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"Oh they obviously care about their car to park all the way over here, I'll park next to them as they seem like they'll be considerate".
I think with parking it's because people are incapable of judging a parking space by the painted lines, so they want another car to line up against.
Also this email I've just received from a customer:
"I'm on holiday for the rest of the week, so I really need an answer to this today." - Well I'm at work for the rest of the week, so I'll be not be rushing around for no reason today actually. Especially as I asked you for information a month ago that you haven't supplied...
I think with parking it's because people are incapable of judging a parking space by the painted lines, so they want another car to line up against.
I once parked up at the cinema in one of those bays that jut out diagonally from the kerb for no good reason. Literally every other car was parked pissed leaving me with no other option than to do the same. As I did I thought "I bet when I come back out they'll all have gone and everyone will be walking past my car thinking YPLAC." I wasn't wrong.
I’ve placed stuff for sale on Vinted.
sports top for £2.00
then you get people asking
“will you accept £1.57?”
a) is there an embedded fear of even numbers?
b) will a 43p reduction really swing the sale?
jeez😂😂😂
I think it's the "item may be delayed" that tips me over the edge into psychopathic rage, never mind the fact it got on the delivery vehicle but never got off. Guess that driver has size 7 feet
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I think with parking it's because people are incapable of judging a parking space by the painted lines, so they want another car to line up against.
To be fair - in a full car park I swing into the last space at full speed with nary a glance, in an empty one I'll probably try 3 or 4 on for size before settling.....
Companies doing April Fools Day stuff on social media, even more so now AI is a thing.
The arrogant **** who saw me approaching the lift after him, turned around, looked me in the eye and pressed the "Close Doors" button.
I hope the lift got stuck just as his bowels gave an ominous rumble....
Witnessing people using multitools, cutting into ply, never withdrawing the blade to let the swarf clear, smoke billowing out, blade getting red hot, making a hellish racket.
See also hole saws.
Maybe they were trying for the "laser cut ply" look....
The arrogant **** who saw me approaching the lift after him, turned around, looked me in the eye and pressed the "Close Doors" button.
That's where you run up the stairs and get on with them at the next floor, isn't it ? If you can muster a giant fart, all the better
Employees who are on long term sick, getting hufty as if the sickness policy and stages within it are things that I have invented as a way of targeting/tormenting them particularly and that I'm doing to them because of some personal grudge.
Witnessing people using multitools, cutting into ply, never withdrawing the blade to let the swarf clear, smoke billowing out, blade getting red hot, making a hellish racket.
More generally, people with no mechanical sympathy.
Her: "Can I borrow a screwdriver?"
Me: "No."
Her: "What do you mean, no?"
Me: sigh "Ok, what sort of screwdriver?"
Her: "... oh I don't know, a Phillips I guess?"
Me: "Hm. Show me what you're trying to do?"
Her: "Well, I want to punch holes in these things..."
Me: "... aaaaaaand that is exactly why I said no. Let me go see if I can find a bradawl."
Her: "What's that?"
I can forgive not knowing what an awl is. Wanting to abuse my screwdrivers as a hole punch, not so much. Why not just ask for help making holes from the outset? The last time I loaned a screwdriver to someone who I really thought would know better, they used it as a drift.
That's where you run up the stairs and get on with them at the next floor, isn't it ? If you can muster a giant fart, all the better
It's where you run up all the floors and press the Call button at each one.
I'm not entirely convinced that the Close Doors button in lifts actually does anything, it's just there to give impatient dickheads something to prod at. The doors are closing in a couple of seconds anyway regardless of any passenger interaction, because that's how lifts work.
Dealing with weird logic, sometimes slightly conspiratorial
Her "Have you noticed anything strange this morning?" (It's Easter Sunday)
Him "Not really, next door are jetwashing their patio, is that what you're talking about?"
Her "No. The church bells didn't ring this morning before the Easter service"
Him "Didn't spot that. Maybe they've got some structural problem in the tower and need to get it checked out before they start swinging heavy bells around"
Her "Hmm. I bet it's some stupid Labour ruling that we can't have church bells any more"
Yeah, right. Religious suppression was mentioned in the last Manifesto, it's sure to be that.
Oh, are the Muslims banning Easter now as well as Christmas? They'll be coming for chocolate eggs next, mark my words.
Calling out the AA because your bike cut out, wouldn't start, you checked everything and then flattened the battery trying.
AA come out. Bike starts instantly and seems fine. 😡😡😡
Calling out the AA because your bike cut out, wouldn't start, you checked everything and then flattened the battery trying.
AA come out. Bike starts instantly and seems fine.
Literally everyone who ever worked in Tech Support ever has this story, many times over.
"Well, it wasn't working!!" Sincerely, I believe you and I feel your pain.
Calling out the AA because your bike cut out, wouldn't start, you checked everything and then flattened the battery trying.
AA come out. Bike starts instantly and seems fine.
Literally everyone who ever worked in Tech Support ever has this story, many times over.
"Well, it wasn't working!!" Sincerely, I believe you and I feel your pain.
The same applies to small children being poorly in the middle of the night…
Anyway back on topic - the accent of the Curry’s advert voiceover.
YOdel deliveries. Never arrive
MrsJ using the vacuum on "High" setting, which sounds like a jet taking off from an aircraft carrier, even for the minutest speck of dust.
The cringey gibberish that F1 drivers say over the radio when they win a race.
Astronauts too. I get it that they are doing something amazing, but a few "**** Me!"s will do. They should follow the example of Gene Cernan when he left the moon on Apollo 17 with his "Let's get this mother out of here."
