What minor annoyance have you encountered this week?

I went to mow the lawn on my garden tractor, starts but stalled out (not once but six times no start) Now the front yard has the tallest grass in the neighborhood. Need to do the back too.
Hope the tractor repair place is open tomorrow (Saturday) so they can come and pick it up and fix it.

I’m not ready to walk behind the rotary lawn mower for and hour and a half.

I think one of the adults who just moved into the adjoining unit of my duplex might be a person of interest the police are currently looking for regarding a local shooting. I spoke with him only a couple of minutes once, but I think the name he gave me matches.
I’m stuck with making a decision, call, or not. What if I’m wrong? What if I’m right.
ACK! No good move here.

@Patty_Melt Yikes!!! I’d be scared to death if I thought a shooter was right there.

I am, but I don’t trust my ability to compare him to the pic posted. If I am wrong, and I call, I could make the whole neighborhood hate me. I told my daughter to not come home,and stay with friends until I figure out what to do.

@Patty_Melt You understand the Po-Po can figure it out, so you don’t have to do anything more than making the call. It can be made anonymously. I lived in the tenements (cold water walk-ups from the 1890’s) while going to college; fifty years ago, we had two shootouts in the back parking lot. Roommate’s car was not hit by gunfire but the car three cars down had bullet holes in radiator and windshield during one OK corral.
Stay safe !

I pulled out my return ticket on the train and gave it to the conductor. She said this one has already been used. I had thrown away the unused ticket. She made me pay for the return fare.

@janbb That stinks. You may now have a cookie : )

My A/C is out again, and my landlord refused to come over and fix it today, when I’m off work. Instead, he’s going to come fix it at some surprise time tomorrow, when I’ll be working at home and my husband will be taking his mother to the airport.

I needed a longer camping trip.

I used secret witness text, they texted back with questions. I am so scared I am crying. What if I am wrong?
Oh, man, am I glad my daughter is hanging with her boyfriend right now.
I am not scared of the cops knowing who I am. It it a quiet little neighborhood, comparable to a cul de sac. It would be quick to narrow down who called.

If it’s who they’re looking for, then yay. If not, the guy will show ID proving it’s not him and hopefully they won’t search him for weed.

Done is done.

Have to pee every 15 minutes. Dr. Said I’m fine. Nurse told me to cut back on water and juice at night.

@RedDeerGuy1 Poor fellow, I feel your pain. Us ladies of a certain age can understand your plight.

This will probably be the most minor annoyance in this thread: I dropped an unopened bottle of water. I’m semi-germaphobic, so I had to waste a minute of critically valuable TV watching and Fluthering time cleaning it with vinegar.

I’m growing out my hair from a pixie cut, and right now it’s at this incredibly awkward stage where the sides are at about my cheek bones’ height, and the back is becoming dangerously mullet-like. Trying to get myself presentable each morning is an annoyance right now.

I’m on vacation and yesterday my cell phone was not charged enough to take any photos. I charged it overnight and today, started out around 11 in the morning with 100% charge. With barely touching the phone all afternoon, it was almost dead by 4 o’clock, when we did some stuff that I really would have liked photos of. I realized that my battery is probably more than a year old and is ready to be replaced. In the meantime, I have 4 regular cameras at home which I never think of taking. I could have really used one on this trip.

I have had a really stressful and challenging week, so every minor annoyance feels like an ordeal right now. The most annoying thing, I think, was having to rush out at 8:30pm to buy a pair of pants for a new job, after they gave me virtually no notice that I would need them the next morning. I ended up spending $70 just because I couldn’t find a cheaper pair that suited the uniform requirements. I would never spend that on a pair of pants normally, so I am pretty irritated about it.

The zipper on one of my favorite trousers collapsed. They’re dark brown and the fabric is wonderful; it’s satiny smooth and after 20 years, still shows no signs of wear. But now they’re out of circulation until I get the zipper replaced.

If only I had some dark brown under…but discretion discourages me from going there.

It’s Easter week so all the stores close half day Wednesday, all Thursday, Friday open half a day Saturday, closed all day Sunday and Monday. Tough for someone who has to carry their supplies on their back on the bus and has a teen boy who eats constantly.

Youtube tried to bombard me with sudden ads. Imagine you watch youtube with headset or with full volume, you pick a video and suddenly an ads will startle you the crap out of you, this is will happen every 3 or 5 videos you watch. Guess ads blocking doesn’t work anymore. Some of the ads will force you to see 30 seconds crap before allowing you to see anything.

I was having a bitch of a time with a silly, simple and stupid conditional formatting application in Excel. I know that stuff backwards and forwards, but I couldn’t get the formula to come out right to place bolded red text on a white background to display a certain condition on the spreadsheet.

I eventually got it right, but that was nearly an hour of frustration and mostly wasted time.

I tripped and fell in a Gopher hole Tues. evening out here on the lawn and sprained my bad ankle that I have repeatedly sprained like 8 times over the years. I gave it immediate attention, put on a supportive ankle brace, iced it, elevated it and it is better now but still swollen and sore.
Really pisses me off. Looks like I am going to need to start wearing my neoprene ankle brace almost all the time given it’s vulnerability now.

I sprained it twice in 8 weeks last year then made it about 16 months before my trip down the gopher hole moment.
Man, we sure take for granted just being able to walk like a normal person. haha

@Coloma Trip Down The Gopher Hole is the name of my new band : )

@Kardamom haha, glad I could help. lol

So, I got a good look at that neighbor today, and I am sure it’s him. I am still waiting for someome to take my text serious and come check him out.
I am really worried about somebody retaliating on him. The whole front of the house is windows. Ugh, and I better straighten the living room, so cops don’t get offended when they come to get bullets out of the wall.
Man! These new neighbors are a lot of bother! Lol

This isn’t minor. I consider it worse than banging my GF.

My best friend for the last 25 years just randomly stopped by a few nights ago. He was visiting his parents and they live near here so he randomly stopped by with some drink and we caught up and he crashed here. A good time was had.

I have one rule in my apartment. You can vomit on my couch but do not ever cook bacon (unless turkey) in my kitchen.

It isn’t a religious thing it is just that I hate grease. And bacon grease coats everything and it is a nightmare to clean. I called my mom a cunt multiple times for cooking bacon in my kitchen. I take it that seriously.

So Aaron ran to Safeway in the morning for supplies to make breakfast. Nice gesture but the bag of shit poured bacon grease all over the other dishes in the sink. I’m still cleaning the mess up.

@johnpowell Haha..I hate grease too, I never cook bacon or fry greasy stuff.

I got thrown out of the Synagogue for not being Kosher, which is really hurtful given that i am Jewish.

@ThePigman :: I guess you could say I saved your Bacon.