You know what really grinds my gears?

[Mabster]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I've never understood how this happens. You take a disc out of it's case, you play it, you put it back when you're done. What is so complicated about that? I go to my buddy's house and we play 2K, it's a treasure hunt trying to find which case the game is in, it usually somehow finds it's way into a children's DVD case

That's a common scenario for me, it's real easy. I'm usually cycling between 3 or 4 games so they can always be in one those cases.

Playing FC4 and decide to play Dying Light so I grab it out of its case, hit eject and insert DL. Now I put FC4 into DL case because it's in my hand already.

The next night I want to play Dragon Age so I do the same swapping and now DL is in the DA case.

Next I want to play FC again so I grab the DL case it's in and swap Dragon Age with it.

The next night I want DA so I grab it out of its case, **** it's not there, Dying Light is. It must in the FC4 case because that's what I just ejected. ****, not there either. Is in The Crew's case? I played that a few days ago. Nope not there either.....this is a pain in the ***. I need to stop doing this. Oh there it is, in the DL case. Eject FC and put it in the DL case and insert DA.

So now And on and so on..

Edit: that was even a pain in the *** just to keep track of to write.

[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The thing that bugs me the most are the people that stack discs on top of each other.

[Mabster]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Me too Bob. That's partially why I end up doing what I do. Disk must go in a case, and it has to be in there alone. Some just stack them or I have a buddy that puts two or here disks in one case thinking it protects them. That's no bueno.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

See, this is why I had a hard time lending DVD or game discs to friends in school, too many things that could go wrong.

[jvalverde88]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Prices of greeting cards. $10.99 for a Valentine's Day card? Ridiculous! My wife loves cards, if it wasn't for her I would never buy one ever again. Complete waste of money.

Do what Joey Tribbiani does, give her a coupon of a hour of your love.

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Burning up my PTO being sick this week. Couldn't push myself with a big convention this weekend, though. Gotta be on my game.

I'm sure my coworkers were happy I wasn't coughing and sneezing all over the office. I felt guilty enough contaminating my wife.

[nc0ffey]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Long, winded, grammatically incorrect story about my most recent gear grinding experience.

Spoiler

The place I live in ran by the Navy Gateway Inn.

Our room keys are our military ID.

So each room has a main door that can be controlled by any of the occupant's ID and then there are two other doors that can only be controlled by the person/people who live there with their ID.

I lost my ID last week and it was missing for two days. I had to get a temporary card from them that expires within 24 hours. I recovered my ID and returned to the Inn to have my ID reprogrammed.

I get back to my room and my ID won't unlock the main door. Luckily, a roommate was here and let me in. My ID worked perfectly fine on my room door. So I take it back to them and explain the situation and the lady says that she will reprogram my ID again and to call her if I have any problems.

Of course, my ID still won't work on the main door so I call again and she says they are busy and I can check back later. That was a serious **** you to me so It kind of got under my skin a bit. So I decided just to go back over there. The lady tried explaining to me that my lock was bad and that the battery needed replaced. She said they would need to call a locksmith.

I politely explained that the temporary ID she gave me worked just fine and all of my roommates ID's work flawlessly. I then showed her how the magnetic strip on the back of my card had some damage and that may be the problem. So, she proceeds to reprogram my ID again and tells me to wait a bit and try it again and if not let them know.

So I got back and tried with no success. My roommates were in so I decided to let it go until today. I just left the dentist and decided to head back over there during lunch to see what's going on. I explain to the guy at the desk what all had happened and even gave him what I thought to be the possible explanation (the magnetic strip on the ID).

He tries giving me the same **** the lady did about a dead battery in the lock. I told him that wasn't the problem and he tried reprogramming my ID and told me to call if it didn't work. I said, "I'll ride back over there and walk up the stairs and try again, but I'm telling you that it's not going to work no matter how many times you reprogram it. It's a problem with the ID. Can you please just give me a temporary card to use or give me one for permanent use until I get a new ID made ?"

