What Grinds Your Gears?

welcome the person who would be foolish enough to enter the bathroom while you are dropping the duece for they shall receive their punishment quickly...

Is it not normal to knock before entering a bathroom when the door is closed? I never bother locking the door unless its a public bathroom where its just a single toilet and possibly a urinal.

I've never locked the door at home...

Is it possible to truly get comfortable in a public restroom?

The biggest obstacle standing in the way of me manning up and telling her that she needs to let me breathe without her, is that in the past, every single person who has stood up to her just never sees her again. She will not forgive, she will not forget, she will hold a grudge forever. Which is all good and well and wouldn't really break my heart, except... if I never see her again, then there's a fairly good chance I'd never see my dad again, either. And that would kinda break my heart. And it's partly her fault for being so overbearing, partly my fault for not telling her sooner so I could give my dad a proper farewell while he was still close enough for me to hug him, and partly my dad's fault for being a spineless doormat. (I have told him that before, by the way. He agrees, but he's too much of, well, a spineless doormat to do anything about it.)

Dad does go visit my siblings sometimes, without her of course, but they live close enough together that he can see them at once, as well as one of his siblings and some of his nieces/nephews, and of course his grandchildren. Seeing as I'm the only family member in this entire corner of the continent and have not yet produced him a grandchild, I really don't think he'd come up to visit me. Not unless there was something else up here that he also wanted to see in the same trip. He has visited my siblings about 3-4 times in the past couple years, but in the last 8 years, he's only visited me twice-- once to the town we all used to live in to also see some old friends, and once asked us to meet them in Montana while they were there visiting my stepmother's sister. It's a long drive from New Mexico to Idaho to see only one person, I understand that, but it does decrease my chances of seeing him again if I fight with her.

But don't worry, there's no way she'd ever be able to mistake me for her bestie. ^^

I can completely understand your situation Liela, obviously there will sometimes be circumstances where it would be best to just keep quiet for fear of losing someone you actually do care about. I suppose I was referring more to a personal experience namely my sister and sister-in-law.

They constantly *** about each other behind their backs then act like best friends whenever they meet. It's obvious they don't like each other, everyone can see it apart from them apparently.

I've said it before but... spiders really grind my gears!

Ok so, I have a patch of irises in my backyard. I've never taken care of irises before, so I was just letting them do their thing. Last weekend my mom-in-law was here, and she said that I should cut the stalks back so that over the winter nutrients go into the base of the plant instead of just into the un-budding stalk. And she said my irises were really cramped, I should dig them up and transplant them, spreading them out a bit.

Well ok then! I got my little spade and tiny rake, I went out to my irises, and I started digging out the dead stalks and dried leaves from between the stalks, yoinking up weeds around them by their roots and so on, having a lovely time in the sun.

WHEN SUDDENLY

A humongous brown furry spider ran out right beside me! He either had a big fat white bubble-butt too, or else he was a she and she was carrying an egg sack. Yeah, I dropped my rake and spade and came inside all shaky and washed my hands and arms about four times to get the feel of furry spider off my skin. He didn't even touch me, but I can still feel him you know!

When I am fully outfitted in a Hazmat suit and armed with a can of spider-killer spray approximately the size of a small car, I will continue preening and arranging my irises. :x

That spider is keeping a lot of pests off your flowers :/ Just sayin.

I don't get the whole abandonment thing when the person your with doesn't like someone... I've lost friends to it... the saddest thing about it all is that they come crawling back once they break up with said person lol...

Yes, yes, but

I will buy a frog. He will keep pests off my flowers, and he won't be terrifying and poisonous while he's at it. And my dogs will catch him and love him literally to death >< or he will run away.

Why do spiders have to be helpful? Why can't they just kindly remove themselves from the helpful and useful food chain and buy their own island in the middle of the Atlantic and replace themselves with un-scary helpful things?

Allergies.

I grind my own gears. I'm too indecisive! One day I want short hair, three days after I cut it I want long hair, one day I want to be an archaeologist, the next day I want to be a marine biologist, one day I want to have a baby, the next day I realize babies grow up to be teenagers and I really really really don't want a teenager. One day I want a goldfish tank, the next day I want twelve goldfish tanks.

Make up your mind, Liela!

Recently someone asked to borrow my dongle, I didn't particularly need to use it so I said it was alright, in a day he managed to use 2Gb of my 15Gb monthly allowance on what you may ask? Videos of backyard wrestling and Facebook games, yeah...never again.

People at Wal-mart who use the last scooter we have available because they're too fat to walk.. then seeing someone walking staggered with 2 canes 5 minutes later.

Just wish I could tell them being fat is not a disability. :|

Getting 1 seal with TH7+ and yellow proc.

^ Brewing 3 Orthrus with TH7+ and getting only 1 claw per kill. I farmed 23 claws earlier and resolved to do 3 more pops before stopping for the day. Tired and sick, I decided to brew the last 3 just to get them out of the way. When it was all said and done, I sat there and asked myself "Did I really just waste a brew for 3 claws?"

Trying to build TP before a voidwatch fight to open with AM3, just for someone to nuke or weaponskill your TP mob to death.

It doesn't grind my gears as much as it just plain makes me worry, but when you go to bed knowing someone else is in trouble and you don't hear from them when you wake up.

