What Grinds Your Gears? :) - Page 496

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 02-22-2025, 04:36 PM

What's grinding my gears right now is this eBay seller that I bought a book from. They're Bargain Books and for 7 days and 1 email, they still haven't sent it. I asked them that it's been all week and it still hasn't been shipped out yet and they answered saying that there's a 5-7 day handling period before they ship it out. I'm like "what the hell?!" I rightfully bought that book last Sunday! What right do they have to hold onto a book I rightfully bought hostage like this?! I just sure hope no one buys it in their physical store by the time they get to wanting to send it. If I wasn't deceived by their 1.12M positive feedback score, I would of bought the same book elsewhere.

Mad Dog McMutt · 02-25-2025, 01:26 PM

I hate taking my cat to the vet. She is a great cat, but she hates her travel crate more than anything else in the world. I have to trap her in the bathroom and wrap her up like a burrito in a towel. Somehow she hurt her own eyeball this morning so I have to go through this process this evening. I am not looking forward to it. I think she accidently scratched her own eye.

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 02-25-2025, 01:42 PM

I love my male cat, but I'm getting real sick of cleaning up after all his messes lately! He pukes under my bed (I can't imagine what it must look like under there by now), he's pissing and crapping outside the litter box that has fresh litter, he begs for food and water after just feeding him! Like I said, I love my cat, but getting a bit sick of being his maid and servant.

Thank God he's never been majorly sick or injured to the point I ever had to take him to a vet in all the 10 years I've had him. Even if I had to take him to the vet, do you know what it'll take to get him in his carrier, because he refuses to be picked up and runs away if he suspects you're going to pick him up.

*IndigoErth* · 02-25-2025, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

he's pissing and crapping outside the litter box that has fresh litter

How high are the sides of the box? Supposedly it's extremely common for cats to have some arthritis by age 10 and going outside the box can be a sign of that if the sides of the box are high enough to hurt to get in and out of. Doesn't look high to us, but for a small-ish animal much lower to the ground it's more of an obstacle.

Just a thought. There's usually a reason for it if they'd previously done their businesses in the proper place before.

Edit: Male cats can also get a blockage in their narrower (than female) urethra. One of ours ended up with that and wasn't peeing normally, and barely.

Mad Dog McMutt · 02-25-2025, 02:04 PM

Indigo is right. Usually if a cat is going to the bathroom outside of its litter box it's an indication that something isn't quite right. Is the cat experiencing diarrhea? Sometimes cat's can't hold their stool if it's not solid. It took awhile for me to find a good dry food for my cat. I now only give her the Blue Blissful Belly cat food. It comes in a pink bag. Try that out.

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 02-25-2025, 04:55 PM

This cat jumps off of a 3-foot high carpeted tree onto hard wood floor and doesn't seem hurt by it. Also no he doesn't have diarrhea; his poop still looks like tootsie rolls. I just keep thinking he just doesn't make it to the litter box on time and goes right outside it.

Mad Dog McMutt · 02-25-2025, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

This cat jumps off of a 3-foot high carpeted tree onto hard wood floor and doesn't seem hurt by it. Also no he doesn't have diarrhea; his poop still looks like tootsie rolls. I just keep thinking he just doesn't make it to the litter box on time and goes right outside it.

Could it be that your cat has his front half of the body in the litter box and back half out? My cat gave me hell, but it turns out she is ok. It was just a very light scratch. I always feel like the bad guy whenever I take her to the vet. The way she growls and hisses at me makes me feel like I'm being a bully. I hate making my cat angry, but sometimes when a vet visit is needed you gotta do what you gotta do. She only hid for 10 minutes when we got home so I think she forgives me.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-25-2025, 05:26 PM

It's possible he's crapping in the litterbox, then during his "cleanup" he's accidentally swatting the poos outside of the box. This can especially happen if the litter itself is pretty close to the top of the box.

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 02-25-2025, 05:39 PM

No, the litter box is deep enough that he goes completely in, it's like a foot or so high and it's on the floor. He has tootsie rolls inside the box, but sometimes he will do his business next to my couch. Luckily, they're solid and easy to scoop up with the scooper.

