Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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  1. jannert

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    I worked in the NHS for 12 years, and the only visitors who aren't charged are people who come from countries where we have a reciprocal treatment agreement. We had a huge list beside our desk at the surgery where I was a receptionist, and if somebody from another country needed treatment, we had to check the country, and if there was no reciprocal agreement, the patient had to arrange for payment via the doctors. The money did get paid to the NHS.

    I remember when I got my first NHS dental treatment (an extraction of an abscessed tooth) as an emergency when I was first visiting Scotland from the USA in 1985. The dentist readily treated me but apologised, and said he did have to charge me. I was more than happy to pay it. It was £5!!! I tried to pay him £10, but he wouldn't take the extra.
     
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    I do this with BIC lighters so my dad doesn't steal them. :p
     
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    As someone who works in the City of London, tourists do this constantly.
    They like to gather in a group and spread out across the pavement to have their discussion about which way they should go.
    (The reason this shouldn't annoy me is that when I'm on a city break, the shoe is very much on the other foot.)
     
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    Do what? Take the label off fully, leave it untouched or take it off but leave bits of backing paper?
     
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    Related: Products that need to have an added label (mostly with a barcode), but the label attacher (manufacturer or store) don't make them easily removable. In particular (very particular), books. Sometimes it happens that a book needs a different barcode. Even for new books, such as US or UK books in a German bookstore. So they stick this label over the original barcode, but the label has a different texture than the rest of the cover (not glossy). So I want to remove... Mostly those label can be removed with a little bit of care... but sometimes they can't! I hate that. Why can't they use the same mostly removable glue?

    I had that on mechanical pencils as well. I had Faber-Castells, and the label stuck. Even with care, there was glue residue that needed to be removed with alcohol. Today I got a Staedtler, and it went off without much trouble, on the same kind of material. I love Faber-Castell products, but can't they use the same label and glue as their competitor?

    (Yesyes, there may be some anti-theft purpose behind attaching the label, but the ones I'm talking about are not that. They seem to be inventory tracking primarily.)
     
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    I can relate.

    Edit: funny enough, people seem to like me. And I have no idea why!
     
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    And the people who refill the shelves who ignore you and just carry on with what they're doing.

    Hello? Crutches here. Wanna get the f- out of my way so I'm not standing here trying to balance on my good leg?
     
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    @Martin Beerbom

    Oh, sticky labels on books... don’t get me started. The weirdest part of all this (after me of course) is that I hate leaving any sign a label has been removed from the cover, and yet I love the look of a tatty old, dog-eared paperback.
     
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    Aaah the agony of being on crutches.

    Go to shop. Realise you can’t carry basket around so attempt to push it along the floor with your crutch. Security guard takes pity and offers to carry it for you. Actively avoid putting in the multiple bottles of wine, pizza and chocolate you came for and end up with actual grown up food you didn’t really want to avoid judgement.
     
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    Ahhhh, you Americans and teeth. :D
     
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    This.

    I've developed a technique where I stand one crutch in the basket and use the other one to balance while I'm walking. I just have to pick up the one in the basket every time I stop when it falls over.
     
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    Take the sticker off the lighter, and don't leave behind the backing paper.
     
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    You can use a little lighter fluid. :D
     
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    Or burn it off with another lighter...

    Spoiler: don't burn things off the bodies of lighters.
     
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    We didn't start the fire,
    It was always burning since the world's been turning.
     
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    :rofl:
     
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    If I'm reading that right then that sounds like a good deal financially. But money isn't really my problem. My job pays me well (enough) but I work way more than I want to. I can make more money but I can't make more time and that is infinitely more valuable to me than money (despite how much of it I tend to sacrifice for it). Once I'm done, I'm done. Now don't get me wrong. If it's freezing outside and my neighbor comes knocking because their furnace just went out, then I'll take a look at it because I'm an amazing, sweet, caring guy.... who really wants you off of his porch and out of his life so he can go back to his warm house. Okay, I'll probably just loan them my electric heater and tell them to call somebody who cares, I mean a professional repair person, because I still don't want to participate in anything that even closely resembles my job.

    I still make my landlord hire a guy to diagnose and fix my furnace or AC even when I know what is wrong with it, can fix it myself, and even get a hundred bucks knocked off of my rent for it. I'm not lazy. I swear. I work really hard.... when I'm at work. Ironically enough, of all the things I would like to write, I'm not sure if I can ever put into words how much I hate my job. This writing thing may never take off but if it did, I'd be happier than a pig in poop.
     
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    So how does that prevent your dad from nicking them?
     
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    He leaves the stickers on his lighters.
    It makes it easier for us to know whose
    lighter is whose by the :sticker/no sticker
    method.
     
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    Kids, say no to smoking.
     
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    Having to be careful when using the TV as a web browser. Some people here think I need to be cleaning instead of browsing the web or something like that.
    Also heartburn, I hate heartburn.
     
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  23. Martin Beerbom

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    I EDC a lighter. I never smoked. I never needed a lighter. But the boy scout in me fears the day I would!
     
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    I looked at a cigerette but never light one up or anything like that. I held it and thought it was nasty and then put it away.
     
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    I bet it's a Zippo. It's a Zippo, isn't it?
     
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