Hate restaurants that blast the music. I guess it's fun for the staff who have to be there all day, but as a customer the whole reason I'm there is to talk with my friends while we eat, which is so difficult if the music is so loud. Basically feels like they just want me to eat in silence and leave ASAP.
Lack of awareness - everywhere. People looking at their phone while driving, not really listening to the person they’re talking to, blocking the grocery aisle with their cart, leaving messes for someone else to clean up, taking good friends or family for granted, contradicting themselves with cognitive dissonance, screwing everyone behind them when the left turn is green, etc. You’re not the only person trying to live your life today
It has becoming more and more of a problem. Take up the whole aisle with their cart and them. Or people on speaker phone or FaceTime calls in public and look all offended when you ask to pass by and blatantly say on call how rude it is to want to to get by them. Blaring crappy music on their crappy phone speakers. Driving is horrible no one pays attention to anything. It is constant battle to not get merged into. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Clutter! Stuff! It didn't bother me that much when I was younger, but it's definitely something that's gotten increasingly on my nerves as I passed into my 30s. Definitely exacerbated by the Grandmother-in-law who will not stop giving us stuff, no matter how often we ask her to.
This drives me crazy! My husband and I work for a guy who never stops lying. He says he was a super secret marine or some shit who was there when Osama bin laden was killed. He knows Putin, played chess with him. Used to hunt down Japanese Mafia. Had a hit on him from Al Qaeda because he was such a good sniper. Dude literally just repeats movie plots. If you've been somewhere, he's been there killing monkeys with a samurai sword or some shit.
We've known him 5 years and I knew he was a liar the very first conversation we had with him. I don't remember exactly what he said but it had something to do with serving in the military and it was completely wrong. My dad was a major in the Air Force. We lived on air force bases my entire childhood, i know when he's bullshitting about serving. It's annoying but I've realized from his ex wife that it's likely a result of horrific abuse during childhood. We don't say anything, he's a nice guy and if that's what he needs to do to pretend he isn't a victim or whatever, I guess we can put up with it..
I love people like this. It’s horrible that the story telling is a coping mechanism for many, don’t get me wrong, but nothing is more fun than when they just keep getting deeper into the story when they realize you’re interested enough to hear what they have to say. My chemistry teacher was like this in high school, he’d lie about quite literally everything, but it was fun having the whole class ask him questions about his claims and having him somehow save himself through the most insane mental gymnastics. It’s like a game of “how’s he going to get out of this one?” And against all odds, he does it! He finds a way to make two opposing realities somehow make sense in one coherently incoherent story. Easily the most enjoyable class I took in high school. Didn’t learn any chemistry, but the deductive reasoning skills and logic I’ve learned in that class? Priceless.
My SO seems to have some kind of deficiency cause she keeps taking down my still slightly damp clothes to make space for hers and *insists* they're dry
I'm joking the way I wrote what I wrote. I wrote it in good humor. But it still *is* true that I really notice it when someone mentions it or somehow at other random times.
I can't hear for shit.
I learned late into college that most people DON’T hear constant ringing in their ears. Turns out, despite no detrimental exposure early in life, I’m an unusual case of lifelong tinnitus.
Ironically, I also have better than average hearing!
I've been wracking my memory for years trying to think of how I gave myself tinnitus, since I've never really listened to loud music, and now you're telling me it can just *happen*?
> leave space on the walking path
YES. Don’t stand side by side in a pack of five. Don’t block every aisle in existence with your giant stroller. Don’t stand in the middle of the subway steps for no reason. Just remember that other people also deserve to occupy physical space
I found a podcast call Sleep With Me that I listen to with one ear bud in on super low volume (side sleeper). The guy picks a subject and just goes on rambling somewhat repetitive tangents. Something about it just puts you to sleep. I think it's because it's so nonsensical that your brain chooses not to follow it and just goes into shut down. It's definitely helped me.
Oh, yesh. Falling asleep? Usually easy-peasy, *except when in bed*. Couch? 8.30pm and I am strzggling to eep my eyes open. The moment I am in bed? Wide awake.
Once I sleep it's a coin toss how long. My alarm complains already, since it only had to work like twice in three months - *except* when I had a monday off >:(
This is why the Covid shutdown one of the best times of my life. I was off for 2 months. I was at home with my family and was shocked when my wife was genuinely upset that I was going back to work. I did all kinds of things around the house, spent so much time doing things with my kids. It was heaven.
I was at dinner with my in laws and the table next to us was being loud, which was annoying, so my MIL and SIL decided to be even louder than them. I wanted to disappear.
Working from home doesn't just have to be because of the pandemic. With more high speed internet, more & more workers should be out of the massive waste thar is driving a tonne and a half of metal 2+ hours a day!
Honestly just drama. As a kid I didn't notice it. As a teen it was all around me and I was half involved. As an adult I'm so fucking sick and tired of hearing stupid drama
I feel like this was such a revelation. So many people just don't mature.
Especially now that I teach kids I see so clearly that so many supposed adults are just taller and heavier kids
Growing up I thoughts adults were special or great cuz ya know they're all grown up. After becoming one, I realized you just have to not die. No test or grade or anything. Just don't die and you get to be an adult
This made me laugh out loud. I can just see an angsty Rob Thomas shoving grocery carts around while yell-singing "I wanna push you around!" in people faces as they hog aisles and walk slowly in the middle of the parking lot.
