r/GrindsMyGears

"Honestly, blah blah blah..."

Are you letting me know that you're lying "literally" every time you don't point out that you're being honest? Or is it more like a 50-50 "figurative" thing?

This makes me ENRAGED! Get off the phone!!! I see this every day! To & from work! Countless people! DRIVES ME INSANE!

for me it is when a mf dumped Coke-a-Cola on the street then yelled at people for calling them out

I went to the doctors to get my ears cleaned because some wax got stuck from when I went swimming and everything was fine, I didn't mind the machine, and afterwards I felt great but why the fuck do they try and shove the earwax water in your face. like no asking me if I wanted to see just "look!" and it wasn't just one doctor it was 2 different nurses AND the main doctor. then when I look away or cover my eyes they ask "are you alright???" no retard, are you? like its not a huge deal in retrospect but why is it that when I obviously don't wanna see some nasty ass wax particles floating around in some nasty ass ear water IM the one in question? why ask me if I'm okay? I made it obvious I'm not okay and it should be clear as to why; its so ridiculous to even ask me. Moreso Its ridiculous what they DIDNT ask: "Would you like to see it?" This would have saved me so much mental frustration

You open your alarm clock app, a 10 second raid shadow legends blasts your ear drums while you desperately try to turn off your alarm. You turn on your windows 11 PC. Did you know that Microsoft office is only 100 bucks a year????? Would you like me to remind you every 3 days for as long as you own the PC with no way to shut it off permanently. You go to your favorite fast food restaurant, and proceed to wait for the 3 Disney movie ads to finish so you can figure out what kind of burger ya want. You decide to watch a 3 minute tutorial video explaining how to get past a certain point in the game. And proceed to watch 3 unstoppable ads, 2 midroll ads, a sponsorship, and various pop up ads before the guy has even started his explanation. You decide to listen to a podcast, and get 3 in video ads on top of your ad break every 10 or so minutes for the 3 hours. You eat a fortune cookie, and the ad shows up on the back of the fortune.

It's just too much, everywhere. I don't care about whatever movie ya shilling it's not worth my sanity

I hate when I share a weird experience Ive had and some stranger accuses me of lying. Like I'm sorry were you there? No I didn't think you were. Ive lived long enough and have known some crazy sketchy people to have experienced some weird shit. You don't know me from anybody else. Doesn't happen every time I share but it's happened enough for me to just roll my eyes and sigh. Edit: someone accused me of lying when I said that my ex friend dated and got pregnant by the first guy I ever loved

It's been annoying me for years. Does anyone else have the experience of people not only being in the way, but being slow and in the way?

Whenever I go grocery shopping or really any kind of shopping, it seems like people are strategically in front of whatever I'm trying to and are being indecisive as hell. Trying to get milk, how long does it really take to note which date is the furthest out and grab a jug. Eggs I understand, want a full cart of unbroken eggs, but cereal just grab a fucking box.

If I'm browsing at an electronics store I'm also actively trying to make sure I'm not in the way of someone that knows what they want. But I swear, people will just stand there with a vacant look in there eyes blocking a whole asile while others are trying to get by.

And then they don't even acknowledge the polite "Excuse me, pardon me..." Fucking move!!

... ok, I think I'm done. So, has anyone else had these experiences.

im a white girl, and i have 3B curly hair, and my mom has 3C curly hair. we are both naturally blonde, and wear our natural hair every day. this is not a perm, this is not done with a curling iron or overnight heatless techniques, this is our natural hair.

nearly every time i see a white person post a video online about their hair, the comments are FULL of people saying things like“they hate us but want to be us,” “your hair isnt curly, stop forcing it,” “this is just how black peoples hair is” etc. those are all real examples i just paraphrased from a video i saw of a white guy with blonde “afro textured hair.”

i love black people and black hair. their hair is beautiful, i love seeing the styles people put it in, and i like watching videos about it because their hair is still different from mine even though i also have curly hair.

that does not mean that my hair is fake, or that im copying anyone, or that i automatically hate anyone. if i brush my hair out, it will resemble an afro. if i let it dry after a shower without brushing it, i have curls. actual ringlets, not waves. my hair grows out of my scalp like this, please stop assuming that is impossible.

i grew up having my hair styled by my mom and babysitter in a way that made it appear wavy, and once they stopped doing my hair, i didn’t even know i could have curly hair, because i had seen zero representation of white girls with curly hair. i spent years just brushing my hair out and struggling with it, calling it “frizzy” because i didn’t know any better. i thought there was something wrong with it because as far as i was aware, white people could only have straight and wavy hair that looked silky smooth when brushed, and only black people could have curly hair. stop trying to worsen that and continue that awful experience for curly haired white kids.

quit diminishing white people with curly hair for something they have zero control over. if you want black natural hair to be accepted, you cannot get mad because white people also wear their natural hair. i love everyone of every race, every ethnicity, and every skin tone, lets allow everyone to wear their natural hair without making it weird, thanks.

I just ran my clothes through the steam refresh cycle almost 30 minutes ago which showed 20 on the display. But it now shows 11 remaining. What good is a time estimate if it is off by so much?

why do some people look at their phones when they really should concentrate on where they are going, notice the other people, and what is happening around them? how difficult is it to just step aside to a safe space to look at their phone before proceeding on their way? when they are walking toward me, I feel like I want to stop right in front of them and see what their reaction is.

I also do not appreciate when people have their phone external audio turned on (music/videos/phone conversations), but this is for a separate post.

I genuinely don’t understand this one. Waiting rooms, trains, cafes... someone always has TikTok or YouTube playing at full volume. Headphones exist. Cheap ones exist. Why does everyone else need to hear your For You page too?

Why is it such common behavior for people to just put down others or overly joke over the littlest everyday mistakes? Like, as someone who feels kinda bad with directions, having people in the car can feel like a test rather than simply me driving, because I know what could happen if anything isn’t perfect. Overall, just performance pressure in tasks.

Obviously, this is just a random example, but in general, I feel like I’ve had enough of these passive-aggressive “shame” moments to where I don’t feel at peace even doing basic stuff at times with people. At this point, I’ve made peace with the fact that life is too short to hang with folks who default to that in a heartbeat.

Anyone else in this boat? You strive to be chill, humble, understanding, and most importantly NON-judgmental. It just doesn’t really feel like I get that energy back. Why is this an accepted part of how we interact?

For me it’s people watching videos on their phone in public with the volume all the way up. I know it’s a tiny thing and probably shouldn’t bother me this much, but hearing random TikToks from across a waiting room instantly gets on my nerves. What’s your completely irrational pet peeve?