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Pet Peeves v. 5.0
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Fjones
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Well played Cletus.
Finishing up my series of pet peeves before the holiday:
2) People who cannot use the self checkout lanes at the supermarket.
How retarded are people anyway? Is this really that difficult? If you're standing there for two minutes and nothing is happening, IT MEANS YOU FUCKED UP AND YOU NEED TO PRESS ANOTHER BUTTON OR GET HELP!
1) Supermarket clerks who ask for the customer's savings card for a one-item purchase that isn't even on sale, and the idiot customers who indulge this pointless exercise in time-wasting by getting the card out.
What the fuck!???? The screen puts up a "CS" prompt if anything is on sale. Why would you ask the person if he wants to use his savings card for his $1.59 iced tea when it won't DO anything!????? And why would the customer get it out?? What’s with people anyway? Don’t people have somewhere to be by a certain time???????
Finishing up my series of pet peeves before the holiday:
2) People who cannot use the self checkout lanes at the supermarket.
How retarded are people anyway? Is this really that difficult? If you're standing there for two minutes and nothing is happening, IT MEANS YOU FUCKED UP AND YOU NEED TO PRESS ANOTHER BUTTON OR GET HELP!
1) Supermarket clerks who ask for the customer's savings card for a one-item purchase that isn't even on sale, and the idiot customers who indulge this pointless exercise in time-wasting by getting the card out.
What the fuck!???? The screen puts up a "CS" prompt if anything is on sale. Why would you ask the person if he wants to use his savings card for his $1.59 iced tea when it won't DO anything!????? And why would the customer get it out?? What’s with people anyway? Don’t people have somewhere to be by a certain time???????
^ the safeway club card, for example, offers benefits which go beyond saving money on selected items. there are a couple of programs which give you benefits for every single penny spent, even if the transaction in question has no items in it which are on sale.
some people simply use their card for every purchase for that reason. for them, it's not a pointless exercise in time wasting - it's a material benefit.
alasdair
some people simply use their card for every purchase for that reason. for them, it's not a pointless exercise in time wasting - it's a material benefit.
alasdair
RedLeader
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^ Interesting response. I wonder if there are Safeway stores (or similar) near where Fjones lives. If so, he might need to start shopping there instead 
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Anyway, my current pet peeve would be the amount of difficulty involved in reading street addresses in busy, congested areas.
For example, I was supposed to drive to 1400 X Avenue today, which exists off of a 5 lane road. Traffic was chaotic.
Why can't businesses be curteous enough to either 1) put their addresses near the road and/or 2) display them in LARGE numbers on their storefronts?
I see 1280 and think that I am getting close, almost get into about 135435254 accidents trying to scan for 1400, and then finally see a Starbucks displaying 1560.
Now I have to turn myself around and figure out how to make a cross-traffic turn into wherever 1400 should be located.
It should be like mile markers on a highway. If a merchant owns address 1400, then perpendicular to the storefront on the road should be an easy-to-read sign displaying "1400" (or an appropriate range).
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Anyway, my current pet peeve would be the amount of difficulty involved in reading street addresses in busy, congested areas.
For example, I was supposed to drive to 1400 X Avenue today, which exists off of a 5 lane road. Traffic was chaotic.
Why can't businesses be curteous enough to either 1) put their addresses near the road and/or 2) display them in LARGE numbers on their storefronts?
I see 1280 and think that I am getting close, almost get into about 135435254 accidents trying to scan for 1400, and then finally see a Starbucks displaying 1560.
Now I have to turn myself around and figure out how to make a cross-traffic turn into wherever 1400 should be located.
It should be like mile markers on a highway. If a merchant owns address 1400, then perpendicular to the storefront on the road should be an easy-to-read sign displaying "1400" (or an appropriate range).
Fjones' peeve and ali's response reminded me of a pet peeve I have:
There's a chemist near my work that I often get my prescriptions from at lunchtime. A few times the girls behind the counter offered me their store's loyalty card, to which I resisted because I always forget to use those darn things, plus I never had time to sign up. But then one day I had a few extra moments and decided to take the offer up. Signed up for the card, put it in my wallet and went on my merry way, all ready to remember to use it next time.
