Things that irk you......

Trying to order pizza/pizzas with a group of 3 people or more.
JFC, it's easier to achieve peace in the Middle East than it is to get a decent pizza (something other just a pepperoni) with any group of people.

 

Irked or embarrassed? You make the call ...

High school basketball official loses toupee during game

 

A lot of hotels, especially in tropical touristy places (I think Key West is ground zero for it) are getting in on that racket as well. The room will cost you $199, and then there's a $50 per day "resort fee" that you can't opt out of that gives you access to things like the nearby beach or recreational areas of the hotel. If you want to do something like parasail or get a massage you still have to pay extra for it. The resort fee just lets you get into those areas, whether you intend to use them or not.

 

The only extra fee I have paid at Motel 6 is a quarter to turn on the TV.

 

Las Vegas hotels do that too and most of the added items (daily paper, access to the gym, free wifi) are things you don't want to use or can work around.

 

You don't splurge and drop an extra quarter for the "Magic Fingers" on the bed?

 

I did that for myself once, and then did it several more times over the years for roadmates after that, just to wake them up. Funny what a fake earthquake does to people in deep sleep

 

I'm now extremely disappointed I never got the opportunity to do this in college when I still shared hotels with people other than my wife now.

 

I remember when we took family road trips and stayed at Motel 6 to save money, my mom would occasionally let me drop a quarter in there for shits and giggles. Looking back, maybe that was less a way to shut me up with a cheap laugh than it was for her to ... ummm ... relax.

 

Irked that the light switches in my house only go to the "on" position because my wife and kids never met a light that wasn't better to be on than off in an empty room.

 

Dilly Dilly.

 

Parents are hard of hearing and have had a few scares where they did not hear the smoke detector. Like once, I was working in the yard about 60 yards away and I heard it, but they did not. My sister got this smoke detector thing that vibrates the bed, flashes a light and says, "Fire! Fire!" in deep voice.

Went off. Scared the bejesus out of the two little dogs. Mother slept through it.