- “We are experiencing higher than normal call volumes. Please be patient. Your call is important to us.” [geez, where do I start?]
- “This page intentionally left blank.” [If I were a robot in Star Trek, this would make me melt.]
- Signing into my password manager so that I can sign into my credit card account so that they will send a code via text so that I can enter that and finally get into the website…only to see that I signed into the wrong credit card website.
- Getting an apparently computer-generated email about how sorry my propane company feels after I complained in the obligatory follow-up survey about waiting over two weeks for propane. (Good thing it’s not my primary source of heat!) Should I be surprised it took two months for their response to be sent?
- Robocalls spoofing real numbers.
- Experts who forget the difficulties beginners face.
- People who say they lost an hour when switching to Daylight Saving Time. [OK, time is a construct and yes, a hour was taken out arbitrarily, but…does the sun not come up and set in the same amount of time, more or less, as it did before the switch?]
- Receiving mail for my father, deceased for over nine years, at my address where he never lived!
- Companies which successfully lobby for a law or regulation, then tell their customers, “I’m sorry, but it’s required by the government.”
- The prevalent use of complimentary for complementary. [In fact, I just searched to see if somehow the meaning had drifted over time. No, it hasn’t, but the top search result said “Complimentary rebooking | Singapore Airlines”]
- Being able to find a typo or word misusage every day in the local TV news broadcast.
- Being able to find a typo or word misusage almost every day in the New York Times.
- Fanatics clinging to nonsensical word usage rules. [See typos/word misusage! Not every misusage is nonsensical!]
- Circular logic.
- The so-called smart side mirrors on my car which never return to the same position two consecutive times.
- and…that this was just off the top of my head and I’ve likely forgotten twice as many in the moment!
Things that drive me nuts
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