Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

[Stadler]

Mildly irritating:  the clack of a computer keyboard.  I have the news on in the background while I work, and there's a commercial that comes on for a financial planner/adviser, and the entire ad is some tool typing questions into a browser, so all you hear is this exaggerated keyboard clacking sound.   Makes my teeth rattle. 

[cramx3]

It's a wierd sound, as in, I have no issues and sometimes even enjoy the sound when I am typing, yet hate the sound when someone else is doing so. 

It's even worse for a mechanical keyboard.  But there's a guy in the office who brought his personal mechanical keyboard in, which is significantly louder than our standard mac keyboards, and it's really caused a lot of people to hate him and when he's not there, to frantically hit his keys jokingly. 

[mikeyd23]

Went to guitar center today at like 1pm. was in the market for a new bass to replace old squier beginner bass. Found a fender prescision bass that I liked and was like "oh, well I'll come back later and trade in my beginner base then buy the new one"

Come back at like 4pm. Go to the desk with the beginner base ready to trade it in. Look for the new one and see that its missing, but hear some dude playing a bass and of course its the one I was gonna buy. and this guy was going to town, fingering the shit out of it. It was like  seeing my girlfriend who is only mildly satisfied by what I can do, just screaming and moaning with pleasure from what this dude is doing. So, cut to the cashier dude looking at the beginner base and being like, "uh my bass tech says the truss rod needs to be slightly adjusted, I can't buy it in this condition", so of course I'm like thinking "well, go get a god damn allen wrench..."

So with the combination of the two things, I just said thanks anyway and left. I ended up giving the beginner bass to a friend and I may go back and buy the defiled bass, if he didn't take her home with him. We'll see.

TLDR  Guitar center blues 

Honestly, not kidding - I can't stand Guitar Center. I'll hit the store occasionally to grab last minute little things like strings or picks but I won't buy anything else from them.

Sweetwater is where it's at. The selection of brands is actually better than the Guitar Center/Musicians Friend portfolio, and their customer service is beyond excellence. If you want to try out something like a bass before you buy it, Guitar Center is great so you can sit down and try it out, but honestly I'd hang that thing back up on the wall, head home, and then order it from Sweetwater.

[jingle.boy]

Mildly irritating:  the clack of a computer keyboard.  I have the news on in the background while I work, and there's a commercial that comes on for a financial planner/adviser, and the entire ad is some tool typing questions into a browser, so all you hear is this exaggerated keyboard clacking sound.   Makes my teeth rattle.

. Pisses me off during a con call when someone has their speaker phone too close to the keyboard, and you can hear them typing an essay. 

[Stadler]

Mildly irritating:  the clack of a computer keyboard.  I have the news on in the background while I work, and there's a commercial that comes on for a financial planner/adviser, and the entire ad is some tool typing questions into a browser, so all you hear is this exaggerated keyboard clacking sound.   Makes my teeth rattle.

. Pisses me off during a con call when someone has their speaker phone too close to the keyboard, and you can hear them typing an essay. 

Speaking of conference calls, I've lived that GEICO commercial too many times to count. 

[Ben_Jamin]

Went to guitar center today at like 1pm. was in the market for a new bass to replace old squier beginner bass. Found a fender prescision bass that I liked and was like "oh, well I'll come back later and trade in my beginner base then buy the new one"

Come back at like 4pm. Go to the desk with the beginner base ready to trade it in. Look for the new one and see that its missing, but hear some dude playing a bass and of course its the one I was gonna buy. and this guy was going to town, fingering the shit out of it. It was like  seeing my girlfriend who is only mildly satisfied by what I can do, just screaming and moaning with pleasure from what this dude is doing. So, cut to the cashier dude looking at the beginner base and being like, "uh my bass tech says the truss rod needs to be slightly adjusted, I can't buy it in this condition", so of course I'm like thinking "well, go get a god damn allen wrench..."

So with the combination of the two things, I just said thanks anyway and left. I ended up giving the beginner bass to a friend and I may go back and buy the defiled bass, if he didn't take her home with him. We'll see.

TLDR  Guitar center blues 

I hate that shit. Its like "why not just take the extra effort to fix it?" Lazy asses. Haha they probably don't even know how to fix it. I went to take a Bass in one time, and they said the same thing. I was like "well, just take the amount I would've gotten for it and subtract the fixing fee."

