Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

I feel a little like Carrie when the cursor moves to the next field without my pressing tab.

The thing that makes me more IA than anything else.

1. Things that are badly designed. Forms, household items, computer programs etc that were designed and built by people who blatantly won't ever have to use these things.

I think I'm living the same life as Lex, except replace flatmates with girlfriend.

I spend much of my life designing data entry forms, most of which I'll never have to use, and I do think quite carefully about how I think I'd use them, but that never turns out to be the same way as the actual users use them. Ho hum.

(like I spend time making sure everything has a keyboard shortcut and that tab cycles through in a sensible order, and then invariably discover that the end users are terrified of using the keyboard and haven't even noticed they can use these and use the mouse for everything)

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

i hate it when they lay it out like this:

ADDRESS..............................................................
....................................................................
.............................................................

and then
CITY......
COUNTY....
POSTCODE...

Cos I just filled out all that shit under ADDRESS.

I hate it when they ask for the postcode before the city. No!

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

this is an unnerving revelation to me.

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

largely agree but i'm not as irritated by it at weekends, or like, now and again. sometimes people have to eat in a hurry. having said that it might be perverse to say that i fucking hate breakfast stuff left around tho, and above all DON'T LEAVE DIRTY DISHES IN THE SINK, most stupid behaviour of all time.

TBF - our sink is about the size of a small washing up bowl and the second so much as a breakfast bowl gets left in there, it's pretty much full. I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up. Especially if your girlfriend insists on somehow using every chopping board, frying pan and obscure piece of cutlery we own. I tried using one of those washing up brushes you can fill with liquid. It works to some extent, but not fantastically. Cutlery is a bitch to wash up too.

more than dirty dishes, a sink filled with water just left to become stagnant drives me crazy.

'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up

Own fewer things. How many forks does a person need?

our sink is about the size of a small washing up bowl and the second so much as a breakfast bowl gets left in there, it's pretty much full. I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up

nothing should ever be left in the sink imo. what's the point? even if you want to do the whole "i've filled this with water" crap then leave it on the worktop, nobody else wants to have to remove someone else's shit to even be able to wash up, it causes a downward spiral.

I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up.

Wash whatever you've used, when you finish eating.

Like, there's no "trick" here.

Very occasionally I'll put it off til right before bed but that sucks, obviously, nobody wants to wash dishes when they're sleepy and heading towards bed.

Why?

One, I am super used to tabbing between fields so I invariably hit tab and then end up two fields ahead, and two, if I make a mistake in the data entry, it is hard to get the stupid cursor to stay in the filled out field so I can correct the mistake. Just let me handle the tabbing. I'm a big girl.

And space cadet, I thank you for your attention to detail re: a sensible tab order.

lol I am clearly a disgusting savage because I wash up once a week and I am 34. Mind you I'm not sharing with anyone except my wife so maybe that doesn't count.

Jenny I can see why that makes you IA. Especially: it is hard to get the stupid cursor to stay in the filled out field so I can correct the mistake.

/I'd love some tips on keeping on top of washing up./

Wash whatever you've used, when you finish eating.

The helpful way to put that tip is that you should remind yourself that the chore will only take two minutes and will save hassles and annoyance later.

Definitely irrational is my anger at people who don't tab between fields.

I wash dishes once every few days. I'm a savage.

Me too.

Well I have been pretty good about putting the dishwasher since I got one.

Super irritating right now:

My boss received a draft of a contract from an opposing attorney, which he wants to redline with his changes and comments. Instead of writing them on the document himself, he emailed me the contract and another Word doc containing 2 pages of his changes and comments, which he wants me to type in (verbatim). WHY would he not just write them onto the contract himself?? He knows how to track changes and insert comments! Not only is this unnecessary duplication of work, now I have to email him to straighten out his incorrectly numbered paragraphs.

a;lewjifaewovinwfe;kwef;oi So annoyed!

Definitely irrational is my anger at people who don't tab between fields.

I would sort of like to put you in a room with a certain someone here at work while he attempts to use a computer, just for my own amusement.

xp never mind you are clearly dealing with your own problems.

I'm hiding all but two dishes when I get home. And the bloody pizza cutter too.

nothing should ever be left in the sink imo.

YES THIS THIS THIS THIS

OMFG

also you know what's disgusting savage behaviour?

leaving the washing up sponge in the sink without even being wrung out

I CAN'T EVEN, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS, IT TAKES ONE SECOND TO WRING IT OUT

EVERY FUCKING TIME

fwiw i am so far from an OCD neatfreak and am fairly ~relaxed~ about things like washing up - don't care about it being left overnight or even for a few days really, i do that sometimes - it's just when it takes up the whole of a sink that i need to use, or when every surface in the kitchen is uncomfortably sticky or stained (if i spill something i wipe it up immediately), or - oh christ - when i pick something that's supposedly been washed up from the rack and IT'S STILL GREASY

yessss

got to the stage where i'm washing up everyone else's drinking glasses up myself because i'm so sick of picking "clean" ones up to find lip stains still around the rim

ALSO

when i go to open the fridge and the door, i discover, is fucking ajar because apparently pushing it properly closed is beyond anyone else's capabilities

ALSO

throw your fucking rotting three-months-out-of-date food OUT. is this so hard? really? i am sure it isn't because i am the most absent-minded person who never thinks about that shit ever, and i manage to do it

calm

no really any londoners reading this who know of a room going in north or east HOLLA AT ME

don't care about it being left overnight or even for a few days really, i do that sometimes

you will be happier when you no longer do this

I don't like your roommates!

Lex!

that said i'm far happier about random flatmates annoying me like this than i would be about a boy/girlfriend à la dog latin :o

my tip for getting on top of washing up = don't cook, don't create the mess in the first place, prevention is better than cure

you will be happier when you no longer do this

nah i'm easy about that, i am by nature fairly lazy about these things (which really says something about how filthy the flatmates are). it's not like i ever have a ton of horrible washing up.

i guess it's relative

xxpost

Google employees have the cleanest kitchens for that reason.

Apart from those that live with other people. But they don't cook, so don't go in the kitchen, so don't care about the mess.

UGH roommates. What an unpleasant trip down Memory Lane :( I do get the feeling from some of people's comments about washing up in five minutes that these people don't actually cook. I usually wash up around 9.00pm on week nights unless there is a show I want to watch and then I'll wash up earlier. It certainly takes more than 5 minutes. And I prefer to relax at least a little while after eating rather than start the washing up immediately. I do try to wash things up as I go along while I am cooking but naturally you can only do that so much.

I don't like your roommates!

it's a shame because in every other respect they're pretty much exactly what i want in roommates

i feel like there's undue focus on the washing up - i really wouldn't care if they left their pile of washing up next to the sink for, like, several days. it's everything else i mentioned, the little things that surely even the laziest person knows to do.

i get really mad at my parents for keeping v. v. expired medicine in the cabinet. 'in case we need it - you never know' and even when i explain it can turn poisonous and doesn't, like, just lose potency or fade or whatever, they are dismissive and defensive. we have a bottle of tylenol from '79 upstairs, as well as some doxycycline from '84 that they're keeping around for some impossible eventuality. this isn't irrational anger, i know, but ugh.

when I encounter stuff like that in my parents' house, I just throw it out and tell them they need more

The best wasn't medicine, but a large box of dried split peas that cost them 15 cents when they bought it; I found this circa 1994?

NOTE TO PARENTS: there is no need to keep food that is older than your children

(esp. your ADULT children)