The Trivial Complaints Thread ... #3

[lovesbabysquirmy]

I have received a few nice things from people "randomly" in Disney.  Except that a group of people that you stand in line with for over an hour, and make small talk with, tend not to be total strangers by the time you start trading pins or keychains with them.  Just walking up to someone and handing them a gift because , "you have a child" or "you look like you really like Tinkerbell" IS definitely creepy. 

I think the only time I've done that was when my family was heading out of the parks at night, with my grandma in a wheelchair, and we still had same-day Fast Passes (I don't remember why we had gotten them from a Cast Member right now)  but they were going to be wasted if they didn't get used by park close, so we walked along one of the more popular ride areas and specifically looked for people who were scoping out the signage to see how long the wait was, and handing them off to a grateful family who did not want to wait 3 hours in line!  But they don't give out Fast Passes anymore so ... 

[BlackCurtains]

I hate the fact that a lot of theme parks have "waiting in line for hours" as a feature. I'd rather they take a certain amount of guests a day and close the park. If I'm there, I can have a good time, if I miss it well that's life. I'd like to go to Halloween Havoc at least once, but the wait times are also about 3 hours. Who wants to do that?? What a waste of time.

...I'm a little grumpy today

I had a very strange and frustrating dream. My dad, sister, grandma and her BBF, my first dog and two little girls whose names I didn't catch were there. All I could say was 'hi' not even 'hello' just 'hi'. I wanted to talk to my dad and sister so bad. There were also two very tall women dressed flamboyantly who kept making comments about what I was doing. I have it in my head that they were angels, for some reason. Annoying angels

[Taffeta]

I have been saving from my salary for the last several months to get a new PC, as this old warhorse of mine has a keyboard that is...well, half stuck on with sellotape is not an exaggeration. I love this computer, it's been absolutely brilliant, but it's battery is shot and it has seen better days.

So I got my new PC this morning. I had it all beautifully set up. Then Windows did an update and...it refused to boot. So I had to reset it back to factory and start over again.

And the decorator is still here so I can't even rant and swear about it.

Not only that, every time it goes to reboot during reinstallation I am here worrying it won't boot up again.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Because I have racked up so many lieu hours ( we don't get paid overtime), I was forced to take a day off by my supervisor.  When I got back to the office, I spent my entire workday going to meetings that I was completely unprepared for and faking my way through...  now I will have to do extra work to make my reports extra-detailed so that it looks like I went above and beyond, instead of "catching up on things I should have done two days ago, but with only one workday to actually work on them"

[Ponybookworm]

I wanted to check out frozen veg & get my fave frozen veggieburgers from Tesco. Some hope: the vegetable & vegetarian freezer was broken until the end of the week!!!. So I got some chilled veggieburgers instead & missed out on frozen veggies!!!

[BlackCurtains]

I have an invasion of gnats. They started out in one of my plants. I put a sticky spike in the soil to catch them, but they must be laying eggs in the soil or something. I can't see anything, so I'm only assuming. But there are so many of them. I put sticky spikes in all my plants and some are completely full. It's gross, man. The worst thing is they fly close to my face because they want to moisture in my eyes and mouth. I already swallowed one and snorted another. My desk is next to all my plants, so they are constantly flying around me. I don't want to put anything in the soil incase it harms the plants. I think I'll make a few vinegar traps and set them on my desk. Maybe that will keep them away from my face.

[CowboyRaccoons]

I had that problem, I had to re-pot my plant and that helped some. Sadly the bugs are why I don't keep plants in my room anymore...

[Taffeta]

The stickies are gross but they do work.
Also, watering the plants from the bottom so the topsoil dries out can help as well. The flies lay eggs in the top soil when it's moist, so if it dries out it breaks the cycle.

[BlackCurtains]

I posted in the plants thread. I can use hydrogen peroxide to kill the larvae.

[dippindot]

My hair stylist of five years left the salon

My overgrown bangs are crying and so am I

[Koudoawaia]

I am never ordering McDonald's from Door Dash again. The last few times when I've requested no onions on my burger like I always do they were there anyway. This time takes the cake. They didn't even include my burger then when the Dasher went above and beyond and went back to get it McDonald's lied out their faces and claimed my burger wasn't missing when it most definitely was.

[BlackCurtains]

I did it again. I set up to record game footage for my channel, played for an hour and half talking, only to find out I forgot to click the record button.

[Beth3346]

i missed seeing the Northern Lights last night. i didn't think it would make it so far south. i looked out around 10pm or so and didn't see anything. but apparently you can use your phone camera to see it. i didn't know i'll try again tonight.

also the neighbor diagonal to us keeps trying to run birds off from his backyard by putting up all this reflective junk. i guess their precious pool is more important than allowing birds to be around. now he seems to be lining the fence with tin foil if you don't like birds don't move to the burbs. they were here first! the trees i'm planting along the fence can't grow fast enough.

[Taffeta]

We had a conversation about this at work today, and it transpires absolutely none of us knew it was going to happen xD. We're so well informed.

My trivial complaint is that I had a borderline creepy conversation with the security guard guy today. He's a joker kind of a guy and we all often have banter with him, but I also don't really like when people make intrusive comments or questions...it's just something I don't really enjoy. I don't think he meant any harm by it, but I was definitely not comfortable.

[BlackCurtains]

I missed the aurora too because I figured I was too far south, but you could see it as far as the Bahamas.