ResonanceComplaints

This is a site where we hope to compile a list of complaints for a song that Resonance will commission and then perform.

Aging
Since I started using a cane, no one asks me to sign petitions (or, people equate physical handicap to mental incapacity.)

When I was young, I was hot but didn't know better. Now I'm old, not so hot, and wish I'd been paying attention!

There's that one stray hair that is growing straight out of my cheek and if I forget to check it for a few months, it can get really long.

Getting older is a bitch; it hurts when I get up, and it hurts when I go to bed.

Alternative lifestyle choices
Why do men tell lesbians they just haven't met the right man?

Bathrooms
There’s simply no excuse for restaurants not having HOT running water in bathrooms.

People should not talk on the cell phone when they are in the bathroom stall next to you.

I hate it when people don't put in a new TP roll when the old one is used up.

Bodies
I am tired of trying to keep my weight under control. At my age, I am tempted to just relax and let nature takes its course.

I’m getting older and my metabolism is changing. I can’t eat whatever I want.

Why is it always the overweight and unattractive men that seem to believe that every woman wants them?

They should make condoms in Large, X-Large and Super sizes so guys can get over their silly insecurities.

Cars, Driving, Parking & Traffic
Traffic on Friday afternoons.

Drivers who are in too much of a hurry. I am so tired of being honked at because I don't charge out of a red light like an Indy driver at the flag. Or being tailgated so that someone can beat me to the next light. Everyone just needs to slow down and realize that they will get there when they get there and that endangering my life really won't get them there that much quicker.

I have to smell the stink of those big diesel pickups driving around town, even when I don’t choose to drive one. Those vehicles should be limited to country roads, not city streets.

D.C. traffic sucks (as in Washington).

People who run yellow lights.

It really grates on me when people parallel park their cars with the meter in the middle of the door rather than at the front of the car, almost as much as those who pull into a marked parking space at an angle thereby taking up two spaces.

Tail-gaters and cutters.

People who don't use their blinkers.

Family
Why won't my 18 year old son get a job?

Why won't he do his homework?

Friends
My friend talks incessantly about boring banalities.

Whenever I go out with my friends, I never get to go where I want to go.

Grammar and punctuation
People who don't know (or don't care) that "it apostrophe s" means "it is"!

People who say "irregardless"

People who write "a lot" as "alot"

People who say "anyways"

Ending a sentence with "with"

Subject-verb disagreement.

the use of utilize to say "use"

It's "I'm doing well", not "I'm doing good"

Correct use of the English language is a lost art form: people don't capitalize, use apostrophes properly, or know the difference between "their" and "there". Take "Twenty Ninth Street", for instance...

Why do people use the word impacted when they mean affected (effected?)

People who say preventative instead of preventive.

Health
I hate insurance companies!

Life is too short! And also too long....

It really bothers me that people continue thoughtlessly to have children.

Cold tools when getting a pap smear

Lack of health care.

They (pharmaceuticals) shouldn’t use people as guinea pigs to test new drugs.

People shouldn’t have to look in the frig and decide whether to buy food or their prescription drugs.

Kids
My grandchildren have too many scheduled activities.

All my kids want to eat is sugar.

Kids on the mall that use 4 letter words every other word out of their mouth.

My 48 year old son still uses too many 4 letter words.

Miscellaneous complaints
I always think of what I should have said 5 minutes too late!

I find people who lie to be hard to handle.

see-through toilet paper

it's a right-handed world!

Why can't I get a plain old cup decaf? No frills!

Why isn't there a "small" size of over-the-counter drinks any longer?

People who walk through the door of a store/mall, etc, then just stop there so no one can get by. Grrr

Never enough hours in the day.

The Head-On commercial

The unwelcome physical changes that come with aging

Inability to develop enough wisdom to anticipate/solve recurring everyday problems

too little time/too little money

People who clap in between movements at classical music concerts

The expression “Don’t go there.” Go where????

Here's another one, but I don't know how to phrase it succinctly: Why can't men ever buy a simple useful appliance, but always have to let themselves be tricked into buying something that costs ten times as much, weighs 30 times as much and has 2,000 attachments that turn it into a dozen other things that you'll never need, and you wind up not even using it all that much for the one feature you want because it's way too heavy and noisy? Examples: Kitchen assistant instead of a plain mixer. Has a billion attachments that turn it into a blender, food processor and even an effing meat grinder! Who the hell wants a meat grinder? But the mixer function is crap because it only has one beater, so it just turns the dough around and around instead of mixing it. And it's gigantic and clumsy and very loud. Then there's the Kirby cleaning machine, aka vacuum, which weighs about 50 pounds and sounds like freaking Armageddon. But it's so PRACTICAL! You can also use it as a wetvac or a carpet cleaner. I think there was even some kind of circular saw function or something. But I never drag the damn thing out to vacuum, which is 99% of what it will ever be used for! Stupid men. The kitchen assistant is Henrik's purchase, the Kirby was his dad's folly. You know the damn Kirby costs 15,000 kronor? Holy shit! For a freaking vacuum cleaner that's louder than a lawnmower. And he didn't even have any wall-to-wall carpeting in his house, just wooden floors and a throw rug. Idiot. Blinded by "practicality". Apparently a feature of the Y chromosome.

