Sorry, but there is only one orientation that has any logic behind it, and that’s because the cat/dog/toddler pawing at it factor. If goes over toward the back*, it will just spin around with relatively little damage. If it goes over toward the front, it unwinds with every swipe, and your whole roll of paper is now in shreds all over the house, and probably at the moment it’s most important to have paper available.
*People talking about whether it goes “over” or “under” annoys me. It goes over no matter which way it’s hung. The only way it could possibly go under would be if it somehow could hang up instead of down. And then it would go under no matter which way it was hung.
My father’s is something like HAH-RAAH with a barking coughingness to the second part. I’m afraid to stifle my sneezes because I’m afraid either an eyeball or a fart will pop out.
What bugs me is statements like “Over 17 people responded to the survey”. So, 18? “We have over 23 models to choose from!” So, 24?
At least that sets some kind of sensible boundary. When I run a shop, I’m going to have a permanent sale with banners in the window saying “up to 300% off, or more!” and just sell everything at the regular price the whole time. Sue me, suckers!
I suspect that many brake dabbers drive around with their left foot resting on the brake pedal all ready and able to go any time. I wonder if they ever put it together why it is they have to have their brake pads replaced about as often as they rotate their tires?
People who can’t turn left out of a parking lot unless there’s at least a half mile of completely clear space in both directions. Good gods, people, it’s like twenty feet, you can do this in much less time than you think–and the middle turn lane is there for a reason!
People who come into a thread about trivial things that annoy you to loftily inform everyone of how terribly above all such petty annoyances they are since they achieved zen or what the fuck ever. SO HELPFUL.
People who can’t grasp the fundamentals of checking out after their shopping trip. You bring the items you want to the checkout and have payment ready. You do not sort through your full cart and decide what you are buying at the checkout, leaving a half full cart of returns, and you don’t decide you need “one more thing” and go back into the aisles and come back 10 minutes later with seven more items. And you don’t discover after being rung up that you forgot your credit card.
Oh, I’m one of the sneezers. Use to scare the hell out of our cat. It’s called snegasm for a reason
We all have our own ways. A coworker has these tiny, tiny little sneezes. All in a row. achooachooachooachooachooachooachooachooachoo. (how do you even do that?) I email her gesundheitgesundheitgesundheitgesundheitgesundheitgesundheit. We’re buds.
I become annoyed when students address me with the title Mrs. For one thing, I did not change my name when I got married and I would never use that title. What annoys me even more is that they call all the male professors either Professor or Dr.
Also when students send me emails with the salutation “Hey.” Or when they ask me for some particular favor (writing a letter of recommendation or the like), I happily agree, and they don’t bother to send a follow-up email thanking me. Grrr.
Hmm, all my current trivial annoyances seem to be student related. Might that have something to do with the fact that the spring semester just started?
If I were you, chaika, I would correct them each time they do this.
In the same vein, I also didn’t change my name when I got married, but many people, including my in-laws, hyphenate my last name with my husband’s last name. Nope, that’s not my name either.
LOL, my colleague who flies off the handle when students call her anything but Dr. Grammatica makes me rolleye. I’ve been teaching 18 years and I don’t care what students call me – 90% default to “prof” or “doc” anyway.*
She had a meltdown when a Rite Aid pharmacy minion called her “Mrs.” when her RX label clearly said dr. She complained to the manager and wrote a two-page complaint to their corporate HQ. I only know this because she ranted about it on Facebook for two weeks. Molehill, meet mountain.
*I’m not impugning you, this situation is maddening when male profs are automatically called prof/doc and women aren’t. I’ve just become sanguine about it.
The middle turn lane is there so that people on the road can turn left. Not so that you can use it as an acceleration lane. Although a lot of people do this, it’s illegal, dangerous, and discourteous to people who have to turn left. I hope you get a ticket. People like you are a non-trivial thing that annoy me.
Dunno where you live but where I live that’s exactly what that middle lane is for, especially in an area where the streets are a half mile apart. It’s there for waiting to turn left and it’s also there for when you turn left out of another street and you can clear the oncoming traffic in the near lanes but not the far ones. That’s its purpose. Show me the Oregon driver’s license that indicates you’ve taken a driver’s test here, please.
They remodeled our local Mickey D’s, and after a month of missing my terrible junk food I went to partake.
They now have giant video touch screens where you place your own order, and then you go to the counter to pick it up. Setting aside any discussion of machines taking over human jobs and such, I have one major complaint against this…
…The user interface SUCKS!
The video screens are tall and skinny, and suspiciously match the aspect ratio of iPhones, so it’s like you are standing in front of a 4-foot iPhone screen. That’s not the problem. The issue is that it looks like they used an iPhone app to drive the whole thing. In order to purchase a burger, fries, side salad, and some cookies I had to tap the slightly unresponsive screen about fifty times.
Choose “English”…choose “take-out”…choose “burgers”…choose meal 2…choose size…choose type of soda…review portion of order…add to cart…go back to main menu…and so on.
I had to individually choose the type of the three cookies in my “three cookies” order.
Then after each item I was shown a “shopping cart” screen with “1 item” and little plus/minus buttons to increment or decrement the number of burgers.
I felt like I was using a website for ordering plumbing supplies.
You guys have a four-foot-tall screen. Don’t try to use your iPhone app for this. Just show all of your stuff on the big screen and let me tap the pictures. Once I tap, put a big circle around the things I tapped. Have “more” buttons for special options, but make the regular order flow just a few taps. You guys have oodles of money, invest it in a really good UI design.
And the soda flavor thing, you know you are just going to hand me an empty cup, so please remove that stupid bit from your user interface, or make it customizable for those odd restaurants that still don’t have customer-side soda machines.
People who, when you ask them a question and it’s apparent that you’re not grasping their answer, just keep on repeating that same answer over and over and over and over again instead of simply explaining it.
All you had to do was tell them that even though it’s a gift card and not a credit card, you still can’t take it because you can’t process anything American Express, whether a credit card or a gift card. Instead, you caused so much anxiety that the head cashier had to come over. You refused to even attempt to explain, just repeating THE SAME SENTENCE, 4 TIMES.
I’ve bought AmEx gift cards as gifts, never considering whether a store would have to accept AmEx in order to honor a gift card. It wasn’t such an absurd misconception on your customer’s part – they thought that you assumed they were presenting a cc, not a gf. Your response wasn’t connecting with their misconception.
Customer service really doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.
Really? I would think “We don’t take American Express” would cover it. You’d be amazed at how many people think that, while we don’t take American Express, we should be able to take theirs.
People who barely understand or speak my language who tell me I should speak and understand their language. The idea that no one should have to speak any language cuts both ways.
ETA: Dealing with idiots is not my strong suit. If course, for me and my I.Q., that’s about 98% of people.
