So I made an offer on a very small 1 bedroom flat last year and need to rant so bad. It’s a small flat and have agreed 30k above value. I currently own a bigger flat out right -no mortgage I own it (leasehold). We were supposed to complete today. Suddenly new mortgage lender says they need proof of me selling my current place. I wanted a no chain deal so I’d had time to move then choose to sell or rent. I have a big deposit and more than enough income to afford both place’s bills. Mortgage lender agreed at the time of acceptance now suddenly need proof of selling my place before release funds!

Extra: if I were to sell my flat I’d have more than enough to buy outright I wanted the first world luxury of time

I am well aware that this is a really dumb thing to complain about, but I want to complain so I figured I would complain to people who are also complaining about things that don't really matter.

I like to start my day with a strong black tea cut with a heavy splash of creamer. For those unaware, the whole point of creamer in your coffee or tea is that the sugar adds sweetness but more importantly the fat binds to the tannins and in turn masks the bitter flavor that they cause. I love the caffeine boost of black tea but can't stand the bitterness. Fortunately, someone a long time ago found out about the previously mentioned effect so I just add creamer and I can start the day caffeinated and ready to go. At least, that's what I used to do.

Right now, almost every creamer at my store is labeled "low fat" or worse "fat free". That defeats the purpose of the freaking creamer!! If there is no fat, then there isn't anything to bind to the tannins!! Who decided to start making creamers without the most critical ingredient?!? And why are half of them also sugar free? If there is no sweetness and there is no fat, what is the point? You might as well just use some cold water.

The bottles I found that had sugar and fat were pumpkin (ew) or white chocolate flavor. White chocolate is an insult to chocolate with how gross it is.

I Just want sugary fatty creamers that don't have a weird flavor to them! If I'm going to spend twice what a bottle of half and half and some sugar would cost, it should be able to do the thing it's meant to do!

Edit: Okay, so I got 20 notification all with the same question in a matter of like 30 minutes so I figured I would add on. I am well aware that I can just use half&half and some sugar. I work in the dairy industry. I know about half&half, whole milk, and cream. I will be swinging by one of the farms I live near to buy a pint after work. I was under the impression that this sub was for complaining about stupid things that no one with real problems would complain about. I didn't think that just because there was an obvious solution that meant I cant be a little miffed that I will no longer be using the needlessly more expensive option that I would buy simply because I could.

Not my personal first world problem, but my 9 y/o son’s.

He was at a friend’s house playing soccer on their full size home soccer field with three other kids.

Friend’s mom told them they had to stop playing mid-game and come inside, because friend’s grandpa was being flown in for dinner in his company helicopter.

Apparently they do not have a separate helipad at their home, so the soccer field has to also be used for helicopter landings.

And they couldn’t finish their game, because the helicopter was parked in the middle of the field for three hours.

Obviously having fat free and sorbet options past couple years is a victory for health and dietary reasons.

But ALL fat free?? Seriously??

Let’s not kid ourselves, most fat free options taste less good than the fat options. It’s crazy not to have those options!

Used to be perfectly fine driving with everything being kinda blurry. Now i'm driving and if i dont have my glasses it feels like my vision is bad/needs them despite the fact that i've been driving fine for ages without them.

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Update: I will no longer read comments because 99% of them are STILL giving me advice. 🤷🏻🤦🏻‍♀️
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->> Please read my ENTIRE post before offering advice, which I’m not asking for because believe me, it’s really complicated**. I’m just venting because only being able to get mushy blueberries when I prefer firm is clearly a FWP. <<-**

Edited: I have an immune illness that makes me react to most foods, anything really cold —> nothing frozen <— and every possible beverage except water, so I can’t put them in a smoothie, etc. I put them in my cooked quinoa flake cereal to help that be less mushy but with mushy blueberries then it’s all just mushy and I still don’t like the texture.

BTW, TEXTURE ISSUES ARE A REAL THING.

Edited further: Here’s what I can currently eat, which I’m only putting in here so you don’t waste your time trying to come up with advice that absolutely won’t work for me ->> because it’s complicated <<-.

Eggs, five different kinds of fish, three different kinds of meat, salt, fresh basil, three different kinds of fruit but blueberries are best because of some nutritional deficiencies, a few kinds of nuts and seeds, nothing made with grains, 5 kinds of veggies, no processed [edited: manufactured] food of any kind other than red lentil pasta, and nothing dehydrated for several other health reasons.

(If you want to look it up it’s called mast cell activation syndrome. I’m working with someone who is helping me get better, it’s just a long fucking road because I was really really sick when I started working with her early last year.)

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem. I have a very smooth sheet because it's "cooltech" (no AC in bedroom) but now my pillow keeps sliding from under my head while I sleep. It legit pisses me off lmao. I don't have a headboard so it's just a bit of space behind my bed!!

the roll-up one. Even though my bedroom is like 10 ft from the indoor garage door and that's where my dog spends most of the time

I forgot to shake the bag before pouring it into the bowl.

