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?

Diabetic pump tubing getting caught on door handles. Ouch.

I've taken to wearing loose fitting trousers with deep pockets. My pocket keeps getting caught on the arm of the office chairs such that I'm caught just an inch or two above the seat.

I've now rtft and I'm laughing that so many of us read @theemmadilemma and thought "now here's something i can help with!".

The stair gate we have for the dog; always banging my feet and especially my toes on the metal bar and trying to undo it is a feat beyond me
I agree with showers always spoil holidays they are all different and don't work I end up having cold showers

Printers. Mine at home, the one at work, and every other printer I've come into contact with really. I just don't understand how they fail to do the one job they exist for in so many different ways and at such a high rate. They give me pure rage way more often than printed documents.

I'm going to need to test and score each way out of 10! 😂

I work in pharmacy. If you ask your pharmacist they should be able to provide special arthritis friendly lids with wings that are easier, you just have to keep them out of the reach of children. Also, my friend uses the door frame to open other bottles, puts the lid in the gap by the hinge, pulls the door shut to trap the lid and turns the bottle to open/loosen. Maybe this would help you?

There are many things that piss me off to the back teeth, just some of them are:

Zips - cannot for the life of me do my sodding coat up without getting my fingers trapped

Laces - at 41 I still have to do double knots or they come undone

Wired headphones - no matter how tidy I put them away at the end of the day the following morning they are more tangled than spaghetti junction

But my absolute worst is Henry hoover. I hate that fecker. Every time I have to use him I want to boot him into oblivion. Hose always twist on itself, always trips over when he hits the smallest object/stone/crumb and the cord always tangles when you wind it in. Worst purchase ever.

I have trouble with one of 6 identical chairs at work. They're at workstations and have to be up quite high to be comfortable. Every time I sit on it it gradually sinks, then drops, leaving me with my hands above my head... No one else has a problem with it and I can happily sit for hours at any of the other 5, lol.

I came on to say Cling film 😆

Rechargeable batteries on garden power tools like hedge trimmers. You have to press and pull at the same time, and my arthritic hands just can't do it.

Tap all round the edge of the lid with the blunt edge of a knife, then try.

Cling film. Should be banned 🤯

Another one for my rubbish hands. You have to slide the top and bottom apart until.the hunged bit can be folded out, giving access to the needles. Sometimes they need a bit of a squeeze and sometimes it's the last thing they want. I have covid so my hands are extra stiff and feeble, at the moment. I spent ages swearing at this bugger, this morning and I need to remember to leave it not quite shut or I'll have to do the same again.

Superglue. No matter how careful I am I always seem to stick myself to the table, the item to the table, my fingers to the item, you get the idea. The most memorable time was when I stuck my jeans to my leg (a drop had escaped and I hadn't noticed).

I am now banned from using it.

Door knobs and hinges etc, always getting clothes stuck on them and getting dragged back

The childproof lids on laundry tablet containers. Dc are old enough that I don't need to close the lid or keep them out of reach but dd (10) had seen the safety advice on one of the adverts and helpfully closed the lid. I couldn't open it and ended up breaking the lid to get into it.

You need to label them. I have a labelling machine ( adhesive tape) so all the switches are labelled. So are plugs when they are side by side as in ‘mixer’ and ‘toaster ‘. This has saved some stress , particularly with guests and in frequent users ( looking at you DH) .

before I got the machine ( not its primary purpose) I used masking tape.

Whoever was moaning about usb cables - the best thing I did was get a bunch of cable labels off amazon. Every cable that now comes into the house is instantly labelled. It saves so much time!

And as I'm now moving house I'm running around with my handy labels catching every single power and charging cable that hasn't already had a label whacked on it.

The drawer handles in our kitchen that catch on everything - pockets, sleeves, belt loops...

The kitchen door handle that only catches if you wiggle it in a certain way and then only opens again if you wiggle it before giving it a shove with your foot. Yes, we should replace it, but that for goes through handles like you wouldn't believe and I don't know why!

Cling film. Enough said.

The clothes dryer. Stupid thing takes ages to dry anything, socks fall off it all the time and it randomly turns itself off I told dh we should have got the expensive one from Lakeland

The printer. It hates me and won't print anything I tell it to. Until dh next uses it and then it spews out 6 copies of everything I've ever asked it to print since we bought it.

@Wonderwhyibother you need an upright cordless. You have to empty them a lot but mine is dead easy. It's quieter, it's easier to carry (weighs sod all), there is no bloody flex getting snagged on everything and mine even has little headlights at the front so you can see under the bed.

TV - I want one TV with one remote
control and BBC1 and 2, ITV and Channels 4 and 5. I want to turn the TV on and off, change between my five channels and increase and lower volume. I don’t want apps or catch up or anything else but it seems an impossible
quest.

Printers. Always printers. They are evil.

You have to be a bloody safe cracker to get a hotel shower at the right pressure/temperature.