Annoyances and inconveniences that just get on your nerves (college, people)
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This doesn't apply in my town. The people in the post office here have been there for years and they are very nice. They've gone out of their way to find the cheapest way to send my packages and letters many times. Not only do they take debit and credit cards, I can get cash back, too. They look like they are hustling all the time, to me, some days it's a never ending line for window service.
I'm impressed at my local USPS workers not only at the office but letter carriers too! If they don't care they are certainly good at faking it, and faking good humor. As a result of my business I am a frequent USPS customer, and when I meet my letter carrier as she loads up our CBU (cluster box unit) she and I chat and she hands me my mail without even asking my name! This is like a x15 CBU yet she knows me! That's because I treat her as I would any people, all of them unique and valuable enough to relate to as individuals.
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Originally Posted by ocnjgirl
Mine is people who don't put their cart in the cart corral, even if it was 5 feet from their spot. I shouldn't have to get out of my car to move a cart from the spot to park, nor worry about my cart being hit by wayward carts on windy days because the last person was too lazy to put it where it belongs.
It first I didn't get what carts you were talking about. I was starting to think medieval!
My related peeve is that the market doesn't provide enough corrals and you have to take it back to the market entrance. However in my usually good mien and physical fitness enthusiasm I just treat it as more reps. For the same reason I often take stairways and eschew elevators. I mean, Jeez! They have stair-stepper machines at my gym. Use them yet take elevators? Where's the sense in that?
I wish they would provide "rider" carts but without self-propulsion, and have dial-in resistance settings for the bicycle pedals.
All the above, and other similar examples, irritate me too. Makes one wonder how people get that way? Are they raised by their parents to believe they are truly special snowflakes, that the sun rises and sets on them alone?
Is that the "snowflake" thing I've been hearing about? I've oft heard the term but not the new-speak definition.
"You are important in the world because you are unique?" Hell, we have what, 3 billion unique humans currently alive? Or do we have 3 billion instances of one typical human nature?
I find it annoying when people start their sentences with: "So". These are usually the same people who also "upspeak"; every sentence sounds like a question.
-"So, I went to the farmers' market? And they were out of free-range kale?"
-"So, I wanted to buy an artisinal beanie? But the Alpaca-wool was not free-trade? And I had already made plans to be in the drum-circle?
You cannot get too many reps for this ^^^^^ Both are extremely annoying to me. They are using "so" as if they are instructing the listener on every detail. I call the "upspeak" singing. Just TALK for cryin' out loud, this is not preschool and you're not talking to little children.
People on phones talking or texting who forget they're walking and either slow down or stop dead right in front of you.
Ha!
People shopping with Blutooth earwigs (ear pieces) with their volume set low enough that it activates the natural human response to faint audio to speak more loudly. As a result you have these people talking loudly as a natural response to a compromised audio communication, a result of eons of evolution. Hear faintly talk louder...
I often amuse myself by entering into such communications, engaging the shopper with the earwig and inserting myself into their private (?) communications! I get really amused by the consternation my intervention causes! At times it reaches the ROTFLMAO level as they try to handle the crossed lines of communications between their Blu partner and my more physical manifestation as a real person, right in their face!
I'll admit I'm bad! Hell, if you are carrying a bundle of helium balloons is it my fault that I have a pin and the wont to use it?
I'm always amazed that such people carry on phone conversations in public places (usually the supermarket) and usually loudly, and then expect everybody to just ignore it?
I think that due to conservation of energy and mass, there is a pin for every balloon in the universe.
Children that make lots of noise in nice restaurants, and the idiot parents act like nothing is wrong.
They invented Chucky Cheese for that. And that Irish restaurant... MacDougal's?
In good restaurants and such situations I have always contacted the manager with my complaint, and invariably within minutes I find myself and my dining friends relocated to a more quiet part of the restaurant with no problem at all!
People who don't say thank you when you hold a door for them.
Funny, that doesn't happen to me, and I often do that. Perhaps it is my engaging smile that obligates them to recognize me as a fellow human.
I am always effuse in my smiles and verbal appreciation when I am the recipient. This occurs particularly at the entrance to my local gym.
Heh, manual doors at a gym? Like they have exercise machines within and they'd have automatic doors. Och, the irony, the irony! (That they would have self opening doors at a gym!) No they have manual doors at MY gym.
I always take the opportunity to open doors to my exercising enthusiasts. Just more Kcals for me!
I thought the cracking of some post office employees was due to tedium, monotony, and ennui.
My experience is entirely the opposite. The worst I have ever encountered at USPS is an "in a hurry" mood. That, with a long line behind me. Entirely understandable.
You cannot get too many reps for this ^^^^^ Both are extremely annoying to me. They are using "so" as if they are instructing the listener on every detail. I call the "upspeak" singing. Just TALK for cryin' out loud, this is not preschool and you're not talking to little children.
I thought the cracking of some post office employees was due to tedium, monotony, and ennui.
It doesn't seem tedious to me. They are running around a lot in there, and the actual mailmen enjoy a lot of freedom. It seems much more tedious to work in a factory or a hotel cleaning job or a furniture store salesman, where the majority of the day is standing around with your hands in your pockets waiting for a customer to come in.
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This is like a x15 CBU yet she knows me! That's because I treat her as I would any people, all of them unique and valuable enough to relate to as individuals.
