Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

The bork must be repaid

Could be this :

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27609533/

Mentioning in a healthcare environment that my already bad memory is getting worse( to do with exposure to particular substances, rather than a loss of memory function)

I've had memory issues since I was a small child, so of course I would notice when I was losing ground in this area, ta the male caregiver arguing with me about my memory issues(he's not a neurologist or memory expert) I thought as a society we had gotten passed arguing with women who say they have this or that issue when relevant.

*I am well aware some ppl do this to be nice, but in reality, it undermines the seriousness of the issues and people's confidence!

I'm one of those people. My thinking is that I don't need a big trolley as I'm not doing a family shop, etc. The plastic baskets on wheels drag the shoulders off me as I go around if I have more than a litre of milk in it. The wire baskets can be hard to find, and it gets heavy, really quickly if I'm buying food stuffs. I have a cotton bag that works for me, but the shops frown on those, and also, few shops let me put a wire basket in a trolley and go to self scan!

I was in a supermarket at lunchtime and was pushing my trolley back after putting the shopping in the boot.

A woman stops me and says "Can I take that?" and hands me a €1 coin.

I had put €2 in (the trolley takes either) but was afraid to say anything to her.

I went to a cafe afterwards to get an Americano and their card machine wasn't working. Cash only. Was a euro short so couldn't get the coffee. Had to wait until I got home and drink poxy instant.

Used to be a thing in Aldi and Lidl I seem to remember before they got their little trolly baskets.

My TA is McDonald's and their crap paper straws, especially when you've ordered a milkshake! Two straws disintegrated this evening and I still hadn't drank all of it

Driving every motorway in Ireland in cruise control and repeatedly overtaking and being overtaken by the same sets of cars that can't maintain a steady speed. You can excuse some older cars as maybe they might not have some form of cruise control but you'll see drivers of cars that obviously possess such features clearly failing to use it. There's no excuse for it.

What's often more bemusing is how fast they do travel at when overtaking only for me to cruise past them again a few miles later.

Does my head in.

(Just had to drive up and down to Limerick from Dublin in the day)

There will be incidents of every single aspect of a motorcar failing at one point or another. Throttle pedals are in most cases digital these days anyway so just another set of digital inputs to the same controller that a cruise control module would be an input to...

Could see cruise control leading to driver distraction alright. Not a whole lot of stimulation on a motorway. Maybe those on cruise control should be thankful for the erratic inconsistent driving of others for maybe helping to keep them alert.