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Trivial things that annoy you Part 2
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I was asked (told) one day in a cafe, where I was on my own, not to sit in the window seat 'in case a family might want it'. The tables are all for two, and with some pushed together to create a table for four.
There were loads of empty tables. The mythical family never turned up. I stayed where I was, in the window seat...
Good for you!!
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Restaurants, etc., who participate in Grab One, etc., insisting that you tell them you have a voucher when you are booking.
A friend who was at a relation's 60th birthday meal in a famous posh establishment
(owned by a husband and wife team
) was very disappointed at the fare on offer
until she discovered that it was a night on which a lot of voucher holders were present.
Considering the full whack was being paid by themselves, she was disgusted.0 -
That's interesting. I've read that before about getting something not quite as good, in various establishments, once they know the customer is using a voucher.Restaurants, etc., who participate in Grab One, etc., insisting that you tell them you have a voucher when you are booking.
A friend who was at a relation's 60th birthday meal in a famous posh establishment
(owned by a husband and wife team) was very disappointed at the fare on offer
until she discovered that it was a night on which a lot of voucher holders were present.
Considering the full whack was being paid by themselves, she was disgusted.
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This bugs me too...if you are going to get the usual service for any of those vouchers then why should you have to mention them when you make your booking/appointment? It should be ok to produce them when you are leaving in lieu of payment. Ive used them and also felt that the service is different because of the voucher.It defeats the purpose if they are trying to increase their business.Restaurants, etc., who participate in Grab One, etc., insisting that you tell them you have a voucher when you are booking.
A friend who was at a relation's 60th birthday meal in a famous posh establishment
(owned by a husband and wife team) was very disappointed at the fare on offer
until she discovered that it was a night on which a lot of voucher holders were present.
Considering the full whack was being paid by themselves, she was disgusted.
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Getting a bra fitting. Now I hate doing this and have decided to do my own measuring from now on after the fiasco of Debenhams during the week. The woman measured me then proceeded to tell me what my band and cup sizes were, then proceeded to tell me that 'what you're measuring at and what size you are are different' I don't even know where to begin with that one. She was the one doing the measuring, so either she was doing it wrong or she was doing it wrong.
So after trying several on that didn't fit well she came back with one that was 2 sizes too big. I can't do any worse with my own measurements. I came out with no new bras and more confused and pissed off than I was before I started. 0 -
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That's interesting. I've read that before about getting something not quite as good, in various establishments, once they know the customer is using a voucher.
Why would you pay a still considerable amount of money for a below par meal
in a posh establishment when you could get a brilliant meal in a restaurant which
does not have the fancy name for the same price?
Heard Sinéad Ryan once try to spin it as the beauty parlour, etc., needs to know
beforehand if you have a voucher so that they can have a special room and
treatment set up for you, haha!!!0 -
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Fred Swanson wrote: »Sounds like what happens when I go to be measured for suits. They simply don't have a clue what they are doing. Usually end up having to fly to the UK to be measured properly.
I've never had to fly to the UK to be measured, but then my tailor is as old as the hills, none of that fancy "cupping" business :pac:
I don't think he does bra fittings though, but I wouldn't mind giving it a go...
How hard can it be -
Small, big, bigger, and "You're coming with me" size
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This bugs me too...if you are going to get the usual service for any of those vouchers then why should you have to mention them when you make your booking/appointment? It should be ok to produce them when you are leaving in lieu of payment. Ive used them and also felt that the service is different because of the voucher.It defeats the purpose if they are trying to increase their business.
I have not used any of the vouchers, but if I were to, I would be tempted not to tell them
beforehand and just hand in the voucher when I am leaving. If they insisted I pay the
full whack I would insist on finding out from them what difference it made. Of course,
we know the reason full well!! You are NOT going to get the usual service/food if you
inform them you have a voucher!
Iirc, I once heard Lorraine Keane say how friends of hers who are in the restaurant and
beauty business are far from happy to see the voucher people coming. If that is the case, why do they participate in these schemes? Guess we know the answer to that
too!! If a business has previously been patronised by government ministers with
limitless expenses, and have lost all that because of the clamp down on those
expenses in recent times, it must be really awful to have been forced by circumstances
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Pumpkinseeds wrote: »Getting a bra fitting. Now I hate doing this and have decided to do my own measuring from now on after the fiasco of Debenhams during the week. The woman measured me then proceeded to tell me what my band and cup sizes were, then proceeded to tell me that 'what you're measuring at and what size you are are different' I don't even know where to begin with that one. She was the one doing the measuring, so either she was doing it wrong or she was doing it wrong.
So after trying several on that didn't fit well she came back with one that was 2 sizes too big. I can't do any worse with my own measurements. I came out with no new bras and more confused and pissed off than I was before I started.
If you can get to Arnotts sometime, they are good. Steer clear of M&S also.0 -
eisenberg1 wrote: »Known as Gandhi's revenge...........leave's you with an arse like a dodgy brakelight.:D
<Goose falls off seat, laughing in that "possible hospitalisation" way. Fcuk you eisenberg, just fcuk you!!> 0 -
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People who hang flags all over the exterior of their houses. Now don't get me wrong, I understand that people get very passionate about GAA, I have no interest in it whatsover, never have done. But my next door neighbours pepper the house with flags, probably wouldn't be as bad if they replaced them with new ones occassionally, but they don't so the outside of the house is covered in tatty, torn, crappy looking Clare flags.
The further Clare progress in the league, or whatever it's called, the worse it will get, and the number of flags and 'bunting' will increase. Yesterday some aul bint that was visiting them stopped 2 random teenagers in the street to take pictures of her standing outside the house on her smart phone:mad: 0 -
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This is trivial, so here goes...rang to ask about getting car serviced, guy in garage had to ring back, so busy, so busy, and had to work out price.
Rang me back following day, with price etc.
Rang another place, they were able to give me an answer there and then re price etc.
I don't even know what point I'm trying to make here...maybe that is why I am (trivially) annoyed.
Think I might go with second garage, used before, and was fine.0 -
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