Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Chislenko]

May offend a few people here...but people who ritualistically wash their cars every Sunday.

Weirdos.

Even more weird is that some people now call cleaning the car "detailing"

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Even more weird is that some people now call cleaning the car "detailing"

No no no

Detailing is cleaning a car VERY VERY carefully

or something - the lad next door gets a mobile detailer round to do his car every few months
takes several hours - I think he must have a nap half way through or something

 

[PeteXXX]

Is that what detailing is! I thought it was putting pinstripes and pretend bullet holes down the sides.

 

[Alex321]

Now its good weather, People with strimmers, what make them think mulched, uneven ground/grass looks better than long grass ?

Presumably the same thing that makes 99%+ of the population think mown lawns are better than wild ones.

And when you know what you are doing, you can get as neat a result with a strimmer as with a lawnmower (most don't know what they are doing though).

 

[fullfathom5]

People's taste in music being inversely proportional to the volume of their car stereo.

 

[mistyoptic]

People's taste in music being inversely proportional to the volume of their car stereo.

Indeed! Mrs Optic has an additional theory that turning up the volume beyond a certain point causes all the windows to drop

 

[byegad]

In that case I'm from somewhere on the African continent. It turns out I have been home too, or somewhere in the continental vicinity.

We are all from Africa, if you go back far enough.

 

[byegad]

Packaging that can't be opened safely or that is so tough you damage the item inside.

Getting on a bit and with hands that have a variety of arthritic joints, doesn't help, but modern packaging is a joke.

We bought a good quality pair of dressmaking scissors for my wife. They came in a huge box full of crumpled brown paper from Amazon. The scissors were in an hermetically sealed plastic cover. The only way to open it was to find an old pair of scissors, my Swiss Army knife and an old spoon to hack and lever away the packaging, this took 20 minutes plus some Heavy Industrial English and resulted in hand cramps, a scratch on the new scissors and a shocking display of bad temper, from me.

Last night I couldn't, even with the help of a top removing lever tool and rubber sheet grips, remove a screw top from a bottle of wine. You are supposed to be able to turn the top bit, the perforations to the bit below the top ensure the lower bit of metal detaches and you can screw off the top. Instead I used an old fashioned can opener to punch two holes in the top and slowly pour the wine into a pint glass.

Don't get me started about child proof locks on medicines........

 

[figbat]

Vanity-led modifications to cars and other vehicles that are illegal. For example number plates with the wrong spacing, wrong typeface, wrong size, wrong colour etc. Or over-tinted widows. Or LED headlight bulbs in unsuitable lenses.

 

[figbat]

Packaging that can't be opened safely or that is so tough you damage the item inside.

Getting on a bit and with hands that have a variety of arthritic joints, doesn't help, but modern packaging is a joke.

We bought a good quality pair of dressmaking scissors for my wife. They came in a huge box full of crumpled brown paper from Amazon. The scissors were in an hermetically sealed plastic cover. The only way to open it was to find an old pair of scissors, my Swiss Army knife and an old spoon to hack and lever away the packaging, this took 20 minutes plus some Heavy Industrial English and resulted in hand cramps, a scratch on the new scissors and a shocking display of bad temper, from me.

Last night I couldn't, even with the help of a top removing lever tool and rubber sheet grips, remove a screw top from a bottle of wine. You are supposed to be able to turn the top bit, the perforations to the bit below the top ensure the lower bit of metal detaches and you can screw off the top. Instead I used an old fashioned can opener to punch two holes in the top and slowly pour the wine into a pint glass.

Don't get me started about child proof locks on medicines........

I did once exclaim very loudly that one shouldn't need a toolbox handy to open kids' Christmas presents.

 

[PeteXXX]

Getting into a shower, wondering why I can see everything clearly until the world goes all spotty because I've forgotten to take my spectacles off! 👓 🚿

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Currently, Everything!!

 

[fullfathom5]

Traffic news on my car stereo that interrupts what I am listening to only to announce 'there are no reported delays'.

 

[fullfathom5]

Electronic motorway signs that report of delays on roads absolutely miles away (for example, on the M25 when I am on the M5) but only warn you of a delay up ahead just after you have passed the junction you could have exited from to avoid them.

 

[fullfathom5]

Packaging that can't be opened safely or that is so tough you damage the item inside.

Getting on a bit and with hands that have a variety of arthritic joints, doesn't help, but modern packaging is a joke.

We bought a good quality pair of dressmaking scissors for my wife. They came in a huge box full of crumpled brown paper from Amazon. The scissors were in an hermetically sealed plastic cover. The only way to open it was to find an old pair of scissors, my Swiss Army knife and an old spoon to hack and lever away the packaging, this took 20 minutes plus some Heavy Industrial English and resulted in hand cramps, a scratch on the new scissors and a shocking display of bad temper, from me.

Last night I couldn't, even with the help of a top removing lever tool and rubber sheet grips, remove a screw top from a bottle of wine. You are supposed to be able to turn the top bit, the perforations to the bit below the top ensure the lower bit of metal detaches and you can screw off the top. Instead I used an old fashioned can opener to punch two holes in the top and slowly pour the wine into a pint glass.

Don't get me started about child proof locks on medicines........

Amazon's big box policy (where they deliver a small item in a huge box) annoys me every time.