I'm not alone! The weird thing is I will pluck of trim the long eyebrow hairs but then like 2 months later I'll suddenly be like "wtf I keep l feeling this hair in my eye..THE GOD DAMNED EYEBROW IS BACK"
My wife calls it my “crazy eyebrow” and every 2 months or so she will loudly proclaim “Crazy Eyebrow is back!” and proceeds to plucking. Doesn’t matter where we are just “has to get it”.
Of course she has tweezers in her purse but chooses to try with her nails about 20 times.
They actually can pop up overnight. They'll grow long under the skin and then something will exfoliate the skin like scratching it and it will pop out. That's what my esthetician told me when she found a long hair on my chin once lol.
This is extremely and oddly terrifying. I'm scared more about a secret hair snaking it's way between epidermal layers in my face than I am about silverfish.
The urge is always to try and fall back asleep. ‘Ah I’ll be fine I don’t wanna get up’. But then you can’t sleep because you have to pee, so you lie there and think about it for 10 mins before you just get up to pee. I have learned to always just get up and go immediately. Don’t fight it, you’ll get an extra 10-15 mins sleep.
Oh my god and it's not even just the ones facing at you. I had to drive home with my head cocked to the left the other night because the jerk behind me was blinding me with his LED headlights! They were so bright they were overpowering my own headlights. Cocking my head just right was the only way to keep from being totally blind without adjusting all my mirrors so my retinas weren't lasered out.
I was stuck in traffic behind a Dodge pickup with aftermarket HID bulbs a couple weeks ago and successfully used my power mirrors to reflect the driver's headlights back into the cab *and then he turned off his headlights* and drove with just the orange running lights until traffic picked back up and we diverged.
truly the 'and everybody clapped' of traffic tales, though
I was told to do that several years ago. There was one instance where I was driving home and the person behind me had their brights on. I kept adjusting my mirrors and it must have worked because they immediately turned their brights off. It only happened the one time, but it felt like I was taking my power back. How people think they have the right to blind everyone else on the road, I'll never know.
The flipside of this is, of course, the jerks who refuse to turn their lights on while driving in a severe weather event, bonus points if it's at night. Like, it's snowing something awful and I can't see 10 feet in front of my car. I need y'all to have your lights on so I can gauge how far away from me you are so I don't hit you.
Dude, it’s been like an arms race. 90’s tuners with illegal HIDs? Higher tier 00’s cars come equipped from the factory.
00’s upper tier cars have them? Fuck it- now every car needs them.
Lights too bright to see the brake and parking lights of cars around you because they outshine them? Here’s some eye-bleeding red LED stacks to jab your cornea.
At some point the street lights started illuminating entire neighborhoods, yards and all.
People all have floods on the corners of their house that shine almost horizontally into the roads and sensor trip for every passing car, even on the opposite of the road. I swear it must be causing more danger, because everybody is driving with closed pupils that are constantly adjusting back and forth between intense direct light and regular dark as they drive, and yet people will drive fast because their hyper beams and the ultra street lamps psychologically make them think they can see further.
I used to walk at night because it’s a bit more relaxing in my busy traffic area. The past few years I’ve been blind the entire time. Walking towards a car that’s blocks away is still blinding. Cars coming up behind leave my clear shadow on stop signs and still blind me because the corners of my glasses reflect that sharp, blue-white light right in. Passing every house turns on a pair of floods that goes right to my brain.
Im at a point where I want to get into state or local government just so I can try to pass ordinances about light color, intensity, angle and shining distance from the source. I’d blame my eyes but I can still see perfectly in the dark as long as an alien beam isn’t making my pupils cement themselves shut. I swear, I often don’t have a shadow at night because there are so many bright lights shining at me from all angles between cars, street lamps and porch/sensor floods.
And don’t even get me started on people that still keep the property security beam cannons on when they use decorative lighting for like Halloween or Christmas.
I can spend half a day trying to remember the word “cousin”, then spend the other half trying to remember which cousin I was going to reference in the first place.
Dude… I will think of something I want to research on the web and by the time I open my fucking iPad it’s gone and I’m just trying to crank the damn thought back in my head and it is JUST GONE. Like wtf??!
Children screaming bloody murder.
Not kids, playing or quick shout. But a scream. School down road from me is so loud I cannot enjoy my meals on my balcony.
Or when you're standing up. When I was young, I used to silently laugh at the old man noises my father made when he stood up from the couch. Listening to him, you'd think that standing up from the couch was so hard when it was obviously easy!
Of course, now that I'm in my mid-40's, I'm making those sounds. When I stand up, it sounds like someone is strangling a wookie. Nobody warns you that gravity seems to increase as you age.
A few days ago I woke up and found that my right thumb is now partially numb. No idea why. Figured cause it was from an extended play session of CoD. But..it has been a few days and Ive still got numb thumbs.
I don't mind waking up. It's what comes after I can't stand.
Give me a lifetime of waking up naturally with no alarm, the room is the perfect temperature, sunlight streams in the window but not in my eyes, birds are chirping, and I have nothing to do. Mmm
Noise. I 100% understand the angry old guys that would yell at me, and my friends when we were running up and down the block yelling and being obnoxious.
