My glasses need tightening they keep sliding down my nose but I've been putting off taking them in coz I'm sure my eye test is due so I'll be getting new glasses. Lo and behold I still haven't had an appointment yet.
And that dreaded question - 'When did you last have an eye test Mr J******?'
Is it an age thing? I'm getting terrible. I lost the TV remote for several hours the other day and then found it in the fridge
And the number of times I've been looking for my car keys (and knowing with 100% certainty that I brought them downstairs with me when I got up) and being completely unable to find them anywhere. Of course I eventually find them in the bedroom. I hadn't picked them up at all...but I'm sure I did.
At my age and prostate condition, if I lose my keys the automatic 'go to' place is the downstairs loo. The dash out the car, frantic opening of front door, telling dogs to get out of the way and diving into loo whilst putting keys on top of cistern is a regular occurrence.
If not, my wife's exasperated words of 'have you checked the washing basket?' are second on my list.
This doesn't particularly annoy me intensely, but I do wonder why people go into supermarkets and don't bother getting a basket. Instead they totter round the shop trying to carry several items in their arms. I know why - they have only gone in for 1 thing - but everybody knows that you don't go into a supermarket and get only 1 thing - it's against the laws of nature or something. I feel like shouting at them " GET A BASKET YOU IDIOT!"
I'm always doing this. I do indeed go into the shop thinking I only want a loaf of bread, then think, well, I'll get this and that while I'm here.....and I'm a bit short on that, too, and I'll get this just in case....
Then balance everything precariously in one hand while I find my purse.
However often you might think I'm an idiot, it's not as often as I think it about myself.
I'm always doing this. I do indeed go into the shop thinking I only want a loaf of bread, then think, well, I'll get this and that while I'm here.....and I'm a bit short on that, too, and I'll get this just in case....
Then balance everything precariously in one hand while I find my purse.
However often you might think I'm an idiot, it's not as often as I think it about myself.
Then when you get home you realise you forgot to buy the bread
When people making requests on radio request shows ask for songs that are already played several times a day, or songs so obvious and clichéd that they feature at every wedding/work-do disco ever (Tainted Love, Lady in Red etc).
People only make song requests to get themselves mentioned on the radio.
Thanks to the the internet we can pretty much listen to any song any time we like
I don't really know why, but I get irritated when someone in the queue at a supermarket checkout puts their basket on the ground and just keeps nudging it along with their foot when the queue moves. Just pick it up!
I do that, because if the basket is heavy I don't want to be holding in up the air for longer than necessary.
This doesn't particularly annoy me intensely, but I do wonder why people go into supermarkets and don't bother getting a basket. Instead they totter round the shop trying to carry several items in their arms. I know why - they have only gone in for 1 thing - but everybody knows that you don't go into a supermarket and get only 1 thing - it's against the laws of nature or something. I feel like shouting at them " GET A BASKET YOU IDIOT!"
I always get a basket even if I only need one or two things because I have this awful feeling that if I don't have one the security bloke will think I'm shop lifting. If I saw someone without a basket I would doubt their integrity.
That, despite telling my mum this numerous times, she'll constantly press the "back up" button on the remote control rather than the button marked "Sky" to get off the menu.
There are two things that immediately spring to mind:
1.) When you're in a shop, there's a queue from one end of the shop to the other and there's only like one person on the till, and about six empty tills, and as a consequence, the queue goes about a mile an hour. (My local Poundland is notorious for this.)
2.) When you're in a supermarket and your basket is virtually overflowing, and the dumb checkout person goes 'do you need a bag'? I genuinely have to bite my tongue in order to resist the urge to say 'nope, I'll balance it all on my head'.
people who can't park a car properly, usually taking up two spaces instead of one. Also people who don't park at the supermarket, but park outside the door so their other half can quickly run in for one thing.
There are two things that immediately spring to mind:
1.) When you're in a shop, there's a queue from one end of the shop to the other and there's only like one person on the till, and about six empty tills, and as a consequence, the queue goes about a mile an hour. (My local Poundland is notorious for this.)
