46 Rants From People Who Clearly Reached Their Limit With Someone’s Nonsense

I live on staten island in NYC, which has one of the highest italian-american populations in the USA. I'm half italian....

But thats my ethnicity. Not my identity. Im an american dude, living in america, surrounded by american culture. These tiktokers and these insta pages "growing up italian" , "only italians would get this" ..... SHUT. UP. Real italians laugh at us when we claim we're italian. Yes you have italian roots; yes. But unless you are first generation directly from Italy, you are American. Stop talking about how italian you are. You're a mcdonalds-eating American. Everyone in the USA comes from elsewhere. But here we are now-- in America. You are American, get over it.

I swear they're like paulie in that Sopranos episode when they go italy and he thinks he's part of the culture while the legit italian natives think he's cringe / a total joke.

You and all the other streamers up. I'm not gonna pay 50+ dollars for several streaming services, just to be switching between them and looking for the movie I wanted to watch.

I'm going back to pirating movies, because you forgot the most important thing: People are paying you because you're slightly more convenient than downloading the movie upfront.

But due to the fact I actually have to check a website first, to see where can I find the movie on one of my five streaming services... Yeah, some of you need to go bankrupt.

In the meantime, I'll connect my NAS storage to my TV.

BTW don't be bummed, I did not cancel only you, I cancelled ALL subscriptions.

Byeeeeee

I know I cant be the only one that gets irritated when either big tech or major retail CEOs complain of employees looking for work life balance. People like Elon Musk and recently the CEO of Skims have vocalized their frustration with work life balance often implying that people dont want to be leaders or are being lazy by requesting for more accomodating work environments. As if these arent the same companies that laid off thousands of works at the drop of the hat over the past 2 years. I highly doubt that these ceos would deny that even though many employees went over and beyond expectations they were still laid off during the 2008 recession and even recently.

I'm over 60 years old. I've worked with my hands all my life, farming, production, car hobby, home maintenance. I have a garage stuffed with tools. I'm building a house currently. My grip is fine, thank you.

More and more men recently think a handshake is some sort of competition, and they intend to win. I can feel my knuckle bones colliding. I might actually take an injury soon.

Why?

I like using cash. It's easier for me to budget when I can physically see bills. I know it's my fault I'm still using coins and bills in 2025. I'm at least trying to make it easier for both of us though.

I go to get a meal. Cashier tells me it's $19.15 I hand them 20.15

They smile at me, and tell me I gave them too much, and ring in a 20. I end up with a fist full of coins.

I go to the grocery store. They tell me it's $91.25 I hand over a C-note, a dollar, and a quarter. They hand me back the dollar and quarter, a pitying look on their face at me: the one who doesn't know a hundred dollar bill would have covered the tab. I beg them. Please. You don't have to trust me. Just punch in the amount I gave you. I promise, it will make sense.

But no. My coin jar grows ever heavier.

My family owns a large estate near a major city. It was used for farming and hunting many years ago, but now it is mostly wooded land with a beautiful lake. The house sits deep within the property, and it takes a bit of a drive to reach it. At the moment, it is just my partner, our dog, and me living here.

Although there are signs that mark the land as private property, we have always been happy to see people from the city come to enjoy it. Many use the space for walking, hiking, fishing, or letting their dogs run. It is only about fifteen or twenty minutes from downtown, and we have never had an issue as long as people keep their distance from the house and do not cross the gate into the backyard.

Lately, however, a particular group has started visiting with their dogs. They have been arguing with other visitors, insisting that dogs should always be on a leash. They even told me to leash my own dog, despite me explaining several times that this is private property and I live here. Most recently, they began putting up signs that say dogs must be leashed. I took the signs down.

The situation is becoming increasingly frustrating. I am beginning to feel that I may need to fence off the entire property and restrict access altogether. That thought saddens me. I have always enjoyed watching people explore and appreciate the land where I grew up. It was a place of freedom and joy for me as a child, and I wanted others to share in that experience. But I am no longer sure that is possible

Update: Thank you all for the thoughtful comments and unexpected show of support. A few have raised legal concerns. While appreciated, the laws here in the UK differ from those in the US. We do carry liability insurance, though the duty of care is less stringent. We have added signs noting this is private land and that some byelaws are not applicable. These woods have been enjoyed for generations, and we have no plans to restrict access. We just want our dog to enjoy herself in our land the same way that others let their dog enjoy their backyard.

There's a line between professionalism and tight jerks and everything seems to be run by tight jerks.

