Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

When one of my friends ask me "what's wrong" when I am just sitting there silently while the rest of my lot are talking.

 

the thought that somebody might be buying this at this "Adorable Cats Fabric" very moment:



PS: I don't know how to make the size smaller, but it gives you a pretty good sense of how this makes me feel.

 

Yikes! I mean I love my fur babies but ah that is not something I would buy. It gives off this "old cat lady" vibe which wouldn't be the look I would want to go for.

 

My Mid-Century Modern group - where we talk about architectural lines and furniture - has gone politically tits up. Thanks 2020.

 

Wish my mom was still in the seamstressing biz, I'd have a waistcoat out of that!

 

Actors who almost look like someone I recognize from a different movie, but aren't.

 

What bugs me is knowing actors and actresses from old films!

 

One of these two is taller:

 

hmmm, careful when you cross the street, I might run over you with a car . . . did you watch the movie The Dead Zone? When the camera enters the house of the killer, it make you realize that with that wallpaper, having it to watch it day in and day out, he could have not become anything else but a killer

 

We are currently experiencing a high volume of customer inquiries. There may be a delay while we work to respond to each request. Providing a positive customer experience is a priority at Meijer and we would like to thank you for taking the time to communicate your concern.

How nice to know that my satisfaction is a priority. Not enough of a priority to actually respond to the message I sent five days ago, I guess.

I suppose you couldn't possibly hire more people to handle the 'high volume'. I mean, where are you going to find people who are stuck at home because their kids' schools are closed and who would love a chance to make a few bucks doing customer service work from home? Every other damned house in my neighborhood.

 

That is the exact case here for the call centers that we have.

 

Cry me a river. If your business model doesn't permit you to perform what you yourself claim is a 'priority', regardless of circumstances, you don't ignore your customers, you change the model. Business 101.

 

You could, of course, go somewhere else rather than hanging on the phone or complaining about it. That'll show 'em.

 

To be fair, this is the "Things That Annoy Me, but Shouldn't" thread...

 

My husband's deeply flawed facial recognition subroutine. To him, all brunette American actresses of a standard Hollywood physique are Sandra Bullock. Every last one.

 

Even Sally Field?

 

All - of - them. Katie Holmes, Emmy Rossum, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Connelly - all of them.

 

Sure, and if that's what they want me to do, they should say so on the website. (I should also say that I'm using the online Contact Us form to communicate with these people. If I had called on the phone, I have a five minute limit for being stranded on hold by companies I'm trying to do business with. No one can take advantage of you without your permission.)

 

Kind of like the Southern habit of calling all soda pops 'coke'.

 

I'm almost as bad. Studies (citation needed) have shown that cross-racial facial identification is weaker than within one's own "race."

Now put a mask on every one of your students. It's nametag time, gentlemen.

 

To be fair, I don't know the difference between any of them either.

 

This is starting to remind me of the latest memes this year.


Though Iain has a fair point, with all the masked people it is kinda hard
to identify anyone (unless you're familiar with their facial features).
Name tags should be optional, but would be kinda funny seeing:
Hello My Name Is...
on the left breast of a bunch of people.

 

When my mom tells me to do something and says it like "Let's take out the trash". Why can't it just be "Vanna, take out the trash", doesn't "let's" mean the both of us? We both are not doing it, so why the "let's"?