For the very first time which item really frustrated you?

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Which item really frustrated you the first time you tried to use it?
 

Years ago when my company changed from typewriters to computers, I actually left as I hated it so much and just couldn’t get to grips with it !
 
It was actually a typewriter for me, at school. I thought I will never master this touch typing caper, but low and behold one day it just fell into place.

It was my job description for a couple of decades before moving to sales but here I am still clacking away on a computer keyboard. Now if only I had retained the shorthand. I reckon that would come in handy at times.
 

A Sewing Machine... att school we had to learn on ancient old treadle machines as well as modern electric ones.. I could never get a machine to work without the spool thread becoming tangled or a needle breaking...hated it. Took me 3 terms to make a dress!!

years later I bought a little home electric machine, I thought I'd be able to master it given no pressure... nope...Spool thread tangled and needles broke...

Sewing machines Hate me!!!:aargh:
 
Mine is more recent: those damnable self check out stations at almost every store. I always get the loud notificaton that says, please place item in the bag even when I already did. I never weigh out the produce correctly and then have to wait for help to arrive to fix my mess up, I feel like these were designed for people with only a couple of items but I keep getting directed to go to one even when I have a basket half full of things. The person will say, "I'll help you". I finally just say, no-I'll wait in line with the other fifty people. I'm tired of retailers treating me like their special trained monkey. Sorry for the rant but those frustrated me when they first showed up and they still do.
 
dkay said:
Mine is more recent: those damnable self check out stations at almost every store.
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Yeah, I get suckered into those from an attentive clerk looking for people waiting in the human line and waving me over.
Heh, they end up doing it all…of which they’re paid to do anyway

Along those lines, the new automated fast food queues
The attendant did it all for me
Turns out, I’m quite good at looking confused and helpless
 
dkay...mine too...just yesterday, 3 times the darn machine blocked me from scanning anything, and 3 times the checkout girl had to come and unlock it...I hate those Self checkout machines!!
 
My smartphone! It nearly got thrown out of the window on the day I bought it. I ended up phoning my son (via landline) and he came round and showed me the basics then a day or so later my grandson showed me in more depth.

In many ways, I still prefer my old Nokia.
 
dkay said:
Mine is more recent: those damnable self check out stations at almost every store. I always get the loud notificaton that says, please place item in the bag even when I already did. I never weigh out the produce correctly and then have to wait for help to arrive to fix my mess up, I feel like these were designed for people with only a couple of items but I keep getting directed to go to one even when I have a basket half full of things. The person will say, "I'll help you". I finally just say, no-I'll wait in line with the other fifty people. I'm tired of retailers treating me like their special trained monkey. Sorry for the rant but those frustrated me when they first showed up and they still do.
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I avoid them like the plague.Horrible things.
 
tortiecat said:
Putting gas in my car! My late husband always filled both our cars so I never had to.
Now I go to a station with an attendant, but there are fewer and fewer of them around.
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Awwww... this is so touching. My girlfriend says she’s never had to shovel snow off her car or had to warm it up because her husband had always done it for her.
So sweet.
 
Wren said:
Years ago when my company changed from typewriters to computers, I actually left as I hated it so much and just couldn’t get to grips with it !
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I freaked out too when the firm I worked for suddenly dropped computers on us, but I saw the handwriting on the wall that if I wanted to continue making a living I'd have to deal with them. So I found a night class at the local community college and gritted my teeth and learned to use one.
 
Pappy said:
When I first got an iPad, years ago. Took me sometime before I became comfortable with it. I was afraid I was going to get into something I couldn’t get out of. :confused:
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Oh yes-the messes I have got into.Thought I'd broken this one yesterday!!No idea what I did...
 
Bean Bag Chairs ~ Well I guess I wasn't, 'really frustrated' by them. But I never could get comfortable when I tried sitting in one. Maybe I was too tall but I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about them back in the day. Oh well.. :confused:
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Regarding computers at work, I hated switching from DOS to Windows and using that stupid mouse. I can be resistant to change, but looking back, that one took the cake. :distrust:
 
tortiecat said:
Putting gas in my car! My late husband always filled both our cars so I never had to.
Now I go to a station with an attendant, but there are fewer and fewer of them around.
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I think this comes close to my sewing machine experiences. First time having to pump it myself was not fun at all. I sat and sat, waiting for someone to come to my car as I'd done for several years since when I first started driving; I thought, what the heck is taking these people so long, till someone clued me in I had to go inside pay and pump it myself. WTH! Really, I have to do this myself, that's what happens when you move from one state to another with different rules when it comes to such things.

There were a couple of times when I got gas on my car and another customers as I had no idea what I was doing and had my finger in the trigger before it was inserted into my car gas socket. Thank goodness this was a kind customer and they helped me make sense of what I was doing wrong.

Too bad that wasn't the worse of my car experiences.
 
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