The Little Ponies That Annoy You #2

Post » Mon May 14, 2012 10:04 am


Interestingly one of my pet peeves about the grocery store is that I must ask to get help putting groceries into my car and then they sometimes look at me like I have two heads for asking. I sure don't enjoy not being able to do such things for myself but sometimes I have to. Fortunately I only have need to shop once a month.

I guess this one differs between people. I would get quite angry if someone tried to put my items into bags or if someone tried to help with taking my full shopping bag to the car. I don't want someone who I can't be sure will order my items properly to do my ordering for me and I don't want someone who might not treat my products properly handling them any long distances. I sometimes even wince at cashiers who might scan a tray of eggs and then just push them harshly away to make room for other items. And I am saying all of this as someone who works as a cashier himself. I myself take great care of how I handle peoples groceries and I take extra care if they have products like eggs, cold soda, flowers, clothes, celebration cards and other such products they may not want to get dirty, shaken or mistreated in any way. And I never put into bags unless I am asked to do so as I would expect other cashiers to do for me. A local store once hired people (mostly teens) who had the sole job of putting groceries into bags for customers but it only lasted a week or two before they were removed because of bad receptions. I myself went there once before I knew they had hired people to do that and I didn't notice until my grocery bag had almost been filled and the person filling it was doing it all wrong so I had to spend time picking the items back out of the bag and re-arranging them again while checking each item for damages.

As for helping to take groceries from the register to someones car where I work at least there just wouldn't be time in the day for that. The moment I'm done with one customer another is there to replace her or him, and so it can go on for the entire day. It would slow down the traffic out of the store massively and would create a problem with queues. But if it was a slower place I work at where there would be time for that I'd still wait to get asked as I myself would not want someone to handle my bags, I guess they could ask but generally people wouldn't want the help so it would be less of a bother if the few that did would ask rather than if the people working there asked every single customer just to get barraged with "no" with just a few cases of "yes" here and there.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:25 pm

I blame my old age.

See! Age can be a problem!
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 10:05 pm

See! Age can be a problem!

What'd you say? Speak up, sonny!
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:59 am

What'd you say? Speak up, sonny!

I said UNCLE ALBERT IS COMING TO VISIT!
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 5:40 pm

little things that annoy me right now:

-when you have an appointment (say, for instance, with a professor) and arrive on time and wait for half an hour for no good reason. All my professors do that at the university.
-my neighbor, apparently he's into mmo's and he yells at his computer every evening.
-when you have to run behind a tramway to try and catch it at the next station because you're late.

edit: now I'm not sure "tramway" is the correct word in English, this annoys me a little as well :P
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 8:10 pm

People that don't know what warhammer 40k is
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:58 pm

People that don't know what warhammer 40k is

:P It's that game people will play loudly so that you can't hear your own game. (Thought I'd put that as a little thing, but it doesn't really annoy me or my gaming group too much, TCG, P&P and tabletop players can all live in harmony in the great hobby store of life)
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 3:12 pm

Not many things.

Probably the only one I notice is when people hit the button for handicaps that opens doors. They almost always aren't handicapped, and if it cold out, it's a massive waste of the buildings heat as it just drains out the propped open door.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:50 am

:tongue: It's that game people will play loudly so that you can't hear your own game. (Thought I'd put that as a little thing, but it doesn't really annoy me or my gaming group too much, TCG, P&P and tabletop players can all live in harmony in the great hobby store of life)
Coexist baby..... coexist.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 8:56 pm

When people don't believe you when you say something.

I hate driving at night. I told some people I couldn't come because I don't like to drive at night and they just called me a pansy.


I have astigmatism. Its not noticeable at day time, but at night it svcks. It makes every light after a certain distance look to be the same size and I see a kind of double image, so my depth perception is all frakked up. I tried getting glasses, but they didn't work. And my eye doctor pretty much said "if these aren't going to work, nothing will". I've learned to live with it.
Combined with having eyes that are really sensitive to light, so much that I'm pretty much blind whenever A car is coming at me at night.
Its even worse because my eyes get fatigued easily sense I'm on the computer so much. I have 20/20 vision, but if I've been using the computer for more than an hour, it becomes impossible to focus on things far away.

This makes driving at night piss-pants scary. Even more so when I don't have a car in front of me to follow.


Thats why I'm glad I live in alaska and it doesn't get anywhere near dark in the summer. Seriously, in may it can be 11pm and its still like daytime out. Love it.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 1:37 pm

cobwebs
flies (seriously, what is the purpose of a fly? LOOK AT ME, IM A FLY!! =/ )
dust
the fact that girls fart
dying in games
time
the fact i dont own lets golf 3 on android, or an android
no cartoon golf games on pc
tiger woods games
annoying bird squaking at 7am (got a shotgun, anyone?)
immature people... oh wait
broccoli
srs bsns
smacking my knee against hard objects
splinters
old friends
violins
idiot at drivethru who gets payed to give you the wrong order
person in front of you at drivethru who orders everything on the menu
people who think old school games are crap because of dated graphics
human sheep
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 12:27 pm

Captain Obvious in various threads,in particular music-threads where he/she first spam the post with not only 3 or 4 youtubes down,but just as many side by side so it really fills the page,takes longer time to load if your connection is slow atm,and the stuff he is providing is lame crap from toplists from the 60-70-80 or the 90′ths,like he had a subscription to mr music or something back then :confused:
The stupid [censored] then think he has his music down when people with a minimum of musical interest beoynd top of the pops at best smiles at him,nothing wrong with top of the pops or mr music,but "everyone" knows about that stuff :wallbash:

Spammers who fills their oh so important post count with funny comments/remarks and what not and actually belive their feeble attempts to be comedians actually is funny,instead of being the insults at others expense they usually are,annoying.

