Most annoying and irritating list

The small tomato ketchup sachets that can’t be opened, only by stabbing the corner with a fork then it’s makes a mess or sprays all over the best shirt.

The more you try to tear the corner the harder it gets.

Bus passengers entering the bus that don’t look to see if any other passengers are exiting the bus so they walk on to block them trying to get off the bus.

Those microwave ready meals that don’t have a pull tab on the plastic cover, so you burn the fingers trying to pull it off the container.

Call centres that pass you around to five different departments as each colleague is not experienced or trained enough to deal with the enquiry.

You get to final person who seems to know what they are doing but he or she asks for some specific information that the first person who answered the call only knew so you have to start all over again.

With credit card companies and banks I have been on calls that have lasted one hour and a half, the plans I had for the day were all aborted.

Chat robots on nearly everything now, it will continuously ask lots of questions so I just put speak to an advisor to bypass the bot, when you do get a human they are either Indian or Eastern European and have zero English language skills in communicating, poor grammar and spelling is another issue, once again it’s pass the parcel again, as they tell me that have to escalate the enquiry to a higher level.

When you go Greggs etc order a coffee they struggle put a lid on then 30 seconds later you have taken it off to add sugar . and why do you need for a lid anyway.
I always ask leave lid off don’t need it but mostly get told company policy few do though

I use my teeth for brown / tomato sauce sachets

Wife parking her car right upto the garage door so I’ve got to move her car to get motorbike out

Daughter still in covid mode with hand sanitizer every 5 seconds , borrowed my car for a week & it was every where , it takes me a w /end now to clean the inside of her car , even ruined some of the doors / handles in her house

Daughter comming to stay , every time I fill her car up it’s only got 50 miles in it

Daughters partner who’s never paid for a meal / drink in I believe the 10 yrs daughters bern with him , but persists in ordering the biggest meal on the menu

That policy may have been down to that American who got millions in compensation because her coffee cup didn’t have a warning to say it was hot water, I think it was McDonalds or Starbucks?

Shop staff that aggressively place the change in your hand but turn their head to ignore you on purpose as they are so engrossed in the conversation with their work colleagues of what Beth and Jess did last night when on the lash.

It is a bit more complicated than that.

McD’s served coffee about ten or twenty degrees hotter than other outlets. The affected woman was hospitalised and had skin grafts etc. It wasn’t a 30 second ouch! moment. They were asked for an amount 20k$ but offered only a fraction of that. It went to court and at that point millions were awarded against them. McD appealed and it went to arbitration. All here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v.\_McDonald’s_Restaurants

Carryfast and his bull.

Tell you what really annoys me you go to places that are big have plenty of staff. And get told dinner time come back later can’t tip you.
Why can’t they at least leave one for forklift driver on .have his dinner earlier /later save us waiting around.
And people who park forward on supermarket carparks then struggle to reverse out of space because they can’t drive.
Reverse parking should be mandatory. And parking spaces should be bigger as cars are getting bigger. Good job I’m slim

Mothers who put the baby seat in the car with door open with cars going past very closely and the the car driver waiting patiently has to wait until she has put the little rug rat in the car then wait for ages to strap the brat.

Why not do all that on the kerbside?

People using public toilets who don’t flush,or wee on the floor due to bad aim or on the toilet seat, if a loo brush is available to clean the pan , they never use it.

When ordering a coffee I say I want a Cortado and the server asks if it’s a latte I wanted.

That’s two very distinctively different words and they ask that.

So Toby of all people starts a thread on TN entitled of all things …

‘‘Most annoying and irritating list’’…..:thinking: hmmmm.

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