He didn't comprehend and insisted that I try. I walk out and tell them I'll be back in a few minutes because I'm not wasting my time calling back.

So I get back to the barracks and it doesn't work. I ride back over to the Inn for the hundredth time and tell him it didn't work. So he brings up the ****ing battery again, calls a locksmith, and informs me that I can ask someone on the first floor that works in the office to let me in.

I refused. I said, "I'm not doing that. I'm not having someone let me in my room every time I need to get in. I've explained what the problem is. You pointed to the barcode and chip in front of the ID and said it was perfectly fine, but the temporary cards you issue us don't have that. They only have the magnetic strip on the back of the card and on my ID, it's damaged. If you just give me a temporary card, I promise it will work and I won't be back over here today".

He agreed, but said that he knew the battery was dead and to call him back if I couldn't get in my room.

Temporary ID worked flawlessly on both doors.

****ing idiots. I just wish they would listen to me. It's not often that I'm so passionately positive I'm right about something like this, but I knew I was right and they weren't listening. I was polite, professional, and descriptive and they dismissed me every time. I even told the guy I didn't mean to keep beating a dead horse and telling him the same thing.

I won't go back. I'll just let my Chief know what's going on and the command can help me sort it out.

Maybe I'm a prick, but I would have stopped going back and forth after the first attempt to reprogram. Gotta be someone above her who coulda listened and fixed the issue.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Myself.

Did a system restore on my phone yesterday and managed to delete my contacts despite successfully having them re-loaded to my phone after the restore was complete. Now I get to send one at a time from my old iPhone to re-save.

Woke up today to an overdraft email. I am changing banks so I was moving money from my savings to my checking in order to transfer. I did it the other way around. When new bank withdrew money it over drafted me despite my savings having 10 times what I was transferring. It's Bank of America so I will likely get a $35 overdraft fee.

Bad technology day for me.

[nc0ffey]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Phones being more expensive than gaming consoles. I need a new phone to get me through March 2016 (when my wifes contract is up and we will most likely drop Verizon) but am not due a discount until this May.

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Gone on business until Tuesday night. Haven't been apart from my wife for this long probably since we first started dating.

Texting, phone calls, and maybe Skype are okay but nothing compares to actually being there.

I am sad.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Reading an article and some random person is mentioned by full name at the start, then there's no mention of him again til near the end (just last name), I completely forget who they were talking about and have to go back to the beginning to find the full name.

I'm gettin' really picky with these

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Gone on business until Tuesday night. Haven't been apart from my wife for this long probably since we first started dating.

Texting, phone calls, and maybe Skype are okay but nothing compares to actually being there.

I am sad.

And you're missing valentines day too?

Obviously more regarding someone like a wife, but really anyone in general, it's definitely not the same texting,calling,skypeing with someone compared to actually being there in person.

[dickey1331]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Gone on business until Tuesday night. Haven't been apart from my wife for this long probably since we first started dating.

Texting, phone calls, and maybe Skype are okay but nothing compares to actually being there.

I am sad.

This is the number 1 reason I hate getting underway. Only way to contact the wife is through email.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

DHS trying to screw me again. Just keeps happening over and over, they can't get anything right. Trying to reduce my food benefits by about 80% because of a change in my shelter expenses or income. Neither has changed. So frustrating. Also, they didn't send a return envelope and if I want to contest I need to mail them within 10 days of their mailing date, which is up tomorrow. They even added "you have no right to contest". This is bull****

[dickey1331]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

DHS trying to screw me again. Just keeps happening over and over, they can't get anything right. Trying to reduce my food benefits by about 80% because of a change in my shelter expenses or income. Neither has changed. So frustrating. Also, they didn't send a return envelope and if I want to contest I need to mail them within 10 days of their mailing date, which is up tomorrow. They even added "you have no right to contest". This is bull****

In 12 days DHS is going to grind my gears due to being defunded and me not getting paid.