Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[Captain Muppet]

I've just picked up a parcel. Obviously this is annoying because the entire parcel delivery industry is based around not delivering to people who work normal hours. This is not the source of my annoyance this time.

I ordered some stickers. Last time I ordered them they were delivered in a cardboard tube, which wouldn't fit through my letter box so I had to go to the post office to collect them. Fair enough, my fault for working during the day.

So this time I thought I'd save everyone some time and grief and get them sent to the post office and collect them from there - no delay loop of failed delivery and return. Except when Parcel Force tried to deliver them to my local post office it was shut, so my parcel went back to the depot. I watched this via the tracking website while incandescent with rage. The next day (yesterday in fact) they didn't try to deliver them - I kept checking, thinking I could pop over and collect them. This morning I checked the tracking site and they were delivered yesterday two hours before the last time I checked.

So a lunch time I popped in to the post office to put up with the staff complaining about how me collecting parcels is extra work for them (like being out of work is somehow better) and they hand me a fking envelope. Yep, this time they were packed so they could fit through a letter box.

[Langweilig]

Bloody pot holes and speed bumps. £150 for a pair of new front springs.

[CB2152]

OpulentBob said:

JonRB said:

Einion Yrth said:

JonRB said:

Einion Yrth said:

Against C&U regs, I believe.

And yet I have seen it.

I see plenty of illegal front window tints, doesn't make them any less illegal. :shrug:

Fair enough.

I had assumed that it was OEM but perhaps it was after-market. Who knows.

Mine was fresh off the forecourt and it flashed the brake lights when the ABS kicked in.

I was doing an "AMG experience" at Mercedes Benz Brooklands and I'm sure the brake lights of the car in front were flashing under heavy braking. Think that was a 2012/2013 CLS63 as well.

[Langweilig]

Captain Muppet said:

I've just picked up a parcel. Obviously this is annoying because the entire parcel delivery industry is based around not delivering to people who work normal hours. This is not the source of my annoyance this time.

I ordered some stickers. Last time I ordered them they were delivered in a cardboard tube, which wouldn't fit through my letter box so I had to go to the post office to collect them. Fair enough, my fault for working during the day.

So this time I thought I'd save everyone some time and grief and get them sent to the post office and collect them from there - no delay loop of failed delivery and return. Except when Parcel Force tried to deliver them to my local post office it was shut, so my parcel went back to the depot. I watched this via the tracking website while incandescent with rage. The next day (yesterday in fact) they didn't try to deliver them - I kept checking, thinking I could pop over and collect them. This morning I checked the tracking site and they were delivered yesterday two hours before the last time I checked.

So a lunch time I popped in to the post office to put up with the staff complaining about how me collecting parcels is extra work for them (like being out of work is somehow better) and they hand me a fking envelope. Yep, this time they were packed so they could fit through a letter box.

In my workplace, we call them Parcelfarce or Farcelforce.

[FourWheelDrift]

Parceltheft

[FreeLitres]

ParcelFart

[anonymous-user]

FreeLitres said:

ParcelFart

That had me snorting at the breakfast table...

[iambeowulf]

Girlfriend asks me when I'm home. I say 1pm she's says great!
She's still not here and lives 5 mins away. This annoys me.


Actors.
Not ones that have speaking parts but extras. I can not watch a film without looking at them milling around in the background trying to get their sad-ass faces in shot. The amount that look at the camera is shocking!
Also, you get the ones say in a cafe scene who are having a conversation but over-acting so bad it annoys me even more!

I was in Santa Monica years ago and watched some ste cop programme (about cops on push bikes) being filmed and this scene was outside a cafe on the main beach strip. There were fit chicks everywhere within the 15 foot camera wide shot (and fatties and tourists outside this) and all they did was walk backwards and forwards to get in shot.
After every take they'd all do a high five!

So yes. Today the things that annoy me are girlfriends, and "actors".

[RobinOakapple]

So there's an interesting thread somewhere, perhaps it's a reader's car project, and you subscribe to it by clicking the 'watch' button at the end of the thread. The next day you look at My Stuff and there's been some activity on the thread, you open it and it's some tt who's posted just so he will be subscribed to the thread.

[I Love Cake]

When I'm using my sat nav for directions, and I dare to stop off at motorway services, and it starts directing me back to it's chosen route I shamefully chose to alter because I fancied some over priced sandwiches / coffee.

[anonymous-user]

Sitting in the car and dropping coins, pens, etc down the side of and into the mechanism of the seat, meaning you have to get out, move the seat forward, backwards etc just to dig them out. Double annoying if they're electric seats.

Sods law, if it's a pen, it's the only pen in the car and it's at the time you need it.

Did it with one of those poxy car park chip coins, couldn't dig it out, meaning a 25 quid charge for a "lost" coin. Car makers' short sighted seat designers, I fking hate you sometimes.

[MartG]

Captain Muppet said:

So a lunch time I popped in to the post office to put up with the staff complaining about how me collecting parcels is extra work for them (like being out of work is somehow better) ...

I had a similar experience with PO counter staff complaining about having to actually supply services that they offer - in my case accepting parcels with pre-paid postage and loudly blaming me for other customers having to wait. Fortunately there is another PO the same distance in the opposite direction so now I simply use that one instead - and I also submitted a formal complaint. Perhaps I wasn't the only one they pissed off - I recently noticed that it is closing down soon.

