Really minor annoyances

[c032745y]

Yes.
Especially when their dogs are off lead.
Not watching what their dogs is doing / eating or where it's shitting.

That escalates it beyond "minor" in my book. I was out early doors a few weeks ago & a bloke was walking a cockapoo pup, lovely little thing, across the road from me & my pooch. They came to cross a minor access road & the little fella dutifully stopped & sat at the kerb, actually looking up for a little bit of praise. Bloke didn't have a clue, just continued across, gazing at his screen. I was enraged, little soul had done what someone had taught him & arsehole boy hadn't even acknowledged it...

 

[FoldingStars]

Another one just came to me at lunchtime actually. How is it that some boiled eggs, the shell falls off effortlessly whereas others, ie the ones I had today come off in about a thousand bits

Fresher eggs are harder to peel, I thought it was the other way round but google tells me as eggs get older the pH changes so they white and shell doesn’t stick as much.

 

[Wilfy]

I went to the new M1 Welcome Break services at Sheffield/Rotherham the other week. In the toilets every hand dryer bar one had got an 'out of order' sign on, and several of the taps weren't working, as well.

The services only opened in January!

As if that wasn't bad enough, my Dad came out of the disabled facilities absolutely fuming because, in addition to the tap and the hand dryer not working in there either, there was no toilet roll next to the toilet - for some reason they'd positioned it on the other side of the room, so that he had to get up off the toilet, and hobble across to where they'd left the toilet roll, with his trousers round his ankles, and nearly fell flat on his face in the process!

Although that sounds quite amusing, like something from a comedy sketch, in reality, someone disabled, like my Dad, who has trouble standing up and walking at the best of times, could really hurt themselves just trying to get to the toilet roll.

Not exactly an auspicious start for the new services!

Just snagging that man.

 

[Uncle Junior]

People who harmonise singing happy birthday

 

[Georgewhitt]

That escalates it beyond "minor" in my book. I was out early doors a few weeks ago & a bloke was walking a cockapoo pup, lovely little thing, across the road from me & my pooch. They came to cross a minor access road & the little fella dutifully stopped & sat at the kerb, actually looking up for a little bit of praise. Bloke didn't have a clue, just continued across, gazing at his screen. I was enraged, little soul had done what someone had taught him & arsehole boy hadn't even acknowledged it...

I know it doesn't sound like much, but that sort of thing is really hurtful for a dog of any age, not just a pup.
They try so hard to be good and just want a little bit of praise.
Some people have really got no idea how to treat a dog.
Part of the joy of having a mutt is interacting and encouraging them on nice long walks.
Bobs feels on top of the world during and after his walks.
Why have a dog if you just can't be arsed?

 

[Kevj]

The SAFC match day commentator (don’t know his name) who each match uses the term ‘He is asking questions’ when one of our players are pushing forward.
No he f***ing isn’t.

 

[MackemBob]

Arranging to meet someone at 12 and they then message you at 12 to say they haven’t left yet and will be about half an hour.

 

[Georgewhitt]

When you don't want to meet someone, you message them and say you'll be half hour late, and they say ok, they'll wait.

 

[BMX Bandit]

American money sticking together.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

When you don't want to meet someone, you message them and say you'll be half hour late, and they say ok, they'll wait.

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[Mousehold Mackem]

American money sticking together.

And being the same colour.

 

[Big Jeff]

People who have their mobile on silent so you can’t get them to answer their f****** phone.

 

[BMX Bandit]

And being the same colour.

Nah they’ve different tones easy that. The sticking. Shite.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Not really minor, but people who let their dogs shit in the children's play area and don't pick it up. Bad enough if it's in the big field next to it, but going through the gate to the swings and slides to deposit your toxoplasmosis for kids to fall in makes it seem like you're going out of your way to be a ****

 

[DaveH]

People who have their mobile on silent so you can’t get them to answer their f****** phone.

Good job you don't know me in real life. It is not uncommon for me to silence my phone for a meeting, event, dentist appointment etc, then forget. Also I don't like bulky things in my pocket, so it tends to go on the bookcase in the dining room and be left for hours without being looked at.

