What was the last inanimate object you got annoyed/frustrated with & how did you deal with it?

These days it’s generally whatever laptop I’m using at work. Depending on the deadline I’ll either mash on the keyboard and cuss at it (long deadline) or I’ll plead with it and promise it nice things if it behaves (short deadline). Even then, I’ll quietly plan its horrible demise…

I am always having problems with can openers. I almost always attempt to use them the wrong way round. I think they have a mind of their own. I can’t tell you how many I have thrown in the rubbish bin!!
BTW I am left handed so prone to do things in the opposite way to most people.

Last inanimate object that got me frustrated was a dead tree branch that would scratch the top of my car. I cut the tree down.

My father in law.

I generally say “hello” and move along.

With the heat wave we have been having I have had to water my plants almost everyday and per usual I park the car in the drive and walk to the yard to water my babies. Now mind you it is hot as hell, I just got off a mildly annoying day at work….I grab the hose turn on the water and get sprayed in the face!!! X0 Needless to say that sprayer is about 4 yards over and who ever finds it is their problem now. Amazing how far you can throw things when you are pissed! :D

@Cruiser Yeah this is why I reckon in the Olympic throwing events the competitors should be smacked about the face just before throwing. Or maybe someone from the crowd could shout “i’ve slept with your wife” A world record would be a cert.

I had a tussle yesterday morning with a so-called resealable food bag (Bag-1, Austinlad-0). I REALLY hate those things when they don’t tear right. Either you can’t get them open with cutting off the sealing band, or you can never get that band to work right. Anyone else experience that?

@Austinlad Have I? Boy, have I.

@Austinlad That made me laugh!! HS I have yet to NOT wrestle with those damn things!!

The last thing was some joconde decor at my internship. It was kind of sticky and I had to get it into a mold without squishing it or breaking it. And it had to go in flush with the bottom and meet exactly on its edges. I took many many deep breaths and growled a couple of times. The growling amused the chef no end. :P This was not something I could throw and I’m not big on swearing in the workplace.

As for machinery type things, it depends in how frustrated I am. There is usually swearing involved and if I have escalated to dropping an “F-bomb” things are pretty bad.

The other day I was in a hurry to get somewhere. I had got ready and all that was missing was the lipstick application. There is a shelf above the toilet which I had temporarily used to rest the hairbrush and brand-new lipstick(CoralTulip). In my haste to complete the preparation process, I swang around suddenly and somehow knocked the shelf ! As stars start rotating round my head, the lipstick makes an acrobatic jump and PLONK lands in the loo! In horror, I stood over the toilet bowl watching the shiny Maybelline cap swim away from the rest of the lipstick!!!!!!!!! Boy was I fuming and was my hand aching!

Just a minute ago my computer froze so i punched it in the face (screen).

If I’m a computer and it’s lagging, I will grab the monitor and shake it, as if I’m throttling a person or something. I also yell at it. When it comes to things like that, I unfortunately have a very short fuse.
@Austinlad I always have trouble opening resealable bags. It’s also really difficult to close them, for some strange reason.

Stupid rat trap won’t catch the damn rat! It’s gone off twice for bupkus.

I lifted a tiny bottle of fingernail polish off the top shelf in walmart and the entire row of bottles fell to the floor. Women wearing those blue vests suddenly appeared. They hurt my foot (wearing sandals), I told them they did and limped off to shop anyway.

My MacBook. I swear at it all the time. I’m pretty sure it’s just trying to piss me off.

Badly fitting upper rack in the dishwasher. Pushed it harder when it wouldn’t slide in. It jammed. I got mad and switched to shaking it and shoving it—- still didn’t budge.

I paused to think about the problem, got gentle with it and found its natural [badly designed] movement flow and went with the Tao.