[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3422733 7-Oct-2025 14:02

geoffwnz:

Dingbatt:

Remember the good old days when garages were used to store cars?

Garages are now smaller and cars are now bigger. So you can either store "stuff" (mower, bikes etc) in the garage or squeeze the car into it.

Quite lucky that both our cars are small. Two cars in garage, one motorbike, three pushbikes. Both drivers doors can open. One car outside.

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#3422736 7-Oct-2025 14:18

mudguard:

geoffwnz:

Dingbatt:

Remember the good old days when garages were used to store cars?

Garages are now smaller and cars are now bigger. So you can either store "stuff" (mower, bikes etc) in the garage or squeeze the car into it.

Quite lucky that both our cars are small. Two cars in garage, one motorbike, three pushbikes. Both drivers doors can open. One car outside.

I'm lucky enough to have an older property (70's I think) that has a large garage. Technically a two car garage but easily swallows a ute and a mid size car with plenty of room for workshop space and storage. If I was building now, I'd be specifying a quad car garage to get similar usable space.

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#3422737 7-Oct-2025 14:30

Indeed. An unscientific measurement of my 1974 double garage (aka going to Google Maps and drawing a box over it) yielded 9.4 x 8.2 metres. There's definitely room in there for two, and if it had a single wide door instead of two separate ones then it might be possible to squeeze three in there.

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#3422902 7-Oct-2025 22:10

Handsomedan:

This annoys me

Have similar issues in our cul-de-sac, no yellow lines, but half on the footpath.

PITA when you have kiddies on their small bikes, and strollers .

Auckland Council makes it easy to post a parking issue. Take photo, upload.

Twice now . Though new neighbours now, doing same again.

Time for another parking swoop.

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#3422923 8-Oct-2025 07:46

SepticSceptic:

Auckland Council makes it easy to post a parking issue. Take photo, upload.

Twice now . Though new neighbours now, doing same again.

Time for another parking swoop.

Ah I didn't know you could just submit a photo. Half on the road, half on the footpath drives me nuts. Yeah it makes things easier for cars, but tough on pedestrians.

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#3422941 8-Oct-2025 09:15

I wish people would actually read error messages before contacting helpdesk.

I wish helpdesk would read error messages before flicking the ticket over to my team.

I wish my team's rostered person would actually read the error message before allocating the ticket to me.

If any of these people had read the error, they would realise that the reason they can't escalate the invoice for non-payment is because it's not actually overdue yet!

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#3422964 8-Oct-2025 11:30

"I wish people would actually read". Fullstop. Not just error messages.

Edited to extend:

I also wish common sense was more common.

And I also wish that things that were changed "for my convenience" were actually changes that were more convenient to me (or any other end-user).

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#3422979 8-Oct-2025 12:17

geoffwnz: Garages are now smaller and cars are now bigger. So you can either store "stuff" (mower, bikes etc) in the garage or squeeze the car into it.

Widths of a 70's Kingswood and a modern Tesla are about the same, length is approx 200mm longer for S model only. Not much in it. Cars in the 70's were on average definitely smaller and maybe the average garage wasn't built for a Holden.

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#3422983 8-Oct-2025 12:28

The difference is that back then a kingswood was a really big car, and now a tesla is basically a small car.

Even the small japanese brands from back then are now as big as the tesla is. Rav 4 was a small 4wd when introduced, now its bigger than a jeep from back then. About the only small things you can get now is a jimney or a JDM cars that dont sell here new.

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#3423003 8-Oct-2025 13:40

Behodar:

I wish people would actually read error messages before contacting helpdesk.

I wish helpdesk would read error messages before flicking the ticket over to my team.

I wish my team's rostered person would actually read the error message before allocating the ticket to me.

If any of these people had read the error, they would realise that the reason they can't escalate the invoice for non-payment is because it's not actually overdue yet!

Hah! Someone mentioned an error message? Luxury! Error message simply means computer is not working.

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#3423006 8-Oct-2025 13:52

MadEngineer:

Hah! Someone mentioned an error message? Luxury! Error message simply means computer is not working.

Didn't work.

Said it didn't want to do it.

It gave up before it finished.

Something came up about a problem.

It said something but it went away when I pressed OK

Ooooh I knew you would ask about that..

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#3423010 8-Oct-2025 13:57

SepticSceptic:

Auckland Council makes it easy to post a parking issue. Take photo, upload.

Twice now . Though new neighbours now, doing same again.

Time for another parking swoop.

That’s interesting to know. Are they good at following up on these?

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#3423030 8-Oct-2025 15:02

Received an email from Microsoft:

"XBox Game Pass Ultimate:
Your subscription price is changing from $28.95 to $45.95."

Yeah, nah...I'd rather cancel it thanks.

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Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

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#3423032 8-Oct-2025 15:10

eracode:

SepticSceptic:

Auckland Council makes it easy to post a parking issue. Take photo, upload.

Twice now . Though new neighbours now, doing same again.

Time for another parking swoop.

That’s interesting to know. Are they good at following up on these?

Usually yes, its a win-win for them as they don't have to have staff on calls for ages receiving the info and they can also get pictures as evidence for what ever the issue is, parking, overgrown trees, damaged footpaths etc.

I use the snap, send, solve app on android.

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#3423083 8-Oct-2025 15:21

Standard PC plan price increase additional $7.40:

Here's your current plan
PC Game Pass
Your subscription price is changing from $16.95 to $24.45

At the moment my subscription is used only for kids Minecraft and Among Us, and occasional looks at other games. Now it has my attention I see no reason to keep it. I'll go buy Minecraft off the shelf.

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