Also, when the 12-strings aren't in tune in the Acoustic room bugs me, for some reason.

[Phoenix87x]

^^^

The dumbest part was that I came there determined to buy a $625 dollar fender precision bass. So the store lost that money and the dude lost the commission, all because the tech couldn't just be like "yeah, i can fix it. Give him like 50 bucks in credit or something" which I would have gladly taken. Hell, I would have taken $1 dollar. I just don't have space and wanted to get rid off it. It was just a squier beginner base after all.

I ended up giving it to my friend who said his nephew was interested in playing bass, so I am actually happier with that outcome.

[BlobVanDam]

It's even worse for a mechanical keyboard.  But there's a guy in the office who brought his personal mechanical keyboard in, which is significantly louder than our standard mac keyboards, and it's really caused a lot of people to hate him and when he's not there, to frantically hit his keys jokingly. 

If anyone wants to complain about the sweet clacky sound of my mechanical keyboard, they can fight me, because I'm not giving it up for a peasant keyboard like the unwashed masses.

[King Postwhore]

It's even worse for a mechanical keyboard.  But there's a guy in the office who brought his personal mechanical keyboard in, which is significantly louder than our standard mac keyboards, and it's really caused a lot of people to hate him and when he's not there, to frantically hit his keys jokingly. 

If anyone wants to complain about the sweet clacky sound of my mechanical keyboard, they can fight me, because I'm not giving it up for a peasant keyboard like the unwashed masses.

The new old man rant.

[JayOctavarium]

How douchey people can be to their neighbors.

Here at work, we have a resident (Who I refer to as Santa, as he looks like mother fucking Santa Clause, and brings my guys cookies every week...) whom has been in a wheel chair for years. He just had surgery on both of his knees... and is working on being able to walk again.  He's actually gotten to the point where he can walk several houses down the street. So he's been parking his car further and further away and walking to it every day.

You'd think that people would find this awesome? Right?

Nope.

I've gotten complaints from 5 different people in the last 24 hours. People demanding that we tow his vehicle, etc.

When I explain that I cannot legally do ANYTHING, as he has a Handicap Placard, I get told that it's complete bullshit and get hung up on or cussed out for "making up excuses."


Really people?

Fuck off.  Leave Santa Alone.

[KevShmev]

I find that people who would complain about something like that are people who would lie about something like that to get a better parking spot, so in their heads they think most other people are like that as well. 

[Dave_Manchester]

How douchey people can be to their neighbors.

Here at work, we have a resident (Who I refer to as Santa, as he looks like mother fucking Santa Clause, and brings my guys cookies every week...) whom has been in a wheel chair for years. He just had surgery on both of his knees... and is working on being able to walk again.  He's actually gotten to the point where he can walk several houses down the street. So he's been parking his car further and further away and walking to it every day.

You'd think that people would find this awesome? Right?

Nope.

I've gotten complaints from 5 different people in the last 24 hours. People demanding that we tow his vehicle, etc.

When I explain that I cannot legally do ANYTHING, as he has a Handicap Placard, I get told that it's complete bullshit and get hung up on or cussed out for "making up excuses."


Really people?

Fuck off.  Leave Santa Alone.

Reminds me of this delightful woman...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-43104314

[Stadler]

My dad, who has had a handicapped parking sticker since I was old enough to remember (probably going on 45 years now) was generally very tolerant of this stuff, but I do recall him taking a picture of a police car in the handicapped spot... and another one of the officer walking out of Pizzaland with a large pie in his hand. 

[IDontNotDoThings]

TTPMO: When your school you graduated from a year ago tries to charge you $100 for a book you already returned.   

[Phoenix87x]

I really hate stink bugs. They are getting through my wall unit air conditioner.

With online instructions, I made this 2 liter trap. So far its a decent quick fix, but I will probably consult an exterminator when I have a chance

[Harmony]

I thought this little gem of a story would help the participants of this thread feel a little better.   

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/10/worlds-oldest-man-says-petty-grievances-kept-going/

[Podaar]

I thought this little gem of a story would help the participants of this thread feel a little better.   

