Just a Little Rant on Those Little Annoyances

[GB72]

I fill up with petrol at my local supermarket after work most weeks. This is by far the busiest time with queues at every pump. That is not a problem, they cannot help being busy. What does grind my gears is that every time I go there, there is 3 tills, 3 staff and 2 of the staff are always stacking shelves with sweets and biscuits, shelves that are half full anyway. The queue for the till is always halfway out the door, the queues at the pumps get bigger as people cannot pay and leave and still 2 people do pointless busywork rather than actually serve customers. Is it being unreasonable to think that getting customers served and on the way should really be the priority at the busiest time of day.

Pointless little rant at one of life's inconveniences I know but I have had a hellish day at work (you take a day off work then realise that you are going to have to do more than a day's worth of working lunch and staying late to catch back up) so felt like a little vent.

What are those petty little daily inconveniences that really just hack you off?

 

[Lump]

Pay peanuts and get monkeys.

 

[pbrown7582]

What's even more annoying is when people park at the pumps to go and but a paper or pint of milk! Arrrrgh

 

[bobmac]

Messy shops, especially clothes shops.
Clothes that have fallen off their hangers or just left on the floor and staff who don't seem to bother.
Moving escalators that tell me to stand still and hold onto the hand rail. :angry:
Shop staff who have to finish their conversation with their mate before serving you.
Etc

 

[GB72]

Moving escalators that tell me to stand still and hold onto the hand rail. :angry:

You would love the announcement in Asda in Grantham.There is an escalator to take trolleys up to the clothes section that asks you to hold on to your trolley and place your hands firmly on the hand rails. How the hell are you supposed to do that.

 

[Val]

My biggest bug bear is middle lane drivers, in fact I saw a women pull out into the middle land of the motorway this morning to cruise along despite the inside lane being clear.

Does my nut in and it's not just women BTW

 

[BrizoH71]

When you're sitting at a traffic signal-controlled junction or roundabout and you can't get on it or through it when the lights change for you, because someone else has blocked you off cos they've gone through their green light and added to the queue already waiting to get off.

:shakefist:

 

[drawboy]

You would love the announcement in Asda in Grantham.There is an escalator to take trolleys up to the clothes section that asks you to hold on to your trolley and place your hands firmly on the hand rails. How the hell are you supposed to do that.

I can do that......Very happy wife mine.

 

[GB72]

I can do that......Very happy wife mine.

Long Nose?

 

[Aztecs27]

Sainsburys?

 

[GB72]

Sainsburys?

How did you guess?

 

[USER1999]

People who deliberately drive in the wrong lane, because they think it will be quicker, and then expect me to let them into the correct lane when they want to move over. No, it just doesn't work that way. I'd rather crash, and then punch you repeatedly. It happens every day round here, and I'm fed up with it. People get in the turn right only lane, and then want to go straight on. Grinds my gears.

 

[Imurg]

People who deliberately drive in the wrong lane, because they think it will be quicker, and then expect me to let them into the correct lane when they want to move over. No, it just doesn't work that way. I'd rather crash, and then punch you repeatedly. It happens every day round here, and I'm fed up with it. People get in the turn right only lane, and then want to go straight on. Grinds my gears.

Welcome to my World Murph...

Along with incorrect siganlling and overtaking in a 30 limit to sit in front at 30.....

This one is pretty trivial but really annoys me.
THe BBC Weather Website has a Summary bit at the top and below it is an hourly one.
The icons in the Summary bit rarely relect what is going on in the hourly forecast.
For Aylesbury, on Thursday the summary shows a Black cloud with a raindrop - that, to me, means it's gonna rain!
But look in the hourly forecast and every icon from 6am to 3am Friday is a white cloud or Sun with no sign of a raindrop.
So what's it going to do?
Is it too much to ask that there is at least some matching of icons to at least approximately give us a GODAMN CLUE!

 

[SocketRocket]

Our local Morrisons petrol station has an entrance lane that opens to 10 pump lanes all with two pumps each and nozzles both sides. People stop at the top of the entrance lane and wait for the exact pump they want to use to be free, this causes large tailbacks onto the road. There are other pumps empty that someone else could use but they just sit there zomby like holding every one up.

Why dont people just drive behind the pump line they want to use and let others do the same.

 

[Whereditgo]

2 lanes at traffic lights, the right hand lane is for straight on and/or for turning right - the muppet in front waits until the lights turn green then puts his right hand indicator on!!!!!

 

[Slicer30]

This should be a regular thread on Mondays!

For me - Pay at Pump Petrol stations that tell you to "Pay at Kiosk" when you get to the pump.

I deliberately go to Pay at Pump so that my 3 yr old daughter can sit in the car while I fill up. So I then have to decide whether to lock her in the car and join the queue in the shop or come back another time when I am on my own.

 

[JustOne]

I hate it when I go into a service station and the shelves look half empty

 

[Aztecs27]

How did you guess?

It's been that bad since it was a Safeway!

 

[Slab]

People who deliberately drive in the wrong lane, because they think it will be quicker, and then expect me to let them into the correct lane when they want to move over. No, it just doesn't work that way. I'd rather crash, and then punch you repeatedly. It happens every day round here, and I'm fed up with it. People get in the turn right only lane, and then want to go straight on. Grinds my gears.

+ the other driving posts...

Out here the lane-changers as described in the above, actually believe they have right of way to cut in, I see it 50 times a day!

Other misconceptions include:

• indicators are optional,
• full beam is mandatory at night,
• cyclists must wear dark clothing at night and not have lights,
• scooters/motorbikes are excluded from rules of the road,
• a car length gap is sufficient to change lanes into (by a bus)
• passengers can alight from buses through emergency exits into traffic,
• its permissible to travel with all your family on a 2-stroke scooter & have the child hugging a gas cylinder

and this was all seen just on the drive home last night!

 

[chrisd]

Drivers who sit in the outside lane of a dual carriageway, at 30 mph, for its full length, because they are turning right 3 miles down the road.

Men who get their wives to phone my work to ask about hiring a 3 ton digger when the wife wouldn't know one from a Citroen c1!!!
Every question has to be relayed to the lazy fat slob laying on the settee who's watching a 4 year old re run of Cash In The Attic and is too bone idle to come to talk himself! :rant: