Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

as I've gathered (eventually)

 

There’s a chain of shops over here called Cash Converters (the US may have them, I dunno). They’re essentially pawn shops where people sell their stolen goods for a pittance. But one of things they sell is console games and about 4 weeks ago I picked up a copy of Far Cry 5 on the PS4. The game wouldn’t install, often failing to recognise the disc at all. I checked for damage (something I should have done in the shop) and noticed the surface was scratched to hell. Being just around the corner I took it back and the assistant said something like “Shit! No wonder it wouldn’t install.” He apologised and refunded me.

However, I make a point of checking what games they have in whenever I pass, and about two days later noticed Far Cry 5 was back on the shelf. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed they’d had another copy come in. I asked to see it and the assistant returned from where it was displayed in the window and said, “Sorry, it’s the one that’s all scratched.” (seems they already knew my face) and made some excuse about it being put back on the window by an unknowing member of staff.

That same game has been returned to the window display on four occasions now. On each occasion I enquire if it’s the same one. The game is then removed from the window, only to be put back on display a few days later. I asked why they don’t just throw it in the bin and was fed some excuse about disposal regulations.

Today it was there again. I asked the same question (was it a fresh copy or the scratched one) and the girl said, almost gleefully, “It’s the scratched one.”

I know I’m behaving like some old busy-body who should mind their own business, but the situation is infuriating me. It’s clear they‘re hoping to sell it to some unsuspecting customer, who ultimately can’t be bothered returning it, and it’s precisely this blatant dishonesty and unscrupulous behaviour that makes me seethe.

If I thought anyone would be remotely interested in pursuing it, I’d report them to Trading Standards, but I know I’ll get nowhere.

 

Yeah, I know, but you know the rules, Homer. You can’t call into question any complaint in this thread. The title itself gives us all carte blanche.

 

When it's unusually warm out for the time of year and people pile onto the opportunity to make some kind of global warming joke.

 

When you don't want to eat or cook, but you're human and hungry, and you have to eat, even though the last thing you want to do is eat. Seriously. Why couldn't I be a moth or something? Surely moths don't have to eat this much.

I end up putting it off for hours. No wonder I get cranky.

 

My sweaters disagree.

 

Boycott the food industry. Eat a sweater today.

 

When you have an email subscription to a place you dont remember subscribing to... But now you actually need it, but it doesnt recognize your email (THE EMAIL YOU RECIEVED ITS NEWSLETTERS ON) and wants you to subscribe again.

 

Being subscribed to your old club's mailing list, so that they can spam you all the way through the pandemic with messages, but the only way to unsubscribe is to contact the person who's been emailing everyone and you don't want to make them upset or embarrassed because they really have been very thoughtful in keeping in contact with everyone, and they're older and might be lonely, so you suffer through the spamming regardless

 

How bad do you want that game?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Aleratec...99f648c73f551a2e3930289d0128ec65&gclsrc=3p.ds

 

Not that much but thanks anyway. I’ve ordered a new copy from
Amazon now (£15) which I should have done from the start, but as usual I was trying to penny-pinch.

 

These cheap packs of wet-wipe toilet tissues. They’re fine, except they won’t dispense from the pack properly. It’s nigh on impossible to find the edge of the first and get them started, but even when you do you end up pulling out about a dozen at once, and even then it doesn’t leave the next sheet half-dispensed for your convenience. I’ll pay the extra and stick to the Andrex wipes from now on.

 

The fact that Andrex toilet paper doesn't come with the puppy.

 

Awards given to 'actors' in animated films. Hell, I could read a script into a microphone in a goofy voice. Real actors have to at least memorize their lines.

 

Me: -reaches down to pet puppy-
Puppy: -she must have food!- CHOMP!!

.... My poor thumb. I smashed it in the window on Sunday... Yesterday i sliced a piece out of it while chopping veggies.... And now today, my puppy decides to take a bite out of it.

Ok, GOD, you win. Just take the thumb!!

 

Should we call you Thumbelina?

 

Har har har.....

 

I'm fine with it as long as they aren't competing with on-screen actors. Besides, it really is acting. Communicating things with one's voice is a harder job than it seems.

 

"[help chat] typically replies in under 10mins"

.....25 minutes later and no reply. I guess my tech question really stumped them

 

...when someone who is not your boss (or a higher up) gives you an order....

double annoyance: its the same order that your boss gave you a few days ago that you ALREADY DID the same day he asked you.


yes, i am doing my job. leave me alone and do yours!

 

Singing at home, literally just about to try out the high note of a song I've been desperate to get (because I was doing really well today and managed to do other high notes properly and it was epic) and... my dad's car pulls into the driveway. Fook.

 

When a game’s ‘hard’ difficulty setting simply means ‘unrealistic’, with enemies that don’t die until you’ve emptied two automatic rifle magazines into them, have a sixth sense and can instantly pinpoint your position even when you’re well hid, and magically spawn behind you to catch you off guard.

 

Or the equivalent in strategy games where they’re not any smarter, just way more powerful and numerous.

 

Eating.

It costs me money and time, both of which I have precious little to spare to begin with. Each meal has to be decided on, then prepared and cooked, and after its been eaten (the one single element that could be described as pleasurable - and it’s often not even that) the pots have to be washed and put away!