Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

There is something about a driver with L plates on the road which makes so many other drivers impatient, aggressive and down right dangerous.

You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.

One time I was out, I thought “what the hell is wrong with everyone today?” I was being muscled out of the road in places where oncoming traffic would normally wait behind parked cars to wait for me to pass. Then I suddenly realised, I was in a courtesy Micra whist my Mondeo was in the garage. The difference in other drivers’ behaviour was stark.

Back when I had a big Merc, people would actively close gaps when you were trying to pull out. I have a theory that this is why BMW et al drivers have a reputation for never indicating – I stopped indicating in the end as it just tips the bastards off so you can never get anywhere.

Same with motorcycles. I have ridden Vespa and Lambretta scooters for decades. Riding on an A or B road at the legal speed limit and you can guarantee car drivers will overtake.

I also used to ride a motorbike (Suzuki Bandit). On the same roads far fewer cars drivers would overtake.

It’s a weird mindset where some drivers view smaller vehicles as slow and have to get past.

You are very much judged on the car you drive, also.

One time I was out, I thought “what the hell is wrong with everyone today?” I was being muscled out of the road

Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense – Fabia rather than Octavia.

You are very much judged on the car you drive

I think you are right. We have had 20mph limits round here for years now. I have never been overtaken whilst driving at or around 20mph. But, when in the car with my Learner daughter, doing the same speed, people will regularly overtake us (even when that means going the wrong side of traffic islands).

Saying “I picked up” as a synonym for “I bought”. I suppose it’s a stupid Americanism, but it suggests that the purchaser considered the expenditure so trifling that they could just casually acquire an expensive item without concern for the cost, even though it’s something that would cause grief to my bank account.

People using brought when they mean bought

Dropping a nut in the garage, being convinced it’s in the pile of wood offcuts, dismantling the pile and finding it’s not. And it being unusually a nut I don’t have a spare for at the moment – M8 thin.

It’s under where you moved the wood to.

Not being able to find the missing bit of Lego is really infuriating. I can feel the anxiety as I type.

And it being unusually a nut I don’t have a spare for at the moment – M8 thin.

Got boxes of those 😉

Dropping a nut in the garage

Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor.  Can also supplement the technique with a torch.

The lack of coat hooks in pubs and restaurants. I’ve got a nice coat (in fact a few nice coats, get me), I’m quite a tall fella, and I don’t want to put it on the back of my chair so the bottom of it drags around on the floor, gets trapped under the chair leg or gets stuff dripped on it as people are carrying drinks past.

Suddenly, the tendency of cars and vans to cut me up using the wrong lane at a local set of lights makes sense – Fabia rather than Octavia.

Happened to my wife when she had Fiesta, she’s quite a cautious driver and always sticks to the limits, she would regularly have people pulling out in front of her or driving at her when she had right of way. changed her car to a Honda CRV and problem solved overnight. She doesn’t drive any differently but the larger car makes all the difference.

I get it a bit when I’m towing the caravan, people desperate to pull out of a junction in front of you or risky overtakes so they don’t get “stuck” behind me. Seems they’d rather get hit with 4+ tonnes than travel a bit slower.

Scrolling the page up at the end of a thread on here and the amount of times I instead insert bullet points, quotes or open up the photo upload box…

It requires precision finger flickage.

When you’re measuring something the same width as your tape measure and it gets stuck in there. :-/

One of the keys on my keyboard has developed a squeak and I can’t identify which one. If I type slowly it doesn’t do it, but typing quickly I get clickclickclickclicksqueakclickclick argh which one was that?

Try putting your head sideways on the floor and looking for it, rather than standing and looking down at the floor.  Can also supplement the technique with a torch.

A technique I started to use when CSI started on telly – works particularly well with a bright white LED flashlight. Especially when it’s a metal object.

This is a minor issue, but it’s making me really rather annoyed. I have a Jack Wolfskin tee shirt, perfectly ordinary looking black tee shirt, but it’s made from Polartec 100 fleece. I’d love to buy another one, but it’s absolutely impossible to find one anywhere! It’s very comfortable to wear, it doesn’t get damp and clammy when worn under something like a Buffalo and things warm up a bit.
So why is it that nobody makes a basic tee shirt from Polartec 100? Am I asking for something that’s difficult to produce?
Just so bloody annoying!

If I type slowly it doesn’t do it, but typing quickly I get clickclickclickclicksqueakclickclick argh which one was that?

