Anyone who has (or was) a kid is familiar with the backseat chorus of, “Are we there yet?” This becomes a kind of Chinese Water Torture, and is the very reason we will never drive further than 1 hour away from Chez Ciulla. Well, at least with the kids in the backseat.
Here’s the computer equivalent:
Once you allow WinXP to install updates, it generally prompts you to “restart your computer for changes to take effect.” I invariably select, “Restart Later.”
I’ll need to create a new category just for this type of thing, because while this does piss me off, it’s not nearly as bad as comment spammers, blue-haired drivers in vintage Detroit steel, or korinthenkackers.
Back in the good old days, “Restart Later” meant, “Yes, I am aware that I need to restart my computer. I just want to do it later.” Now, it means, “Restart later, but please remind me I need to do so with the precision of a mercilessly sadistic Swiss watchmaker.”