Running this irritates me thread

[Captain_Kirk]

Need to vent on a couple things that really bug me:

Gas pumps with supreme on the left and regular on the right. We're a nation that reads and does things left to right. This is really deceptive business practice at its best worst. Gas companies that do this (Chevron I know is one) are knowingly trying to trick customers into buying their higher price fuel by hoping they follow their force of habit. Just dirty pool.

ATM fees. So, banks want to steer you away from higher priced teller transactions, and then charge you for the assistance in making their business more profitable. Sure there's a cost to processing bank transfers, but in this technological, automated age, you're telling me that's a transaction cost of $1.50, $2.00, $3.00? Sorry, not buying. That's price gouging.

Have at it.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Most of the pumps my way funnel all gas through one nozzle. And even if they're selecting the level left to right, the prices are right there, and that's where most eyes are going to gravitate, because nobody's spending any more money than they have to on a fill-up (and having spent $85 on a recent fill-up, I'd never accidentally press the button for supreme).

The ATM fees are for using another bank's machine, right? I've never seen a bank charge its own customers for using their ATMs.

 

[forever_town]

Going to block someone on Facebook when you find out he's beaten you to the punch by blocking you.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Going to block someone on Facebook when you find out he's beaten you to the punch by blocking you.

Really?

 

[Hate-Miser2]

People at the grocery store who just leave their carts wherever it's convenient in the parking lot after they've loaded their stuff in the car.

They can push their cart around the store for a half-hour, but to take the empty cart and push it another 30 feet to put it in the corral thing is way too much effort? Or, God forbid, take it another 75 feet and put it back in the store where they got the cart in the first place?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

People who sit in the left lane of a four-lane highway (two lanes in each direction), going less than the speed limit, while ignoring the line of cars behind them trying to pass. Don't these idiots realize it's the passing lane?

Oh, and I'm sick of hearing the term, "Survive and Advance" every time an NCAA tournament team wins a game. You won the ****ing game. It's what you were trying to do. Did you think you were going to lose it? Stop giving it a slogan.

 

[SF_Express]

Epidemic in Florida: People who think a left green arrow is REQUIRED to turn left at an intersection, even though it's not one of those intersections that gives you a red arrow, and there's absolutely no traffic coming. This single situation is why I would never carry a gun in my car.

 

[TigerVols]

Educated adults who can't have political conversations and debates without name-calling, and worse.

 

[Lieslntx]

People at the grocery store who just leave their carts wherever it's convenient in the parking lot after they've loaded their stuff in the car.

They can push their cart around the store for a half-hour, but to take the empty cart and push it another 30 feet to put it in the corral thing is way too much effort? Or, God forbid, take it another 75 feet and put it back in the store where they got the cart in the first place?

I was guilty of doing this when my daughter was little. I always did the grocery shopping alone and I always had my daughter with me. If the cart corral was more than 10 or 15 steps away from my car, I left it near my car in as safe as a place as I could. I have never been paranoid about things, but I never left my daughter in the car and stepped away.

I didn't do it before she was born and I stopped doing it when she got older, but for those years in between, I did.

 

[schiezainc]

People at the grocery store who just leave their carts wherever it's convenient in the parking lot after they've loaded their stuff in the car.

They can push their cart around the store for a half-hour, but to take the empty cart and push it another 30 feet to put it in the corral thing is way too much effort? Or, God forbid, take it another 75 feet and put it back in the store where they got the cart in the first place?

Agree with you with one exception. If it's cold out, I'm leaving that carriage wherever I damn well please. For two reasons, really. First, it's cold and I want to get back in the car and, second, I know from personal experience that the people in charge of getting those carriages would prefer you put them all over the place so that they can stay outside (And thus spend less time inside interacting with customers) trying to get them.

 

[User 1019]

People at the grocery store who just leave their carts wherever it's convenient in the parking lot after they've loaded their stuff in the car.

They can push their cart around the store for a half-hour, but to take the empty cart and push it another 30 feet to put it in the corral thing is way too much effort? Or, God forbid, take it another 75 feet and put it back in the store where they got the cart in the first place?

Agree with you with one exception. If it's cold out, I'm leaving that carriage wherever I damn well please. For two reasons, really. First, it's cold and I want to get back in the car and, second, I know from personal experience that the people in charge of getting those carriages would prefer you put them all over the place so that they can stay outside (And thus spend less time inside interacting with customers) trying to get them.

Unless it's really cold.

 

[SoCalDude]

A few months ago, my mortgage was sold to another company. I won't mention the name, but it sounds like Metlife.
Previously, I had an online account where each month I could transfer the mortgage fee from my checking account to their checking account. Took 30 seconds.
When Metlife took over my loan, I went to set up the same system and was informed that there is a $10 fee to do that ... each month.
I asked if there was a fee to pay by check via snail mail. No fee.
I said, I'm sure you are smart people, but isn't it easier for me to put the money in your account rather than have somebody at your company have to open an envelope and punch in all the numbers to have the money transferred from my account to theirs?
Yes, that's the way we do it.
Irritation, yes!!

 

[Hate-Miser2]

I know from personal experience that the people in charge of getting those carriages would prefer you put them all over the place so that they can stay outside (And thus spend less time inside interacting with customers) trying to get them.

I will disagree with this, as a grocery bagger/cart gatherer veteran from my high school days. I would much rather have been inside in the warm conditions, dealing with the customers than out in the cold spending 4 times longer that it should have taken to get all the buggies together. Plus, dealing with people who wanted the store to pay for door dings in their car because another customer left their cart wherever it was convenient and it blew into their vehicle and left a ding or scratch was not fun.

That's what where the irritation comes from for me, is that someone doesn't want to be bothered to put the cart back any of the many places offered to put it back where it will stay. And if it blows into someone else's car, then too bad for them.

I don't get the "young kids" argument, either. Why not load the groceries with the child in the cart, then walk the cart to the corral with the child in it, and carry the child back to the car? Or use the parcel loading service that most stores offer, where you can drive up and have the bags loaded into your car?

 

[YGBFKM]

Just put the cart away, lazy assholes!

 

[Dyno]

I've noticed this happening much more often than before lately: pedestrians just stepping into the street without looking to see if cars are coming. There's an intersection near my office where people get hit with some regularity, because they don't pay attention to the Don't Walk sign and just start crossing because they assume no cars are coming (most cars turn left or right at the intersection, but a good number go straight through). It's amazing. They don't even look - they just step off the curb and keep walking.

 

[UPChip]

When I was a kid (and occasionally when no one can see me in the lot), I pretended it was a bobsled and did the whole "Feel the rhythm...feel the rhyme...get on up...it's bobsled time!" thing from Cool Runnings as I put it in the cart.

#yeahI'mcrazy

 

[Shoeless Joe]

on the laziness front at grocery stories, assholes who park in the fire lane or in a handicap spot because they're too fat and/or lazy to walk a few feet.

 

[Hate-Miser2]

Or people so lazy that when they go to get a Redbox movie at McDonald's, they can't park and walk 20 feet to the machine, but pull into the drive-thru lane 3 feet from the machine, park and leave the car there running while they search for a movie ...

 

[MacDaddy]

Asshole cyclists. I've had two in the past week who pulled out right in front of me (one coming out of a driveway onto an arterial, the other turning from a side street onto an arterial), and then looked at me like I'm the asshole because I honked at them after I'd slammed on the brakes to save their lives.

Also in this category: Cyclists who ride in the main lane when they're right next to a perfectly nice bike lane.

 

[cougargirl]

People who push right into you without saying "Excuse me." A few manners go a long way ... so don't yell at me when I push you back and say, "Excuse me!"