Which inanimate objects do you always battle with?

[WallabyWay]

I almost always have a fight with hotel showers. I feel like I'm on The Crystal Maze with most of them, trying to turn them on. It's always pull this knob while turning this dial and pressing the button to your left simultaneously. I just returned from a lovely BnB which had a shower only, no bath and all you had to do was press a button. It was great.

Hoover cords are another nemesis of mine. It doesn't matter what I do, they always end up tangled and kinked. I really need to get another cordless vacuum.

What inanimate objects are your nemesis?

Dish washers. I have never yet met one I get on with. They lurk in a corner of the kitchen like malevolent entities in need of an exorcist.

And why can no one come up with a way of accommodating different size glasses in the bastard things??

Sorry but this made me lol 😆😆😆

home or office printers, without a doubt.

Tin opener

Yes 100 % with you there. Horrible things!

Also, the meeting of a door handle and a dressing gown sleeve gives me the rage

Our hoover. We have a Shark one and whilst I’ll admit it’s absolutely brilliant at its designed function, the wire drives me to breaking point. Always falls off those little hooks when on the last bit so just falls to the floor in a tangled mess.

I hate the bastard ironing board. All of them, I’ve never had one that I like.

After a moment of rage (I kicked it into the full length mirror when I couldn’t get it to stand up)
I never ever buy myself clothes that require ironing.
If we are attending a funeral or a formal event, or the kids school uniform needs doing, my husband takes over.

They are the devils work.

The hoover, it's a cylinder one and vacuums very well and when the old one broke I replaced it with the same brand. However I cannot slide the floor part into its little slot so it stands compactly when not it use, it flips down and eventually the plastic breaks or bends out of shape.

The small handheld hoover, I simply cannot undo the filter casing to clean it. I've watched so many videos and read the instruction manuals many times but I can't do it and have to get DH or DC to do it.

The close prop, I trap my finger in it almost every time I collapse it.

Our printer. The damn thing only works for DH and never accepts new paper no matter how I try and feed it in.
Also fitted sheets, they always seem to shrink and then not fit the bed anymore.

I have absolutely no patience with wrapping paper and sellotape. I can just about wrap something rectangular or square but even that may have tears in the corners or pokey up bits. Sellotape just gets stuck to itself and drives me mad.

I also really struggle with folding up picnic blankets/sleeping bags/tents so that they fit into their bag and collapsing camping chairs.

Opening jar lids

Cling film.

Another one for door handles. DH had to rescue me the other day as I got it caught on a handle, tried to go back to unhook myself and got it caught the other way as well.

Tap the jar lid on a hard surface a couple of times and voila!

I feel your pain with hotel showers, so many are hard to use when you're very short sighted.

Automatic doors, so many don't open for me. Perhaps I have no soul?

Hoover's, all delegated to my husband.

Coffee machines.

DH has one and I don't go near it because it completely baffles me. I have my own jar of instant in the cupboard 😂

Me neither.
Damn stupid invention!

I pop one side up, lay it on its side and then pop the other side up and fold it that way. If I try closing it whilst it's stood up it ends up trapping my hands

USB cables and having the correct type of cable to charge my device

My Husband

Hosepipes. Claims to be kink free - it’s not. It hooks onto every protruding object that is impossible to hook round every time it’s moved more than a few feet.

The office printer. Every time it runs out of paper you have to press buttons about half a dozen times and put the paper tray in and out before it registers it has more paper. It also has to have extremely expensive original ink cartridges because of the stupid impossible to remove microchip thing.

The new hand wash dispenser. I cannot get the squirty thing to pump it out despite twirling it about 100 times. I usually end up putting the old one on the new bottle which someone else managed to do.

@theemmadilemma I thought you were supoosed to turn them upside down to make them go flat? Its what I always do.

The flex on the sodding hoover.
I now have a cordless and for the first time ever quite enjoy hoovering.

I changes all the handles in my house to knobs as I was ruining so many jackets and tops on the bloody things.

Added bonus it took ages for the kids to work out how to use them so was able to keep them downstairs with no need for stairgates.

Foreign basin taps
Each one is designed differently - all flummox me!