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off-topic You know what really grinds my gears?!?

Another thing that grinds my gears? People who call or text me and when I respond, they come back with a "never mind..." a couple hours later.
 
sicman said:
 
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     Neither hand is holding a phone. He's warming up for a watermelon eating contest.
 
AaronTT said:
What else grinds my gears? Touch screens cell phones, which is why I love Blackberries with Qwerty keypads, among other reasons. My fingers are too big for those little touch screen phones digital keypads. Plus, I just love the ability to press a button and end the call without any thing extra. Those touch screens you have to touch the screen to get it to awaken, then touch end call to do so, which sucks if your driving. I like to just press a button and know the call has ended. Plus, Blackberry has other quicker features I appreciate that touch screens dont have. Can you tell how much I hate touch screen phones? I like rugged, and touch screens for most models just dont cut it. I am also starting to hate smart phones in general. Data costs way too much, and the ability to abuse my privacy is just unacceptable. I don't need the ability to watch a movie, download this or that or whatever. I rather keep my money and my freedom. Fuk smart phones and that technology. Going to completely digital in all aspects is foolish in my opinion. People will get so 'trained' that if the shit hits the fan, they are screwed. If you cannot do anything without using tech, you are effed.
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Yeah I miss my old stupid phone. A ruggedized, water-resistant, shock resistant flip phone. Ya flip it open to answer a call and close it to end a call. If it falls off your tailgate when you drive away, you turn around and pick it up and go back to work. My last flip phone lasted almost 5 years. Company switched to "smart" phones a few years back and I'm lucky to go one year without killing another one.
That grinds my gears worse than the Rob Lowe who can't piss :twisted:
 
Another fun one;

Go to your chinese restaurant and picknick up some food. Here they serve wok and some sushi (yep not chinese, but popular)..

Get in line, wait your turn (diner time on saturday so it's crowded).

A rude woman, reeking like cat and tobacco smoke, talking loudly on the Phone was in front of me.. Atlast it's her turn...

(she was starting to annoy the shit out of me by that time).

She orders some stuff for around 25.. than she has to pay; card rejected, not enough money.. (she's still on the Phone, shooshing the cassiere with her finger).

by that time I was frustrated quite a bit..

Than she tried to pay cash; she only had 15 and some coins. Not enough.. well put 10 on the card, 15 cash..

Rejected..

Than all her cash, with the small coins and the left over Balance on her card.. rejected

DAMNIT I NEED TO EAT BY NOW (was already there for 30min).

Than the woman starts nagging (not crying) how she can't afford to feed her little Girl in december.

Wait, what? She can afford an iPhone 5, she can afford cigarettes and she can afford to get take out, where we are about a 5 min walk from a budget supermarket... where you can buy a weeks worth of groceries for the same 25!

An elderly lady throws in 5 and her card again, is refused. Probably because she felt sorry for the kid.

DAAAH

So the cassiere asks her to leave, but she won't. She than wants to leave out the 6 shrimps. They retry and atlast the payment goes through.

It took me a good hour to get my wok (!!), preparation time was only 10 min...

That really ground my gears..

I have respect for the less Fortunate, but if you can afford a top of the Bill smart Phone, cigarettes, take out food and a pet.. But can't feed you baby Girl - you don't have your priorities straight!

I grew up with little, but my parents immediately quit smoking and used a bicycle to go to work. I did get presents for christmas and we got take out on special occasions only. They worked hard to make that happen and didn't blow it on unnescesarry luxury. They sacrificed a lot to do so, and sure as hell didn't ask for charity. So yes, whisky tango that does so gets on my nerves... a lot.
 
I hate people in the grocery store line that are obsessed with that little divider thing.  Like I am really going to try to sneak some of my food into your pile of groceries.  
 
JayT said:
I hate people in the grocery store line that are obsessed with that little divider thing.  Like I am really going to try to sneak some of my food into your pile of groceries.  
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Just had some little old lady throw the divider up on me the other day. She was almost done with her transaction and had only a few things left to scan when i waked up. I sat a sixxer up at the very end and she turned around slammed the divider down and gave me a look of disgust and fear. 
 
sicman said:
Just had some little old lady throw the divider up on me the other day. She was almost done with her transaction and had only a few things left to scan when i waked up. I sat a sixxer up at the very end and she turned around slammed the divider down and gave me a look of disgust and fear. 
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Almost as bad are those people who insist in staying at the back of the checkout line while all their stuff is about done checking out, then get that indignant look on their face when they see the look on your face is one of "Move up, bitch!"
 
And I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but when I was a cashier at the local Publix, I really hated the extreme couponers, and dreaded having to tell them such when several of their coupons had expired because then I'd get a mixture of ignorance and belligerence. We also had this one lady who came in, and filled up the checkout conveyer to the brim and refused to let you begin scanning until she was in position to see all the prices. One time, a new girl who had no idea who she was just began scanning, and this lady tore her a new asshole when she saw her scanning her items, which is what all of us are normally supposed to do. This poor girl was bawling in tears (she was just hired), and quit. The lady was asked never to return to the store for treating employees like that.
 
Oh, and people who ignore the "10 items or less" sign and bring a shopping cart filled with items really grinds my gears too...
 
Haha, love the extreme couponing. They once put it up on us, and in Europe those rules don't allow you to stack stuff (it's in the fine print).Once that US stuff aired in Europe, lot's of people tried it here. So you get people putting 200 euros worth on the conveyor.. but the coupon says it's for max 4 items, not stackable, not on action items etc. So they kept trying this.. and maybe that old lady had a far relative in Europe, but exactly the same person went shopping here. She put two shopcarts of items on the conveyor belt. After we told her she could only use X amount of coupons etc she said KEEP IT and tried to walk away. One of the ladies of the cashiers dept actually made her shop back all the items she put on the conveyor, with a clerk checking she didn't just dump it in the store somewhere and walked out. All the shoppers applaud when the cashier lady stood up.
 
It took her about an hour to shop everything back, afterwards the cashier lady got into trouble for treating a customer like that. But she still works are the very same store (for over 20 years now) and has earned a cult status there.
 
We had special customer warranties like if it's cheaper somewhere else, it's 1 or 2 days from the expiry date, etc.. you get it for free. And you got certain people that actually checked ALL your department just to get 5 items for free.. after which your boss came complaining how he got anything out. And we had the warranty that we stock EVERYTHING a customer wanted. So for example.. a brand has a cherry, raspberry, chocolate and vanilla flavor of a certain item. You only stock the cherry, raspberry and vanilla.. because that's what customers buy. The chocolate one Always expires.
 
Than we were forced by company rules to put the chocolate one in the shelfe, after which those people kept checking the dates... very annoying.
 
Thank god I don't work in a supermarket anymore, I'd probably go postal. It seriously tested my nerves..
 
Just the other day in fact, I was at the neighborhood Walgreens, and this lady in front of my got annoyed with the cashier saying she couldn't buy damaged goods from the store, when they lady found this hanger that ostensibly had a wreath attached to it once upon a time (no idea if they lady did this on purpose), asking if she could get the hangar for a severe discount.
 
@sadistic, yep.. many stores stopped doing that, because people would drop cans etc to get a discount. Now they just throw them away because so many were taking advantage of it. I guess it would save a lot of money on the long term though.
 
Today what grinds my gears is photobucket. I had nearly 800 photos on photobucket so I decided to deleat some old ones to speed it up a bit. I was having to wait or even shut off then reopen photobucket to retrieve a new downloaded pic. Now the damn thing seems to be frozen. I opened a new account and its frozen too. AAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!
 
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