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

[Tabs]

Trying to rewind an electric extension lead outside in cold weather. The coils always try to reroute themselves a different way, resulting in them falling off the drum and then getting tangled.

[V8covin]

Try a hose pipe on a wind up reel that's been in a cold shed all winter

[SCEtoAUX]

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

I deliberately don't put the divider in place to annoy the person behind me. I am horrible.

[nonsequitur]

DavieW said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

What would annoy me from the cashier's point of view would be not paying attention and reading a paper. As annoying as texting etc shouts "ignorant".

That would annoy me too DW, but I had one on page three and one eye on the conveyor belt. The cashier was just too fast for me.

[popeyewhite]

nonsequitur said:

popeyewhite said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins.

Isn't the confusion caused by the proximity of your goods to the shopper's before you? I mean wouldn't leaving a simple gap be just as effective as placing the separator on the belt? Some are very keen to herd the previous shopper through and hang over their shoulder even up to when paying by card. Not saying that's you at all.

Although there is a decent gap between shops, the 'magic Eye' which controls the conveyor belt trumps even the most diligent shopper.

So it's really a 'what came first the chicken or the egg' type scenario? Is there an unwritten rule that you only put the separator after your shop? How badly is someone affected if they have to place a divider both before AND after their goods? Heaven forbid.

Shopping:
People who never take the top newspaper off the stack and after fishing for and removing the sixth copy down disturb the front covers of the top two. Then stand there reading the things. Under breath " excuse me GET OUT OF THE WAY"

[RMDB9]

People whose nose is making a whistling noise when breathing

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[Halmyre]

SCEtoAUX said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

I deliberately don't put the divider in place to annoy the person behind me. I am horrible.

You the man. Dominate that conveyor belt!

[Doofus]

Tabs said:

Trying to rewind an electric extension lead outside in cold weather. The coils always try to reroute themselves a different way, resulting in them falling off the drum and then getting tangled.

Are you left-handed?

[RizzoTheRat]

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

Why didn't you put a divider on the belt before putting your shopping on it?

[nonsequitur]

RizzoTheRat said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

Why didn't you put a divider on the belt before putting your shopping on it?

A very good question.

[popeyewhite]

RizzoTheRat said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

Why didn't you put a divider on the belt before putting your shopping on it?

Puzzles me too. There are no written rules are there? I think people follow what they think is the correct and suitable behaviour and at first are quite open to different interpretation by others. But as time passes and their behaviour becomes more embedded their tolerance decreases until their way is the 'right' way. Having said that it's acknowledged the gripe is beyond reason

[MartG]

fking Barclays bank closing branches where there is nearby free parking, retaining only one town centre branch which is a fking long walk from any parking and a longer drive to get to in the first place.

It's not as if the branch they are closing isn't busy, with queues often out the door even in non-Covid times, especially after the tts closed the branch in the next town along

bds !

[Wombat3]

Today its the endless news coverage of poor, downtrodden Harry & Megan vs the World.

.#Justshutup



Don't read about it, don't watch it, don't give it oxygen and just maybe they'll fk off and leave us all alone!?

(Too much to hope for I expect)

[nonsequitur]

popeyewhite said:

RizzoTheRat said:

nonsequitur said:

It causes confusion to the cashier who won't know where one shop ends and another begins. Recently I was engrossed in my news paper as the cashier scanned some of my items to the previous customer who had failed to use the divider (Tesco ,still at the check outs)

Why didn't you put a divider on the belt before putting your shopping on it?

Puzzles me too. There are no written rules are there? I think people follow what they think is the correct and suitable behaviour and at first are quite open to different interpretation by others. But as time passes and their behaviour becomes more embedded their tolerance decreases until their way is the 'right' way. Having said that it's acknowledged the gripe is beyond reason

I'm possibly too generous with assuming the shopper in front will put down a divider. it's not always obvious if they haven't. (Final Answer).

[Jonboy_t]

TV/radio ads that play a song and then stop it, but restart it again off beat.

It could be a song with a normal 4/4 time signature - 4 beats to each bar - but they pause it and then it comes back in after only a 3 beat break or, even worse, 5

[Cotty]

Wombat3 said:

Today its the endless news coverage of poor, downtrodden Harry & Megan vs the World.

.#Justshutup

Don't read about it, don't watch it, don't give it oxygen and just maybe they'll fk off and leave us all alone!?
(Too much to hope for I expect)

Trouble is its not one or two stories that you can quickly skip, its 15-20 and pages until you get to actual news

[DRFC1879]

The checkout divider thing pisses me off. In my view it's a way of marking that you're done loading up your shopping and it's ready for the next customer to start hence why the dividers say "next customer please" on them. If the divider isn't down, it's easy to assume that there is someone else with the person in front who has just nipped back to get something they forgot.

[Morningside]

RMDB9 said:

People whose nose is making a whistling noise when breathing

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Sorry Ned.

[Cotty]

DRFC1879 said:

The checkout divider thing pisses me off. In my view it's a way of marking that you're done loading up your shopping and it's ready for the next customer to start hence why the dividers say "next customer please" on them. If the divider isn't down, it's easy to assume that there is someone else with the person in front who has just nipped back to get something they forgot.

I have had the checkout divider put down by the person behind me, before I had had a chance to empty my trolly. Eventually I switched to scan and pack then delivery, hardly been in the actual shop for nearly five years.

[popeyewhite]

Cotty said:

I have had the checkout divider put down by the person behind me, before I had had a chance to empty my trolly.

Similar to those that pull out behind you to the other side of the road before they're anywhere near a set of green roadwork lights, they have a need to COMMIT