Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[mustang1]

Home Alone, the movie. Or should that be movies, any of them.

Every Christmas they put this damn movie on.

 

[Jameshow]

Home Alone, the movie. Or should that be movies, any of them.

Every Christmas they put this damn movie on.

It's a great film series!

 

[Chris S]

Tomatoes that don't taste of anything. The growers must know this when they plant that particular variety.

 

[ColinJ]

Tomatoes that don't taste of anything. The growers must know this when they plant that particular variety.

That is true of a lot of fruit and veg these days!

 

[presta]

Pictures too big to see without scrolling the screen.

I get annoyed by eBay and Amazon blitzing me with "We noticed you were looking at... You might be interested in..." offers.

Especially when it's the item you've just bought.

People who get to the till and then decided that this is the time to have a little think about what they need and how they might pay for it

People who stand gassing with the checkout girl tempt me to say "It's a supermarket not a social club".

I had a near miss earlier, so please allow me to have a whinge about lazy drivers in winter!

If you are going to overtake cyclists at high speed please remember to clear the snow and ice off the roof of your vehicle before doing so!

(A car shooting past hit a bump in the road, which resulted in several kg of snow and ice sliding off and blowing back at me...)

Bonus whinge: Clear your windscreen too while you are at it! You can't see the road properly through those little slots you scraped clear of snow.

Driving up to the Lake District one Christmas there'd been a hard frost overnight, so the puddles that collect on the rooves of tautliner trailers had frozen. At 50mph, the wind was getting underneath it and hurling huge slabs of ice off the tops and into the path of the following traffic.

 

[ColinJ]

A pedestrian crossing one...

Not my usual moan about drivers who don't stop for pedestrians who are trying to cross. This time, the other way round!

Dear brain-dead pedestrian... The ambulance approaching the crossing on 'blues and twos' is clearly attending to a local emergency. You don't have to add yourself to the local emergencies list by walking straight out in front of it!

(I had looked round to see where the noise was coming from and saw the ambulance approaching the empty crossing. I also saw the pedestrian look towards the ambulance and then stride out onto the crossing, causing the driver to brake hard.)

 

[oldwheels]

Tomatoes that don't taste of anything. The growers must know this when they plant that particular variety.

High cropping ones never taste of anything. Profit before quality.
The fertiliser used also has a very distinctive influence.

 

[Windle]

High cropping ones never taste of anything. Profit before quality.
The fertiliser used also has a very distinctive influence.

And none of them ever taste anywhere near as good as home grown ones fresh off the vine. With cherry tomatoes in particular you wouldn't even think they were the same thing. I sometimes wonder if it's to do with how long and how they are kept after picking (shop bought ones).

 

[oldwheels]

And none of them ever taste anywhere near as good as home grown ones fresh off the vine. With cherry tomatoes in particular you wouldn't even think they were the same thing. I sometimes wonder if it's to do with how long and how they are kept after picking (shop bought ones).

My father was a professional gardener and his tales of what was used in the gardens of "big houses" on country estates as fertiliser would make you a bit wary about eating tomatoes tho' the taste was excellent apparently.

 

[Jameshow]

My father was a professional gardener and his tales of what was used in the gardens of "big houses" on country estates as fertiliser would make you a bit wary about eating tomatoes tho' the taste was excellent apparently.

Self seeding I expect like the ones at the side of railway lines...🤣🤮

 

[ColinJ]

Especially when it's the item you've just bought.

Aargh... Now they are telling me that I need a new bike pump because I bought some tubes!!!

 

[PeteXXX]

People who don't trim the tail of a cable/zip tie once it's been pulled taut..

 

[Chris S]

People who don't trim the tail of a cable/zip tie once it's been pulled taut..

If you do that you can reuse them by jamming a pin in to open it.

 

[ColinJ]

If you do that you can reuse them by jamming a pin in to open it.

The other technique is to squeeze the sides of the locking part with pliers. I saw that method on a YouTube video yesterday and checked - it does work!

 

[PeteXXX]

People who trim the tail of a cable/zip tie once it's been pulled taut..
So it can't be reused by wheedling it open with a pin or pliers by squeezing it...