[Closed] Things that shouldn't make me go arggh but do........

People who follow me around supermarkets scrutinizing what I pick up, and where I leave it.

People who amble around the supermarket, blocking the whole aisle, pretending that no other people exist.

No effort to get out of anyone else's way, no acknowledgment of anyone who gets out of their way. [i][b]Never[/b][/i] any eye contact, ever.

Why not, instead, just try and act like a decent human?*

*versatile concept, can be applied in many situations

Supermarkets that don't put similar things together so you pick up a packet of bikkies from one place and get round the corner to find that there's a different brand that's better or cheaper. I always leave the original packet in the new spot so that other shoppers can compare them, see it as a community service. Also sends a subtle message to the staff that they should organize their supermarket better.

People who try to get all friendly at the supermarket, making eye-contact, etc. Bloody weirdos, just because we both like chocolate bikkies doesn't mean I want to invite you round home or something.

Since we're on a supermarket theme- supermarkets that despite having a free from section still put gluten free stuff in with the normal stuff. Funnily enough, I didn't see that you have freshly baked gluten free rolls, Sainsburys, because I don't go in the bloody bakery because it's completely full of stuff I want to eat that I can't. You [i]monsters.[/i] I was over here, in the wheat free ghetto, wondering where the bread is.

People who pick up items in supermarkets, decide that they don't require said item, and leave it wherever they want.

People who are so convinced that they know exactly what a poster on a thread means that they don't actually bother to read the post. And then start a fight. And can't be reasoned with.

On the supermarket theme :
People who spread out their 10 items on the conveyor so that there is no space for yours and then you hold everyone else up because you are still unpacking when the check out staff are ready to start. And you get the blame.

Expanding on the supermarket theme; Children who wander round the house with the remote control and then abandon it at random.... Arrrraaaaaaggghhhhh

Supermarkets in general.

The theme of "shopping experience" virtually sends me in a spin. All I really want to do is whiz around collecting items of a scummy nature, dash in/out, not be confused by special offers (that invariably aren't special, nor offers)
If you plotted my track around my local Waitrose you'd see I rarely venture off the Red Trail, occasionally get pushed off onto the Blue if the jump is blocked by Mum2Kids in the biscuit section, but then return to the Red route that leads to the self service tills.. then boom! Out da door.

Have A Nice Day.

People who pick up items in supermarkets, decide that they don't require said item, and leave it wherever they want.

I see you have a large trolley full of clothes with tags, booze, electronics, and medication.

What the actual **** are you doing in the self service tills when your entire trolley needs confirmed and detagged?!

People who pick up items in supermarkets, decide that they don't require said item, and leave it wherever they want.

This doesn't bother me, unless it's a chilled/frozen product being left on a regular shelf. That's just being a ****. If it's too far to walk back, just take it to the checkout and tell the cashier you don't want it. They'll call over someone to return it properly.

Sticking with supermarkets - when they decide to reorganise the store and you then can't find anything again*. Thanks very much, I've spent the last year carefully honing the most efficient path through the store and now you've made the very logical decision that cous cous should no longer live near rice and pasta causing me to wander round the store in bafflement until I'm forced to ask someone and find out it's next to the tins of tomatoes 👿

*I do know that they do this to jerk you out of your pre-set patterns and spend more, but it doesn't stop it being annoying!

Treasure chests.

Out of town supermarkets who put in a planning objection against a competitors proposed new out of town store, because........ it'll damage the town centres commerce..... yea, i'm looking at YOU Tesco!!!!

People with children who consider a trip to the supermarket a family day out.
One of you stay at home with your revolting shrieking brats and the other one shops. Why don't you do that?

You were a revolting shrieking brat too once*.

*possibky you still are?

I find there's fun to be had putting random items in to other people's shopping when they're not looking.

People ok men who sit in the car park of supermarkets with the engine running whilst wife does the shopping!

Checkout ladies who put the apples/meat/whatever in an extra plastic bag," I know about ****ing bags love! Look I brought my own to save the planet"

Men who cant say no thankyou to extra plastic bag but instead say "oh thankyou" in a remarkably genuine voice.

People who pick up items in supermarkets, decide that they don't require said item, and leave it wherever they want.