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 03-04-2025, 11:24 PM

I don't know if this message belongs here, because it's not entirely anger, but sadness.

I'm back on memory lane of my childhood of going to two bowling alleys that I grew up with. My dad from 1974 - 2008 bowled on a league every Wednesday night. When I was a little boy in the 80s and 90s, he would take me to Wheaton Bowl, he bowled on a league and for every strike and game he played, he gave me cash to play the arcade and pinball games, money for candy out of the vending machine (I made a childhood tradition to have a box of Junior Mints with me whenever I play pinball) and I also made some young friends there and we'd run around having fun playing child games like tag and catch me if you can; you know, being a kid before Internet and social media. When the night was over, around 10 PM, we would drive to McDonald's drive thru to get a cheese burger and fries. Well, back in 2019, I learned that bowling alley went out of business and the property was sold to a gas station company and that's what it became.

Another bowling alley that was close to my heart that went under in 2004 is Gala Lanes along with its connecting arcade neighbor, Galaxy World, in Carol Stream, IL. I bowled on a league for 6 years from 1988 - 1994 on Saturday mornings. One reason was is that I really admired my dad, who was on his own league at Wheaton Bowl. Anyway, my mom dropped me and my older brother to the bowling alley at 8 AM Saturday mornings and left us with the bowling coach until my dad came to pick us up at the end of the games. During the bowling game, if I bowled a strike, I got a free soda from Galaxy World next door and some tokens. If you got to the alley early enough, they would show cartoons like Ninja Turtles and Care Bears on the electric scoreboards. When I and my brother were done bowling and my dad came to join us, we would go to the Galaxy World and play video games and pinball and skeeball. Unfortunately, that place closed down February 29, 2004 and it became a mini mall. Sad.

What makes me sad about this is that those were some of the precious golden moments of being a kid back in the 80s and 90s when life was easier and more enjoyable and they're gone forever. Just about everything I grew up on during those great times are gone. That's why I vowed that if I and my best friend ever manage to get back on our feet and make some money, we would get a big enough house with a basement that we can decorate it the same way that the arcade portions of those bowling alleys were like, plus the arcade, pinball, pool table, vending machines, a bar, air hockey, dome hockey, foosball table. We both want to resurrect our past and my buddy said he'll help me.

*IndigoErth* · 03-11-2025, 11:28 AM

Grinding gears isn't the right term...but blood tests.

Our family doctor was wanting just routine ones done and never got around to it last year like I was supposed to, because I'm the nervous wreck sort who may end up on the floor, along with other not fun reactions to the anxiety over it. (If any here are like that then you know what I mean.) Family member had a test due before a Dr app next week, so opted to just throw myself in her car and get it over with, too, because I know I will never find the motivation otherwise.

Little token of support from the universe, coincidence as it may be... the woman before me in the next spot over must have been asked about her tattoos or something, because I overheard something about someone (prob her?) being a Leo and a flower was her daughter's, with my same first name, birth month flower.

Mad Dog McMutt · 03-11-2025, 12:31 PM

Good luck with the blood test! I have had so many blood tests and iv's in the last couple of years that it doesn't even phase me anymore. I have even had one explode my vein with blood shooting everywhere. In fact I am thinking of selling plasma for a little side cash. I am currently waiting for a previous blood test result before I do that though. I may have something called sjogren's syndrome which caused my neuropathy. It's an auto-immune disorder so I wany to figure out if I have that before selling my plasma. I hate it when they put the iv in the top of the hand. It seems to hurt worse at that spot. One thing that grinds my gears is those half hour long youtube ads from pocket fm or whatever. It's always some stupid long made up story that is obviously created by ai. I can no longer listen to youtube while i bathe because of those annoying ads. Does anybody else get them?

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 03-11-2025, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

I can no longer listen to youtube while i bathe because of those annoying ads. Does anybody else get them?

