You know what really grinds my gears?

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Then you'll complain about your own house.

God, who painted these walls? And the carpet is disgusting!

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Pretty much everything about ESPN.com's scoreboards and the fact that they don't have the popout Gamecast window for NFL and NCAA Football or basketball and that the MLB GameCast doesn't update half the time.

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Man, I wish I could work from home.

I work from home 4 days a week and it's awesome; in nearly every meeting, we normally have a conference call line# that folks WFH can call in, we all use Lync so myself/colleague(s) can share screens, and the VPN connection makes file transfer fairly quick.

I've been WFH about 3 years now and it's a huge perk, even if I'm only 20 minutes away from work.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

What grinds my gears......My luck.

The old saying "wrong place,wrong time" applies way too much. Even worse, many times it's just the wrong time by 20-30 seconds. How diff/better would my life be if various moments just happened 20-30 seconds earlier or later than it actually did!

Just frustrating at times cause it's basically the "story of my life". Timing is everything and all, but my timing and my luck is just flat out horrible. Not even talking one specific thing, just life in general.

[PVarck31]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

What grinds my gears......My luck.

The old saying "wrong place,wrong time" applies way too much. Even worse, many times it's just the wrong time by 20-30 seconds. How diff/better would my life be if various moments just happened 20-30 seconds earlier or later than it actually did!

Just frustrating at times cause it's basically the "story of my life". Timing is everything and all, but my timing and my luck is just flat out horrible. Not even talking one specific thing, just life in general.

I bet there are a ton of right place, right time moments in your life that you don't know about.

Like the time you went through the intersection 5-10 seconds before a guy ran a stop sign. Or when you decided to leave the bar instead of having that one last drink.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I bet there are a ton of right place, right time moments in your life that you don't know about.

Like the time you went through the intersection 5-10 seconds before a guy ran a stop sign. Or when you decided to leave the bar instead of having that one last drink.

Ya, but it's human nature to remember the bad things more than the good. Good ones you take for granted. Bad ones stick with you.

Missing a bus by 30 seconds,arriving late,messing up entire day.

Getting to an intersection at the same time as the crazy person who starts trying to call you out simply cause you're the only one there(and wouldn't have met up with that person if I passed by there even 15 seconds prior.).

Driving through a changing traffic light, when I would've made it "legally/safely" if I was even 5 seconds earlier. Even 5 seconds later,I wouldn't have gone through cause it'd have been red already and I'd have stopped beforehand.

Similar to the one above, but crossing at the lights, but the lights change when you crossed only 30% of the roadway(because this is the one time the countdown clock starts at 2 for some messed up reason instead of 20 like it's supposed to) so you're basically sprinting the rest of that way to clear the intersection while people are honking at you. Again,arriving 10 seconds earlier,I would've made it easily. 10 seconds later,would've changed so I'd just have waited.

Missing a turn somewhere, causing me to just barely be late for something(and I'm a real punctual type of person), and result of that is that it sets me back 2 months on a major event.

And that's just stuff that's happened recently.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Then you'll complain about your own house.

God, who painted these walls? And the carpet is disgusting!

Damn I hate this amazing view of my incredible backyard, if only I didn't have to work I could go enjoy it

[jeremym480]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Then you'll complain about your own house.

God, who painted these walls? And the carpet is disgusting!

I would certainly have more dog and neighbor related gear grinders, that's for sure.

"Who's big idea was it to put all of these door bells or car horns in commercials these days?"

"Neighbors kid is outside playing again? Can't they buy her a video game system or something to keep her inside?"

[NDAlum]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It really does suck when a doorbell hits on the TV and the dogs wake out of a slumber and start going nuts.

Dogs are awesome until they start acting like dogs.

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I hate the fact that I hate not being at work more than I hate being at work. Yes, that's a lot of hate.


I spent the first three hours of my four day vacation weekend dealing with an HR issue for one of my employees.

[Jr.]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It really does suck when a doorbell hits on the TV and the dogs wake out of a slumber and start going nuts.

Dogs are awesome until they start acting like dogs.

We've never had a doorbell, so they're unaffected by them. But they bark at everything that goes by the window.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Firefox chugging on Twitter. Not sure if it's a combo with NoScript and Ublock, but it's the only site that slows to a crawl for me and ends up using huge amounts of memory.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Getting these stupid Von Miller commercials stuck in my head

[redsox4evur]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The premium movie channels (HBO, STARZ, Cinemax, Showtime, EPIX) only having 7/8 movies from classic horror movie franchises between the 5 of them. They were Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Scream 1&3, Hannibal, Saw 1&2, Halloween H2O and Halloween Resurrection, Day of the Dead, and Child's Play. Like seriously there should a minimum of 20 in total even if half of them are only there for the month of October. 100% disappointed in them.


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[CC]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Syfy has been showing horror movies all month. Granted they are censored and at least half of them are awful movies, but I've found some to DVR that are good. Also AMC, ABC Family has lighter ones, Sundance every once in awhile, IFC every once in awhile, and TCM.