Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

My TA is I'm doing a lot of DIY at the moment, and at random inconvenient times the phone decides I have somehow worn off my fingerprint.

I'm convinced people in Belfast don't understand what doorbells are. Everyone either thumps the door, uses the knocker or flips the postbox before they'll look at the (I think) prominent doorbell. When I'm on the top floor of a 3 floor house it's pot luck whether or not I hear a knock on the door.

TA for me. I missed a blood test last week - totally my fault, it went right out of my head cos I has too much else on. So I called, apologised and got the appointment rescheduled for today. The apt last week that I missed was 8.40am. When I rang to rebook they gave me a new time which I stupidly forgot to write in my diary. I only updated the date. So gobsh1te me decides to include the apt in my usual morning stroll and can't figure out why the automated check-in won't accept my dob. The receptionist gently informed me that I was 7 hours early for the test. Doh.

Being stuck in the queue for Londis waiting to pay for a coffee. Only one ahead so reckoned a quick sale. Didn't realise that as well as paying for his bits and pieces he wanted to buy various scratch cards as well as getting a number of lottery tickets checked to see if they had wins on them. I could feel the coffee getting cold in my hand…

Same thing happened me in Tesco the other day. "Can I get three lines with lotto plus. Then two lines without lotto plus. And then four lines for Euromillions. Oh actually, give me another Euromillions while you're at it." I'm standing there with my two things while she gets about 17 different lotto tickets in varying combinations and permutations done.

In a similar vein, it should be a requirement of the licensing process that bars that do an extensive cocktail trade have a separate, dedicated "I just want a pint/glass of wine" section so you don't have to stand there for 25 minutes while the barman faffs about with dried slices of orange every time you want a drink.

Group of Spanish students in McDonalds engaging in their usual high decibel conversing, basically drowning out the order numbers from the counter. And only one order among the six of them taking up prime real estate at a busy enough time.

People in the queue at my local carvery who wait until they have their meal checked at the till before going for the handbag, opening the purse, checking what notes or coins they have, before attempting to pay.

Then sometimes they ask for something extra which again delays the queue and all the while, my lunch is getting cold while they fumble before eventually offering payment. Never occurs to them to have cash or card at the ready before they reach the cashier. 😠

Adverts.ie . . Someone made an offer for an amp I'm selling nearly two weeks ago which I accepted, he arranged to pick it up within a few days, then messaged me to say he'd injured himself and would collect it next week. In the meantime someone else has made a better offer on the amp, so I pm'd the first bidder to see if hes still interested, and although I can see he's online, making offers on other amps (even offering to collect them straight away) yet he still hasn't replied to my message.

Now, herein lies the rub . . If I go ahead and accept that second better offer, I leave myself open to receiving negative feedback from the first bidder. I've never had any negative reviews (on Adverts anyway) and I don't want this knobhead to be the first to write me some. He's kinda got me by the nuts.

Time for a new phone :( . The screen has stopped working. More money out

I had such an experience a few years ago. I was selling a new unwanted upgrade phone. The guy who agreed to buy never turned up so I cancelled his offer and sold to the next offer I received. The knob immediately left a neg. review, spoiling my 100% clean feedback record. I emailed Adverts, explaining my issue and they kindly removed the neg. feedback. Might be worth your while accepting the better offer for your amp, and if there's a neg feedback left, you could appeal it. I'm sure if you are in good standing with Adverts, they'll be reasonable.

Lidl in Derry today. Popped in early hoping it would be quiet in the morning.

The place was rammed. Every till was open, and all had long queues.

It was a long wait to get to cashier, who apologied for the delay. I mentioned i was surprised it was so busy. His reply, "aye it's bedlam. We have a deal on Coke".

I had noticed that several people had trolleys full of nothing but Coke. No food, just Coke.

I had earlier spotted a family of 4 come in, presumably mum, dad and 2 adult children, who all had a trolley each and were causing a blockage around the end of an aisle as they all loaded up on Coke. Needless to say, all 4 were not very healthy looking specimens of the human race. Handy they had no jobs to go to at that time of the morning.

This evenings TA is that there's no visible ignore button on this vanilla platform to hide any cantankerous gobshites.

Click on "edit profile" of your own profile.

Ignore list is there....add away 😊

I have days off, but I'm not off permanently.