Get AdBlocker for your browser. I did and I haven't seen any ads on YouTube ever since on my computer. Unfortunately Blu-Ray players and iPhones don't have a way of blocking YouTube ads, like the computer does.

tmntpower1988 · 03-11-2025, 02:29 PM

When people behind you in the queue don't give you a chance to put your food and drinks into your shopping bags at the self-checkout machines. They're trying to use the machine when I haven't even lifted my stuff. It wouldn't f*cking kill them to wait about a minute ffs. Another thing bothering me is the huge increase in racism in my hometown lately. No need for that sh*t.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

Good luck with the blood test! I have had so many blood tests and iv's in the last couple of years that it doesn't even phase me anymore. I have even had one explode my vein with blood shooting everywhere. In fact I am thinking of selling plasma for a little side cash. I am currently waiting for a previous blood test result before I do that though. I may have something called sjogren's syndrome which caused my neuropathy. It's an auto-immune disorder so I wany to figure out if I have that before selling my plasma. I hate it when they put the iv in the top of the hand. It seems to hurt worse at that spot. One thing that grinds my gears is those half hour long youtube ads from pocket fm or whatever. It's always some stupid long made up story that is obviously created by ai. I can no longer listen to youtube while i bathe because of those annoying ads. Does anybody else get them?

There's a browser called Brave you can download which lets you watch YouTube videos without those annoying ads.

Mad Dog McMutt · 03-11-2025, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

Get AdBlocker for your browser. I did and I haven't seen any ads on YouTube ever since on my computer. Unfortunately Blu-Ray players and iPhones don't have a way of blocking YouTube ads, like the computer does.

I use an android, not a computer. How does any company think it's appropriate to make ads that long on youtube? If anything it makes me never want to give their product a chance.

*IndigoErth* · 03-11-2025, 03:10 PM

They prob want to annoy us enough to make us pay for premium.

But I've got news for them, I just use YouTube less now. Can't stand the long ones, and loathe when YouTubers pack their videos full of them. I mean if it's log and you throw one in the middle, fine, but if it's every 2 or 3 minutes, screw that, I stop watching.

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Originally Posted by tmntpower1988

When people behind you in the queue don't give you a chance to put your food and drinks into your shopping bags at the self-checkout machines.

Wtf. People around here can be rather rude and entitled (esp according to transplants from kinder states), but I think your locals have them beat.

Never seen anyone do that.

*IndigoErth* · 03-15-2025, 04:20 PM

Grind... food that ends up wasted after realizing that the crunchy sound I heard when taking the cap off a jar of sauce I'd just opened was in fact due to a chip and small bits of broken glass on it and under the cap. Didn't realize until I was trying to get the cap to go back on right, after mixing a bunch of sauce into my food.

Ridiculous, but I washed off my noodles and veggies, but still too spooked to eat them with sauce from the 2nd undamaged jar.

Was able to return it, but running back to the store is annoying and made me waste all that just to be on the safe side.

Acme, it was your store brand sauce, you owe me half a bag of veggies and a pack of noodles.

Stu_Padasso · 03-15-2025, 10:02 PM

I’m getting a tax refund, partly because I’m a homeowner…

That I have to use to pay property taxes on something I already own.

This is why I don’t understand the appeal of HOAs. Mow your own damn lawn.

If it wasn’t for all the municipal codes, I’d set up a stripper club/shooting range in my backyard.

~~ResidentEvil7~~ · 03-18-2025, 02:29 PM

I don't know if this belongs in this section or not, but a month and a half ago, I announced that my only sister got pregnant and I was nervous about what the outcome long-term would be. Well, I just off the phone with my mom and she told me that my sister lost the baby in a miscarriage last night. Now my sister is even questioning if she can even get pregnant again and hold onto it until birth. So it's looking like I won't be an uncle anytime soon. I feel sorry for her because my mom said that she's taking it pretty hard, considering it's her first time.

tmntpower1988 · 03-20-2025, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

I don't know if this belongs in this section or not, but a month and a half ago, I announced that my only sister got pregnant and I was nervous about what the outcome long-term would be. Well, I just off the phone with my mom and she told me that my sister lost the baby in a miscarriage last night. Now my sister is even questioning if she can even get pregnant again and hold onto it until birth. So it's looking like I won't be an uncle anytime soon. I feel sorry for her because my mom said that she's taking it pretty hard, considering it's her first time.

