What Grinds Your Gears?

[made in china]

This kind of sh!+:

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Do I live in Brazil? Are we still in the United States of America?? Nice try l!btards. Yeah, I'll need an interpreter to read the letter you sent me. Unreal.

Born and raised in Phoenix, welcome to the first 20 years of my life. English was the second language

 

[Duneblaster]

Born and raised in Phoenix, welcome to the first 20 years of my life. English was the second language

Where I live 999 out of 1,000 people are White. It makes no sense for my dentist to be sending me letters in Spanish. I live in the NW because I do not like the SW and all the bs that comes with living down there.

 

[albin25]

People that ride an E-bike….
…. to the gym

 

[Nosferatu]

This kind of sh!+:

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Do I live in Brazil? Are we still in the United States of America?? Nice try l!btards. Yeah, I'll need an interpreter to read the letter you sent me. Unreal.

 

[CamoDeafie]

This kind of sh!+:

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Do I live in Brazil? Are we still in the United States of America?? Nice try l!btards. Yeah, I'll need an interpreter to read the letter you sent me. Unreal.

I don't think that's Portuguese...so not Brazil

 

[sobo]

I don't think that's Portuguese...so not Brazil

OK, Cliffy...

 

[CamoDeafie]

OK, Cliffy...

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To be even more pedantic... It's definitely a Latin/Romance language

 

[Rkangel]

New gear grinder:

The insufferable Roaring Rapids Pizza radio ads. Maybe it's the overacting. Maybe it's schmaltzy man-child, grade-school-play-type tone or the unhealthy self obsessed messaging where the actor literally sees something related to Roaring Rapids Pizza in every ink blot. The I-5 commute already sucks enough as it is. Stop. Please. I am never going to your pizza parlor.

 

[gearhead]

To my wife:

Darling, I love you with all I am, always and forever.

The door handle is not a hanger. Not for bras, shirts, pants, or towels. I know the hook on the door and towel rack are already full. Maybe some of those hangers in the closet will work, or perhaps the dirty clothes basket.

Every time I see something on that door handle I'm filled with a rage that burns with the fury of a million stars.

If you're doing a female version of "sock on the door" please let me know.

 

[MannyGlocks]

Duneb,

"I live in the NW because I do not like the SW and all the bs that comes with living down there."

What does the bs you mention look like?

I don't understand what you're speaking of, so could you please elaborate?

 

[OR Highlander]

What really grinds my gears lately isn't just bad behavior, it's how common it's becoming.

Not the occasional outlier. That's always been there.
I'm talking about the steady rise in people who think everything should bend around them, with zero effort or accountability on their part.

You see it everywhere.
People demanding service like they're owed something extra just for showing up.
Getting loud or confrontational the second something doesn't go exactly their way.
Expecting exceptions, shortcuts, or special treatment, but never willing to meet a basic standard themselves.

What used to be rare is now routine.

And the part that stands out most isn't even the behavior itself, it's the confidence behind it. Like acting that way is normal, justified, even expected.

There's no pause, no self-check, no sense of "maybe I'm the problem here."

Just entitlement, followed by escalation when it isn't rewarded.

At some point, basic standards got flipped.
Doing your part used to be the baseline. Now it feels optional, while expectations keep going up.

Lesson
If someone expects more than they're willing to give, they're not dealing in reality, and that's where most of the friction starts.

 

[HiFi Magnetics]

Where I live 999 out of 1,000 people are White. It makes no sense for my dentist to be sending me letters in Spanish. I live in the NW because I do not like the SW and all the bs that comes with living down there.

 

[kmk1012]

What really grinds my gears lately isn't just bad behavior, it's how common it's becoming.

Not the occasional outlier. That's always been there.
I'm talking about the steady rise in people who think everything should bend around them, with zero effort or accountability on their part.

You see it everywhere.
People demanding service like they're owed something extra just for showing up.
Getting loud or confrontational the second something doesn't go exactly their way.
Expecting exceptions, shortcuts, or special treatment, but never willing to meet a basic standard themselves.

What used to be rare is now routine.

And the part that stands out most isn't even the behavior itself, it's the confidence behind it. Like acting that way is normal, justified, even expected.

There's no pause, no self-check, no sense of "maybe I'm the problem here."

Just entitlement, followed by escalation when it isn't rewarded.

At some point, basic standards got flipped.
Doing your part used to be the baseline. Now it feels optional, while expectations keep going up.

Lesson
If someone expects more than they're willing to give, they're not dealing in reality, and that's where most of the friction starts.

Summed it up really well! I go out of my way in my career to help people, and lately it is expected. Like I've trained them that all the extras they've been getting are just normal. I routinely stay late or come in on the weekends to process permits because my job doesn't allow much time for review during my scheduled hours. Still these people are squeaky wheels, calling my staff several times per day knowing that some of these plan reviews take several days to go through.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Repeating.

"What grinds your gears?"
Debris and lack of lubricant

 

[Cavedweller]

What really grinds my gears lately isn't just bad behavior, it's how common it's becoming.

Especially when it comes to the use of profanity by women, especially young women, in public. For some reason young women especially, when in mixed company, feel it is necessary to drop F bombs at least once in every sentence, as well as make liberal use of S bombs as if they were a bunch of male jocks in a locker room. And their male companions go right along with it. What happened to manners? Women should be a moderating influence on male bad behavior and not reinforce it by adopting it. If this is what equality is all about, I want none of it.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Especially when it comes to the use of profanity by women, especially young women, in public. For some reason young women especially, when in mixed company, feel it is necessary to drop F bombs at least once in every sentence, as well as make liberal use of S bombs as if the were a bunch of male jocks in a locker room. And their male companions go right along with it. What happened to manners? Women should be a moderating influence on male bad behavior and not reinforce it by adopting it. If this is what equality is all about, I want none of it.

Oh, CD! You're so very old fashioned!
I feel I'm in good company!

 

[RobMa]

My city deciding that it wants to force integration by section eighting gang bangers from Seattle and commiefornia into my neighborhood because in their twisted rational "they deserve to live in nice areas" and if I say anything about the noise, break in's, loud parties and the "what you doin in my area whitey" attitude every time I am driving to my home that I have lived in for 30+ years then that it is my problem.

 

[FelixEstrella]

What grinds my gears? Worn synchro rings .... but that's easily fixed. ;-)

 

[sobo]

My city deciding that it wants to force integration by section eighting gang bangers from Seattle and commiefornia into my neighborhood because in their twisted rational "they deserve to live in nice areas" and if I say anything about the noise, break in's, loud parties and the "what you doin in my area whitey" attitude every time I am driving to my home that I have lived in for 30+ years then that it is my problem.

Wow... I'm gonna STFU about the stoo-pit mutt next door that barks 24/7/365 and call what I got good by comparison...

 

[Mikej]

Wow... I'm gonna STFU about the stoo-pit mutt next door that barks 24/7/365 and call what I got good by comparison...

I thought you got rid of that? They move back? Bummer man! I had that issue for awhile a couple years ago., from 3-door over! they were home, and I guess, put the dogs out, they would bark constantly while they were out. Got to the point I would get my 8' ladder so my voice had open space to their back yard, and yell at the top of my lungs "STF DOGS UP!" I think others probably called animal control, because it eventually ceased.