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

[mac96]

beagrizzly said:

mac96 said:

Roofless Toothless said:

bristolracer said:

Driving across Dartmoor
Spotting a big pile of fly tipped rubbish

Who drives up onto one the most beautiful places in the uk and dumps rubbish?

H M Prison Service?

I have seen the same in North Wales. Half a mile from the road, a load of scrap metal. Must have come in a 4 x4 along a moorland track Just why?

Less chance of being seen?

Fair point but in the particular location there is so little traffic that roadside would gave been equally inconspicuous.
Anyway the question was rhetorical, we all know the real answer is because selfish tt.

[beagrizzly]

mac96 said:

beagrizzly said:

mac96 said:

Roofless Toothless said:

bristolracer said:

Driving across Dartmoor
Spotting a big pile of fly tipped rubbish

Who drives up onto one the most beautiful places in the uk and dumps rubbish?

H M Prison Service?

I have seen the same in North Wales. Half a mile from the road, a load of scrap metal. Must have come in a 4 x4 along a moorland track Just why?

Less chance of being seen?

Fair point but in the particular location there is so little traffic that roadside would gave been equally inconspicuous.
Anyway the question was rhetorical, we all know the real answer is because selfish tt.

Agreed.

[24lemons]

Specsavers. I booked an appointment at 12.45 because I can get to Specsavers for 12.45, it’s a convenient time for me.

I receive a text confirming my appointment is at 12.45 but asks that I arrive 10 minutes early. Why not just set the time to 12.35 instead then?

[RayDonovan]

'checking in' online for a car service and the handover, form filling at the actual appointment still takes 15 mins.

What is the point of checking in?

[beagrizzly]

24lemons said:

Specsavers. I booked an appointment at 12.45 because I can get to Specsavers for 12.45, it’s a convenient time for me.

I receive a text confirming my appointment is at 12.45 but asks that I arrive 10 minutes early. Why not just set the time to 12.35 instead then?

Chances are you won't be seen until 1255 at best, in my experiences are anything to go by, so even more of a farce.

[southendpier]

beagrizzly said:

Chances are you won't be seen until 1255 at best, in my experiences are anything to go by, so even more of a farce.

My Dentist - try and get 1st appointment of the day, cause I'm busy, turn up slightly early and sit there to watch the Dentist roll up 10 mins after my appointment should've started.

Now I see why they have to put a little latency into the system, but it is very annoying if you are fortunate enough to be organised.

[-Cappo-]

S2r said:

Doctors, or at least mine.

You can't actually speak to anyone, everything has to be done on line via their app. If you walk in, you're told to go away and use their app.

This morning however, their on line app is closed so you can't do anything. It's an app, that's on line, how can it be closed??

I just get the feeling that they don't actually want to do the "doctor" part of the job anymore but they can't be that busy as they are still taking on new patients...

The booking app at our surgery is only live from 0830 until 1100. You can’t access it or make an appointment or other request at any other time - if you miss the cutoff you have to wait until the next day.

[RizzoTheRat]

southendpier said:

My Dentist - try and get 1st appointment of the day, cause I'm busy, turn up slightly early and sit there to watch the Dentist roll up 10 mins after my appointment should've started. .

I had a hygienist appointment the other week I was only 2nd or 3rd of the day and she was already running about 20 minutes late, annoying.

Although from the other perspective, my phone chimed at me the other morning as I was about to leave for work to tell me I had a physio appointment in 10 minutes time. Oops. Having you patient phone you at the time thier appointment should be starting to let you know they're not going to make it must be pretty annoying too.

[21st Century Man]

A regular annoyance, once or twice or thrice a week.

The Met Office weather app.

Tomorrow the hourly symbol for the whole 24hrs shows <5% rain and a full sunshine symbol am, <10% rain and a white cloud and sunshine symbol pm. Then I scroll down to the written summary which says persistent heavy rain.

The written summary rarely matches the hourly symbols and they frequently totally contradict each other.

[Hackney]

When we lived in Islington there would be a queue outside the doctor’s surgery well before they opened the doors.

Bang on eight o’clock they’d open the doors…..and start answering the phones.

Used to annoy me that they’d not clear the in-person queue before opening the phone lines.

[5s Alive]

Woodpeckers.

Bear with me - walking through woodland, failing light, mist rolling down the hill through the trees and the woodpecker starts clacking.

Creeps me out, real shivers down the spine stuff.

I'd just watched Prey the previous night.

[The Don of Croy]

The noise created by most modern tyres on most (rubbish) road surfaces.

In our front garden it's actually hard to have a conversation during the 'school run' due to the oppressive amount of noise. Occasionally there's engine noise, but overwhelmingly it's these huge fat summer tyres fitted to pretty much every car.

Or am I just getting (too) old?

[AstonZagato]

My wife's freezer obsession.

We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.

We rarely eat frozen food.

I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).

We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.

Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.

Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.

[carlo996]

Tesla drivers, in fact EV drivers in general. I think EV's make the worst drivers even worse, and the rest just stupid.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Sat in the pub garden and it's quite busy, two bikers turn up on Harleys and ask if they can sit on the other side, no problem I thought but then they spend an hour having the most boring conversation known to man.

Feck me we had 15 minutes on the different uses of vaseline.

Also why do all middle aged Harley riders look like they have dodgy internet history?

[hidetheelephants]

AstonZagato said:

Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.

Buy a worktop icemaker, they work pretty well and it means you get freshly made ice that doesn't taste faintly of parsley.

[MiniMan64]

AstonZagato said:

My wife's freezer obsession.

We have (for four of us living at home) three full sized freezers and a half sized one. They are all rammed. I mean not a spare cubic inch of space.

We rarely eat frozen food.

I had a go at her the other day, so she started to use up some stuff. We got a Waitrose delivery the following week. "Take these down to the freezer - there's loads of room". They were still 90% full (and 100% full after I'd put the shopping in it).

We will be fine if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.

Furthermore, periodically there is a problem. One of the freezers will fail / be left open (because it's overfilled) and all the food (that we will never eat) is lost. My wife treats this like a disaster equivalent to losing one of our pets. She is inconsolable.

Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.

If you don’t eat frozen foods what are all your freezers full of? Body parts?

[The Moose]

southendpier said:

My Dentist - try and get 1st appointment of the day, cause I'm busy, turn up slightly early and sit there to watch the Dentist roll up 10 mins after my appointment should've started.

Now I see why they have to put a little latency into the system, but it is very annoying if you are fortunate enough to be organised.

It’s more about your time being worthless to these other people.

[Hackney]

carlo996 said:

Tesla drivers, in fact EV drivers in general. I think EV's make the worst drivers even worse, and the rest just stupid.

Yeah, trundling along country lanes below the speed limit but flooring it from lights, junctions and after bends so you can’t pass them. But slowing to a crawl for bends because they weigh two tonnes.

[Cotty]

AstonZagato said:

Also, my one freezer request is that we always have ice. The first freezer we bought for this house had an ice maker. My wife hated it. When that freezer went to the great junkyard in the sky, she bought one without an ice maker. The one thing that is never in any freezer is ice.

Why doesn't she like ice, or rather why does she not like you having ice?