It used to be fun to go places. Everything was pleasantly colored and everything had a fun mascot. McDonald's used to have cheeseburger chairs for god's sake.

We used to be real people that made mundane life enjoyable to experience. Now everything is just corporate beige and you're an jerk for expecting a little fun while you grocery shop.

Nothing in this world will ever be as disappointing as watching that side of life die out slowly before you got a chance to experience it.

Not like super p****d off over this, just a teeny 🤏🏾 bit irked and had to get this off my chest.

So I work at my Uni's buffet style dining hall thing. Recently, and the start of the semester, we started these things called allergy meals. They're meals without the 9 major allergens, plus no gluten, plus whatever else the people who signed up for it are allergic to. So basically anyone who is getting these meals has a f**k ton of allergies and can't really eat anywhere or anything else.

Now, there's this girl that comes nearly every day to get her allergy meal, no complaints. Well recently she complained. Said the chicken was undercooked (turns out she lied and just thought it was "yucky" cause of a minor defect in one of the nuggets) and had us remake the meal. My coworkers and even the boss lady were b******g about the whole ordeal and the girl was sitting there crying at one of the tables over the whole thing. And I'm just sitting here like... am I the only one who feels kinda bad for her????

Like I get it. Remaking a perfectly good meal s***s. But I also get where the girl's coming from. Everyone else gets to go out to chick fil a and starbucks with their friends. Everyone else get to pick from all the fixings at the buffet. This girl gets ONE predetermined meal per day, and if it's gross she literally gets told "that s***s" by the boss lady (and I've seen the meals, sometimes they are gross. Roasted zuccini and celery? C'mon now). S**t I'd probably cry too if I had to live like that with so few options to eat in life. It just really pissed me off that they didn't feel the slightest bit bad for the girl. Just complaining because boohoo we have to remake the chicken nuggets 🙄

So first, if anyone is transphobic, move on. You don’t have to start, just get on with your life. So my partner is a trans woman. She isn’t super girly, she has quite long hair but dresses quite neutrally, she’ll wear a dress on occasion but she likes dungarees and stuff. I think it’s cute, but so many people act like if she’s not a girly girl in a very binary sense she’s not really trans and shouldn’t get to identify as a woman. It’s always cis people who say this, my parents for example, they’re accepting of her but seem to think she’s not “putting much effort in”. It’s as if not dressing like a drag queen makes you less valid somehow, and it’s infuriating! How other people identify is none of your business! And what’s scary is that in order to get gender affirming care, you have to live within very binary gender norms to prove to doctors that you’re really trans, so her not wanting to look like Barbie might affect her chances at getting the treatment she needs. It’s hard enough to be trans in this world without constantly having to prove it to cis people.

I’m sick of how many air-headed people, and people who are just out in the world not paying any attention to their surroundings

In the last 24 hours, I’ve had:

• My coworker walk right up to me, at my desk, and just start a conversation with me, fully seeing that I was on the phone with someone (a daily occurrence, and it’s not just my one coworker)

• I almost mowed down a random kid at the grocery store, with my shopping cart, because he ran out in front of me, from the aisle I was walking by. When I went by the aisle and looked to see where the kid’s guardian was, they were just chilling on their phone not even looking in the same direction as where their kid was running

• A car almost completely backed out from a parking spot into me as I was driving by. They didn’t do a slow careful creep out of their stop, they just floored it.

• Someone just stopped walking, with their shopping cart, right in front of the entrance to an aisle, to check on their phone, as I was turning into the aisle

• I saw someone walking their dog, but they were just standing in the middle of the sidewalk, talking to another neighbor, their dog just runs out into the middle of the street in front of a car. The dog was okay

• Walking into the gas station, I held the door open for someone and instead of walking through and thanking me, they stopped right in the doorway and just started looking around, holding up the entry way for me and the two people behind me

What is everyone’s deal? Why can’t anyone pay attention?

I mean, it won't happen tomorrow, but if it happened eventually, they wouldn't be the first huge company to disappear.

Update: I now know that if you call out McDonald's in a social media post that gets three quarters of a million views in 12 hours, and if your post has details they can match up to an online complaint form, you will get a personal phone call. 🤣 I'm not gonna turn down a free meal, but it's unlikely to affect my overall assessment, nor to increase the chances of me going there in the future. 🤷‍♂️

Now back to my original rant.....

It's like they're trying to drive away their customers. You pay a premium to order from a real person. To get a decent price you have to order through an app that is tedious to use. They actively discourage anyone from using their dining room. And don't even get me started on what has happened to their food.

