Petty Annoyances

[Ted Max]

Her name is Emma Hignett.

http://www.london.gov.uk/londoner/images/06mar/emma-hignett.jpg

[Brendan]

Voiceoverist and honorary chairman of the Penge Appreciation Society.

[Annasfield]

I went to school with a girl called Emma Hignett. Doesn't look like her though.

"Please stand clear - doors closing"

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The spout has just fallen off my kettle. I am annoyed.

[Keef]

All the anti syware / anti virus software we have these days making your computer run slower than it would if it had a bloody virus!!!

[Gerrard]

People who go to gigs to record the event onto their mobile phones.

For god's sake, go and see a band and join in with the experience etc, don't go merely to listen to it through your tinny sounding pc speakers when you get home.

You look really stupid and may get tennis elbow to boot.

[dukesdenver]

Ooh, KalamityKel, are you one of my colleagues??? DO tell me how much milk is left at home and whether you think that bag of salad will last another day!

:))

[okcomputa]

The 'Reiki club' thread is very annoying.

[KalamityKel]

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Ooh, KalamityKel, are you one of my colleagues???

> DO tell me how much milk is left at home and

> whether you think that bag of salad will last

> another day!

>

> :))

Dunno dukesdenver how'd u like ya sludge? :p

I'm slightly peeved with recruitment departments at the mo... Do I really need to receive 3 or 4 letters/emails saying the same thing or being harassed into completing applications by receiving phone calls by people who wont say who they are? AND all this from years ago! ::o

[Keef]

Checking online banking on the morning of pay day, only to see the credit of your pay waaaaaaaaay down the list, followed by all the outgoings. And to be left with not enough in my book! :X

[Jah Lush]

I know the feeling only too well Keef. Although I daren't even look these days.

[djfitz]

"Grey's Anatomy". The MrsF has to watch it but I can't leave the room because she's terrified of the mice. Naturally.

[giggirl]

Keef Wrote:

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> All the anti syware / anti virus software we have

> these days making your computer run slower than it

> would if it had a bloody virus!!!

AMEN

[djfitz]

Airline operators in airports telling us our flight "has been delayed due to the late arrival of the inbound flight". That's no excuse! I know that's why it's delayed. I can see out the big window that there's no plane for me to board!

[giggirl]

Taxi drivers who are too lazy to knock at my door so sit outside blowing their horns instead. It's rude. I never tip them.

[SeanMacGabhann]

taxi drivers who drive slowly up Friern Rd looking for 253 Ballyyahoo Rd, and you can see them down at number bleedin 50, looking at each door!! At a guess mate, it's going to be at least another 100 houses - crack on..

[giggirl]

Taxi drivers who expect me to give them directions. Got a satnav? Switch it on and get your money's worth then.

[Brendan]

Taxi drivers who need a satnav. That's like a barman who needs a recipe for a pint of beer.

[giggirl]

Brendan - take your point. Black cab drivers have done the knowledge but mini cab drivers are mostly hopeless. I take a lot of mini cabs.

[Brendan]

Your comment is both racist and size-ist.

[giggirl]

True. What sort of "ist" am I if I take a pop at a black mini-cab driver?

[Brendan]

A combinationist.

[SeanMacGabhann]

a taxi-duh-mist?

[indiepanda]

Receptionists at A&E who get your hopes up by telling you that you can expect to be seeing a doctor in just over an hour, when it's actually nearly 5 hours.

Giving false hope of being seen quickly to the injured is silly - better to say it's going to be a long wait and let people be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be shorter.

Also, when you query the length of wait, telling you that you will be called through to cubicles soon, and not mentioning you'll then be left in cubicles without being seen for over an hour. (I'm sure that's a statistics dodge - get you into cubicles in under 4 hours means targets met, but no measurement made of wait time in cubicle...)

No prizes for guessing what I was doing last weekend!

But seriously, I would get fired if I treated my clients the way they treated me. It's not the length of wait - it's the poor communication. I know Friday night is a bad time to have a minor injury in A&E, but honesty is more appreciated than false hope.

[Brendan]

DJs being treated like they?re musicians.

You?re just playing someone else?s songs ffs put it away.