Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
Frank7 said:
I’ve had murders with that in the U.S.
My surname has an A in it, and if I had to give my name in e.g. a dry cleaners, or shoe repairers, (let’s say my name is Dale), I’d say carefully, D A L E, and watch them wrote Dile.
I’d say “Not Dile, Dale, D, A”, not I”, pointing at my eye, but A for Apple”, and they’d say, “I’ve written A”, pointing at the I.
I used to have to show my drivers licence to illustrate that it was D,A,L,E., and they’d still say, “You sure do talk funny.”
I have an unusual (UK) surname. It's bad enough in the UK let alone the US. I often just hand over my drivers licence and let them copy it, it's much faster.My surname has an A in it, and if I had to give my name in e.g. a dry cleaners, or shoe repairers, (let’s say my name is Dale), I’d say carefully, D A L E, and watch them wrote Dile.
I’d say “Not Dile, Dale, D, A”, not I”, pointing at my eye, but A for Apple”, and they’d say, “I’ve written A”, pointing at the I.
I used to have to show my drivers licence to illustrate that it was D,A,L,E., and they’d still say, “You sure do talk funny.”
The neighbour at the back, who already annoys me within reason on a regular basis, has now lassoed a blue rope around the boundary fence as part of a horizontal rope ladder his kids, who are rarely there, can use.
The fence isn't what I'd call "structural" and the blueness of the rope is annoying me.
For some reason he's taken a dislike to that particular corner of my garden as it's also where he dug under the fence so he could move a goal post under into my side to make it fit in his garden better, now each time his daughter scores a goal the fence panels behind pop out a little so I have to keep hammering them back in, it's the location where he's pushed all the wires for his garden lights under onto my side and the terminus for his zip line.
This is the guy who sits inside watching football (or outside on his "garden TV" sometimes) as his young kid sits on a creaking swing at 10:30pm shouting "Dad.... Dad.... Dad... Dad... Dad... Dad... I want to go to bed... Dad... Dad... Dad..." and loudly plays Roxette constantly.
But I was kind of giving him a bit of slack because his wife left him and took the kids, the blue rope has brought back all of the ill feeling I have, not sure why, it's just so blue.
The fence isn't what I'd call "structural" and the blueness of the rope is annoying me.
For some reason he's taken a dislike to that particular corner of my garden as it's also where he dug under the fence so he could move a goal post under into my side to make it fit in his garden better, now each time his daughter scores a goal the fence panels behind pop out a little so I have to keep hammering them back in, it's the location where he's pushed all the wires for his garden lights under onto my side and the terminus for his zip line.
This is the guy who sits inside watching football (or outside on his "garden TV" sometimes) as his young kid sits on a creaking swing at 10:30pm shouting "Dad.... Dad.... Dad... Dad... Dad... Dad... I want to go to bed... Dad... Dad... Dad..." and loudly plays Roxette constantly.
But I was kind of giving him a bit of slack because his wife left him and took the kids, the blue rope has brought back all of the ill feeling I have, not sure why, it's just so blue.
thetapeworm said:
The neighbour at the back, who already annoys me within reason on a regular basis, has now lassoed a blue rope around the boundary fence as part of a horizontal rope ladder his kids, who are rarely there, can use.
The fence isn't what I'd call "structural" and the blueness of the rope is annoying me.
For some reason he's taken a dislike to that particular corner of my garden as it's also where he dug under the fence so he could move a goal post under into my side to make it fit in his garden better, now each time his daughter scores a goal the fence panels behind pop out a little so I have to keep hammering them back in, it's the location where he's pushed all the wires for his garden lights under onto my side and the terminus for his zip line.
This is the guy who sits inside watching football (or outside on his "garden TV" sometimes) as his young kid sits on a creaking swing at 10:30pm shouting "Dad.... Dad.... Dad... Dad... Dad... Dad... I want to go to bed... Dad... Dad... Dad..." and loudly plays Roxette constantly.
But I was kind of giving him a bit of slack because his wife left him and took the kids, the blue rope has brought back all of the ill feeling I have, not sure why, it's just so blue.
Make a stepped wood cover and screw it to the fence post to hide the blue rope. The fence isn't what I'd call "structural" and the blueness of the rope is annoying me.
For some reason he's taken a dislike to that particular corner of my garden as it's also where he dug under the fence so he could move a goal post under into my side to make it fit in his garden better, now each time his daughter scores a goal the fence panels behind pop out a little so I have to keep hammering them back in, it's the location where he's pushed all the wires for his garden lights under onto my side and the terminus for his zip line.
This is the guy who sits inside watching football (or outside on his "garden TV" sometimes) as his young kid sits on a creaking swing at 10:30pm shouting "Dad.... Dad.... Dad... Dad... Dad... Dad... I want to go to bed... Dad... Dad... Dad..." and loudly plays Roxette constantly.
But I was kind of giving him a bit of slack because his wife left him and took the kids, the blue rope has brought back all of the ill feeling I have, not sure why, it's just so blue.
If you go down the route of cutting the rope then you know you are on a one way road of conflict.
MartG said:
Companies/Banks/Legal people who, for ID purposes, demand original documents no-one has anymore. Examples being bank statements ( now online ), utility bills ( now online ), phone bill ( online )
When are they going to wake up and start using some form of online ID
It's a tricky one though, those are all proof of address, anything online isn't necessarily tied to an address, and presumably GDPR prevents companies that know you live there from sharing that information.When are they going to wake up and start using some form of online ID
vaud said:
Frank7 said:
I’ve had murders with that in the U.S.
My surname has an A in it, and if I had to give my name in e.g. a dry cleaners, or shoe repairers, (let’s say my name is Dale), I’d say carefully, D A L E, and watch them wrote Dile.
I’d say “Not Dile, Dale, D, A”, not I”, pointing at my eye, but A for Apple”, and they’d say, “I’ve written A”, pointing at the I.
I used to have to show my drivers licence to illustrate that it was D,A,L,E., and they’d still say, “You sure do talk funny.”
I have an unusual (UK) surname. It's bad enough in the UK let alone the US. I often just hand over my drivers licence and let them copy it, it's much faster.My surname has an A in it, and if I had to give my name in e.g. a dry cleaners, or shoe repairers, (let’s say my name is Dale), I’d say carefully, D A L E, and watch them wrote Dile.
I’d say “Not Dile, Dale, D, A”, not I”, pointing at my eye, but A for Apple”, and they’d say, “I’ve written A”, pointing at the I.
I used to have to show my drivers licence to illustrate that it was D,A,L,E., and they’d still say, “You sure do talk funny.”
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