Woman and paying for things!Rant!

FillSpectre · 2006-05-26 12:49:00

I just went to get my lunch later than normal and I remebered why I buy it earlier. It is woman in the que. THree woman were in front of me all with sstuff amounting to less than €5. WE are all standing in there and the first one wants to pay with a lazer card, THe shop has no lazer facilities so she tries a credit card,…

#62 28-05-2006 12:01AM

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In Dundrum Town Centre the other day.. Queue of 7 or 8 for the pay parking machines. She was in the queue for ages but only devided to go look for money when the machine told her how much it was.. It was 2euro and took here about 5 mins to search through her bag.. Could have ****ing killed someone..

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#63 28-05-2006 01:30AM

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ah we just got bigger handbags!!!
Lol-tho in fairness the time u wasted waiting for em probs dosnt amoiut to the time it took you to type ur rant!!!

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#64 28-05-2006 08:29AM

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clown bag wrote:

Bananas are why loose change was invented.

lol

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#65 28-05-2006 10:09AM

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handbags are a crazy concept, wtf do you need to carry around all that junk for?

i have the notes in that mini pocket on right side of jeans, a few coins in the large right pocket, and the smallest wallet possible, containing only 4 cards, along with my 2 keys, in the left pocket

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#66 28-05-2006 06:19PM

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simu wrote:

But jeez, some people on this thread get way too stressed out - next time you're stuck in a queue, count in binary or imagine you're on a cool beach or whatever...

Takes deep breath and counts to 10

1
10
ARRRRHHHHHH !!!!

Anyone remember the Simpsons and Abu giving Marge advice on the fastest asile to use ?

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#67 28-05-2006 11:57PM

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Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Anyone remember the Simpsons and Abu giving Marge advice on the fastest asile to use ?

Yeah, I think the person who posted it about 2 pages ago remembers

:D

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#68 28-05-2006 11:58PM

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I had the very same rant on a thread going way back to 2004

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181577

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#69 29-05-2006 01:38AM

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bounty wrote:

handbags are a crazy concept, wtf do you need to carry around all that junk for?

i have the notes in that mini pocket on right side of jeans, a few coins in the large right pocket, and the smallest wallet possible, containing only 4 cards, along with my 2 keys, in the left pocket

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

The problem is not with handbags anyway - you can get ones with compartments and have a fixed space for every item.

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#70 29-05-2006 02:02AM

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simu wrote:

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

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#71 29-05-2006 02:07AM

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the_syco wrote:

No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

Not mine (coz I hate fumbling at tills). Again, depends on the person.

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#72 29-05-2006 02:08AM

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No, we remove old stuff, and unnessacery stuff. In the handbag, everything stays, for months on end.

thats so true

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#73 29-05-2006 02:09AM

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simu wrote:

So, every time you change trousers, you have to move all your stuff?

The problem is not with handbags anyway - you can get ones with compartments and have a fixed space for every item.

Yes, you move your stuff. You only have 4 things to move, after all.

And the problem as someone pointed out above is that:
How come they don't know where the sh!t is when they spend 20 minutes carefully arranging it when they put it away? Answer: MORONS.

Actually my pet hate is people showing up to hotels paying cash, which delays checking them in by about half an hour. Worse if they've booked it with a credit card which they "haven't brought with them". Who the **** goes away from home with no way of paying for anything?

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#74 29-05-2006 04:03AM

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Heh, was just talking about this on Friday...Waiting at the ATM on Grafton st., 3 people infront of me...

The first one (woman) took about 5 minutes, the next one (woman) took at least 5 minutes, the next person (guy) took about 30 seconds, as did I.

Enter card (1 second)
Enter pin (3 seconds?)

IT'S NOT YOUR FIRST TIME USING AN ATM EVERY TIME SO YOU KNOW WHAT SCREEN IS GOING TO COME UP AND WHAT EACH OPTION MEANS

Select withdraw cash with/without receipt (7 seconds...a little allowance to scan across the screen)
Select amount (15 seconds, cause some don't have €40 etc. so you have to press other)
Wait for ATM to process request and dispense card, take card and then money (10 seconds)

I can't even imagine wtf they were doing on the ATM, but the first stood blankly for long periods of time looking at the screen, while the second one was pressing button after button before removing the card, re-entering it, doing the same again and then withdrew her money!!

Sorry, but this is one of my biggest pet hates!! How the fu*k can you possibly spend so long at a ATM...LITERALLY 10 minutes for 2 withdrawls from 2 women...10 minutes isn't a hugh amount of time, but it is on a Friday afternoon, when there's big ques and te reason being people are taking so long to do something that takes 30 seconds!