Sorry to hear that

02-25-2025, 05:26 PM	#9908
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03-15-2025, 10:02 PM	#9918
Stu_Padasso Hench Mutant Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: Midwest Posts: 305	I’m getting a tax refund, partly because I’m a homeowner… That I have to use to pay property taxes on something I already own. This is why I don’t understand the appeal of HOAs. Mow your own damn lawn. If it wasn’t for all the municipal codes, I’d set up a stripper club/shooting range in my backyard. Last edited by Stu_Padasso; 03-15-2025 at 10:11 PM.

02-22-2025, 04:36 PM	#9901
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	What's grinding my gears right now is this eBay seller that I bought a book from. They're Bargain Books and for 7 days and 1 email, they still haven't sent it. I asked them that it's been all week and it still hasn't been shipped out yet and they answered saying that there's a 5-7 day handling period before they ship it out. I'm like "what the hell?!" I rightfully bought that book last Sunday! What right do they have to hold onto a book I rightfully bought hostage like this?! I just sure hope no one buys it in their physical store by the time they get to wanting to send it. If I wasn't deceived by their 1.12M positive feedback score, I would of bought the same book elsewhere.

02-25-2025, 01:26 PM	#9902
Mad Dog McMutt Stone Warrior Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 707	I hate taking my cat to the vet. She is a great cat, but she hates her travel crate more than anything else in the world. I have to trap her in the bathroom and wrap her up like a burrito in a towel. Somehow she hurt her own eyeball this morning so I have to go through this process this evening. I am not looking forward to it. I think she accidently scratched her own eye.

02-25-2025, 01:42 PM	#9903
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	I love my male cat, but I'm getting real sick of cleaning up after all his messes lately! He pukes under my bed (I can't imagine what it must look like under there by now), he's pissing and crapping outside the litter box that has fresh litter, he begs for food and water after just feeding him! Like I said, I love my cat, but getting a bit sick of being his maid and servant. Thank God he's never been majorly sick or injured to the point I ever had to take him to a vet in all the 10 years I've had him. Even if I had to take him to the vet, do you know what it'll take to get him in his carrier, because he refuses to be picked up and runs away if he suspects you're going to pick him up.

02-25-2025, 02:04 PM	#9905
Mad Dog McMutt Stone Warrior Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 707	Indigo is right. Usually if a cat is going to the bathroom outside of its litter box it's an indication that something isn't quite right. Is the cat experiencing diarrhea? Sometimes cat's can't hold their stool if it's not solid. It took awhile for me to find a good dry food for my cat. I now only give her the Blue Blissful Belly cat food. It comes in a pink bag. Try that out.

02-25-2025, 04:55 PM	#9906
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	This cat jumps off of a 3-foot high carpeted tree onto hard wood floor and doesn't seem hurt by it. Also no he doesn't have diarrhea; his poop still looks like tootsie rolls. I just keep thinking he just doesn't make it to the litter box on time and goes right outside it.

02-25-2025, 05:39 PM	#9909
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	No, the litter box is deep enough that he goes completely in, it's like a foot or so high and it's on the floor. He has tootsie rolls inside the box, but sometimes he will do his business next to my couch. Luckily, they're solid and easy to scoop up with the scooper.

