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

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)

oh the ancient dry food. you'd think they were raised in the great depression.

Jesse, tell ILX about the pudding.

in fairness, their parents lived through the Great Depression and imprinted a lot of frugality onto them, but still

lex is 100% OTM about washing up. Greasy lip stains are the vilest things to encounter.

You know, on a comparative internal scale, I think washing-up breeds more day-to-day pain, heartbreak and malcontent among the general populace than anything happening in the news.

The food cupboard at my parents' house contained until well into the 2000s some item or other with a price tag ending in ½p. The halfpenny piece was withdrawn from circulation in 1984.

My dad probably still has some unopened French fish soup sachets he bought on holiday in 1987, my mother kept trying to throw them out and he'd protest that they looked interesting and he was going to get round to them eventually and he was sure they were still fine but nobody else had to eat them if they weren't sure

as late as 1984? wow... I thought it was some time in the seventies for some reason.

I think washing-up breeds more day-to-day pain, heartbreak and malcontent among the general populace than anything happening in the news.

and to think, that there is a way around it

not eating isn't a viable option, Tracer

Yes, please enlighten me Tracer, your previous post didn't make sense.

I don't care about dishes left in the sink, I don't even care if some are left on the counter, what I DO care about is "washed" dishes that are still greasy and in fact have giant lip-stick marks on the rim.

Part of the problem, though, is the newish eco-friendly dish soaps that don't cut grease unless you pour on half a cup. Look, I'm sorry about the earth and everything, but No.

who do you know who snogs the rims of plates?

Did I say plate? It was on a mug.

So very true. Laundry detergent also. Eco friendly is great but the product has to WORK.

fuck a trader joe's cleaning products, btw

You people are savages, my plates and clothes clean up perfectly well with modern products

incidentally - if anyone's an expert at this -the conditioner drawer on our washing machine appears to be blocked as it keeps filling with water. How do I fix this?

Conditioner?