At the gate at an airport, people were filing down corridor, down an escalator, and towards the door for the bus to the plane. It wasn’t there yet, so they queued – back from the door and to the bottom of the escalator… I had to physically move a couple of people to prevent a huge pileup.
People who post something deliberately contentious to wind people up and end it with “just sayin'”
People who get all arsey over something you’re doing on your own property, when it has no impact on them whatsoever.
Crap spelling and the use of completely the wrong words, like draws when they mean drawers, aloud when they mean allowed etc.
Adverts that have stuff for sale, but expect you to guess how much they deem a “reasonable offer” and then get arsey when you offer them less than they are willing to accept.
People who don’t have an indoor voice and feel the need to conduct all communications at the loudest possible volume. People at the other end of the spectrum that whisper rather than talk. How hard is it to just talk at a reasonable volume?
People out in public (be it drivers, pedestrians, shoppers, cyclists whatever) who are oblivious to their surroundings and/or cannot be bothered to adjust their actions to aid in the general flow of things. For example:
walking 4 abreast down a pavement and not moving for people walking in the opposite direction[/*]
Shoppers placing their trolley beside them in front of the fridge while reading the fine print on every pack of sandwiches stopping everyone else grabbing their BLT and getting out of there as fast as possible[/*]
Drivers blocking side roads so traffic cannot turn in or out until the traffic lights half a mile down the main road change[/*]
My list is endless and if the UK had US style gun laws I’d probably be incarcerated by now…
People need to be called out on using “so” to begin a response with. It’s corporate bawshit talk.
Parking metres in public parks. I mean I thought the government were supposed to be encouraging us to be fitter and more active.
Parking metres that require your car reg. no.
+1 for Fog lights when not foggy – they’re not called rain lights! That’s what the other lights on your car are for.
People in the office who have to have an opinion on everything and always butt in on your conversations with their own opinion/experience/general topperness.
People who pull out of a T-junction in front of you when there’s not enough space, making you slow down – you’d fail your test for that.
Double hatred when there’s no cars for miles behind you but the couldn’t be bothered to wait another 5 seconds.
Triple hatred then ensues when they turn off at the next juntion 200m down the road, causing you to slow down again. You knew you were going to go that way, it’s not a surprise! Stop being so **** inconsiderate!
Drivers who pull onto pedestrian crossings when in traffic jams. Just wait behind the white line you utter tools
You can tell when it’s a misjudgement and they get cut off, fair enough and the embarrased face is pretty obvious. It’s the ones who just pull onto it anyway when there’s no room to move off the other side 👿
Email on 30th Oct;
“If you don’t want to take a Fixed Low Price Plan and would like to change or cancel anything without charge or penalty,
call us on 0345 172 0046 within 30 days of receiving this email.”
So I did that on monday and got an email today;
“Since you’re leaving us before the end of your contract’s minimum term, there will be some extra charges you’ll need
to pay. SimplyBroadband £91.22″
People who have no awareness outside of their own bubble when out in public: Not walking in a straight line, stopping at the entrance to a shop, having a full on conversation whilst blocking the thoroughfare, not having a method on payment ready at the till…
People who set out to cause offence then say ‘No Offence’ at the end of what they were saying in the hope that this will make it all better. No it doesn’t you halfwit. Either cause offence and take the consequence or keep your opinion to yourself.
Children that walk slowly and erratically in busy areas. They will get rub over. Adults that do the same.
Food that doesn’t look like the picture of the food. How is this not misrepresentation?
People that sue for stuff because they can even though they did something stupid.
People that do stupid things because they are legally allowed to and then moan about it.
People that moan about stuff – suck it up buttercup.
Bad food. Work canteen comes to mind at lunch time.
Stupid high excesses on hire cars.
Anyone that asks how much that was when pointing at my bike when they have a really good idea it was very expensive.
People that ask the same question repeatedly and respond like it is the first time you told them.
Being bored at work (I am right now as you can tell from the length of this list).
South West Trains. Driving at 3 miles an hour because there is a leaf on the line. Blaming the delay on a member of staff not turning up for work, not making more space on the train for bikes when it is know the line if busy with them.
I can generally knock out 600 words or more about several dozen things that irritate me, but I’m in a contented mood today so I’ll stick with one.
Seasick Steve.
You utter, utter fraud you.
I first saw him years ago, I think he was on Jonathan Ross, very different to my usual taste, but I liked it. His character and look just adds to the effect, he’s a guy who doesn’t care for fashion or trends, here’s a man who is comfortable in his own skin. He’s a guy who does it for the love of music.
If it had stopped there I would have been okay with it, but for a while he was on everything, media over-load, and they all want to know who he is, where he’s from and his influences.
From the BBC:
“he reveals he was born in 1941 and had spent periods of his life living as a hobo in the American Deep South and elsewhere, hopping freight trains and finding work as a farm labourer, at carnivals, as a cowboy and as a migrant worker. During his life, he had also dipped in and out of the music industry, as a session musician and producer. In October 2016, he plays Wembley, arriving at the arena in a tractor.”
Now, if that doesn’t make for a perfect ‘anti-industry’ truly authentic antidote to the X Factor and the like I don’t know what does.
I even signed up to his mailing list, it read like the label on a bottle of Bourbon, signed off by one of his ‘dear old friends’ called Frog or something.
But it’s all lies, just another manufactured act, this time to sucker in older, supposedly less naïve consumers. He couldn’t even be honest about his age, although at least he has the decency to lie the ‘other way’ to most and claim to be older than he is as he was born in ’51.
No it seems that Steven Leach, not even Steve Wold (his stated ‘real’ name) let alone ‘Seasick Steve’ has been courting the Music Industry most of his life and spent the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s trying to make is break playing whatever was popular at the time, before spending a few years as a producer and finally inventing Old Seasick himself.
Here’s Steven, Steve, Seasick during his 70’s disco phase.
I’d like to burn his CDs and tear down his posters like the teary eyed girls in the 80’s did when the found out Milli Vanilli didn’t sing live, or write their stuff, or in fact sign it at all, but I’m 38 and this is 2016 so I did the next best thing, deleted the 2 songs of his I occasionally listened to from my Apple Music playlist – it could cost him upwards of $0.00005 over the next 12 months, yeah, I did it an what?
Drivers behind who’ll overtake you when you’ve slowed down and moved over because you’ve seen the blue flashing lights immediately behind them. They obliviously haven’t. Mirror, signal, manouvre was the mantra.
They need a gadget installed in their vehicle such that, when blue flashing lights have been visible in their mirrors for ten seconds and they’ve done nowt, a powerful electric shock is delivered through the driver’s seat.