Petty Annoyances

[Ted Max]

The speaker before lunch will joke that she has the toughest job of the day because she is all that stands between us and lunch - which "smells delicious". (Award yourself one boiled sweet)

The speaker after lunch will joke that he has the toughest job because he has to wake everyone up after "that excellent" lunch. (top up glass of water)

The last speaker of the day will call his slot the graveyard slot. (Two sweets, doodle of a headstone on grid-lined paper.)

[flapjackdavey]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I hear people, and I have to say it's mostly

> younger people who say it or rude Americans, "give

> me this or give that," or I need this or I need

> that." It really annoys me and I don't really

> think I'm being petty here either but I was

> brought up to have good manners and respect for my

> elders but I really do feel that manners DO maketh

> man.

I have noticed this many times , all over the place , I always say please and thanks , partly because I had it drummed into me when was a kid , but good manners cost naff all do they ?

[Moos]

People who walk down residential streets talking loudly in the middle of the night. I know you're out having a good time, but all those darkened windows around you? Behind them are lots of people sleeping. Or there were...

[SeanMacGabhann]

you know what to do Moos

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[Mikecg]

When you go to a new Pub and the barman tries to swindle you out of a ?10.00 note. That's what happened to me when I ordered my 6th pint.......

Realizing he had been rumbled he promptly returned the dosh with a response of "Oh Sorry about that", a genuine mistake, I should Coco.

[Brendan]

Did you call him a cunt?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Mikecg Wrote:

a genuine mistake, I should Coco.

Funny how these "genuine" mistakes are nearly always in the Shopkeepers or Pubs/Clubs favour!

[SeanMacGabhann]

nah - we tend to only remember the times against us. Many a restuarant or shop has undercharged me and I always go back. the worst time was a few years back, Christmastime and I was in Clintons Cards

just writing that makes me wonder what I was doing - but anyway. I queued for aaages. Bought my card and left - realised half way back to work she had given me change for a tenner instead of the fiver I gave her. Went back. Queued for aaaages again. Got the same woman. Explained her mistake. She didn't know what to do. Then she and the crowd got ansty behind me for holding the place up!!

[Mikecg]

No, but it was one of those situations that you prefer not to experience, you know the awkwardness after the event. Funnily enough when I ordered my last drink which was a double JD and Coke, he avoided me like the plague. I remember thinking to myself, "Yeah! you know, ya dodgy git".

[Moos]

The weird thing about going back when you're overcharged is that sometimes the person you're talking to looks really pissed off, as though you were criticising them - or at least completely bemused as though you were a nutcase for doing it. Maybe it's my manner :-$ although I do try to do it nicely...

[SeanMacGabhann]

Shops tend to be much worse than restaurants/bars. Staff in bars tend to look super-grateful, but shop assistants would curdle milk

I've gotten free pints in pubs before for handing back the wrong change

Best one ever was ni St Andrews - we stayed in a tiny hotel which had a very nice restaurant - we rang up an 80 quid bill in the evening. When we checked out the next day the ?80 was missing - so I pointed it out to the receptionist who double-checked with the bar. Then she said "well, its not your fault the bar staff are slack" and didn't charge us!

With a heavy wallet and a pure heart did we drive off for... well, Dundee as it happened.

[Brendan]

I?ve always been met with polite surprise when I have gone back after being undercharged. Although the 2 times I can remember doing so in the last few years it has been at a small local shop and in a pub where the waitress forgot to charge me for something.

It?s probably in big chain shops where the staff may just get annoyed. It is understandable I suppose. I can?t imagine it would bother me much if I worked for Sainsbury?s and they lost out on a fiver.

[Mikecg]

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils.

[Brendan]

Oh, I thought that was why they put a sharp bit on pencils.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> >

> nah - we tend to only remember the times against us.

In a similar vien a Clerk who works for me "nearly" always asks our clientele (lol) how much they have staked when they come to collect their Winnings. Many, mistakenly, take this as an indication that he does not know, and 99% of the time, if they do not say the correct amount, they say "more" not "less".:))

Why does life make one cynical? I don't want to be cynical, I never used to be cynical but.....

[Moos]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Oh, I thought that was why they put a sharp bit on

> pencils.

That's for stabbing people in the eye when they criticise your spelling.

[BlueOne]

I have worked in bars where if your till was down at the end of the night, the difference was taken out of your pay! I am not sure whether the dodgy practice of paying staff in cash at the end of the night still goes on, but I am always mindful of this when given too much change. I guess some might see it as a nice bonus, but I reckon I don't need the fiver as much as the poor b*stard working all night serving pissed up punters!

[ruffers]

The flower stall outside London Bridge where the taxi stand is...

One bunch of tulips - ?3.99

Two bunches ?5.00

How much would three be do you think....?

That's right, ?8.99!!. It's not a third bunch you see, it's another single one.

[giggirl]

I work around Strand/Covent Garden. Lots of theatres. Coach loads of fekkers arrive every evening around tea time. After getting off their bloody coaches do they move, sensibly, to one side. Of course not. Dam this credit crunch; I've had to let my bodyguard go and it's impossible to clear a path without the help of a 7ft bruiser.

[AlleynAlleyn]

The voice on the buses: try riding with your eyes closed, and imagine being blind, all the time.

[AlleynAlleyn]

"Men who sit with their legs wide apart on the tube." An experiment for the ladies: 1. take two medium-sized potatoes and a medium-sized carrot. 2. Place them inside your panties to the front and between your legs. 3. Sit on the tube. 4. Close your legs tightly. 5. Imagine that the potatoes and carrots contain nerves connected to the pain centres in your brain.

Alternatively go a different way after 1. and you can end up with a nice vegetable soup.

[Keef]

When admin "Lounges" a thread, and it buggers up all the counts of the other threads in the Lounge.

Not eactly the end of the world, but grrrr!

[louisiana]

When you call your bank and go through the telephone tree and you get this really annoying tune that may have been recorded onto cassette tape at a live concert circa 1975 with all the st-reee-tch-eees in the taaaaape intact. Hey, we live in a digital age. There is no need to play all your customers a totally distorted recording that you bought back when people wore loons :'(