[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3261705 20-Jul-2024 08:22

eracode:

.... I also leave my basket at the terminal.

Ah so you're the one I end up muttering about as I return both yours and my basket 😊

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#3261707 20-Jul-2024 08:44

Unsure why Amazon feels the need to ask me every single time I go to the site if I want to change my address.

"We're showing you items that ship to your address, to see items that ship to a different country, change your delivery address".

Other than "YouShop" etc, why on earth would I want to change my address every blimmen time I visit the site, usually to check tracking on something that is already in transit to MY address.

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#3261717 20-Jul-2024 09:20

eracode: When I’ve paid and it asks “Do you wish to print a receipt?” I just ignore it, pick up my stuff and walk out leaving it hanging - as my little childish protest. I also leave my basket at the terminal.

Glad you agree this is childish; all you're doing is making work more difficult for the minimum wage worker who has zero control over what you're objecting to.

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#3261726 20-Jul-2024 09:50

jamesrt:
eracode: When I’ve paid and it asks “Do you wish to print a receipt?” I just ignore it, pick up my stuff and walk out leaving it hanging - as my little childish protest. I also leave my basket at the terminal.

Glad you agree this is childish; all you're doing is making work more difficult for the minimum wage worker who has zero control over what you're objecting to.

I see the whole self checkout thing as supermarkets reducing the numbers of employees they need - to the detriment of their staff and inconvenience to their customers. Our local Ww has a large self-checkout area and only two proper checkout lanes and usually only one of them is open - and sometimes neither of them are open.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3261727 20-Jul-2024 09:51

At least at my local New World, the employees will often take the baskets as soon as they're empty, before you've even finished paying.

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#3261728 20-Jul-2024 09:58

Compare to some me where baskets are just left behind by customers, and no one collects these for a while.

For people who are watching everyone in that area they seem to miss these a lot.

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#3261730 20-Jul-2024 10:07

When your rubbish does not get collected on rubbish day because your bin lid was open 5cm (literally 5cm). And there's a tag from council stating 'bin lid must be fully closed'.

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#3261819 20-Jul-2024 13:54

My small annoyance is that in a city with too many golf courses almost none of them are playable in winter.

Well two are. One is the most exclusive in the country. And the second is miles away

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#3261836 20-Jul-2024 15:12

allan: Ah so you're the one I end up muttering about as I return both yours and my basket 😊

I doubt my local paknsave even has baskets. The thing that bothers me some days is trollies everywhere in the carpark less than three metres from a trolley park in most cases. If it's raining cats and dogs maybe then for some people ok fair enough. But, some days even the underground carpark..

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#3261844 20-Jul-2024 15:48

I saw something once about how you can tell whether a given person is fundamentally good or bad based on whether they return their trolley.

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#3261851 20-Jul-2024 16:17

Behodar: I saw something once about how you can tell whether a given person is fundamentally good or bad based on whether they return their trolley.

Coincidentally I was thinking about D&D character types as I was docking my trolley yesterday. I expect there are many more social factors and all that psychology of behaviour in crowds stuff.

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#3261859 20-Jul-2024 16:33

Behodar:

I saw something once about how you can tell whether a given person is fundamentally good or bad based on whether they return their trolley.

Can't be right. I always return my trolley.

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#3261878 20-Jul-2024 17:40

Behodar:

At least at my local New World, the employees will often take the baskets as soon as they're empty, before you've even finished paying.

Don't you have a deposit coin or chip in your shopping cart that you can only get back when you connect the trolley to the station?

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#3261879 20-Jul-2024 17:45

freitasm:

Those egotistical LinkedIn users who write posts using single-line sentences and end with a selfie.

Also, those one-sentence paragraphs should be multiple-sentence paragraphs. You break a paragraph when you change the idea.

But then, how would you take more than two pages from someone's life?

Most of those are entirely unrelated to business or their business personas. (Note I didn't paste the entire post below, it continues).

LinkedIn is just turning into Facebook.

I am Boomer, I program AI myself, but I don't trust it (because it can be manipulated by humans).

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#3261884 20-Jul-2024 17:58

Tinkerisk:

Don't you have a deposit coin or chip in your shopping cart that you can only get back when you connect the trolley to the station?

No. I know the things you're talking about (I've seen them in Europe) but I've never seen them over here. They might exist in "high trolley crime" areas though.

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