I'll start… Putting price as $9.99…. Why not just $10?! I'd be a lot happier with that!
What grinds your gears?
D6C1 on 22/03/2014 - 18:49
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Some will be talking on their phones and throw the notes on the table, without looking at you for a second !!!! And take an extra 20 seconds talking while I am waiting to hand the change back to their hands !!! Prick !!!
I dont work in retail so i hate it when its the other way around. Have my hand out ready for change and they put it on the table. Mate you dont even need to touch my hand, just drop it from above!!
Current state of the NBN, and the liberal party acting as if it's the right decision.
Too right! I couldn't wait any longer so went for Telstra Ultimate Cable for $90 per month including a landline (200Gb). I get around 115Mbps all day long and it has only ever dropped to about 90mbps once or twice over the last year. Faster than advertised speeds of the NBN!
Well apparently according to some genius the average Australian doesn't want faster internet.
People that use self serve checkouts when they have a trolley full of items
People that say 'Can I ask you a question'…….ummm you just did.
Motorists who can't park properly
Same ppl ask "Can you do me a favour?" without first telling you what they want. Generally they know if they did the response would be "No no, not now, never, no,no,no!"
People who use the self serve express checkouts to buy a whole trolley load of groceries during rush hour.
One item is scanned every 10 seconds as they scan… stare at the screen… bag the item… then grab the next item
Inevitably they'll mess up this incredibly difficult process and require the intervention of the Badge Lady to wave her magic badge in front of the scanner to make the error message go away
Not moving the trolley out of the way so customers can access other checkouts
During rush hour at the Christmas period I even witnessed a couple realise they didn't have enough money to pay, so one ran off to an ATM while the other guarded their precious groceries
one ran off to an ATM
Wait. what? Did you remind them they were alredy standing in front of an ATM!
Hmm, I didn't even think of that. One said to the other 'I'm going to get some more money' as he ran out of the store and to an ATM down the hallway. Now that you mention it, it does seem very silly seeing as they had all electronic banking needs right there already.
bookings fees on tickets and other stuff. I would rather they just add the cost to the ticket price from the start and do not make it a separate cost.
How about the whole culture of tipping and other hidden costs. No drama rewarding somebody for excellent service but when it gets to levels like the US where the tip is expected as another 15% ish part of the cost it is crazy, why not just build it in.
- Men wearing squared toe shoes !!
- burnt coffee, or 'barrista' who doesn't know how to froth the milk properly
- even worse, customers who order the variants of " skinny soy latte with two shots of decaf with some cocoa powder on top"
- sprinting to the station and miss the train by the seconds
- putting ebay auction on 'watch list', forgot to bid on it and found out that I could have been the highest bidder if I actually bid on it
- 5 empty urinals, me occupying the corner urinal and another guy came in and occupy the one next to me. Why can't you take the 3rd one, 4th one or even better the other corner?
I've got long narrow feet. Square toe (or nearly so) shoes are actually the only ones I can wear that fit properly. (Toes now deformed from years of trying to wear fashionable shapes)
I hate men wearing really pointy shoes. Weirds me out.
Also when the tip of the shoe is clearly far longer than the man's foot… so the end of the tip curls upwards. Looks ridiculous lol.
Lol i don't know why but those shoes reminds me of the witch from wizard of oz…
People who winge and wine and complain but do nothing about the issue.
Should I run the cyclists down then? resolving the problem.. ;)
;-D
Guys wearing shoes with no socks! Argh!
How about socks with sandals?
Better yet, socks with crocs?
Don't knock it, it's the latest hipster trend: http://www.thevine.com.au/fashion/news/normcore-is-the-lates…
Especially when they wear pants that end just before the ankle.
or just below the balls
wearing white socks with black shoes.
wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
wearing white socks with black shoes.
wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Slow walkers/People not watching where they are walking/people who use the whole footpath instead of sticking to the left/People who stop for a conversation in the worst possible spot/people who cut corners or walk out of a store straight into your path and expect you to move for them.
People who push, shove and squeal their way onto a tram or train before letting people get off and then proceed to stand right in the doorway.
Whats wrong with $9.99? I'll take the 1c change any day.
Coz they round it up when you pay cash anyway and some others still round it up anyway when you pay on EFTPOS!
Yea I guess it's pretty noob to do it in an actual store.