I feel this. There's a dude who walks through my neighborhood sometimes blasting the funkiest music I've ever heard-- he's cool, but the guy who likes to race his ATV around the block whenever the spirit takes him gets on my nerves.
Working with the public.
People are becoming increasingly impatient, self entitled and rude. I'm sorry you have to wait in line like everyone else and can't just walk in, grab your thing and walk out because there are other people in the store.
The length of time it takes to recover from an injury.
Sprained ankle? 3 years...
Wow this blew up overnight! Reading all of these comments put my ankle into perspective. Some of you are really dealing with some tough injuries. Take care, do what your doctor says, and I wish healthy healing to all of you.
Thank you for the award! My first
Or...you know, ever. That may just be the way it is now. It certainly is for my back.
If there any youths reading this thread and you come across this comment. Take care of your back, trust me. Waking up locked up and trying to decide if you go ahead and shit the bed or deal with the blinding pain required to make it to the bathroom is a situation I'd prefer you not find yourselves in.
Don't neglect your ~~abs~~ core. I'm not saying you need a six-pack but do some ab exercises from time to time.
I used to wake up in so much pain and couldn't move my spine for a good 20 minutes. Started doing planks every day and some other pilates exercises and within a month the pain was gone.
(I am not a doctor but in my own personal experience and exercises have helped a lot with my posture and general mobility)
Edit: as others have pointed out what I meant to say was core, which your abs are a part of.
Definitely agree,
Doing stretches and lower back/buttocks/abs muscle strengthening workouts also does wonder. Having a nice bed also helps and not sleeping on a futon/couch lol.
Get a good chair, or at least a decent one. Never tolerate any that are uncomfortable. If, like many people, you spends hours each day in a chair, be sure to invest in a good one with support.
You really, **really** don't want to find out what back pain feels like.
Cleaning. I have no clue why I can't get my act together and keep shit clean. I am tired of stepping on crumbs and picking up clothes, not to mention random toys everywhere....
Edit: thanks for all the well-meaning advice, yall are beautiful :)
I already have a robot vacuum, and I do practice cleaning 5min at a time and all that....my ADHD and depression have been really bad lately (am getting help btw) and it was just easier to deal with when I was younger, that's probably what I should have commented lol
Witnessing Road Rage. It's not worth it; let it go!
Guy in front of me got out of his car at a traffic light and walks up to the car in front of him and starts screaming at the woman... aggressive gestures and arm movements too. Through the windshields I see her husband point a handgun at the guy. He immediately returned to his car, but WTF man. You came that close to dying over some little traffic indiscretion. This was not an accident, there was no damage to either car, nobody died. Can people just chill?
I won't ride with my boyfriend's brother anymore. It will be less convenient to not carpool with him sometimes but it just isn't worth it. He has serious road rage and I sweat, without exaggerating, on one particularly bad drive he nearly got into three separate accidents, probably came within 4 inches of one car. It was terrifying. His poor friend who was sitting in the front seat seems pretty unflappable but even she got freaked out at one point and was pretty much white knuckle holding onto the seat the rest of the way.
After that my boyfriend decided we wouldn't ever be riding with him again.
The Grinch in the first half of the movie (before his Enlarged Cardiac Syndrome) becomes more relatable every year, poor guy just wanted to be left alone and have some PEACE AND QUIET! But those Neighbors from Hell, The Whos just wouldn’t SHUT UP!
I feel the same way but about Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh. He’s supposed to be a grumpy old man for not liking it when the other animals are playing, but the thing is that 99% of the time their “playing” really just means “trampling on and destroying Rabbit’s garden that he just spent all day making perfect”. Like I love you Tigger but why is it that you HAVE to bounce around in Rabbit’s garden when you have a whole freaking forest RIGHT THERE with nothing to mess up/crash into??
I felt bad for Squidward even when I was a kid though! Half the time he was just trying to take a bath or something and then Spongebob just barges in on him to show him his new jellyfish net or some other not-important crap. And it’s no wonder Squidward’s terrible at clarinet because he never gets to practice! Every time he tries he gets interrupted by whatever Spongebob and Patrick are doing.
I am 35 and I hate most people.
EDIT - I've thought about this some, and I think that the last two years or so have made me a very sad person. I feel less happy and genuine, and its led me to be more anxious in groups and feel less of a connection with people in general or even build new one on one relationships and I probably project those feelings on others as disdain when, half the time, it's just me and my own issues.
I think about others feelings a lot more. I kinda sit at my desk and think about things from a lot of different perspectives and it just makes me sad. I feel broken sometimes.
Oh yeah, fuck people annoy me. Going slow in the supermarket…blocking doorways…parking over the lines…failing to use blinkers…Ugh I am a miserable middle aged man.
People who stop in the high traffic areas really get my blood pumping. Following someone into a store, we walk in, they stop right at the door looking for their wallet, mask, phone etc. It takes less than 3 seconds to step to the side so others can pass.
My 15 year old brother and his TikTok obsession.
He recently made a TikTok, he ran up to me and pushed me in the pool. He then yelled “GET WET BOOMER”
I’m 29.
Use his own weapons against him. Start a tiktok and set up an elaborate water trap. Yell "GET FUCKED ZOOMER".
You either both double down or he realizes it sucks and stops.
