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Room 101 |
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05/07/04 (189 review reads) |
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I thought it was my time to add an entry into the Room 101 Category. So here goes. In no particular order of annoyingness I have listed 10 things that pee me off. Advance apologies to any one offended!
~ Clueless Suit Wearers
Right, this is a strange one but it sure does annoy me. Men who cannot wear a suit properly. When I mean ‘properly’, I am talking to that bloke who decides that his black suit needs to be worn with white trainers. Also the man I saw a couple of weeks ago wearing a very expensive looking 3 Piece Suit with a baseball cap. What is that all about?
~ Revels
Yes, the chocolates. I enjoy the fact that you get a variety of different tasting and textured chocolates and it makes a nice change to have these. It’s like a Lucky Dip for food. What I don’t like is the fact that the nicest ones (Orange – nobody better argue with that!) are very few and far between. I always seem to end up with one or two in the pack. And the last one you eat, the one that leaves that last taste in your mouth, is the Coffee one. Euugghh
~ Bluetooth Ear Pieces
Not the actual earpieces themselves, just the majority of people who wear them. I can understand them being worn by drivers and people who receive many calls (such as businessmen/women) but for the average man walking down the street with a huge piece of plastic hanging out of his ear who you just know will receive a maximum of one call a day, I think they look stupid (the headset and the person).
~ Delaying Customers
Working in Retail, I see a lot of different types of people (Including a man who, for absolutely no reason, decides to come and see me and talk about Adam Ant!?) but the most annoying are the people who decide only to get t
heir money/cards out after the whole transaction has gone through. So after watching you for 5 minutes scan and pack their bags, they only decide afterwards to hunt for their card to pay for it all.
Also those woman (yes, it’s always woman) who come to get a refund and when you ask for their receipt (which they know you will need) decide to empty all pockets and the whole of their handbag contents on your refund desk. This is even more annoying when you have seen them spend the last few minutes standing waiting to be served doing nothing.
~ Non-voters
Now, if you want to vote that’s fine. If you do not want to vote, that’s fine too. But it’s not fine to not vote and then complain that Blair should resign/You don’t want to join the Euro/The Council shouldn’t spend more money on useless road humps etc. We all have the right to express our feelings but those who don’t use it and then moan get on my nerves.
~ Motorway Services
I understand the need to charge more than your average High Street. I don’t really mind getting ripped off a little bit. I do, however, get really annoyed getting obscenely overcharged and the fact I have no choice in the matter. I used a Cash Machine in one of these places (you know the ones, those evil little ones that display the fact you can get a FREE balance but no mention of withdrawal costs) and got charged £2 to take out £10.
We stopped at a Service Station a few weeks ago, just off the motorway, as I needed the loo. It was the first stop we had seen for about 30 miles. The Petrol Shop did not have any toilets but there was a Little Chef around the back. A large sign read ‘Toilets for Little Chef customers only’. Naturally, I ignored this and strolled i
n past the counter. Who do these people think they are? Where do they want me to go? Behind the wall?
~ Cheap and Nasty Adverts
I don’t hate all adverts. Some are actually better than the programmes they fit in-between. But those daytime and nighttime ads are the worst. Yes, hold your head in shame, Channel 5 (and those cheapo cable channels). Those blatantly cheap things they knock out with an overall production cost of about £10. Normally repetitive and involving either a loan or some random rubbish you don’t need to attract that working class debt. Watch out for the tacky voiceovers as well.
~ McDonalds Current Promotions
McDonalds make me laugh. Being a heavy advertiser, it is likely when you turn on your television you will see them golden arches on screen. Especially at the moment as they are one of the main Euro 2004 sponsors.
With obesity levels at an all time high and the Government apparently beginning to crack down on salt and fat levels in food, McDs has decided to bring out a Salad Menu offering healthy alternatives to the usual cardboard-tasting burgers they normally supply. You can see this advert on TV nearly everyday.
However, they are also offering a special deal to cash in on the football. Yes, that’s right folks, buy one Big Mac Meal and get a second Big Mac free! If this was a buy one meal, get one meal free promotion I could understand. A friend eats for free. But surely this only encourages one person to have a meal with two grease-soaking burgers?
~ Political Correctness
This drives me crazy! My girlfriend’s Children’s Nursery no longer sing Baa Baa Black Sheep. And that’s just the start of it. People try so hard not
to offend others (not just black people) but those who make these rules seem intent on making this country a complete nanny-state. Hear the one about the receptionist who got a disciplinary warning for calling people ‘love’?
~ Commission-hungry Shop Assistants
They surround you like Posh does to Becks when another affair story pops up and don’t go away. You walk into the shop and they pounce towards you, “Can I help at all, Sir?” Err, no, I’ve just walked into the shop? They get fed all this bull from their managers about earning an extra £1 and are on a relentless crusade to up their minimum wage earnings. I avoid these shops (electrical, sports etc) for this reason.
That’s about it. I’m sure there’s worse that annoys me (like the fact my girlfriend has been accusing me of becoming an alcoholic because I have spent the last week down the pub. Hey, it was my birthday!) but that will do for now.
Thanks a lot for reading,
©tbsgt
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