Just tap each single key quickly and repeatedly for a few seconds going through the querty shizzle until it reveals itself. Then, WD40. Lashings of.

Dropping a nut in the garage, being convinced it’s in the pile of wood offcuts, dismantling the pile and finding it’s not. And it being unusually a nut I don’t have a spare for at the moment – M8 thin.

Magnets, how do they work?

Someone complaining on a work forum about our backdated pay rise being taxed.

Most of you know where I work.

When you start a thread then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your traffic

When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.

Magnets, how do they work?

By picking up every bit of swarf and filing in my shed apart from the elusive ALLOY **** spacer that went ping across the floor.

People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.

Very disproportionate.

brown packing tape – the stuff you put on parcels you are returning – it’s either crap and lacks any adhesion whatsoever or it’s so strong you cannot get it off the roll and on to the parcel you are trying to send.

By picking up every bit of swarf and filing in my shed apart from the elusive ALLOY **** spacer that went ping across the floor.

Cleaning? Heaven forbid.

I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that I make people disproportionately cross. Probably more so in meatspace than online.

People saying alloy when they mean aluminium alloy or some other non-magnetic metallic material 🙂

When you start a forum subject then someone within an hour cuckoos it by slightly altering maybe a word or number and steals your hits.

Ah yes, the “comedy” mimic threads, they’re universally shit.

People who talk about their camera lense rather than their lens by claiming that it’s maybe the American spelling and therefore correct. It’s not.

See also, “potatoe.”

Ah yes, the “comedy” mimic threads, they’re universally shit.

They’re sometimes funny, once. When there’s 17 decreasingly amusing versions of the same thing it just becomes a pain in the arse.

Sharing tea making facilities with instant coffee monsters.

Put the sugar in first, THEN the ‘coffee’, and all with a bone dry spoon so everything don’t stick to it, and stop frikkin contaminating the sugar for tea drinkers you absolute insensitive wombles! :-/

People who put sugar in tea. Monsters. ?

Joking aside, I’m right there with you. I’d rather have sugar-contaminated coffee than coffee-contaminated sugar.

Started taking half a sugar when I stopped putting milk in.

Black tea is lovely with a little sugar taking the sharp edge off.

It is not however improved with the addition of instant coffee shrapnel.

People who put sugar in tea. Monsters. ?

Joking aside, I’m right there with you. I’d rather have sugar-contaminated coffee than coffee-contaminated sugar.

I gave up milk in tea years ago and started adding a cheeky half a sugar which replaces that slight sweetness milk gives you.

Makes it taste nice, unlike unwanted instant coffee shrapnel.

Universal Credit messages my self-employed wife: “You need to come in to the jobcentre to have a meeting about accepting your commitments, your appointment is at xxx”

My wife: “I’m working”

UC: “We’ve rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX”

My wife: “I’m at work then. Here are my working hours, I also can’t come Friday afternoons close to sunset”

UC: “We’ve rebooked the appointment again, it’s on Friday at 3:50” (sunset is 3:56)

My wife: (Wednesday evening) “I can’t come then…”

UC: (weekend) “OMG you missed your appointment the world is ending you’re in serious trouble, give us a good reason or else”

My wife: “I can’t come on Fridays close to sunset for religious reasons and perhaps check your messages, it is the only way we have of contacting you after all”

UC: “We’ve rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX”

My wife: “I’m working then…”

UC: “Oh wait, you don’t actually need an appointment because you are in paid work, forget about it”

Me & my wife: “!@#%!***£!!!”

Me: feeling smug that I’m working from home so I don’t have to scrape a the thick layer of ice off my car.

MrsMC: can you move your car so I can get mine out? (She can’t drive my manual car)

Also, the lunchtime presentation about gaslighting has been cancelled.

People who feel the need to stop and have a long and involved conversation after they’ve put the milk in their drink at the milk, sugar and biscuits table, completely impervious to any polite requests to get out of the f’ing way so that others too can get to the table.

a cheeky half a sugar

In what way is a small amount of sugar “cheeky”. What in the wide, wide world o’ sports does that actually mean ??

My wife: “I’m working”

UC: “We’ve rebooked the appointment for a different day at XX”

Gawd.. I had the same thing quite a few years ago… I was on jobseekers allowance after a lay off and had found a new job.

I call them to cancel my benefits.. “you’ll have to come into the job center at XX..”

Errm I can’t… I’ll erm, be at work?

“if you don’t attend your benefits could be cancelled”

OK.. Sounds like it will work itself out then?

Ffs.. Lol..