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What really grinds your gears?

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ChrisHB Apr 2018 11:37pm, 18 Apr 2018 16,488 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB This is a fast railway where I imagine trains from one direction do not have sight of the level crossing until it's too late.
Surrey Phil Apr 2018 8:28am, 19 Apr 2018 2,397 posts	Quote Pin Surrey Phil Likewise, I was in a traffic queue near Clapham on Tuesday afternoon. People around me hooting away when the reason is simply a set of traffic lights around the corner ahead.
WA Apr 2018 11:01pm, 19 Apr 2018 5,442 posts	Quote Pin WA When you put a few shirts in the washing machine and when you take them out the sleeves are ridiculously entwined and it takes forever to separate them Equally, when you put necklaces carefully in a box and do absolutely nothing to them. Why are they impossibly knotted when you come to take them out again?
Eynsham Red Apr 2018 7:25am, 20 Apr 2018 2,777 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red (Knot Pixies everywhere)
CharlieP Apr 2018 11:35am, 20 Apr 2018 1,104 posts	Quote Pin CharlieP People young enough to have never used a manual typewriter, who smash the keys on a laptop as though they're trying to punch straight through it.
alpenrose Apr 2018 1:58pm, 20 Apr 2018 32,794 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose Bluebottles and their relatives coming in as soon as you leave any doors and windows open.
z1000jeff Apr 2018 2:24pm, 20 Apr 2018 3,472 posts	Quote Pin z1000jeff [I get accused of that all the time Charlie ... but at least I have the excuse of being brought up on manuals. As you say, no excuse othewise.]
Seratonin Apr 2018 3:40pm, 20 Apr 2018 23,029 posts	Quote Pin Seratonin I am amazed that drivers don't bother slowing down or stopping for emergency vehicles on blues and twos anymore. This morning in the space of a couple of minutes I was gob-smacked that an ambulance and a police car couldn't overtake cars on the opposite side of the road because of twattish behaviour!
Lizzie W Apr 2018 3:44pm, 20 Apr 2018 17,606 posts	Quote Pin Lizzie W Those small black flies that come in the back door purely to fly in hexagons in the lamp shade.
alpenrose Apr 2018 7:04pm, 20 Apr 2018 32,804 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose People in the neighbourhood who start Kangol-ing their garden at 7p.m. on the first day in the year when you need to have all the windows open.