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#1 ·
As some know I have mild form of dyslexia and sometimes have trouble when posting things, but I try my best with spelling checks and just hope it makes sense. Well I'm finding it harder reading anything to long that has know punctuation and there seems a lot of it around lately, is so hard to put a comer, a full stop or a capital letter in.

What things annoy you :)
 
#776 ·
Drivers that take ages to pass on the motorway and then pull in right in front of you and drive slower than you were going:Rage

Just back from driving on the motorway. Pouring with rain, nearly dark. Wanted to keep at a constant 70, but some numpty took ages to pass, pulled in front and settled at an irritating 67 ish.
So annoying!
 
#777 ·
Drivers that speed up behind you whilst you’re doing the limit (40) then get irritated when you slow down and obey the next speed limit sign (30) as you enter a more built up area :rolleyes:

At this point, having seen her reaction in my rear view mirror I stick rigidly to that limit and proceed to indicate in good time (incase she hits me up the arse) and take my turning off into the village and slow down even more to negotiate the speed bumps safely. Casting a look in my rvm she literally throws her arms up and hugs her head in exasperation.

“Honestly love, you need to chill out behind the wheel and slow down.”

I continue sedately and with due caution into the next road (more speed bumps ;)) until my turning further up - at which point she is released to carry on and drive as she pleases - no doubt much too fast through the estate with no consideration for others.

I resisted the temptation to wind my window down and give her a wave (or continue much further along that road just to teach her a lesson). The speed bumps are there for a reason! :rolleyes:
 
#778 ·
As long as we're on about other drivers...the ones who slow down to a crawl when approaching a GREEN light in the hopes it will change just as they get to it so they can be first in line. I encounter that daily and it really flummoxes me. Of course that's only annoying, not really dangerous (unless the person behind them isn't paying attention haha then they'll get a whump eh?) and not as bad as the habitual red light runners, which I also see daily and much more often.

In my job I have to do some walking, and I cross a busy intersection every day. Something I see all the time is two vehicles coming from different directions both running that red light, and then honking and screaming at each other because of the near collision. They are BOTH running the red light so why are they yelling? That intersection has a lot of accidents too, though thankfully, none with me standing there, at least not yet.
 
#779 ·
Usually i am a very calm driver as i dont need to drive at busy times, am not usually in a rush and dont tend to stress out too much at other driver behaviour.

However, today another thing has happened which annoys me and does happen from time to time. Drivers, for some reason, that must think i am going to be slow. I am not slow. I drive usually at the limit allowed. I have a car that picks up speed very well. So today, i turn into a rural road with a 60 limit. Literally before i had a chance to build to 60, like straight away a driver who had not been behind me to observe whether i was slow or fast starts over taking as i am building speed. Flipping annoying as i then feel i need to ease off just to let him safely get past.

2 annoying things inside 12 hours. Hopefully that is me done for a few weeks now!
 
#781 ·
Oh yes, i do too - on a road with 2 way traffic you have to really - i dont actually want to force anyone to have to spend longer than they need to in 'the danger lane'

But on a motorway or dual carriageway i dont slow down. I dont speed up either. I stick at my constant speed. And if they pull in front of me and dont pull away, but sit there i will re overtake them. I give them a minute or so to settle at their speed first, but if it is slower than what i was initially doing, i will pass by them again and pull well ahead before coming back in.
 
#782 ·
Here's one. I call someone up on their cell phone. They don't pick up so I leave a message. They "see I just called" so they call me back, without listening to the message. That bugs the heck out of me. There is an associate at work who does that to me too, it's not just personal people. Often I am GLAD to have left a message instead of talking to the person, and I say so. I say "Don't bother to call me back just now, I just wanted you to know blah blah blah".

If you "see someone just called", listen to the darn message first. It saves time. (especially when you call me back and say "I saw you called but I'm driving in the car right now" So what are you doing calling me back?
 
#785 ·
It's not always possible. My mom will call me, usually leaves a message, but not always. My phone tells me I missed a call right away, but sometimes it takes a good 10 minutes for the message she left to show up and be available to listen to. I don't know why, but I do know it happens.
 
#788 ·
You couldn't pay me enough to paint. Anything. Ex husband and I renovated an old barn into a home, while living in it. I will never ever spackle or paint anything again. Ever. ( I did carry on with the wood working skills I gained though :))
 
#786 ·
If I see that someone has called me, I assume they need to speak to me, so I call them back.

Simple really.
 
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Last time I painted a skirting board was in my dining room. I didn't think it was worth getting the man who does our decorating out just to do that so set about doing it myself,bad idea. I started of fine being ultra careful not to get any on the carpet. By the time I got right around, there was bits spilled on me, my carpet, my back was killing me from bending over, and I couldn't stand up as my legs had stiffened up through kneeling. Never again!
 
#792 ·
When I was in the process of selling my flat I was tarting it up so painted the window sills & frames (again with horrible gloss paint) & the bloody cats would not stop jumping up on it then making little white gloss paw prints every where.

I tried putting up guards to stop them but I think in the end they were seeing it as some sort of obstacle course & a challenge. A simple task that turned out to be much more work than I'd anticipated. I spent the next couple of weeks cleaning up specks of white paint.
 
#793 ·
Having a set day to decorate, having to do it that day because there are other things to do, then having to do it while having a humdinger of a migraine. That was very annoying! And we were painting with white, which felt far too bright!
 
