What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Falcon16]

People spouting random nonsense and acting like they know something about a topic, then act like an asshole when I point out that NO you don't know a damn thing and here's why. Like seriously unless you have sources don't just open your mouth and remove all doubt that you are an uninformed moron

[Grendel]

People

[Siress]

b*s*a*ds, the lot of 'em.

[glaman5266]

People who don’t know how to drive. Some of the crap people pull that they don’t get in trouble for… And I once had a burnt out headlight that I even had an appointment scheduled for, yet I get a whole freaking sobriety test.

My dad asked me last week why I stay in the near lane when making turns onto a divided highway. “You’ll have to move over in X distance anyway.” And this is coming from a guy who drove truck for 37 years. No, Dad. If something happens as a result of me doing that then it’s MY ass. I don’t care if everyone else does it.

And people who pass me on the interstate right at an on-ramp. I mean, I have right of way over the merging traffic, but I like to be nice and passing me right at the damn on-ramp & keeping me from scooting over for anyone merging is just a dick move. Especially if you had plenty of time to do it before.

People are stupid drivers.

[Fubarius]

Wear parts that aren't designed to be replaced easily.

So we got a newer'ish big industrial sized CNC wood router at work. It of course has a keyboard and mouse. In the saw room. Which is a room... with saws. So lots of saw dust. Which get into the keyboards. So every year or two you got to replace the darn keyboards if you want to, you know, make stuff.

So the new'ish one is now slightly less new and the keyboard stops keyboarding. No big deal, grab a replacement from the big box'o'keyboards in the office.

Except they buried the connection for the keyboard. First you got to undo about a dozen screws, remove a 4ft by 1.5ft panel, which you figure out later is also held on by the covers for 4 buttons and a external USB port (for flash drives and the like). Get that thing aside and trace the keyboard cord down to a wire clamp on a box marked with the big scary "do not touch, this will kill you and it will hurt the entire time you're dying" lighting bolt symbol. Again, for s fricken keyboard. That means a full machine shut down and lock out/tag out to make OSHA happy. Well, to attempt to make OSHA happy, OSHA is Never happy. Unfortunately we ain't got time for that so screw it, put everything back together, stick the defective keyboard, still attached, down by the floor and plug the new keyboard into the external USB port.

On the other machines this is a quick 5 minute job, and I don't even have to turn off the machines to do it.

[flyweightnate]

Sounds like, when you get around to a LOTO, you need a fancy IPx9 keyboard.

[Siress]

bet you a fiver that they sell a rubber key cover within 12mo. For $20.

[Loophole]

Not too much really. Yeah lots of annoyances in life. But at the end of the day. I got it pretty good.

Went to the school of really hard knocks and damn near lost EVERYTHING. I came out of it with some new limitations BUT I think I am a bit wiser a lot calmer and with a better outlook on things. So over all life’s annoyances ain’t so bad when you can focus on the greatness in life.

I could not agree more! Very thankful for all the loving folks around me. A key take away for me has been to not let someone else's bad day ruin mine. It's so easy to get caught up on the negative and forget about all the good that is happening around you.

[DocsMachine]

Dowsers.

No, really. In the past several months, I've gotten into two different arguments, with (online) groups of people that I would have otherwise assumed were reasonably intelligent, logical and fact-based types- machinists, engineers, fabricators, etc.- who truly believe that dowsing works.

You know, trying to find water (or pipes, or lost rings, or whatever) using a couple bent wires or a forked stick? To them, it's not a parlor trick- it actually works.

I'm starting to see where the "flat earth" nutters come from.

Doc.

[Cunha]

Well whenever the pronged stick points down at the ground, and you drill and find water, it worked 100% of the time that time.

[Siress]

magnets work, so why not dowsing? /s

[flyweightnate]

Tripping over things in the garage.

I have a 20 x 20 L- shaped work area in the garage (so really 20x10, plus 10x10) that includes a table saw, four benches, three lumber racks, a weight bench, a lawnmower, a compressor... it gets a little crowded. And I don't spend enough time cleaning it, because I'm always using it. So I trip over a cord, or step on the handle of a dustpan and break it, and it REALLY grinds my gears. Because it's my fault... but would require two of me to fix.

[punkncat]

There was no fucking cake.

[RAZRBAKK]

People who don't turn their headlights on.

[acrewofone]

People who offer to buy something you have for sale..."I'll buy that, or I'll take that, what is your Paypal address?"...then you never hear from them again...and they won't respond to your PMs, as to why they have ghosted you, just total ignoring and no contact, even though you can see them signed on multiple times (I can understand if there is a sudden financial problem or something, just please let me know)..

[Memornix]

This has always been a problem but I am seeing it more and more now there is a pretty major parts shortage going on in nearly every industry. I manufacture machinery for a living and have vendors who like to give me the leadtime answer I want to hear instead of giving me the real answer. This ultimately screws production times and really grinds my gears..

If you can't deliver by a certain date and tell me that, I can respect that and I will come back to you the next time. If you tell me what I want to hear knowing you can't deliver, that will be your last sale with me. (Sorry for the rant, my gears are sufficiently ground)

[Siress]

grinds gears to a halt. Terminated a service provider today for similar.

[NONOBLITUS]

Pretty much another piece of a broken gear, that really grinds up the other gears.

[Pyrate Jim]

All of the above.

I'm really glad this is one place that avoids politics, because that will burn my candle real bad (like lots of wax).

[Deus Machina]

All of the above.

I'm really glad this is one place that avoids politics, because that will burn my candle real bad (like lots of wax).

Politics. And various other things.
If you have opinions, great! That's part of being an informed adult. If all your opinions follow exactly one party, religion, company, etc., often to the point that you think it's not possible to be a decent person because someone belongs to another, that's not an 'informed opinion,' that's 'indoctrination'.
Either learn to see other points of view even if you disagree, or learn to shut up about it until someone asks.

[Jordan]

Teenagers who think they're above the law and indestructible... had an 18 year old kid pancake himself onto the side of a van outside the shop I work at, a few weeks ago. No motorcycle license, no license plate, no insurance, possibly stolen bike, ill-fitting helmet, excessive speed... he's in the hospital right now, seriously f-ed up, for life, if he survives.