What to add? My grievance is with people who have long, loud phone conversations in public. Do they seriously think others want to hear their conversation?
Similarly: people who play videos on their phone in public without using ear buds
Two things: "My first order of business upon election to the presidency in 2028 will be an executive order making it legal to whack people’s phones out of their hands."
Do we need an EO for this? Can't we just claim self-defense?
My grievance is that each of my family members will open a can of La Croix, drink one sip, set it down, forget about it and repeat until I have an entire recycling center's worth of cans that are 93% full, potentially germ-ridden and going flat. I have done nothing else this holiday season except trail behind them, attempting unsuccessfully to reunite cans with their proper owners and eventually giving up and pouring hundreds of dollars of fancy water down the drain. This is actual footage of my face right now 👉🏼 😩
And, if your family is anything like mine, instead of cracking all of these cans, they could be drinking tap water out of one of the roughly 1,900 fancy liquid containers they currently own.
Triggggggered!!!! YES it’s my house exactly! When they ruin all their half-drunk gatorades, they go for my husband’s stash of la croix! It’s maddening!!!
I will try. Who knows? I might invent a whole new flavor. I only have one kid, but he has 4 million friends who eat and drink at our house on a regular basis.
This is not a tap water drinking family. We’d literally rather die of dehydration (see what I did there?). And to be fair, the tap water where I live has arsenic in it so wasting $$$ and polluting the planet it is!
My grievance: If the box is empty, throw it away. More than once I thought we had some more cereal or medicine, only to find an empty container living in the cabinet!
Second grievance, very personal: Why does bluetooth connections make me feel like a transported cave person? All I know is that at one point, my phone was connected to my car, and now is it not. And now I listen to either college radio (ad-free), NPR (can be depressing), or an audiobook playing from my phone on max volume resting in my car's cupholder
It pains me when the T in the middle of a word isn’t pronounced. Instead of Newton it’s New-uhn.
When I’m waiting for a parking spot and that person in the spot doesn’t have a clue that someone awaits and they take their sweet time buckling in, sipping a coffee…
When I smell up a friend’s bathroom and they don’t have an air freshener spray. Who doesn’t provide a lovely spray scent in their powder room?
I love grievances/pet peeves/pet hates/bugbears and NEVER get tired of hearing about them. I have a legendary list of grievances and I love yours - nothing I'd disagree with here.
I could list hundreds, but here are just two that I've been discussing with my sister and brother-in-law during this family get together:
1 People with miserable, nasty-looking default faces. I'm a grumpy old bastard but in public I always have either a neutral or slightly positive look on my face. It's the people with perma-scowls and looks of utter disgust that kill me.
2 Asking too many questions...and not enough questions. Specifically, unnecessary questions that people should be able to answer themselves or are unimportant, like 'should I chop the onions? should I wear my jacket? where is so-and-so?' (these aren't great examples) - and not enough questions, an example being my mother in law who will throw half a pound of grated cheese onto my salad without asking me if I want any, stuff like that. Or doing something because they 'were only trying to help' when I'd prefer no help at all.
btw, I had no idea 'Festivus' came from Seinfeld! I've been saying 'Happy Festivus' for years but I was never a Seinfeld watcher and for some reason I thought it was Richard Dawkins who coined this.
1. The hold music that is interrupted every 60 seconds with “Your call is very important to us..” Bullshit. I know it. You know it. You don’t care. Let’s not pretend. 😠
2. The 14 year old child who is somehow 3 inches taller than you (and still growing). The indignity of looking UP to this child as you scold him about farting in his sister’s face. 🙄
3. The people at the grocery store who put all their items on the belt at the checkout counter but don’t put the divider down. 😤
Excellent grievances! Phone zombies would be near the top of my list too, along with sidewalk hogs in general - people in large groups not merging to make way for oncoming passerby get my grumpy goat lately. Also the ensh*tiffication of streaming platforms bombarding us with ads to demand more cash, bah humbug to all of them.
THE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR CAR AT THE GAS PUMP AND GO INTO THE MINI-MART TO APPARENTLY BROKER WORLD PEACE OR PROVE STRING THEORY! THE PUMP IS NOT A PARKING SPACE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
LOL. I'm with you on the "literally."
What to add? My grievance is with people who have long, loud phone conversations in public. Do they seriously think others want to hear their conversation?
Similarly: people who play videos on their phone in public without using ear buds
These are both great ones Moorea! I think we can add both of theme as potential whack-ees on to my executive order.
Two things: "My first order of business upon election to the presidency in 2028 will be an executive order making it legal to whack people’s phones out of their hands."
Do we need an EO for this? Can't we just claim self-defense?
My grievance is that each of my family members will open a can of La Croix, drink one sip, set it down, forget about it and repeat until I have an entire recycling center's worth of cans that are 93% full, potentially germ-ridden and going flat. I have done nothing else this holiday season except trail behind them, attempting unsuccessfully to reunite cans with their proper owners and eventually giving up and pouring hundreds of dollars of fancy water down the drain. This is actual footage of my face right now 👉🏼 😩
And, if your family is anything like mine, instead of cracking all of these cans, they could be drinking tap water out of one of the roughly 1,900 fancy liquid containers they currently own.
