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Minor things that DON'T bother you

Started by webny99, June 09, 2021, 04:42:34 PM

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webny99

-Small non-flying bugs/spiders/insects. Sleeping in a lower level/basement will cure your fear of these type of critters (I still can't stand flies though!)

-Bloody noses. I used to get them quite a bit when I was younger, so I'm fairly adept at managing them and stopping them quickly.


Roadgeekteen

Noises when sleeping. I don't mind construction, etc.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

kphoger

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: kphoger on June 09, 2021, 04:45:49 PM
The smell of skunk.
Skunk's don't bother me either as long as I don't start smelling like one.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

jmacswimmer

Quote from: webny99 on June 09, 2021, 04:42:34 PM
(I still can't stand flies though!)

You'd love the 17-year cicadas currently taking over the Mid-Atlantic, then! :-D :-D

(They're especially bad right where I live/work - I can hear them outside my window as I type this, and my car windshield is quickly getting filled with cicada splatterings...)
"Now, what if da Bearss were to enter the Indianapolis 5-hunnert?"
"How would they compete?"
"Let's say they rode together in a big buss."
"Is Ditka driving?"
"Of course!"
"Then I like da Bear buss."
"DA BEARSSS BUSSSS"

index

Probably a feeling shared by many members of this forum, long travel times. Not like, taking forever and sitting in traffic getting from point A to point B in a city if I have something to do but like, a destination a decent distance away.

Crappy headphones/speakers.

Numbers that aren't multiples of 5 on microwave timers, prices, etc. Sometimes I set timers to something like 3:49 just to bug people. I also bite into candy bars sideways out of spite.

If somebody makes a minor mistake around me when I'm driving I don't go nuts over it or honk my horn (unless I'm in actual danger of being hit/somebody making me hit them). I prefer to shrug it off. We're human.
I love my 2010 Ford Explorer.



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Big John

Quote from: index on June 09, 2021, 05:07:56 PM

Numbers that aren't multiples of 5 on microwave timers, prices, etc. Sometimes I set timers to something like 3:49 just to bug people. I also bite into candy bars sideways out of spite.

Don't most prices end with .99?

index

Quote from: Big John on June 09, 2021, 05:11:41 PM
Quote from: index on June 09, 2021, 05:07:56 PM

Numbers that aren't multiples of 5 on microwave timers, prices, etc. Sometimes I set timers to something like 3:49 just to bug people. I also bite into candy bars sideways out of spite.

Don't most prices end with .99?
Well yes but, from what I've seen, people usually obsess over when numbers are multiples of 5. 3.95 instead of 3.99. 3:00 instead of 3:01.
I love my 2010 Ford Explorer.



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Scott5114

Quote from: index on June 09, 2021, 05:07:56 PM
Numbers that aren't multiples of 5 on microwave timers, prices, etc. Sometimes I set timers to something like 3:49 just to bug people.

Back when I was a cashier at the casino, we would periodically batch the slot tickets we got from customers: taking 30-50 of them or so, noting their total, and adding them up on the adding machine to see if the total matched (if they didn't, you had a ticket that you had paid but not scanned, meaning your paperwork would be wrong). Think of it as periodically resetting a trip odometer.

Anyway, I would just wait until I went over 30 and then I'd batch at the next convenient point. You can't control how many tickets someone has, sometimes they cash just one, sometimes they cash five or six at once. Some cashiers hated non-round numbers and if, say, they had 29 tickets and someone gave them 2, they'd wait to batch at 40 instead of batching at 31. I didn't care and would just batch once I went over 30 because if the batches got too big it took forever to add them up on the adding machine.

This really bothered one woman I worked with, who would always react with revulsion whenever she noticed it happening. Of course, just to spite her, I would make sure to always batch at 32 and point out I was doing so, proclaiming it to be a round number because it is a power of two (meaning it is, in fact, a round number in binary). She hated that explanation. One time I missed batching at 32 because someone brought me multiple tickets. She was gleeful. "Ha! What are you gonna do now? You'll just have to batch at 40!"

Nope, I batched at 64.
uncontrollable freak sardine salad chef

SSOWorld

Scott O.

Not all who wander are lost...
Ah, the open skies, wind at my back, warm sun on my... wait, where the hell am I?!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
Raise your what?

Wisconsin - out-multiplexing your state since 1918.

Bruce

Minor shakes and jolts while riding a train or bus. I can usually sleep through those with my headphones on.

tolbs17


formulanone

#12
Quote from: webny99 on June 09, 2021, 04:42:34 PM
-Bloody noses. I used to get them quite a bit when I was younger, so I'm fairly adept at managing them and stopping them quickly.

