Death By a Thousand Cuts

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The aerator in the sink is missing

I'll take this one at random. All of them are wtf, but I can't really understand this. Let's say a bunch of sandy grit gets in the aerator and blocks the flow a little bit. That's the only reason to remove an aerator. So she reaches for a wrench and pulls the aerator off. This is a fair amount of work. You have to go find a wrench. You have to figure out which way to turn the aerator, and it's confusing because it's upside down and you have to turn it the wrong way. After successfully going through all that trouble, the next step of cleaning the grit out of the aerator is so effortless, why would you set the aerator aside where it would get lost? A faucet without an aerator splatters water all over the place. I'd rather have restricted flow than that splatter. I just don't see how you could get into that situation and stay there.

I mean, it's only an aerator, but wtf?