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Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)
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mrsgrumpy49
02-01-2017
I've posted about this elsewhere but it's still bugging me so hey ho....
Every now and then (always at dusk) the lady next door comes round (usually having a good peer in through the window en route to my door ) to 'check I am OK not having seen me for a couple of days'.
Yesterday she caught me slobbing out unkempt on the sofa - confident no one would be coming round at that time.
It's not that she is a lonely pensioner. She is married with a big family who visit and phone frequently. Plus she is the hub of the village and knows everyone (and their business).
I've had several of these visits now. It's always when I have successfully evaded her late afternoon. Because late afternoon is when she lurks in the garden talking loudly to her dog waiting to catch me or any passer by. It's doubly irritating that at any other time she is 'too busy' to chat. I sometimes wonder if she knows I am dodging her - these visits do feel like 'Ha got ya!'
I realise it is not up there with 'Nightmare Neighbour Next Door' but it's irritating.
Twice now I have answered the door with a curt 'Was asleep' and actually shut the door in her face just as she was embarking on full ramble mode. But the message doesn't get through. My lights were on when she came a knocking at dusk yesterday so no need to call round to check I am alive and kicking I would have thought.
I will either have to talk to her which will no doubt cause upset - no matter how tactfully it is put and even then it might go over her head. Or I might just duck the whole thing by fitting a gate with lock 'for security'. There is a gap in the wall around the patio where there used to be one. Or I might do both
Marispiper
02-01-2017
Get a sheet of A4 and a thick felt tip and write on it GO AWAY!
When she knocks, just show that...
mrsgrumpy49
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by Marispiper:
“Get a sheet of A4 and a thick felt tip and write on it GO AWAY!
When she knocks, just show that...”

Tempting...
mumbles26
02-01-2017
In TV programmes when people are drinking a cup of tea or bottle of beer and it is clearly empty. They don't even swallow to make it look like they have just had a drink.
Marispiper
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by mrsgrumpy49:
“Tempting... ”

To be more subtle, just write Please do not Disturb.
SaddlerSteve
02-01-2017
When waiting for a train and 95% of people are all congregated down one end of the platform. The train then starts pulling in and the realise that standard class is at the opposite end so they then start moving en masse to get to the correct end... despite it saying clearly on the departure boards which end 1st class would be well before the train arrives.

Also the tools that don't move aside to let people off before getting on. Or the equally moronic that need to get off but only start packing up they're things as the train is pulling in so are then trying to get off well after others are already getting on.
Tiger Rag
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by SaddlerSteve:
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Also the tools that don't move aside to let people off before getting on. Or the equally moronic that need to get off but only start packing up they're things as the train is pulling in so are then trying to get off well after others are already getting on.”

This happens a lot on the buses. Can they not see I'm getting off?
snukr
02-01-2017
People who are too lazy to type Happy New Year and type "HNY" instead, as seen in some of the threads on this forum.
Moany Liza
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by snukr:
“People who are too lazy to type Happy New Year and type "HNY" instead, as seen in some of the threads on this forum.”

IKWYM.
razorback Tony
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by snukr:
“People who are too lazy to type Happy New Year and type "HNY" instead, as seen in some of the threads on this forum.”

On a similar note, I've been in a very happy relationship for a while now, which seems to be getting better and better, her name is Deborah.
In conversation with her I call her Deb, "Deb, do you want a coffee?, is that your phone ringing Deb?" etc
If I write her name, like a Christmas card, I write Deborah, if I refer to her in writing to someone else I put 'Deborah and I will be in X for a drink, drop in if you're around.'
I dislike hearing her called Debs, or seeing a message with her referred to as Debs, e.g., 'ask Debs to call me.'
It doesn't annoy me intensely, but I don't like it.
Last edited by razorback Tony : 02-01-2017 at 16:15
Wolfsheadish
02-01-2017
Originally Posted by Soundbox:
“On this vein, asking a woman who has her bag on the empty seat next to her on the busy train. I asked her could she move it please so my Dad could sit down. Her answer? Buzz off. He had to stand for half an hour and so I didn't think much of that.”

I saw a woman in a similar situation one busy morning. A school kid (around 14-15) had his backpack on the seat next to him and there were no empty seats. A woman asked him to move it so an elderly woman could sit down. When he just gave her a dirty look she picked up the bag, threw it in the kid's face and said to the woman, "There's a seat for you love". It was a classic
5hane
03-01-2017
Victoria Derbyshire
jjwales
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by snukr:
“People who are too lazy to type Happy New Year and type "HNY" instead, as seen in some of the threads on this forum.”

Is that a new thing? It threw me at first until I realised what it was!
jjwales
03-01-2017
That recent thing about "throwing someone under a bus" when it doesn't actually mean that.
Wolfie_Smith
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by Wolfsheadish:
“I saw a woman in a similar situation one busy morning. A school kid (around 14-15) had his backpack on the seat next to him and there were no empty seats. A woman asked him to move it so an elderly woman could sit down. When he just gave her a dirty look she picked up the bag, threw it in the kid's face and said to the woman, "There's a seat for you love". It was a classic ”

Brilliant, that's the kind of thing I do, hate people with no basic manners.

Must rub off on my children as well. I remember the time when my daughters were 4 & 5, and we were going through a very busy shopping centre, and they held a door open for a woman. She just breezed through without saying a word, quick as a flash, they both shouted "You're very welcome" at her. She went red, lowered her head and just kept going. The people standing nearby were just about wetting themselves laughing.
Tiger Rag
03-01-2017
Being on hold (and being cut off twice) to the DWP.

Good thing calls to them are free...
bluewomble88
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by 5hane:
“Victoria Derbyshire”

Why her?
jjwales
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by 5hane:
“Victoria Derbyshire”

Why is she "trivial"?
lybertyne
03-01-2017
Didn't she steal Fi Glover's husband?
Harvey_Specter
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by lybertyne:
“Didn't she steal Fi Glover's husband?”

Nah...
Jason100
03-01-2017
As you're about to get off the next stop and someone decides to sit next to you if there's an empty seat on the bus. I can always feel people's eyes rolling as they have to get up again to let me off.
Harvey_Specter
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by Jason100:
“As you're about to get off the next stop and someone decides to sit next to you if there's an empty seat on the bus. I can always feel people's eyes rolling as they have to get up again to let me off.”

If it's bothering you, start sitting on the outside and get up to let someone 'in' if they would like the seat next to you.
Vinnie Vega
03-01-2017
12 hour timeslots on deliveries.
Washing machine coming from Currys today timeslot 7am to 7pm.

Don't the guys doing the deliveries have their route planned before setting off ?

Useless turds.
Moany Liza
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by Jason100:
“As you're about to get off the next stop and someone decides to sit next to you if there's an empty seat on the bus. I can always feel people's eyes rolling as they have to get up again to let me off.”

If that happens, I usually stand up then and suggest they sit at the window as I am getting off at the next stop - then I just sit on the aisle seat until the bus is almost at the stop.

Not that arduous.
5hane
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by jjwales:
“Why is she "trivial"?”

Actually she's a lot worse than trivial, although Victoria is far from the only abhorrent journalist out there. I only pick her here because of her pathetic response to a question I once put to her.

Victoria's response to my question regarding the fact that the topic she was discussing on her show was only serving to make the problem worse was: It's my job as a journalist to discuss it. What a pathetic excuse for making matters worse! Basically it's her job and screw the consequences.

I won't reveal the subject matter. All you need to know is VD only cares about herself and ratings.
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