[marmitemania]

leigh1050 said:

Contestants on the chase saying "It's an educated guess" when they really haven't got a clue what the answer is.

No! What is much more annoying than that, is every fu@king day there is a teacher and or a student on the chase and they are usually as thick as sh!t. I thought teachers never had any spare time on their hands, the workshy, over paid, pious, aholes.

[FourWheelDrift]

marmitemania said:

leigh1050 said:

Contestants on the chase saying "It's an educated guess" when they really haven't got a clue what the answer is.

No! What is much more annoying than that, is every fu@king day there is a teacher and or a student on the chase and they are usually as thick as sh!t. I thought teachers never had any spare time on their hands, the workshy, over paid, pious, aholes.

There were some teachers on Pointless a while back who were amongst the morons who came up with Mexico as "Name any state of the USA with a coastline". Other answers given during the round included Orlando and Detroit !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp57NN1n8Kw

[marmitemania]

FourWheelDrift said:

marmitemania said:

leigh1050 said:

Contestants on the chase saying "It's an educated guess" when they really haven't got a clue what the answer is.

No! What is much more annoying than that, is every fu@king day there is a teacher and or a student on the chase and they are usually as thick as sh!t. I thought teachers never had any spare time on their hands, the workshy, over paid, pious, aholes.

There were some teachers on Pointless a while back who were amongst the morons who came up with Mexico as "Name any state of the USA with a coastline". Other answers given during the round included Orlando and Detroit !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp57NN1n8Kw

Teachers are like a disease on quiz shows. I think every b@stard one of them has been on the television at some point. What do they need the money for? I have never seen a poor teacher. I suppose they need it to spend on one of their many days off.

[Studio117]

marmitemania said:

FourWheelDrift said:

marmitemania said:

leigh1050 said:

Contestants on the chase saying "It's an educated guess" when they really haven't got a clue what the answer is.

No! What is much more annoying than that, is every fu@king day there is a teacher and or a student on the chase and they are usually as thick as sh!t. I thought teachers never had any spare time on their hands, the workshy, over paid, pious, aholes.

There were some teachers on Pointless a while back who were amongst the morons who came up with Mexico as "Name any state of the USA with a coastline". Other answers given during the round included Orlando and Detroit !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp57NN1n8Kw

Teachers are like a disease on quiz shows. I think every b@stard one of them has been on the television at some point. What do they need the money for? I have never seen a poor teacher. I suppose they need it to spend on one of their many days off.

[colonel c]

I've said it before but it's worth saying again. The utter utter selfish aholes who drive into a carwash bay and then got to the shop for tokens, code etc. So anyone else who have already purchased a token have to wait not only while they wash their car but all the time they spend dithering about in the shop.

[Tidybeard]

Letting people through when you have right of way only to be

a) completely and totally ignored by the driver as they come through (usually female with important stuff to do like staring down at their lap on Facebook)

or

b) given the "what the **** are you looking at" stare if you are impertinent enough to make eye contact in the vain hope of some acknowledgement for making their day just a little easier (usually male).

I've really noticed a difference in this over the last few years. I bloody hate the "all about me" generation.

[Tidybeard]

Also, people driving. I could actually end it there but I'll be more specific.

- The fleet of Honda Jazzs that is parked up in strategic locations within 500m of wherever I happen to be so they can pull out and bimble along in front of me at half the speed limit without a care in the world. They can mobilise to get in my way in an instant. You could actually substitute any small hatchback here but it's normally a Jazz.

- The three cars behind the Jazz that have now worked out that I'll overtake the Jazz given half a chance but it's unlikely that I'll go for four in a row on a B road, especially with them being spaced four feet apart. These are normally Korean SUVs - just tall enough to obscure sight lines and just cheap enough to be bought by people who like the Jazz but "like to sit a bit higher". There is absolutely no danger of them ever considering overtaking the Jazz, even if they have 1100 miles to go on their journey.

- Summer holiday drivers. At least during the regular season hell most people on the motorway go as fast as the car in front of them. In the summer, the "pick a lane and drive in it" brigade are out in force. This is often a Honda Jazz.

- Anyone in a Honda Jazz

One positive of the summer is that Emasculated People Carrier Dad temporarily forgets he is Fernando Alonso on a mission to kill everyone on the road (and prove that his car is just as fast as yours and he bought it for practical reasons and could have got a Lotus if he'd wanted one and even though he's losing his hair, has a bit of a belly and man boobs, sells bathroom fittings for a living and has sex biannually if he's lucky (and normally with himself), he is more of a man than you'll ever be mate), and slows down slightly as the kids are on board (or heaven forbid, lets the wife drive). That was deliberately a long sentence because I picture him giving me the lecture without drawing breath.

Thank god I'm completely without flaws or I wouldn't have a pedestal from which to preach.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I am that dad ^

people on cross-channel ferries

what makes previously normal people want to sleep on every surface on a ferry?

bringing fecking camping mats and lying down in the stairwell?

every place in the restaurant taken up by people lying across the seats, with their sweaty shoeless feet up ?