Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

Paying a 'delivery fee' for a click & collect order at Decathlon.

Morons

And you could be in Row 1, Box 1, the outer Box 1, or the other Row 1! At least usually if you get the wrong end of a row you can just walk along, if you've got a 1 on your ticket here you could be in one of 6 different places!

There's another theatre we've been to a few times that numbers the seats in a row 1, 3, 4, 7.......8, 6, 4, 2 which is equally mental. It's also very common to number the rows rather than have letters too.

I think I'm Barry !

I was once interviewed in my house for a news item for the national news (the entire story was dropped, which happens all the time it seems, depending on what other news they have), so it was never shown.

But they interview you, and ask the same questions over and over again, slightly differently each time. But they don't tell you that's what they are going to do, so it started and after being asked the same thing for the third time, it took me all my time not to say "I've just answered that, are you stupid or something?". But I must have had a look on my face that said "What on earth are you asking me that again for?"

....and then leave the cardboard /paper wrapped parcel on the doorstep in the pissing rain

(That's you Evri / Hermes!!)

Amazon suppliers who take three weeks to deliver unless you pay for fast delivery, don’t get me started on Amazon prime, you need eyes in the back of your head not to accidentally sign up for a trial month.
“you can cancel anytime, yeah!” Only if you can jump through hoops.

Ours seem to have all agreed to ring the bell twice, knock so it sounds like they're trying to kick the door in, dump it and set to "handed to resident"

In a lot of phones that's not correct. The speaker is at the bottom, next to the mouthpiece/microphone. So the noise does come out of the top, but only when you're not on speaker setting. Switch to speaker and the noise is indeed coming out of the bottom. My Samsung A32 Android phone is configured that way, so are millions of others, so when you see someone having an "on speaker" conversation, and they're holding the bottom of the phone near their ear, they're likely not being stupid at all, they're doing it right.

I'd send you a picture of the speaker on my phone, but, er, oh well you work it out.

It's still reasonable to be annoyed about people having speaker conversations in public places in the first place, of course.

The above..and also - so what? Phones are pretty small and if both functions listen/talk came from the same part of the phone you could still hold the thing 3" from the side of your face.

It's funny to think we all laughed when Q handed James Bond his new mobile phone in "Tomorrow Never Dies", pointed at the bottom and said "talk here", then pointed at the top and said "listen here".

I genuinely never thought people would be getting it wrong 25 years later!

Going back a few years there, good storyline though! And yes, tts!