Grrr! :mad:

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#75 29-05-2006 03:39PM

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women are retards, its as simple as that. In work when I serve people at the till its always the women who take out the small change and slowly count out the 99 cent in 2's and 1's. I'll be the first to admit that I wouldnt thave a clue how to operate the self service checkouts in Tesco's therefore I stay awayfrom them but I've seen women try (and fail) to use them and generally hold everyone else up.

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#76 29-05-2006 03:57PM

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Just yesterday, in a busy petrol station, a "lovely" woman in front of me made the poor girl check about eight hundred lotto tickets, even though there were about 50 people queuing behind her. After about 10 minutes of "beep....deboop" she had won about fifty quid. Fair play I thought, now take your money and begone with you. Of course, it wasnt that easy, she decided to use some of her winnings to buy ice creams for each of the 5 children with her, and these are time wasting Mr Whippy type ice cream, not just something you grab from the fridge. 10 minutes of ice cream making/sauce choosing/flake decisions later, she is handed her change from her winnings, at which point she decides to put the money back into lotto tickets, the slips for which were in her handbag. At which point I left the shop thinking tea without milk isnt that bad anyway.

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#77 29-05-2006 03:58PM

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Nightwish wrote:

women are retards, its as simple as that.

Aww, I bet your mother's proud of you. How is it working out for you, you know being single and bitter? Enjoying it, are ya? :rolleyes:

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#78 29-05-2006 04:18PM

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bravestarr082 wrote:

Its so annoying when you spend your 15min break in a queue while some dithery oul flooter has about 35items in the '10 items or less' checkout and whats worse its not enforced at all!

I'm a firm believer that if you can fit them all in a basket, you can use the ten items or less queue. That's just the way i was brought up.

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#79 29-05-2006 05:19PM

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Hydroquinone wrote:

Aww, I bet your mother's proud of you. How is it working out for you, you know being single and bitter? Enjoying it, are ya? :rolleyes:

someone doesnt get a joke when they read one then....single and bitter? hmm I must ask my boyfriends opinion on that.

When Tescos in the Jervis centre had the 3 items or less checkout at the bottom of the escalator, one of the girls there had a bit of an attitude which was good in a way cos she always refused to scan in more than 3 items for people

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#80 29-05-2006 08:41PM

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Lambsbread wrote:

I'm a firm believer that if you can fit them all in a basket, you can use the ten items or less queue. That's just the way i was brought up.

Shock! That's just wrong!

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#81 01-06-2006 07:33AM

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simu wrote:

Shock! That's just wrong!

Or... two baskets. Pay for them seprately. And smile.

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#82 01-06-2006 08:25AM

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A quote from Jack Nicholson in the movie "As Good as it Gets".
He was asked how as a writer he gets so inside women's heads, he responded...

"To think like a woman I just think like a man and take away all reason and accountability"

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#83 01-06-2006 10:42AM

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man i see this so often people holding up ques it is not necessarily women but usually it is

but the thing that really gets me is between 5-6pm in city centre everyone is usually trying to get home from work and moving at an ok pace, then some gobsh**e decides to stop dead in their tracks with no warning and do something trivial(usually look in their handbag :rolleyes:) meanwhile about 5 people bump into them and have to veer around them and they dont seem to give a crap, errr :mad: . its just ignorance in general i suppose, that piss*s me off

