Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 36

A few years ago I was looking at apartments and suddenly heard a baby crying from the apartment above the one I was looking at. All the windows were closed so it extra loud from that or anything.

The person showing me the apartment looked nervous and flustered. I kind of winced and continued looking around when I heard from the apartment next to the one I was looking at (so not even below the one with the baby) “you better be borrowing that baby because I’m not listening to that shit all day!”

I promptly said “no thanks” and ended my tour early while the lady just sighed lol

 

It’s wild, I can always hear her phone ringing and of course she always has it on speaker so I hear whoever she’s talking to. I think she only uses the room next to mine as an office because I only hear her during work hours but it’s clear as day. Always makes me wonder how loud I really am when I listen to records and play guitar haha

 

she's probably talking about you on some web forum right now too lol

 

Oh she’s definitely complained about “the guy next to me always bouncing a goddamn ball” which is funny because I know she’s talking about me and my roommate but neither of us ever bounce a ball or anything inside hahaha. Hope she’s enjoying the José González I’m playing!

 

maybe you should

 

loool yep as soon as I found out just how much the sound travels here I was like "oh my guitar + singing must be sooo annoying"

 

I can hear my neighbors from inside their house, a good 15 feet away. They were arguing earlier about which wall a tv is going to go on, and the daughter that doesn't even live there was extremely opinionated about it for some reason.
They also love to hang out in their driveway. They have a tv in the garage and it's always a fun time trying to guess what they're watching. I've woken up to hearing both Mama Mia movies and some form of The Brady Bunch recently. I remember the time someone watched 7 seasons of GOT, and I hadn't seen it yet, so those were some interesting noises. You ever hear a dragon but not know you're hearing a dragon?
My windows face their property so all the noise comes right through the ac in the window. When I WFH (which opposite from everyone right now is all the time except during a pandemic), my desk is under my windows and my view is right into their shower. Thank you frosted glass, but still silhouettes.

 

I have absolutely no concept of how loud I am to my neighbors.
I live in a “villa” so like people on either side of me but it’s one floor so no one on top or bottom.
I have old ladies on both sides of me now and I can’t hear them but sometimes at night in bed I will hear the neighbors tv (My bed is against that wall) and it makes me think dang If I can hear that what can she hear?!

but I had a young couple who on the other side at once point and we never heard them and I know they fought a lot lol so?!

there was a very uh tumultuous period with my ex where it got loud af and no one ever said anything except for one time when it was at its worst and my neighbor called the cops
So I genuinely just have no idea if they can hear everything and ignore it or what

 

When a mustache hair goes up your nostril while wearing a mask and you can’t do anything about it because you don’t want to touch your face

 

how I feel after a nap 99% of the time

 

Frozen food items that are way better heated in the oven but the oven cook time is like 55 minutes instead of the 3 it would take in the microwave

 

that's a good one

 

Never been a big nap guy for this reason, can’t ever get out of the post-nap funk

also post-nap funk new genre name I call it

 

yup. most of the time I wake up sweaty and feeling like a have a headache, not being able to get out of the funk for hours at a time either. so yeah, suffice to say I am also not a big nap guy

 

A little specific but when kids dont care about food quality and want the soggy chicken nuggets from the microwave instead of oven crispy

 

Most naps are just me wondering how long my eyes have been closed, just can't do it
Except in the summer with ac. If it's too cold I'll fall asleep anywhere anytime

 

Thought flow lead me to:

Jury duty
I've never actually been on a jury(that I think would be fun for me, annoying for everyone else) but sitting and waiting for hours is annoying af, especially in cold ac hah

 

I used to think it might be cool

until I learned The Office lied to me and that they do not in fact buy your lunch for you

 

I was called for jury duty one time but managed to get out of it

 

I was on a "call in" system the week of my bday one year and ofc my number was called in on my bday

 

Just ignore the letter they send and you’re all good

 

this is such a dumb small thing but I hate the way Americans pronounce Montreal

 

How are you supposed to pronounce it? I can't think anything besides "mon-tray-all"

 

It’s “Mun-tray-all”, right? Or am I also butchering it haha

 

I've always said it Mun-Tree-all lol