But back to the customer experience, the last time I went to McDonald's I ordered through the app as was my usual routine. I went inside to pick up my food, because I've found that this is usually much faster. They gave me my food. No drink, and no cup to get it myself. I asked for a cup, and they said they couldn't give me one. Why not? The soda fountain in the dining room "doesn't work anymore" (their exact words).

What does "anymore" mean? Has McDonald's stopped letting customers get their own drinks? I never did find out what that meant [Edit: I have since learned that they are indeed phasing out self-serve refills in the US], but I explained that I'd ordered a meal and it was supposed to come with a drink. They said they were "working on it." Three employees were just standing around doing nothing. I begged for my drink. They just shrugged. Eventually, I decided that if this was the way it was going to be, I would leave without it and never set foot in a McDonald's again. And so that's what I did.

To me, things like this are signs of a deeply troubled company. I don't know how they can continue to stay in business long-term if this is the treatment their customers get.

Today, some guy rings my doorbell trying to sell me something. Before he can even get into his pitch, I say, “I’m not interested.” He hits me with the smug, “Not interested in what?”. Bro. Whatever you’re selling. I point at the sign on my door that clearly says No Soliciting and go, “It says right here. No soliciting.”

He starts mumbling something about whatever and I just shut the door. Like seriously, can you read? If you’re ignoring the sign and still pushing your trash on people, you’re either illiterate or just plain rude.

I am tired of people asking this stupid ass question. You know the answer!! Yes of course you have the free will to do whatever you want and ultimately it's probably better that you leave your fat partner because they deserve a shot at finding REAL love, but you are actually a huge jerk.

My Rationale: people don't gain a bunch of weight for no reason. There's always either something mental or physical happening that causes weight gain. Leaving someone because a symptom of their struggles is that they're not hot enough for you is gross behavior.

I work in a field where alcoholism is the norm. So I get it, we like to drink. I like to drink. It can be a fun time.

My dad used to be a raging alcoholic. It was bad. He'd wake up at 10 AM and drink right away. One time my mom forced him to call out of work as a bus driver because he had drank so much the morning before.

I hate seeing posts like "if you drink rum at 10 AM, youre not an alcoholic, youre a pirate" on Facebook. Listen, if youre on vacation that's one thing. If youre normalizing self destructive behavior and even glorifying it, youre doing no one any good. Its a problem that can ruin lives.

In 2019 I signed up for a membership at Planet Fitness.

In 2020, I moved into an apartment that had a free gym in the building so I tried to cancel the membership. They told me I had to come in person, at the location I signed up at in order to cancel or to send a hand written letter with my signature. I sent it. They said it was never received. I tried again. They said it was not correctly formatted. I tried again. And again. There was something wrong each time.

Eventually I called them furiously and demanded my membership be cancelled. They finally agreed to cancel it and to send me verification email of doing so. The email was never received and they continued to charge me. I called back and asked why I was being charged. They said the reason was because I was a member.

I called my bank and told them to block planet fitness from ever charging me again. They told me that in order to do so, I must show proof of a cancelled membership.

Today I’m still a member of planet fitness. I’ve spent $25/month without stepping into a planet fitness for 6 years. That is almost $2000.

Like seriously. I can NOT take a shower, work, or do anything that revolves around using YouTube as a music player, without EVERY SINGLE TIME I switch to a 2-3 minute song, an advert pops up. And not even a 5 second one, one of those god awful 1 minute or 30 second (Or even an HOUR LONG) long ads where you're FORCED to press Skip AD, or suffer through listening to a whole ad. And in SOME CASES, that isn't possible (Showering, Too Busy, etc). And with the #/2 ads showing up 99% of the time, it becomes EXTREMELY unbearable to use YT as a music player.

"Oh well just use an ad blocker. That way you don't have to deal with the ads." Yeah maybe before YouTube became a bunch of money-hungry thieves who decided to make an ad blocker repellent. Yes I AM aware there exists some ad blockers that bypass the YouTube Ad Blocker Repellent, but even then, phone users are essentially tied down to having to watch EVERY advert that shows up, due to Mobile YT's only choice on no ads being to purchase YT premium

"Then use the web browser version of YT on phone" Problem, they'll still detect your adblocker and forbid use of watching videos/listening to music. Unless there are SOME web blockers for phone, yeah no.

TL;DR, FFS YouTube, tone down on the adverts. And stop locking adblockers behind a paywall, like some greedy bastard.

