What little frustrations (that don’t involve other humans) are plaguing you these days?

I can’t get an audio book from Libby to talk to me no matter where I try to access it in the house.

For me it’s, like, when you’re mowing the lawn and you have just one more row to go and the battery dies. Have to go inside for new one. Frustrating.

Grindr often will not reset to my current location, and I have to take steps to reset the whole app. Don’t you understand?! I might be missing Mr. Right!

I can’t just go out somewhere and do some shooting. In this state you have to have a hunting license to take a gun into the field.

^^^How does that not involve other humans?

As far as the screw top lids are concerned, those annoy me too. I see it as a sign that they are just making things cheaper and so they are harder to deal with. Of course some of it might be that they’re trying to save on plastic, so I do support that reasoning.

I get annoyed with myself when I sit around most of the evening when I could be getting up occasionally to get some stuff done around the house and get a head start on the next day. Plus, I am doing a walking challenge right now and keeping track of my daily steps, and if I didn’t sit around so much after dinner, I would probably be further along than I could be.

@canidmajor Is that directed at me?? Three of these (^) to me means third one back.
You don’t need anybody else to go shooting.

Child proof caps. It’s also adult proof in my household!

@kritiper Sorry, for some reason I had something else in mind (and now I don’t remember what) when I posted that. (Eyeroll at myself).

I refuse to eat that skin stuff they use on the outside of polish sausage. I peel it off. I often feel irritation that it is on there in the first place. I just prepared two pounds of it to cook later today. I’ve never heard another person say this. Surely there are others.

My phone fell in the bathtub, so now I am phone-less. Everything is difficult: looking up the bus schedule, letting people know where I am when I need a ride, communicating about meeting spots and times if things don’t go according to plan. I miss taking photos, especially today, when I was at a parrot park! I had to borrow a watch. I need to buy paper tickets with actual coins instead of stamping one online.

I’m old enough to remember when all that was normal, but it feels very far away.

The EU is currently replacing all plastic screw-on caps with “tethered caps” for more effective recycling. A convenient side effect: you can clip them on. I think they still need to be screwed on if you want them leak-proof, but for soda sitting in the fridge, the clip-on method is good enough.