What small things irritate you ?

hollydolly

hollydolly

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I mean not wars..or child abuse.. or big things which would downright anger you... but little things.

They do say don't sweat the small things but some-things are just a little bit annoying...

for example, I bought a pair of ankle boots in the sale from a high end department store online about 6 months ago, just £25 instead of the usual price of £75... .. I went to wear them the other day and the zip on one of them just opens up as soon as it's zipped up.. so the zip has to be repaired or replaced.

My grandfather and my father were both cobblers so I know what needs to be done.. but trad cobblers are a dying breed , and we're left just with the high street key-cutting/shoe repairs shop of the same name .. not very good but it's all we have now..

I called them and asked how much it would be to repair the boot... and he told me it would cost £40... good lord..£40 for a replacement 6 inch zip ?...

Well it's not worth it to me, that's almost twice the price I paid for the boots.. so these boots will have to be given to a charity unworn, in the hope that someone who is capable of repairing a zip gets a bargain pair of boots for a couple of quid
 
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Adding to Jujube's list.
Those customer service phone lines that want you to say something into their machine:
"Do you want to pay your bill? Say "pay bill."
Then I say, "Pay bill," and it says,
"I'm sorry I can't understand you, do you want to speak to an agent?"
I say, "Yes."
It says,
"I'm sorry I can't understand you."

And so on. They can never understand me even when I'm speaking as slowly and clearly as humanly possible. I know I have a hillbilly twang but how bad can it be on a single word?
 
Della said:
Adding to Jujube's list.
Those customer service phone lines that want you to say something into their machine:
"Do you want to pay your bill? Say "pay bill."
Then I say, "Pay bill," and it says,
"I'm sorry I can't understand you, do you want to speak to an agent?"
I say, "Yes."
It says,
"I'm sorry I can't understand you."

And so on. They can never understand me even when I'm speaking as slowly and clearly as humanly possible. I know I have a hillbilly twang but how bad can it be on a single word?
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Try 'William' instead of 'Bill'. ;)
 
People who are not good at their jobs and don't listen to and serve their clients efficiently like they used to. Worse is when you can't even talk to a human because everything is robotic. Being locked out of online accounts because they insist the username and password do not match when they do! 😫
 
Gnats, I can't stand gnats! I don't understand how a species survives when they can't swim or lift up out of liquids and wet foods but yet they keep landing in places like that. It hasn't been so bad since I don't have dogs anymore (so not having to hold doors open for them), but I spend a lot of the summer defending my food and drinks from gnats.
 
Alligatorob said:
I was going to say not too much, but then after reading through I think most all of the above things irritate me...
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Yes I agree...I am in agreement with almost all of the above... ..and I do the same thing with the ''please stay on the line, you're number 345 in the queue''... I just put the phone down on the side on speaker phone and get on with whatever else that I'm doing, until they answer..
 
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C50 said:
People who laugh at the end of every sentence.

Or people who start every sentence with "like"

I could probably sit here for some time working on this list😜
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I've never heard anyone in real life start a sentence with like but I've seen it on some American reality shows.... but I do get irritated at people who use the word like in every sentence...

I was like walking down the road, and there was like, this dog, like it was just walking, and it's owner was kinda like... .. :eek:
 
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