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

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#2750462 27-Jul-2021 11:26

Was watching a lady massage, touch, squeeze and pretty much feel every loaf of bread in the countdown bakery! I managed to find a loaf that was out of her reach! Unreal and very strange.

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#2750464 27-Jul-2021 11:31

outdoorsnz:Was watching a lady massage, touch, squeeze and pretty much feel every loaf of bread in the countdown bakery! I managed to find a loaf that was out of her reach! Unreal and very strange.

Confused the bread for avocados?

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#2750572 27-Jul-2021 11:53

A bread fetish? "Feel the crust on this big boy!"

Or an attack operative working for a rival supermarket or bakery? "Buy brand Y, because all the brand X loaves are crushed and mutilated!"

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#2750597 27-Jul-2021 12:54

Handsomedan:
It's that or just not being ridiculously wealthy and good-looking.

As someone who is ridiculously good looking and wealthy I can tell you it's not all that fabulous.

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#2750692 27-Jul-2021 14:08

outdoorsnz:

Was watching a lady massage, touch, squeeze and pretty much feel every loaf of bread in the countdown bakery! I managed to find a loaf that was out of her reach! Unreal and very strange.

Was this the bagged "commercial" bread or the in store baked unwrapped bread?

If the latter, I'd have been making a complaint to the store about someone having handled all the bread and then expecting others to want to eat it. In a normal world that's unhygienic but in the current covid-aware climate (obviously not everyone is aware it seems), that's just so much nope.

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#2751073 28-Jul-2021 09:58

geoffwnz:

Was this the bagged "commercial" bread or the in store baked unwrapped bread?

If the latter, I'd have been making a complaint to the store about someone having handled all the bread and then expecting others to want to eat it. In a normal world that's unhygienic but in the current covid-aware climate (obviously not everyone is aware it seems), that's just so much nope.

It was bagged in store bakery.

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#2751118 28-Jul-2021 11:40

Kiwi's lack of respect for the road, just in general never mind the terrible driving habits.

In the last 48 hours I've seen three cyclists on the road at night with no lights, no reflective gear and two with no helmet. One was riding on the hard shoulder of SH1 next to a passing lane with cars doing 100kph, virtually invisible against the trees on the side of the road. Another was on a single lane road with street lights and cars doing 70kph whilst the third was on an unlit, single lane, rural road with cars doing 70kph.

No word of a lie, the third one was no more than a meter from the car before I saw him. I drive this stretch of road every day, it's narrow and rural and there is no ambient light because there are no buildings around. I've done multiple track days and driver training days and I'd like to think I'm a careful driver looking well ahead. But the fact I didn't see him until I was passed him scared the hell out of me.

We regularly have kids crossing roads at intersections just stepping out without looking or stopping and also have school kids on bikes and scooters hopping between the path and road whenever they like to avoid pedestrians but veering into traffic instead.

Not to mention the idiots who see a parked car and choose to cross the center line into the opposing traffic instead of waiting until it's safe.

Why do we have so little respect for something that could kill us in a split second ?

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#2751163 28-Jul-2021 13:17

martyyn:

Kiwi's lack of respect for the road, just in general never mind the terrible driving habits.

In the last 48 hours I've seen three cyclists on the road at night with no lights, no reflective gear and two with no helmet. One was riding on the hard shoulder of SH1 next to a passing lane with cars doing 100kph, virtually invisible against the trees on the side of the road. Another was on a single lane road with street lights and cars doing 70kph whilst the third was on an unlit, single lane, rural road with cars doing 70kph.

No word of a lie, the third one was no more than a meter from the car before I saw him. I drive this stretch of road every day, it's narrow and rural and there is no ambient light because there are no buildings around. I've done multiple track days and driver training days and I'd like to think I'm a careful driver looking well ahead. But the fact I didn't see him until I was passed him scared the hell out of me.

We regularly have kids crossing roads at intersections just stepping out without looking or stopping and also have school kids on bikes and scooters hopping between the path and road whenever they like to avoid pedestrians but veering into traffic instead.

Not to mention the idiots who see a parked car and choose to cross the center line into the opposing traffic instead of waiting until it's safe.

Why do we have so little respect for something that could kill us in a split second ?

I am not sure it's a lack of respect, it's a lack of common sense.

I always think to myself, that if a careless pedestrian or cyclist or motorcyclist were to put them in avoidable harms way with my car, and was killed, their pain is over relatively quickly, but that would haunt me, blameless or not, for the remainder of my life.

I know someone who killed a pedestrian (unavoidable and in no way person fault) They are a shell of themselves now, and will not drive a car again.

The number of times I see pedestrians walk onto the road, staring at their screen and with headphones/airpods in, without so much as a cautioned glance, scares the living snot out of me.

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#2751168 28-Jul-2021 13:39

The issues with NZ road users are...

1. They believe the rules are optional.

2.Their vehicle is a toy.

3. The public roads are their personal playground.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2751173 28-Jul-2021 13:44

MikeB4:

The issues with NZ road users are...

1. They believe the rules are optional.

2.Their vehicle is a toy.

3. The public roads are their personal playground.

4) They believe they are all capable of super human driving, and super human responses to unexpected conditions. (Most drivers over estimate their abilities and the capabilities of their vehicles)

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#2751177 28-Jul-2021 13:49

networkn:

4) They believe they are all capable of super human driving, and super human responses to unexpected conditions. (Most drivers over estimate their abilities and the capabilities of their vehicles)

Very true. Any idiot can put their foot down on the loud pedal, very few can do it safely

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2751211 28-Jul-2021 14:25

i have said it before but it is my pet hate. Brands that change there taste of popular products for no reason, it is Nescafe this time who have changed the formula and taste of their flavoured sachets . My son tipped his out because when he poured the water in it frothed up, he thought there was something wrong with it. They also changed the taste to a "richer flavour" which he hates as he said they seem to have "sweetened it with marshmallows". He wont drink it again , so well done Nescafé you have lost a customer for no reason.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2751343 28-Jul-2021 15:46

I don't get it when companies do that. People buy things because they like them, so when a company changes the product they've removed the reason to purchase.

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#2751364 28-Jul-2021 16:10

vexxxboy:

i have said it before but it is my pet hate. Brands that change there taste of popular products for no reason, it is Nescafe this time who have changed the formula and taste of their flavoured sachets . My son tipped his out because when he poured the water in it frothed up, he thought there was something wrong with it. They also changed the taste to a "richer flavour" which he hates as he said they seem to have "sweetened it with marshmallows". He wont drink it again , so well done Nescafé you have lost a customer for no reason.

To play devils advocate (and whilst I don't like it either) there are often many reasons a manufacturer will change a recipe. A relationship with an upstream supplier may end, supply of an ingredient may become constrained or there may be ongoing supply issues. Price cam be a factor, margin, all sorts of things. It's less often than a manufacturer looks at something that is working perfectly and decides for the hell of it to change it.

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#2751371 28-Jul-2021 16:17

networkn:

To play devils advocate (and whilst I don't like it either) there are often many reasons a manufacturer will change a recipe. A relationship with an upstream supplier may end, supply of an ingredient may become constrained or there may be ongoing supply issues. Price cam be a factor, margin, all sorts of things. It's less often than a manufacturer looks at something that is working perfectly and decides for the hell of it to change it.

Likewise devil's advocate... or the manufacturer decides that it's *not* working perfectly, so they improve it. Whilst they may lose one customer who doesn't like marshmallows, they expect to pick up many more who do, presumably after doing market surveys and taste tests and so on.

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