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Really minor annoyances


The car park at my local B&Q.

It has the narrowest spaces of any car park I have been in. Any average car only just fits between the lines, so people park in every other bay, making the car park “full” with only half the capacity. (Side story, I once saw a very fat couple who physically could not get back in their car when people parked either side).

Then the roads around it are in a really crap state. If you get one of the flat bed trollies for lots of wood and stuff, you have to stop and repack it a couple of times, because everything vibrates off going over the rough uneven tarmac. And because people can not park normally you have to park on the furthest reaches of the car park if you go on a weekend.
 
DaveH said:
The car park at my local B&Q.

It has the narrowest spaces of any car park I have been in. Any average car only just fits between the lines, so people park in every other bay, making the car park “full” with only half the capacity. (Side story, I once saw a very fat couple who physically could not get back in their car when people parked either side).

Then the roads around it are in a really crap state. If you get one of the flat bed trollies for lots of wood and stuff, you have to stop and repack it a couple of times, because everything vibrates off going over the rough uneven tarmac. And because people can not park normally you have to park on the furthest reaches of the car park if you go on a weekend.
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People who design car parks are both evil and insane. If I were then I would rather admit to dealing crack cocaine in primary schools than say that's what I do for a living
 
What I thought would be a simple id check with a change of address for my driver's license at Ayr post office. Goes in with all the documentation ie driving license and id to scan to be told you need to make an appointment, for what I think will take about 30 seconds. So will probably call in to a post office which does this service and doesn't require me to make a 40 mile round trip and doesn't require an appointment which probably equates to every post office in the UK apart from Ayr who must assume every customer requiring to use the service lives round the corner.
 
Exile in Ayr said:
What I thought would be a simple id check with a change of address for my driver's license at Ayr post office. Goes in with all the documentation ie driving license and id to scan to be told you need to make an appointment, for what I think will take about 30 seconds. So will probably call in to a post office which does this service and doesn't require me to make a 40 mile round trip and doesn't require an appointment which probably equates to every post office in the UK apart from Ayr who must assume every customer requiring to use the service lives round the corner.
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Just applied for my bus pass with Northumberland CC, they want me to provide them with proof of residence, eg. utility bill, how about they just check using the rates bill they send to me?
 
Snugster said:
Just applied for my bus pass with Northumberland CC, they want me to provide them with proof of residence, eg. utility bill, how about they just check using the rates bill they send to me?
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Nobody seems to think of these things when it comes to forms. Most of them ask for contact details they already know. Do people really key them in again? If so then when you change address, they have multiple places to change it.

I think half the time people just feel the need to put this sort of thing on forms, because it is always there.

A travel request form at my old work was terrible. The first two pages were all about stuff to identify who you are, including your work post, staff number, office location, line management chain, then for some reason your home address, how long you worked there blah blah blah.

But we were a department with 150 people, and you had to mail the form back. I pointed out that if someone was going to fake a form to request train tickets, they would need to hack their email account first. Once you accept you have identified the right person, if you have the details on record, don't ask.
 
Not sure if this is rapidly moving away from ‘minor’ but the number of times that a character reads an important plot issue from a text or whatever on a phone and there’s an extremely rapid and minuscule image of the phone with a whole load of other stuff on it, on my tv screen that I’m somehow supposed to focus on, is becoming increasingly annoying and ridiculous.

It’s the visual equivalent of actors whispering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know about it being ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ and all that…. But it’s a f***ing entertainment and there’s an audience to engage out there. Otherwise there’s no point in filming the bastard thing.

(Plus, if the objective is to make it ultra realistic, then why can’t I hear the dialogue for the building ‘tension’ music. I don’t know about anybody else but I never walk around the shops wondering where the ominous piano soundtrack is coming from)
 
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Exile in Ayr said:
What I thought would be a simple id check with a change of address for my driver's license at Ayr post office. Goes in with all the documentation ie driving license and id to scan to be told you need to make an appointment, for what I think will take about 30 seconds. So will probably call in to a post office which does this service and doesn't require me to make a 40 mile round trip and doesn't require an appointment which probably equates to every post office in the UK apart from Ayr who must assume every customer requiring to use the service lives round the corner.
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Just tried to buy premium bonds for my granddaughter, what an absolute fuck on it is.
 
Petrol at 156.9p per litre is, in itself, annoying. But the ‘.9’ bit is the subject of my specific annoyance for this thread.

It is utterly impossible to pay £1.569 - should you, for an unfathomable reason, purchase 1 litre of unleaded. So, of course, it’ll be rounded up to £1.57. But then, more importantly, any multiple of the .9 for how ever many litres you purchase will result in a number* that will be rounded up to the next whole number of pence. So why bother with it in the first place?

(Yes I know why but it’s ludicrous and annoying)

*. I can’t be arsed with the maths so if there’s anybody wants to tell me that there’s a whole number multiplication result, fine. Please calculate the probability of it happening in the number of circumstances that the average person refuels.
 
BiG said:
Petrol at 156.9p per litre is, in itself, annoying. But the ‘.9’ bit is the subject of my specific annoyance for this thread.

It is utterly impossible to pay £1.569 - should you, for an unfathomable reason, purchase 1 litre of unleaded. So, of course, it’ll be rounded up to £1.57. But then, more importantly, any multiple of the .9 for how ever many litres you purchase will result in a number* that will be rounded up to the next whole number of pence. So why bother with it in the first place?

(Yes I know why but it’s ludicrous and annoying)

*. I can’t be arsed with the maths so if there’s anybody wants to tell me that there’s a whole number multiplication result, fine. Please calculate the probability of it happening in the number of circumstances that the average person refuels.
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Every 10 litres the .1p will be a full penny and not need rounding. So if you fill a 40 litre tank it is a whopping 4p cheaper than if they just put up a normal price.

It is silly. I think petrol is the only thing sold in fractions of a penny.
 
DaveH said:
Every 10 litres the .1p will be a full penny and not need rounding. So if you fill a 40 litre tank it is a whopping 4p cheaper than if they just put up a normal price.

It is silly. I think petrol is the only thing sold in fractions of a penny.
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Are they not in fact using this as an opportunity to round everyone's transaction slightly by pennies which is free money for them and adds up over millions of customer?
 
The new style of advert on the SMB that floats up from the bottom every time a page reloads, and goes over the page content. I prefer when ads are embedded somewhere. Now it is a force of habit, open a thread and click the down arrow on the floaty advert.

It is extra annoying writing a post, when it appears on my iPad, which I use in landscape mode. The keyboard covers half the screen and then the advert covers what I am typing.
 
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