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.
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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.' 😉
richmtbFor 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 😉
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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
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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.
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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.
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....
Or the other boiling piss situation – once full, people parking in the disabled spot or the yellow hatched pedestrian walkway like they are overflow parking for lard-arses. Just park somewhere else you selfish knobbers.
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...[b]POSTED 7 HOURS AGO[/b]
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!
People who pick up items in supermarkets, decide that they don't require said item, and leave it wherever they want.
People who say "said item" instead of "the item" or just "something/it".
People who say "obligated" instead of "obliged", "have to" or "required" as appropriate.
Supermarkets, again.
The self service tills...
I have a bottle of wine in my basket (sitting neatly alongside Monster Munch, Tunnocks Chrome Domes etc. etc.) and I swipe my Waitrose Card, then swipe the bottle of wine and the Red Light flashes above me on the "traffic light of shame" pole... and continues to flash, then from behind me out of nowhere one of the checkout supervisors uncloaks from her cloak of invisibility and shouts "I'll get that for you" then disappears back into her cloak of invisibility to scare the living daylights out of another "over the age of 18, so is allowed to buy alcohol" human.
I'd Grrrrrrrrr, but I'm genuinely shocked each time they uncloak..
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.
Of course you did.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/meathead.asp
Kids who say 'just finishing the level/battle' despite 10min and 5min warnings that tea is about ready. 😈
[quote=rsl1 ]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
Just to add to that, I'm sure I shouldn't be that irritated at shops which don't have contactless payment, or if they do they have a silly spending limit (presumably because of limits on cards, which don't actually apply if you're using Google Pay).
McDonalds may be the winner here though - they have payment terminals on the self service machines which take contactless payment, but they're buried in a plastic surround which prevents you getting the relevant part of your phone to them - I've been forced to interact with a real human being when just armed with my phone.
The spar down the road that had a cash machine out of order so said I could get cashback at the till. So.i bought a packet of mints and £20 cashbook. "nope, sorry must be a £5 minimum spend for cashback" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrggghhhhhhhhh.
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.
So was the muppet I came head to head with near the bottom of a 1:6 hill, with a passing place two cars lengths behind them, wile the nearest one to me was about 400 metres back, around a blind bend. Up the hill.
Said muppet only had to put the car out of gear and let gravity work, using just the brakes.
But no, they sat there, staring straight ahead, ignoring my request that they just roll back into the passing place.
They did, eventually, after I made it plain that if they didn't I'd drag them out of their sodding car and reverse it back myself!
Cougar - Moderator
Also, pay-at-pump machines are a fat lot of good if you've got a fuel card.
This, plus most filling stations now have all of the pumps as pay points, or none at all, so you have to go to the till to pay, if you have a fuel card like I do for work. Or pick up a snack.
I have a joint annoyance about the combination of supermarkets and driving, especially drivers who ignore zebra crossings in supermarket car parks when you're halfway across them.
Don't even get me started on Germany...
On the topic of supermarkets, and Germany... (also Netherlands)
It seems to be illegal to pack anything away until not only have you handed cash over, but also got change back, and packed it all away neatly in your purse/wallet. Only then is it allowed to start packing groceries.
It also seems to be illegal as the cash till operator to hold up the next customer in line, and it is the law that you must scan all their stuff and squeeze it in with the previous customer's stuff on the packing area.
Always get beer at the UK self-scan. Just to make the staff walk over to auth it.
No Self scan in Germany sadly.
Of course you did.
Good work.
But no, they sat there, staring straight ahead,
I carry a paperback novel for just such eventualities.