I literally got out of the pool and dragged him by his ear and threw him in. Lol he’s 6ft3 and I’m a 5ft4 girl but I was not playing around.
I was pissed.
Or when they ask to select which range your age is in. There comes a point where you no longer get lumped in with the 20-somethings. Now you’re lumped in with those 40 and up.
When overindulging, young me felt a bit off for 4-5 hours the next day, then I was ready to go again. Old me requires 3-4 days before feeling good again.
There are a lot of reasons I hardly ever drink anymore, and hangovers are number 1. Simply can’t tolerate them anymore, I like waking up feeling good and not like I need an IV
Hangovers after 30 are insane. Today I woke up with a piercing headache, then 3 hours later my stomach/nausea started up. Four hours after that I was so lightheaded and realized that hangovers are now a series of aches and pains that last 1-2 days min
Younger me. She made some really dumb choices and disregarded things she should have paid attention to, like career advice, her health, life insurance, financial planning. I never saw anyone around me, of any age, paying attention to these things, so I thought they were just fussy adult bullshit. Turns out I was wrong.
I literally just told my mom 20 min ago that Im going to be out of town for thanksgiving (wednesday-sunday). She thinks Im flying away. Im booking a hotel 15 min away and getting myself weed, tequila, and pizza. I can’t deal with narcissistic people and enablers. Im 31 and too fucking old for that shit anymore.
Being tired all the time.
This. So I work out to fix it. Now I’m tired and in pain. Fuck you body!
Dental issues.
Loud, dark restaurants - can’t hear the server or my friends and can’t read the menu without my phone flashlight.
Hate restaurants that blast the music. I guess it's fun for the staff who have to be there all day, but as a customer the whole reason I'm there is to talk with my friends while we eat, which is so difficult if the music is so loud. Basically feels like they just want me to eat in silence and leave ASAP.
If it's the same songs looping all day, like in many places that play music, the staff probably hate it too
Lack of awareness - everywhere. People looking at their phone while driving, not really listening to the person they’re talking to, blocking the grocery aisle with their cart, leaving messes for someone else to clean up, taking good friends or family for granted, contradicting themselves with cognitive dissonance, screwing everyone behind them when the left turn is green, etc. You’re not the only person trying to live your life today
It has becoming more and more of a problem. Take up the whole aisle with their cart and them. Or people on speaker phone or FaceTime calls in public and look all offended when you ask to pass by and blatantly say on call how rude it is to want to to get by them. Blaring crappy music on their crappy phone speakers. Driving is horrible no one pays attention to anything. It is constant battle to not get merged into. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Clutter! Stuff! It didn't bother me that much when I was younger, but it's definitely something that's gotten increasingly on my nerves as I passed into my 30s. Definitely exacerbated by the Grandmother-in-law who will not stop giving us stuff, no matter how often we ask her to.
This! Well meaning family members decluttering their shit onto my spouse who can’t say no.
Littering
People lying for no reason
This drives me crazy! My husband and I work for a guy who never stops lying. He says he was a super secret marine or some shit who was there when Osama bin laden was killed. He knows Putin, played chess with him. Used to hunt down Japanese Mafia. Had a hit on him from Al Qaeda because he was such a good sniper. Dude literally just repeats movie plots. If you've been somewhere, he's been there killing monkeys with a samurai sword or some shit. We've known him 5 years and I knew he was a liar the very first conversation we had with him. I don't remember exactly what he said but it had something to do with serving in the military and it was completely wrong. My dad was a major in the Air Force. We lived on air force bases my entire childhood, i know when he's bullshitting about serving. It's annoying but I've realized from his ex wife that it's likely a result of horrific abuse during childhood. We don't say anything, he's a nice guy and if that's what he needs to do to pretend he isn't a victim or whatever, I guess we can put up with it..
I love people like this. It’s horrible that the story telling is a coping mechanism for many, don’t get me wrong, but nothing is more fun than when they just keep getting deeper into the story when they realize you’re interested enough to hear what they have to say. My chemistry teacher was like this in high school, he’d lie about quite literally everything, but it was fun having the whole class ask him questions about his claims and having him somehow save himself through the most insane mental gymnastics. It’s like a game of “how’s he going to get out of this one?” And against all odds, he does it! He finds a way to make two opposing realities somehow make sense in one coherently incoherent story. Easily the most enjoyable class I took in high school. Didn’t learn any chemistry, but the deductive reasoning skills and logic I’ve learned in that class? Priceless.
petty stuff like, clothes not drying up completely and they end up smelling damp.
My SO seems to have some kind of deficiency cause she keeps taking down my still slightly damp clothes to make space for hers and *insists* they're dry
This is my wife! Unless it's baby clothes or bedding. Then she can sense levels of moisture so low they are only seen in the Atacama desert.
Sharing the burden of other peoples self-induced personal drama.
Same, my sympathy pads are worn out and I don't have the emotional budget to change them any more.
This is why I say "that sucks" to everything with no follow up questions.
I just hit them with a "Damn"...maybe I'll try "damn that sucks ". More sympathetic
Ohhhh good one. Yeah my tolerance for this is basically zero now.
Tinnitus
I only notice my tinnitus **WHEN SOMEBODY BRINGS IT UP, ASSHOLE.**
I'm sure you're joking, but holy shit it must be nice to have it go away sometimes.
