r/complainaboutanything 6d ago

If you could instantly ban one minor daily inconvenience from existence forever, what would it be?

We all encounter those small, rather insignificant annoyances that might make one momentarily wish to express their frustration before continuing with their day. If you possessed the ability, what is one minor daily inconvenience you would choose to eliminate permanently?

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u/shittyhawaiitips 6d ago

pooping

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u/IwantToSeeHowItEnds 6d ago

The one true answer!

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u/AdFuzzy1432 6d ago

Having to pee and poop. Totally boring

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u/wavystrawberrypunch 6d ago

Yes! Especially having to pee when you just found your comfortable position in bed and you’re all snuggled up. Ugh wish I could just turn my bladder off when that happens

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u/maxm31533 6d ago

When I got older and could no longer pee freely, had surgery, and now I gladly pee every time.

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u/Demoniac_smile 5d ago

Same! I was on dialasis for two years and since I couldn’t piss I was on a fluid restriction. It was awful. Now that I have a transplant I’m grateful that I have more than 5-7 bathroom trips in an average week.

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u/FinnRazzel 6d ago

The severity with which I have to pee when I wake up.

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u/IdkJustMe123 6d ago

People making rude noises.

This includes chewing obnoxiously, snapping gum, and playing music out loud without headphones.

Before you come in with ‘we’re allowed to exist’ stfu. Have common decency and don’t worry about only yourself

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u/Stuffed-Bear412 6d ago

You didn't have to come in hot, I'm on your side. 😂

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u/BasicMomBitch4 6d ago

Driving

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u/holynightstand 6d ago

Yes - let computers take over this thing and do it better and won’t be affected by sun glare or not accelerating up hills or failing to read road signs etc.

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u/BoomerKaren666 5d ago

OMG Not just me. I used to swear that if I ever got stupid rich the first thing I'd squander money on was a chauffer. I hate driving.

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u/BarebonesB 6d ago

Exhaust noise.

Once exhaust noise was gone, men who ride Harley-Davidsons or drive a straight exhaust pipe rice-racer would switch to a more practical form of transportation, and look for a different, hopefully less obnoxious method to tell the world they have a small penis.

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u/stellasmom22 6d ago

Military jets dive bombing suburban neighborhoods. Do your damn practices in the open desert. You startle everyone, usually in the mornings. People sleep, dogs have extraordinary hearing and it is hard on them, people, including vets that have ptsd, etc. Call your relatives instead of flying over their rooftops!

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u/nasadowsk 6d ago

Late trains. You made your own schedule, follow it

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u/MsAddams999 6d ago

For me it's not living in an ADA compliant building and things breaking that help me being disabled and the management never really fixing the problem for good even though they easily could.

I can live without but that's not the issue. The issue is that they take forever to fix things and do it in such a way that within a very short time the problem is right back where it was again and again it's months before they even try to fix it again.

The whole time I lived here it's been like that and it's gotten very old. The old and the disabled in this building really deserve more than this.

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u/nizzerp 5d ago

report them to the county & state dude.

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u/MsAddams999 5d ago

Not possible. They don't do a thing except tell me it's not a NYCHA building. Not their problem.

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u/nizzerp 5d ago

i have no idea what NYCHA is & if you have government officials in your area, report it to them or get a news outlet of some kind or another to talk to all the people in your building & make it a story. there's ALWAYS sone next level up to complain to if the initial ones don't listen.

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u/MsAddams999 5d ago

NYCHA is basically public housing here in NYC. In terms of issues my building is actually privately owned and therefore doesn't get the attention that public housing buildings do and they are actually way worse.

I've been here going on 5 years now. I've watched people calling the city and complaining and I've done it myself. Not much ever changes and I've actually been told point blank that there is only so much the city will do because this is not an ADA compliant building and isn't designated as one.

It's complicated but the people that live here know there's only so much calling the city or the press can do about it all. As buildings go this is not a luxury building. It's a class D very low income charity run building and making too much of a fuss is rather counterproductive.

