Just a Little Rant on Those Little Annoyances

[Paul_Stewart]

Excellent stuff guys - most of these are so true and I thought it was just me!

Saw a cretin at Tesco's the other Saturday morning in a 4x4 just park right outside the front door, not even in a disabled or family space, walk in with his kid to shop for 10 minutes and then give one of the store managers a string of abuse when he dared question him about it.

 

[bobmac]

There's a roundabout near me which has 4 exits to choose from and 2 lanes to queue in.
How hard can it be?:angry:
Drivers who
a) cant be bothered to replace broken headlight bulbs
b) drive with their fog lights and side light when it's not foggy:angry:

 

[Hobbit]

Sounds like a lot of guys ran out of meds over the weekend. Take a breath guys, hold 2, 3 and relax.




Anyway, my big hate!! You book a time with one of your staff to meet. You drive 150miles to a hotel near where they are working so as not to take them away from the coal face for too long... and they're still bl00dy late for the damn meeting. Another engineer had his tail feather burned yesterday - you gonna be late, you're gonna get both barrels.

 

[Iaing]

Morons who can't drive away after visiting someone without blowing their horn.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Most of these problems are middle manager mess ups and poor training.
Companies scale down and promote incompetent lower paid staff into the old middle manager posts.
In the case of teachers and council staff the incompetent managers/staff just get moved to other sections/jobs on the same pay grading and the whole thing then takes on a downward spiral.
Not always the most effective way of cost cutting.

I see this more and more and have to bite my lips on many occasions.

Re work....Question, who does your job when you are on holiday.
If the answer is no one, you are not essential to the business. [Imagine an accident emergency doctor saying that.]

 

[CMAC]

Morons who can't drive away after visiting someone without blowing their horn.

jees! that gets to you..........oo:

There's a roundabout near me which has 4 exits to choose from and 2 lanes to queue in.
How hard can it be?:angry:
Drivers who
a) cant be bothered to replace broken headlight bulbs
b) drive with their fog lights and side light when it's not foggy:angry:

Bob, modern cars have them on automatically, better seen than not seen, plus they look good having a string of LED's. Cant see how fog lights and side lights cause you any problems

 

[bobmac]

Cant see how fog lights and side lights cause you any problems

Well, if it's foggy why would you not have your headlights on
And if it's not foggy, turn the fog lights off.
Make up your mind.

 

[One Planer]

plus they look good having a string of LED's.

Really. I think they make an otherwise smart looking car look like a council house at Christmas

Each to their own I guess.

 

[cookelad]

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

I regularly find the inside lane is the fastest on the motorway - I normally count the number of cars I undertake when driving up North - If they're not going to abide by the rules why should I? on the part of the M1 around the M25 where the motorway spreads to 5 lanes I can sit in the inside lane with 2 clear lanes to my right and a stack of traffic in the 2 outside lanes!

 

[CMAC]

Really. I think they make an otherwise smart looking car look like a council house at Christmas

Each to their own I guess.

6 lights either side of the headlights looks like a council house at Christmas............. what scheme did you see:rofl:


I'd rather be seen than not seen


Thank goodness we all dont like the same thing

 

[CMAC]

Well, if it's foggy why would you not have your headlights on
And if it's not foggy, turn the fog lights off.
Make up your mind.

who mentioned headlights

auto will bring on headlights in modern cars as well


some people really get wound up over nothing these days............I blame the government and possible devolution:rofl:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I regularly find the inside lane is the fastest on the motorway - I normally count the number of cars I undertake when driving up North - If they're not going to abide by the rules why should I? on the part of the M1 around the M25 where the motorway spreads to 5 lanes I can sit in the inside lane with 2 clear lanes to my right and a stack of traffic in the 2 outside lanes!

I always find that quite amusing whenever I travel south of Preston. It gradually gets worth until you reach Watford when it is just mad..

 

[bobmac]

who mentioned headlights

auto will bring on headlights in modern cars as well


some people really get wound up over nothing these days............I blame the government and possible devolution:rofl:

It's also against the law and a £30 fine if I remember correctly

 

[mcbroon]

People, more often than not in grey or white cars, who don't put their headlights on in blizzard conditions. Why don't you want the rest of us to see you??

 

[MizunoGreyhound]

There's a roundabout near me which has 4 exits to choose from and 2 lanes to queue in.
How hard can it be?:angry:
Drivers who
a) cant be bothered to replace broken headlight bulbs
b) drive with their fog lights and side light when it's not foggy:angry:

I had a Mazda 6 a while back and the only ways to change the headlight bulb was to take out some of the surrounding engine compartment fittings or take the headlamp unit out and replace it. Seeing as I didn`t have the right tools for the first option or a callibration unit for the second, even the plod that pulled me over agreed that it was a stupid design.

Also, drivers that go into box junctions when they clearly cannot exit them:angry:
Idle parents parking on the yellow zig-zag school warning part of the road near school entrances.

Gets right on on my moobs!!

 

[Sweep]

The first rule in business. Don't keep people waiting to give you money.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

People that are at the front of the traffic queue that seem genuinely surprised that the lights have changed to green.

 

[rosecott]

Drivers who

b) drive with their fog lights and side light when it's not foggy:angry:

Cant see how fog lights and side lights cause you any problems

Can we stop calling them side lights - they are PARKING lights - to be used when parking (if necessary).

 

[Pin-seeker]

Morons who can't drive away after visiting someone without blowing their horn.

Phaaaaaa totally agree

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Saw it again today in the rather posh surroundings of the Burrell Museum cafe.

Auld yins who take half a dozen serviettes, a handful of sugars, little milk cartons and sauce sachets then squirrel them away into their handbags when they think no one notices.