Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Borky Pig.

Roast bork. 🤪

I can't fathom having my lunch at 11am. The afternoon would be endless. Most people in my job go at 12 and even then I don't know how they stare down the barrel of a 4.5 hour afternoon stretch every day.

Are they grabbing a coffee and a biscuit at 230/3ish maybe?

So here’s me, someone who already finds it tricky getting the right words out when the pressure’s on—and now it feels like even the meaning of words is shifting under my feet, thanks to the ever-evolving lingo of the generations I deal with.

In the ongoing drama of that form from the other day, I was told to submit the original of a document. Which sounds simple… except I’d received said document as an email attachment. I asked three different staff members, hoping for a glimmer of clarity (because I wasn’t about to waste ink and paper printing off fancy copies just to have them rejected for not screaming “ORIGINAL”). But did they respond? Nope. Not a whisper. And of course, my trusty 15-year-old tech-whiz sidekick is MIA at the worst possible time.

I was woken up at 5 am by yet another awful smell wafting through my bedroom window. So, I turned to my “personally trained” AI for wisdom. And would you believe, it explained that in this scenario, an original means... a printout of a download.

Isn’t that just a copy?

If I didn’t already have a headache, that kind of logic would gift me one.

The term "dodgy box".

Nah. Totally agree.

You pick something to hand or

Rush back for one thing or

Pro tip, bring something ambient with you eg coffee, tea bags and leave it near counter in reserve.