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?

Clingfilm of course, but I still use it most days

also maps, I know most people use their phones but I love paper maps. Just wish I was better at folding them

Blinds. Utter, utter bastards.

Teenagers.

Coat hangers fill me with rage

Packets/boxes/punnets with the cellophane lid. I would like to lift a corner and peel off the lid.
But no.
Having broken my nails trying to lift any part at all, it then comes away in 1000 little shreds of cellophane that cling to everything.

😄@theemmadilemma

@Wonderwhyibother , you have just reminded me. Last winter i lost the ability to zip up my own winter coat. It's long so I'm in this stooped position for several minutes before getting the thing to work. And often this is a public display as i leave home comfortable with it unzipped, then turn a corner, get blasted by a wind tunnel and there's me crouching over my stupid zip for far too long.

That's the plan, just can't justify it until Henry dies (a non premature death) as not long got him 😖

Flog him?
As in sell, rather than beat...

Corners (bed frame/tables etc). If there’s a corner I will bash me shin /hip on it. I am never without a bruise on these areas. I need to baby-proof my house with those rubber stick on safety corners things!

Fitted fucking sheets that pop off the corners as soon as I move around in bed can fuck off.

Stairs, the narrow slippery bastards have caused a fair few broken bones and dislocated both shoulders (shudder) over the years.

Clothes horse needs 2 pairs of hands to open it at the same time as you need to squeeze a clip on each side. That can go in the bin!

Photocopiers; printers; and the automatic door at my workplace, which apparently has defective sensors and often tries to shut on me and knock me down when I'm still going through!

@Afonavon ,i discovered last year that you can buy clips for this very purpose, cheap off amazon. I just use the triangles one around each corner.

Apple TV remotes, have two Apple TV units in the house one old and one new. Apple in their wisdom changed the layout and functions of the remote. Even now I’m muting the tv when I mean to be going back to the main menu. Much prefer the old layout without the wheel thingy

Constantly argue with my Dyson animal ball that never stays upright when using the wand and I’m unconvinced a cordless one has enough power to truly clean my home.

Yes. I believe sentient aliens exist and have come to live among us, disguised, just to fuck with our heads, and I believe they have disguised themselves as printer-photocopiers. Those bastards are both sentient and evil. I have no other explanation for how they work.

Henry fucking hoover

Gets stuck everytime I use it

The shower curtain in my old flat. We changed the shower head to a more powerful one but that did something weird to the airflow, so the bloody shower curtain would get sucked towards me every time I had a shower.

I can still feel the damp, acrylic fucker getting stuck to my wet body. We were moving otherwise I would have done something about it!

My husband....