Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[lazybloke]

I'm annoyed my parents got rid of their landline over the weekend.
I've been using that number since the 1970s, so it feels like they've expunged some vital memory of my formative and adolescent years.

Can't quite bring myself to remove it from my contacts....

 

[Jameshow]

I'm annoyed my parents got rid of their landline over the weekend.
I've been using that number since the 1970s, so it feels like they've expunged some vital memory of my formative and adolescent years.

Can't quite bring myself to remove it from my contacts....

You reversed the charges from many a call box!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I'm annoyed my parents got rid of their landline over the weekend.
I've been using that number since the 1970s, so it feels like they've expunged some vital memory of my formative and adolescent years.

Can't quite bring myself to remove it from my contacts....

Never needed it in my contacts
all the family number and numbers of my main friends were burnt into my brain

no contacts list available in the 1960s!!!

and I was also taught to always have a couple of 10ps in my pocket for emergency phone call - before leaving the house

 

[lazybloke]

Never needed it in my contacts

Nor me, it's ICE.

 

[ColinJ]

You reversed the charges from many a call box!!

Isn't it amazing how quickly things have changed?

50 years ago a call box on most main streets, and many homes without a phone. (My mum used to go next door to use their phone to call our family in Scotland!)

Then most families got a landline but there were still many call boxes.

Then the call boxes started to disappear.

Mobiles came along but calls were too expensive so most calls were still made by landline...

And now, mobiles are everywhere and are very cheap to use for calls so landlines rarely get used as long as the mobile can get a signal.

As for call boxes... The few that I see these days tend to house impromptu village libraries or defibrillators!

 

[youngoldbloke]

Whilst on the question of landlines - ours was converted to digital a couple of years ago (as will be everyone's) - operates via broadband. Result - during Storm Arwen we had absolutely no communications with the outside world whatsoever - no electricity, so no internet, (so no landline), phone masts down, so no mobile signals, trees down - roads blocked. You can't imagine just how annoying it was to be instructed by local radio (until batteries ran out) that information was available online ..... so much for progress.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Obligatory story about phone boxes "in the old days"
We used to live near the town centre - right next to the last shop and on the main road
There was a phone box almost opposite

I was always amusing on a Saturday night to look out of the upstairs window - over looking the road - or walk past on the opposite side of the road - and see how many teenage girls there were in the phone box talking to $whoknowswho

sometimes everyone except one was keeping VERY quiet while she talked to a hopeful boyfriend
sometimes they were all talking at once

highly amusing

 

[simongt]

all the family number and numbers of my main friends were burnt into my brain

Because of the random way our brains hang onto 'fact's', I can still remember the phone numbers of family members and others; most of whom have long since popped their clogs, from over fifty years ago - !
Pity our brains don't have a 'clear the now pointless facts' facility - !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Never needed it in my contacts
all the family number and numbers of my main friends were burnt into my brain

With phone numbers only being 4 digits, easy to remember.

 

[oldwheels]

One annoyance with phone boxes.
Our shop had one on the other side of the street. We were continually pestered by people ( mainly yotties) who came in brandishing a £20 note and demanding change for the phone box. Some did buy one postcard with the same size note and were annoyed when we gave it to them for nothing rather than take all our change particularly first thing in the morning.
The bank was only a couple of hundred yards away and we eventually refused point blank to give change and directed them there instead.

 

[classic33]

With phone numbers only being 4 digits, easy to remember.

A relative had a two digit number.
The one after the local barracks.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

With phone numbers only being 4 digits, easy to remember.

Err - not true

Ours was 677
most relatives were 678

they were all ARR - but when the exchanges went digital it was split
friends were mostly 648
all followed by the 4 digits

My friend from school still gives his phone number as ARR ****
he's like that

 

[colly]

OTOH RideWithGPS answered my queries promptly but I am a paid user.

Yes RWGPS are truly excellent when it comes to customer services. I pay for their services too and in fact I prefer the way they present information.
The Strava offering has a bit more to it rather than just your own data. So I guess if I want that extra I will have to put up with crap customer service.
TBH while I do enjoy the segments, and leaderboards (age related for me) I feel my interest is waning, not least because ebikes skew the results.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Err - not true

Ours was 677
most relatives were 678

they were all ARR - but when the exchanges went digital it was split
friends were mostly 648
all followed by the 4 digits

My friend from school still gives his phone number as ARR ****
he's like that

Even easier then!

What do you mean by ARR? I presume you’re not from UK or you’d have said STD then phone number?

 

[mistyoptic]

Even easier then!

What do you mean by ARR? I presume you’re not from UK or you’d have said STD then phone number?

Early STD was letters, our number was SUT…. for Sutton then 4 numbers