What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[RAZRBAKK]

People who don't turn their headlights on.

[punkncat]

There was no fucking cake.

[flyweightnate]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Grendel]

People

[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

[Knuckle Dragger]

How cheaply things are made these days. Everything or everyone competing for attention, may as well toss advertisements in that mix.
Can’t find ice cream, whole cream and cream cheese without gum stabilizers and other trash ingredients.
List goes on.

[Tinybear]

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.

[mlzplayer111]

People who order at subway, have me make a whole sandwich, and then ask for a second one. Please, just tell me you want 2 at the start of your request.

[DocsMachine]

"Like" buttons.

Anything even vaguely political these days. (It's no longer "here's the facts, and just the facts", it's now "here's what all the amazing, brave, kind-hearted Democrats did to fight back the vicious, blood-thirty, evil and foul-smelling Republicrats today, in order to Save The World™ from their villainy!")

Christmas displays in stores.

$300 for an artificial tree.

Wet, rainy, dark, cold fall weather.

The fact that my list of s**t to do to get my shop back up to 100% is longer than my current list of things that, you know, actually earn me an income.

... Apart from all that, I'm a happy camper!

Doc.

[RAZRBAKK]

Today it is arbitrary rules at work.

Yesterday it was people who don't rerack weights properly.