People who browse freezer cabinets by holding open the perfectly clear glass door (meaning it's covered in condensation and opaque when you come to it, so you have to hold it open so see behind it whilst other people walk past thinking "look at that tool holding open a clear door...")

People who just abandon trolleys anywhere in the car park becase walking 50m is just too difficult. Worse those that use an abandoned trolley to start a queue of trolleys. D1cks.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
I find there's fun to be had putting random items in to other people's shopping when they're not looking.

This.

People that don't understand how passing places work on single track roads - then can't reverse...

I find there's fun to be had putting random items in to other people's shopping when they're not looking.

Disposable nappies - HTF did I not spot them until the checkout? 😯

People

Supermarkets that don't put similar things together so you pick up a packet of bikkies from one place and get round the corner to find that there's a different brand that's better or cheaper.

And that's where you'll find my leaving behind things from other shelves...

Supermarkets rather cynically have the habit of putting a 'special offer' on the end of an early aisle which you pick up, then find wasn't actually special at all when you get to the relevant section later on. I'm not particularly bothered about keeping it neat for them by walking halfway back across the store.

allfankledup - Member

People that don't understand how passing places work on single track roads - then can't reverse...

Ah. Well I know how single track roads work, I'm just absolutely crap at reversing. Sorry.

OCD passengers who adjust your car stereo volume, because 'it's on an odd number'.
I make a point of leaving it on 13 to stress them out.

Mister P - Member

People

People who use the pay at pump then go into the kiosk anyway.

This is annoying enough when they're paying for the fuel in the kiosk, really really drives me up the wall when they pay at the pump (slowly of course) then leave the car at the pump to go buy milk/cigarettes/harribo etc.

And spend their time squeezing an exact whole multiple of £1.00, and then go buy extra items in the store that will make it no longer a whole multiple of £1.00, but then go to pay with a card anyway.

On the topic of supermarkets...
erm Shopping. Fullstop.

In supermarkets, it's pensioners. Or to be more precise, doddery old dears who wander around slowly, leaving their trolley at 90° blocking the isles, and randomly browse.
Seriously, why the **** are you doing this at lunchtime/6pm/Saturday? You have all week, go at 10.30am, the store is empty, you can chat to the checkout staff as long as you want, wander around aimlessly, and not piss off everybody who has shit to do.

Seriously, why the **** are you doing this at lunchtime/6pm/Saturday?

I asked this once and was told "it's the only time I see real people"

dangeourbrain - Member

People who use the pay at pump then go into the kiosk anyway.

My debit card doesn't work at the pumps. In fact two of my cards won't work at any self service pumps.

Elderly women! Remember that at the conclusion of the till process, you will be expected to produce money! Save valuable minutes by fumbling around in your handbags/purses for vouchers, clubcards and some form of payment before this surprising moment!

So knowing this Jimjam, i assume you just use one of the normal pumps when the option presents itself?

In supermarkets, it's pensioners. ...
Seriously, why the **** are you doing this at lunchtime/6pm/Saturday?

Having worked in a supermarket for a few years when I was a student, I actually know the answer to this.

It makes it easier for them to shoplift when it's busy.

Pensioners are serial shoplifters. They're particularly larcenous when it comes to tinned salmon.

We once had an old dear who fainted in the booze aisle and it was only after we had propped her in a chair, gave her a glass of water and phoned an ambulance that her hat fell off to reveal a tiny frozen chicken concealed within that had caused her to pass out in the first place.

I find there's fun to be had putting random items in to other people's shopping when they're not looking.

I tend to go for tena lady or anusol.

My fave is if I see a colleague in there, approach a member of staff and say 'I think I saw that old lady put a chicken under her coat'

We once had an old dear who fainted in the booze aisle and it was only after we had propped her in a chair, gave her a glass of water and phoned an ambulance that her hat feel off to reveal a tiny frozen chicken concealed within that had caused her to pass out in the first place.

Was it an old hat?

I tend to go for tena lady or anusol.

Toob o' loob is a good one, too.

dangeourbrain - Member

So knowing this Jimjam, i assume you just use one of the normal pumps when the option presents itself?

Well I'm struggling to think of a local petrol station that has an either / or choice. Most are either big self service automated jobs with no kiosk, or normal ones which are generally staffed.

Also, pay-at-pump machines are a fat lot of good if you've got a fuel card.

