Things that irk you......

Curious MTM. Do you also ignore instructions on products you use also created by large corporations who presumably did some research and testing? Like say, chainsaws, speedboat engines and fireworks?

 

I have to agree with MTM, though, the same thing irks me.
I follow the instructions, but it annoys me to stop the microwave, stir the swedish meatballs and put it back in the microwave.

 

One reason it irks me too is that it's often hard to peel back the covering in a way that doesn't either make a mess or make it hard to lay it back over the freshly stirred potatoes-like mush below it (at least with the cheap microwave dinners I buy). This is more problematic on a 30-minute dinner break in a break room with an awful microwave.

 

As long as we're on this subject ... when you're done nuking your meal, clean up the mess you left in the microwave.

It irks me when my teenagers do it at home. It really irks me when my coworkers do it at work — or worse, leave a half-cooked frozen dinner in the microwave because they were called away and forgot about it.

 

If you reheat any sizable portion of anything in the microwave, you need to heat it for a couple of minutes and stir it up, and then heat it for a few more minutes. Helps it cook evenly. Otherwise, the top layers get warm but the insides stay cold.
It's just part of using a microwave. Has nothing to do with the prepared dinners.

 

And if you heat up fish and/or greens in an office microwave, that's trending close to grounds for justifiable homicide.

 

Must be nice to have so much free time.
Some of us are really busy, you know.
Very important stuff to do.

 

I worked with an older Chinese guy for a while. My lunch breaks extended to a few hours to avoid the horrific stench of whatever crap he heated up that day. I swear the dude was plumbing the sewers for food.

 

People who blast their car stereo while filling up with gas.

It always seems to be music heavy in bass, so it shakes the whole station. I truly appreciate it when the lyrics are full of foul language.

 

People who don't acknowledge common courtesy.
I was walking into Chick-Fil-A at lunch and there was a woman trying to juggle two young grandkids, her order and her purse. I held the door open for them for a good 15 seconds while she gathered her stuff and walked through, and she didn't so much as give a rushed "thanks" as she breezed past. No eye contact at all.

 

All too common. Like the people who don't acknowledge you when you let them merge into traffic. Of course they're usually the same assholes who decide to block one direction as they try to merge going the opposite direction.