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?

I work in a school office and I can honestly say that pretty much every aspect of my job is more complicated than it needs to be. Not allowed to make any changes though.

Many washing machines and tumble driers.
Umpteen programmes - who on earth needs all those?

Cars, especially my newish one - bastard tyre pressure warning light comes on every time I drive it! Tyres are fine. Garage tried to adjust it during a service but the wretched thing still comes on. Garage man said it’s a problem with a lot of modern cars. ‘A bloody nuisance’ were his precise words.
Just too many bells and whistles IMO.

And microwaves. I dread my old one dying - it has just two functions, cook and defrost. Which are all I need. I don’t need one with 16 settings!

I’m firmly convinced that mostly of these vastly over-complicated things are designed by blokes, who typically love gadgets, and the more complicated and fiddly the better, so they can feel very superior and clever compared to people like me who just want something SIMPLE!

The controls for the electric underfloor heating in the bathrooms. Cost us a fortune. But not half as expensive as the bill to run the bl*ody thing. Which we now don't, after getting a stratospheric bill.
And the company have left Ireland.
Not surprised - they were probably run out of the country.

Yes to showers and microwaves. My shower is easy enough but everyone else's! Same with microwaves.

But my biggest bugbear is the 60+ Oyster card. I cannot apply for it without help from a more Techie porter who works with me. Every year I have to renew it, which means uploading stuff with my address on it. They also ask for passport details. We were merrily uploading a new photo as the old one is no longer on the computer but of course I had forgotten my passport so cannot do it today.

I can only do stuff if I am on the late shift same as the porter.

I don't know how my Aunt would manage if she was still alive (though she did not live in London so would not have needed one). She had no computer or mobile phone!

Just to add, I am of course grateful for free travel, just moaning at the technical side!!

kitchenceilingwaterleak · Today 12:03

Trying to put a duvet cover on a 15 tog winter thickness superking duvet. It's a team effort between DH and I. Even then you need arms like he-man to be able to pick the thing up.

I hear ya. Started counting this as my cardio for the day 😂

I'll add buying shoes.

My feet measurements are exactly size 5.5. Standard width fitting. Should be simple, shouldn't it?

Where I went wrong, apparently, was in looking after my feet, as it's not normal for a nearly 50 year old to have feet widest at the toes like a toddler, just with a healthy arch because I'm not 2 years old. I'm supposed to have crammed them into shoes so small so that I developed bunions and hammertoes so that they fit into the shape of a 5.5 standard fitting, instead of having a ton of space with orthotics stuffed in to stop slopping around in 8.5s.

Bloody ridiculous.

@NeverDropYourMooncup I’d add shoes to the list purely because so many of them are ugly as sin!
i typically struggle on for years with a VERY limited selection of shoes and just hope nothing happens to them! I have no shortage of boots, heels, trainers etc, it’s just shoes that I struggle with. Why do the people who design shoes do such a terrible job of it?! (Shoes are best for work for me)

Blue badge application when you don't have a driving license or passport
Returning online purchases when you don't have a printer

Anything Dyson have ever made. Who actually needs seven different attachments and three suction levels on a vacuum cleaner? Serves me right for buying something designed by a man, who has probably spent about twenty thousand hours playing with machines in a laboratory but never vacuumed a carpet in his life.

Buying a house. Antiquated, faffy, long winded.

I hardly ever need to see a GP face to face, I’ve managed with the occasional telephone consultation for the last 4-5 or more years.
However I phoned recently on a Thursday morning to book a consultation and had a call-back within 2 hours from a student Doctor, lots of questions were asked/answered (about my blocked left ear) and an appointment was booked for the afternoon to see the student Dr, who after examining my ear booked me in for an ear syringing (last time I had excess ear wax was 50 years ago) for the following day with a qualified Dr. I’m happy now that I can hear properly.🙂

Can't remember when I last needed a printer. Amazon and most Hight St stores these days (most use Evri/Hermes) give you an option of just showing the QR code on your phone and they print the label in the store (Evris/Hermes) or Post Office.

Oh yes and my remote control - The sign for volume is actually the channel button and vice versa, also when I play a DVD I have to remember not to touch ANYTHING that says DVD to get it out again. I have to press 'mode'. Then another button to get to where it says Digital, something else and DVD. I have to press Digital to get back to tv.

None of the things that say menu or guide tell me the channels. I have to press 'list' for that.

I only have freeview not Netflix ...Just as well really....