Shit that annoys you

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Originally Posted by riser4

Unless there was no place else to park, what kind of malcontent would go to extra trouble to wedge their Subaru in as you describe?

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Privacy, so they can change in the parking lot.

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Originally Posted by halliday

Just park in the Pro parking. Ive seen parking for electric cars only (that do not have charging stations) in some parking lots. I understand the handicapped parking and hopefully I'll never have to use it but all of the other ones are fair game. I like to jam my old '77 F-250 into the electric car only spots whenever I can. Fuck 'em.

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This is funny! Wtf is up with exclusive parking for electric cars with no charging station? Why not charge extra for gas/diesel vehicles to park. That'll really motivate people to drive battery-operated vehicles.

Do home depots in places that have a preponderance of cars have exclusive parking for diesels just so the diesel driver can find a spot?

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Originally Posted by skinipenem

Privacy, so they can change in the parking lot.

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That's one thing, and I get that. However, if that was the sole reason, they wouldn't have then complained about your parking. They would have done the opposite and thanked you. No, this was premeditated douchebaggery. These kinds of people are why we can't have nice things

11 days ago, was at hockey practice trying to teach our goalie how to properly poke check (it's all or nothing!). Kid does a few, all good, "okay one more time" and then boom - poke checks my skate instead of the puck, I drop like a sack of hammers and smash my shin in to the post. Ouch!

It's still sore, and my ankle is kinda swollen (I assume it's just gravity pulling blood down from the injury). I can still skate and have been riding the snowboard of late as the boots are softer, with no big problems.

What I need to know is what the hell can I do to get this leg back to ski-boot-ready by Saturday - I'm open to any and all homeopathic voodoo remedies. What foods to eat, ice, no ice, massage, no massage, incense, prayers, anything. I do not want to see a doctor because they may tell me not to ski.

Heat, massage, ibuprofen (to reduce swelling, not the pain).

My go-to for leg injuries or exhaustion is to get my butt within 6-8" of the wall and place my legs straight up the wall. Maximum elevation. Many times, I can feel the blood thumping and moving down to my core. 10 minutes minimum.

We get recycling pickup once a week and garbage twice a week, the trucks are single-operator and just lifts the can up and dumps it but it has to be facing the right way or it gets bypassed. We don't have a dump to take trash or recycling to so if the garbage doesn't get picked up you're stuck with it. Two other houses further down the street had it happen too so my guess is it's one of the assholes I've asked not to let their dog piss and shit on in our yard walking their dog at night because it's turned before the school kids head for the bus in the morning. This morning makes three weeks in a row that some asshole turned them around and the truck leaves them so both cans are absolutely stuffed. It looks like rather than working this morning I'm driving around with a van full of garbage looking for a place to dump it :cussing:

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Originally Posted by toast2266

Heat, massage, ibuprofen (to reduce swelling, not the pain).

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This is annoying RICE, rest, ice, compression and elevation. Heat? GTFO.


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Originally Posted by toast2266

On the topic of Lowes / HD parking lots, it annoys me that both of them paint their lots to normal small car parking space sizes.

I'm in Montana. Every single person in that lot (including myself) is driving a giant fucking truck. And plenty of people (including myself) are loading assorted large building materials into those trucks. But yet the lines are painted like the average customer is driving a sub-compact.

It's bad enough that I've gotta push a cart loaded up with 400lbs of bullshit out to the nosebleed section of the lot because all the close spots are reserved for paralyzed dyslexic veterans with electric cars. But then once I'm loaded, I've gotta do an 18 point wiggle to get out of the spot that's painted 25% smaller than my vehicle while also trying to not impale some other truck with the 2x4 that's hanging out of my bed. And sure, I *could* load that stuff up in the drive through that's right in front of the store, but some dickbag in a prius is inevitably parked there, slowly loading up the 3 paint brushes he bought.

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I thought THD and Lowes were for when a metrosexual needs to buy the wrong furnace filter.