Cougar - Moderator
Also, pay-at-pump machines are a fat lot of good if you've got a fuel card.

But you know this, so when presented with a choice, why use the P@P, i get sometimes it's all of them or even none, but when there is an option why not take the sensible/considerate one? It's like taking a dump in a urinal even though you know it doesn't work because the cubicles are a bit further away.*

*ok not that like.

Forum user xbaker.

Ex-forum user, you mean.

People who use the pay at pump then go into the kiosk anyway.

I pull up at whichever pump is free.

if I'm hungry then I'll be going into the kiosk to pay.

they should have an option for delivering snacks to your car while you fill up.

😆 8)

Self serve checkouts. No I will not use them. Yes I have stopped shopping at B&Q because they forced me too.

Various relations. 😉

On the petrol station theme:

People who are too stupid to realise that the pump nozzle will quite easily reach both sides of most cars and wait for "their side" to be free. Some of them even beep at you for skipping the queue because you aren't as stupid as they are.

For some reason they also travel in herds and can collectively block the whole petrol station when their orderly queue of stupidity spills out on to the road and blocks the entrance to the petrol station completely

People who are too stupid to realise that the pump nozzle will quite easily reach both sides of most cars and wait for "their side" to be free.

Except when it doesn't. I've been caught out with short hoses before and had to do the Circle of Shame back round to the back of the queue again.

'meetings' at work. First thing to discuss... when to have the next pointless meeting. Usually I inadvertantly have a meeting which woops runs into the meeting by 30 minutes! 'what a shame, just copy me into the summary email ta.' 😉

richmtb

For some reason they also travel in herds and can collectively block the whole petrol station when their orderly queue of stupidity spills out on to the road and blocks the entrance to the petrol station completely

What level of hell do you reside in that such things occur?

Back to supermarkets - women who put a weeks shopping through the checkout, then look totally shocked as to be asked to supply a method of payment.

It's like they've been asked to produce a gold plated unicorn, not a bank card. And so begins the rummaging in trolley for their handbag, then rummaging around the handbag for a purse, then rummaging around in said purse for a bank card

Whats the point of cardless payments etc when your ****ing card is buried deep within and handbag that is presently at the bottom of shopping trolley underneath 7 carrier bags full of food? Or did you think all your shopping was free?

People who make the same point that was made at the top of the same page 😉

😳

What a simply frightful faux pas!

binners.

People who do a weeks worth of shopping at a petrol station. Dammmn them all!!!
I need to pay for £20.00 of diesel, yet here you are with £70.00 worth of Monster Munch!!
#Binners

People who do a weeks worth of shopping at a petrol station.

I was just about to say the same thing. Invariably at lunch time when I'm trying to get back to work, and usually insisting in paying in exact change.

People who whistle in supermarkets. Actually, people who whistle generally. The urge to batter them with my artisanal baguette is almost unbearable.

matt_outandabout - Member
Forum user xbaker

That'll be ex-xbaker then 😉

People who tut loudly and roll their eyes while I'm trying to buy the entire stock of Monster Munch and Ginsters at the garage at lunchtime

I'd tut if i caught you buying Ginsters too.

[quote=Northwind ]

People that don't understand how passing places work on single track roads - then can't reverse...

In which case you need somebody else in the car to take over when you need to reverse. Not a totally silly comment, because going way, way OT, was on the narrowest, hilliest and most awkward of single track roads yesterday and the very instant we met a car coming the other way the doors on the other car opened and the chap in the passenger seat got into the driving seat to reverse to the passing place. Jaw dropping, but in a good way.

Hot air balloons.

Petrol stations.

This particular station has short hoses, which wont stretch to the 'wrong' side, and on my side a lorry is blocking both pumps. Luckily he's just going in to pay and there's just another person ahead of me so I'll be able to fill up as soon as he goes.

Except oh no I can't because the stupid sunglasses wearing fat *wit in the stupid fat *wit premium 4x4 has only moved forward onto the nearest pump instead of the one at the front! WHO DOES THAT?? And then surprise surprise she cocked a deaf'un when I asked her to move forward.

People who do their weekly shops at petrol stations. I'm not sure if it's physically possible to beat someone to death with a stale Co-Op baguette, but it's not going to stop me trying.

