Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

I'm sure it's been mentioned but the tip prompts on card payment screens... Especially for a takeaway coffee. And there's never a zero.

Had one yesterday with five options starting at 15%

Zero was hidden behind a sixth option called 'custom' where you had to go out of your way fiddling with the screen.

• tinnitus flare up 😵, pushy people who don’t listen… 🔪! not much sleep because of TA #1

After a long day of work covering a different duty, and then delivering half the parcels on my regular one in the afternoon (leaving letters behind which means I will have two days worth of letters to deliver Monday), it was TAing to be hit with a complaint when I was sooo close to the finish line.

Amazon parcel, hardback book inside. Slight tear in the packaging (that happened on transit to the depot) but contents were intact and accounted for. Was even sealed with special tape to acknowledge it. Handed to the customer who then proceeded to run to the van when she noticed with a face like a bulldog after licking piss off a nettle. 'Excuse me, this has been opened and damaged!'. I told her it happened on transit, wasn't my doing and she actually looked disappointed that she couldn't blame me for it. I don't know what she was looking to achieve anyway. Not like I could magic up a fresh one there and then.

I would bet anything that over 90% of any complaint made to An Post are from Irish women, between the ages of 30-50. Some of them have serious notions about parcels (damage/going missing/not arriving yet/having to collect from depot), compared to their Eastern European counterparts who actively encourage you to leave it at their door if they are not in.

Was helping a client with their new phone, went to top up and they were given a docket(not ideal as vision is tricky) but they are ok with the focused light on a keypad. Asked the cs for the provider if those were the only options, top-up voucher or online? they said no they can download the app and call xxxx.

This after I explained that client is elderly and has vision problems and queries if it's even an iPhone x2!!

Cut the very top of my thumb with the bread knife earlier. Bled like stink, was pretty sore and of course it's the most awkward place imaginable to try and put a plaster on. Think I'll just superglue it. Making dinner later is going to be fun otherwise.

this new phenomenon junkies or homeless people going through the bins looking for plastic bottles to get 15 cent on.

I’ve witnessed this twice in two weeks…. Sure hey, recycling, good for the environment..! What’s not good for the environment is when they leave all the other rubbish they’ve removed out onto the ground especially when it would take about 10 seconds to gather it and return it to the bin.

Woke up with a crick in my neck. Bah.

After hopping on the train, I finally got an empty seat and started reading the nonsense book I use to protect myself from chatterboxes.

Someone I know to see in one of the branches slides into the seat in front of me, saying "I thought you were dyslexic" in a tone of I thought you had flu.

Inwardly sighing as I don't want to talk and def don't want to hear someone else take on it, explain that I don't mind reading as it helps me create pictures in my mind for times when I'm stressed, they say "how?, isnt it a made up word for not being able to tell a B from a D.

Ta I get its only 1 in 10 ppl have a diagnosis but can ppl not having reading/writing issues just freaking Google!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shopping centres on a Saturday. TA that I need to go in.

Forgot to turn the oven off earlier.

Only noticed it two hours later when walking past.

The phrase 'reach out' (and it's variants) annoys me

When you're racing to the end of a book, you turn the page, and it turns out that's (abruptly and unexpectedly) the book finished. I find I have to go back and re-read the final page or two more slowly in order to achieve a sense of closure 😄

And the last thing your former boss says to you in an American Company like that is along the lines of

" The world is your oyster "

The threads on this site that I follow not working.

Its the kind of thing you would expect to see happening in 1998 but not in 2024.

And no sign of it being fixed either.

Reading posts where people quote in kg . I still think in st