Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[cougie uk]

On a similar subject I do get annoyed when a parent is waiting at a crossing with a child and is clearly waiting for green and teaching the child to do so

then some moron just wander up and crosses on red

great example - idiot!

Not their child. Not their problem.

 

[Electric_Andy]

What anoyes me is when people "hang out" at a zebra crossing with no intention of using it. Casuing all vehicles to stop and yeild, wait to realise that no-one is crossing before driving on. If I'm stopping or waiting for something, I'll make sure it's not at the foot of a zebra crossing

 

[Andy in Germany]

What anoyes me is when people "hang out" at a zebra crossing with no intention of using it. Casuing all vehicles to stop and yeild, wait to realise that no-one is crossing before driving on. If I'm stopping or waiting for something, I'll make sure it's not at the foot of a zebra crossing

There are drivers who "Stop and yield" at Zebra Crossings?

 

[Electric_Andy]

There are drivers who "Stop and yield" at Zebra Crossings?

80% of the time around here, yes. There's always the few that don't and they get an angry glare from me

 

[figbat]

I was in Hamburg the last two days, in a part of the city called Hafencity. It’s sort of like Docklands - a recent growth area that is largely commerce but includes residential and some retail. However, it is completely dead in the evenings. Very little traffic, almost no pedestrians - it’s a little eerie. The roads have long sight lines so you can see they are empty yet still one must wait patiently at the red man. I was once chastised for walking across a deserted crossing before the green man showed.

 

[ColinJ]

The roads have long sight lines so you can see they are empty yet still one must wait patiently at the red man. I was once chastised for walking across a deserted crossing before the green man showed.

It happened to my stepdaughter in Germany. She looked both ways and there were no vehicles in sight so she went to cross. She was practically dragged back by a group of aghast Germans who explained to her that she must NOT cross until the signal said she could!

 

[Andy in Germany]

It happened to my stepdaughter in Germany. She looked both ways and there were no vehicles in sight so she went to cross. She was practically dragged back by a group of aghast Germans who explained to her that she must NOT cross until the signal said she could!

Yeah, I get shouted at occasionally.

Japan is even more strict and I get the occasional Evil Eye when I walk across empty streets on a red. RLJ as a cyclist however, is accepted.

 

[Andy in Germany]

80% of the time around here, yes. There's always the few that don't and they get an angry glare from me

Wow, that's about 100% more than I remember; when I grew up I thought they were decorations for pedestrians to look at while waiting for the cars to pass.

I was quite startled when I came here and drivers actually waited at crossings; then I learned to drive and discovered how seriously they take them here.

 

[Mike_P]

There's the opposite situation at a crossing when traffic is almost stationary that you think you can get across but no one actually stops and you pretty pointlessly in terms of traffic flow have to press the button.

 

[Accy cyclist]

What anoyes me is when people "hang out" at a zebra crossing with no intention of using it. Casuing all vehicles to stop and yeild, wait to realise that no-one is crossing before driving on. If I'm stopping or waiting for something, I'll make sure it's not at the foot of a zebra crossing

There's a zebra crossing near me, next to a bookmakers shop. It's notorious for being ignored by speeding motorists (many tell about getting half way across to have a vehicle zoom past them) and you can often see cars and vans parked on the zig-zags. Yet these inconsiderate (being polite there) motorists will slow down, even stop completely for skanky types hanging outside the bookies having a 'ciggie', with no intention of using the crossing!

 

[cougie uk]

I can't think of any zebras by me. They've all been switched to pedestrian crossings with lights.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I can't think of any zebras by me. They've all been switched to pedestrian crossings with lights.

I have one outside my flat, about 5 yards away as the crow flies. I've lived here nearly 5 years but only used it about 6 or 7 times. A few years ago I got half way across then had the experience of some @~#t driving across the zebra at about 40mph, missing me by about 3 feet. That day I'd been for a bike ride and was still wearing my high viz/reflective jacket, gloves etc.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Watching videos online I'm seeing far too many formal presidential squares and quite a few matching, even worse, almost matching ties and pocket squares.😠

 

[Ratchet Cat]

A certain supermarket chain whose staff stack items way beyond my reach. This results in the lower items being taken first, resulting in higher stacked items teetering precariously ready to fall
Top the items up later, we are not all over 6ft tall.😾

 

[ColinJ]

A certain supermarket chain whose staff stack items way beyond my reach. This results in the lower items being taken first, resulting in higher stacked items teetering precariously ready to fall
Top the items up later, we are not all over 6ft tall.😾

I spotted a frail-looking elderly woman about 5 ft tall trying to stand on a plastic stool in Aldi to get some things off a top shelf. I went over to volunteer my extended reach before she did herself a mischief... She had been trying to stretch up to a tray of different flavoured yoghurts and it turned out to be one of the flavours at the back that she wanted. If I had been a few seconds later I think I would have found her lying on the floor, covered in yoghurt!