Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Accy cyclist]

Driving along today a bloke just pulled out from a road to my left, not necessarily forcing me to break abruptly, but I still had to break. I pipped my car horn. He then stopped, wound down his window and asked what my problem was. I told him he's pulled out in front of me, He replied "so what, it's a junction"! Yes, but the double broken white lines in front of you meant I had right of way, I replied. He then told me to f off, which to me meant thicko realised he was in the wrong. Why pull out when in a few seconds I'd have passed!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mmm, I've read many CC posts that wouldn't pass a written English test, but I just adapt to others sometimes misuse of words, grammar etc, without feeling the need to mention it.

... Pardon?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not so much annoyed, but when you see a new member in the 'New Member Introduction' threads and you go to reply, only to see you already did previously.

 

[Rocky]

Not so much annoyed, but when you see a new member in the 'New Member Introduction' threads and you go to reply, only to see you already did previously.

I've done that before too

 

[Rocky]

Not so much annoyed, but when you see a new member in the 'New Member Introduction' threads and you go to reply, only to see you already did previously.

I've never done that before

 

[presta]

Spending an hour making a video that's only 55MB & 58s long then finding it won't upload to Twitter, You Tube, or Dropbox.

 

[Deleted User]

Driving along today a bloke just pulled out from a road to my left, not necessarily forcing me to break abruptly, but I still had to break. I pipped my car horn. He then stopped, wound down his window and asked what my problem was. I told him he's pulled out in front of me, He replied "so what, it's a junction"! Yes, but the double broken white lines in front of you meant I had right of way, I replied. He then told me to f off, which to me meant thicko realised he was in the wrong. Why pull out when in a few seconds I'd have passed!

I've always wondered what 'pipping' your horn at someone actually means so perhaps you could answer this.

I understand if someone hasn't seen you when reversing out of a space for example so you do it to warn them of your presence but in this instance I assume you did it to show displeasure at his manoeuvre?

If so what exactly were you seeking to achieve from it other than the reaction you got?

 

[Fastpedaller]

I've read some (but not all) of the previous 300 pages, so forgive me if these are a repeat.......
people saying H-aicht instead of Aitch. There is no H. It's Aitch! Rachel Riley (bless her) gets it correct on Countdown, but even her 'maternity replacement' kept saying H-aitch. I'm surprised the producer didn't correct her.
Another one is TV presenters saying 'we'll see you tomorrow'. No you won't - you can't see me (I hope )

 

[Andy in Germany]

Just tried to book a ticket from Manchester Airport to York and back, and a hotel for one night.

So far I've managed the ticket to York, after 7 attempts, but not the return.

I promise I'll never complain about German Railways again.

Meanwhile the hotel won't accept my German credit card, so it looks like my parents will have to book that on my behalf and I'll pay them later.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Just tried to book a ticket from Manchester Airport to York and back, and a hotel for one night.

So far I've managed the ticket to York, after 7 attempts, but not the return.

I promise I'll never complain about German Railways again.

Meanwhile the hotel won't accept my German credit card, so it looks like my parents will have to book that on my behalf and I'll pay them later.

I don't know if they've changed it now, but a few of us were planning a longish train journey, and I booked the last four seats that were together, only for the process to freeze. When it let me back in, I couldn't get those seats as they were now shown as taken.

Even ringing up and getting them to confirm that the seats had not been sold, and it was just recognising my interest that showed them as unavailable, I couldn't get those seats unless I waited 24 hours or more for their system to reset.

I also had it confirmed that (at that time) there was no correlation between ticket sales and available seats. They would simply keep selling tickets as long as people wanted to buy them, with no possibility of adding extra carriages.

 

[ColinJ]

I promise I'll never complain about German Railways again.

I had assumed that German Railways would be very good, but that makes it sound like they are not!?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I had assumed that German Railways would be very good, but that makes it sound like they are not!?

They were, then the previous German government saw how privatisation went in the UK, and said "Hold mein Bier." The result is not quite as bad but there's been a marked loss of service quality in the last few years. I expect it'll get sorted, if only because the new Deutschland Ticket has brought a lot of middle class commuters back onto the trains and they are currently being very vocal about the problems they're finding, but this will take time.

Also, I'm a citizen now so being pessimistic about everything is part of my national identity.

However todays reminded that I can't just jump on a train with my bike and expect a space has been a bit of a reality check.

 

[ColinJ]

However todays reminded that I can't just jump on a train with my bike and expect a space has been a bit of a reality check.

In the UK I was once unable to board a train which I had a seat reservation on! It was physically impossible to get more people on board and staff said that they could not turf people without reservations off. (It was soon after Christmas so lots of people were travelling, and the train before had been cancelled.)

I have also been unable to get my bike into a reserved bike space because it was full of unreserved bikes. Staff didn't want to know so I had to stand with my bike for over 2 hours.

 

[dicko]

Waiting on one knee for the washing machine to ‘click’ so I can open the door, grrr

 

[lazybloke]

Waiting on one knee for the washing machine to ‘click’ so I can open the door, grrr

Arrgghh! One of the best moans on this thread.
Forget all that ABCDEFG energy rating nonsense; CAN I OPEN THE ******* DOOR?!!!!!

Bought a Haier washing machine about 4 years ago. Not only does it have the quietest spin of any machine I've ever owned, it also lets me open the door the moment the programme finishes. Now that's progress.