People who drive below the speed limit in the fast lane of a highway
Drivers who tailgate me when I'm on motorbike thinking they can go faster and I'm slowing them down
People who talk loudly in a quiet zone
People who don't rack weights properly or don't remove them from a machine
People who hog machines/weights
When shipping is not free for an already expensive item
and that National Tile radio ad
Yeah what about a boycott of national tiles until they stop with that. When a radio ad annoys me it doesn't encourage me to like them at all
school kids on trains - they stand in the middle of the doorway and drop their bags on the ground.
People who blast music and everyone else within 10 metres of them can hear every word
Drivers who clearly are lost and yet continue to drive along at 20 kmph looking for where they're supposed to go
Old people who drive
When you're at the deli and clearly no one is using the tickets and you're waiting there a while and an old lady comes forward grabs a ticket and claims to be next.
The bank and post office deliveries not being available on the weekends
ATMs not dispensing $10 notes
When your phone has 20% battery left and it suddenly runs out of power
Parking inspectors who give out tickets at 8:50pm when the cut off is 9pm and when there are sooooo many free parks
People who can't park properly
After reading Dasher22's one, i thought of one too…
People who tailgate you even though you are going at or slightly above the speed limit and there is an empty lane next to you… I've had that on multiple occasions….
Live in Tassie? they all do that here :/
I'm actually from sydney… i generally mess around with them by going even slower lol
I too go slower and quite a few still sit behind you…go figure.
Tailgating is wrong but were you in the right lane?
- People who think American is a language - "They spoke American in that movie"
- American spelling in Australia - ok, maybe American is a language…..but I checked, and there is no country simply called America. There are continents with the word America in then, and there's the USA, but it's arrogant to call the USA America.
- Anal people like me. I annoy me. (and if you agree that this post is annoying, that should get a plus as in….yeah, you're annoying) A neg should be….no, I don't agree, you're not annoying.
Sorry daveted, doesn't look like anyone really cares if you're annoying or not.
The only thing worse than being not annoying is not being not annoying.
Like some major majors HN, etc and their staff who are 'not aware' of the catalogued items? Seems a routine to me.
Slow walkers at a shopping centre. Then when you try and overtake them, they slowly drift to the side where you overtake.
People who suddenly stop then you walk into them.
Group of people who stand in the whole aisle chatting
People who sit down before the waiter finishes cleaning their table
People pushing prams (well from my experience, most of them are oblivious as to what's in front of them and ram into you)
Pulling a pallet of 24 pack slabs of soft drink (which weighs a f**ko-load and takes strength to stop its momentum) at work and customers expect you to move out their way
Customers expect to get the item for free because there's no price on it
Group of people who stand in the whole aisle chatting
Group of people chatting at the bottom of the escalator.
Individual planning his/her day at bottome of the escalator.
YES, people that STOP at the end of an escalator. Do they not realise that all the people behind them still on the escalator will have nowhere to go except to ram into them while they stop to ponder which direction to go in?!
"… suddenly stop" I walk into them
"… aisle chat" Loud voice "pardon me"
"People … prams" Go to next aisle and trolley ram their "$500 custom colour triple wheel cross-country pre-personality mobility module with under carriage boot and all weather tonneau"$500 is cheap our pram cost $2000….don't blame me the missus bought it.
regarding the last point, if they don't get it for free, they will then attempt to sue you and lecture you about Australian laws which they have no clue about. Some might even go further telling me that they hold a law degree from such and such university…. ha ha ha
I was walking past a lady with a pretty ratty pram. She seemed not to like the look of me because her arms snapped straight and she knocked my back heel.
I was more shocked than anything else that someone would assault me with pram that had their child inside. What if I was a psycho who retaliated?! :S
People not hitting "Reply All" when they should be…
People hitting "Reply All" when they should'nt be…
People hitting "Reply All" to an All Staff email. Lololol
I'll start… Putting price as $9.99…. Why not just $10?! I'd be a lot happier with that!
you must hate Apple then…
When I heat food too long in the microwave and it explodes :(
All Jeep TV commercials where the general narrative involves two people repeatedly saying "You bought a Jeep?" "Yes, I bought a Jeep" which is then followed up with that tacky song that goes "Doon't HooLd BaaAAacK". Regardless of how good Jeeps may be, I will never ever purchase a Jeep based on those ads alone.
Are Jeeps good?
Wet towels /thread
Ads in streamed videos that are all at different volumes.
