Things that are more complicated than they need to be.

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I nominate hotel showers. Every time I have to use one, I have the Crystal Maze theme playing in my head while I figure out which combination of knobs and buttons turns the shower on and not the bath taps.

Your nominations?

Telling DDs college she will be absent for half a day.
No I can't tell them in advance, I have to tell them after she is picked up.
So I collect her bring her home, then email them the time she was collected.
Then 3 hours later I get an 'not notified' absence email.
So I don't know if they are going to process my notified or not.
I've given up.

Similarly their % attendance. Which counts a double 2hr lesson as 1 lesson, and also the lesson DD never attends because she has a timetable clash as 1 lesson.
So on a Friday if she doesn't attend she misses 3 lessons, but a Wednesday she misses 6 (only 5 lessons per day). She misses far more Wednesdays than Fridays. Her attendance is low, but not as damn low as they make it out to be.

Ah. Feel better now.

Blood tests.
Getting the results to the right places this time has involved 7 phone calls, unreturned voice mail and I still don't know if they've been sent in time for planned treatment.

I would say selecting films with the sky remote control... but I looked it up online. So the sky remote for my husband!! I told him, press the button and speak... use voice, just TELL IT WHAT YOU WANT FFS... but he will painstakingly use the alphabetical scroll for every letter of a film title etc. e.v.e.r.y. t.i.m.e.

Paying for car parking when it's one of those phone systems.

I'm not a technophobe. But having to do everything by app. I can't order food in certain places at the bar, I have to download their app and order.

Apps are a nightmare. I cannot get on with them.
Also trying to remember my number plate for some pay parking machines in town. had to go back and take a photo of the number plate. Then the keys are tiny and I type it in wrong , then I had a queue of people behind me ( who appeared from nowhere !) then I get flustered because I can feel the resentment of other people who also need a ticket but haven't got the app ( or know how it works )
Then making sure the ticket is correct way up in the wind screen and another photo so I can remember when to get back before it runs out.
I love car parks without having to pay!

If it's your class, you should have a yellow box for that period at the top of the screen - double click on that and it takes you straight to the register.

Pull it tight and run a fingernail between the rolls, lightly and quickly. Don't do it where the plastic is folded over itself, do it where there's just one layer of plastic.

Finding the end of the sellotape on the other hand...

Overseas travel these days (non EU). Country 1 needed evidence of a negative PCR within 48 hours of travel and five different documents in hard copy on arrival, an App also needed to be downloaded. Returning home an App had to be downloaded, form completed and screenshotted. Two weeks later country 2 needed a negative PCR within 24 hours of travel (someone next to me was refused boarding as her PCR test was 28 hours old) and an online form completed and hard copy printed. Returning home the original App now refused to accept previous passwords, took three attempts to change password. Remember to screenshot…..

Trying to pin my energy supplier down to an actual payment amount.

Teaching my mother to use any electronic device invented since 1990.

Applying for PIP.

Getting a GP face to face appointment. My mother was told repeatedly via a telephone consultation that the pain in her chest and back was a pulled muscle. This went on for months. Doctor grudgingly finally booked her in for an x ray. She has pleurisy and fluid on her lungs, now on steroids and strong antibiotics. Told by GP receptionist that she should have seen a doctor sooner…

Trying to figure out how to drop a rental car off at York train station, when doing it for the first time. Nightmare!

Oh, and passwords. Some need capital letters, some need uppercase, some allow or need other characters/some don't (like @) some need to be 8+ letters etc...so you end up for 20 different passwords. And can't remember them all. Infuriating!!

A lot of these are so simple I genuinely don't understand how people can struggle.

Wonder if it's different generations?
Would be interesting to have a person's age next for their 'struggle fact'.

TV controllers...? Hotel Showers??

Trying to report a crime via 101
Getting the police to do anything whatsoever towards solving a crime.

Remote controls. On particular why I need two, one to change channels and the other to alter the sound.

Deregistering as self employed with HMRC. It's been 18 months of trying and many letters now.

I stopped doing one job and got a different job guys. It's not unusual.

You need a password manager like Last Pass or similar! Makes my life a lot easier!

I saw a book, like an address book or diary, in WH smiths for recording all your passwords....I thought the whole point was you had to keep them secret/secure....?

I am so happy if I buy something online and there is a "guest checkout" meaning I don't have to make an account and remember another password!

Buying jeans when you are petite.

Yes!!
Although I would also add
Buying bras to fit
Buying dresses to fit

Yes! My remote controls also have a hundred buttons. I only ever use two of the buttons 🙄

I’m so glad that all the things I get cross about have been mentioned on here! At least I’m not alone!

Start by teaching it in hand (in an attempt to out niche you, @Shannith 😂

Anything Microsoft

Claiming on lifetime guarantees. I've got a saucepan from Le Creuset which has deteriorated. It has a lifetime guarantee line all their stuff. So I've emailed them, and they've responded with a list of questions I need to become a PhD student to answer. Surely, if all your products have a lifetime guarantee, and I have a photo of a product that has failed, it should be a simple process to replace it? Argh!