Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[oldwheels]

Well I guess this is what happens when you try to overdo it.

I just used a bucket of hot soapy water and a sponge to get the worst of the mud off.

Trouble with cleaning things is it makes everything else around it look muckier..

Best not to start down that route imo .

Before you know it, you're spending half your life polishing things

On one of my hospital stays I was sitting in a chair and a nurse in passing said "Don't sit there too long or Betty [the charge nurse] will have you washed and polished. That was in more civilised days when the nurses were not so stressed and had time to wash and polish.😊

 

[oldwheels]

Just spotted this on the local f/book site and seeing as you seem to be able to translate this type of stuff, maybe you could translate this? 🤔 I know what he means bye the way.

Tony Bolton
there was maybe a skrikingkid in it when they left it.

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At the height of the Balamory madness we had busloads of families with small children. At Craignure ferry terminal on the return leg the bus unloaded a full cargo load of pushchairs and when the ferry left there were always a few pushchairs left. No idea what happened to them or how on earth they came to forget they had them.

 

[mistyoptic]

People who don’t proof read their websites

 

[PeteXXX]

Car alarms that are set so finely that even a fart from a sparrow in a nearby tree sets them going!
Totally counter productive as no-one takes any notice and hopes that someone steals the car so their ears aren't permanently assaulted by the racket!

 

[lazybloke]

Car alarms that are set so finely that even a fart from a sparrow in a nearby tree sets them going!
Totally counter productive as no-one takes any notice and hopes that someone steals the car so their ears aren't permanently assaulted by the racket!

Circa 1990, any Sunday afternoon in the garden would be blighted by a cacophony of car alarms. They were a real scourge.
Or they made stupidly loud noises as they armed - I switched off the sounder on my car alarm for this reason. (There was still an immobiliser.)

But I've barely noticed car alarms in the last 15-20 years.
So either the technology matured....

..or my hearing degraded

 

[oldwheels]

Misuse of words. I dislike fayre anyway but a hotel is advertising “ Come in to sample our traditional Scottish Fayre “.
Not a place I would be encouraged to visit.

 

[Gillstay]

Presumably the same thing that makes 99%+ of the population think mown lawns are better than wild ones.

And when you know what you are doing, you can get as neat a result with a strimmer as with a lawnmower (most don't know what they are doing though).

What perfect stripes with a strimmer ?

 

[mistyoptic]

/rant

Monday night at the Beefeater:

”Y’alright? Have yer booked?”
”no, we haven’t“

sucks teeth, taps computer screen.

”Yeah, ok. Come this way” (place is less than half full)

sit us near a large party of fourteen.

”get you a drink?”

”give us a minute please?” (that’s the last we see of her)

wait…

another staff member. “Have you ordered any drinks?”
”no, we don’t have a drinks menu”
apologetic, sorts it.

end of meal, restaurant is STILL only half full.

WHY do we have to go through this pretentious “have you booked” carp? You’d think, in the current climate you’d be welcomed with open arms.

Is it me?

/rant

 

[LarryDuff]

When paying in a store by card being told by the assistant 'now enter your pin'.

In Northern Ireland its "now enter your wee pin number."

 

[Chromatic]

/rant

Monday night at the Beefeater:

”Y’alright? Have yer booked?”
”no, we haven’t“

sucks teeth, taps computer screen.

”Yeah, ok. Come this way” (place is less than half full)

sit us near a large party of fourteen.

”get you a drink?”

”give us a minute please?” (that’s the last we see of her)

wait…

another staff member. “Have you ordered any drinks?”
”no, we don’t have a drinks menu”
apologetic, sorts it.

end of meal, restaurant is STILL only half full.

WHY do we have to go through this pretentious “have you booked” carp? You’d think, in the current climate you’d be welcomed with open arms.

Is it me?

/rant

I would have thought it's so if you have booked they can tick you off as having actually turned up.

 

[Alex321]

WHY do we have to go through this pretentious “have you booked” carp? You’d think, in the current climate you’d be welcomed with open arms.

Is it me?

Because they will have reserved tables for people who have booked, and want to know when the bookings materialise so they no longer have to hold those tables.

I would be genuinely surprised if any restaurant that accepts bookings did NOT ask whether you had booked when you turn up.

 

[DaveReading]

end of meal, restaurant is STILL only half full.

Many restaurants nowadays are unable to fill all their seats because they are constrained by shortages of kitchen and waiting staff.

 

[mistyoptic]

Because they will have reserved tables for people who have booked, and want to know when the bookings materialise so they no longer have to hold those tables.

I would be genuinely surprised if any restaurant that accepts bookings did NOT ask whether you had booked when you turn up.

I don’t have a problem with them asking. That’s common sense.

I have a problem with the whole, prolonged, teeth-sucking thing. It’s as if they’re doing you an enormous favour, when it’s obvious they’re not busy.

 

[Alex321]

I don’t have a problem with them asking. That’s common sense.

I have a problem with the whole, prolonged, teeth-sucking thing. It’s as if they’re doing you an enormous favour, when it’s obvious they’re not busy.

Yeah, I'd be annoyed by that as well. Fortunately, I've never experienced it. For me, it has always just been a quick "Have you booked?" no - "Ok, then, come this way" as we have been lead to a table.

 

[Beebo]

Circa 1990, any Sunday afternoon in the garden would be blighted by a cacophony of car alarms. They were a real scourge.
Or they made stupidly loud noises as they armed - I switched off the sounder on my car alarm for this reason. (There was still an immobiliser.)

But I've barely noticed car alarms in the last 15-20 years.
So either the technology matured....

..or my hearing degraded

Alarms are much better these days.
I worked with a man in the 90s who had a soft top car. The alarm had a perimeter detection system which would detect anyone standing too close to the car. It even gave a voice warning telling people to stand away.
It would activate on a daily basis. And the owner would run to the office window frantically pointing the zapper in the direction of his car.