Tiny Complaints

OR LINE IT WITH TINFOIL LIKE THE OVEN!!!

Sorry I’m such a shithead. I’m not really trying to change.

My complaint: I moved 70sq ft of tile from the shelf to the cart then the cart to the car with already painful hands. Now my hands are being terrible (typing this is harrrrd) and I still have to assemble a whole Ikea kitchen this weekend.

Larger complaint: I’m doing the work of an able bodied person while not actually able bodied and it is awful.

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I legit don’t know how you are doing it @Smacky

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My dog has realized there are special toys for the baby (her lovey she enjoys pulling over her mouth and chewing while on her playmat, her teething ring, etc) and that these are distinct from the burp cloths, and now will try to steal these toys at every possible juncture. Aka, my dog is an asshole.

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poor doggo - no longer the “only child”

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It’s true. She is very much the acting out toddler. We try to give her tons of attention whenever the baby is sleeping, but she wants attention whenever the baby gets attention :woman_facepalming: Not really possible pup.

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There were Girl Scouts selling cookies, but they weren’t set up to take credit cards and I didn’t have any cash.

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My mother is spreading misinformation about the bill that would make sexual health education mandatory in public schools in my state. I’ve campaigned for this bill. I will not back down. She’s not going to make this easy.

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Ooooof :muscle::muscle::muscle:

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We have a rocky relationship and I usually avoid contact, but this is just obnoxious.

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Can’t she just shhhhhhhh? Tell her your internet friend says so

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Haha I wish. No one’s replied for about an hour so maybe that’s that. The bills are actually written in easily understood English and are incredibly accessible on the internet. Shouldn’t be this hard.

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  1. I was on my feet a ton yesterday and today. Now my broken foot is very very bad.

  2. The various help I was lining up to get the cabinets assembled didn’t work out. I did three myself but that is very far short of my goal.

  3. Assembing cabinets screwed up my hands and arms

  4. My credit card got frozen. I’m still working out why, and that will take a few days. In the meantime I’m making big renovation purchases and not earning points. Lame and inconvenient.

  5. The last airbnb guests trashed the place. They tore up the couch and destroyed the vacuum and took a bunch of small items and destroyed others, smoked in the apartment, and left behind all their clothes and their bong. The airbnb claims process is lengthy and inconvenient.

  6. This one has been resolved - I got my car stuck in deep snow. My friend’s boyfriend had to come rescue me. Lame.

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I’m sorry, that’s a really crummy day. Especially the airbnb “guest,” what a lousy human.

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I made it four and a half years without having to pay full price for my kid’s shoes. This time I was looking for something very specific to go with his ankle braces and did not luck out at the thrift store like I did the last few times.

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I wasn’t sure whether to put this in Tiny Complaints or Tiny Victories.

I ran into my ex’s middle kid when I was out climbing today. We were both climbing in the exact same place. There were many hugs and good conversation and he said that he missed me. We actually got to spend some time together and I told him I loved him when I left. I loved those kids so, so much.

This is a complaint because damn this shit is seriously so hard. I’m all broken up again now. I miss the people who I thought were going to be my family for the rest of my life.

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Amazon packaging.

I spent several hours today unpacking and checking supplies for upcoming outreach activities sponsored by my workplace (the fact that I’m now required to go through an Amazon account rather than just having a CC and a budget and providing receipts after purchase is a different complaint).

Aside from the ridiculous number of boxes in general, I can’t wrap my head around some of the packaging. For example, we needed magnets of a specific type to make homopolar motors. Just one set of these magnets arrived wrapped in foil (whatever), in an bubble-type packing envelope (sure), in ridiculous amounts of bubble wrap (maybe they were trying for physical separation in case there was something electronic in a nearby packages? Weird way to go about it, especially given the quantity used, but that’s the best any of us could come up with since magnets aren’t exactly fragile), in another packing envelope (??), and then finally in their own cardboard bo with even more bubble wrap thrown in for good measure. That was one set of magnets. We had four, all from the same place, all with the same multi-envelope-bubble-wrap-whatever-packaging, and all of which would have fit into one box easily.

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Baby sleep regression.

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Comments from strangers got to me and now I feel super self-conscious. :frowning:

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There paperwork I need to do requires me to print a PDF, then fill it out, then scan it to odd, then email it. Whyyyyy

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I feel like I can’t have an innocent cough or sneeze in public anymore.

(Thank god I don’t have my annual bronchitis this year. It’d be like I have the plague.)

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