03-04-2025, 11:24 PM	#9910
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	I don't know if this message belongs here, because it's not entirely anger, but sadness. I'm back on memory lane of my childhood of going to two bowling alleys that I grew up with. My dad from 1974 - 2008 bowled on a league every Wednesday night. When I was a little boy in the 80s and 90s, he would take me to Wheaton Bowl, he bowled on a league and for every strike and game he played, he gave me cash to play the arcade and pinball games, money for candy out of the vending machine (I made a childhood tradition to have a box of Junior Mints with me whenever I play pinball) and I also made some young friends there and we'd run around having fun playing child games like tag and catch me if you can; you know, being a kid before Internet and social media. When the night was over, around 10 PM, we would drive to McDonald's drive thru to get a cheese burger and fries. Well, back in 2019, I learned that bowling alley went out of business and the property was sold to a gas station company and that's what it became. Another bowling alley that was close to my heart that went under in 2004 is Gala Lanes along with its connecting arcade neighbor, Galaxy World, in Carol Stream, IL. I bowled on a league for 6 years from 1988 - 1994 on Saturday mornings. One reason was is that I really admired my dad, who was on his own league at Wheaton Bowl. Anyway, my mom dropped me and my older brother to the bowling alley at 8 AM Saturday mornings and left us with the bowling coach until my dad came to pick us up at the end of the games. During the bowling game, if I bowled a strike, I got a free soda from Galaxy World next door and some tokens. If you got to the alley early enough, they would show cartoons like Ninja Turtles and Care Bears on the electric scoreboards. When I and my brother were done bowling and my dad came to join us, we would go to the Galaxy World and play video games and pinball and skeeball. Unfortunately, that place closed down February 29, 2004 and it became a mini mall. Sad. What makes me sad about this is that those were some of the precious golden moments of being a kid back in the 80s and 90s when life was easier and more enjoyable and they're gone forever. Just about everything I grew up on during those great times are gone. That's why I vowed that if I and my best friend ever manage to get back on our feet and make some money, we would get a big enough house with a basement that we can decorate it the same way that the arcade portions of those bowling alleys were like, plus the arcade, pinball, pool table, vending machines, a bar, air hockey, dome hockey, foosball table. We both want to resurrect our past and my buddy said he'll help me.

03-11-2025, 11:28 AM	#9911
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	Grinding gears isn't the right term...but blood tests. Our family doctor was wanting just routine ones done and never got around to it last year like I was supposed to, because I'm the nervous wreck sort who may end up on the floor, along with other not fun reactions to the anxiety over it. (If any here are like that then you know what I mean.) Family member had a test due before a Dr app next week, so opted to just throw myself in her car and get it over with, too, because I know I will never find the motivation otherwise. Little token of support from the universe, coincidence as it may be... the woman before me in the next spot over must have been asked about her tattoos or something, because I overheard something about someone (prob her?) being a Leo and a flower was her daughter's, with my same first name, birth month flower.

03-11-2025, 12:31 PM	#9912
Mad Dog McMutt Stone Warrior Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 707	Good luck with the blood test! I have had so many blood tests and iv's in the last couple of years that it doesn't even phase me anymore. I have even had one explode my vein with blood shooting everywhere. In fact I am thinking of selling plasma for a little side cash. I am currently waiting for a previous blood test result before I do that though. I may have something called sjogren's syndrome which caused my neuropathy. It's an auto-immune disorder so I wany to figure out if I have that before selling my plasma. I hate it when they put the iv in the top of the hand. It seems to hurt worse at that spot. One thing that grinds my gears is those half hour long youtube ads from pocket fm or whatever. It's always some stupid long made up story that is obviously created by ai. I can no longer listen to youtube while i bathe because of those annoying ads. Does anybody else get them?

03-15-2025, 04:20 PM	#9917
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,296	Grind... food that ends up wasted after realizing that the crunchy sound I heard when taking the cap off a jar of sauce I'd just opened was in fact due to a chip and small bits of broken glass on it and under the cap. Didn't realize until I was trying to get the cap to go back on right, after mixing a bunch of sauce into my food. Ridiculous, but I washed off my noodles and veggies, but still too spooked to eat them with sauce from the 2nd undamaged jar. Was able to return it, but running back to the store is annoying and made me waste all that just to be on the safe side. Acme, it was your store brand sauce, you owe me half a bag of veggies and a pack of noodles.

03-18-2025, 02:29 PM	#9919
~~ResidentEvil7~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2023 Location: Suburban Chicago, IL Posts: 629	I don't know if this belongs in this section or not, but a month and a half ago, I announced that my only sister got pregnant and I was nervous about what the outcome long-term would be. Well, I just off the phone with my mom and she told me that my sister lost the baby in a miscarriage last night. Now my sister is even questioning if she can even get pregnant again and hold onto it until birth. So it's looking like I won't be an uncle anytime soon. I feel sorry for her because my mom said that she's taking it pretty hard, considering it's her first time.