People who wants favours from me in form of beta-testing their stuff and insult/belittle me in the process,strangely enough they belive I will do them that favour then ? Unbelivable.In the same field goes volountarily work,it doesn′t work that way that I do that being insulted in the process despite their moderator status or whatever,more that I just spare me that grief and leave.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 5:46 pm

Random booster packs, the evil person who thought of them must perish! Now! Then followed by the person who added it to Mass Effect 3.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 9:22 am

People who frequently use memes or provide links to said memes
Memes
Yearly releases
tv shopping
Spam
Anime (I'll respect people's opinions though)
when my computer crashes in the same spot at the same time whenever I play a game
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 6:10 pm

People who have an opinion on everything.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 7:37 pm

  • People whom wear fake glasses, its mostly females though, but why?
  • People whom talk in a British accent but aren't from Britain or have never even been there. Was quite a few around here a few years ago, but seems to be died down.
  • My neighbor, he gets up 2 hours before he has to head for work and starts his car and revs the engine for at least 30 minutes before leaving.
  • People who try to use Youtube to become famous.
  • And last but not least; my neighbors daughter, she's loud, obnoxious, whiny and spoiled -screamed because she didn't get what she wanted for her birthday. Oh and cried to come home on her Honeymoon.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 10:16 pm

I guess this one differs between people. I would get quite angry if someone tried to put my items into bags or if someone tried to help with taking my full shopping bag to the car. I don't want someone who I can't be sure will order my items properly to do my ordering for me and I don't want someone who might not treat my products properly handling them any long distances. I sometimes even wince at cashiers who might scan a tray of eggs and then just push them harshly away to make room for other items. And I am saying all of this as someone who works as a cashier himself. I myself take great care of how I handle peoples groceries and I take extra care if they have products like eggs, cold soda, flowers, clothes, celebration cards and other such products they may not want to get dirty, shaken or mistreated in any way. And I never put into bags unless I am asked to do so as I would expect other cashiers to do for me. A local store once hired people (mostly teens) who had the sole job of putting groceries into bags for customers but it only lasted a week or two before they were removed because of bad receptions. I myself went there once before I knew they had hired people to do that and I didn't notice until my grocery bag had almost been filled and the person filling it was doing it all wrong so I had to spend time picking the items back out of the bag and re-arranging them again while checking each item for damages.

As for helping to take groceries from the register to someones car where I work at least there just wouldn't be time in the day for that. The moment I'm done with one customer another is there to replace her or him, and so it can go on for the entire day. It would slow down the traffic out of the store massively and would create a problem with queues. But if it was a slower place I work at where there would be time for that I'd still wait to get asked as I myself would not want someone to handle my bags, I guess they could ask but generally people wouldn't want the help so it would be less of a bother if the few that did would ask rather than if the people working there asked every single customer just to get barraged with "no" with just a few cases of "yes" here and there.
So how do handicapped people get their items into their car? Did you know that at one time store employees always took peoples groceries and put them into the car or even walked the cart to their house and took them in the house? No wonder so many are unemployed. The store needs to hire more people and should have a couple just for assisting those who are handicapped to get their groceries/items into the car. How busy or slow your store is should not be the determining factor in customer care but rather it should determine if more employees are needed to meet customer needs.

Honestly I would love to be able to load my own car and sometimes I can but other times it would put me in bed for days with back pain. I simply can't do the lifting anymore after years of abusing my back. It should be asked at least when waiting on the elderly or obviously handicapped.
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 2:55 pm

people who try to have a conversation with me when i eat
leave me alone
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 11:26 am

people who try to have a conversation with me when i eat
leave me alone
Who would talk to an eating tiger? :hehe:
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:49 pm

I got another one.

People who yell when talking on the phone.


My dad does this. He doesn't have hearing problems or anything, but he screams bloody murder when hes on the phone.


Then I get in trouble for "eavesdropping" when I can hear him outside our apartment building. :confused:
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Post » Mon May 14, 2012 4:30 pm

Im not sure this is a little thing, and this doesnt just annoy me, it makes me pissed off, it used to just annoy me, but it eventually wears on you after awhile. My little sister's behavior is [censored] annoying, whenever she screws up, she says sorry in this really obnoxious tone of voice, she badgers my mom to get soda and junk food (shes way overweight, so she shouldnt be eating junk food ), whenever i try to get something that is near her or when we are getting our dinner, she always does this overexaggerated kind of shrug that says "wtf dude", and she always insults me, and when i insult her back (which isnt often by the way, because i try to be nice), she whines and complains about it. Just for the record, I know im being a whiny [censored], but hey, this is the thread about things that annoy you.
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