So I went in and get a prescription filled like 2 weeks later, got to the cashier and presented my card, and the girl was like "Oh sorry you can't use the club card for prescriptions"
Oh......okay....well that is kinda pointless.
So then a few weeks later I was in the same shopping centre and remembered I needed some more multivitamins. So I went to the chemist, got to the cashier, presented my loyalty card and the girl said "Oh sorry, you can't use the club card for health food supplements"
...sorry, what??
It turns out you can't use the loyalty card for prescriptions, health food products, or any sale items.
What the fuck CAN I use it for then?! I may as well throw the damn thing out :D
There's a chemist near my work that I often get my prescriptions from at lunchtime. A few times the girls behind the counter offered me their store's loyalty card, to which I resisted because I always forget to use those darn things, plus I never had time to sign up. But then one day I had a few extra moments and decided to take the offer up. Signed up for the card, put it in my wallet and went on my merry way, all ready to remember to use it next time.
So I went in and get a prescription filled like 2 weeks later, got to the cashier and presented my card, and the girl was like "Oh sorry you can't use the club card for prescriptions"
Oh......okay....well that is kinda pointless.
So then a few weeks later I was in the same shopping centre and remembered I needed some more multivitamins. So I went to the chemist, got to the cashier, presented my loyalty card and the girl said "Oh sorry, you can't use the club card for health food supplements"
...sorry, what??
It turns out you can't use the loyalty card for prescriptions, health food products, or any sale items.
What the fuck CAN I use it for then?! I may as well throw the damn thing out :D
RedLeader
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^If you lose your wallet and some evil person collects it and tries to mooch off of your rewards cards, at least s/he will be peeved by the subsequent rejections/complications
Jabberwocky
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A check out issue that I have to ignore cause it could really get me close to a meltdown if I fixated on it is: the people with a huge number of items using an express lane that has a clear sign saying something like 14 items or less. Most of my out in the world peeves I have to dismiss from consciousness as they are going on because there is sort of a civility contract that we don't confront strangers about things that aren't that big of a deal-BUT then you see it over and over.
There should be a Criminal Minds episode where the serial killer's big connection to the killers is that they all went through an express lane with a cart full of enough items to make it through an Alaskan winter.
There should be a Criminal Minds episode where the serial killer's big connection to the killers is that they all went through an express lane with a cart full of enough items to make it through an Alaskan winter.
RedLeader
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^ That has been mentioned before in a Pet Peeves version. And yes, it is quite annoying.
There should be lanes for like 13-24 items, 25-39 items, etc.
...And yes, five identical yogurts = five items. This is important.
There should be lanes for like 13-24 items, 25-39 items, etc.
...And yes, five identical yogurts = five items. This is important.
Hmmm, in theory this would be ideal.
But you have to remember that most people are stupid, therefore this would end in huge catastrophic confusion of the masses! :D
RedLeader
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Okay, so how about self-scan lanes which time you. #items/#seconds. If you score well, then you will get rebates. If you score poorly, then like any gamble, you give additional money to the house (grocier). Make money off of people's stupidity (stupidity profits distrubited across grocier and skilled shoppers).
I'm sure that payment type and ability to process it quickly/slowly could be weighed out in this effort as well.
I'm sure that payment type and ability to process it quickly/slowly could be weighed out in this effort as well.
it's true of many stores - i just used safeway as it's the first which came to mind.^ Interesting response. I wonder if there are Safeway stores (or similar) near where Fjones lives. If so, he might need to start shopping there instead
i fully support your self-checkout idea
alasdair
silentangst
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Yeah, I hear that. It's so unthoughtful.
silentangst
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People who are so used to typing 'lol' with everything they say that they do it even after typing 'haha'.
ie. Saw some of the pics haha lol
ie. Saw some of the pics haha lol
Fjones
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Awesome. As soon as someone explains to me WHAT these "benefits" are (since Safeway sure didn't), I'll start shopping there more often.
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