Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 483

When recipes are titled “the viral _______” or “marry me ______”

 

Heavy on “the viral ___” not limited to recipes

 

Or "crack ____" because it's just sooo addictive.

 

Lingering colds

I am sick and have a persistent cough that won't go away. And I'm sure I made it worse cause I worked all week. I tried to telework at first but I can't be out for an entire week because it keeps lingering and just won't go away. Which I know is sucky of me to do but I didn't know what else to do. I'm taking medicine. I'm drinking tea. I'm doing the things. And it just won't die.

 

I’m trying to lose weight and set boundaries on what I’m eating (ie no fried stuff, no cheese) and my mom keeps getting pissy about it. She got annoyed when I stopped eating meat years ago too because “I don’t know how to cook for you anymore.” I’ve explained how easy it is to cook non-meat dishes and that I honestly prefer cooking for myself anyway.

 

"okay you see the part where you add the chicken to this rice and vegetables, yeah just don't do that"

 

Every year for Christmas my grandma makes this Korean soup with brisket. She always takes the meat out and tells me it’s vegetarian. Apparently the oxtail broth doesn’t have meat in it, good to know! I always just pass it to my sister when she isn’t looking.

 

Nobody ever knows what it means to be vegetarian. What about seafood? Chicken?

When we see my boyfriends parents I always have to triple check because they're sweet but fully the kind of folks who'd think me picking around the chicken makes it vegetarian. They def make a soup with chicken broth but considering it vegetarian cause they left out the chicken lol

 

That one peanutless M&M in a bag of Peanut M&M's

 

I hate peanut m&ms so that would be fine by me lol

 

When a pepper I was hoping would be hot is mild. Way too many jalapeños and habaneros with little to no heat recently. I do have a ridiculous spice tolerance to be fair.

 

happens to me with hot sauce etc all the time lol

 

Dang it by the end of the day yesterday I was convinced it was my last day of sickness but here it is... Still lingering! Not bad enough that I feel like I can't go about my life, but enough that I think people in public would side eye me for coughing and not staying home

 

Went to a coffee shop to read this morning and there are two families with screaming children

 

The worst. Last time I went to do that, there was a middle-aged woman just watching videos on her phone, no headphones.

 

Mosquito bites. I made sure to put on bug spray bc I’m a mosquito magnet but they found the one spot I didn’t spray: the bottoms of my feet!! They are now covered in bites. I even sprayed the tops bc I had on sandals but they still got me.

 

That’s even worse. Just use headphones!!

 

I have a big red mark on my neck and I don't know what it is. It's like on the crease where my neck meets my shoulder so I think I got it from sleeping. It doesn't itch or anything so it isn't a rash. It's been getting flaky so have been putting shea and aloe on it.

 

This always drives me nuts! And I have a higher tolerance for children and their behaviors Than many people I know. I totally get that kids will be kids and it's developmentally appropriate for them to dysregulate, but I think sometimes parents get so used to tuning their kids out that they sort of forget that we in the general public have not learned to tune their children out lol.

And I'm not so extreme like some people I see online that get like offended about children being in the public in their presence. Parents get all sorts of unsolicited rude feedback and I have a ton of empathy. But sometimes it's just like dang the parents is objectively not even trying. It's usually fairly apparent which parents are trying and which are just tuning them out and making us deal with it

 

Also when automatic sliding doors take a beat too long to open. That awkward space where you wonder if you're about to walk into the door like a dummy.

 

When a band drops off a festival you’re attending and there’s no proper announcement from either the fest or the band and they also aren’t replaced with someone different

 

Yeah I generally love kids and don’t mind unless it’s somewhere that I’m hoping to be fairly quiet. To one family’s credit they were trying to calm their kids down and wound up leaving when they wouldn’t be quiet. Definitely not one of those people who doesn’t want people to bring their kids anywhere and you can absolutely tell when parents are trying vs acting like their kids aren’t there.

 

Video game quests where an NPC tags along and constantly gets in the way