You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[Mr. DS]

Retail clerks who ask you if you want to join their [insert generic discount program name here] every single time you go through the checkout.  Put a little sign up or something - don't ask every single person that every time they buy something. 

I know it's the store policy and not the clerk's fault, but it gets really old.  Especially if I'm standing in line with my usual 1 item and the old lady in front of me - who's already moving at 1/10th normal human speed - decides that yes, she would like to sign up for that plan 

Am I the only one that feels completely awkward handing a stranger my key chain to scan a savings card?  I understand having the card on the keychain is a matter of convenience but I really long for the days when things were just on sale. 

I've never understood supermarket layouts in the first place

Yep and they keep getting odder.  The Stop And Shops in my area remodeled to have the bread in the center isle.  You know, so when you're halfway done with your shopping you can chuck your bread into the basket to be covered by soda, milk and other heavy items before you get to the checkout.   

Going back to my original comment today, I understand no one clerk is going to now the store top to bottom.  However, the more staff I run into lately the fewer times do they know anything about their place of business.   And more often than not I get the "I don't give a sh!t" vibe from them.   I really get irritated when my wife tells me to pick something up she JUST bought at a store.  When I get to said store the staff insist they don't carry the item.  Then I end up having to call my wife to ask her where the location is.  Though I haven't been doing this, I would really like to shove the item in clerk's faces and let them know where its at.  I really don't think they'd give two sh!ts less though. 

[Mr. DS]

This one I just thought of randomly.  I hate it when a movie ends and they plaster the title of the film on the screen before the closing credits.  It seems a bit pretentious to me as if to remind you what you just spent two hours on.  Of course Avatar did this.   

[Paquita]

And don't look for maple syrup in the baking aisle with the pancake mix and all the other sweeteners. It's over with the cereal because somebody decided it was breakfast.

That's also where they put Karo syrup and Molasses.  Sure, maybe a handful of elderly people still drizzle them on their toast, but those are filed under baking ingredients in my brain and I always forget they're with the maple syrup by the cereal and not in the baking aisle.

[BTM]

METAL fans...or a certain breed anyhow.  Particularly the ones that insist their favorite band is better than all and nothing else is of worth noting. 

I totally agree, especially since everyone knows Blood & Bowels is THE best metal band ever!

[Couchtr26]

You know what grinds my gears?   Not enough lubricant.   

Okay, seriously.  Myself actually, I have been making some stupid choices lately.  First, I thought I would take an unscheduled day off from work and then mid way through the day realized I needed the cash for an upcoming event.  Damn it, Tom get your head in the game of life.

[Flick James]

You know what grinds my gears?   Not enough lubricant.   

Okay, seriously.  Myself actually, I have been making some stupid choices lately.  First, I thought I would take an unscheduled day off from work and then mid way through the day realized I needed the cash for an upcoming event.  Damn it, Tom get your head in the game of life.

Okay, so you're grinding your own gears. I'm going to have to ban you for that in the other thread.

[Mr. DS]

People who think they own a street thus stopping their vehicle in the middle of it.  These people then take it to another level BSing with a pal on the side of the road or perhaps looking lost for their cellphone in the backseat.  Nope, I'm not trying to get by or anything...I'll wait patiently.   

[Used Meathook]

People that are in the middle of the lane within a parking lot, waiting for a person to back out so they can take their spot. Not only can I not get around you, but you're also waiting for an 80yr old lady to put 2 carts of groceries in her car...which has us sitting here for 10 minutes.

[AndyC]

People that are in the middle of the lane within a parking lot, waiting for a person to back out so they can take their spot. Not only can I not get around you, but you're also waiting for an 80yr old lady to put 2 carts of groceries in her car...which has us sitting here for 10 minutes.

Or when those people are waiting for you to back out, and making you feel like you're inconveniencing them by not doing it immediately. Seriously, it's one thing to see a car moving, or with its reverse lights on, or even running, but to wait for the space just because you see somebody return to their car? That's not reasonable to the people trying to get by, or to the guy in the space, who might not be ready to leave just yet.

I find people tend to be obsessed with parking as close to the entrance as possible, driving around where the vehicular and pedestrian traffic is heaviest, competing for spaces that can be extremely tight to get in and out of. I always park farther out in the lot, where I get a space I can drive straight through for an easy exit, and often have no cars immediately beside me. Easy to get in, open the doors, load purchases and leave. The only price is maybe an extra 50 yards of walking at most. I find driving in close quarters with other vehicles very stressful, and to me, it's worth the extra minute getting into the store. And jockeying for a closer space would have wasted more time than that anyway.

Drives my wife nuts, because she's the sort who wants to park as close as possible. Ironic, considering she's also the one who always says we need to exercise more. Does it make sense to avoid little bits of extra walking in your day-to-day business, then try to work in a walk for its own sake later on?

[Used Meathook]

^^^

I never wait for close-up parking spots. I just don't have the patience to drive around the lot for 10 minutes, lol. It's funny when you see somebody doing that...trying to get as close as possible to the store...and you just park further away and get to the store before them. And you notice they're still driving around in circles as you're entering the building. lol

[Couchtr26]

Have you ever started dating someone.  Things start out well, you feel you are made for each other and quickly things go 180 degrees.  I imagine this has happened alot.  However, going further have you ever then about a year later learned your brother or sister started dating this person.  Upon researching further you learn the reason is to get back at you for wrongs real or perceived.  I have that happening right now.  Trying to warn my brother but feel like I'm screaming at a brick wall.  Feel like I will never be heard and that it will just be a whole lot of grief over nothing but stupidity.  It has been driving me up the wall for a few days.   

[Mr. DS]

Regarding the parking spot vultures, I can't stand them either.  When I see one waiting for me  (if I luck out with a close space) I go out of my way to be a d!ckhead and take double the time I normally would.  I've had people speed away swearing at me which I return with a gentle wave and smile.  

As for waiting for a space to open personally, no thanks.  When I see someone doing that it become my mission to get into the store before them.

[ImaginaryFoot]

I will be the first to admit i sometimes mangle the english language, most of the time just to f#ck with people, but it bugs the sh!t outta me when people ask me if my store has an ATM machine.  The word Machine is already there, thats what the M means

[ImaginaryFoot]

Another thing that bugs me is non-alcoholic beer. To me thats like breathing non- oxygen air.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Regarding the parking spot vultures, I can't stand them either.  When I see one waiting for me  (if I luck out with a close space) I go out of my way to be a d!ckhead and take double the time I normally would.  I've had people speed away swearing at me which I return with a gentle wave and smile.  

As for waiting for a space to open personally, no thanks.  When I see someone doing that it become my mission to get into the store before them.

I have a little story about this sort of thng.

About a year or two ago, I took a space on a woman who was too old to be driving to begin with.  I was totally in the right..I was ahead of her and the space was practically in front of me. She got there too late and that was all she needed.

That old lady beeped and yelled, and waited for me to get out of the car. She went on and on and called my wife and I all kind of names, THEN something I never expected.

She slowly followed my wife and I with her car, keeping pace alongside of us as we walked into the store. She let out a torrent of curses and suppositions that would have made a sailor blush.  At that point I informed her that she was stalking us, and she said "you're damn right."

And, on top of it, she warned us that the next time we disrespected her, that quote, "my mother was going to need a black dress."   She then called me a CS and sped off at all of 15 MPH.   

I was truly scared..something I might expect from a kid under 25 who thinks he owns the road, but not an old woman. Some old people are crazy enough to walk the walk...