2.) When you're in a supermarket and your basket is virtually overflowing, and the dumb checkout person goes 'do you need a bag'? I genuinely have to bite my tongue in order to resist the urge to say 'nope, I'll balance it all on my head'.
Totally with you on the bag front. Of course sales assistants will tell us they ask because we might have a bag-for-life. Well shut up with that excuse kids! If we were the kind of people who actually bother carrying a bag-for-life around with us, we'd have it out and ready, not wait to be asked if we need a bag.
So stop asking if we need a bag, because your winding us all up.
This doesn't particularly annoy me intensely, but I do wonder why people go into supermarkets and don't bother getting a basket. Instead they totter round the shop trying to carry several items in their arms. I know why - they have only gone in for 1 thing - but everybody knows that you don't go into a supermarket and get only 1 thing - it's against the laws of nature or something. I feel like shouting at them " GET A BASKET YOU IDIOT!"
This has happened so many times to me that now, if I acquire 3 items I walk past the tills and pick up a basket there.
That a 40 year old woman who's a manager to boot can be so unprofessional and juvenile.
She's not related to my managers is she?
I swear, one of these days I am going to do a piece of work that they can not find anything wrong with and they will say "nice work, well done" instead of "a few points to consider" (in a "I am better than you" tone) - and when they do, I will die of shock.
2.) When you're in a supermarket and your basket is virtually overflowing, and the dumb checkout person goes 'do you need a bag'? I genuinely have to bite my tongue in order to resist the urge to say 'nope, I'll balance it all on my head'.
I'll see you that and raise you when you're in a shop, you get a bag out of your pocket and shake it open, often accompanied by the usual noise if it's a bag for life, so it's pretty obvious what you've just done, you put it on the end of the checkout ready to receive your goods and the checkout person says "Do you need a bag?".
OR, and this has happened to me before, i'll do the above and get my bag out and ready and the checkout person will start putting the items in to a store bag only to look surprised when i'm standing there, holding my bag up saying "i've got a bag"
Seeing men sitting in cars in supermarket car parks while their wives do the shopping because they think that to be seen inside is in some way an assault on their masculinity.
Seeing men sitting in cars in supermarket car parks while their wives do the shopping because they think that to be seen inside is in some way an assault on their masculinity.
I prefer this to the men who 'guard' the trolley while wifey darts here and there. almost always, he's stuck in the way, gazing around and making an art-form of being an obstruction.
I prefer this to the men who 'guard' the trolley while wifey darts here and there. almost always, he's stuck in the way, gazing around and making an art-form of being an obstruction.
Yes, there seem to be loads in my local Sainsbury. Usually in their fifties or sixties and they stand in the middle of the aisle with such a bored and vacant look while wifey runs around with a list as long as your arm. If he deigns to make a suggestion she bites the poor chaps head off!
Seeing men sitting in cars in supermarket car parks while their wives do the shopping because they think that to be seen inside is in some way an assault on their masculinity.
To quote that nice Mr. J. McEnroe, you CANNOT be serious.
In what possible way is being seen inside a supermarket an assault on a man's masculinity?
I go into Waitrose WITH my wife, I go in WITHOUT my wife, the place is full of men, either shopping alone, or with a female companion.
The only time that I ever feel vaguely uncomfortable, is when my wife wanders into the lingerie department of a department store, naturally expecting me to follow her.
I never know where to look, I fixedly avoid the merchandise, and if I encounter a woman holding up a bra or thong to peruse it, I feel like swerving the escalator, and jumping over the balustrade.
When I'm a passenger in a car and the driver has a dirty windscreen. I feel like leaning over and putting the squirters on myself, inside I'm shouting 'clean your bloody windscreen!'
There are two things that immediately spring to mind:
1.) When you're in a shop, there's a queue from one end of the shop to the other and there's only like one person on the till, and about six empty tills, and as a consequence, the queue goes about a mile an hour. (My local Poundland is notorious for this.)
2.) When you're in a supermarket and your basket is virtually overflowing, and the dumb checkout person goes 'do you need a bag'? I genuinely have to bite my tongue in order to resist the urge to say 'nope, I'll balance it all on my head'.
