Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

keano_afc · 26-02-2016 04:15PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh yes, I had an episode like this lately. There's a house around the corner and a couple of blocks away with a very similar address, i.e. if we're "27 Dribbling, Whichways, Penzance, Cornwall", they're "27 Whichways, Penzance, Cornwall". I was expecting a parcel a couple of months back and it got to the point where according to the tracking system it had been delivered for about four days. I reasoned it probably ended up at the other 27 - it happened before - so I contacted the courier. The lady at the courier's office grunted her assent that that might indeed have happened and I should contact the driver. Let's call him "Kevin"...

JG: Hello, am I speaking to Kevin of WeLoseStuff Couriers?

K: Yeah?

JG: Super. Now - I was expecting a parcel lately to 27 Dribbling, Whichways, Penzance, Cornwall, and I suspect it might have been delivered to 27 Whichways, Penzance, Cornwall.

K: Uuhh yeah, I s'pose. I'm new.

JG: OK - so what do we do?

K: ???

JG: Kevin, I'm trying here, I really am. You're not making it easy for me to maintain my usual mallet-headed optimism.

K: -

JG: That is to say, my goods, which I paid for with money that was mine and had to be found somewhere, are missing. You say you delivered them. I have a photograph, kindly provided by your office, of what in fairness looks very like my parcel lying on somebody else's porch.

K: Uuh yeah, like I said, I'm new here. Sure if you call up for it they'll...

JG: Shush! No no no, sending me running around in a fool after you'll made a pigs ear of things will not be happening. Now listen to me carefully - you will go and fetch my property, you will fetch it fairly lively, and you will deliver it as you were originally contracted to do. That way I might maintain my usual good humour and not get all narky and raise a fuss, including telling Jeff Bezos personally that his logistical infrastructure is all shot to shit because no-one cares about what they're doing. Do you understand?

K: Uuuh, I'll have to get on to the office.

JG: Good lad. You do just that. I shall wait with bated breath. Take it hawndy noy! <CLICK>

My parcel arrived the following morning.

I feel like having a similar style discussion with the unhelpful lady in sorting office when I go collect my package which they didnt try deliver in the first place.

AvyStreet · 26-02-2016 04:19PM

When people start threads about things that are only important to themselves and then assume everyone knows what theyre on about or care.

Eg Thread title: RESULTS IN !!!!

Yes people the vote for the legislation on the rare buttercup mushroom has finally taken place. I for one am not pleased with the result, what precautions have you taken and how much did it cost you.What did you think of the tax on imported spray units.

wally79 · 26-02-2016 04:51PM

AvyStreet wrote: »

When people start threads about things that are only important to themselves and then assume everyone knows what theyre on about or care.

Eg Thread title: RESULTS IN !!!!

Yes people the vote for the legislation on the rare buttercup mushroom has finally taken place. I for one am not pleased with the result, what precautions have you taken and how much did it cost you.What did you think of the tax on imported spray units.

Or the runners who put misleading titles on their bloody training logs

miezekatze · 26-02-2016 05:25PM

We got a big load of junk mail this morning just before leaving the house. I took it out of the mailbox and we left for work. I just got home to find a big pile of junk mail in my mailbox - the exact same stuff we already got this morning! I think it's time to put up a 'no junk mail' sticker.

Also TA that I have to go out tonight. I want to put my jammies on and stay on the couch!

skittles8710 · 26-02-2016 05:57PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Get your big brother to loosen the stabilisers on the others boys bike.

Excellent suggestion

he's away on a ship overseas but I will make sure that happens when he returns to these shores. Should have known better than to fall for a boy with stabilisers; )

AvyStreet · 26-02-2016 06:23PM

Ambiguous queues in shops.
Like a single cashier in the middle and a display right in fron of them so theres no discernable place to form 1 line.

Son Of A Vidic · 26-02-2016 07:15PM

AvyStreet wrote: »

Ambiguous queues in shops.
Like a single cashier in the middle and a display right in fron of them so theres no discernable place to form 1 line.

Also known as - an Irish queue.

selous · 26-02-2016 07:26PM

keano_afc wrote: »

I feel like having a similar style discussion with the unhelpful lady in sorting office when I go collect my package which they didnt try deliver in the first place.

Only to be told by her that your intercom doesn't work and you don't know that because you don't use it yourself.....:eek: (then you go red, oh oh) Check yours before you go..

skittles8710 wrote: »

Excellent suggestion he's away on a ship overseas but I will make sure that happens when he returns to these shores. Should have known better than to fall for a boy with stabilisers; )

He could be "unstable" after that,

Rubberlegs · 26-02-2016 08:03PM

Every evening without fail my 4yr old needs to go to the toilet during dinner. Every time it's me she wants to help her wipe her bum. I dream of a world where uninterrupted dinners exist

selous · 26-02-2016 08:35PM

YICK!

KatW4 · 26-02-2016 11:33PM

Eating too much and it makes you feel sick. I always try to eat my dessert but it's completely ruined because I've stuffed my face too much before it.

Robsweezie · 27-02-2016 04:36AM

KatW4 wrote:

Eating too much and it makes you feel sick. I always try to eat my dessert but it's completely ruined because I've stuffed my face too much before it.

Yeah, just OD'd on a bag of milk teeth. :-()

Menas · 27-02-2016 09:03AM

Not been able to enjoy sleep in.

