What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[masseyrider]

On the other hand now that I am older not much gets me riled up. Peeves are mild. Besides which being pleasant make young people (that inexplicably took over things) much more inclined to not put me out on the ice flow.

Us old old farts had the foresight to raise world temperatures enough to do away with ice flows.
And, besides that the warmth feels good on our old rickety joints.

 

[MoKelly]

Us old old farts had the foresight to raise world temperatures enough to do away with ice flows.
And, besides that the warmth feels good on our old rickety joints.

Yep.

 

[bcp]

^^^^^Nome?




Bruce

 

[MoKelly]

^^^^^Nome?




Bruce

Southern Siberia!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Barrow Alaska in 2025 according to AL Gore

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's a good peeve:
Five minute jobs that take 5 hours!
Last night wife cooked pizza which some ran out into our brand new stove. She's using Easy Off and other non abrasive cleaners and needed my help, little bit that was left.
It's a GE/Hotpoint and step one is remove the door. I opened it a few inches and pull...it's locked so I fiddle with tiny hinge locks with small screwdriver. Finally door off and over an hour later (plastic knife & detergent) it's clean.
Now door back on which wouldn't go no matter what I did. Finally door in my lap I pry the little locks out and "BOOM!" both hinge springs send screwdriver across kitchen like a bullet. It would've killed me except it shot out away which imbedded in the wall (I can patch).
Those springs are STRONG!
Next hour I'm fighting with them trying everything, watching boob-tube videos of all sorts of different springs so no help.
I finally find an appliance forum with a picture of those hinges some poor repairman sprung like I did with other repairmen offering sympathy and now you have to disassemble the entire door being careful not breaking the glass or handle. Then hinges in a vice springing back with a pipe watching out for your nuts.
I thought the heck with that...go to the garage and bring back a large pair of Knipex vice grip pliers. (I know...it's "locking pliers").
Wife comes in to offer help after listening to all the cursing and I said wiping the sweat off my forehead would help. I found out, and thank God for German engineering I could lock onto the hinge edge and pry back allowing hinge catch to go back. Then pushing lock tab held it!
From that point it took 3 minutes putting the door back, but I'll never take the dam thing off ever again.
Today I just have to patch the wall and sew a few shirt buttons back on.

 

[JethroB]

Here's a good peeve:
Five minute jobs that take 5 hours!
Last night wife cooked pizza which some ran out into our brand new stove. She's using Easy Off and other non abrasive cleaners and needed my help, little bit that was left.
It's a GE/Hotpoint and step one is remove the door. I opened it a few inches and pull...it's locked so I fiddle with tiny hinge locks with small screwdriver. Finally door off and over an hour later (plastic knife & detergent) it's clean.
Now door back on which wouldn't go no matter what I did. Finally door in my lap I pry the little locks out and "BOOM!" both hinge springs send screwdriver across kitchen like a bullet. It would've killed me except it shot out away which imbedded in the wall (I can patch).
Those springs are STRONG!
Next hour I'm fighting with them trying everything, watching boob-tube videos of all sorts of different springs so no help.
I finally find an appliance forum with a picture of those hinges some poor repairman sprung like I did with other repairmen offering sympathy and now you have to disassemble the entire door being careful not breaking the glass or handle. Then hinges in a vice springing back with a pipe watching out for your nuts.
I thought the heck with that...go to the garage and bring back a large pair of Knipex vice grip pliers. (I know...it's "locking pliers").
Wife comes in to offer help after listening to all the cursing and I said wiping the sweat off my forehead would help. I found out, and thank God for German engineering I could lock onto the hinge edge and pry back allowing hinge catch to go back. Then pushing lock tab held it!
From that point it took 3 minutes putting the door back, but I'll never take the dam thing off ever again.
Today I just have to patch the wall and sew a few shirt buttons back on.
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Whatever happened to the large & thick foil sheets that you could place in the bottom of an oven? I can’t find them in stores for years now. Sure beat cleaning up drips.

 

[Oaktree]

Last night wife cooked pizza which some ran out into our brand new stove. She's using Easy Off and other non abrasive cleaners and needed my help, little bit that was left.
It's a GE/Hotpoint and step one is remove the door. I opened it a few inches and pull...it's locked so I fiddle with tiny hinge locks with small screwdriver. Finally door off and over an hour later (plastic knife & detergent) it's clean.
Now door back on which wouldn't go no matter what I did. Finally door in my lap I pry the little locks out and "BOOM!" both hinge springs send screwdriver across kitchen like a bullet. It would've killed me except it shot out away which imbedded in the wall (I can patch).
Those springs are STRONG!
Next hour I'm fighting with them trying everything, watching boob-tube videos of all sorts of different springs so no help.

Glad my wife isn't as fussy about a clean oven as yours!! For some reason I did have to disassemble the oven door on our stove a few years back. Not quite as frustrating as your project, but not one I ever want to do again!

Whatever happened to the large & thick foil sheets that you could place in the bottom of an oven? I can’t find them in stores for years now. Sure beat cleaning up drips.

I always just used regular aluminum foil & replaced it every couple years, never knew they made special pans. Lends itself better to an electric stove than our current propane one...just stuff it under the heating elements.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Our old stove was so simple, opening the door it would gently stop at about 1/4th way open where you just pull door up & off.
This one had an "owners manual"...worthless since it was written by lawyers. No mention of door R&R, just a cartoon drawing of a kid sitting on open door, a grinning grim reaper in the background. All these pages of what not to do and "burners cause burns"!

 

[mrmikey]

Our old stove was so simple, opening the door it would gently stop at about 1/4th way open where you just pull door up & off

My last stove was like that, simple as simple could be to remove and replace the door. Only thing you had to watch for was touching the arms when they were in that position, they'd take your finger off but if you survived LOL, you could push them back down.

All these pages of what not to do and "burners cause burns"!

That was like the wrapping that was on a kitchen knife I bought years ago, printed all over the bag, "Do not poke children with knife"