Trivial things that annoy you Part 27

Got on the train and realised I had forgotten my earphones. Then a woman got on with a toddler and a baby, the baby keeps trying to start crying (it'll probably kick off now any minute) and the toddler just said "I don't where in my hands" (whatever that means) 7 times!
I booked my seat, like always, but there's only 3 carriages A-C and my seat was in D so I'm not sitting in someone else's pre-booked seat but I like the security of knowing I'm sitting in a seat with my name on it

Since last Thursday I've had to take a lot of calls from people who know nothing about bikes but because of their jobs, have to pretend they do.
"What type of bike do you have?"
"A Honda Hornet"
Silence......
"It's a 600cc"
Silence...... "Is that a big bike?"
"No, it's midway between big and small"
Silence.....
I felt like saying "it's red and white and goes vroom vroom and yeooowwww" and I probably would've gotten a more coherent response.

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I've been away, so my head is full of traveller TA's as well as other country TA's. I don't even know where to start

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Does anyone know how I should make a complaint about a member of staff from Dublin Airport? Is it the DAA?

When you said "traveller" I thought you meant people of the rogue variety.

I'd say if you contact DAA, if they can't help you, they should be able to tell you who to complain to.

Back to the no earphones thing - a fella just got on the train and is loudly eating a box of pringles. I can't see him but I can hear him and all I'm saying is it better be a small box of pringles or he could end up dead.

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

Back to the no earphones thing - a fella just got on the train and is loudly eating a box of pringles. I can't see him but I can hear him and all I'm saying is it better be a small box of pringles or he could end up dead.

I carried ear plugs in my bag, at one stage, when I used to travel a fair bit by bus.

LynnGrace wrote: »

I carried ear plugs in my bag, at one stage, when I used to travel a fair bit by bus.

They would be a gift from the angels right now.
I have about 10 sets of earphones around the house and am usually so good at remembering them (even leaving the house I knew I had forgotten something) but I'm all dopey from the new painkillers. I really need a minder today, you know like when kids are travelling alone and they put a tag around their neck and a member of staff escorts them around? Yeah, I need that.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

That's customs. They stopped me once and serached through my bags. Was just on a flight from Amsterdam.....but it was only a connecting flight. As soon as they heard that I didn't leave the airport in Amsterdam they packed my bag back up for me.

Well, that's who it was then. I am still so angry tbh. They picked on my OH simply because she is Brazilian. We'd already gone through passport control and I know he just pounced on her because of her skin colour. He practically ran after her shouting, "sorry where are you from!?" and when she told him Brazil, he said, "Ok and have you anything in the bag you shouldn't? Where are you going?" - what a racist ásshole. He had no authority to do a Visa cheque on her as she'd already passed through immigration (and answerd their 20 questions). He ignored me of course, because I'm white. I'm f.ucking livid. I wanted to confront him but OH just wanted to leave

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

They would be a gift from the angels right now.

Course I didn't have the ear plugs one day recently when I was on a bus containing a child who never shut up commenting and asking questions in the most piercing voice I've ever heard.
I had to move upstairs, in the end. He was only about four or five. I felt like the biggest grouch ever, but I couldn't listen to him anymore, and my earphones were useless versus his voice.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

In my experience (lots of travel, lots of airport hassle!), it's better just to let them get thier gratification from the small bit of power they have. Then walk away knowing you are not the d*ck in the situation.

Usually I'd be the same but I think this is too important to let go. I mean, he only barely stopped short of a bald assertion that she must be carrying illegal goods because she is from Brazil. This is the second time we've had a bad experience with these guys. Last year, the pervert at Immigration actually asked her why she didn't like Irish men and who was the man in our relationship. I let that go, again at the OH's request but I've just had it...

The way everyone seems to come across as rude when there is a language barrier. Either that or they really are rude and it's true that us Irish are as friendly and welcoming as they say!

Guy on the plane yesterday in the row behind, with his entire progeny and harem spread across two rows. He actually put an arm on a chair on each side of the aisle to block people from going down the aisle until his group had cleared. Why would we have anyway? We were a row in front and exiting via the back door And then, he said to the guy in the row behind him (and who, therefore should have been exiting before him anyway), "you go on ahead there mate" - The other guy was so thankful. I would have been like, "yeah right, I f.ucking will and I don't need your permission either becauseI am going anyway". What a big ársey f.ucking neanderthal. There is something about people on planes..... They're like bus w.ankers on speed or something. Is it the cabin pressure that reduces the collective IQ? Then there's the constant stream of people up and down to use the toilet. It's a two hour flight Can you not go two hours without a wee? Are you three? Jumping up as soon as the plane lands, while it is still moving. Why? You're just going to be standing there like f.ucktards until we've come to a complete stop.

Oh God...I need a holiday to recover from my holiday...

And on the hotel front....

"We need a deposit for your room which we will refund on checkout" - um....nope. This is a five star hotel...do they treat all their guests like that? More or less implying that we will run up mini bar tab or burn the bed linen before we leave. So, I gave him a maxed out card on purpose. His poor little face fell when it was declined.

"This card has been declined"

"Oh. Well that's your problem"

"You don't have sufficient funds to pay a deposit"

"Well maybe if you'd told me about this when I booked I could have ensured I had sufficient funds"

"This is standard practive in some hotels"

"Oh and is it standard practice to not tell your guests about it until they arrive?"

"Well I see you booked through an agency...maybe they didn't do their job properly"

"Well they managed to debit the funds from my account straight away"

"Well, we need a deposit"

"Well I can't give you one"


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Hands over keys

... Runs upstairs to raid minibar and burn the bed linen :P