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Eugh pedestrians who don't make an effort to get out the way when you are driving! I drive a lot of country roads and it can be quite dangerous for pedestrians, and usually if they see/hear a car they try and squeeze into the hedge or onto the verge etc, for their safety. I also slow down and give them some space. However there's a chap who walks his collie on my drive to work, and he seems to think it's his right to walk in the middle of the single track road where you can't actually pass him safely! There is a nice big grass verge that EVERYONE ELSE walks on. He doesn't even acknowledge that there is a fast moving massive metal can driving towards him until you grumpily rev as you pass him ;) There are so many walkers they all make some effort, but not him....grrrrrr
 
#801 ·
Some bloke gave me a dirty look over his shoulder as he strolled up the middle of the “road” in b&q’s car park today - as if I was in the wrong for daring to drive along it. :rolleyes:

Lucky for him I wasn’t charging about like a lunatic which many drivers do (even in busy car parks) and was actually following slowly, a fair distance behind, just waiting patiently for him to step to the side under his own sense of survival.
 
#808 ·
Some bloke gave me a dirty look over his shoulder as he strolled up the middle of the "road" in b&q's car park today - as if I was in the wrong for daring to drive along it. :rolleyes:
Reminds me of those people who refuse to wait for the green man, wander across in the road in the middle of traffic and then get p***ed off when they nearly get hit by a car!:rolleyes:
Saw one early yesterday morning, wandered drunkenly across the road without a care in the world. Had a can of lager in one hand and a cordless drill in the other...I remember thinking 'ooooh, that isnt going to end well!':Hilarious
 
#802 · (Edited)
It's not always possible. My mom will call me, usually leaves a message, but not always. My phone tells me I missed a call right away, but sometimes it takes a good 10 minutes for the message she left to show up and be available to listen to. I don't know why, but I do know it happens.
I told my sister about this conversation on our hike today and she said when messages come into her voice mail they are there immediately and she agrees with me that it is annoying and rude to call right back without listening to the message first. She added the rude part, I hadn't said it was rude. She says she has her phone on all the time and if it blips that a call is coming in, if she doesn't take the call and the caller leaves a message it is there right away.

So I stand by my petty annoyance. Listen to the darn message before calling back. Stop wasting my time. :D
 
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#803 ·
Some people may hate me for this, but it's just my opinion.
We were travelling back from holiday a couple of years ago, and brought back a couple of things. We were less than 4KG over our luggage limit, and they wanted to charge us £10 per KG over. Granted, it was our fault, we paid for "X" number of kg's and we went over, but we weren't exceeding the health and safety limit of 25kg (which I acknowledge is right), but the couple who were in front of us in the queue were huge people. Me and my other half have a BMI within the healthy range, but this couple were beyond a BMI of 40. (I have to estimate people's weight at work a lot, and usually about right).
We ended up re-arranging and managed, but why were we getting punished?
What was worse, was that one of them sat next to me on the plane, and constantly occupied a couple of inches of my chair with his elbows, as he literally didn't fit in his seat. The couple both had ailse seats as there was no way they could have sat next to each other.
It just grinds my gears that we would have had to pay more for literally a few kilos over with our luggage, when someone is morbidly obese doesn't pay any extra. I'm not talking about people who are a few pounds or a couple of stone overweight, nor people who are just tall, I just mean people whose body physically interferes with my personal space on a plane.
 
#805 ·
Some people may hate me for this, but it's just my opinion.
We were travelling back from holiday a couple of years ago, and brought back a couple of things. We were less than 4KG over our luggage limit, and they wanted to charge us £10 per KG over. Granted, it was our fault, we paid for "X" number of kg's and we went over, but we weren't exceeding the health and safety limit of 25kg (which I acknowledge is right), but the couple who were in front of us in the queue were huge people. Me and my other half have a BMI within the healthy range, but this couple were beyond a BMI of 40. (I have to estimate people's weight at work a lot, and usually about right).
We ended up re-arranging and managed, but why were we getting punished?
What was worse, was that one of them sat next to me on the plane, and constantly occupied a couple of inches of my chair with his elbows, as he literally didn't fit in his seat. The couple both had ailse seats as there was no way they could have sat next to each other.
It just grinds my gears that we would have had to pay more for literally a few kilos over with our luggage, when someone is morbidly obese doesn't pay any extra. I'm not talking about people who are a few pounds or a couple of stone overweight, nor people who are just tall, I just mean people whose body physically interferes with my personal space on a plane.
I'm only guessing (never flown so don't understand how it works), but I'm guessing they can't really 'punish' people for being overweight/obese as there could be a genuine, medical reason why they are the weight they are, though one way to get round that I guess could be to do a 'you pay X amount per KG over a certain weight, unless you have a medical note of some sort proving the weight thing is out of your control?
 
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#804 ·
I think the weight of luggage is partly down to do with loading the hold evenly, as well as the calculation of fuel. I guess they make allowances for passengers being all shapes and sizes.

I do understand what you mean though. I’ve sat next to someone who was spilling out under and over the arm into my space, which is limited enough. I don’t enjoy being at such close quarters with strangers’ bodies either.

Last time I flew I’d lost 14lbs and it made quite a difference to my own comfort on an 8 hour flight. Next time, another 14lb down I should have plenty of wriggle room.
 
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