TG1 · 27-02-2016 09:06AM

People self diagnosing themselves as autistic
"Oh if I was born 20years later I would definitely have been diagnosed, I'm just so bad in social situations"

No, Autistic Spectrum Disorders are neurological disorders that are characterised by difficulties with social communication, with social interaction, and with social imagination and flexible thinking.

The fact that you are choosing to be a horrible person right now and refusing to go to the funeral of a good friends parent is not because you are autistic it is because you are just being a d***.

Rosie Rant · 27-02-2016 10:39AM

I lost weight (HOW?! :O ) so my favourite black jeans keep falling down a bit. The belt hooks on the jeans are tiny, none of my belts will fit through them and none of the thin belts in the shops are in a size twelve (the largest size in Penney's seems to be a size 8). So I either have to wear leggings under the jeans or the world will have to see my bum cleavage. I know I could just not wear the jeans but I love them and they go with everything.

Calypso27 · 27-02-2016 11:11AM

Not having a good morning.

skittles8710 · 27-02-2016 11:15AM

selous wrote: »

He could be "unstable" after that,

Better he's unstable than me

TA that my favourite bit of Saturday morning nostalgia Home Improvement on rte is not on because or the wall to wall election coverage.

KatW4 · 27-02-2016 12:01PM

Calypso27 wrote:

Not having a good morning.

I hope it improves x

My TA is that everyone I know has been sick all week with a cold and now they've passed it on to me. It's like I swallowed glass. My throat is killing me.

armaghlad · 27-02-2016 12:05PM

People with an unsophisticated palate. Eating out they tend to go for the closest thing to a burger. Or whatever chicken there is. Instead of trying something different. Tend not to like fish of any description. Probably order the burger plain too. And pick out all the onions/mushrooms/tomato or whatever else they "don't take".

One of life's greatest ironies is that these same people will get upset over different brands of ketchup, butter, brown sauce etc.

Savage Tyrant · 27-02-2016 01:46PM

armaghlad wrote: »

People with an unsophisticated palate. Eating out they tend to go for the closest thing to a burger. Or whatever chicken there is. Instead of trying something different. Tend not to like fish of any description. Probably order the burger plain too. And pick out all the onions/mushrooms/tomato or whatever else they "don't take".

One of life's greatest ironies is that these same people will get upset over different brands of ketchup, butter, brown sauce etc.

"You'd eat shíte with sugar on it" is what I'm often told....
No, I'm just willing to try stuff I've never tried before. How can you tell you don't like it or not if you won't even try it?

But don't dare try and fob me off with any old muck and call it ketchup.... Heinz is the only bottle of red I want on my table thanks.

fussyonion · 27-02-2016 02:29PM

KatW4 wrote: »

I hope it improves x

My TA is that everyone I know has been sick all week with a cold and now they've passed it on to me. It's like I swallowed glass. My throat is killing me.

My Mam had a cold. Then my Dad. Then me and now my other half has. We all had that dry scratchy throat. Strepsils were soothing. Feel better soon x

KatW4 · 27-02-2016 02:47PM

fussyonion wrote:

My Mam had a cold. Then my Dad. Then me and now my other half has. We all had that dry scratchy throat. Strepsils were soothing. Feel better soon x

Thank you

hope you're better soon too!

I just tried to write with a lipstick.... I think my brain has melted.

Calypso27 · 27-02-2016 03:36PM

KatW4 wrote: »

Thank you hope you're better soon too!

I just tried to write with a lipstick.... I think my brain has melted.

Thank you

Feel better fussy onion and katW4, I second the strepsils advice, or one of those throat sprays that numbs everything!

selous · 27-02-2016 03:51PM

I'd say there are a few sick politicians out there this morning too...:D

ancapailldorcha · 27-02-2016 04:37PM

KatW4 wrote: »

Thank you hope you're better soon too!

I just tried to write with a lipstick.... I think my brain has melted.

Calypso27 wrote: »

Thank you

Feel better fussy onion and katW4, I second the strepsils advice, or one of those throat sprays that numbs everything!

selous wrote: »

I'd say there are a few sick politicians out there this morning too...:D

Enough of the chitchat. Back on topic please.

fussyonion · 27-02-2016 05:27PM

I didn't realise I'd lost some hearing until I yawned today and suddenly the world seemed louder.
Driving along, yawned and then I could hear the car's engine, the traffic around me, people chatting as they walked past...I didn't even know I'd been slightly deaf since I got a cold!

Also TA'd that my new shoes are slightly too tight in the toes but a little big at the back; what do you do with pointed shoes?!

wattlebird · 27-02-2016 11:55PM

As if the trend for huge nerd glasses wasn't bad enough, I keep seeing more and more people wearing perfectly round glasses. You're not Harry Potter ffs.

MacauDragon · 28-02-2016 12:15AM

They switched on the aircon in my pub the other day.
It made me slightly cold.

Then they started putting 'reserved for' bits of paper on tables around me.

I felt slightly cold and in the way. To the point where I changed place in MY pub.

This slightly annoyed me.

KatW4 · 28-02-2016 11:16AM

When the kitten farts. Good God the smell is toxic.

Samsgirl · 28-02-2016 12:53PM

Mr Sam allowed the kids to have jellies and chocolate for brekkie - cos it's the weekend. He is now baffled as to why they are tearing around the house wrecking all in sight.

Trivial things that annoy you part 8191.1

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