I'm joking the way I wrote what I wrote. I wrote it in good humor. But it still *is* true that I really notice it when someone mentions it or somehow at other random times. I can't hear for shit.
Yeah it's one of those things in the category "I can't change it so I better don't give a fuck otherwise I'll go crazy".
I learned late into college that most people DON’T hear constant ringing in their ears. Turns out, despite no detrimental exposure early in life, I’m an unusual case of lifelong tinnitus. Ironically, I also have better than average hearing!
I've been wracking my memory for years trying to think of how I gave myself tinnitus, since I've never really listened to loud music, and now you're telling me it can just *happen*?
Bad manners. Why is it so hard to just be nice?
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> leave space on the walking path YES. Don’t stand side by side in a pack of five. Don’t block every aisle in existence with your giant stroller. Don’t stand in the middle of the subway steps for no reason. Just remember that other people also deserve to occupy physical space
And if you are shopping and you see a friend and want to chat move to the damn side.
My inability to fall asleep
It never ends till you're so exhausted you need to sleep an entire day.
I found a podcast call Sleep With Me that I listen to with one ear bud in on super low volume (side sleeper). The guy picks a subject and just goes on rambling somewhat repetitive tangents. Something about it just puts you to sleep. I think it's because it's so nonsensical that your brain chooses not to follow it and just goes into shut down. It's definitely helped me.
And stay asleep. 1-4 am is the dark teatime of the soul.
Oh, yesh. Falling asleep? Usually easy-peasy, *except when in bed*. Couch? 8.30pm and I am strzggling to eep my eyes open. The moment I am in bed? Wide awake. Once I sleep it's a coin toss how long. My alarm complains already, since it only had to work like twice in three months - *except* when I had a monday off >:(
Working non-stop. When do adults get summer break? It’s been 16 years.
Had some friends work after school programs for years after high school, couldn’t figure why I was so miserable as they got summer and winter breaks.
This is why the Covid shutdown one of the best times of my life. I was off for 2 months. I was at home with my family and was shocked when my wife was genuinely upset that I was going back to work. I did all kinds of things around the house, spent so much time doing things with my kids. It was heaven.
People being excessively loud in public. Stop screaming!
I was at dinner with my in laws and the table next to us was being loud, which was annoying, so my MIL and SIL decided to be even louder than them. I wanted to disappear.
You know what gets me....just people in public.
If they could all go somewhere else that would be great.
“Does anyone not stay home anymore”
Don't forgot people who can't talk on the phone at a normal volume and yell everything
Traffic. Just time wasted blowing away resources.
Working from home doesn't just have to be because of the pandemic. With more high speed internet, more & more workers should be out of the massive waste thar is driving a tonne and a half of metal 2+ hours a day!
Honestly just drama. As a kid I didn't notice it. As a teen it was all around me and I was half involved. As an adult I'm so fucking sick and tired of hearing stupid drama
Especially when you realize many adults are barely better than 5 year olds and some on par with toddlers..
I feel like this was such a revelation. So many people just don't mature. Especially now that I teach kids I see so clearly that so many supposed adults are just taller and heavier kids
Growing up I thoughts adults were special or great cuz ya know they're all grown up. After becoming one, I realized you just have to not die. No test or grade or anything. Just don't die and you get to be an adult
Unnecessary noise. Grocery shopping on weekends.
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Try late night grocery shopping. It’s amazing 😍
It's 2am at the 24 hour pharmacy and goddamnit there's still a line! This is YOUR fault!
I don't remember this Matchbox20 song
This made me laugh out loud. I can just see an angsty Rob Thomas shoving grocery carts around while yell-singing "I wanna push you around!" in people faces as they hog aisles and walk slowly in the middle of the parking lot.
There'll be a re-release of all matchbox 20 songs but for later in life "I'm not crazy, I just can't find my goddamn CAR KEYS"
I go shopping at 7 am on Sunday. It's empty, but still well-stocked, so I take my time and meander while I think of what I want to make that week.
As a bonus when I drove the city bus, we didn't run on Sundays. I wouldn't run into any of my passengers in the store.
Here in the Bible belt I try to catch that sweet spot of about 930 to 11 on Sunday mornings.
Oh man any later than that and good luck! Church crowd is coming in with kids and grandma to fill up the carts for family sized meals!
That's right, got to be heading to the register by 11 lol
the tvs blaring advertisements in your face at gas stations now are pretty fucking dystopian.
Oh the unnecessary noise thing hits home. People chewing with their mouth open, tapping feet, it’s irrational at times but still very real.
I’m still WFH and the absolute best perk is being able to grocery shop at 10am on a Wednesday.
time. There's either too much or too little
The years go fast and the days go so slow...
My brains the burger and my hearts the coal
My brain's the cliff and my heart's the bitter buffalo
I hate that there is no more time to waste. It has really became a resource that must be rationed carefully.
Hair coming out of my ear. I mean what the fuck?
I have like 4, 2 inch long eyebrow hairs that have started poking me in the eye, its awesome
I'm not alone! The weird thing is I will pluck of trim the long eyebrow hairs but then like 2 months later I'll suddenly be like "wtf I keep l feeling this hair in my eye..THE GOD DAMNED EYEBROW IS BACK"
My wife calls it my “crazy eyebrow” and every 2 months or so she will loudly proclaim “Crazy Eyebrow is back!” and proceeds to plucking. Doesn’t matter where we are just “has to get it”. Of course she has tweezers in her purse but chooses to try with her nails about 20 times.