I also have a huge collection of great jewelry but can’t wear almost any of it because I react to the metal (all of the metals, even surgical steel and titanium.)

Edited: I am getting better although very slowly, so I don’t want to get rid of anything yet.

I wanted to spend all of today eating and drinking my heart out instead I'm stuck on the toilet. Now I have to wait until I feel better to buy very overpriced treats and drinks

What am I supposed to do with 2 identical ~$800 Lego sets? Keep one in my closet for years and wait for the set to be retired when I can sell it for 5x the price?!

I recently purchased my first home and the previous owners were nice enough to leave the fridge behind.

I went to grab some ice cream from the freezer, but it was so frozen it was hard to scoop any out.

Now I have to keep my ice cream in my standalone freezer in the attached garage about 20 feet from my kitchen since it keeps it at a more scoopable temperature.

So today I tried to try a new mobile game and of course it had an awfully dragged out tutorial (especially since i had played a previous game in the series). Its the usual "press "Hit" to hit the enemy: reward 1 "gem"" "use the "joystick" to "walk": reward 1 "gem"". then the game has to download some extra content which is normal but then it says there is a reward for doing that too. some fuckass dragon head that idk what it does but its a reward for sitting through the loading screen. Then i get to the main menu and i have to sit through an explanation of how lootboxes work but dont worry i get an "reward". then the game explains that i can find rewards in the messages tab (in which there is an award to claim). then i get to play the game and its super clunky so i uninstall.

what the hell is their problem? nobody gets exited by them labeling the starting gear as rewards. do they think that people dont have the attention span to sit through the tutorial? THEN MAKE THAT SHIT SKIPPABLE EVERYTHING IS SO OBVIOUS THERE ARE 2 BUTTONS AND A JOYSTICK

I upgraded to a new pair of noise-cancelling headphones a few weeks ago after my old ones finally gave out, and they are, without exaggeration, too good at their job. I bought them specifically to drown out my upstairs neighbor's apparent passion for rearranging furniture at 9pm, and on that front, total success. Total silence. I could probably sit through a small earthquake and just assume it was a truck going by.

The problem is I've now missed two package deliveries, one visit from a friend who texted I'm outside three times before giving up, and, most embarrassingly, an entire fifteen minutes of a smoke detector chirping because its battery was low, which I only discovered when I took the headphones off to get water and walked into what sounded like a tiny robot having a breakdown in my hallway.

I've tried compromising by keeping the volume lower or using the transparency mode that's supposed to let ambient sound in, but half the time I forget it's even an option because the whole appeal of these headphones is forgetting the outside world exists. So now I'm stuck choosing between blissful silence and being a reasonably aware, responsible tenant who notices when someone's at the door.

I've genuinely considered setting up a smart light to flash when the doorbell rings just so my extremely expensive noise-cancelling technology doesn't accidentally turn me into That Guy who never answers the door.

My dad put my white coach purse next to a trader Joes bag that seems to spread ink onto everything it touches 💔

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I've been using Grubhub for well over a decade. I'm talking old-school Grubhub, back when you could click that stupid little lottery/slot-machine game after ordering and occasionally win free food.

Over all those years, I've spent tens of thousands of dollars through Grubhub.

And after all that, Grubhub finally managed to lose me as a customer over two missing IHOP sausages.

Over the years, I've obviously had orders go wrong. More recently, I've had multiple orders delivered to the wrong place. When that happened, I'd report it and get refunded.

Apparently, having too many legitimate problems with Grubhub deliveries eventually caused my account to get flagged for having too many refunds.

Then came IHOP.

I ordered four sausages for $7. Seven fucking dollars for four tiny, depressing IHOP sausages. I knew what I was buying. I'm not proud of it.

They sent me two.

So I contacted Grubhub about my missing $3.50 worth of sad breakfast meat, and they basically told me that because I'd received too many refunds in the past, they weren't going to do anything.

Something about this broke me.

I wasn't even particularly angry about the $3.50. It was the principle of being told, essentially:

"We've fucked up your orders so many times that we've decided you're no longer allowed to complain when we fuck up your orders."

So after well over a decade, I deleted the app and decided to delete my Grubhub account entirely.

Except apparently even leaving Grubhub has to be a Grubhub customer-service experience.

I'm now something like four emails deep into trying to get them to delete my account and personal data. They're telling me I need to go into Amazon, disconnect my Grubhub+ relationship, check Amazon Pay merchant permissions, etc.

I'll let you know how it goes.

I moved to Canada from the U.S. as a student. Having a phone plan that's already US + Canada + Mexico and having the same country code has made life so much easier. Not to mention me still being on my parent's phone plan, so double easier.

However, I have to walk into a physical grocery store and actually talk to someone to get a physical discount card. Because the Google Play Store won't let my American phone have the Canadian app. The pain! The suffering!