1) Receiving junk e-mail from companies which I haven't dealt with or bought anything from for at least the last couple of years. I've given up trying to click on any 'unsubscribe' option as they rare works. The e-mail still come through.
2) At traffic lights - the person who you stop behind has left a gap large enough for another car. Then they drive forward to stop behind the car ahead of them - meaning you now either have a car-sized gap in front or you move forwards yourself to close the gap that the car in front created in the first place. It unnecessarily lengthens queues at traffic lights and it's something which I've seen happening more and more often over the last decade. I'm unaware of this being a new 'thing' in the test or the Highway Code (I'm in the UK).
3) Courier drivers who come into our place of work and press the buzzer at reception at the front of the building... Why does this bother me? They've passed two large signs which tell them 'all deliveries to the rear of the building' with a directional arrow - plus a sign on the reception door itself telling them the same thing - all deliveries to the rear of the building. There's usually two or three of these every week - and Amazon drivers are usually the main culprits from my experience.
4) People who say 'Math' rather than 'Maths'.
5) People who use the generic phrase 'Image', when the following words seemed to have been erased from everyone's vocabulary - photo, picture, sketch, painting, video/video clip, recording... (can anyone think of any more?!)
6) People who go to drive-thrus and order pretty much everything off the entire menu, whilst you're stuck behind, simply wanting a coffee. My latest experience of this was a certain coffee chain of which I took a break during a near-six hour road trip. All I wanted was two cappuccinos. The person in front? They ended up being handed a tray piled high with stuff. I sat there for almost 15 minutes and by the time I left the drive-thru, you could see the queue was now backed out onto not only the car park, but just about as far back as the entrance road.
6a) Very similar to the above... Those who go to petrol stations, fill up accordingly and then proceed to buy what could almost be a weekend's worth of groceries from the shop before going to pay. This is why I try to avoid supermarket petrol stations as they seem to attract most people who do this. I like the ones where you fill up, drive forward to a kiosk to pay and then leave. You want more than fuel? Go to a shop. You just wanted fuel? Great - no time wasted. Sadly, these sorts are pretty rare in the UK. My nearest one is nine miles away.
7) When you deal with social anxiety issues and people are very quick to tell you it's all your fault (?!) and that you should 'go out more'. An equivalent of "
there's a fire - now put your hand in it. It won't hurt, honest".
8) As a self-confessed 'technophobe', anyone who simply responds "
it's easy" isn't giving instructions as to what is needed to be done... Those two words don't suddenly make people like myself suddenly...'know'...what to do.
I think I'll leave it there for now, as honestly folks, this this something I could go on and on about... But before I do, this one:
(11-12-2014, 09:15 AM)andy_td Wrote: 2) When people ask what time it is when there is Clock on the wall.
Oh yes... This one is another classic and happens surprisingly often at work. I've never understood this mentality in the near 21 years I've been working. Can't these people be bothered to look across at the clock? Do they just want to talk to someone? What is it, exactly?!
