What modern invention is meant to be helpful but is the opposite?

[HippyDays]

Snooze button…

I’m so used to it now I sleep through for ages hitting snooze. So today when I really had to get up early I didn’t. And missed my train.

I am blaming the invention of snooze rather than admit my own imperfection 😁

This is genius. But make it £1.

And the ink costs more than the actual printer.

The internet.

Modern car headlamps. Your car is blinding me and I nearly drove into the ditch.

Modern cars taking away the CD players.

Having to have a subscription for everything.

Agree. It's so bloody distracting- it has to be dangerous! Why can't you mute all the noises like you can on your phone?

Likewise, I don't really need my washing machine going on at me to tell me the wash has finished. I'll hang it out in my own time, thanks.

Yes this. What’s wrong with a recycled paper towel?

Likewise, I don't really need my washing machine going on at me to tell me the wash has finished. I'll hang it out in my own time, thanks

My microwave beeps FIVE times when it’s finished, as if the light going out and the whirring stopping and the clock displaying 00:00 isn’t enough of an indicator. I usually yank the door open with a few seconds to go because is so annoying.

I agree with loads of these.

Tesla have replaced the indicator stick with a button on the steering wheel. So if you are turning right on a mini roundabout, the indicator can be on the opposite side of the wheel to normal and upside down. I absolutely hate it and think it's an accident waiting to happen.

I hoped that the washing machine persistently beeping might persuade/enlighten other family members of its existence but weirdly they zone out its fucking annoying beeping and ignore just as before! If DH is about 1 metre away from it, he will turn off the beeping (but wouldn't contemplate hanging out the washing!)

Smartphones.

Nope but I have arthritis in them, and in my fingers so for me they are a wonderful invention.

Those horrible dyson hand dryers. Especially when installed in an accessible toilet. You have to be able to stand up and bend over with no support.

Everything that beeps. Make it stop!

The internet.

I have dyspraxia and chopping garlic is beyond my capability, also some of the items mentioned are invaluable if you have any type of disability

Self service machines in shops.

Automated stages in call centres.

Chat bots on company websites (never, ever, not once, zero times, zilch, nada has a chat bot been able to help me).

Joking aside, whilst they may seem an unnecessary indulgence for people with healthy hands and wrists, those of use with arthritis nerve damage, general weakness or problems with grip etc. find them extremely useful.

On a bad day, with only a standard grinder available, the result would probably be to just go without being able to have any salt or pepper.

Ours beeps and pings with "Service now!" On the screen - once when you turn on the ignition and again when you've been going for 30 seconds.

Yes, it does need a service sometime, but it's irritating when they use an alert alarm to cry wolf over something that isn't in any way urgent. Even the refuel warning only pings once!

If you have dexterity problems like I do they’re brilliant. M.S doesn’t always let your body do what you want it to 🤷‍♀️

spiralisers. Just… why?

I remember seeing an advert for one when they first came out saying something along the lines of: “want to eat healthily, next time you make bolognese, instead of spaghetti you can use your spiraliser to make courgette ribbons instead. Delicious and healthy.

Erm. No.

There must be hundreds of thousands of the things in cupboards and charity shops up and down the country.

I have a work one, so I don't have to pay for the ink myself; but it's so needy and (presumably deliberately designed to) lies to me that the toner is empty. I have to press it on startup to acknowledge that I know that there's no ink left whatsoever (even just to use the scanner), before going on to print normally for another three or four months, before the toner really runs out.

Also, the way it warns about 'counterfeit' toner and how it can damage your machine beyond repair. Third party compatible inks - that never claim to be official Canon products - are not counterfeit, and, if bought from somewhere reputable, are perfectly fine - but it clearly serves their purposes (and profits) to class them as though they are.

They can be a pain at self check out if the manufacturer has the bar and qr codes next to each other

Customer services where you get choose from 5 options then choose from another 4 options for about 20 mins, instead of getting to the correct person you never get to speak to a real person at all, then just as you think you might be getting somewhere you get timed out of the call and get cut off.
On the subject of washing machines why have timer countdowns at all THEY LIE.
Paper shopping bags, some shops have them instead of plastic bags as supposedly more sustainable but you have to pay for either sort, fair enough if I’ve forgotten my fold away bag but I have never managed to get one of the paper bags home without one of the sides ripping or the handles tearing clean off.

Arthritis, chronic tendonitis, only having one hand...

Can I ask, the Lakeland garlic slice and dice or the Lakeland garlic rocker?

Oh yes, especially on trains. It's bad enough having to use the loo on one in the first place 😔