Things that irk you......

That's a good idea.

So... The next day I got an email from the vendor. They want me to take down my review and Amazon told them they would let me change it. "Reviews are a valuable tool for buyers" and I would be harming a small business. My review was straightforward and just-the-facts, unlike quite a few others that referred to them as thieves, con artists, etc. What wasn't mentioned in their email? What got them the bad review in the first place.

I took two running starts at sending them a response that did not include language I wouldn't want the local urchin contingent to hear until I managed to type a note that started with "Points for hubris, but..." and ended with ...consider this your additional feedback."

Someone in Seattle took over from there, gave me a date to expect my refund because they had read all the chat transcripts and looked at the communication with the vendor. To them, none of it was acceptable and they apologized. The end.

 

That’s no fun.

 

People who sit next to you in a restaurant when there's ton of other seats. This irked me pre-COVID, now it really pisses me off.

Experiencing it now. Was catching up on here at sub shop, not one other soul in here, and old woman comes in and plops down in table next to mine.

I'm out of here.

 

I, me

he, him

she, her

*sigh*

 

Soooooo, the LGBTQ community irks you. Good to know.

 

If it was a question of expressing recognition and respect for those who fall out of the narrow lanes of binary identity, it would be one thing. When it's used for marketing or cool table virtue signalling, it deserves all the eye rolls.

 

That’s fair.

 

Actually, it was none of that. It was my lifetime grammar confusion over which (what?) pronoun to use, as in

"Me and him'

"He and I"

etc.

No offense intended. But do go on.

 

Ah, carry on citizen.

I just have a jackass student who tried to push buttons by going on about pronouns just to see what I would do. Getting flashbacks of that.

 

Using gender-neutral pronouns in clinical charting has been suggested by a few people (who have probably never had to chart on 20 to 30 kids at the end of their workday.) I used to do 16-hour shifts in medical model psych and can't imagine having to stop myself every blessed time and switch "he/she" for "they/them" on an entry.

 

The new vehicles that are hands free driving.

 

Newfangled toenail clippers.