Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Kingfisher101]

There I was yesterday, wondering if it was safe to cross a road when a car appeared at the junction I was facing. I looked to see if it was turning right or left, as in will the driver indicate, which is quite rare these days. I noticed the car's front wheels were slightly facing to the right, but no the driver wasn't indicating. I then decided to step out and walk to the other side of the road. As I got half way across the driver then decided to turn right, heading towards me. I stopped to look at him/her as they begrudgingly also stopped to let me walk to the intended opposite pavement, and saw a policeman in his uniform shirt sitting at the wheel of this car. He smirked and shook his head as If to say I was in the wrong for stepping out. What a plonker eh! Why didn't the idiot simply indicate his intentions to turn right instead of making me wonder which way he was going! The car wasn't a cop car by the way, it must've been his own.

He should have known the pedestrians now have the ROW at junctions and its for cars to give way and let them cross. Obviously they don't want to do this at all. Round where I live people have been run over trying to get across busy roads as there are not enough proper crossings with lights. You can easily be waiting upto 10 minutes or so sometime to get over certain busy roads.

 

[simongt]

He should have known the pedestrians now have the ROW at junctions and its for cars to give way and let them cross.

You mean like the manny in the SUV who completely ignored the fact that I was already traversing the zebra crossing when he chose not to bother giving way - ?

 

[Gillstay]

Christmas Day was just another working day in Britain until the 1840s. The secular celebrations are just a Victorian invention.

I thought the Puritans fell out with people over them wanting to take the day off and that's a quite a bit before 1840 !

 

[postman]

Anything with a cable from it,my lawnmower then Henry the hoover both of them will break my neck,the cables attack my legs.

 

[Chris S]

I thought the Puritans fell out with people over them wanting to take the day off and that's a quite a bit before 1840 !

They abolished the religious celebration.

 

[DaveReading]

Christmas Day was just another working day in Britain until the 1840s. The secular celebrations are just a Victorian invention.

Christmas Day was a working day in Scotland for more than a hundred years after that, till 1958.

 

[colly]

Years ago I got a national express "funfare" ticket to London Heathrow (£14), intending to then get a normal ticket to Luton (where I was at Uni). However, on arrival at Heathrow I was told by the driver that I wasn't allowed to get off and had to continue to London Victoria. Even though dozens of people were getting off at Heathrow and he was getting all of their bags out anyway. So I had to continue to Victoria and get a bus back to Heathrow to change for Luton. Utter madness. And I had an e-ticket; back in the day when they weren't that common (2000/2001) and the driver always used to sigh and huff when I produced the print-out, as they normally had to write it down or do something "manual" with it

Many years ago (make that many, many years ago) Mrs Colly was on a National Express coach travelling back to Leeds from London. The coach broke down on the outskirts of Leeds City centre, maybe 2 miles from the terminus. For the life of me I can not remember how I found out where they were broken down, Maybe the staff at the bus station told me because it was before mobile phones were a thing. Whatever I drove down to where they were and the intention was to pick her up from there. It proved quite a struggle.

'You can't leave the bus here. It's not a bus stop.' was the drivers point of view. Some passengers were getting pretty irate because he refused to open the luggage compartment doors to let people take their bags off. It seems the breakdown truck and a replacement bus was at least an hour off and seeing as it was already 11pm things were getting heated. The bus was parked in a well lit area and in a layby so it wasn't like a motorway hard shoulder.

Eventually the driver relented and those who wanted to left the bus.

I have some sympathy for the driver because he was probably under instruction (maybe on pain of dismissal) to keep everyone on the bus and get them to the terminus. Obviously he couldn't lock people on the bus or detain anyone so refusing to open the luggage compartment was his only option.

 

[Moon bunny]

You mean like the manny in the SUV who completely ignored the fact that I was already traversing the zebra crossing when he chose not to bother giving way - ?

I use the video record on my phone as a matter of course whenever I cross a busy road nowadays.

 

[mustang1]

People who talk to themselves while they work.

What's even worse? While talking to themselves, they occasionally talk to you so you have to be on alert whenever they're talking. Which is all the time.

But why do they do this? It's either intense concentration (seems doubtful) or they want to show that they are doing at least something.

 

[Andy in Germany]

People who talk to themselves while they work.

What's even worse? While talking to themselves, they occasionally talk to you so you have to be on alert whenever they're talking. Which is all the time.

But why do they do this? It's either intense concentration (seems doubtful) or they want to show that they are doing at least something.

I generally ask: "Is this a private conversation or should I join in?".

If they say they're talking to themselves I ask them to let me know if they want any input.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I use the video record on my phone as a matter of course whenever I cross a busy road nowadays.

Every time??
what a faff

 

[Moon bunny]

Every time??
what a faff

Pressing a couple of buttons two or three times a day is hardly a faff.

 

[presta]

'You can't leave the bus here. It's not a bus stop.' was the drivers point of view.

I was once on a bus that was jam packed, so packed that I was only just inside the door, with my nose almost pressed up against the windscreen. Meanwhile the vehicle following behind the bus was.....the next bus.

So the drivers pulled over to the side of the road between stops, and a load of us got out of one and onto the other.

 

[simongt]

Not so much annoying, but concerned that it's actually happening.
Prompted by a recent visit to our local hostelry where there were wee dogs standing / sitting on two separate tables;
So, dogs on tables in bars, cafes, restaurants etc., i.e., tables folk have to eat & drink off.
What's the general opinion - ?

 

[classic33]

Not so much annoying, but concerned that it's actually happening.
Prompted by a recent visit to our local hostelry where there were wee dogs standing / sitting on two separate tables;
So, dogs on tables in bars, cafes, restaurants etc., i.e., tables folk have to eat & drink off.
What's the general opinion - ?

Outside or at home, unless they're Guide Dogs or Hearing Dogs.