Trivial things that annoy you

I find it so annoying when movies put the credits at the start of the film. It is okay when they incorporate it a little into the opening scene, but when it is unrelated, it really irritates me!

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

I really get annoyed when I see comments on Youtube

... you don't really need to go much further than this. Does anyone know if there's a way to turn them off?

Doesn't happen over here but in the states, for some bizarre reason, they say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"...I can't get my head around how some people can keep making this mistake, they're literally saying the opposite of what they think they are

PrettyBoy wrote: »

Doesn't happen over here but in the states, for some bizarre reason, they say "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less"...I can't get my head around how some people can keep making this mistake, they're literally saying the opposite of what they think they are

Ive noticed Americans on various forums moving more and more towards saying things like "The car rolled down the hill on accident" instead of "by accident" or "accidentally", that's the worst.

Girls in the gym changing room just wandering around in their undies, putting on make up, drying hair, reading.......... It would take u two seconds to put on ur trousers/skirt so PUT ON UR BLOODY CLOTHES. Drives me mad!

Czarcasm wrote: »

Reading? In the gym?


This I must see for myself, where did you say this gym was again? :pac:

Honestly. I was driven insane this afternoon with them..... Its a very good value gym on the north side. Not sure I'm allowed say the name!

I had a friend from Israel visiting me here in Tulipland a few weeks ago. We had a few incidents in shops where she'd pull out her purse and it was full of Israeli, British, American and Euro currency and she'd sort through it all looking for enough to pay for her goods. That's annoying enough in shops but she wouldn't get her purse out to rifle through her various currencies for correct change until she was actually on the bus. Dutch public transport is usually very reliable, most people here use chip cards to check in and out of the buses and the bus stops have have those constantly updating displays telling you when the next bus is due. The drivers couldn't move on until she paid as she's a frail little old lady. She held the buses up by about 3 minutes each time until I gave her my card and just paid in cash for myself. I couldn't figure out why she wouldn't just sort her change so that she was only carrying euros.

According to her it's perfectly normal to inconvenience everyone else behind you while you dither about in Israel. I always have my money, cards, bonus cards etc ready. I unload my groceries onto the belt as soon as there is space, leave my bonus card on the shelf above the till for the cashier to scan, tuck my cash card into the machine as they are scanning my stuff and pack as they're scanning - THEN as soon as they tell me the total I enter my PIN. I want in and out as fast as possible and have every sympathy for the poor wee till jockey dealing with the general public all the time. I loathe being the customer behind the idiot, or the cashier dealing with the idiot, so I strive not to be the idiot.

Mind you, I can't speak kindly of the Dutch either. Coming from a nation of polite, well mannered people (and for all our self loathing, we are extremely well mannered and generous to strangers. No other country waits and waves other cars out into in main roads, for example) their behaviour on public transport and their complete inability to queue is absolutely maddening.

The sad thing is I have found myself joining them in their queue jumping, crowd shoving ways because I can't beat them.

humbert wrote: »

People, specifically women between 30 and 60, who carefully pack away all of their shopping while avoiding eye contact with the cashier who's sitting there waiting to be paid.
Only then will the start rummaging through their handbag for their wallet. Just so they can't begin serving the next customer. Absolute bastards.

If the cashier would help to pack the bags instead of just sitting there waiting to be paid the whole process would be done a lot quicker.

On that note; cashiers who start the next customers shopping before the current customer has finished packing.

humbert wrote: »

People, specifically women between 30 and 60, who carefully pack away all of their shopping while avoiding eye contact with the cashier who's sitting there waiting to be paid.
Only then will the start rummaging through their handbag for their wallet. Just so they can't begin serving the next customer. Absolute bastards.

Same sort of thing happens in petrol stations all the time - a lot of women have a tendency to empty half the contents of their bag when paying for petrol. After they've eventually got their money/credit card out and paid the cashier they then have to put everything back in, while the cashier and everyone in the queue has to awkwardly wait and say nothing...

People who are queuing and wait til they get to the til to
take out their money.Also people who do this at
at bus stops.

People who ring the bell more than once on the bus.

People like the woman in the supermarket who was having a great aul chat with the cashier about kids and school and how the family was doing while the rest of us were kept waiting.

And then of course it took her another 5 minutes to put the groceries in the bags and surprise surprise she couldn't find her debit card when she had time to pay.

When I'm in the queue I have the bags at the ready to pack them as soon as she checks the items through and my card beside me to hand to her straight away so I won't be delaying others. It's not rocket science.

Thank God for places like Aldi where the cashiers won't tolerate this kind of carry on.