I thought real men in the west went to the lumber yard.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

We get recycling pickup once a week and garbage twice a week, the trucks are single-operator and just lifts the can up and dumps it but it has to be facing the right way or it gets bypassed. We don't have a dump to take trash or recycling to so if the garbage doesn't get picked up you're stuck with it. Two other houses further down the street had it happen too so my guess is it's one of the assholes I've asked not to let their dog piss and shit on in our yard walking their dog at night because it's turned before the school kids head for the bus in the morning. This morning makes three weeks in a row that some asshole turned them around and the truck leaves them so both cans are absolutely stuffed. It looks like rather than working this morning I'm driving around with a van full of garbage looking for a place to dump it :cussing:

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Put the van in the dumpster too.

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

What I need to know is what the hell can I do to get this leg back to ski-boot-ready by Saturday - .

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Classic RICE (but alternate heat and cold toflush inflamation). Use icyhot/tigerbalm to draw in blood, and then compression after to put waste product and fluid out. And wrap that shit tight with an ace bandage... the key is that the inflamation has to have a place to go, and you want that fluid traveling up your shin to a spot above your skiboot cuff, not down into your foot. Keep the compression on the morning of skiing, remove the ACE bandage before you slide your foot into your boot and the boot will provide you all the compression youll ever need.

Inflamation is key to recovery, but it is dogshit for performance. So you want to keep the fluid coming and going to heal the leg, but when it comes time to perform, you want to compress it so the inflammation doesnt hinder your performance.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

We get recycling pickup once a week and garbage twice a week

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You get garbage pick up twice in a residential neighborhood? That seems excessive to me. I take it there's no yard/compost pickup so have to put everything in the trash?

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Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan

I thought THD and Lowes were for when a metrosexual needs to buy the wrong furnace filter.

I thought real men in the west went to the lumber yard.

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At least around here, unless you're buying a whole house worth of wood, the lumber yards are a lot more expensive. So I guess that makes me a frugal metrosexual.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

At least around here, unless you're buying a whole house worth of wood, the lumber yards are a lot more expensive. So I guess that makes me a frugal metrosexual.

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Your humblebrag about having to take a forklift load out to your brodozer at the end of the parking lot made it sound like you were buying a whole house worth of wood.

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Originally Posted by The AD

You get garbage pick up twice in a residential neighborhood? That seems excessive to me. I take it there's no yard/compost pickup so have to put everything in the trash?

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i’m so annoyed when i go anywhere that doesn’t have compost pickup. it’s more valuable than these crappy recycling programs where they ship stuff to china, easily.

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Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan

Your humblebrag about having to take a forklift load out to your brodozer at the end of the parking lot made it sound like you were buying a whole house worth of wood.

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Not a humblebrag at all. I hate driving the pickup truck, and I don't particularly like doing house projects. I'm annoyed before I even get to the stupid home depot parking lot because I have to drive my big stupid truck that's not particularly comfortable, and once I get home, I have to fumble my way through a remodel that I'm not particularly good at. So having to deal with the shitty parking lot is just an annoyance in the middle of a larger annoyance. I'd much rather drive my reasonably sized car and go skiing. But such is life, and my house will work better in a decade or so when I finally finish this project.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

Not a humblebrag at all. I hate driving the pickup truck, and I don't particularly like doing house projects. I'm annoyed before I even get to the stupid home depot parking lot because I have to drive my big stupid truck that's not particularly comfortable, and once I get home, I have to fumble my way through a remodel that I'm not particularly good at. So having to deal with the shitty parking lot is just an annoyance in the middle of a larger annoyance. I'd much rather drive my reasonably sized car and go skiing. But such is life, and my house will work better in a decade or so when I finally finish this project.

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All of my home repairs are a fat finger fumble that takes at least two to three times as long as it should. I shudder to think about what the future owner of this home will think.

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Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan

All of my home repairs are a fat finger fumble that takes at least two to three times as long as it should. I shudder to think about what the future owner of this home will think.

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I take solace in knowing that whoever worked on my house before me did an even worse job than me. So at least I have that going for me. Also means that everything takes even longer because I'm fixing their fuck ups as well as my own.

I may start a side business and teach men who to park their big trucks in parking lots. Maybe I'll market to their wives on IG and get their husbands to sign up. Because it's annoying waiting for these ding dongs to figure out how to park in a simple rectangle every time I go to Home Depot. For an air filter or a couple brushes. Don't modern trucks have cameras everywhere to help these dudes out - I don't get it.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

I take solace in knowing that whoever worked on my house before me did an even worse job than me. So at least I have that going for me. Also means that everything takes even longer because I'm fixing their fuck ups as well as my own.

