Worked up over small things! (Worst)

Member Name: blackviolets

Product:	Worst
Date:	07/10/09 (68 review reads)
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I do tend to blather on at home about things which annoy me. Which thinking about it probably annoys other people because I keep going on and on. This could then lead them to become snappy with me which would again annoy me because they clearly aren't listening properly. And people who don't listen properly appear on my list of what annoys me. So it is, just an ongoing circle! However I am going to resort to a top 5 list as quite a few things which bug me are very trivial...

5. Car drivers who don't stop.
There is a road I need to cross every Wednesday. It has no traffic lights or zebra crossings nearby so I have no other method of getting across other than to wait for somebody to slow down. Unless you appear to be very old or have a small child next to you, then expect to have to wait at least 25 minutes to get to the other side of the road. Today for example, pouring with rain myself, two teenagers and a man with a briefcase stood for far too long waiting for a car driver to stop and let us pass by. All four of us in a line, you'd have to be some kind of idiot to not know that we wanted to cross the road. I think they get some kind of perverse pleasure of seeing four people looking like drowned rats and then I swear to God they drive as close to the kurb as possibly, so as to get us even more wet with the puddles which appear when it rains. We don't have the nice option of moving out of the way because the pavement is so small you're practically standing in the road anyway.

4. Chuggers. I have nothing against those who take to the streets on behalf of raising money for charity. I just wish they wouldn't set me as a prime target. I think I must have it tatooed on me somewhere because every time I'm up the road and they are milling about the place they head in my direction. No sooner have I managed to shake one off another person will take their place from the same charity! And you can't mistake them because they always seem to be wearing a bright red waterproof jacket and hat. When they do manage to corner me the first thing they always seem to say is that I don't have to look so scared! Even though I duck into shops when I sight somebody approaching I think they lie and wait until I appear again

3. Market researchers. More or less the same reasons as above although these people are a lot more persistant. I find that these will not let me have the chance to get into a shop where they home in so quickly. What do they offer you in exchange for your valueble time? A plastic pen and a cup of coffee. They stand hovering about and just as you are about to leave after a 'quick' questionnaire they keep you there (with us it's a pub) asking if you want to buy a drink or some food from the pub. Obviously the reason why the owner allowed them to set up shop there in the first place.

2. Users. By this I mean people who are supposed to, as my assessment paper states, 'help gain confidence for those needing to be introduced into a working environment.' I've been doing voluntary work for a charity for 4 years now and a 2 year work placement at our local council postroom. Sometimes I like it, other times not so much but what gets me is the fact that they lump me with all the things that they are perfectly capable of doing themselves, just not when they want to finish eating their biscuit or drinking a coffee.

They can just sit there having a natter whilst shoving me in a corner to frank a load of mail or doing data entry. Then they openly talk about somebody who they've recently employed to do a job which I've been doing for free! Wouldn't dare to even suggest that there was a vacancy going in the first place. I know why they wouldn't. Why pay her when we could get her for free and claim it as part of a confidence building sceme. They all have a strong feeling as to what I'm like. How when I grow comfortable in places you'll struggle to get rid of me because I don't want to move on. To be fair this is more with the charity I volunteer at. At least the council have the decency to give me a birthday card!

1. Rude people. There are so ways in which you can class somebody as being this. One aspect of it however is when they barge into me but then I'm the one expected to aplogise and if I don't I get dirty looks for it. Then there's the ones who are ignorant. Or not being polite...

So that's more or less it for now. No doubt late on I'll have found something which should be there in replacement of another but still. It's time for my evening cup of tea and at least by writing this down it's out of my system...for tonight anyhow.

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