Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[RedLeader]

He does it for the same reason that greenfalcon uses his avatar - to piss people like you off.

 

[SHHMCJOOAPOYS]

I was on the bus the other day and a baby started crying. At least I thought that's what it was. No, Some guy had the sound of a crying baby as a ringtone on his mobile phone. What the fuck?! Why would you do that?? He then waited for ages before answering it, so by the time it stopped a real baby had started crying. That and the teenage brats playing crappy pop music through their crappy phone speakers for everyone to hear (I can use headphones, why can't they?). Of course I'd forgotten to bring my mp3 player so had to put up with it for the whole 40 minute journey. Aaaaaaaargh!

Both of these occurrences would annoy the hell out of me.

 

[ThaiDie4]

]Babies should never be allowed in public.[/B]



Seriously though, I agree parents should act to make their baby stop crying. I cannot stand that. I have a hard time containing myself not to go yell STFU at crying babies' face.

Haha, truthfully I feel that way too but I felt I would be offending a lot of parents by saying that.

Realistically, babies and small children WILL be in public. But personally, I wish they weren't allowed. I hate kids. I was pretty damn annoying as one myself, so I know if I ever had any they would probably be annoying too.

 

[jam uh weezy]

oh, and when i spend time doing dishes that are largely not mine, and someone immediately fills the sink back up with dishes, i am likely to want to knock said person the fuck out.

Have you ever talked to them about this? My place has an agreement, you use it, you wash it. If you don't wash it it gets thrown in your bed. Moldy, stinky, doesn't matter.

If one of us is in a hurry, we'll leave a dish or whatever in the sink and wash later. No big deal, but what pisses me off is when someone half wit forgets that they did this, and then starts bitching at ME for leaving dishes in the sink. really gets my blood steaming.

 

[**hAyzzZZ**]

Assholes who are listening to music (through earphones) while you are serving them, and thus don't respond to questions so i can process the transaction.

FUCK YOU CUNT take your fucking earphones out and listen because obviously with music blaring you can't fucking hear me say how much that shit is your buying, you fucking twit.

Then it's all like oh woops i so forgot to take them out like a fucking human being with respect for people serving me in a shop. Oh oops i cant hear you with music in my ears cause I am retarded.

Yep, i hate most customers. I fucking hate retail even more.

Oh and fuckwits that have 20 different fucking wallets and purses for different types of money. USE THE ONE U HAVE DICKHEAD. It has a fucking coin section, so fucking use it. Why should I stand there waiting for you to get out your 100 fucking wallets with notes and coins and bullshit then fossic through them to find $10 fucking dollars. Fuck what the hell is the point?

Fucking work today pissed me right off. I work in an area where NOBODY has a brain. People walk into the exits and right in front of them is a sign "NO EXIT" people must be blind, deaf and dumb. Seriously.

** I am extra angry as I'm in pain and have just had gum surgery, but I still maintain these people are fucking tards who deserve a backhanded punch**

 

[SHHMCJOOAPOYS]

Ok this pet peeve literally just happened to me 20 minutes ago when I went to pick up lunch. I go to a sandwich shop and order a buffalo chicken sandwich. The guy rings me up and the price is $7.80. I reach into my pocket and pull out 5 cents. I hand the guy a $20 bill and the 5 cents. He seems confused by this and says, "Sir, the total is $7.80." I respond, "I know that, that's why I gave you $20.05." Fifteen seconds go by, and nothing has happened. I get agitated and say, "I gave you the 5 cents because I want a quarter in return." He says, "Oh, I guess you're right."

!??????????? Are people really that slow???? I mean come on.

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ lol it took me a while because we don't have quarters here, we have 20c pieces :D

But yes, that was rather slow of him...