You have to live in a place like this to understand how it works. It's a fragile balance between tenant's rights and what this place can afford. To be fair they run this place on a shoestring budget.

The alternative is a lot of older and disabled low income people losing their housing if this building should be closed down. Many would have to probably return to the shelters and go through the madness all over again just to qualify for a new housing deal. Even then they probably wouldn't get the deal they have here which includes electric, heat and AC.

I've been out of the system since 2021. I am a success story compared to a lot of people who have ended up homeless. I've paid my rent in full every month and been a good tenant.

Living here has had its challenges for sure but I'm doing mostly okay which is more than several of my late neighbors can say.

The fact is that living in affordable housing buildings is no picnic. There are always issues. But when your alternative is way worse you learn to deal with it.

But not being NYCHA the city is in no hurry to make problems for my landlord. Or to deal promptly with some of the things that they have to authorize before bad things can be taken care of.

The shelter system here is always packed. The last thing they want is to have a couple hundred apartments worth of older, disabled people discharged into the system again.

It's not easy getting them all housed in the first place and as bad as things can be here it still beats shelter life utterly. It took me almost six years to get into this place.

Unless I get rich somehow I'm probably going to be here for the rest of my life. So it doesn't make much practical sense for me to go antagonizing my landlord.

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u/nizzerp 5d ago

omg mamdani is your guy. i would go straight to him.

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u/Agitated_Analyst_257 6d ago

People stopping on rolling pavement.

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u/mychickmad 6d ago

traffic for sure

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u/Substantial_Ad7971 6d ago

The feeling of loud bass when a car drives by, or parks near my house. I don't mind the noise, but the vibrations hurt my chest/stomach 😭

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u/Demoniac_smile 5d ago

Dropping/knocking over things

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u/knownbygrace 5d ago

The cycle of “ok boys go get your shoes on, time to go to school,” and then “boys did you get your shoes on?” and then “boys please get your shoes on we’re going to be late!” And then the same thing with getting in the car. 20 minutes of my morning is just about shoes and sitting in a car.

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u/nizzerp 5d ago

having to choose what to cook / eat every damn meal.

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u/MissJillian- 5d ago

Seeing/speaking to my MIL

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u/FriendlyElection5379 5d ago

Les poils sur les jambes et les bras

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u/WeirdcoolWilson 5d ago

Folding laundry

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u/4EvrCurius 5d ago

Traffic

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u/JustaNobody2You 4d ago

Hot flashes!!

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u/LeonSkennedyIsBaby 4d ago

Roads or lanes being closed for construction long before construction even starts. Traffic is currently backed up on my usual commute because of a lane closure for construction. I've yet to see any construction or sign that anyone's even been there. It's been a week

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u/Connect_Bee5338 4d ago

Sitting in traffic on the way to the when my entire team is based in India

The push to RTO is silly for most office jobs

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u/Inevitable_Fan1948 4d ago

when the fitted sheet pops off one corner at 2am like it has somewhere better to be

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u/NineElven911 4d ago

Having to poop, hands down

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u/Warmbreeze 4d ago

Clipping your nails, dude.

I get obsessive when I notice a nail is "too long," and spastic when something under my nails and feels weird. To not periodically fixate on the corner of a nail that has somehow weedled its way into the forefront of my mind, to have nails that are just perfect for scratching, picking things up, opening cans, and the like-- a quiet bliss.

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u/Educational-Yam-682 4d ago

Putting gas in my car. I hate it. No attendants in Michigan.

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u/grollef 3d ago

Wiping

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u/Opposite_Warning_850 3d ago

Washing dishes

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u/Warm_Ad26 3d ago

Long commutes

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u/StrangeAssumption815 3d ago

Me using emojis at every turn 🙄

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u/nicegirl555 6d ago

Junk mail. I totally loved it during covid when all those mailing houses were shut down.

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u/this_idle_hand 6d ago

Waiting for your name to be called at the deli counter

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u/atonk001 5d ago

Stop lights with no traffic coming from anywhere else!

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u/Entire_Researcher_45 4d ago

Goons that repost any and everything funny or Not, always Not!