The most annoying household appliance goes out to the telephone. I have always hated phones. They always ring at a bad time, and 98% of the time they are either a fu##ing telemarketer, or someone wanting money, or another annoyance. A couple years ago I finally had enough. I got on the "do not call list". Then I quit answering the damn phone and let my answering machine take all calls.
While the telemarketing calls did drop quite a lot, and I am no longer annoyed by having to answer the damn thing when I am busy, I now have morons filling my machine with useless junk. For example, I was gone on vacation for 5 days. I come home to a full machine, 30 some messages, and have to listen to a half hour of all garbage. One person alone called 14 times wanting the $10 I owe him and spending several minutes giving me a big sob story how badly he needs that $10 because his car is broke. Good grief, I planned to pay the asshole, but after 14 calls, I think he owes me money for wasting 15 minutes of my time listening to his crap, not to mention filling my machine which means that someone who really needed to leave an important message could not do because the machine was full. In all honesty, I will not intentionally delay paying this asshole much longer just because of his abuse of my machine. If one of my elderly relatives needed to contact me, they could not have been able to leave a message.
If it wasn't for these elderly people possibly needing my help, I'd get rid of the phone entirely, or at least have it as an outgoing calls only phone.
There are days I just unplug the damn thing, or I go online (on dialup) and leave the internet connected all day just so the phone does not work.
And then someone recently told me I need to catch up with the times and get a cellphone. Yeah, right!!!! Like I need this annoyance following me everywhere I go, so I can not get away from it ever. NO THANKS !!!!
Anyhow, my vote goes out for the telephone as the most annoying household appliance. What is yours?