Really minor annoyances

[GravesendLad]

cul-de-sacs?

It must be murder to have the prestige of living in a Cul-de-sac without the space to turn your car around within..

 

[Select coaches]

When someone, usually in a very nice suit, washes their hands after a piss and grabs a handful of paper towels. They probably only wet the outermost two and then launch the lot into the bin. Also, people who drop paper towels or loo roll on the floor and just leave it there.

I’ll give them a pass as they’ve actually washed their hands. Amount of scruffy buggers walk straight out without even rinsing their hands.

 

[Hawkings Boots]

Mr Brightside

 

[BiG]

On tv - typically American cop shows - whenever a police car attends a scene, it’s always with a blaring siren and full flashing blue lights. Even when there’s no traffic. Even when it’s obvious that the villains will scarper as they see and hear a whole load of sirens and flashing lights coming down the road

Watched a programme set in rural New Zealand last night. The cop/ditictive (new Zealand pronunciation of ‘detective’) got a call in her car and sped off to attend at a cabin halfway up an isolated mountain. It was a long straight country road with no vehicles or any suggestion of people or housing for miles around. No cars in front and no cars behind. But the siren was turned on that nobody could hear and the lights that nobody could see were flashing away.

I know it’s for dramatic effect but it irritates me because I find myself thinking ‘why?’

 

[Sgt Pepper]

Negotiating the foil when eating a kebab wrap.

That reminds me…cling film. Right piece of shite design.

 

[ivanthereasonable]

Lost my bent wire coat hanger for pulling down out of reach blackberry clusters. Had to leave the best higher up berries, and couldn't find my bent wire on the way home.

Don't know how i'll cope now.

 

[PhilY]

People crossing the road randomly.

Have people forgotten what the ‘red man’ means?

Particularly rife among scratters.

 

[mickb2112]

We have a hot and cold tap in the office and for a group of fairly intelligent people you'd think it was the first time they'd used water judging by the state of the surrounding area by 2 o clock.

Having a hot and cold tap in the office and no one telling you that you have to press two buttons simultaneously to get boiling water for a cup of tea, leaving you standing there looking like an idiot until the office junior wanders over and shows you what to do.

 

[Harry Gates]

On tv - typically American cop shows - whenever a police car attends a scene, it’s always with a blaring siren and full flashing blue lights. Even when there’s no traffic. Even when it’s obvious that the villains will scarper as they see and hear a whole load of sirens and flashing lights coming down the road

Watched a programme set in rural New Zealand last night. The cop/ditictive (new Zealand pronunciation of ‘detective’) got a call in her car and sped off to attend at a cabin halfway up an isolated mountain. It was a long straight country road with no vehicles or any suggestion of people or housing for miles around. No cars in front and no cars behind. But the siren was turned on that nobody could hear and the lights that nobody could see were flashing away.

I know it’s for dramatic effect but it irritates me because I find myself thinking ‘why?’

Attention seeking, it's me ma, me ma, me ma.

 

[monkeytassle]

Having a hot and cold tap in the office and no one telling you that you have to press two buttons simultaneously to get boiling water for a cup of tea, leaving you standing there looking like an idiot until the office junior wanders over and shows you what to do.

There's a sign behind ours that says do not out hand under boiling tap. If you need that sign you deserve a scalding

 

[mickb2112]

There's a sign behind ours that says do not out hand under boiling tap. If you need that sign you deserve a scalding

Fortunately, I didn`t put my hand under the tap so passed that rigorous test.

 

[BiG]

Having a hot and cold tap in the office and no one telling you that you have to press two buttons simultaneously to get boiling water for a cup of tea, leaving you standing there looking like an idiot until the office junior wanders over and shows you what to do.

I worked in a training centre with loads of visitors that had a system like that. I always had great fun simultaneously demonstrating how to do it to utterly confused visitors whilst simultaneously pointing at the sign immediately above the tap that illustrated how to do it.

 

[monkeytassle]

Fortunately, I didn`t put my hand under the tap so passed that rigorous test.

There's an amusing Jimmy Carr sketch about people needing warning signs. Darwinisam.

 

[Shambo]

People who take a speaker to the beach and play music very loudly

 

[c032745y]

People crossing the road randomly.

Have people forgotten what the ‘red man’ means?

Particularly rife among scratters.

Conversely, drivers having no f*cking clue whatsoever when they should & shouldn't give way to pedestrians...

 

[monkeytassle]

People who take a speaker to the beach and play music very loudly

Not minor. I'd kick someone to death for that.

 

[PhilY]

Conversely, drivers having no f*cking clue whatsoever when they should & shouldn't give way to pedestrians...

True - but pedestrians crossing roads when the red man if on is massively on the rise.

I’ve just seen a bloke in a mobility scooter pull out on Ryhope Road next to Park Lane while two lanes of traffic were approaching him at speed, including a police car and a massive articulated lorry.

He literally didn’t stop as he approached the pedestrian crossing and it must have been showing red.

 

[BiG]

There’s a particularly busy roundabout near the hospital that I’m visiting far too often.

Cars come around the roundabout quite quickly, especially during busy periods, so I’m looking to my immediate right and also watching out for cars coming fast from the previous junction and indicating to their right - which obviously takes them past me.

The number of cars that AREN’T indicating until they get to just before my junction… and then indicate RIGHT… before taking the junction to their LEFT is utterly astounding.

I can’t get my head around it. I’m waiting for them to go past me, in the direction they’ve just indicated, and they turn left… resulting in me standing like a dick and needing to wait again for the cars that are ACTUALLY coming from my right and going past my junction. It sometimes happens more than once.

 

[Geras]

There’s a particularly busy roundabout near the hospital that I’m visiting far too often.

Cars come around the roundabout quite quickly, especially during busy periods, so I’m looking to my immediate right and also watching out for cars coming fast from the previous junction and indicating to their right - which obviously takes them past me.

The number of cars that AREN’T indicating until they get to just before my junction… and then indicate RIGHT… before taking the junction to their LEFT is utterly astounding.

I can’t get my head around it. I’m waiting for them to go past me, in the direction they’ve just indicated, and they turn left… resulting in me standing like a dick and needing to wait again for the cars that are ACTUALLY coming from my right and going past my junction. It sometimes happens more than once.

Feel your pain mate , boils my piss the way people indicate at roundabouts

 

[S.S.R..]

I'd go as far to say the majority of road users don't indicate properly.

It's a lost art. No one bothers anymore.