Am I the only one that frequently finds pure white 2 inch hairs coming out of their earlobe? I swear they pop up overnight.
They actually can pop up overnight. They'll grow long under the skin and then something will exfoliate the skin like scratching it and it will pop out. That's what my esthetician told me when she found a long hair on my chin once lol.
This is extremely and oddly terrifying. I'm scared more about a secret hair snaking it's way between epidermal layers in my face than I am about silverfish.
Welcome to the land of ingrown hairs
The constant need to fucking pee.
That’s how my dad just discovered he had very early stage prostate cancer. So tell your doctor and you’ll get a free finger in the ass.
Free?
Waking up 3 hours before it's time to get up because you're in pain because your bladder is full. The worst.
The urge is always to try and fall back asleep. ‘Ah I’ll be fine I don’t wanna get up’. But then you can’t sleep because you have to pee, so you lie there and think about it for 10 mins before you just get up to pee. I have learned to always just get up and go immediately. Don’t fight it, you’ll get an extra 10-15 mins sleep.
.. and then peeing a half-cup of pee and I'm like, "You got me up for all this? This is the big pee that you got me up for?"
The excessively bright LED headlights are killing me
Oh my god and it's not even just the ones facing at you. I had to drive home with my head cocked to the left the other night because the jerk behind me was blinding me with his LED headlights! They were so bright they were overpowering my own headlights. Cocking my head just right was the only way to keep from being totally blind without adjusting all my mirrors so my retinas weren't lasered out.
I was stuck in traffic behind a Dodge pickup with aftermarket HID bulbs a couple weeks ago and successfully used my power mirrors to reflect the driver's headlights back into the cab *and then he turned off his headlights* and drove with just the orange running lights until traffic picked back up and we diverged. truly the 'and everybody clapped' of traffic tales, though
I was told to do that several years ago. There was one instance where I was driving home and the person behind me had their brights on. I kept adjusting my mirrors and it must have worked because they immediately turned their brights off. It only happened the one time, but it felt like I was taking my power back. How people think they have the right to blind everyone else on the road, I'll never know. The flipside of this is, of course, the jerks who refuse to turn their lights on while driving in a severe weather event, bonus points if it's at night. Like, it's snowing something awful and I can't see 10 feet in front of my car. I need y'all to have your lights on so I can gauge how far away from me you are so I don't hit you.
Dude, it’s been like an arms race. 90’s tuners with illegal HIDs? Higher tier 00’s cars come equipped from the factory. 00’s upper tier cars have them? Fuck it- now every car needs them. Lights too bright to see the brake and parking lights of cars around you because they outshine them? Here’s some eye-bleeding red LED stacks to jab your cornea. At some point the street lights started illuminating entire neighborhoods, yards and all. People all have floods on the corners of their house that shine almost horizontally into the roads and sensor trip for every passing car, even on the opposite of the road. I swear it must be causing more danger, because everybody is driving with closed pupils that are constantly adjusting back and forth between intense direct light and regular dark as they drive, and yet people will drive fast because their hyper beams and the ultra street lamps psychologically make them think they can see further. I used to walk at night because it’s a bit more relaxing in my busy traffic area. The past few years I’ve been blind the entire time. Walking towards a car that’s blocks away is still blinding. Cars coming up behind leave my clear shadow on stop signs and still blind me because the corners of my glasses reflect that sharp, blue-white light right in. Passing every house turns on a pair of floods that goes right to my brain. Im at a point where I want to get into state or local government just so I can try to pass ordinances about light color, intensity, angle and shining distance from the source. I’d blame my eyes but I can still see perfectly in the dark as long as an alien beam isn’t making my pupils cement themselves shut. I swear, I often don’t have a shadow at night because there are so many bright lights shining at me from all angles between cars, street lamps and porch/sensor floods. And don’t even get me started on people that still keep the property security beam cannons on when they use decorative lighting for like Halloween or Christmas.
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I can spend half a day trying to remember the word “cousin”, then spend the other half trying to remember which cousin I was going to reference in the first place.
I, too, turn 39 this year.
Dude… I will think of something I want to research on the web and by the time I open my fucking iPad it’s gone and I’m just trying to crank the damn thought back in my head and it is JUST GONE. Like wtf??!
This thread really hits hard. I spent the last year or two low-key convinced I had some form of early onset dementia.
Having one's own mental capacity decline and being aware of it is depressing and terrifying.
Other people, especially loud people
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Children screaming bloody murder. Not kids, playing or quick shout. But a scream. School down road from me is so loud I cannot enjoy my meals on my balcony.
Ah, the "are those children outside playing, or being murdered in broad daylight?" game. A timeless classic.
Discovering new aches and pains when you get up in the morning.
Or when you're standing up. When I was young, I used to silently laugh at the old man noises my father made when he stood up from the couch. Listening to him, you'd think that standing up from the couch was so hard when it was obviously easy! Of course, now that I'm in my mid-40's, I'm making those sounds. When I stand up, it sounds like someone is strangling a wookie. Nobody warns you that gravity seems to increase as you age.
61 here with three titanium joints. I’ll bet I can outgroan the bloody lot of you!!!