The exact same thing happened to me yesterday too. The total was $16.10 and I gave her $21.10 and she couldn't work it out for the life of her. Ahhhh bless

 

[mrs_mia_wallace]

Ok this pet peeve literally just happened to me 20 minutes ago when I went to pick up lunch. I go to a sandwich shop and order a buffalo chicken sandwich. The guy rings me up and the price is $7.80. I reach into my pocket and pull out 5 cents. I hand the guy a $20 bill and the 5 cents. He seems confused by this and says, "Sir, the total is $7.80." I respond, "I know that, that's why I gave you $20.05." Fifteen seconds go by, and nothing has happened. I get agitated and say, "I gave you the 5 cents because I want a quarter in return." He says, "Oh, I guess you're right."

!??????????? Are people really that slow???? I mean come on.

That is pretty slow, but honestly I HATED when people would come in with weird amounts of change and get annoyed when you were like WTF???

Like if the total is 3.85 and you give me $5.25. Just keep your fucking quarter please. And when people pay and you've already gathered half their change and they decide to give me the change THEN... yes I know it's simple math I'm not retarded, but after 50 sales transactions I don't want to have be adding shit up in my head.

Thank god I don't work in retail anymore %)

My pet peeve: when there's, say, three parking spots on the street (so you have to parallel park) and someone has already taken the one in the front and then someone takes the one in the back so you have to go through the whole complicated annoying process of backing up into the spot... wtf, just drive the little bit forward! Same with gas stations, if no one is in the front one, just drive forward so I don't have to go through the annoying manuvering process...

 

[SHHMCJOOAPOYS]

That is pretty slow, but honestly I HATED when people would come in with weird amounts of change and get annoyed when you were like WTF???

Like if the total is 3.85 and you give me $5.25. Just keep your fucking quarter please. And when people pay and you've already gathered half their change and they decide to give me the change THEN... yes I know it's simple math I'm not retarded, but after 50 sales transactions I don't want to have be adding shit up in my head.

Why would someone give you $5.25 if the total was $3.85? I could understand someone giving you $5.10 because then they would want a quarter. But what's the point of giving $5.25? Forty cents?? It doesn't make sense to me. :D

 

[mrs_mia_wallace]

^It doesn't to me either but it's happened!

Honestly, I think some people are just fucking stupid, and think that giving you any change, even if it makes no sense, is somehow making the transaction easier? Or they just want to get rid of their change?

For example, people would often give me something like $4.05. Uhm, OK, $.20 is a lot easier than giving you $.15? 8)

 

[Fjones]

I am sure I have posted this before, but I am going to revisit it, because I remain completely baffled by this.

WHY THE FUCK do people randomly insert "LOL" into their own statements?

Originally LOL meant "Laughing out loud" or something like that, as in,

Person 1 - (Makes some kind of funny remark)
Person 2 - Finds the remark funny but is either A) Too lazy to write a sentence explaining this fact, or B) has a writing deficiency and cannot think of a good way to construct a sentence praising the person's remark, and thus types "LOL"

But now this silly abbreviation has run amok. There are some people who CANNOT write a single sentence without adding LOL at the beginning or end of the sentence. Sometimes they use it before AND after.


LOL is now used not only in situations where nothing is funny in the least, but in situations that obviously call for some kind of serious remark.

Are people using this now as some sort of internet symbolization of the nervous laugh some people use in social situations? I just don't get it.

The appropriate punctuation mark at the end of a sentence is a PERIOD! USE IT! "LOL" is NOT a substitute for a period! this is what a period looks like:


.............................................. (Actually that is what a whole lot of them look like).

Use it! Use them!

 

[Mister Superzombie]

^ That's so true lol

(actually a remark such as the one I just made was somehow predictable, which is why I'm hesitating a lot at the moment whether or not I should post it (though obviously if you are reading this it means I have posted this post (even if it isn't that funny (note how many parentheses I'm using, that's annoying (in fact, I think I should make a pet peeve about that lol)))))

Now, on a more serious note, here is another pet peeve concerning this expression: people who use "lol" in real life. What is that? Did you just say "lol"? What the fuck! Either you laugh, or either you don't, but don't say "lol". It is meant to be written as a way to express laughter trough text. Do not say it.

 

[Fjones]

I like the five nested parentheses. I almost laughed out loud. But not quite. So I will create a new initialism for it. "SCTMIAOASFR."

