Stupid little things that bug you

normskih said:
Cyclists with headphones has been happening for years. A family friend’s nephew was killed many years ago. He cycled into the path of a car. He was on his paper round. Terribly sad for everyone involved and yes, we see it so often, I used to ride my bike to work every day. Never once used headphones but the amount of pedestrians walking opposite me on their phones not looking where they were going was always a problem, I had to be extra vigilant and before anyone says about me cycling on a pavement. The path leading to the airport are shared cycle paths and that’s where I’m talking about.
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I was cycling down Deansgate once and I could see this young woman walking on the pavement towards the road, intending to cross, but totally oblivious to any cars or traffic that might be there because she was staring at her mobile. Even so I assumed she'd stop at the kerb, but no, she just wandered into my path, so I screamed "WATCHOUT" into her earhole which scared the life out of her and made her drop the phone. Bet she was more careful in future.

Not as bad as another time when an old lady with a shopping trolley waited at the kerb, with no traffic but me in the cycle lane, for about 10 seconds as I approached, then decided to step out in front of me as if I was invisible, making me slam my brakes on and coming to a halt just in front of her.

There's some bonkers pedestrians out there.
 
Pharmacists, chemist to us foc's.

They are currently moaning about how much the govt. doesn't pay them. It's a pity they don't, won't or can't do their job 8ndtead of moaning.

My daughter in law is over from Australia, she is breastfeeding her 7 month old daughter.
She went into our local chemist and asked for an anti histamine that was safe for breastfeeding.
The assistant said she'd have to go to her doctors. After the D.I.L. explained she was visiting this country and didn't have a doctor the woman went and asked the chemist, who told her to ask the nearest doctor to treat her as an emergency patient and get a prescription.

My son googled it and went to Tescos where he bought some off the shelf.

We are told that pharmacists are trained and should be used as the first point of call. Maybe this useless woman was a one off but to me it sums up the British free loading couldn't give a shit attitude.

I'm also going to post something in the Manchester airport thread. In short. Within 2 days of being here, my D.I.L. is very disappointed with this country.
 
Techies that can’t write instructions; ie all of them. I have just done a ‘prove you are not a robot’ thing in which the instructions said ‘move the object to face in the direction of the hand’ but what I discovered after some frustration was that they meant ‘in the same direction in which the hand is pointing’..
Similarly, I have just entered all the details required by a website but when I got to the end it said ‘closed for maintenance’ Er…put that at the beginning you apes.
 
Squirrels. Nasty little bastards do endless damage in my garden. Not least digging up bulbs for no obvious reason as they don't eat them but just leave them lying there.

I reckon you should be able to take their heads to the cop shop and claim a £10 bounty. That would sort the buggers and help relieve poverty, Bloody rats with a bushy tail.
 
BrianW said:
Squirrels. Nasty little bastards do endless damage in my garden. Not least digging up bulbs for no obvious reason as they don't eat them but just leave them lying there.

I reckon you should be able to take their heads to the cop shop and claim a £10 bounty. That would sort the buggers and help relieve poverty, Bloody rats with a bushy tail.
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Mole catchers used to hang them up on the fence for the farmer to count and pay accordingly.
A few years ago we were plagued by a mole in our garden but we actually found a mole catcher to do the job.
 
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