Not so much "this annoys me" as "this worries me". Remember how in April I made a post how, for my birthday, my mom got a me a portable air conditioner for my room? Well, I looked through reviews for this particular model I have, and the majority seem to be negative. From different sites, the average seems to be 3/5 at best. I finally set it up tonight and it's running fine so far, but the major problems the reviews had was problems with leaking and breaking down after a few weeks to a few months. I really don't want think this thing to break, not because of the hot summer, but because I'll feel guilty and bad for my mom. I'm 25, still can't drive, and thus I have no actual job, and perhaps that wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't gone to DeVry for my education (some people here might remember another user who went there and was very unhappy), so I also have around $35,000 in student loan debt. I only have until next April to both finish my driver's ed driving and complete the 50 hour driving log (my dad's supposed to be teaching me). And even if I succeed, that won't magically grant me a car with insurance.
All this combined makes me very uneasy receiving any gift that's more than $50 for either Christmas or my birthday, let alone ask for it (I didn't even ask for the air conditioner; my mom just knows has bad it gets upstairs during the summer). I don't want people to feel like they're wasting money on me. So yeah, I really don't want this thing to fail, or I'll feel worse than I already do.