So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Bruce Wayne]

What's currently ticking me off is people not knowing their own product. I called a couple of days ago to the local IMAX theatre to get a ticket to the midnight premier of Justice League as I was told they have been available for a week. Turns out that is not true. They don't know when they will be available either.

 

[Fading Fast]

Entry number 10,000 in the manipulated packaging games companies play to charge more for less. In this case, the use of plastic "sleeves" with a bunch of wasted space to make a box of chocolates look bigger than it would be if the chocolates were sitting right next to each other (as they used to be):

Note all the wasted space on the edge of the box, between some pieces and, then, the moat that is created around the orange. It's all unnecessary and obnoxious. Make a smaller box and package them traditionally - don't treat your customers like morons that can be manipulated with filler.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Everybody in the house having irregular mealtimes which often means having to eat out more than I would like. This also happens a lot during the summer when it's "too hot to cook."

 

[Trenchfriend]

Um, I don't get it.
Why are classic (white) Bonell-innerspring mattresses costing that much, while the great Futon-mattresses (kind of Bonell-innerspring, too) are that inexpensive (here in Germany)?? I was halfway shocked!

I wanted to change my nearly eight year-old 200 x 140 cm Futon-mattress, now and already in the afternoon, in the second furniture-shop, I luckily found even the identical succeeding-modell of my old mattress from 2010, just in another color! And the new Futon-matress cost just 79,99 EUR on special offer and 99,99 EUR regular. Remember also, it's a 200 x 140 cm!

But, if you are looking around on the classic (white) Bonell-innerspring mattresses, you see, that they are now costing nearly 200 EUR on regular price AND the pocket-spring mattresses even nearly 300 EUR! And I mean the classic 200 x 90 cm ones!! Same on the cold-foam mattresses.

So, whats the point?

I mean, I found my Futon-mattress always great and comfortable and I don't really see any disadvantage on them. And I never felt the need to change back to classic (white) Bonell-innerspring mattresses, like I had before, in my child's-room.

 

[Bugguy]

Drivers of big, high-end SUVs that take the railroad tracks at 2 mph.

 

[Zombie_61]

Drivers of big, high-end SUVs that take the railroad tracks at 2 mph.

Just as bad (maybe worse?) are the guys who have slammed their cars so low to the ground that they can't drive over a pebble without slowing to the speed of "snail" to make sure they don't damage the undercarriage. Morons.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

When someone asks you for advice in a subject matter that you are knowledgeable about & then ignores every word that you said.

 

[Fading Fast]

When someone asks you for advice in a subject matter that you are knowledgeable about & then ignores every word that you said.

Or asks you a question and then proceeds to tell you the answer. Whatever modest success I've had in life has come, in meaningful part, from listening to and learning from others more knowledgable than I (which are not people that are hard to find).

 

[Zombie_61]

When someone asks you for advice in a subject matter that you are knowledgeable about & then ignores every word that you said.

Or asks you a question and then proceeds to tell you the answer...

Or asks, listens to your answer, then questions and debates your answer because it doesn't match their preconceived notions or isn't the answer they wanted to hear.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Or asks, listens to your answer, then questions and debates your answer because it doesn't match their preconceived notions or isn't the answer they wanted to hear.

= Germany. Don't ask.

 

[Edward]

This is trivial in our house, but it really ticks off my in laws - Twist and her preferred spot in our kitchen - the countertop!

Oh! She is a cutie. Cats have a way of deciding where they want to sit. Amazingly, some humans still persist in thinking they have a say in the matter.

We've just ordered a new sofa, finally replacing the one I bought sixteen years ago when I moved in. It was tired anyhow about five years ago when Greta cat - at the age of four or five, just out of the blue - took a wild notion and ripped one end of it clean open while I as at work. She's been promised that of she trie that again, she'll be sent to Battersea.... (This might work. The same cat is furious and mortified if she pees in the house and gets called a 'dirty puppy'. I doubt she knows fully what a puppy is, but she knows damn well it's an insult!)

Cyclists, joggers and pedestrians who don't seem to know left from right. Or they seem to think that the rules of the road they have to follow when driving doesn't apply when they're on a bike or on foot. I do a lot of cycling and I don't know how many times in the last several years I've nearly collided with these fools riding their bikes any which way.

Cyclists in our area are a nightmare. So many of them run red lights, ride up the footpath (illegal), and then there's the Mamils who do it all, as well as cycling up the road cause they're too cool to use the cycle lanes the council spent hundreds of thousands on. When I rule the world, I will be bringing back the stocks for these people.

Drivers of big, high-end SUVs that take the railroad tracks at 2 mph.

We call them Chelsea Tractors in London. Typically driven by parents who are bad and nervous drivers because it makes them and their brood feel safe - however unnecessary, space-consuming and just downright selfish they are to have in inner London.

When someone asks you for advice in a subject matter that you are knowledgeable about & then ignores every word that you said.

Mn, usually because they didsn't get the answer they wanted. Or - as has happened to colleagues - because they were told to take legal advice, so they thought that meant telling the lawyer what they wanted to do, hearing him out, then doing it anyhow.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Or asks, listens to your answer, then questions and debates your answer because it doesn't match their preconceived notions or isn't the answer they wanted to hear.

And sometimes "I don't know" means exactly that, not, "I don't remember but maybe it will come back to me under intense grilling."

 

[Zombie_61]

And sometimes "I don't know" means exactly that, not, "I don't remember but maybe it will come back to me under intense grilling."

In my experience a response of, "You're asking the wrong person," yields better results than, "I don't know," because you're informing that person up-front that they're not going to get the answer they're looking for from you.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And even worse is when you tell them that and they keep badgering you. What part of "I'm not the one who handles this issue, please call the business office and I'm sure they can help you out" didn't you understand?

 

[Edward]

The one big downside of studying law, and now teaching it, has always been the numbero f people who think they can pump you for free legal advice. Especially amusing when they want to ask about tax law or some such, which isn't my thing. They wouldn't expect their shoe salesman to cut their hair, but yet....

 

[Harp]

The one big downside of studying law, and now teaching it, has always been the numbero f people who think they can pump you for free legal advice...

"What should I do?"
"Take the deal the DA is offering. And get your teeth fixed before you go to Joliet. They won't offer dental care in the pen."
...and no charge.

 

[Fading Fast]

The one big downside of studying law, and now teaching it, has always been the numbero f people who think they can pump you for free legal advice. Especially amusing when they want to ask about tax law or some such, which isn't my thing. They wouldn't expect their shoe salesman to cut their hair, but yet....

I make my living trading and managing money - and have thirty years of extensive, work, study and experience invested in my knowledge and skill - but people are aggressive about expecting long, involved explanations to their financial issues for free.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Or asks, listens to your answer, then questions and debates your answer because it doesn't match their preconceived notions or isn't the answer they wanted to hear.

What annoys me is when I answer their question with "I don't know" & they reword the question & ask the exact same thing! I didn't know 5 seconds ago & I don't know now!

 

[tonyb]

Or people asking your "opinion" when what they and you and every reasonable person knows they're actually doing is fishing for some "understanding" for what they shouldn't have done.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"I'm asking for a friend..."