April 14th, 2005
things that annoy me
1. Toilet paper holders in public bathrooms that only roll halfway around before they stop. Then the toilet paper rips off and you have to try again. Before you know it, you’re stuck with a handful of 3-square long pieces of paper. I probably waste MORE toilet paper getting frustrated with those damn things than I would otherwise—and I’m sure they were invented to save paper, by someone who wasn’t actually USING them.
2. Commercials that display henpecked men and overbearing mothers/wives. Like the one about TV control—not sure what, exactly, they’re advertising, but it sounds sort of like the V-chip, where you can set certain channels that can only be watched if you enter a password. Anyway, this helpless husband wants to watch something and his daughter has tell him why he can’t get the channel—because he apparently doesn’t know anything about what goes on in the house—and then she has to tell him him that, if he wants to watch that channel, he has to have “Mommy’s” password. He asks “Mommy” if he can watch a certain show—this is her HUSBAND, by the way—and she looks at him with that sort of funny disappointed look and says, “NO!” And he looks sheepish. Seriously? I want to kick her.
3. Any kind of lotion or spray that smells like baby powder. It’s called baby powder for a reason. If you are a grown woman, you should not be wearing Love’s Baby Soft, and no company should ever produce a air freshener spray that smells like baby powder. All I can think when I smell it is, There’s a dirty diaper around here somewhere, isn’t there?
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LOL. One time I commented on women’s deodorant choices and I said something like “The grossest smells are Baby Powder and Shower Fresh.” The next thing I know, my mother-in-law comments (dead serious) “those are my favorite.” Way to go. Ever since, I don’t think things have been the same between us.
The toilet paper at work is like that. I’ve made it my mission to be sure to put a roll that isn’t rigged to the useless dispenser on top of the rolls that are rigged. Luckily there are lots of unopened rolls in there.
Ugh, commercials! Thank goodness for TiVo!
Dude, I feel the same way about those commercials, and there are a lot of them. Not quite sure who the target demo is with those: abrasive, domineering women, I guess.
I’m with you on all of the above. And - those blasted automatic faucets that you have to somehow rig to run for 10 minutes before you can get water that’s slightly warmer than freezing. Does whatever idiot installed those realize how much water we waste now, since we can’t adjust the ding dang faucet?