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#84 01-06-2006 11:00AM

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ATMs.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I was queueing for the ATM in liffey valley (yes, I stupidly thought I would use the machine there instead of the local shop. not a mistake I will make again) to take out some money for cinema tickets. There's not a long queue (about 10 people)and there's a good half hour before the film starts. Doesnt sound too bad. except three of the people ahead of me are women. Now , not all women are as bad (my girlfriend is actually very organised and efficient) as these three. Seven guys get their money out and head off to meet their loved ones. then the first girl/woman/female arrives at the machine. 10 minutes have passed in teh queue at this stage. She reads the screen and THEN she looks in her bag for her card. What did she think hse was going to need once she reached the top of the queue. rummage rummage aha! a card, she looks at it reads it and then puts it into the machine which point blankly refuses to accept her tesco clubcard. What? she checked it before she put it in! eventually she finds her proper card and quite efficiently removes her cash. 20 minutes have now passed. Up steps woman number 2 and starts to look about in her bag for her card. again??? The woman immediately ahead of me starts complaining to someone on the other end of the phone about the queue being "mental" at the machine. No the queue is quite short, its the users who are mental. mentally incompetant. Anyway, woman numebr two eventually inserts her card (it is the right one thankfully) and then proceeds to press every possible button read every possible option available before finally taking her money and standing waiting for the receipt (which the machine was unable to print and she must have pressed the proceed option. what was she reading for all that time?). Abotu 25 minutes have passed. Phone Woman steps up to the plate and inserts the card (so far so good) then she stops doing anything except talk on her phone. What? tell them to hold on a minute! Try this fabled multi tasking! I am now officially late for the film. Its ok, its only ads at this stage. shes still talking on the phone absently hitting a button here and there on the machine. Eventually she hangs up and braces ehrself for the serious business of taking out money. woohoo! time to go see some film goodness. I wish. she takes out the phone and rings someone to ask how much she should take out. Did she not have time to think about this? Seemingly it depends on where they are going after the film. Does she take out enough to cover a range of options? no. she discusses the options with her friend/boyfriend before eventually (eveeeeentually) saying "sure I have a hundred with me, I dont really need to take out more. sure I can use the credit card if I need it"...... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! over 40 minutes have gone by (i **** you not). the trailers are gone the way of the dodo. I finally get my money and head for the ticket counter where the phone woman is at the counter trying to decide with her friends which film to see. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Eventually I make it to an available assistant and get my tickets. My friend is not hugely happy at missing the first 5 or 10 minutes of the film (and neither am I ).

lesson learned from this experience?
I now buy all my tickets online and collect with a credit card.

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before I get torn to fleshy nibble sized low fat bits, I do realise that not all women are like this. And the above is an extreme example, its just the one that stands out clearest in my mind. I'm not perfect in any way shape or form but the women in the story above were compeltely inept and incredibly self absorbed.

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#85 01-06-2006 11:08AM

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LoLth wrote:

I do realise that not all women are like this.

yeh that is true it is not all women, but the ones that are like that are really annoying

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#86 01-06-2006 12:57PM

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Sparks400 wrote:

women

now ur just being pEdantic

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#87 01-06-2006 01:00PM

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the women that are like this are really really annoying. Mostly in their late twenties-mid thirties I find. God help us when the young big-hair bimbos (seen around dundrum shopping centre with their ugg boots) from the paris hilton school of stupid spoilt whoores start working and shopping full time. Nowadays they only hold up everything on weekends.

ATMs - I know - "what can they possibly be doing for that length of time?" - its extremely annoying. a girl actually turned around to me the other day and said "where does the money come out". Honestly. She said that. She was irish, around 19 (and thick as fcuking pìgsiht). It couldnt possibly be her first time using an atm? Surely she must remember where the cash came out last time? Women like this need to be boiled in raw sewage.

Multi tasking? Thats a whole n'other story. Some people can do it, some cant. What bugs me more than women who talk about it or cant do it is men who tell me that its "science" that no man can multitask while all women are great at it. Sure some women can drive their minis and talk on their mobiles at the same time - but do they see my car coming up the road? Do they even acknowlege its presence when I have to swerve out of the way to avoid an accident? (have a guess).

The purse, the atm, the phone (the loud phone voice), the car, grrrrrrrrrr! Is there anything that can be done about (or to) these people.

I'm not having a go at women drivers here - just fcuking spastics who permanently have their heads up their holes because they're day dreaming about god only knows what (which sex and city girl am I most like) - they have no consideration for anything thats not going on inside their ignorant tiny shallow tiny minds.

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#88 01-06-2006 01:25PM

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I'm going with Seamus on this, inability to plan for the immediate future, it's retarded. If you're in a queue then have your stuff ready when you get to the top of it.

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#89 01-06-2006 01:27PM

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Seriously there are woman out there like this, i am a woman and even find it irritating when similar situations happen (as some boardsters have posted). I have to admit though im always the one to use my Laser card when i pay for my lunch. Now my reason for this is i don't like to carry cash with me, it's a valid excuse i think but im always ready with the card when i pay it's not as if i go looking for it there & then.

In saying all of this there are older woman out there who just love to hold up a que of people to get there feckin lotto or scratchcards!!

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#90 01-06-2006 01:28PM

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Hagar wrote:

A quote from Jack Nicholson in the movie "As Good as it Gets".
He was asked how as a writer he gets so inside women's heads, he responded...

"To think like a woman I just think like a man and take away all reason and accountability"

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?!Qué bastardo?!

(that character)

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#91 01-06-2006 01:29PM

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Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

inability to plan for the immediate future,.

yeh that seems to be it alright

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