Today in small things causing disproportionately large levels of irritation. 

"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion) 01/09/2018 at 22:05 • Filed to: Homeownership101

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The crew redoing my Condominium’s entryways (six months and we’re a third of the way done. Efficient!) is just finishing putting a completely unnecessary central guardrail on the landing. Thus adding about three extra feet I will need to walk every time going between my home and car. Who decided this was a thing that was needed? Gahhhhh

Look at that top picture. See how close the generic crossover is to the rail? Squeezing between there with grocery bags? Good luck. Putting in new appliances? Better hope the neighbor isn’t home.

To the clipboard-toting, pencil-pusher that decided this walkway needed more safety or whatever... Know this. If there is an afterlife, your place in it has been determined.

And don’t even get me started on the fence that’s been painted 90% of the way, left for four months, touched up slightly and still had yet to be finished. It’s a 100ft fence for crying out loud....

:End rant:

Ps: do people buy eggs at the grocery market without opening the carton and checking for cracks? An employee said I was strange for checking things at the store....

Spanfeller is a twat > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:12

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I don´t think anyone checks for that, but having an an employee say you´re strange because of it seems of bad taste on their side... what an unkind and uneducated person!

WilliamsSW > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:12

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I would NEVER buy a carton of eggs without opening them. Learned that from my mom, doesn’t everyone do that?

CB > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:13

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Always check for cracks on your eggs. I thought that was common.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:13

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ALWAYS CHECK THE EGGS!

AestheticsInMotion > WilliamsSW 01/09/2018 at 22:14

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Right?! Okay, I’m not crazy

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:15

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Counterpoint: people who block the door to the eggs while slowly checking 10 different cartons like they’re browsing at a fucking library need to get the fuck out of the way so people with a sense of common courtesy can get their damn eggs. If I have to pick up a second carton due to a first one having a cracked egg, I will always pick between the two. I’m not opening a third while people wait patiently behind me.

WilliamsSW > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:17

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No, you’re not. And the guard rail is idiotic too.

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/09/2018 at 22:20

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Fair point. I’ve gone grocery shopping after 9pm for years now so I normally don’t see too many other people

AestheticsInMotion > WilliamsSW 01/09/2018 at 22:21

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Some much needed validation. As soon as my sweet potato fries finish up, all shall be good again

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:21

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There are people that don’t check the eggs? I thought that was why they were in those easy to open/close containers.

AestheticsInMotion > Spanfeller is a twat 01/09/2018 at 22:24

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Maybe it’s a US thing? Do you just assume the eggs are fine? (genuinely curious, not being sarcastic)

WilliamsSW > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:26

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There you go-

Spanfeller is a twat > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:31

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The eggs we buy come either in a clear package that can be inspected without opening (That corn based plastic that is flimsy as fuck) it or in a cardboard package that cannot be opened without tearing a tag(but it has holes that show part of the egg shell. Perhaps for inspection, come to think about it) I can´t say I´ve personally ever checked the eggs whenever it´s my responsibility to buy them, perhaps my sisters or my parents do, but I´ve never had the rotten luck of finding a cracked one.

I go to a very small supermarket near my home, and I´ve noticed that they have people check the products on the aisles often so even then they probably spot the problem eggs quite quickly.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:32

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I always check to see if all the eggs are fine. You never know if someone broke an egg and placed it back in there.

Spanfeller is a twat > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 01/09/2018 at 22:40

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There´s a door to the shelf where the eggs are in your supermarket?

You see, that´s why you guys live in a first world country and I live in a third world country: we have fewer doors...

MM54 > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:51

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I have bought eggs in years (my dad has chickens) but yes, always check them.

That railing is also very stupidly placed.

Jayvincent > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 22:54

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A battery operated sawzall could improve that central guardrail in 10 minutes flat. Leave the post, remove the cross-bars...

haveacarortwoorthree2 > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 23:18

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Railing for ADA reasons? And always check the eggs. But that doesn’t mean inspect each one by pulling it out of the carton. And it also doesn’t mean mixing and matching out of different cartons, both of which I have seen people do.

His Stigness > AestheticsInMotion 01/09/2018 at 23:35

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Just show them who’s boss and hurt yourself while moving an appliance. That will show them to put in that stupid guardrail.

And I’m not being sarcastic at all. That is the dumbest thing ever.

AestheticsInMotion > Jayvincent 01/10/2018 at 00:11

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With the quality of work these guys do (and my HOA pays for, if we’re being honest) I’m guessing I could just lift the railing out of the oversized holes and carry the thing to the dumpster.

AestheticsInMotion > haveacarortwoorthree2 01/10/2018 at 00:12

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Most likely. And yes, there is a limit. I occasionally find cracked eggs that I wouldn’t have noticed without lifting individual ones, but I’m not about to do that in the store

AestheticsInMotion > MM54 01/10/2018 at 00:13

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I would like some chickens. Need a house for that unfortunately. And I feel like the desire to try fresh chicken would be too strong for me to keep any to hatch eggs...

AestheticsInMotion > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 01/10/2018 at 00:14

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There are some strange, and clueless people out there

garagemonkee > AestheticsInMotion 01/10/2018 at 00:47

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I don’t buy the railing-for-regulation excuse. That’s railing-for-profit. They probably charged a fuckton for a dumb rail, and will remove it, for a price, when the condo company says it’s dumb, because the condo company signed off on the design.

Stapleface > AestheticsInMotion 01/10/2018 at 07:08

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Unless they’re going to redo the entire parking lot, that railing just doesn’t make sense. The crossed lines in the parking lot lead up to the railing. They’ve essentially built something that impedes foot traffic. That can’t be ADA compliant.

Or, the idiots who installed the railing installed it wrong. Perhaps it was supposed to go where the temporary wooden railing is, closest to the building?