Just about two years ago, I wrote a confessions post about some pretty substantive things that make my angry. As I’m suffering from minor writer’s block/idea deficiency and also I’m already in vacation mode (we leave for Boston in less than a week!), I decided that it’d be a good idea to update that list except with really small petty things that annoy me rather than things that are major or important because that’s how I’m feeling right now. It’s also an accompaniment to this post about all my pet peeves which made me realize I should do a post about all the things I love so I don’t always come across like a curmudgeonly old man.
So, here’s a not at all complete list of things I hate (also known as major first world problems):
- Oranges and all of its related orange-citrus brethren.
- Horses. Keep them away from me, please and thank you.
- Hangers that are all askew and face different directions. Not to mention when they’re mixed with wire hangers.
- Punctuation abuse. Especially on professional signs. Guess what? If you say you’re “licensed and insured”, we’re not doing business.
- Seeing someone in a movie or on TV and not being able to remember where I’ve seen them before.
- Thinking of titles for posts.
- Typing in a password and being told it’s wrong even though I know it’s right. And while we’re on the password subject, being asked to change it every few months or so. NO, M&T Bank, I don’t want to do that. I can barely remember this one and now you want me to have a new one?
- Bad handwriting on feedback forms. How can I fix what’s wrong if I can’t read what you wrote? (I don’t have a problem with bad handwriting in general. Just when I need to read it).
- Finding a movie on HBO and coming in halfway and then wanting to record the next showing because who wants to start a movie they’ve never seen in the middle only to find out that this is the only showing. WHY YOU TEASE ME, HBO?
- Realizing a dog who’s not my dog has shit in my yard and the lazy ass owner didn’t pick it up. It’s all fun and games until someone steps in dog shit and tracks it in the house.
- Speaking of dogs, why does my dog wait until I’m actually and finally comfortable to whine at me that he needs to go out even after I’ve just let him out and he chooses not to do anything except walk around and bother the cat?
- This little piece of my car door that won’t attach to the rest of the door and flaps in the wind when I’m driving.
- The term “hack” as in “life hacks”, “productivity hacks”, “cooking hacks”. Can’t we change it up with “shortcuts” or something else? I also hate the terms “solopreneur” and “lady boss”.
- That iTunes will not let me change my user ID. Fuck you, iTunes.
- Bad people like the Duggars getting second chances. Look, I’m all for giving second chances but not in the manner that they’re getting. I felt the same way about Michael Vick. He did his time, paid his penance, whatever you want to call it, and he totally deserved to be given a job and all of that but not in the manner that he did. If you do something as bad or reprehensible as the Duggars or Vick, then you should not be put in a position where people use you as a role model. Yes, you can argue that they deserve adulation because they reformed but let’s be honest, have the Duggars truly reformed? Have they apologized for all the hate they’ve spewed or the hypocrisy in which they’ve conducted their lives? Have they adjusted their beliefs after seeing the damage its done to their family? No, they have not. So maybe thrusting them back into the spotlight with millions of dollars and paid vacations and all that jazz is blatantly wrong. And shame on TLC for giving it to them. And shame on me for writing about it and giving them even more attention. (You sort of knew this rant was coming, right?) But I still fucking hate them.
- The Oregon Trail app no longer works on my iPad.
- Being told I need to drink wine. No. I don’t like wine. I will stick with my beer.
- Fees attached to buying concert tickets. Really, they’re expensive enough. Why do I need to pay an extra $40 billion in processing fees? And what exactly is a “processing fee”? Sounds like a scam to me.
- Website design. I need to design two websites as well as a complete makeover for this one and while I’m good at content, I’m terrible at design and I can’t afford to pay someone to do my designs. Awesome for me. But thankfully Fiverr exists so I can get a few things done there for cheap until I can afford something better.
Let’s end this on something I don’t hate. Another episode of The Armchair Librarians! This time we talk about finding time to read and assorted other topics because reading rabbit holes are easy to find when you’re me and Steph. A few things: one, this is one of the websites I need to design. Two, there’s a terrible echo towards the middle and end of the recording that makes it sound like Steph is in a bathroom even though to my knowledge she isn’t and I can’t edit it out so we apologize for that. Three, I finally figured out how to get this thing in iTunes so it should be there next week. Four, we have a few tweaks we’re making to the quality of the podcast so look out for those in upcoming shows (read: not this one or the next).
I hate thinking of post titles too and sometimes post introductions paragraphs suck too!
I hate apps that won’t let me change my user ID, in my case it’s snapchat where I’m still and forever will be she crab soup.
