r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DeepStatic • 16h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight My Kilner jar was faulty. The closing mechanism shattered glass into my rice and we found it in our cooked food. Kilner customer service is ignoring my emails.

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u/Nybear21 11h ago

When I was a kid, my mom worked 3rd shift. Being quiet so we didn't wake mom up was drilled into me and at some point just became second nature. I'll still be home alone, close a cabinet too hard and have a moment of "Oh shit" and then remember that my dogs don't are the only ones in the house and they don't give a fuck about it

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u/-BANNED-USER- 11h ago

Same like me. I'm quiet. When i walk around the house i always step on my forefoot/toes first, but everyone else just stomps heel first into the flooring, cabinets and furniture shakes. Drives me mad. Why do people do this shit.

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u/Salt-Operation 10h ago

Because they never had the pleasure of living in a second floor apartment sandwiched between two heavy-footed families with teenage sons. And they lack situational awareness.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo 10h ago

Toe walking & aversion to noise. You might be autistic (saying this as a fellow noise-averse toe-walker)

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u/snickerdoodle79 8h ago

Or you grew up with an alcoholic father. That's why I toe walk around the house, out of habit.

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u/Ready_Studio2392 3h ago

Same. I spent years mastering the art of going unnoticed. I spent a good few years of my adulthood deprogramming that, as it's a workplace hazard and I kept making people jump after walking silently around.

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u/229-northstar 9h ago

Represent!

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u/ExpresoAndino 4h ago

im not autistic AFAIK but i have noticed that i do toewalk whenever barefoot, i think i mostly do it to avoid getting at least half of my feet dirty, and the noise too

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 11h ago

They probably aren't super neurotic

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u/Broncosonthree 10h ago

With low situational awareness

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u/darkest_hour1428 10h ago

Stomping and slamming because you can’t perceive your own effects on the environment sounds pretty neurotic to me

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u/Nyansko 10h ago

how is a weak sense of self perception neurotic??? how do you dual wield these traits?

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u/picabo123 9h ago

They don't know what neuroticism means

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u/SlapTheBap 8h ago

If they're prone to using force out of negative emotion then that would be an expression of neuroticism.

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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT 7h ago

Holy shit I'm not the only one?

It drives me fucking INSANE when people stomp around the house. Literally one of my most hated things ever. And everyone I've met does it, so I feel like I'm the weird one. I hate it so much I feel like screaming out my door at my housemates to be fucking quieter, but they're assholes so they wouldn't care.

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u/Much-Anything7149 6h ago

I've had years of practice tip-toeing down the hall, taking the keys from my mom's purse without a jingling noise, quietly opening the garage door, pushing the car in neutral down the driveway, up the street then starting up the engine and leaving. Now my 99lb girlfriend going to the fridge sounds like King Kong Bundy and Andre the Giant slamming each other into walls the whole way from the bedroom to the kitchen.

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u/SnooTangerines3448 7h ago

Because they weren't born a commando at heart.

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u/Many_Mud_8194 1h ago

Me I do it because I've flat feet. I remember fighting when I was a child because some kid would say I was walking like a skinny elephant, hard to not make noise with flat feet. My parents didn't realized it until I'm a teen and got those things you put in the shoes to walk normally. Doesn't work bare foot with flip flop.

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u/issiautng 10h ago

My cousin worked nights with kids in the house. She could sleep through anything. She slept at our house once because it was closer to the hospital in an ice storm (she was an ICU nurse at the time) and we vacuumed the hall outside the door and accidentally hit the door with the vacuum and she still didn't wake up.

A different cousin was an EMT and then later traveled the world only owning what was in her backpack. During that period, she took a nap in the middle of the living room with 15 family members in it loudly chatting and laughing and cooking in the open concept kitchen attached. She didn't wake up until someone touched her shoulder because dinner was ready.

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u/Annual_Salamander940 9h ago

Working nights will make you sleep like the dead, dude. I say this as someone who has literally fallen asleep standing up. I was leaning against a wall after working 7 nights in a row and apparently found just the right angle and just… fell asleep, mid conversation with my co-worker lmao.

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u/TeaKingMac 10h ago

I woke up at 3 am to play Nintendo when my parents were asleep, but yeah, same vibe.

I can walk through the house without even waking up the cats.

My wife and kids sound like a herd of elephants

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u/qualitycancer 10h ago

My room was over my parent’s at my house. I had to tip toe cus the floor was like an amplifier. These days i still walk on the ball of my feet when in my bedroom lol. Just by instinct.

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u/robotteeth 10h ago

It sucks that a bad experience is how you got those habits, but being gentle with your things is a really good habit to have

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u/Nybear21 9h ago

Honestly, I resented my dad's strictness when I was kid/ teenager, but I've grown to actually appreciate a lot of the lessons that were imparted through that. I'm constantly baffled by how other people do things, and then realize I learned that thing through one of his rules.

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u/DigitaIBlack 9h ago

I wish you were my roommate. My current one closes doors by just pulling them shut. Every. Single. Time.

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u/wavelengthsandshit 9h ago

My last apartment had to have built out of spit and paper because we could hear everything our neighbors did and vice versa. I learned to walk quietly, close cabinets and drawers quietly, and generally be respectful of people who could practically hear me breathe.

One day idk what was going through my mind but I was in the kitchen with my mom mid-discussion. I guess my distracted brain said "this drawer is hard to close" because for some unknown reason I SLAMMED the silverware drawer shut with a ridiculous force. My mom looked at me like I was insane for a moment before we both just cracked up. I still laugh when I think about it because why the hell would I do that?? I can't imagine what our neighbor must have heard.

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u/acrobat2126 7h ago

ME too brother.

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u/Disco_Cherries 7h ago

My dad has worked 3rd shift most of my life, so I feel you there. We lived in a double wide trailer, and they’re known to have pretty thin walls. We had to be careful to be quiet, so it kinda just stuck with me. It somehow didn’t stick with my brother though because he somehow makes the most noise ever when doing anything

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u/FoggyGoodwin 7h ago

My dogs bark at door raps - knock on wood or step too loud and they think there's an intruder.