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And that dreaded question - 'When did you last have an eye test Mr J******?'
'Oh, about a year ago I think'
The look at their records, the slow smile and:-
'It's been two and a half years Mr J*******.'
At my age and prostate condition, if I lose my keys the automatic 'go to' place is the downstairs loo. The dash out the car, frantic opening of front door, telling dogs to get out of the way and diving into loo whilst putting keys on top of cistern is a regular occurrence.
If not, my wife's exasperated words of 'have you checked the washing basket?' are second on my list.
I'm always doing this. I do indeed go into the shop thinking I only want a loaf of bread, then think, well, I'll get this and that while I'm here.....and I'm a bit short on that, too, and I'll get this just in case....
Then balance everything precariously in one hand while I find my purse.
However often you might think I'm an idiot, it's not as often as I think it about myself.
Then when you get home you realise you forgot to buy the bread
People only make song requests to get themselves mentioned on the radio.
Thanks to the the internet we can pretty much listen to any song any time we like
I get this most strongly from shows like How I Met Your Mother, and films like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight etc...
I do that, because if the basket is heavy I don't want to be holding in up the air for longer than necessary.
I always get a basket even if I only need one or two things because I have this awful feeling that if I don't have one the security bloke will think I'm shop lifting. If I saw someone without a basket I would doubt their integrity.
1.) When you're in a shop, there's a queue from one end of the shop to the other and there's only like one person on the till, and about six empty tills, and as a consequence, the queue goes about a mile an hour. (My local Poundland is notorious for this.)
2.) When you're in a supermarket and your basket is virtually overflowing, and the dumb checkout person goes 'do you need a bag'? I genuinely have to bite my tongue in order to resist the urge to say 'nope, I'll balance it all on my head'.
Totally with you on the bag front. Of course sales assistants will tell us they ask because we might have a bag-for-life. Well shut up with that excuse kids! If we were the kind of people who actually bother carrying a bag-for-life around with us, we'd have it out and ready, not wait to be asked if we need a bag.
So stop asking if we need a bag, because your winding us all up.
This has happened so many times to me that now, if I acquire 3 items I walk past the tills and pick up a basket there.
She's not related to my managers is she?
I swear, one of these days I am going to do a piece of work that they can not find anything wrong with and they will say "nice work, well done" instead of "a few points to consider" (in a "I am better than you" tone) - and when they do, I will die of shock.
****ing makes me feel guilty and a inconvenience fir going dusabled, they shouldn't be alls to guilt trip the disabled
The media is always going on about carers but what about us disabled, where's our support, when do we get a break!
I'll see you that and raise you when you're in a shop, you get a bag out of your pocket and shake it open, often accompanied by the usual noise if it's a bag for life, so it's pretty obvious what you've just done, you put it on the end of the checkout ready to receive your goods and the checkout person says "Do you need a bag?".
OR, and this has happened to me before, i'll do the above and get my bag out and ready and the checkout person will start putting the items in to a store bag only to look surprised when i'm standing there, holding my bag up saying "i've got a bag"
I prefer this to the men who 'guard' the trolley while wifey darts here and there. almost always, he's stuck in the way, gazing around and making an art-form of being an obstruction.
Yes, there seem to be loads in my local Sainsbury. Usually in their fifties or sixties and they stand in the middle of the aisle with such a bored and vacant look while wifey runs around with a list as long as your arm. If he deigns to make a suggestion she bites the poor chaps head off!
To quote that nice Mr. J. McEnroe, you CANNOT be serious.
In what possible way is being seen inside a supermarket an assault on a man's masculinity?
I go into Waitrose WITH my wife, I go in WITHOUT my wife, the place is full of men, either shopping alone, or with a female companion.
The only time that I ever feel vaguely uncomfortable, is when my wife wanders into the lingerie department of a department store, naturally expecting me to follow her.
I never know where to look, I fixedly avoid the merchandise, and if I encounter a woman holding up a bra or thong to peruse it, I feel like swerving the escalator, and jumping over the balustrade.
Haha number 2 really pisses me off too!