that, instead of a little dime-sized raised area, leave a silver-dollar-sized thick lump under the skin.

Also thinking that 40 leaf bags left over from last year would be enough for spring beds and naturalized planting area cleanup, but running out with definitely 30-40+ more needed.
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My stupid bite has been weeping all afternoon and is hot, though the weeping seems to have relieved the hard lump somewhat. I think there were actually tiny blisters on the top.
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Monsters!
 
"This file can't be deleted because it is open in some program you've never heard of that does not appear in the task manager. Googling the exact contents of this error message will either bring you that stupid ice-fishing yeti or bring up threads that give no help other than a bunch of technical jargon you know nothing about."
 
Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
The first mosquito bite of the season, because where I live the mosquitoes are mutant monsters that, instead of a little dime-sized raised area, leave a silver-dollar-sized thick lump under the skin.
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Don't jinx us with that yet. I'm already not looking forward to applying sunscreen every time I go outside.
 
Ilikeoreos said:
"This file can't be deleted because it is open in some program you've never heard of that does not appear in the task manager. Googling the exact contents of this error message will either bring you that stupid ice-fishing yeti or bring up threads that give no help other than a bunch of technical jargon you know nothing about."
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Rivertuner statistics server always pops up on booting the pc wanting to update. I've been ignoring it for years, but the other day I clicked ok, it redirected me to the download page, downloads, click install and then it's telling me to close 746474 programs and background processes in order to be able to update. Even processes not shown in the task manager. Fucking bullshit. I'll never get an update then.
 
Oh good, another app I didn’t ask for that I can’t delete unless I perform a ritual involving three settings menus and a goat.

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Saw my sister cut/sand down mould lines/cast errors/whatever on some plastic doodads she got for her friend. Great how we fucking got to the point you need to work on things you paid money for.
 
I'm convinced that a lot of retail stores are going out of business because their websites don't fucking work on mobile devices at all. The interfaces lag. The pages don't load correctly. It constantly logs you out. It never remembers the zip code you put in to find a store near you. Generally just slow as shit. How
 
When something is out of stock but they still have it listed, specifically without that disclaimer, so they can get clicks. Fuck you, you mother fuckers. This is why nobody buys your shit anymore.
 
The Jews at Pepperidge Farms sell hot dog buns in packs of six. Normally, this would run counter to the Jewry of selling packs of eight so you have to buy more.* However, this is offset by the Jewry of selling them for almost twice as much as the ones I usually get!

*Buying three packs of one and two of another doesn’t impact me too much. Hot dogs are an easy hot sandwich so I can go through 12 in less than two weeks.
 
Ordering the shrimp tackle box at Popeyes. You will wait three times as long as everyone else because no one else orders it. And because no one else orders it, they don’t have any ready. And because they don’t have any ready, you’re essentially asking them to start fishing. (:_(
 
I had to mail out some business checks today. I print them directly from Quickbooks which conveniently prints the payee's address on the check, and after slipping them into a windowed envelope, I throw a stamp on and toss it in the mail. I was out of windowed envelopes and needed to get these checks out so I had to go to Office Depot to get some.

Let me tell you about fucking Office Depot. This has been their business model for at least the last eight years:
  • We'll stock items that small business people need (copy paper, printer ink, fucking ENVELOPES).
  • We'll mark them up at least five bajillion percent
  • We'll wait until retards like @ForgedBlades realize that they need something now and can't wait one or two days for Amazon Prime to deliver it
  • ???
  • PROFIT
I go in there and pick up a fucking box of 250 double windowed envelopes.

FORTY-NINE FUCKING DOLLARS

NO. I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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You want to know how much a box of 500 costs on Amazon?

THIRTY FUCKING DOLLARS​

NO, I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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It gets better.

I drive back, feeling like a retard, boiling with rage. I go to stick a check in. The first two lines of the fucking payee address on the check are covered up by the white strip separating the receiver's address and the return address. This printing of the address cannot be altered. I cannot make the text smaller, I cannot add a couple of line breaks, Quickbooks will not allow you to do any of this.

I do a little research. Apparently the checks my bank sends me are a proprietary size. This means I can only use specially designed envelopes sold by the check manufacturer if I want both addresses to line up properly in their windows. You want to know how much a box of those costs?

EIGHTY-ONE FUCKING DOLLARS​

NO, I'M NOT BULLSHITTING YOU

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