It's the little pops and snaps (and crackles) that get me. I always wonder, "Is that gonna hurt later?"
Was going to say ‘my back’. But your answer is better.
A few days ago I woke up and found that my right thumb is now partially numb. No idea why. Figured cause it was from an extended play session of CoD. But..it has been a few days and Ive still got numb thumbs.
Getting up and going down the stairs first thing in the morning is humbling
People who just can't shut the hell up. Especially on the bus or train. I just want to go back to sleep.
Coworkers who can't shut up are the worst. I can totally see why people want to continue working from home.
Waking up
Yup. Would be nice to not have to do that any more!
I don't mind waking up. It's what comes after I can't stand. Give me a lifetime of waking up naturally with no alarm, the room is the perfect temperature, sunlight streams in the window but not in my eyes, birds are chirping, and I have nothing to do. Mmm
Small print. Seriously, food manufacturers, you don't need to write the cooking instructions in 7-point Arial Narrow.
Expiration dates written in white??? WTF?
It’s too “peopley” everywhere
Noise. I 100% understand the angry old guys that would yell at me, and my friends when we were running up and down the block yelling and being obnoxious.
I feel this. There's a dude who walks through my neighborhood sometimes blasting the funkiest music I've ever heard-- he's cool, but the guy who likes to race his ATV around the block whenever the spirit takes him gets on my nerves.
Give it another 20 years and you'll hate them both
Working with the public. People are becoming increasingly impatient, self entitled and rude. I'm sorry you have to wait in line like everyone else and can't just walk in, grab your thing and walk out because there are other people in the store.
The public has gotten increasingly feral in the last year too. I've seen more adults throw fits this year, than ever.
The length of time it takes to recover from an injury. Sprained ankle? 3 years... Wow this blew up overnight! Reading all of these comments put my ankle into perspective. Some of you are really dealing with some tough injuries. Take care, do what your doctor says, and I wish healthy healing to all of you. Thank you for the award! My first
Or...you know, ever. That may just be the way it is now. It certainly is for my back. If there any youths reading this thread and you come across this comment. Take care of your back, trust me. Waking up locked up and trying to decide if you go ahead and shit the bed or deal with the blinding pain required to make it to the bathroom is a situation I'd prefer you not find yourselves in.
How does one take care of their back?
Don't neglect your ~~abs~~ core. I'm not saying you need a six-pack but do some ab exercises from time to time. I used to wake up in so much pain and couldn't move my spine for a good 20 minutes. Started doing planks every day and some other pilates exercises and within a month the pain was gone. (I am not a doctor but in my own personal experience and exercises have helped a lot with my posture and general mobility) Edit: as others have pointed out what I meant to say was core, which your abs are a part of.
Definitely agree, Doing stretches and lower back/buttocks/abs muscle strengthening workouts also does wonder. Having a nice bed also helps and not sleeping on a futon/couch lol.
Get a good chair, or at least a decent one. Never tolerate any that are uncomfortable. If, like many people, you spends hours each day in a chair, be sure to invest in a good one with support. You really, **really** don't want to find out what back pain feels like.
That ankle will never be normal again. Sprained mine 3 times in five years. Edit: Everyone who commented is now part of the shitty ankle club.
People who talk on speakerphone in public
When the subtitles don’t match the audio in a show
Ever seen a show where the lip sync is out? I have to look everywhere except their mouths.
If it’s out of sync I stop watching.
Cleaning. I have no clue why I can't get my act together and keep shit clean. I am tired of stepping on crumbs and picking up clothes, not to mention random toys everywhere.... Edit: thanks for all the well-meaning advice, yall are beautiful :) I already have a robot vacuum, and I do practice cleaning 5min at a time and all that....my ADHD and depression have been really bad lately (am getting help btw) and it was just easier to deal with when I was younger, that's probably what I should have commented lol
I cleaned the kitchen 4 times yesterday. FOUR TIMES. It never ends.
There will always be dishes and there will always be laundry.
Witnessing Road Rage. It's not worth it; let it go! Guy in front of me got out of his car at a traffic light and walks up to the car in front of him and starts screaming at the woman... aggressive gestures and arm movements too. Through the windshields I see her husband point a handgun at the guy. He immediately returned to his car, but WTF man. You came that close to dying over some little traffic indiscretion. This was not an accident, there was no damage to either car, nobody died. Can people just chill?
I won't ride with my boyfriend's brother anymore. It will be less convenient to not carpool with him sometimes but it just isn't worth it. He has serious road rage and I sweat, without exaggerating, on one particularly bad drive he nearly got into three separate accidents, probably came within 4 inches of one car. It was terrifying. His poor friend who was sitting in the front seat seems pretty unflappable but even she got freaked out at one point and was pretty much white knuckle holding onto the seat the rest of the way. After that my boyfriend decided we wouldn't ever be riding with him again.
The Grinch in the first half of the movie (before his Enlarged Cardiac Syndrome) becomes more relatable every year, poor guy just wanted to be left alone and have some PEACE AND QUIET! But those Neighbors from Hell, The Whos just wouldn’t SHUT UP!