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Ohhhh I have something to listen to on my way to work this morning, yay!!! I am with you on all of these things. How can people put hangers up not all facing the same way and paired with their own kind???? My neighbor lets their three dogs shit all over my front yard. They just moved in this past winter, and now that grass cutting season has come around and we are walking in our yard again, they are in for a rude awakening. Yes, I will take a shovel and throw every last turd in their yard. I don’t care what they think of me. It’s their shit, they can take it back.
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What is it with iTunes. You’d think someone was “hacking” into the FBI or something the way they lock you out if you screw up the password. I do like Oranges though! 🙂 My next door neighbor had a dog that shit in our shared yard all the time and she never cleaned it up, yet denied it was hers. Odd that when she moved away the shit never appeared in my yard again. So aggravating!
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I’d like to punch michael vick in the face. Totally agree about wine and messy hangers too! But sorry, I love horses. Love love love.
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I will confirm, I was not in the bathroom at any times.
As you know, I had the shit tracking in the house last night. Not cool. At all.
There are two online bill things that I freaking KNOW they keep fucking with the passwords. It enrages me.
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“Hack” implies that something is difficult. A lot of those posts are just reiterating common sense.
I don’t like horses either. I never have.
Someone posted Anna’s POV on FB today and it just makes me sick. Stop defending her ability to pretend this whole thing hasn’t happened…the poor girl is trapped at this point.
YES. I hate horses too! I thought it was just me. Not into em, nope.
Get the Duggars off TV. Forever.
I can’t with weird/bad punctuation – there have been whole articles (well, Buzzfeed-type lists) dedicated to the weird misuse of quotation marks on signs. “Free” Soda with Purchase! — so, wait, is it NOT free? I don’t get it.
Any type of fee added to a purchase is the WORST – i got my dad/brother Rangers tickets for Christmas and they were pricey as is, and then when I went to check out there was tax, fees, and all this other bullshit which tacked on a significant amount of extra money. RUDE.
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Hey, I love oranges! 🙂 Kiwi, not so much. I am with you on hangers and I feel like Joan Crawford whenever I see a wire hanger. Not a fan of horses since I was a kid and I was on a horse that took off and it wouldn’t stop and it scared the crap out of me. Happened over 25 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Pretty much done with horses at that point.
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I am so pissed about the Duggars being back on TV. WHY???? For all the love of humanity – do not give them a platform. I guess TLC is the learning channel on bad parenting. Gross. The first time I had California fresh-picked farmer’s market oranges I ate enough to get sick. #NoRegrets! The password things drives me nuts too. Listen, I’m getting old. Some days I struggle to remember if I brushed my teeth and you expect to memorize a gazillion password Mr. Website? You obviously don’t know me. 🙂
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I am an EXPERT at effing up passwords. It’s like a superpower but terrible. This is why I haaaaate iTunes with a passion. They’re as bad as the Department of Treasury with the complicated passwords (which I also routinely screw up) so halle-freakin-lujah for password keepers.
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I hate when I recognize somebody in a movie or a TV show and I can’t remember what they’re from! I always have to look them up on IMDB otherwise it’ll bother me too much! I totally agree with you about the Duggars and Michael Vick. Vick did do the time, but people still treat him like an idol even though he was a dog abuser! It disgusts me!
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Ugh on the password situation. Someone around my age said they are becoming forgetful. Are you kidding me! My parents have the same phone number since 1956 at the same house. Life used to be simple. It’s brain overload , not senility.
The foreign dog poop ! Rich walks out 3 German shepherds and picks up so , really !?!?? I wish I did like beer.
I do like Yards Pynk – it’s a girly rose-type beer! Enjoy the nice weather ! Love. Steph’s. Momma.
I hear you on most of these. I keep reading how you should put “hack” in blog titles because it gets the most hits. But I don’t think I’ve used it once.
Horses scare me too. My mom LOVES them and hoped I would too. But alas..however, Natalie seems to really like them. So maybe there’s hope for my Mom to share her love of horses with someone.
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agree with you on the duggars. ugh.
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I am happy to report that I know very little about the Duggars. This is all I know: the have a tv show, they are supposed to be devout Christians, and some male Duggar is a sex offender. Is this correct? This is really all I know. Their popularity hasn’t transcended into my world. Thankfully. I shall listen to the podcast now…where hopefully, there will be no talk of Duggars.
Why is that woman working at the book fair but hates reading? Shouldn’t she volunteer at the bake fair or something else??
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