Objects you irrationally hate

[Domoda]

What is your irrationally hated object?
Me - laptop chargers. Just so badly weighted with the heavy box bit in the middle so that they fall and slither off the table annoyingly. And just so flappy and floppy to deal with when trying to stash in my work bag. Hate the bastarding things.

The ones in our newly renovated local Coop don’t allow enough seconds for customers to place the scanned items in the bag. It’s utterly comical.

The M&S ones have a very peculiar scanning position. Also, some products have a qr code and a bar code and the machines get confused

The third stair from the bottom in our house. The previous owners seem to have replaced some part of it because that stair is an inch lower than it should be, which means if you don't know about the stair or forget it in a hurry, you will trip. And its just far enough from the bottom that you cant catch yourself and will land on the floor.
Its awful and I need to fix it, definitely before our kids can do the stairs.

On holiday one year there were lights under the bedside cupboard that gave just enough light to get me to the bathroom safely. DH bought similar for our bedroom.
Great idea yes?
The cats go tearing into our room and set it off , it’s like a football stadium light . I have to flip it over which defeats the purpose

I bought the George 3-in-1. It’s a great machine but very cumbersome. If I use it on the stairs I get DS or DD to hold it in case it crashes on top of me and I’m wiped out by a domestic appliance .
Though my DS does mutter darkly about how he could make it look like a “ terrible accident” and do his Daily Mail Sad Face

Livin you need one of these. No more stinky garlic presses!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07KSLX356?psc=1&ref=ppxpoppmobbbasin_title

Cat flea treatment. You get it all unwrapped and ready needing scissors to open the impenetrable packets, catch your cat who knows the game is up and tries to kill you, then go to put it on their neck and you realise the fucking nozzle needs to be pierced and nothing is coming out so you have to hang on to the cat while hacking the top off with the scissors whereupon it goes everywhere except on the cat.
I ended up wearing the flea treatment this morning and now have to go and buy more for £40 from the vet.
I know the cats will not come near me for ages.
But at least I know I am flea free I guess.

Another vote for elastic bands. I can't bear the smell the leave on your finger tips.

Tin foil/cling film.

Ice cube trays

Electric toothbrushes

I tried an electric motorbike once. It was eerily silent the whole way. I was able to enjoy the countryside on my ride in peace.
However most bikers prefer noisy bikes because car drivers try to kill you everyday if you are silent.

Same! I live in a house with single glazed windows and loud cars and motorbikes give me the absolute rage!

I think I'd have to add the lawn to this list it just keeps growing and growing no thought for the hayfever sufferer cutting it I swear it accelerates it growth when it sees me looking at it. Its a constant battle 😂

I have one of those in my house chosen by the last owners. It is very expensive and I hate it. There are so many things you can't put on it, and, yes, water. And it is touch screen control and you have to have perfectly clean fingers. In fact everything the last owners chose, tells me off for something...

Same, but I also live next to a traffic light controlled junction. So when they're not screaming or roaring straight past, they're at the lights and it's either

RRrr-rrr-RrRRr-rrrrr-RRrr- RRRR-Rr-Rr —
RRREEEEEEE-RREEEEEEE-REEEEEeee…

or

THRUMBLE-wumble-WUMBLE-wub-wub —
RRRAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHhhhhhhh…

All conversations have to stop when a loud bike goes past. When it's a really loud and sudden one, it spikes my adrenaline and heart rate and it takes ages to feel normal again, like when you're walking along and an emergency vehicle unexpectedly puts on its sirens as it drives past you. No nice summer afternoons or evenings in the garden are without the fucking auditory assault from bikes.

They choose to have them painfully, antisocially loud, and expect everyone to meekly back down when they claim it's for their safety rather than showing off

People

I don't mind self service checkouts but why do Boots have their weight sensor on the right when just about every other shop has it on the left?

Please place item in the bagging area - I bloody well have, oh no it's the wrong side. Every time...

Interior door handle that sneaks inside my dressing gown sleeve and stops me in my tracks!

Ha ha ha! Yes! Just when they’re in position you realise you need to cut the top off! Grrrr

Yep. I hated mine. Had to sweep then hoover afterwards to get rid of the tide marks.

The hand wash bottles (main culprit being the Tesco own brand) Push down to open and turn in the direction of the arrow. Nope. Unscrew it. Tighten it back up. Nothing. Then one last turn and push and it goes all over you.

Packets of ham/bacon/chicken with the stupid little corner bit that is supposed to let you peel it open but in reality just comes off so you have to stab in with a knife. Fucking useless shit.

Tights. All tights are shit. (Please don't tell me I just need to try Snag, Wolford or any other brand of tights. ALL tights are shit, without exception. I'm not taking any questions on this.)

Umbrellas. They blow inside-out at a whisper of a breeze, drip water everywhere when you put them down again to go into a shop, get in the way of everything when they're up, are a pain in the arse to dry out, and once the rain stops while you're out you then have to carry your wet brolly around like a horrible wet sausage for the rest of the day. Complete shite.

Printers and photocopiers. All terrible.

I hate them too. However, I believe they are to stop us choking to death as happened to Tennessee Williams.

I thought they were to stop us strewing plastic everywhere.

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There's a couple of speed indicator things near us with smiley-if under limit and cross if not. I don't even drive and I hate their judgement sanctimonious little faces. DH thinks its hysterical when I mutter "PA twat" at them.