Every day we are required to perform a multitude of tasks, most of which we do without thinking. Clever us. But every now and then, something crops up and foxes us, throwing a spanner into our meticulously well-oiled works. Please share your experiences of difficult tasks that really should be a breeze.
#1
Here's mine: microwaving your dinner. There's a number of reasons for this. First off, the theory is that you put your dinner on a plate, bung it in and set it going. Then, magically, your dinner comes out steaming hot throughout on a cool plate that you can pick up with naked fingers. Straight out of Star Trek. Has that actually ever happened to anybody? Because I strongly believe that we were sold this technology on a lie!
Half your meal comes out so hot that the sun is jealous and the other half is as frozen as that six-year-old mince in the back of your freezer!!! How can those two states even exist together within a plate width? It's the food equivalent of having a desert on an iceberg. One must surely overcome the other. But you're hungry so you're like, 'ok, I'll eat what I can', and, because you're in a rush (nobody uses the microwave if they have time to reheat. If you had that sort of time, you could've cooked a REAL meal.), you grab it and OH SWEET JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR! that plate is hot. Hotter than the boiler room of hell. Then, swearing. Enjoy your meal!
To summarize, you trust this machine to do what it claims, dinner plus timer equals 'Ping!' happy dinnertime. What you get is cold food and burnt fingers. And why tf is that 'Ping!' so cheerful and pleased with itself? It's dishonest, that's why. It should be a low, gratingly irritating buzzer. That would be closer to the truth. Yes, I know. That's a lot of words just to say my lunch was frozen and my fingers are burnt. And I am cross. Cross enough to start a thread. Yes, that cross.
10points
#2
Math. Almost any kind of math.
10points
#3
Waking up. I should be able to turn off my alarm when it goes off and get up. Instead I learned how to turn off my alarm while I was half asleep so I could go back to bed
6points