My mom is in her 70s and was literally born before schools were desegregated in the U.S. to give you an idea of how much has changed throughout her life. She now lives in a different part of the U.S. in the same city as my husband and toddler. Not only have laws in the U.S. obviously changed in the past 70+ years, the part of the country she now lives in is very different culturally than where she grew up.

So, my husband and I had two large broken recliner type chairs that have been gathering dust in the corner of our living room for the past year. We finally got off our lazy a***s and got rid of them this past week. Now, where/when my mom grew up, illegal dumping of large objects was a BIG deal for some weird reason. I'm talking fines that, with today's inflation, would amount to thousands of dollars. Multiple offenses could land you in jail. For some reason her town HATED illegal dumping. So she grew up thinking it was somehow one step below m**der criminally and possibly mortally, too.

Where we live now, illegal dumping will get you a small fine and a finger wagging/lecture from your local police precinct. Therefore, my husband and I hired a licensed junk/large goods removal company to come pick our broken chairs up. It was easy, relatively cheap, and above all... legal.

Despite showing my mom legal statutes proving to her that we did everything above book, she remains convinced that we broke the law and will probably go to jail. She's gone so far as to consult a custody lawyer about how to get custody of our toddler not if but when we go to jail for "illegal dumping" and was pretty much laughed out of the office.

I know we've done nothing wrong and aren't at risk of being fined, arrested, or having our child taken away; I'm just exhausted and annoyed as all f**k 🙃

This happened 2 days ago and I'm still so confused.

I went to this taco place in my city and my order rang up to $12.78 so I gave the cashier $13. He hands me my receipt then walks off and I'm like umm you forgot my change...? He then proceeded to tell me "oh we don't do that here."

DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T DO THAT HERE?!?!?! I know it's only 22 cents but your girl needs every penny she can get! This same guy also didn't give me my change last time I was there which I noticed but I was just like "oh he must've forgot, I can live without the $0.15". Not giving back change at all though? What kind of money laundering scheme is this?!?!?.

Upon further reflection, I think this guy just can't count. He's one of those college hunks, beauty with a little daftness but like...my money (sheds tear)

They're lucky I have social anxiety lol

Genuinely, what the hell is this mentality that “you don’t own anyone anything” yeah you do? basic human kindness?? i just saw people on tiktok discussing whether watching g*re is okay or not. This shouldn’t even be a question??? It’s. a. crime. Do these people even acknowledge the fact that those are real crimes??? real people????? “It’s not that deep🥀🥀” but it literally is? Thats a person being cut open? What happened to us?? Why the hell are we going backwards?? Why is racism, homophobia, sexism so normalized again?? Why is everyone so insensitive now, saying whatever comes to mind? Why are people so comfortable sharing every single aspect of their lives, including things they should be ashamed about?? Its NOT NORMAL to watch g*re, c****balism, z***hilia, r**e tapes. I don’t care if you struggle, if its an a****tion, if that's your way to cope. Find other ways and literally seek help.

The goddamn Apple Store is so trendy these motherf**kers don't even use cash registers anymore. Like holy hell why would I ever want to wait in line to pay for my immensely overpriced lightning bolt-to-usb cable, when I can wander around aimlessly looking for the one bearded top knot in the grey shirt who happens to have a card reader attached to his free iPhone 6?

Literally f**king walked up a dude and was like 'Yo where's the till?' And guy looks at me straight in the f**king face and says, 'Oh well, there should be one or two people walking around on either side of the store who can process your payment.' ALL OF YOU DRESS EXACTLY THE SAME!

Am I supposed to accost every single goddamn one of you until I finally find the one goddamn anthropomorphisized Mac Computer who is willing to let me pay for this? And when I finally find the dude and let him tap his thing against the box that I'm trying to purchase, of course he gives me the smuggest smile I've ever seen on a human face and asks, 'Would you like to use Apple Pay?'

Like GOOD LORD can we please just take a step outside of your möbius circle and let me hand you fifteen pounds in cash? Cash money? Real physical tender? No it's okay, I don't need a receipt. What, you mean you're going to print me a real receipt? A physical receipt that I can carry in my pocket? You're not gonna beam it to my wrist? You're not going to send it via dropbox to an undisclosed IP Address where I have to complete a CAPTCHA and accept your terms and conditions for the one millionth time in order to check that, yes, I did just spend £20 pounds and 45 minutes on a thin wire made of plastic and metal that's gonna break in a month anyway? I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND THIS PLANET ANYMORE