This thread is for bitching about little stuff, the day to day things that irk you just a little bit, but not enough to start a whole thread about. I’ll begin with a few of my pet peeves.
-After making my purchase at Wal-Mart, I am always stopped by a woman who checks my reciept to make sure I did indeed pay for the things in my cart. What the fuck is that, treating every customer like a common criminal??
-People who draw a little horizontal line through the middle of their 7’s. I’m not sure why, but it bugs me.
-The hassle I have to go through to get condiments at fast food drive-thru’s. I remember when they would ASK you if you wanted condiments. Well apparently people must have been saying “yes” too often, so to cut costs they now not only don’t ask, but they thrust the bag out the window at you so fast that you barely have a chance to get a word in edgewise. Also it seems that if I ask for ketchup AND salt, I get one or the other, but never both. It also bugs me when they don’t say thank you. Sometimes I say thank you to them and don’t even get a response at ALL! What the fuck is THAT??
-Whenever I’m playing on my computer and some application crashes Windows, forcing me to manually reboot the computer. Scandisk comes up and tells me I should have selected Shutdown Computer from the Start Menu. Well, I WOULD HAVE IF I COULD HAVE, YOU PIECE OF SHIT OS!!!
That’s all for now, but I’m sure I’ll come up with more later. In the meantime, how about hearing the petty annoyances of others?
In the manned space program’s early days, NASA spent $1 million
to develop a pen that wrote upside down. The Russians used a pencil.
My sentiments exactly. What’s worse is that I have to be there physically while the damn thing scans the disk. Heaven forbid there’s a problem, the computer will sit there like an idiot asking “Duh, do you want me to fix it?”
“No, I want you to sit there drooling out the window like a brain-damaged crank.”
It happened to me five times tonight/this morning.
And winders is soooo smug and condesending as it reminds me to properly shut down the piece of shit. God that pisses me off. Happened just yesteday after the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).
What’s worse, when the OS is posessed by a demon and off in never-never land and you try to reboot by pressing the reset or power off button and it tells you “Oh, no, I’m not going to shut down. You have to shut down the long way” and you have to unplug the dratted thing before you get your computer back. Then you still have to run scandisk.
And heaven forbid you should have a Zip disk in the drive when you boot NT, 'cause it goes into a complete panic when it sees a different disk it didn’t know about before.
Sevens and Zs: A seven can be mistaken for a one and a Z can be mistaken for a two if the writer is sloppy. Putting slashes makes it clear.
Wal-Mart (and other places that check the receipt): I ignore them and walk right by. I’ve never been hassled; but if I were I’d tell them that unless they have probable cause that I’m shoplifting, then they can go take a hike.
I also refuse to check my backpack upon entering a store if I’m wearing one. If the person at the door insists, then I ignore him and continue with my shopping. If he wants to waste his time following, so what? I usually keep my checkbook, address book, etc. in my pack; so unless they require all women to check their purses at the door, I see no reason to check my pack.
I could put my wallet in the pack, check it, and then claim that money was missing while it was under their control; but that would be dishonest.
Oh. I do let them check the receipt at Frye’s Electronics. They’re notorious for poor merchandise (e.g., putting defective items back on the shelf) so I want to be able return my purchase if necessary.
In the army I learned to write (i.e.) 13 Feb 2000 or 25 Dec 2000 which I think is clear and concise. Sometimes its hard to tell whether a person numerically wrote March 2nd or Feb 3rd.
How about waiting in line to check out of a supermarket with 4 ahead of you, and they open up a new line and they let people nearby who haven’t waited a second jump in?
The line thru a 7 is definitely helpful to tell a 1 from a 7.
You can catch more flies with a flyswatter than with honey and/or vinegar
Or waiting in the express/cash only line when the dolt in front of you whips out his check book or debit card and clogs the line while the clerk explains things to him.
Or having to deal with surly teenagers at the drive through window at any burger death outlet when all you want is something to drink and they act as if they are doing you a favor by splashing soda down the side of your car.
Or going away for a few days and coming back to a board with a fresh troll infestation. Didn’t you guys spray?
All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.
I just got this neat new digital cable setup. It was only a few dollars more per month than the regular cable, so I thought I’d give it a try. With my old cable box & remote, I could just click one button, and that would shut off the TV. Now, clicking one button shuts off the cable, but the TV stays on, and I have to turn the TV off manually. Then when I want to turn the TV on, I have to turn it on manually, then use the remote to get the cable on.
Don’t get me wrong–it’s not exactly a difficult thing to use both. Like the OP said, it’s just a petty annoyance. Oh yeah, now I’ve got a bazillion channels, and there’s still nothing on.
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
I hate the ATMs beeping at me the second my card comes back out. It sounds so accusatory–“don’t forget your card, idiot!”
I seem to remember a 3 second or so grace period befor you got the beeps. No more. Now, I sit poised like a cat outside of a mouse hole. My entire purpose is to grab that card before the infernal machine gets the satisfaction of beeping me. I even win occassionally.
I also hate the pay before you pump gas stations. I realize the necessity in many areas, but I still don’t like the fact that the station assumes I am going to steal their gas. This is especially maddening when the attendant is looking right at me through the glass, and still won’t turn on the pump.
Bugs the hell outta me too! I started doing it since my lab supervisor told me to do it. He said it prevents him getting 2’s and 7’s mixed up. Personally, I think a good pair of reading glasses could do the same thing. :rolleyes:
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