I know it shouldn't be making me angry but It just is.
They've put scaffolding up around my block and now at some point every day I have to unplug the router and tv to reset the bloody things.
And to make it worse, there's nobody doing any work yet so it could be here for months.
Why does it even interfere with the WiFi π€·ββοΈπ€·ββοΈπ€·ββοΈ
Rant over. Apologies.
Yeah? Well my Uber driver's car had a sunflower seed on the seat!! Totally ruined my day!
shareIt is a first world problem, but a fair complaint especially since you acknowledge it's a first world problem.
shareEvery tuesday a "landscaper" ( guy who mows lawns ) mows two yards behind me first thing in the AM using a zero-turn riding mower that sounds like, and is as loud as a turboprop commuter airliner doing a high power run-up. Then it's a two-stoke weed wacker. Then it's running one of those infernally noise-polluting two-stroke backback blowers never to blow stuff into a pile and collect said stuff, but just to blow it all over in the hopes no one will notice it...it sounds like a 20-minute long motocross competition. Then all the dust, debris and crap that coats our cars and properties and the street.
This is done two hours before my wake-up time: just late enough to prevent me from falling fully back to sleep. I'm an ass-dragging foul-mooded mess the whole day at work.
Oooooh I hate my sleep being interrupted. I'd be in a foul mood too!
shareMy favorite supermarket added the self-checkout registers but since I always purchase produce, it has effectively reduced the number of registers I have access to. Outrageous!
The auto-correct on my phone constantly changes perfectly spelled words into other words that I do not want it to. Every text I compose is a backspace fight! Sometimes I have to change one word back to what I want three times. Reprehensible!
That is annoying with predictive text.
shareI always turn off predictive text. It's maddening.
shareScaffolding is a big issue in NYC.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/01/devine-scaffolding-has-taken-over-new-york-city/
https://nypost.com/2019/12/03/some-scaffolds-in-nyc-have-been-up-for-more-than-13-years/
https://streeteasy.com/blog/scaffolding-nyc-why-so-much-scaffolding-new-york-city/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/style/scaffolding-new-york-city.html
Some has been there 13 years!
shareIt's become something of a bad joke. Unless you are in a residential neighborhood of houses you can't walk more than a few blocks without encountering scaffolding.
shareThe scaffolding is everywhere in The Bronx and yes, it always stays up for years
As a former New York boy you might like to hear that the 1920s Loew's Theater on The Grand Concourse has been surrounded by scaffolding this week for a much needed renoπ
Hopefully they fix up the rest of the area lol