About the User

My name is near shtool.

I'm an experienced Product User with over twenty years in the business. Plus nine months, if product* includes the record player that played classical music during my gestation--I was a smart baby; some say I still am.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few malfunctioning RC controllers. Things slow down, things break, things have unintended consequences and make you unhappy. This website is an outlet for those frustrations.** Because I'm not cruel, I'll also suggest improvements.

There are products that work exactly as intended or that I enjoy using. Talking about them isn't good TV, but it is good health so I'll do it too.

Detailed posts will include:

• How trendy bars are hurting socializing
• What's wrong with all my pants pockets?
• How to create a happier air travel experience (obvious ways, mostly)
• The most practical fruit
• What Hollywood can learn from Metallica
• A defense against planned obsolescence
• My biggest complaint about fancy restaurants and a challenge to you, the reader!
• Which puns on my name are funny

And anything else I can coherently complain about.

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*For the purpose of this website I extend the definition of product to include anything that is used or experienced by humans. Thing would be a more fitting word, but Frustrating Things sounds like the name of a hip emo music blog. There are enough of those.

**In time I'll take a picture that fits the theme of the website. For now I like Sassy Cat Giving Me Side Eye, reproduced below in case you're reading this from the future: