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Really minor annoyances


CheersMarra84 said:
Groups of people walking 3 or 4 abreast’s inability to walk in a single file manner on a pavement, when you’re walking past in an opposite direction, and then look surprised when I’ve stood my ground. You can let go of your partners hand for 2 seconds, it’s not hard.
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I see this all the time out running or cycling. A 3-4m wide path, a big group taking up all of it. I move to the side of the path expecting them not to block an oncoming person, then come to a dead stop while I wait for them to shuffle over.

The thing is, they must get this from every single oncoming person and faster people going the same way. It should not be that hard to figure out.
 
DaveH said:
I see this all the time out running or cycling. A 3-4m wide path, a big group taking up all of it. I move to the side of the path expecting them not to block an oncoming person, then come to a dead stop while I wait for them to shuffle over.

The thing is, they must get this from every single oncoming person and faster people going the same way. It should not be that hard to figure out.
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I think human beings' spatial awareness is declining rapidly due to technology

Just a couple of other examples - cars don't need as much all round human vision to control them now, people walk everywhere looking at a phone that often tells them where to go

I also have a problem with strangers being close to me which doesn't help

That could be declining personal space boundaries, spatial awareness or both
 
Hold music that is 5 times the volume of the person I was speaking to.

I'm siting with the phone at arms length, because I know if I turn it down, I'll not be able to hear the person coming back.

Not as bad as when you are on hold for 20 minutes but every 30 seconds there is a click and a delay. Enough to make you think it is a human, and then you get "your call is important to us". On hold for 20 minutes I can just stick the phone on speaker and get on with work. A break in concentration every 30 seconds and I can't.
 
Those envelopes that already have the adhesive on them, except that the glue doesn’t stretch to the corners of the envelope.

Do you then glue the ends, sellotape them which messes up the sorting machines, or leave them as they are and stress about it as you post them? :confused:
 
Boring folk coasting through life by being middling attractive and glib. Zero going on behind the eyes. Nae opinions, nae hobbies, never read a book, but BANTZ. Ugh.

You'd give them a pass if they had good intentions, but they're usually their own biggest fan and snide
 
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