Idaho is on fire. It's dry, it's windy, we have thunderstorms without rain. The Salmon-Challis National Forest, which borders my hometown Salmon, is on fire. Gibbonsville and North Fork had to be evacuated. People were given four hours to evacuate last night and then search and rescue went in. We've already lost one firefighter due to a burning tree falling on her. I have family in Salmon, I have friends in Gibbonsville and North Fork. Ash is falling on my in-laws' house. It's burned over 200,000 acres and is only 3% contained at the last update I got. It's not looking good. Tomorrow and Saturday they are supposed to get more thunderstorms, only a 20% chance of rain with them though.

Here's the view from Salmon:




And a video:



And a news release:

http://inciweb.org/incident/article/3100/16542/

I know a lot of people up there who are right in the way of that fire. And I haven't heard a peep out of any of them this morning. I know, I know, there's more important things to do in situations like this. I can't ask them to stop their surviving for a few minutes to toss up a facebook update or something when facebook is just so un-important compared to everything else they have to do. It's wrong to expect to hear from people who are fleeing their homes or helping others flee their homes. It's just, I'm worried.

When you make a comment and people automatically assume it's about them... even though it has nothing to do with them...

Tomatoes.

Job applications kinda grind my gears. This one that I just filled out, for example. They want to know how much I made at each of my other jobs (not like it's their darn business >.>) and they don't give a write-in option for the pay rate. When I cleaned apartments, I was not paid by the hour or the week or bi-monthly or any of their other options. I was paid per apartment. When I was a reporter for the newspaper, was I paid by the hour? Weekly? Bi-monthly? Nope, I was paid by the number of stories I did. Do they have an option for that? Nope. Am I allowed to leave it blank? Nope. Can I fill it in myself? Nope. So what am I supposed to do about it? Well, if I want to even get the application submitted, I am pretty much forced to lie on that part. Great.

Then they want my resume, which lists all my previous job experience and education and special training, but they also want me to type all my previous job experience and education and special training out for them. Why do they need all the same information multiple times? I have a resume. Look at it. Same with references. I have references on my resume. They have a section for filling out references. Is there a point to having a resume when I have to give them all the information in the application AND in the resume? I have preened and primped that resume to within an inch of its life, and all I use it for is to fill out the same damn information on applications, and then tack the resume onto the end as an afterthought. It's dumb and redundant.

And speaking of references! My references prefer to be contacted by phone. In fact, I don't even have email addresses for them. Why would I want my old boss's email address? Awkward. This most recent application wanted their emails. And it was a required field, and when I typed in n/a they would not accept it. Is there a point to that? You have their phone numbers! They have given me permission to give you phone numbers, they have NOT given me permission to give you email addresses, I'm not going to give out any more of their personal information than is absolutely necessary and I'm certainly not going to give out information that they haven't given me permission to give out, and frankly you don't need twelve ways of contacting people! A phone number will do fine. *Jedi hand wave*

And don't even get me started on applications that ask for the actual physical addresses of my references. Not only do I not know, but if I did know, I sure as hell wouldn't say. I'm not giving anyone, not even a potential employer, the physical address of anyone else. I would be ticked if someone gave my physical address to someone else. It's inappropriate for them to even ask. Inappropriate!

I'm sick of filling out applications. ~.~

Oh the joy of the workplace. *pats Liela* I am so glad I'm free of such horrible things for a little longer.
Applications drive me batty. It doesn't help my work history is peppered due to situations where I had to be unemployed to take care of family or I moved.
Pretty sure my next application will be:
"I served as a combat medic in the Army for three years. I spent 9 months in Afghanistan treating everything from bloodied limbs to stuffy noses."
The end.

This grinds my gears more then anything else.... People who take vid of a accident, shooting, fight, someone bleeding or anything else horrific instead of HELPING! Put the %#!&ING phone,camera or anything else you are useing and help you MOTHER@$^!*# ! Your FB, Tweet, or any thing else can wait so lives can be saved. ok now breath deep calm down it will be ok........ sorry for mistakes working with a tablet pc on a moving boat never works out well.

Group projects grind my gears.

Sounds like every single year of school I've been through Lillicarnage...

XD

Employer: This is the guy we want answering the phones. Yes.

But seriously, applying for jobs these days is one of the most annoying things to do. Walking around with resume in hand is an outdated practice because everything is done online. You'd think applying online saves you time, gets you straight to the department you need and get a response much faster than just dropping off your resume. No - on all accounts, no.

I was applying to numerous companies back in January (none of which hired me.) I lucked out and got a job through some family connections but I find it funny that for apps that were sent out in January, I got responses in July...but not "hey want an interview?" no, lol...the responses were often "Thank you for applying blah blah but we will keep your resume on file should future opportunities arise."

Really? lol...it's been six months and you email me back to say I didn't get the job?

I literally laughed aloud at that. I did plenty of pandering to cry-babies so I'd be set for it at least!
But really, my next application will be hospital-esque. Just gotta hope I can get my BSN without any hiccups like another deployment.

You should always follow up on job apps...

People who creates a entirely new thread about a certain topic that already existed for some time now(*insert job tp/ws set here*).

Agreed... but only if it's on the main page. Search function is broken and browsing page after page is horrible and usually out-dated!
Though I admit to being a culprit of this at times :(