IMHO - what should be in Room 101 (Room 101)

Member Name: Coxy1974

Product:	Room 101
Date:	17/01/07 (241 review reads)
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Advantages: I'd be happier and less stressed

Disadvantages: I'd have nothing to moan about

What would I put into Room 101? The list is probably endless but I am going to limit myself to 10 things.

1. Superglue tubes – who’s idea was it to put glue in a tube? The glue comes out far too fast, the top sticks to the tube so you have no alternative but to buy a new tube if you need to use it more than once and not forgetting the prime opportunities to stick yourself to anything you come into contact with after going anywhere near a tube of superglue. Believe me I know because I once stuck myself to my car windscreen (long story and probably should be in my most embarrassing moments!)

2. Bad driving – I drive all over the UK and spend a lot of time on the road. In some areas drivers are really good like in Devon and they’ll give way when they’re supposed to etc. Get more North and they couldn’t give a fig if you have the right of way. People in 4 x 4’s are the worst and buses. They seem to think because they are bigger than I am that they can just brush me aside. Aside from that London drivers seem to think I am a mind reader and I should know that they A. want my lane, B. want to turn right but won’t indicate, C. are pulling out from the side of the road and the best one of all D. the are stopping but have no break lights because they couldn’t be arsed to check them.

3. Onion Rings – why? These are plain wrong!

4. Supermarket Trolleys – why do I always get the one that seems to be possessed? They go every which way but the way you are pushing them. Also (and I hate to pick on any supermarket here) but Sainsburys and Tescos have some of the deepest trolleys ever. I am 4’11 so if I am doing a big shop and need the deeper trolley I have to hang over the side to retrieve things from the bottom to pay for them. I’ve been accused of attempting to steal many things because of this. I suppose in this one I want to put in the customers who leave their bl**** trolleys in the middle of the aisles whilst they chat to their next door neighbour whom they haven’t seen since 9am that morning.

5. BT Internet support desk – they are sooooo frustrating if anything ever goes wrong with your internet. I have experienced several outages with my BT Internet. I’m an IT Trainer so know the basics to check for. I check to make sure I am plugged in before I ring the call centre. The last time I got through to them I had clearly been put through to India. Let me make it clear I have nothing against Indian call centres but please do not tell me your name is Edith when you clearly have the most Indian accent I have ever heard. When I say to you that I have rebooted the machine and yes the plug is in the wall I don’t expect you to ask me to check them again whilst you are on the line as they may have magically been un-rebooted or become unplugged from the wall. All of the script is gone through before you fix the blooming problem yourself and you’re £6 lighter because it’s a premium rate number.

6. Argos – I literally get a twitch to my right eye whenever I approach an Argos store these days. It all stems from having to return something I had brought someone for their Christmas present. I went in midweek and it was almost empty and I waited and waited at customer services where I’d been directed. When the woman who’d been chatting to her mate finally came over she demanded to know what I wanted. Explaining to her she sniffed at me and turned back to her friend. By now I am almost hopping and so I ask if she’ll finish serving me and that I have never received such appalling service or rudeness to which she replied ‘The goods here are cheap so you shouldn’t expect anything better customer service wise’ at that my jaw hit the floor. Similar experiences have ensued hence the now twitchy right eye when I get within 100 yards of a store.

7. McDonalds – Why is it whenever you go into a McDonalds they seem to have one brain cell between them when serving. I think the only requirement must be to be able to consistently get orders wrong. I have had the misfortune to work late over the last few weeks and pick up take out on my way home. McDonalds is on the way home so I stopped there. Both times my order was wrong when I got it home. Not fun when you don’t eat beef, ordered a chicken burger and get a quarter pounder. And I’m sorry but if I wanted a large meal I would ask for a large meal – I don’t need to be prompted or tempted into having more than I can eat.

8. Tacky Christmas Decorations – I, like most of you, have been surrounded this Christmas by lights that flash, inflatable santas, snowmen, singing pandas, singing and dancing Christmas trees, rope light trains – the list is endless. I have some icicle lights that I hang from the guttering and a door wreath and that is it. I don’t want to be draining the national grid. I also cannot afford to run all these lights that others seem to be able to afford. How come Christmas decorations are put up in mid November and not taken down in some cases until February? Who invented that one? Mine were up about 10 days before Christmas and down the day after New Years Day. I did get the last laugh though, someones inflatable Santa blew over in the high winds. He was still attached to the moorings but lying on his back with his legs and arms in the air blowing from side to side in the wind? Did make me chuckle when I spotted it when I was driving into my close. Reminded me of a drunken Santa.

9. Davina McCall – I used to think good on her with everything she’s been through but now I think ‘Shut up SHOUTING’. Her chat show was really irritating, not the show particularly but just her. She will ask a question that never actually ends and by the time she has finished the poor person she is interviewing hasn’t gotten a word in edgeways and she has answered her own question! I think she should have a volume control fitted too as I constantly want to turn her down when I watch BB. I know she’s trying to work the crowd but please Davina – tone it down a little.

10. The Motorola V3i phone – this is truly the worst phone I have ever had. I was persuaded to stay with Vodafone by a new price plan and a free phone thrown in. Navigation wise it is great as everything is so easy to find on the menu however I have had problems. Firstly the battery didn’t fit properly. Next it began to randomly turn itself off when on standby. This then progressed to turning off when I was taking to people. I’ve had several phones and they have all been the same.

God that feels good to have gotten that lot off my chest. I could have gone on for hours but you guys are probably yawning your heads off by now if you have managed to read this far at all.

Summary: Only just got warmed up