My daughter is worse, she turns hers off, doesn't want the battery running down then using carbon to charge it.

If either of us want the other when we are out, we both message my son (who is glued to his phone) and ask him to pass on a message.

I know it doesn't sound like much, but that sort of thing is really hurtful for a dog of any age, not just a pup.
They try so hard to be good and just want a little bit of praise.

I was just chatting about this with my sister at the weekend. Collies seem particularly eager to please and look for that praise, Spaniels are not much different. All the dogs in my family have always been overjoyed to get that head rub and told they are good. How can anyone ignore that?

 

[Steel_Straight]

People who have their mobile on silent so you can’t get them to answer their f****** phone.

Or, in my Dad's case, have it virtually permanently turned off, because "I'm driving / I'm in the shopping centre so I can't hear it / it's too difficult to get it out of my pocket"!

He then complains that "your brother never phones me" or that "I've missed another medical appointment - why didn't they phone me to remind me?", to which the answer is, obviously, "because your phone is only switched on for about one minute and 45 seconds a week"!

Good job you don't know me in real life. It is not uncommon for me to silence my phone for a meeting, event, dentist appointment etc, then forget. Also I don't like bulky things in my pocket, so it tends to go on the bookcase in the dining room and be left for hours without being looked at.

My daughter is worse, she turns hers off, doesn't want the battery running down then using carbon to charge it.

If either of us want the other when we are out, we both message my son (who is glued to his phone) and ask him to pass on a message.

I was just chatting about this with my sister at the weekend. Collies seem particularly eager to please and look for that praise, Spaniels are not much different. All the dogs in my family have always been overjoyed to get that head rub and told they are good. How can anyone ignore that?

Oh, no, not the old "I don't want the battery running down". I'd forgotten about that one, in my Dad's list of "500 reasons why I never switch my phone on"!

Sounds like you and your daughter would get on really well with my Dad, although you'd never be able to get in touch with each other, because none of you would ever have your phones on!

 

[DaveH]

Oh, no, not the old "I don't want the battery running down". I'd forgotten about that one, in my Dad's list of "500 reasons why I never switch my phone on"!

Sounds like you and your daughter would get on really well with my Dad, although you'd never be able to get in touch with each other, because none of you would ever have your phones on!

She is 17 but often appears like someone quite a bit older!

 

[Georgewhitt]

Good job you don't know me in real life. It is not uncommon for me to silence my phone for a meeting, event, dentist appointment etc, then forget. Also I don't like bulky things in my pocket, so it tends to go on the bookcase in the dining room and be left for hours without being looked at.

My daughter is worse, she turns hers off, doesn't want the battery running down then using carbon to charge it.

If either of us want the other when we are out, we both message my son (who is glued to his phone) and ask him to pass on a message.

I was just chatting about this with my sister at the weekend. Collies seem particularly eager to please and look for that praise, Spaniels are not much different. All the dogs in my family have always been overjoyed to get that head rub and told they are good. How can anyone ignore that?

They do get genuinely upset if they are ignored when they have done something good.
They think they have done something wrong.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Or, in my Dad's case, have it virtually permanently turned off, because "I'm driving / I'm in the shopping centre so I can't hear it / it's too difficult to get it out of my pocket"!

He then complains that "your brother never phones me" or that "I've missed another medical appointment - why didn't they phone me to remind me?", to which the answer is, obviously, "because your phone is only switched on for about one minute and 45 seconds a week"!

Oh, no, not the old "I don't want the battery running down". I'd forgotten about that one, in my Dad's list of "500 reasons why I never switch my phone on"!

Sounds like you and your daughter would get on really well with my Dad, although you'd never be able to get in touch with each other, because none of you would ever have your phones on!

Reminds me of when my Mam would turn the broadband off when she wasn't using it

 

[GravesendLad]

People who have their mobile on silent so you can’t get them to answer their f****** phone.

That's me Big un.. If i'm in company then the phone goes to silent, I don't need to be disturbed.. but if an emergency then I always have a looked whose called.. then react.