Pet Peeves

[CombNWattles]

When teachers start calling role without warning in an inaudible voice.

How my phone doesn’t just show all my pictures in my camera roll unless I go to ‘recents’. Seriously, who does it think it is to decide which photos I want to see?!

 

[thecatumbrella]

When the water pressure in the shower is great until it's time to rinse off. Then it acts like it's being hand-collected from the dew off rare and exotic foliage.

Just spray, please! NOW'S the time to shine!

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

When the water pressure in the shower is great until it's time to rinse off. Then it acts like it's being hand-collected from the dew off rare and exotic foliage.

Just spray, please! NOW'S the time to shine!

piggybacking on that

When somebody else uses the water before you've finished showering.... and you just feel it going from warm to cold... and you still have soap/shampoo/etc that'll take a couple minutes to rinse out

 

[notabitail]

The computers of The Siblings.

I do tech support in this house. I fix The Siblings' devices all the time. Software or hardware.

Thing is, when I have to fix them, I get nice headache.

One sibling has bird guano on the lid of her laptop.

Another didn't want the spare display I had to swap in.

But worse than the physical effects are their file systems.

Half a MILLION paths on there. Such as /home/siblingname/Pictures/2026 my camera/may/5/DCIM/100MEDIA.

And you can bet that I've been asked to "plz help print file" or something like that, and had to watch Sibling plow through these folders, back out several times because they went in the wrong one, and repeat several times.

Sometimes they'll dump files on the desktop. And other times they won't even do that and instead place it in their home folder.

 

[Sally PB]

My pet peeve for today:

Beautiful, soft yarn that is a ROYAL PITA to knit with! (Ok if you don't understand the rest of my rant.) It was overspun, so it would twist back on itself. It was merino, ok, I get it; I've hand spun merino, and it needs a lot of twist to keep the short fibers together. But my handspun didn't do that! It had other issues as well.

I bound off the scarf and called it done. It's 14" (yes, 14 inches) long, so it's a worthless piece of very pretty knitting. It is folded up and will live in a drawer, probably until I die.

I threw out the yarn, after telling it in very colorful language what I thought of it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My pet peeve for today:

Beautiful, soft yarn that is a ROYAL PITA to knit with! (Ok if you don't understand the rest of my rant.) It was overspun, so it would twist back on itself. It was merino, ok, I get it; I've hand spun merino, and it needs a lot of twist to keep the short fibers together. But my handspun didn't do that! It had other issues as well.

I bound off the scarf and called it done. It's 14" (yes, 14 inches) long, so it's a worthless piece of very pretty knitting. It is folded up and will live in a drawer, probably until I die.

I threw out the yarn, after telling it in very colorful language what I thought of it.

It could go under a vase in the middle of a table ... you say it is beautiful ....

 

[Sally PB]

Sorry, the bottom on is turned 90°. This is back when it was about 5 or 6" long.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Pretty colors.

 

[Sally PB]

Pretty colors.

I thought so when I picked out the yarn.

I have to say, I feel a bit ... relieved ... that I am done with that project. I really like the pattern stitch, but the aggravation factor of the yarn was making me not want to work on it.

 

[CombNWattles]

piggybacking on that

When somebody else uses the water before you've finished showering.... and you just feel it going from warm to cold... and you still have soap/shampoo/etc that'll take a couple minutes to rinse out

When the shower curtain blows in and sticks to your legs…