Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

My perenially nosey uncle stopping me while out walking the dog, seemingly just to ask me if my wife is working at the moment, and then following up with more questions when I said no.

Politely told him it was no-one else's business but her own, but as the evening has gone on, I feel bad for losing my temper as he was apologising profusely afterwards.

glenroes?

I still watch Heartbeat on DVD every Sunday night :)

Was chatting in the family group about how I needed to renew my passport and what a plava it was, it seems almost impossible to send it from the post office anymore.

Ta1 I don't live in the city where I could do this at my local po.

Sib decided that they should send theirs with mine even tho it's not due for over a year, so now they are disturbing my breakfast asking me how to spell stuff and what they should put in each section.

Ta2, ppl who don't read and disturb my breakfast bc of this(see also how it will be wrong/returned and I will have to hear all about it when it does)

One from a regular bus commuter. Why, repeat, why do some people insist on stopping and standing in the spot right behind the driver's cab after getting on? You know, the tightest spot in the entire bus, sandwiched between the front wheel well and the stairs to the top deck? And doing so even though there's ample standing room further back and even seats?

You might have scratch the retina with something in your eye a week ago or scratched the lid so its heeling. Either way it can be irritated for a while.

Used to work full time with a chain saw and often got sawdust in the eye. Sometimes it came out and was OK other times when eyeball or lid got scratched it felt like it was still there for at least a week.

Sounds painful.

TA'd that I can't be a fly on the wall on your neighbours house. From reading your posts here, they seem equal parts irritating and entertaining. Presumably more irritating from your POV though.

walkers staying on a narrow road when vehicles coming either way instead of stepping onto the margin - and especially where there is one. Think of the advantages of /rewards for stepping in such as :-

(1) the risk of being killed/injured massively reduced - think of driver being on drugs/being drunk/ driving very fast/ a very young and very inexperienced and unlicensed driver

(2) It’s showing respect and a caring attitude - the driver could be very elderly and they would prefer to Drive on a ‘walker free road rather than trying to ‘ negotiating’ their way around a walker. Driver may also be on his/her way to attend a serious emmergency.

(3) think of the extra Co2 produced when a vehicle has to slow down and ‘take off again’ if walker stays on the road

1. I've seen some victim blaming in my time on boards, but telling people to walk in the ditch instead of the road because of the drunks, speedsters and unlicensed dopes behind the wheel is a new low
2. Respect is a two way street. The walker could be very elderly and I'm sure they would all prefer to walk on a car-free road rather than trying to accommodate people breaking the law for no reason other than they're selfish cnuts who are unwilling to share the road. Emergency or not, no driver has the right to barrel around the place. Where the fcuk is your calls for them to show 'a caring attitude'? The care of duty is on the person in the 2-ton machine, not the vulnerable pedestrian
3. If you were in ANY way concerned about CO2, you wouldn't be in the car in the first place. You'll have to forgive my refusal to take your third point seriously, seems like you're feigning concern as a way of lambasting people who are slowing you down for, literally, seconds

People are bastards. It only takes one or two to ruin the days/weeks/years/lives of the majority. More than TA'd at people who turn into self-centered, lazy, hypocritical, rage-addicts when they're behind the wheel. There are many problems on our roads, and the vast, vast, vast majority of them (and ALL of the serious ones) are caused by the four-wheeled occupants.

If someone is walking on the road, they're doing it for a reason. Maybe try to think WHY they're doing it, instead of excusing scumbags with a rake of pints in them.

Slow down, pass when it's safe, carry on with your day. It's that easy.

The background muzak on the H&B ad on sm!!!!

Gave me Sunday afternoon 1970's kid's tv vibes.

I cant get to it before it makes me bolk!!

I heard they're running low on koala bears, only enough left to focus on the toilet roll.

TA I was out walking and came across a magnificent horse with big bright blue eyes , I've never seen that before. Took about ten pictures of him and the fecker is blinking in every single one.