Irrational things that annoy you (and non irrational things too come to think of it)

[vix]

'The System' in general, but on a more basic level, people who post on Facebook that they are 'getting a brand new 4 bedroomed house'. hmph. I'll just carry on working my sorry ass off to keep up on the mortgage of my tiny 2 bedroomed house, whilst you keep popping out kids so you get given a big house. I'm not bitter At least I don't have to live on a council estate though. Ho hum.

[Goose]

Robert Llewellyn for his electric car arguments.

[Tiggy]

Vix, I can totally sympathise with that to some degree. Ok, we're in a 2 bed housing association house and have the rent paid for us.

But we have medical grounds for being allocated a 3 bedroom house. Lots of support from lots of different agencies too.

But because we haven't got social services involved with us, and or I'm not popping out kids like pringles, we haven't a chance in hell of being given the support we need.

Basically I've got to find a way to make us homeless without it looking at all like it's been done on purpose, this is what the council are now telling me. And even then we won't be given the 3rd bedroom that we desperately need for at least 3 or 4 years.

The person that springs to mind who has been given a 3 bedroom house, a brand new just signed off by the builder 3 bedroom house has also been given money to carpet the whole house, buy all new furniture (it wasn't that long ago someone gave her almost brand new beds and stuff for free), all large whit appliances and goodness knows what.

I just need a house with 3 bedrooms, I'll find a way of doing the rest myself!

[volospian]

Internet sales companies that still use shoddy delivery services... you have to be in all day, delivery between 8am and 8pm, can't leave it at another address, etc. etc.

Come on, there's no excuse for that sort of service nowadays. Your customers have lives and they don't want to have to hang around the house all day, taking a day out of their life, waiting for your third world delivery service!

[Briggykins]

Why is there not a delivery option for 'just leave it at the depot and I'll collect it'? All delivering it to my house means is that I'll have to wait all day and eventually miss the delivery, get the little card thing which says I have to wait six hours, then wait until tomorrow to get my goodies. I could collect it first thing in the morning if they just let me go to the depot meself.

[BBx]

Capital FM advert on the TV :/

BB x

[Pheebs]

Can I ask, if Royal Mail deliver you a parcel, do you prefer it being hidden somewhere (if it's weather tight) and a note through the door saying where it is or do you prefer it to be taken back to the office for you to pick up? Not an expensive item, say a DVD or something?



I dislike or am annoyed by my brain, which acted irrationally this morning.

Was at the Blackpool Magic Convention this weekend and me Pa leant me his car to take up (Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!) I plonked it on the top level of a multi storey car park and signed some forms for it to stay there for a couple of days whilst I was magicking it up.

This morning I got up knackered, packed my bag and wondered off to grab the car and get home. I get to the car park which I notice has another entrance different from the one I used (closer! Handy), jump in the lift (didn't realise they had big lifts that went to the top floor, I had to walk a flight of stairs before I saw the lift before) annnd head to the top floor.....

My Brain: "HMmmm I'm sure the top floor was 3... but the lift button says there's 4. Stupido brain"
*get out of lift, look around*
My Brain: "Oooh... this doesn't look like the floor I parked on... it's much smaller... hmmm. Maybe I was on level 3 just didn't realise there was a 4th level..."
*walks down ramp to level 4*
My Brain: "Eh? No car. Hmm. Not good. Did I park at the top? Maybe it was level 2? I'm sure it was 3. Perhaps the car park people put it somewhere? But they have no key. Maybe they lifted it. Ha."
*level 2*
My Brain: "Eh? This is silly."
*back up to level 3 and then 4 and then 2 and then 3 and then 4....*
My Brain: "no car not there... Maybe it got towed because they didn't realise it was booked in for the weekend?! Maybe they lost my form? Hmmm I don't remember the floors being green..."
*down stair well*
My Brain: "Wow there's a lot of steps. It's awfully big. Did I take the lift? Maybe I did. I don't remember there being steps here."
*walks out to level one where car park attendants office is... but it's not there*
My Brain: "Oh. I could have sworn the car park attendants office was there. It's just... concrete. Ah... there is it. Hmmm it's a different colour. And design. I don't remember this at all. There must have moved it quickly. I wonder how long it takes for concrete to dry?"
Car Park Attendant: "Are you okay? We've been watching you walk about all the different levels on the monitors?"
Me: "Yeh yeh, well no, I can't find my car and I'm worried it's been moved or stolen!"
Car Park Attendant: "Ok, where did you park it?"
Me: "Well level 3 but then I thought that was the top level. So maybe level 4? I'm not sure. But I have checked the other levels. If you lost my form would my car have been towed?"
Car Park Attendant: "Form?"
Me: "Yeh yeh, I filled in a form in your other office when I arrived... I have my parking ticket here, one sec.."
Car Park Attendant: "Other office?"
Me: "Yeh... well. It wasn't this one. I don't remember this one at all. It was over there!" *points to concrete wall*
Car Park Attendant: "This... is the only office"
Me: "Oh okay..."
My Brain: "FREAK! The other office was over there! He mustn't be all there, poor fella"
*hands car parking ticket over*
Car Park Attendant: *smiles* "The reason you can't find your car love, is because you're in the wrong car park."
Me: "Eh?"
Car Park Attendant: "You're two streets off your car park..."


See now. EVERYTHING was pointing to the fact I was in the wrong car park. How did my brain not compute that? Why did it think it was fine that EVERYTHING looked different... it makes no sense! They couldn't have moved the desk or painted the floors or changed the stairwell.

Stupid brain.

[Mondo]

If the parcel is small and fit through the letter box then i rather it go through my door, even if it needs a signature.

Never leave it outside the house, i rather it be taken back. Coz i had a jacket stolen once and some books and blank DVDs taken too.

I don't mind it left with my neighbour though, they are decent.

But back to the depot is fine, it's only 10 min walk away and i just get it on Saturday, of it's anything urgent I get it sent to work anyway.

[volospian]

I prefer them to leave it with the neighbours, but if it's a smallish item, they can leave it in a secret place that my postie knows about. I've never had any issues wit them leaving stuff "outside". If that's not possible, I'm happy for them to take it to the depot and I'll pick it up.

I'm not happy about having to wait in all day because they only specify that they'll deliver "anytime between 8am and 8pm" and won't let me pick it up from the depot, leave it with a neighbour, redirect it to a different address, or even redeliver the next day (instead they told me it would have to be the day after next!! FFS, even the most basic couriers will redeliver the next day after a failed delivery!!).

Well, they've blown it now anyway, I told them that if they can't deliver to suit the customer, I'll buy from someone who will. I then cancelled the order and re-ordered with someone else who was the same price (actualy, they had just dropped the price by about £20, but were the same price when I originally ordered) and known to have a vastly superior delivery service.

Oh, and I'm not happy with the guy who delivered an Amazon package, full of DVD's, CD's and books, just before Christmas and left it leaning against the front door in full view of the entire street. Muppet!

[Knipples]

Buses that say "sorry I'm not in service"

Why do they need to apologise!!