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Like how during the history of all previous owners, NOBODY bothered to remove light switch/outlet plates? Literally every single house I've owned, I've had to deal with that. Gotta carefully cut the paint (and/or caulk for some reason?) and peel them off. Then like the rings of a tree, you can see all the many layers of different color paint. One of the first things I do to my homes is swap out all the grody old light yellowed switches and electrical outlets, along with all the covers. This always takes so much longer than it should due to this odd phenomenon. Especially when you have to sand down the old lines or repair chunks of drywall that were missing and shoddily patched previously. I'd blame DIY'ers but evidently some of the more budget oriented "pros" do this too when doing quick and cheap spray jobs. Drives me up a wall.

Doesn't seem like it should be that big of a deal, but when you're swapping out like 50 at a time, it gets old. Haha.

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Originally Posted by muted reborn

I may start a side business and teach men who to park their big trucks in parking lots. Maybe I'll market to their wives on IG and get their husbands to sign up. Because it's annoying waiting for these ding dongs to figure out how to park in a simple rectangle every time I go to Home Depot. For an air filter or a couple brushes. Don't modern trucks have cameras everywhere to help these dudes out - I don't get it.

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The problem is, the proper way to park a big truck is to back in. But that doesn't work when you need access to the tailgate to load wood.

My truck is also shitty enough that it doesn't have cameras. But that's ok; my neck still more or less functions and is able to turn.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

I take solace in knowing that whoever worked on my house before me did an even worse job than me. So at least I have that going for me. Also means that everything takes even longer because I'm fixing their fuck ups as well as my own.

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This is really annoying... especially when the "worse job" was done by the fuckin' BUILDER 35 years ago. :mad:

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Originally Posted by muted reborn

I may start a side business and teach men who to park their big trucks in parking lots. Maybe I'll market to their wives on IG and get their husbands to sign up. Because it's annoying waiting for these ding dongs to figure out how to park in a simple rectangle every time I go to Home Depot. For an air filter or a couple brushes. Don't modern trucks have cameras everywhere to help these dudes out - I don't get it.

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Yeah. Absolutely abysmal parking skills for this subset of people that just "HAVE" to have a truck for no good reason. However, for some REAL truck jong-related entertainment, go spend a day at your local boat ramp. Maybe bring a picnic chair and a cooler. The hilarity will be non-stop all day long.

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

11 days ago, was at hockey practice trying to teach our goalie how to properly poke check (it's all or nothing!). Kid does a few, all good, "okay one more time" and then boom - poke checks my skate instead of the puck, I drop like a sack of hammers and smash my shin in to the post. Ouch!

It's still sore, and my ankle is kinda swollen (I assume it's just gravity pulling blood down from the injury). I can still skate and have been riding the snowboard of late as the boots are softer, with no big problems.

What I need to know is what the hell can I do to get this leg back to ski-boot-ready by Saturday - I'm open to any and all homeopathic voodoo remedies. What foods to eat, ice, no ice, massage, no massage, incense, prayers, anything. I do not want to see a doctor because they may tell me not to ski.

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Originally Posted by MontuckyFried

Like how during the history of all previous owners, NOBODY bothered to remove light switch/outlet plates? Literally every single house I've owned, I've had to deal with that. Gotta carefully cut the paint (and/or caulk for some reason?) and peel them off. Then like the rings of a tree, you can see all the many layers of different color paint. One of the first things I do to my homes is swap out all the grody old light yellowed switches and electrical outlets, along with all the covers. This always takes so much longer than it should due to this odd phenomenon. Especially when you have to sand down the old lines or repair chunks of drywall that were missing and shoddily patched previously. I'd blame DIY'ers but evidently some of the more budget oriented "pros" do this too when doing quick and cheap spray jobs. Drives me up a wall.

Doesn't seem like it should be that big of a deal, but when you're swapping out like 50 at a time, it gets old. Haha.

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My place wasn't too bad about painted switch plates, but they were terrible about in wall splices without junction boxes, and junction boxes buried in the walls. So anytime I open up a wall, I can expect to have to deal with some sort of not-at-all-to-code wiring.

And, of course, nothing is plumb or square, but that kinda goes without saying.