Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[MontyVeda]

Ebay sellers... if i message you with a rudimentary question about your products and you choose not to reply... I will not buy from you because ignoring a potential customer really is one of those trivial things that annoy me beyond expectation.

 

[MontyVeda]

This comes up every now and then on CC. I've never understood why indicating before every manoeuvre, whether or not there's someone to see it, somehow makes you a worse driver.

Its when drivers substitute indicating for observing their surroundings that they become a worse driver.

My bugbear is those drivers who don't indicate until they begin to turn. That's no use to me, as a ped trying to cross.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Don't think I have ever been able to do that - my balance has never been great

which I why tend to never stand properly still - nearly always wobbling or something

SO i have always put socks on sitting down or leaning on something

I put thsi down to me always being good at stuff like sailing and windurfing - teh fact that I am standing on something wobbling just seems normal to my brain!!!!

 

[MontyVeda]

Don't think I have ever been able to do that - my balance has never been great

which I why tend to never stand properly still - nearly always wobbling or something

SO i have always put socks on sitting down or leaning on something

The trick is to focus on a fixed point when standing on one leg. For me when putting socks on stood up, I focus on a section of skirting board.

 

[lazybloke]

Actually, it's not so much the putting on of socks that's makes it difficult to balance; it's the tying of shoe-laces.

 

[grldtnr]

The trick is to focus on a fixed point when standing on one leg. For me when putting socks on stood up, I focus on a section of skirting board.

If I did that ,my nose would be in the shag pile, and my forehead on the wall !

 

[simongt]

Folk who can't be bothered to return things to their allocated place even they may well walk past said allocated place after finishing using the item.

 

[grldtnr]

Its when drivers substitute indicating for observing their surroundings that they become a worse driver.

My bugbear is those drivers who don't indicate until they begin to turn. That's no use to me, as a ped trying to cross.

Exactly my point!
Don't get me started on drivers turning right, then cutting the corner ending up on the wrong side of the road for no reason, just plain sheer ignorance, how can the Stan Eck as like see what's coming down the road on their side of the road!
The number of pillocky looks I get when I'm sat at the junction wanting to turn out, on which ever version of travel I chose to use.

 

[simongt]

My bugbear is those drivers who don't indicate until they begin to turn.

Or the apparently increasing number who don't bother indicating at all.
But then, THEY know where they're going, thus so is everyone else on that bit of road - !

 

[youngoldbloke]

Ads for 'Freshness' products on TV. Do people's houses, bedding, loos, carpets, kitchens, clothes and shoes all stink so much it needs hiding with a chemical haze. God knows what it does to their lungs.

 

[ColinJ]

I agree.

God knows what it does to their lungs.

Probably the same thing that those damn vapes do! I can't stand them.

I am currently staying in non-smoking holiday accommodation. I walked into my bedroom and immediately had a reaction in my throat from lingering vape fumes left by the previous holiday maker! Fortunately my friend doesn't have the same problem (since she uses the damn things herself!) so we swapped rooms. She is banished to outside when she needs to feed her habit.

 

[MontyVeda]

Ads for 'Freshness' products on TV. Do people's houses, bedding, loos, carpets, kitchens, clothes and shoes all stink so much it needs hiding with a chemical haze. God knows what it does to their lungs.

I'm the same. My house smells of farts, feet and food, like it should.
I don't wear deodorant either. I'd rather smell like a human than some chemical cooked up in a lab.

 

[DaveReading]

Its when drivers substitute indicating for observing their surroundings that they become a worse driver.

Exactly - lack of situational awareness makes you a bad driver, whether you indicate or not.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Exactly - lack of situational awareness makes you a bad driver, whether you indicate or not.

AT least if they indicate then other people have more of a clue as to what they are likely to cock up

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This comes up every now and then on CC. I've never understood why indicating before every manoeuvre, whether or not there's someone to see it, somehow makes you a worse driver.

Cars are chock full of blind spots. The driver might think there’s no one to observe, but there often is.