First ad, normal volume, all good, that looks interesting…second ad, louder than a 747 flying overhead waking all the kids and you have to dive for the volume before your ear drums explode.
Nothing annoys me more than when people block your way when you exit a train/tram. IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO MOVE OUT OF THE WAY so everyone can get out FASTER so you can GET IN faster.
Then people grease you off if you accidentally bump them… I swear I want to clothesline them with my arm and choke slamming them but I can't. Because i'm too loving and compassionate. I feel like the mother theresa of public transport
Couldnt agree more. Makes me see red when you try to get off the train but people try to get on at the same time. Just wait you impatient bastards
Same thing happens when you exit an elevator and people already rush in
agreed so many people don't understand the world wide convention people getting off the train/tram/bus get off first THEN people getting on, get on.
In Japan it is an art form.
Yup….I was in Singapore last year and their system works like a dream. People waiting for the train wait on the left and right of the doors so people exiting the train can walk straight out.
A shame Melbourne couldn't adapt some of their public transport system infrastructure with myki…
amway people
DOTA 2…
Snowboarders that can land rails and 20 footers. I always chicken out at the last second…
Smokers who carelessly smoke while walking on the footpath like they are the only person in the world. Forcing me to walk on the road or walk fast while holding my breathe to overtake them.
+1 I can't stand this, I hold my breath too..
I also hold my breath when someone near me in public sneezes or coughs
My theory is that they know what they are doing (they just don't care, they need their fix) as once I was coughing loudly behind a smoker. He turned around looked me right in the eye and then turned around and kept smoking.
getting judgemental looks from skinny people in the supermarket, who have a lot of crap in their baskets, because i decided to buy a packet of potato chips all because im medium size… they dont know that all week i eat god damn healthy and have lost 25kg
edit: misread post. delete me pls
Good for you losing 25kg :)
Gold 104.3 segment on Wednesdays titled 'What makes your blood boil?'
Just give me my damn music!
I live 500km from a capital city so it is unlikely that a "pickup only" item on eBay will be of any interest to me. I ask eBay if they can add a filter so I can remove pickup only items from searches. They say no. Then they send me yet another customer suggestions for improvement and are you happy with our answers survey.
People who don't use indicator when turning. Only thing that grinds my gear
How about the ones who leave the indicator on :)
Leaving it on is so much more frustrating lol. You end up stuck behind them going "ok, you're turning…. NOW… nup, argh… ok… NOW… nope again.. ARGHASADK, are you turning or not??!"
Yeah, one of the problem I know is some of the new car don't have the clicking sound when the indicator is on or the clicking sound is quieter than older car. One being the new Mitsubishi lancer I've driven
People like me who drive around at night without their headlights on trying to be stealthy
That's real road hazard right there
People who smell on train! It makes daily commuting SO painful. :((
me don't like people who smell like cigarette smoke
On one particularly hot day here, whilst minding my own business on the train with no-one sitting around me, this guy hops on and sits directly in front of me.
Then he decides to put his arm up in the air, leaning it against the wall of the train. Not sure what the hell he was doing, but he was effectively airing his stinky arm pit with the air blowing right back in my face.
Garlic consumption and trains do not mix very well, lol!
curry and BO is worse.
Dan and Maz.
yes please get them off the radio already
I'd broaden that to all radio 'shows' - especially talkback radio. I would honestly prefer ads to that mindless, unfunny drivel.
KYLE SANDILANDS!! Could write a book on how much he grinds my gears! Intentionally avoid any station he works for, even if he isn't on at that time on the basis that any organisation that would employ him is clearly so far removed from my personal taste and value system that I probably wouldn't want to listen to them anyway!
Merrick, Jules, Sophie and Mel B - how many friggin presenters do you need!!
Malcom Turnbull taking away my NBN
People who go 80-90km/hr on the single lane highway until they get to the overtaking lane and speed up to 110km/hr
And when trucks try and overtake other trucks! Should be illegal when consequently I'm stuck doing 60 in the right lane on the Calder. -_-
Cigarette smokers who tell you that 'something' is bad for you.
TV shows that encourage live tweeting and then show them during the telecast. (I want to watch the show not read what is usually mindless drivel that appears)
When someone answers their phone and says they can't take calls at work……(so why answer the phone?)
People who think that being asked 'How are you?' means tell me your life story.
Same in Japan.