Why is there no IKEA in Denver!?!

I can't find any candles that don't drip.

Intolerance.

What's up with all the coffee drinks these days? Latte Mocha Froo-froo double Espresso with a shot of what? What's wrong with plain coffee?

One Word Says It All
Cancer

Lies

Bush

Pertaining to travel
Bicyclists at night using no light and wearing only dark clothing.

People who drive under the speed limit.

Faded paint on the road making it impossible to distinguish traffic lanes at night.

people who don't dim car lights

Pets and Pet Owners
I hate it when I cannot take my dog places.

Why do dog owners assume everybody loves their dog to be there? Can you imagine what it would be like at chorus if everyone brought their dogs?

Dog owners who don't clean up their dog's poo.

Dogs who roll in the dirt right after you bathe them.

Politics
I hate people who build houses on the coast and then want the government to insure them.

The news is never news.

George Bush, our emperor, has no clothes, has never had any clothes and will never have any clothes. And my only complaint is that he is STILL in office.

Just because I have issues with the war in Iraq does not mean that I am unpatriotic. Get a clue!

Singing and Rehearsals
My throat just croaks like a frog when I open my mouth to sing

The room is too small and hot!

The room is a petri dish.

The room is too cold!

Not being able to get to the complaint choir website OR HEAR THEM WHEN YOU GET THERE!

Spouses
My husband cheats on recycling when he thinks I’m not looking.

Technology
My DSL line breaks down so often.

My computer takes forever to come on because it's down-loading stuff I didn't ever ask for.

I hate when I call somewhere for service, and end up talking to someone from India who can't say my name.

CD players that don't read CDRS

Why do people have to talk on cell phones in public restrooms?

Telephone voice-recognition programs that don't understand what you say.

Unwrapping a CD

Too many initials: CD, DVD, DVR, MP3, HDTV, LED, CRT, LCD, DLP, IAX, FCAP

Why is it that we'd never accept having to repeat ourselves or make the other person repeat themselves every other sentence when talking on a normal landline phone, but we happily accept it with mobile phones?

Text messaging! How can ANYONE think it's "fun" or "convenient" to sit and repeatedly press numbers to get to the desired letters? 3-3-3 2-2- 4-4-4 1 7-7-7 9-9 2-2-2 -- it drives me CRAZY! I HATE it!

Listening to teenagers loudly discussing their private lives on cell phones in public places.

The telephone--Press 1, press 2, etc. "If you wish to talk to a customer representative" is always the last option. It should be the first!

"Best of" CDs never have ALL the best songs, so you still have to buy a bunch of them.

People talking on cell phones in restaurants, especially if the conversation is clearly audible and also intimate.

My husband spends too much time on the internet.

Your e-mail won't accept me, either home or work.

I really hate cleaning up all the stupid unsolicited junk email every time I open my mailbox.

My students needs a twelve-step program for their cell phones.

Blackberries in meetings.

I’m sick of people complaining about kids and their cell phones and technology. It’s not that bad, really. I’m sick of them saying we don’t know how to stop and smell the roses.

Too many studid jokes making the rounds on email over and over again.

I need so many passwords that I have to maintain a cheat sheet just to keep track of them...if only I could find it.

Ever try to get a real live person on the phone when you call AT&T/Quest/Cingular or whatever? On hold for hours and then, if they need to come to your house for an appointment, you have to wait for hours again...

Uniquely Boulder
Why did I move here? It’s too small and doesn’t have enough culture. I want more theatre and stuff.

I moved from New York to Boulder because I thought everything would be evolved here when it comes go greenness, but people aren’t really walking the talk any more than anywhere else. There’s not even enough recycling bins on the Pearl Street mall.

The stores on Pearl Street that complain about homeless people—they should mind their own business.

Drug addicts on the mall.

I can’t figure out how the new parking kiosks work.

The air is so dry here my lips are falling off my face and I use my elbows to scrub my pots and pans.

Uniquely Estes Park
People who stop in the middle of the traffic lane to photograph elk.