My knees

Still on the subject of Supermarkets, but the small Express types on suburban streets with teeny weeny 6 space carparks.... and a freaking queue of Mums parked along the road waiting to get into the teeny weeny car park to drop Junior off at the school next door but 2....

Nobody can get past you silly selfish wet fish.

Still on the subject of Supermarkets, but the small Express types on suburban streets with teeny weeny 6 space carparks.... and a freaking queue of Mums parked along the road waiting to get into the teeny weeny car park to drop Junior off at the school next door but 2....

Supermarkets that put one brand of cumin / turmeric etc in the 'herbs and spices' section at 99p for 100g and yet, in the 'world foods' section there's the same product, in a 300g packet, for 89p. Jesus Christ Sainsburies, I'm cooking a curry, do you think I give a Brexit-infused undercover daily mail reading racist rat's arse about the label on some bollocking coriander. Put them all together and let us choose for ourselves.

Luckily he's just going in to pay and there's just another person ahead of me so I'll be able to fill up as soon as he goes.

Except oh no I can't because the stupid sunglasses wearing fat *wit in the stupid fat *wit premium 4x4 has only moved forward onto the nearest pump instead of the one at the front! WHO DOES THAT??

Sounds like me! Except the premium part... LPG is only on the back pump so there have been a couple of times where I can only move to the back pump infuriating the poor person sitting behind me! Even worse if I need petrol too as they make me fill them separately and I have to go into the station to pay for the LPG too.

Oh - and the LPG fills slow as, actually I can be even worse as it has a 100 litre LPG cut off and I've got about 160 between two tanks so I can sometimes have a double fill too 🙂

As has been mentioned previously - inconsiderate parking.. On safety grounds you could argue that it probably should make you go AAARGHH but it really boils my piss to whole new levels.

The main street in the small town where I live is absolutely shocking for it. Cars parking in bus stops (whereby as soon as a bus comes it causes absolute carnage and blocks the road), double yellows, disabled bays and yesterday's absolutely howler - smack back in the middle of the zigzags on the pedestrian crossing! What really pissed me off was the AMG badge on it (a C220 DIESEL)! I had a good old shouty/sweary moment as I drove past this trying to see if people were waiting on the crossing through his car.

People that don't read through all the posts to check their contribution is required 😉

johndoh - Member
I find tht is often the case with things like chopped tomatoes and tinned chick peas - they have them in the obvious places at one price then have them again in the 'world foods' aisle but cheaper brands.
And that's where you'll find my leaving behind things from other shelves...

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Supermarkets that put one brand of cumin / turmeric etc in the 'herbs and spices' section at 99p for 100g and yet, in the 'world foods' section there's the same product, in a 300g packet, for 89p. Jesus Christ Sainsburies, I'm cooking a curry, do you think I give a Brexit-infused undercover daily mail reading racist rat's arse about the label on some bollocking coriander. Put them all together and let us choose for ourselves.

[b]POSTED 18 MINUTES AGO[/b]

My rant was better

Probably. Yes.

Since I've lived in Sweden for a while I now get unreasonably annoyed at shops that don't take cards back in the UK, I have to make a conscious effort to regularly go out of my way to a chuffing cash machine just so I can buy lunch! Don't even get me started on Germany...

[quote=nickewen ]As has been mentioned previously - inconsiderate parking

Pretty much everything to do with parking then - I reckon 90+% of people would park inconsiderately if that was the only convenient option, the only reason you don't see more of it is the prevalence of options to park considerately which are relatively convenient. If the choice is between having to walk an extra 100m and parking like a dick* then I know what most people will choose.

TBH it's all part of the sense of entitlement people seem to get with anything to do with motor vehicles. Who cares if it makes it awkward for pedestrians as long as the people driving cars aren't at all inconvenienced.

*I'd use a different word, but that it would just end up as ****

If we're moving on from shopping nobbishness to driving nobbishness, can I give a special shout out to the two drivers on opposite sides of a main road who stopped for a chat, blocking off the road in both directions.

Minicab drivers, bastards the lot of them (where I live anyway).

Children in the quiet car on the train. They're small children, they are never ever going to be quiet for a three hour journey, just book a non quiet seat, or more to the point don't opt into the quiet one ffs.

*obviously stw is less conducive to my getting work done this afternoon than the smal child kicking me in the shins, but they didn't know that when they chose the quiet car did they!