You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

Non-Phish General
#41

oh sorry, I wasn’t talking about your situation specifically, I just was reading the thread and it seemed to kinda take on a ‘playing games’ theme in general. I was just adding my 2 cents about the topic.

As far as ‘games’ people like to play, there are many of them. There is the ‘jealousy game’ (my old personal favorite), where you make your partner jealous by mentioning stupid shit like how attractive some other girl is, maybe a sister or good friend, or perhaps telling a story about what a fun time you had with one of your ex’s. There are ‘controlling games’, where you try to control things you and your partner do, or who your partner is ‘allowed’ to hang out with. There is the ever popular ‘guess why I’m pissed’ game, which only makes the situation worse and lengthens the whole process. There are ‘manipulation games’, where you try and overwhelm a situation to your favor by stretching truths or making outrageous accusations to garner opinion in your personal favor…these are just a few off the top of my head.

^^^the point is getting past all this nonsense. I used to take part in all that cause I thought that’s what relationships were about, but I fianlly realized that all of that is just a waste of time and resources. Once you learn to flow with the go in a relationship, then you really have success. People that are married for 50 years plus don’t do little petty bullshit like that to each other. They accept their mate for who they are and love them for it. just my little personal take on relationships.

#42

^man, all those games sound stupid. who comes up with this shit?

#43

^is that you, Glenn?
remember when we said we would get married if we were still 35 and single, haha!

#44

being in a long distance relationship that has gone on longer than planned grinds my gears. no games, really. just never seeing one another except every 4 to 6 months.

i’m about done.

#45

^^ The queen of awkward comments. :slight_smile:

Let’s see…what’s bugging me today? $1.25 for a cup of coffee seems a little obscene. I mean it can’t cost more than a few pennies per pot to make.

People that are still obsessed with the Heath Ledger as the Joker. Get over it.

People that spend a lot of time making a Halloween costume and then make me look bad because I just bought a $5 skeleton costume from the grocery store.

I guess my biggest thing is that work weeks are too damn long and I don’t feel like I have enough time to do all the things that I want to do. We should work 3 days and get 4 days off. It’s just that we’d need to work 3 14 hour days, but I’d take that over 5 8 hour days anytime.

What else? Harmonicas. I mean you need a different one for every key. Sounds like someone’s trying to pull a fast one on us. What if you had to buy a different guitar for each key you wanted to play in? Plus the people that play Harmonica and nothing else, but consider themselves musicians…fuck 'em.

I don’t like how a clip-on tie is considered any less professional than one you actually tie. If anything I think it should be the opposite way. Us pro’s don’t have time to tie a tie over and over in the morning to get it to look right.

When that girl at work ditches you for lunch because she needs to get a new Disney movie and then you’re like “why the hell do I want to go for lunch with her anyway?”…but yet your a pussy and tell her you can go tomorrow.

The social club. Like you have to be part of this club to be “social”.

People on pretty much every other discussion board except the OKP. I’ve ranted about that one before, so I’ll leave it be.

#46

People that stop suddenly in front of you in the street, when getting off the train, or any other walking based arena.
This woman completely stopped in the middle of the cheese isle today. There was another woman on the other side with two kids who was doing her own thing and the woman that had stopped was just standing there looking into space. I said excuse me to try and get past and she didn’t hear me so I had to say it again and she gave me a really dirty look and tutted as I went past. Bitch.

#47

^A similar thing happened to me today. I was going up a flight of stairs on my way to a class, and this group of girls were taking their sweet time ahead of me, completely blocking the stairs so I couldn’t walk around them. Then they actually stopped right in the middle of the stairway, blocking me and the 20 other kids behind me. I said “excuse me”, and pushed my way through them, and they looked at me like I was the one doing something wrong.

Also, The Messiah delaying the World Series grinds my gears a little.

#48

Harry: So you got fired again, eh?

Lloyd: Oh yeah. They always freak out when you leave the scene of an accident, ya’ know?

Harry: Yeah, well, I lost my job too.

Lloyd: Man, you are one pathetic loser. No offense.

Harry: No, none taken. You know what really chaps my ass though? I spent my life savings turning my van into a dog. The alarm alone cost me two hundred.

Lloyd: Hey, chicks love it. Its the shaggin’ wagon.

#49

My Wife and not in that good grinding way either…she can’t help it though she has a birth defect…She was born female.