For those who aren't clever enough to figure that one out, it means "Silently chuckling to myself in appreciation of a somewhat funny remark."

Wait, people actually SAY "LOL?" I am opposed to the death penalty but in that case I would be willing to make an exception.

 

[SHHMCJOOAPOYS]

ha ha ha I cannot stop laughing at the moment.

 

[Fjones]

ha ha ha I cannot stop laughing at the moment.

Are you LOLing or are you SCTMIAOASFRing?

 

[michael]

Why would someone give you $5.25 if the total was $3.85? I could understand someone giving you $5.10 because then they would want a quarter. But what's the point of giving $5.25? Forty cents?? It doesn't make sense to me. :D

because people are stupid. they also nearly always wait until you have a register open and are in the middle of counting out their change.

perhaps it's simple math, but when you are in the process of counting out 89 cents change and someone hands you another 14 cents it's going to throw you off. at least if you handed it to me in the beginning i could have just entered it into the register and had it tell me what change you wanted to get back.

 

[Fjones]

because people are stupid. they also nearly always wait until you have a register open and are in the middle of counting out their change.

perhaps it's simple math, but when you are in the process of counting out 89 cents change and someone hands you another 14 cents it's going to throw you off. at least if you handed it to me in the beginning i could have just entered it into the register and had it tell me what change you wanted to get back.

This is a good point. As long as ALL the money is handed to the person in the beginning, there is no reason for the cashier to get confused. All he or she has to do is enter that amount. If the bill is $16.08 and a customer hands you $21.10, JUST TYPE in $21.10 and the nice friendly cash register will employ this technique known as "math" and tell you exactly how much money to give to the nice customer.

Mildly related anecdote--

I worked a cash register briefly at a convenience store neara college that I was attending / had attended. I got bored easily so I would add up people's stuff in my head, with tax, and tell them the total as I was entering the items in the register. They would be astonished when the register showed the same thing I said. I wasn't crazy about the job, but that helped me get through the day.

Sometimes I would put somethign absurd in the register for he amount given. People didn't realize that it didn't matter. If the bill was $4.75, and the guy handed me a $5 dollar bill, I would type in $638,000.00 and hand him a quarter.

He would give a funny look as the register said he was owed $637,995.25. Luckily for me no one ever complained about being short changed (probably because it was such an obviously absurd number. I wouldn't do that with an amount someone could have actually given me).

Hey, you have to entertain yourself somehow while at work........

 

[footscrazy]

^^ Wouldn't putting in the incorrect amount fuck up the balance on the cash register though? Most jobs I have the cash register is balanced at the end of the day - amount of money in the till compared to the cost of items sold (to make sure noones dipping into the till, etc).

I always add up the costs in my head, just so I don't have to go to the register to add it up, then back to the customer, then back to the till again. Just saves time.

 

[Fjones]

^^ Wouldn't putting in the incorrect amount fuck up the balance on the cash register though? Most jobs I have the cash register is balanced at the end of the day - amount of money in the till compared to the cost of items sold (to make sure noones dipping into the till, etc).

I always add up the costs in my head, just so I don't have to go to the register to add it up, then back to the customer, then back to the till again. Just saves time.

Correct (about making sure the register is balanced).

The guy bought $4.75 worth of goods, and the cash register had $4.75 more than it did before he bought his item.

I don't see the problem?

 

[**hAyzzZZ**]

^^ Wouldn't putting in the incorrect amount fuck up the balance on the cash register though? Most jobs I have the cash register is balanced at the end of the day - amount of money in the till compared to the cost of items sold (to make sure noones dipping into the till, etc).

I always add up the costs in my head, just so I don't have to go to the register to add it up, then back to the customer, then back to the till again. Just saves time.

I think that it doesn't technically matter what amount is entered, as long as the actual balance in the register at the end of the day balances.

So say I enter $500000 in my til but technically give the correct change, it wont matter what i entered as long as I give the the right amount of money back.

Well, at my work that's how it goes anywho. We have computers, those old manual registers may be different but I doubt it.