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Really minor annoyances


when you've sat in a mile long queue of traffic because of verge works and there's traffic lights, you finally get to the front of the queue and the workers turn the lights round and 2 way traffic is resumed.
 
In a queue in the shop this morning, for at least 5 minutes. Old women in front of me finally gets to her turn, has their items scanned and THEN decides to rake around her handbag for her purse. She finally finds her purse and then rakes around it for the right amount. All of this could have been done while she was in the queue. She could have easily got her purse sorted while waiting in the queue.

After she was served, she then slowly and carefully placed her purse back in her handbag, slowly put it around her shoulder and then slowly picked up her bag of 3 items before she deciding she was ready to walk away from the till.

The people behind me must have thought it was their lucky day as when it was my turn, the staff member went scan, scan, scan, scan and I went *ting* with my phone and away I was. 20 seconds max.

I always get stuck behind the fuckers.
 
nelford_safc said:
In a queue in the shop this morning, for at least 5 minutes. Old women in front of me finally gets to her turn, has their items scanned and THEN decides to rake around her handbag for her purse. She finally finds her purse and then rakes around it for the right amount. All of this could have been done while she was in the queue. She could have easily got her purse sorted while waiting in the queue.

After she was served, she then slowly and carefully placed her purse back in her handbag, slowly put it around her shoulder and then slowly picked up her bag of 3 items before she deciding she was ready to walk away from the till.

The people behind me must have thought it was their lucky day as when it was my turn, the staff member went scan, scan, scan, scan and I went *ting* with my phone and away I was. 20 seconds max.

I always get stuck behind the fuckers.
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Many people can not think ahead. I see it a lot at train or tube stations. Worse is when it is a group of them. You walk up to the barriers, you know you are going to need to tap your card or scan your ticket. So a group of 4 people arrive together having a nice chat. Look shocked at the barriers in front of them, then stand blocking 4 barriers while they rake in bags, find phones or cards, switch to the right app etc. And everyone else needing to get a train stands behind. It is rare that anyone will realise they are not ready and step to one side to let people who are ready through.
 
nelford_safc said:
In a queue in the shop this morning, for at least 5 minutes. Old women in front of me finally gets to her turn, has their items scanned and THEN decides to rake around her handbag for her purse. She finally finds her purse and then rakes around it for the right amount. All of this could have been done while she was in the queue. She could have easily got her purse sorted while waiting in the queue.

After she was served, she then slowly and carefully placed her purse back in her handbag, slowly put it around her shoulder and then slowly picked up her bag of 3 items before she deciding she was ready to walk away from the till.

The people behind me must have thought it was their lucky day as when it was my turn, the staff member went scan, scan, scan, scan and I went *ting* with my phone and away I was. 20 seconds max.

I always get stuck behind the fuckers.
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If you pop in the pound shop for one or two items that same women is I'm there in front of me but buying half the shop 😞
 
Probably quite niche but: corporate lawyers who spend months f***ing about and avoiding having meetings with the supplier about eminently fixable issues with a contract clause and will only take comments indirectly in writing about the problem. Then they say "it's so hard to see where they're coming from on this clause" and you have to find a polite saying of saying "HOW ABOUT YOU f***ing TALK TO THEM THEN, BEFORE THIS WHOLE f***ing FIASCO DELAYS THE ENTIRE PROECT AT A COST OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF f***ing POUNDS, IN THE NAME OF f***ing GOD"
 
Personal trainers in the gym who sit on equipment when their clients are working out. An example is there are 2 rowing machine together and the ignorant gonk sits on one watching while the person does their bit of rowing. Does it all the way round the gym, lounging on equipment. I don't have a personal trainer, but if I did I would probably get one who can stand unaided.
 
When you do the weekly big shop, carefully pack the bags with fruit/cokd/frozen/ambient carefully sectioned and one of two things happen:

1) the staff do a random scan of 26 items and unpack everything

2) you come off the roundabout and you can hear the bags starting to fall. For a brief moment you let it run wide in the hope you've saved it then nope, groceries all over the boot.
 
monkeytassle said:
When you do the weekly big shop, carefully pack the bags with fruit/cokd/frozen/ambient carefully sectioned and one of two things happen:

1) the staff do a random scan of 26 items and unpack everything

2) you come off the roundabout and you can hear the bags starting to fall. For a brief moment you let it run wide in the hope you've saved it then nope, groceries all over the boot.
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Cars have a little clip in the boot you can stabilise your bags with...
 
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