What secretly annoys you?

[Over The Hill]

The ebay seller I picked something up from yesterday.
They live in the first house on a side street off a very long main road. They gave me house number and street. Now the number was correct (numbered in the side street) but the road they stated was the long main road not the road they are actually in.
Who does that?

So of course I went all the way down the long road to try to find the house number on the main road. How stupid can you be to not be able to give out your address correctly!

 

[summerdays]

The ebay seller I picked something up from yesterday.
They live in the first house on a side street off a very long main road. They gave me house number and street. Now the number was correct (numbered in the side street) but the road they stated was the long main road not the road they are actually in.
Who does that?

So of course I went all the way down the long road to try to find the house number on the main road. How stupid can you be to not be able to give out your address correctly!

Our ex-neighbours, when on a cruise, and gave their address to P&O as ours! Mistake you say? Well they lived at 31 and we lived at 29 so no, not a mistake. And who got all the spam mail for the next 5+ years from P&O ... Yes us, and I used to walk round and deliver it to them to get rid of.

 

[MontyVeda]

Finally found a silent niggle - folk who repeatedly introduce their medical history into every non relevant topic of conversation and correspondence and seemingly define themselves by their ailments. I only need to be informed once and need no further reminders nor do I need to have new ailments introduced when the original ones lose their cachet.

I sometimes wonder how they manage to stay alive or function.

After listening to an old acquaintance prattle on about all his ailments, i tried to change the subject... "So how's Mags doing?" (his girlfriend). I was then subjected to a long list of all her ailments. I wouldn't mind but people who are actually ill don't seem to do this.

 

[surfdude]

old cc posts being dragged up years later and only realize after you have read a bit of it you find out its completely pointless now

 

[Svendo]

Agreed. It's intensely annoying. They should know it's "whom".

Surely ' to whom am I speaking'?

Edit: Apologies, beaten to it by Victor.

 

[Svendo]

People who put the new toilet roll the wrong way round, so the new end is at the back by the wall instead of at the front. Don't ask me why I find this so incredibly annoying though.

This would annoy me too if I weren't more annoyed by the fact I an the ONLY person who ever puts the roll on the effin holder.

 

[MontyVeda]

laying in bed unable to get to sleep regardless of the fact i feel tired... that's really annoying... but not quite as annoying as actually getting out of bed at 4.30am in order to post something I'd thought of in this blinking thread, only to forget what it was now I'm here. Do i go back to bed to see if that jogs my memory... or stubbornly wait it out right here where i stand sit?

grrrr... it's on the tip of my brainium

 

[MontyVeda]

it's now 7:15am... i still haven't slept nor remembered what 'it' was...bloody annoying. I might save the 45 mile ride I'd plotted yesterday for another day, which is also annoying as i think the summer ends tomorrow evening.

 

[Thomk]

This thread is perhaps getting a little off topic.
A gentle reminder that the clean, smart, youthful looking OP was really interested in embarrassing things that irritated you. Stuff you wouldn't normally tell anyone lest you be accused of being petty and intolerant e.g.

1. It really gets on my wick when sports commentators (and others) say "it's like a game of chess". No it F*****g well isn't. They wouldn't know their zwischenzug from their zeitnot. BTW "getting on someone's wick" originates from dirt getting on the wick when handled by candlestick makers.
2. It get's my goat when people on forums go off topic to "educate" others about irrelevant s**t.
3. It really sticks in my craw when people blot out swear words with stupid symbols instead of either writing it properly or substituting it for another word.

That sort of thing...

BTW - Get my goat - http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.html
Stick in my craw - http://uk.ask.com/question/where-did-sticks-in-my-craw-come-from

 

[MontyVeda]

oh look... the thread police have arrived!

 

[ianrauk]

Cycling Helmets.

 

[nickyboy]

When commentators say that "the ball gathered pace off the pitch".

Thus defying the laws of physics? You imbecile

Edit.....and Alan Shearer mixing up his tenses "We have went....."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

old cc posts being dragged up years later and only realize after you have read a bit of it you find out its completely pointless now

All my posts are pointless from the outset.

 

[IainC]

Elderly ladies in the queue at the Supermarket, who, when the checkout assistant has finished packing their shopping, look utterly surprised that they have to pay, and then try to take the remainder of their natural life rustling around in handbags and purses to find glasses, money, and the exact coinage to complete payment

Personally I think a sign at the start of each conveyor belt reading "Please note, you have to pay for your goods. Start looking for your purse now" would work well

 

[MontyVeda]

The BBC online weather forecast.... yesterday it showed a constant row of bright, uninhibited sunshine


all day long, but it was cloudy from 11am... today is supposed to be the same, uninhibited sunshine all day, but it's been cloudy since 9am... will i ever be free of milky white legs???