I get these about once a year if it's really dry outside or if I get a direct hit on the nose. Usually this happened during rough and tumble play, so I just got used to it about 3 times a year. The worst was after getting hit with a racketball (hey, it was 1985) that I'd returned which immediately rebounded directly at my face; but after that, I never really freaked out when they happened. It's been less common as the years go by. So blood hasn't really bothered me much, and I'm pretty good at knowing when a nosebleed is about to happen before it looks bad. Unlike the father in Firestarter, I can't summon up much in the way of magical powers with nosebleeds, but it's gotten me out of work/chores for about 10-20 minutes.

SkyPesos


Ned Weasel


  • Traffic noise
  • Out-of-tune musical instruments
  • Large, numerous, and tall business signs and billboards
  • Ketchup
  • Clearview
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Max Rockatansky


SkyPesos

Quote from: stridentweasel on June 10, 2021, 07:08:32 AM
  • Clearview
I know Highway Gothic is more popular and preferred over Clearview here, but people actually get bothered seeing a Clearview road sign?

Ned Weasel

#17
Quote from: SkyPesos on June 10, 2021, 09:08:42 AM
I know Highway Gothic is more popular and preferred over Clearview here, but people actually get bothered seeing a Clearview road sign?

Judging from the amount of hate it gets, I'd imagine so.

***

Here's another one that doesn't bother me at all:

Barking dogs

What bothers me is how other people react to them.  Why make such a big f***ing deal over it?  They're dogs; that's what they do.  If they're doing it in a movie theater or in a classroom where I'm trying to listen to something, then, yeah, I'd have a problem.  But basically, it's just background noise on the same level as other people talking.
"I was raised by a cup of coffee." - Strong Bad imitating Homsar

Disclaimer: Views I express are my own and don't reflect any employer or associated entity.

GaryV

Route numbers that are out of the "grid".

jmacswimmer

Control cities where the interstate in question doesn't technically reach that location :popcorn:

Quote from: SkyPesos on June 10, 2021, 09:08:42 AM
Quote from: stridentweasel on June 10, 2021, 07:08:32 AM
  • Clearview
I know Highway Gothic is more popular and preferred over Clearview here, but people actually get bothered seeing a Clearview road sign?

Only in especially hideous instances.
"Now, what if da Bearss were to enter the Indianapolis 5-hunnert?"
"How would they compete?"
"Let's say they rode together in a big buss."
"Is Ditka driving?"
"Of course!"
"Then I like da Bear buss."
"DA BEARSSS BUSSSS"

Ned Weasel

Quote from: jmacswimmer on June 10, 2021, 09:31:01 AM
Control cities where the interstate in question doesn't technically reach that location :popcorn:

Quote from: SkyPesos on June 10, 2021, 09:08:42 AM
Quote from: stridentweasel on June 10, 2021, 07:08:32 AM
  • Clearview
I know Highway Gothic is more popular and preferred over Clearview here, but people actually get bothered seeing a Clearview road sign?

Only in especially hideous instances.

But the same error gets made in Highway Gothic very frequently, so I have a hard time associating it with Clearview.  https://goo.gl/maps/4rqGJjWeKP5Wd8pn6
"I was raised by a cup of coffee." - Strong Bad imitating Homsar

Disclaimer: Views I express are my own and don't reflect any employer or associated entity.

roadman65

Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

kphoger

Quote from: index on June 09, 2021, 05:07:56 PM
Numbers that aren't multiples of 5 on microwave timers ... Sometimes I set timers to something like 3:49 ...

Here are my top choices for how to set the microwave:

1.  Shortcuts.  On both my home and work microwave, just pressing "1" or "2" immediately starts it for one or two minutes.  While it's going, pressing "Start" adds 30 seconds.  This is how I heat a mug of water for tea (2 minutes for black tea, 1½ for green).

2.  Double digits.  If I want to heat something for slightly longer than 1½ minutes, for example, I usually go with 99 seconds.  If I want a half-minute, then I go with 33 seconds.  A quick blitz in the microwave is 11 seconds.

3.  Buttons that are close together.  So, if 22 isn't long enough but 33 isn't short enough, I might do 29 seconds because the "9" is close to "Start".  Or I might do 25 seconds because the "5" is directly below the "2".
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: roadman65 on June 10, 2021, 09:37:55 AM
Breezewood 😁
In my opinion the lack of a PA Turnpike/I-95 interchange was much, much worse than Breezwood.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

kphoger

Quote from: stridentweasel on June 10, 2021, 07:08:32 AM
Out-of-tune musical instruments

You, sir, need to be a middle school band teacher.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.



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