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/10/worlds-oldest-man-says-petty-grievances-kept-going/

People don’t understand that being happy is boring. Of course you don’t want to go overboard, but just enough grievances to hate most walks of life is about all you’ll need.

 

[Neon]

I thought this little gem of a story would help the participants of this thread feel a little better.   

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/10/worlds-oldest-man-says-petty-grievances-kept-going/

I know so many people that are going to live forever 

[Adami]

Apparently El Barto is going to live forever.

[eric42434224]

Apparently El Barto is going to live forever.

If that is true, Kotowboy will try to take his head off with a sword.

There can be only one.

[Stadler]

Apparently El Barto is going to live forever.

If that is true, Kotowboy will try to take his head off with a sword.

There can be only one.

Nice reference!  Gimme the prize!!!

[Adami]

Apparently El Barto is going to live forever.

If that is true, Kotowboy will try to take his head off with a sword.

There can be only one.

Well, he did say light petty grievances. I'm pretty sure Kotowboy surpasses that.

Either way, I look forward to the quickening.

[Phoenix87x]

As am I

[RoeDent]

People who block the aisles when talking to their friends in the supermarket. I'm not against you talking to your friends, just stand to one side while doing so so the rest of us can carry on with our lives.

People who talk loudly in libraries.

A lot of the time, frankly....People.

[Phoenix87x]

People who block the aisles when talking to their friends in the supermarket. I'm not against you talking to your friends, just stand to one side while doing so so the rest of us can carry on with our lives.

This happened to me in the grocery store to me just today. Never once have I seen them pulled off to the side, its always directly in the way of everyone else.

[King Postwhore]

I can't stand that.  I also hate when someone pulls up next to another cart, looking at an item and blocking the whole isle.  Common decency is a thing of the past.  You say "excuse me" or "pardon me" and you get a dirty look.

[cramx3]

I can't stand that.  I also hate when someone pulls up next to another cart, looking at an item and blocking the whole isle.  Common decency is a thing of the past.  You say "excuse me" or "pardon me" and you get a dirty look.

  so true, trying to politely get by someone always ends up with the person who is being rude thinking that you are the rude one by saying excuse me to get through.  What a world we live in.

[King Postwhore]

We live in a world where self importance is out of control.

I once told a lady that "The world doesn't revolve around you so move your fucking cart".

[Chino]

I just "accidentally" slam my cart into theirs until they say sorry and move it.

[jingle.boy]

Costco is the worst for this.  I just say quite loudly "someone wanna move so the rest of us can get by".  I have zero fuck's to give if I get a nasty look - I'm not there to make friends or influence people.  Get the fuck out of my way!  I'm getting my groceries and shit, and gettin the fuck out of there.  Fuck them if they're so self absorbed they have to frown at others because I call out they aren't as goddamned important as they think they are.

I could make a Gary/NHL-style rage post about this, but I'll leave it at that.

[TAC]

Oh, but God forbid we don't return our carts to the corral!

[Phoenix87x]

Oh, but God forbid we don't return our carts to the corral!

Oh please god, lets not go down that rabbit hole again 

[pg1067]

I can't stand that.  I also hate when someone pulls up next to another cart, looking at an item and blocking the whole isle.  Common decency is a thing of the past.  You say "excuse me" or "pardon me" and you get a dirty look.

Yup, and I love Jingle's Costco rant.  The other one that gets me is when people walk out in front of moving cars in a parking lot and expect the cars to stop.  There's a grocery store near where I live where the sidewalk extends maybe 15 feet from the door, and then the main "road" in the shopping center is right there.  People routinely walk out of the store and start to walk across to get to their cars without even looking to see if there are cars there.  Half the time these folks have their heads buried in their phones and aren't even looking.  A woman did that the other day and stopped abruptly and gave me a dirty look when she realized I wasn't going to stop for her.  It would never occur to me to walk out into moving traffic, without a crosswalk, and just expect that everyone will magically stop FOR ME, ME, ME, ME!!!!

[King Postwhore]

I was always taught to wait for the person in the car to wave you on not walk out and expect a car to stop. What's easier to stop?  A car that weighs tons more than you to stop? Again it's the my universe, me first attitude.

[King Postwhore]

Oh, but God forbid we don't return our carts to the corral!

Staff that outside better m***********!!