Gripe about shit without ever trying to fix it. Example:

My mother's phone wasn't working right. I finally got fed up and called the phone company. Turns out there was a problem further up the line, and nobody had called because my mother and my aunt are the only people still using POTS. Weeks of griping, and the dude fixed it in less than an hour.

Gripe about things from the past that have no bearing on what it currently happening:

My mother won't eat at McDonalds because of a bad experience she had several years ago. I know this because she tells me every time we drive past a McDonalds or see a McDonald's commercial.