You know what really grinds my gears?

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It's funny this is brought up today because this morning my wife was really upset about her lack of sleep. We moved from a house to an apartment and it's not a noise issue, but a light issue. We need to find a way to make the room darker. We already have those black out curtains but they aren't making it dark enough.

I don't help her situation because I'm out in like 30 seconds and sleep until the alarm goes off...even if there's plenty of noise.

Can the windows be tinted?

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

County tax offices.

[Mabster]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Delayed flights.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I drink myself to sleep

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I drink myself to sleep

Sometimes my brother drinks his supper.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I have a friend and former roommate who can also sleep on command. It's insane. He lays down and is asleep in like 2 minutes.

I, however have severe insomnia. I've been on every drug there is and it doesn't help. Sometimes I can sleep for a few hours, but if I actually get asleep I wake up every hour or so.

It's not uncommon at all for me to be up for 24 hours straight. I've been up for over 30 hours a number of times. It's basically a living hell. You start to hallucinate. Mostly auditory for me. I hear all kinds of crazy stuff. I also get tunnel vision and feel like my limbs are detached.

Luckily I've been able to get about 5-6 hours of interrupted sleep lately. So I'll take that.

The out of body/limbs bit is freaky as hell. Often times I feel like I'm sitting besides myself.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Delayed flights.

Southwest?

[mjavon]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

If you use a fork to pull the meat off the chicken wing before you eat it... well then I have no respect for you as a person

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

If you use a fork to pull the meat off the chicken wing before you eat it... well then I have no respect for you as a person

How do you eat a Snickers bar, with your hands?
Humph.

[oneamongthefence]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I've had sleeping problems forever. Takes forever to fall asleep. And I toss and turn and wake up frequently. And when I get up in the morning I feel super groggy. Like I could sleep another 3 or 4 hours. I'm usually not sleepy throughout the day but it's just a weird feeling waking up more tired than when you fall asleep.

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[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The whole "treat people how you want them to treat you" phrase. Not because I don't like it, but because of how untrue it actually is. No matter how you treat certain people, they never care to "return the favor" or anything. That,and those jerks who try to use your "politeness" against you to get what they want/take advantage of you.

Similarly, maybe just me, but seems like the calmer I react to someone who's using an angry tone, the angrier they get. I'm not doing it in a sarcastic type of way, I'm seriously being calm, but then they're basically having the whole "If __ is gonna be calm, I'll just get angrier since I know they won't get angry back".

I'm usually not sleepy throughout the day but it's just a weird feeling waking up more tired than when you fall asleep.

Ya, I hate that feeling. No matter how much sleep I get, I often do wake up more tired than when I fall asleep. But the second I get out of bed and just do my usual morning stuff, I'm wide awake and fine again the rest of the day.

Probably psychological or something. If I wake up at an early morning hour,even if I get like 8-9 hours of sleep, I'll still feel tired. If I wake up at a late hour,I could get 4-5 hours of sleep,and be fine/able to just spring out of bed.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

...Similarly, maybe just me, but seems like the calmer I react to someone who's using an angry tone, the angrier they get. I'm not doing it in a sarcastic type of way, I'm seriously being calm, but then they're basically having the whole "If __ is gonna be calm, I'll just get angrier since I know they won't get angry back"...

When this happens to me, I always assume the reason they're getting angrier is an attempt to provoke me into anger. Which doesn't work. I have been known to exaggerate a yawn when this kind of thing is directed at me, in part because those tiresome tirades do bore me.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When this happens to me, I always assume the reason they're getting angrier is an attempt to provoke me into anger. Which doesn't work. I have been known to exaggerate a yawn when this kind of thing is directed at me, in part because those tiresome tirades do bore me.

I don't think it's so much about them wanting to provoke someone. I think it's more about ego boosting and stuff. Like they'll know you won't snap back at them or anything, so they'll just start feeding their own ego by trying their best to belittle someone else. And if you don't want to have any of it, they'll just go on even more, cause they know they can without being stopped/called out on their actions.


lol,running joke among people who know me, saying how I don't like people(by people I they mean like strangers,aka non family/friends) when in reality, it's more like those people don't like me despite not knowing a single thing about me. I'll like people who like me, if they don't like me, I won't care about them,simple as that. If you don't give me a reason to not like you,I won't.

[NDAlum]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Ger her a sleep mask. Our apartment is the same way and my wife got one. She said it helps her a lot to get back to sleep once it's light out.

She actually purchased one and it's not fully doing the job. She's getting a little bit better but not where she wants to be.

Can the windows be tinted?

It's an apartment complex so I don't think they'd want to incur any cost and with 13 ft ceilings the windows are really big.

[dickey1331]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

She actually purchased one and it's not fully doing the job. She's getting a little bit better but not where she wants to be.







It's an apartment complex so I don't think they'd want to incur any cost and with 13 ft ceilings the windows are really big.

It's tacky but use aluminum foil. That's what people did in Alaska.