"They should follow the example of Gene Cernan when he left the moon on Apollo 17 with his "Let's get this mother out of here." "
But did he really go to the moon?
Astronauts too. I get it that they are doing something amazing, but a few "**** Me!"s will do. They should follow the example of Gene Cernan when he left the moon on Apollo 17 with his "Let's get this mother out of here."
Eugene Cernan's parting speech was as wafty (and likely as scripted) as anything else. The transcripts record him as saying "let's get off," this tale is fun but probably a myth.
People driving the wrong way around car parks when there are clearly marked arrows on the road.
People driving the wrong way around car parks when there are clearly marked arrows on the road.
My van got a front end redesign courtesy of one of those cretins. Happened at the local train station, subsequently missed my train and had to cancel plans.
Bastards.
People driving the wrong way around car parks when there are clearly marked arrows on the road.
People who don't re-enact the exercise routine scene in Midnight Express when driving in car parks
Anyway back on topic - the accent of the Curry’s advert voiceover.
oh, that Uber Eats advert with Jude Law. I have to mute the TV when it comes on (which seems to be constantly on Netflix), the way he over-pronounces "exhuasting" makes my skin crawl.
People driving the wrong way around car parks when there are clearly marked arrows on the road.
These are the same ****nuts who carve around corners taking the racing line on the wrong side of the 'road,' then look at like you're in the wrong for not diving out of their way.
Humans that eat their breakfast at work and just leave the manky cereal bowl unwashed in the shared sink, fill it with water and then leave it there forever, probably until the next day and repeat.
Often too, all the teaspoons get put in the manky cereal bowl water too so that to make a cup of tea, I've got to rout around in their mank and wash the spoon of porridge.
Eat your breakfast at home you lunatic!
When I worked in a shared office, I took in my own cutlery from home. People are animals.
There's never any teaspoons, so we buy a load, people go "ooh, teaspoons, there's never any teaspoons, I'd better keep one in my drawer" and then there's never any teaspoons again.
These are the same ****nuts who carve around corners taking the racing line on the wrong side of the 'road,' then look at like you're in the wrong for not diving out of their way.
Same people who set off late for work and then sit on my tail angry that I keep to a sensible speed.
"If you're going to ride my ass, at least pull my hair"
Variable fat content of cheese resulting in inconsistent cheese on toast. Is it going to melt? Is it not going to melt?
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Same people who set off late for work and then sit on my tail angry that I keep to a sensible speed.
I'm sure I've written this before but,
My old commute went something like 30mph limit > 60 > 40 > 30. On hitting the 60 I'd invariably catch up someone doing ~40, overtake them, leave them for dust, then when I dropped back down to 30 for the new limit they'd shortly be a cheese slice away from my back bumper.
Trying to get a GP appointment when the lines open at 08.30 and sitting through loads of waffle on the phone before being able to hit option 1 only to get the engaged tone---agghhhhh
Trying to get a GP appointment when the lines open at 08.30 and sitting through loads of waffle on the phone before being able to hit option 1 only to get the engaged tone---agghhhhh
If it's that urgent, 111. If it isn't, phone at 9am and get a phone appointment in a couple of days
Trying to get a GP appointment when the lines open at 08.30 and sitting through loads of waffle on the phone before being able to hit option 1 only to get the engaged tone---agghhhhh
If it's that urgent, 111. If it isn't, phone at 9am and get a phone appointment in a couple of days
unfortunately our GP won't do that, it's 08.30 lines open, everyone calls so the system is overwhelmed, until the available appointment slots are full--they will only book to 48 hours in advance to see a GP, and by around 08.45 there are no appointment slots left and I'm told to "try again tomorrow", it's so frustrating.
Probably already been mention... but people who reach into the lidl bakery compartments and grab stuff with their hands instead of the tongs.
Call You and Yours on R4 covered this yesterday, they should be offering online booking too, either direct ( their own website or app) or through the NHS app
Call You and Yours on R4 covered this yesterday, they should be offering online booking too, either direct ( their own website or app) or through the NHS app
thanks, yes I heard that, alas I am in norn iron, and the online booking does not apply here (and neither does 111), I have thought of trying to change to another practice locally but reading reviews the issue is widespread :-/
Cars that automatically lock their doors.
I can understand this could be useful, but there should be some way to switch it off. I go to the car, I unlock the doors, I put some stuff in the boot. I go back to the house to get some more stuff, and when I get to the car, it's locked again. Drives me nuts.
If it's that urgent, 111. If it isn't, phone at 9am and get a phone appointment in a couple of days
Doctors haven't offered appointments "in a couple of days" for years, not at any of the practices I've been to in the last couple of decades anyway.
They now have to provide bookings via the website / app (the app is little more than a front for the NHS web page anyway) and I believe this is a country-wide mandate. This perhaps surprisingly works quite well, though you still have to get in at rope drop or be met with Computer Says No. I wrote down symptoms etc the night before and had ample time to copy & paste it all in to the form.
Point of note though is than my surgery changed booking times from 8:30 to 8:00, I don't know how widespread that is but it might be why you can't get through on the phone. The system is on NTP - automatic time sync - rather than someone pressing a button to wake it up, so the difference between calling at 7:59:59 and at 8:00:01 matters. Knowing your way through the "press [1] for..." menu helps, you probably don't have to wait for the IVR to prompt you and can just bat through the options rather than listen to it witter on.
Cars that automatically lock their doors.
I can understand this could be useful, but there should be some way to switch it off.
It's a setting on mine, it's under "convenience" or some such I think. I've left it enabled because having the key in my pocket is sufficient to unlock the boot or driver's door when I grasp the handle.