Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[oldwheels]

Old people who should long ago have given up their driving licence/car.

A simple re-test every five years or so for everyone would weed out all the bad ones.

That is all very well but I think in the current test you have to demonstrate that you can use a satnav. My car and many other older ones do not have satnav. I have tried one mounted on the dash but it is a useless object as it wants to take me on routes which I do not want to use as I know where I am going having looked at a map in advance if necessary. I dumped the useless thing eventually.

 

[bikingdad90]

Shoe laces in new shoes. I always have to take them out and relace correctly with laces going underneath the first eyelets instead of over and then cross them over to the top in and under over pattern. Can’t stand the stupid snake pattern found in formal shoes or the skater loose fit found on trainers.

 

[Salar]

The word "fetch" for some strange reason really annoys me.

When my much better half uses the word I tend to correct her by saying you mean "pick up or collect"

Don't know why, but it really irritates me.

 

[GetFatty]

Shoe laces in new shoes. I always have to take them out and relace correctly with laces going underneath the first eyelets instead of over and then cross them over to the top in and under over pattern. Can’t stand the stupid snake pattern found in formal shoes or the skater loose fit found on trainers.

I was always taught that the cross method was the German way of tying shoe laces and that we used the ladder method to enable commandos to tell who was in a tent in the dark. This could easily be complete rubbish

 

[Milkfloat]

I was always taught that the cross method was the German way of tying shoe laces and that we used the ladder method to enable commandos to tell who was in a tent in the dark. This could easily be complete rubbish

My old CSM used to quote that at the new recruits, I think it was as bollocks then as it is it now.

 

[swee'pea99]

I was always taught that the cross method was the German way of tying shoe laces and that we used the ladder method to enable commandos to tell who was in a tent in the dark. This could easily be complete rubbish

'could'?

 

[GetFatty]

'could'?

It was my dear departed father that taught me this and most of what he told me was true

 

[Milkfloat]

It was my dear departed father that taught me this and most of what he told me was true

Hopefully your surname is not Holland, otherwise it could have been the same guy

 

[gbb]

Random things sometimes do, like an advert for a tool chest on a FB sellers page. On the photo it shows the tool chest with several stickers, each reading....
'I'm a mechanic, what's your superpower ?'.......my reaction ? oh dear, oh dear oh dear
On the front of the drawers there are stickers on each reading...
'Pliers'
'Screwdrivers'
'Spanners'

Embarrassing, do you need reminding where everything is within that maybe 2ft sq box of 4 drawers ?

 

[gbb]

I have long since realised I am remarkably impatient. I'm a 'get on' person, get things done, move on....and a little fire ignites in my head when people start dithering...ffs, just do it , whatever it is...argghhhh.

 

[bikingdad90]

I have long since realised I am remarkably impatient. I'm a 'get on' person, get things done, move on....and a little fire ignites in my head when people start dithering...ffs, just do it , whatever it is...argghhhh.

Are you an impulsive buyer too? The two go hand in hand 😂

 

[ColinJ]

I have long since realised I am remarkably impatient. I'm a 'get on' person, get things done, move on....and a little fire ignites in my head when people start dithering...ffs, just do it , whatever it is...argghhhh.

I've met people like you...

I spent 18 months trying out different ideas for puzzle games before going back to the one that I was originally working on!

 

[gbb]

Are you an impulsive buyer too? The two go hand in hand 😂

No, ironically, absolutely not . Perhaps I have a split personality. Work, I work, get in there, get the job done, but at home, I give things thought, weigh things up, that includes potential purchases.

 

[gbb]

I've met people like you...

I spent 18 months trying out different ideas for puzzle games before going back to the one that I was originally working on!

A typical example...
Working with our effectively trainee engineer, we were assessing what was wrong with a machine, there were no definitive clues but I had a hunch a loom was broken internally. We spent 20 minutes looking, talking, checking sensors, comparing ideas then I suddenly lost patience (with myself)...
'Right, let's change that loom, it's an hours work, then we will know...one way or the other, otherwise we're not getting anywhere'

It turned out to be the right call. We could have spent hours investigating and still not come up with something concrete.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

When people say the word "schedule" with a hard "c". Find myself, totally irrationally, shouting at the radio, or rolling my eyes etc., etc.