Triggggggered!!!! YES it’s my house exactly! When they ruin all their half-drunk gatorades, they go for my husband’s stash of la croix! It’s maddening!!!
How many kids do you have? Can you just marry all the gatorades and put them back in the fridge like they’re new? Who would know?
I will try. Who knows? I might invent a whole new flavor. I only have one kid, but he has 4 million friends who eat and drink at our house on a regular basis.
Ahhh no. If there are outsiders in this scenario, it doesn’t work. Darn it.
🤣🤣🤣
This is not a tap water drinking family. We’d literally rather die of dehydration (see what I did there?). And to be fair, the tap water where I live has arsenic in it so wasting $$$ and polluting the planet it is!
Ick!
1. Backwards baseball cap-wearing guys.
2. Guys who don’t wash their hands before exiting the public washroom.
3. Air travelers who are apparently unaware that bags can be checked.
Oooh, agree and disagree!!
With you on the doggie ER visits!
My grievance: If the box is empty, throw it away. More than once I thought we had some more cereal or medicine, only to find an empty container living in the cabinet!
Second grievance, very personal: Why does bluetooth connections make me feel like a transported cave person? All I know is that at one point, my phone was connected to my car, and now is it not. And now I listen to either college radio (ad-free), NPR (can be depressing), or an audiobook playing from my phone on max volume resting in my car's cupholder
I can’t tell you how many times times I go to grab something out of a box from the pantry and it’s empty. Ugh.
College radio? You must live like adjacent to a campus as those signals are tiny 🤣
The empty boxes and containers are a crime that should be punishable with public shaming (or even something more severe). It's an egregious offence!
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Love your grievances, literally.
It pains me when the T in the middle of a word isn’t pronounced. Instead of Newton it’s New-uhn.
When I’m waiting for a parking spot and that person in the spot doesn’t have a clue that someone awaits and they take their sweet time buckling in, sipping a coffee…
When I smell up a friend’s bathroom and they don’t have an air freshener spray. Who doesn’t provide a lovely spray scent in their powder room?
Ha! All good ones to be sure. We have “pooppourri” in our guest bath 🤣.
Being asked to tip when I order a pizza and go to pick it. I have paid for the pizza, what am I tipping you for( your smile as you hand me the box).
I love grievances/pet peeves/pet hates/bugbears and NEVER get tired of hearing about them. I have a legendary list of grievances and I love yours - nothing I'd disagree with here.
I could list hundreds, but here are just two that I've been discussing with my sister and brother-in-law during this family get together:
1 People with miserable, nasty-looking default faces. I'm a grumpy old bastard but in public I always have either a neutral or slightly positive look on my face. It's the people with perma-scowls and looks of utter disgust that kill me.
2 Asking too many questions...and not enough questions. Specifically, unnecessary questions that people should be able to answer themselves or are unimportant, like 'should I chop the onions? should I wear my jacket? where is so-and-so?' (these aren't great examples) - and not enough questions, an example being my mother in law who will throw half a pound of grated cheese onto my salad without asking me if I want any, stuff like that. Or doing something because they 'were only trying to help' when I'd prefer no help at all.
btw, I had no idea 'Festivus' came from Seinfeld! I've been saying 'Happy Festivus' for years but I was never a Seinfeld watcher and for some reason I thought it was Richard Dawkins who coined this.
Ha! Glad we set you straight. Although it makes sense you’d think it was Dawkins I guess.
Thanks for the additions! One thing about living in Wisconsin as compared to Philly….way fewer resting B faces!!
1. The hold music that is interrupted every 60 seconds with “Your call is very important to us..” Bullshit. I know it. You know it. You don’t care. Let’s not pretend. 😠
2. The 14 year old child who is somehow 3 inches taller than you (and still growing). The indignity of looking UP to this child as you scold him about farting in his sister’s face. 🙄
3. The people at the grocery store who put all their items on the belt at the checkout counter but don’t put the divider down. 😤
Ooh, some good ones here Amy!! And, sorry, but #2 is a friggin riot 🤣🤣
People who talk on their phone while in a public restroom, don't bother to wash their hands, then give me the side-eye as they leave. Gaaack!
Ick! Good one Cindy.
Excellent grievances! Phone zombies would be near the top of my list too, along with sidewalk hogs in general - people in large groups not merging to make way for oncoming passerby get my grumpy goat lately. Also the ensh*tiffication of streaming platforms bombarding us with ads to demand more cash, bah humbug to all of them.
Great ones! I particularly like the sidewalk hogs…this seems to be spreading.
Pretty sure that line is one of Dr. Evil's in Austin Powers?
Speaking of MKE TV, here's an incredibly niche grievance: Please send A.J. Bayatpour back to Madiosn, please and thank you.
Bingo on Dr Evil, well done!!
AJ a news guy?
Yep. Used to cover the Capitol here.
Lol 😆
👊🏼 merry merry William!
THE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR CAR AT THE GAS PUMP AND GO INTO THE MINI-MART TO APPARENTLY BROKER WORLD PEACE OR PROVE STRING THEORY! THE PUMP IS NOT A PARKING SPACE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
(holds hands up)
Ok, so hear me out here...
NEVER! Straight to the Feats of Strength!
(Sigh)
Ok, fine.
😂
GEORGE IS GETTIN UPSET! 😉
I’m with Kevin (😬)
I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!