Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

when you do not acquiesce to people’s unreasonable badgering requests / demands of you, “ohhh, I won’t be going, I’ll leave it sorry ..”…..I about 7 times refuse in that manner, ever so diplomatically, nicely, ever so reasonably and ever so politely, even try to explain after the 7th time, then the 8th time. I’m = 🗡️🤬 a LOT less diplomatic and a lot less polite yet that somehow makes me then the bad guy. Life can just be a TA in itself, often just brought on by the unrelenting unreasonableness and overbearing pathological weirdness of other humans… 🤦🏻‍♂️

That I set my alarms to get me out of bed for a 2 0’clock appointment that’s 2 hours drive away . Of course I switched them off and didn’t get up until now and I still need a shower and shave

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I rang to cancel the appointment and I had cancelled it 2 weeks ago . Back to watching Olympics all day so a TA that’s become a TH

Eventually got me

I got a phone call this afternoon for a medical secretary/receptionist, asking to confirm that I was okay for my appointment tomorrow.

"What appointment? Usually you send out a letter to say with the date and time for any appointment."

"Oh, we would have mentioned it to you six months ago, the last time you were here."

Yeah, right!! She forgot to send me a definite appointment, and is trying to make me think I forgot. Six months ago, I was told there would be a follow-up in six months, not that there would be a follow-up at 2.45pm on the 8th of August. 🙄

Got set upon by a dog today, big husky-like breed. I was caught unawares as it blind-sided me and I am used to there being no dog in the yard. Have to park on the road, open a gate and walk to the door so a bit of a no-mans land.

Caught me on my lower thumb at first, I let a roar out of me and it just had an intent about its look. Grabbed me by the shorts next and only for someone shooing it away with a shovel, god knows what I would have done if no-one else was there. I had literally nowhere to go.

Thankfully didn't break skin, but definitely going to report it (even if the houseowners are contrarians) as I don't want to endanger a colleague caught in a similar situation.

Of course, encountered a few more aggressive dogs over the rest of the day and got the usual 'he's harmless' spiel from the owners.

It is the Antigen type test you can buy in shops and chemists, it will only show if you currently have it so won't show anything from last year, or likely even last month.

Using them is a TA it must be said :)

And my bonus TA is we don't have them for flu widely available.

When you zero energy to do anything on a day off and you spend the day beating yourself up about that.

When you try to put a coherent comment into boards on a mobile phone, but it's a PITA to edit anything on a phone, so you post it anyway, and the whole thing just comes across as an unedited incoherent rant.

Sorry for your loss 😢

People repeating themselves . . . Someone tells you about some mundane incident that happened at the checkout till in Tesco or lidl (don't know as I wasn't really listening) and they keep repeating said incident to anyone within earshot to try and prove the point that they were right and the other party involved was wrong. Then they ring their sister and spend fifteen minutes explaining the same experience . . five minutes later the sister lands at the house and they spend the next half hour dissecting every detail over and over again.

You think it's finally finished with but no . . . they ring the mother on speaker phone.

Waking up before the alarm goes off