Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[oldwheels]

This "printed at home" thing is a scam - IMO
basicallt they want to email you the tickets - or you get them "on the app" and then print them yourself

which means they have to spend zero money themselves printing them out

it is made to be something that is done for your convenience
is it bu****y - it is a cost saving - reduces their costs and you half to do half their work for them


Someone round here was fined the other week for not having a train ticket - she had proof of it on her phone but apparently should have printed it out before she travelled
OK - it probably said that in the app somewhere - but who the hell prints stuff out from their phone??

personally I keep a small B&W laser printer around so I can print stuff - but half of what I print is stuff that I would normally expect someone to either print for me or stuff that could be just done online!!

I could go on about it

as my wife can testify!

Calmac will send tickets online to your phone but I cannot print from my phone for some reason so far unknown to me. I go to their local office and get printed ones.

 

[oldwheels]

My wife used to visit her sister in Helensburgh. The ticket from Oban to Dumbarton further on was cheaper than a ticket to Helensburgh so she got a ticket for Dumbarton. The train did stop at Helensburgh but she got a telling off for getting off there rather than going on to Dumbarton and then coming back to Helensburgh.

 

[ColinJ]

My wife used to visit her sister in Helensburgh. The ticket from Oban to Dumbarton further on was cheaper than a ticket to Helensburgh so she got a ticket for Dumbarton. The train did stop at Helensburgh but she got a telling off for getting off there rather than going on to Dumbarton and then coming back to Helensburgh.

Similar nonsense here... It is cheaper for me (using split tickets) to catch a train from Hebden Bridge to Leeds to Devon than it is to just catch the same train from Leeds, and it is cheaper still to catch a train from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge to Leeds to Devon!

 

[Jameshow]

I'm starting to get ticketed off by this conversation!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not that much 'annoyed', but I'll post it on here anyway. I bought a loaf of Warburtons Plant Power bread on a reduced yellow sticker yesterday. It tastes like bird seed mixed into damp cardboard!

 

[Jenkins]

If the journey crosses London e-tickets are not available as they cannot operate the London Underground barriers.

It can be about the way you purchased the tickets. That's my experience.

Felixstowe-Ipswich-Peterborough-Nottingham using Greater Anglia & East Midlands Railway (both owned by Abellio) and purchased on the Greater Anglia app as normal where I'd expect the QR coded e-ticket to appear. To add insult to this, the paper ticket wasn't recognised by the barriers at Nottingham and they had to be opened by one of the station staff.

 

[Gwylan]

Felixstowe-Ipswich-Peterborough-Nottingham using Greater Anglia & East Midlands Railway (both owned by Abellio) and purchased on the Greater Anglia app as normal where I'd expect the QR coded e-ticket to appear. To add insult to this, the paper ticket wasn't recognised by the barriers at Nottingham and they had to be opened by one of the station staff.

No one says that the train company system has to serve the customer

 

[simongt]

Warburtons Plant Power bread

As bread is supposed to be made entirely from plants, with the tag 'Plant Power Bread', just proves how gullible the advertising monkeys think their customers are - !

 

[Alex321]

As bread is supposed to be made entirely from plants, with the tag 'Plant Power Bread', just proves how gullible the advertising monkeys think their customers are - !

Not entirely true. Most bread contains milk. And it is questionable whether yeast is plant based - though I imagine the "plant power bread" still uses yeast.

 

[figbat]

Not entirely true. Most bread contains milk. And it is questionable whether yeast is plant based - though I imagine the "plant power bread" still uses yeast.

Apparently, I just learned, yeast is classified as a fungus, so is vegan-friendly.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I tried some plant based soup today - having had veg soup (all in tins) several times

but the one that had "Plant Based" written all over it was far worse
rather watery compared to the normal veg soup

I suspect they are getting the hard bit out of the way on the label and then being able to skimp on the actual contents

I thought the same with the Greggs vegetarian sausage roll


although I do generally prefer that when they process the plant to make teh soup - that some of the processing involves a cow, pig etc

 

[Bollo]

Apologies if this has already been done, but excessive washing/origin labels in clothes, aka Decathlonitis. They’re itchy, always poke out and after two washes any useful info has disappeared anyway.

Recently I had reason to visit my football club’s stadium on a non-match day so popped into the shop while it was relatively quiet. I treated myself to a t-shirt with a slightly obscure reference to our old ground and, while it’s a nice t-shirt, it’s got War and Peace sewn in to the hem. 😡

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Not entirely true. Most bread contains milk. And it is questionable whether yeast is plant based - though I imagine the "plant power bread" still uses yeast.

Most breads are dairy free. The Chorleywood Bread Process, which is responsible for all the bread we get in our supermarkets, is sometimes described as the cheapest way to make water stand up. Using milk would only add cost with no benefit.

 

[Kingfisher101]

Apologies if this has already been done, but excessive washing/origin labels in clothes, aka Decathlonitis. They’re itchy, always poke out and after two washes any useful info has disappeared anyway.

Recently I had reason to visit my football club’s stadium on a non-match day so popped into the shop while it was relatively quiet. I treated myself to a t-shirt with a slightly obscure reference to our old ground and, while it’s a nice t-shirt, it’s got War and Peace sewn in to the hem. 😡

I thought everyone cut the labels out of clothes before wearing? I've never know people keep the label on. Are you joking?

 

[Low Gear Guy]

I thought everyone cut the labels out of clothes before wearing? I've never know people keep the label on. Are you joking?

Sometimes the instructions are embossed onto the inside surface and cannot be removed resulting in scratching feeling. No more supermarket pants for me.