Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

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A cashier at a Supermarket not even looking at you from the start of the transaction to the end….

I mean I know you hate your job but if you don't like dealing with the public….

So I make a point of noting their name and saying it as I thank them and walk off….thing is most people treat them as a transaction and rarely make eye contact with them either in their haste to get out of there….

I can pack as quick as the cashier can scan as I have my bags sitting ready in the trolley.

Just tell them you'll give your mobile number for lidl plus so you can reel it off while still packing

TA at stupid appliance manuals being completely unrelated to the model you bought, being in pidgin english, and not giving instructions for anything

Also I have handles that are meant to be installed on the fecking thing that I don't have the correct tool for... plus there's what looks like a wad of dried glue gunking up one of the holes where the screw goes... Super

The infantilisation people do to themselves in today's day and age. "I'm just a girl", "I'm neurodivergent", "I'm introverted"

All these phrases used as some excuse for a deficiency in their personalities.

• No, you're not a girl, you are a fully grown adult woman of 30+ years old, and you sound pathetically incompetent and sexist, denigrating yourself on the basis of your gender. Same vein as "boys will be boys" except different flavour.
• You're not neurodivergent, you think differently, everyone does, unless you have a diagnosis with a specific version of it like autism please shut up. You are fundementally boring and had to take something remarkably bland like how you think and make it a personality trait. And I suspect you're fishing for some special pity/extra attention.
• Introverted? because you can't make a call on a phone or approach someone to complain about something? No you lack social skills, introverted is someone who actively recharges away on their own and does not seek company of others. Numbing your brain with a social media algorithm in a dark room everyday is not introverted behaviours. You are simply destroying your capacity to focus, connect with other people.

Grow up and stop making excuses and do the work needed to address aspects of yourself that need changing.

A delivery I’m expecting Friday has been rescheduled for next week. So 9 days now between order and delivery. Not impressed as the company are based in Dublin and their website explicitly says at the time of ordering….’in stock’… made the order on Sunday so if it’s ‘in stock’.. maybe just put it in suitable packaging, label it up and give it to the courier ? The ‘in stock’ item is still sitting in stock in their warehouse. Also annoying is I never received an email about the delay I just happened to check their website now and the delivery date has been changed…

Are you telling us its all ova?

I think I have a copy but until I get proper reading glasses I'll hold off . But I have to say from the short stories and bits I have read Joyce is my favourite author . I loved the short story Araby I think it is called .

I'm filling in a form for a client and run into this issue each time(I have never managed to submit the online-only form)

The form requires a figure to be entered in a certain format. However, the relevant figure is smaller than the format, which gives me an error message. I go back and try a different format, but I still get the same message.

I have submitted a query each time, and they tell me(different person each time) to ignore and fill in the rest! Today was the 5th attempt to fill/submit the form, and I just got a response to my query detailing the above. the response, ignore the question, submit the paper to prove the figures involved!

I can't articulate the ta in this, the fact that the form isn't built for small sums, the lack of training or knowledge from the support staff or my creeping certainty that if I call them, I will get the same answer! I wish I could get away with being that bad at my job!!

I wish they would make a documentary about lotto winners, visit them 5, 10 years after and see how it changed their lives. There would be some negative stories. Remember the woman from Limerick who won the EM and had to turn her house into a fortress after a kidnapping plot and allegedly might have developed a drink problem.

A fair few end up squandering it and are back to original position or worse after a few years.

If one of my siblings won it she'd be back looking for a credit union loan in a couple of years. Some people are completely useless with money.

I definitely wouldn't go public anyway.

A stupid buzzy fly managed to get into my house through a slit open window

He is now buzzing like a mad thing and seemingly cant find a way out despite me opening every window and a wide open sliding door . How come they find the slit but cant seem to find á yawning chasm of openings

I never get the whole mystique around ‘Ulysses’ being hard to read. If someone found it too boring I could understand that.

It’s pretty decent, overall, if you liked ‘Dubliners’ and ‘Portrait’ then you should enjoy it. Goes a bit off the rails at the end but it’s still worth reading.

The RTÉ radio production is top class.