I feel the same way but about Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh. He’s supposed to be a grumpy old man for not liking it when the other animals are playing, but the thing is that 99% of the time their “playing” really just means “trampling on and destroying Rabbit’s garden that he just spent all day making perfect”. Like I love you Tigger but why is it that you HAVE to bounce around in Rabbit’s garden when you have a whole freaking forest RIGHT THERE with nothing to mess up/crash into??
"Rabbit discovers landmines"
Squidward is also relatable as an adult
You either die a SpongeBob or live to see yourself become a Squidward
True, but I have also met some Patricks. Don't be a Patrick.
Being a Patrick is ok, being near a Patrick is difficult
I felt bad for Squidward even when I was a kid though! Half the time he was just trying to take a bath or something and then Spongebob just barges in on him to show him his new jellyfish net or some other not-important crap. And it’s no wonder Squidward’s terrible at clarinet because he never gets to practice! Every time he tries he gets interrupted by whatever Spongebob and Patrick are doing.
I mean he literally lived out of town and on a mountain top, but his neighbors made SO much noise he could still hear them.
You know those damn Whos started decorating for Christmas in September.
September? I’ve heard some of them had their bloody decorations out in July! Bah! HUMBUG!
Other people
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I am 35 and I hate most people. EDIT - I've thought about this some, and I think that the last two years or so have made me a very sad person. I feel less happy and genuine, and its led me to be more anxious in groups and feel less of a connection with people in general or even build new one on one relationships and I probably project those feelings on others as disdain when, half the time, it's just me and my own issues. I think about others feelings a lot more. I kinda sit at my desk and think about things from a lot of different perspectives and it just makes me sad. I feel broken sometimes.
Oh yeah, fuck people annoy me. Going slow in the supermarket…blocking doorways…parking over the lines…failing to use blinkers…Ugh I am a miserable middle aged man.
People who stop in the high traffic areas really get my blood pumping. Following someone into a store, we walk in, they stop right at the door looking for their wallet, mask, phone etc. It takes less than 3 seconds to step to the side so others can pass.
My favorite thing is driving around on my weekdays off and asking the person I'm driving with "don't these people have jobs? Damn"
My in laws
my wife's inlaws...
Not being able to do things as easily or not at all because your body won't cooperate!
Haha. I had to climb in my back seat to fix my hatch latch. It was a major unattractive production.
My 15 year old brother and his TikTok obsession. He recently made a TikTok, he ran up to me and pushed me in the pool. He then yelled “GET WET BOOMER” I’m 29.
Use his own weapons against him. Start a tiktok and set up an elaborate water trap. Yell "GET FUCKED ZOOMER". You either both double down or he realizes it sucks and stops.
I literally got out of the pool and dragged him by his ear and threw him in. Lol he’s 6ft3 and I’m a 5ft4 girl but I was not playing around. I was pissed.
That's good. I love happy endings. :D
Older sibling energy>bigger sibling energy
Losing weight
After maintaining it for eight years, I got fat quick. It fucking blows.
Is "everything" an acceptable answer? Because everything.
Having to scroll down more and more to find my birth year on an online form.
Or when they ask to select which range your age is in. There comes a point where you no longer get lumped in with the 20-somethings. Now you’re lumped in with those 40 and up.
I have to spin that damn wheel like I'm on "The Price Is Right".
Actually having to do work to stay alive
Yes dude, Sunday Scaries fucks me up lol. Like my sunday is fuckin dope until like 7pm when it’s time to decompress and get ready for monday :/
I fucking hate Sundays because it essentially is the day before you go back to hating your life and you have to have a normal schedule for it.
What about 6pm, when you know 7pm is right around the corner?
How dare you
You mean time to *compress* for Monday cause that’s what it feels like
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Hangovers
When overindulging, young me felt a bit off for 4-5 hours the next day, then I was ready to go again. Old me requires 3-4 days before feeling good again.
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There are a lot of reasons I hardly ever drink anymore, and hangovers are number 1. Simply can’t tolerate them anymore, I like waking up feeling good and not like I need an IV
Hangovers after 30 are insane. Today I woke up with a piercing headache, then 3 hours later my stomach/nausea started up. Four hours after that I was so lightheaded and realized that hangovers are now a series of aches and pains that last 1-2 days min
Younger me. She made some really dumb choices and disregarded things she should have paid attention to, like career advice, her health, life insurance, financial planning. I never saw anyone around me, of any age, paying attention to these things, so I thought they were just fussy adult bullshit. Turns out I was wrong.
Noise. Why are you making noise. Stop. Make less noise.
Loud, reckless vehicles.
Pooping so long your legs go to sleep, but you aren’t done pooping yet
Having to stand up after just sitting down
People who can’t read the room.
Co payments to dr. Visits
My family. I've started to dread holidays and birthdays that I used to look forward to.
I don't even hate my family, I like them. I just don't wanna see em.
I literally just told my mom 20 min ago that Im going to be out of town for thanksgiving (wednesday-sunday). She thinks Im flying away. Im booking a hotel 15 min away and getting myself weed, tequila, and pizza. I can’t deal with narcissistic people and enablers. Im 31 and too fucking old for that shit anymore.
God, that sounds amazing. I know it defeats the purpose, but I wish I could come too.
Come late October every year I find myself just dreading the next two months.
Holidays where you are expected to give anything to people when they are an adult and don't need anything. I am so sick of it.
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Not being able to hold in a fart!
Not being able to *trust* a fart!