My grocery store peeve is pretty much the opposite of this. I have a cart full of groceries, and there is only one full-service register open, and the line is clogged with old people with just a few items each, but who for some reason refuse to use the Express Lane or the self-checkout.
Okay, here’s something that, even saying it makes me see how petty I am, but whatever.
I’m on FB a lot, and like most people, I share links and memes all the time. I don’t create any of the memes, and I obviously don’t write the articles I share. So it kinda drives me nuts when someone shares it and in their post says “Thanks to veryfrank for the link!” and tags me, which then drops the same thing a second time on my page. It’s like, FB has been around a long time now, and I thought we’d settled on the etiquette. Toss me a thumbs’ up (or don’t, I really don’t care) and share away. Having to edit my own page because it’s clogged up with multiples of something I shared once is about as low on the list of urgent issues plaguing the world as you can get, but it makes me nutty.
The AKC is all about irresponsible breeding. All they care about is looks, and sometimes looks which hurt the dogs health.
I have to admit that I have been peeved at seeing an old fogey leave Costco with a bag of oranges and a loaf of bread while I’m navigating a packed Costco parking lot on the weekend.
Enough with the old-bashing.
Above all else, be kind. Please.
The store I go early Saturday or Sunday mornings, they only have the one regular register open, but the express lane is closed, as well as the self-checkouts. Those open up later in the morning.
Some mornings I’ll spend twice as much time waiting in line than I spent getting my small basket of groceries.
But what’s worse is later in the day when the express lane is open, you got assholes with a full cart in the lane, never mind the sign says 10 items or less.
Are any other lanes open? Plenty of times I’ve seen stores(usually early morning/late evening) staff only the express lane and allow larger loads to go through rather than open another lane.
^^Yeah–a couple regular lanes are open.
I know what you mean–on Sundays they used to just have the express lane open and they would let folks with full carts in to avoid opening a new register.
Or if no one was in the express lane, cashier would be nice and wave someone over.
But what I was seeing was folks with full carts just go to the express lane. Sometimes the cashier would point out it was 10 items or less, but let him proceed.
It’s too bad management won’t grow some balls.
^^^Agreed
…Aaand card declined.
Thank you for this.
And at least we’re all not sitting around naked.
Speak for yourself.
Easily solved:
Wear slip-ons.
Tie boots together by shoelaces, throw over shoulder.
At security checkpoint, throw boots (and other luggage) on belt.
Slip shoes off and walk through scanner.
Slip shoes back on and collect your stuff (including boots).
Proceed to “recombobulation area”.
Sit down. Put boots on. Stick slip-on shoes in carry-on bag.
Proceed to gate.
Inversely, back in college when I worked as a bagger at a grocery store, I always hated it when the customer tried to help by bagging their own groceries. I know they were just trying to speed things up so they could get out of there, but I had a system darn it. We were trained to bag things a certain way, to bag certain things together, not to bag other things together. And more often than not the customer would just be randomly throwing things into bags, and totally breaking all the rules I’d been taught. Two baggers working together bagging a large order usually worked better, because we knew the rules and would coordinate with each other, like “I’ll take the frozen stuff, you take the cans” or whatever.
Speaking of Facebook, my dad “likes” literally everything I post. And that annoys me. To me, if you just reflexively like everything, then it’s basically the same as liking nothing. In fact it’s kind of a letdown when I see I have a notification on FB, and it turns out it’s a like from him.
My social media pet peeve is OPs that “like” every response. I think it boosts its visibility, or at least the OPs think it boosts the visibility. If I get a Like on Facebook from an OP, or fewer than 2 upvotes on Reddit (the first one I always assume is from the OP), it doesn’t feel like as much of a big deal as it would be if other people like it.
This is the thread where we admit there’s nothing inherently wrong with what we’re complaining about, right? 
My intent was not to bash old people. If I saw young people doing the same thing, I’d complain about them too.
And for the record, I’m no spring chicken either… 
My parents and FB…bless 'em, and I know they won’t be here forever, but I just don’t have the energy to walk them through it any more. My mother’s comments are either something gratingly pleasant like “That’s nice.” or “I agree,” or otherwise she unspools a monologue tangentially related the the actual post. My dad has an odd habit of sending me FB messages containing links that I posted earlier.
And even if it was … being old is Benign and Appropriate.