Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
paulguitar said:
If I'd been annoyed beyond reason by this I'd have spent much of my life annoyed beyond reason.
Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
I understand you're attitude and commend you for it. Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
It's a sad indictment of the service that you have such a high tolerance and expectation rate. I am tired by continually failings in service and products that we pay for.
redrabbit29 said:
paulguitar said:
If I'd been annoyed beyond reason by this I'd have spent much of my life annoyed beyond reason.
Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
I understand you're attitude and commend you for it. Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
It's a sad indictment of the service that you have such a high tolerance and expectation rate. I am tired by continually failings in service and products that we pay for.
Sheets Tabuer said:
s
t weather.
I like winter, I like dark evenings and having the fire on.t weather.I hate really hot weather like the Summers we seem to get these days.
Even I though am getting hacked off with the lack of something slightly warmer and sunnier than the rain and overcast days we seem to be having now.
Red9zero said:
Our local parish council are doing No Mow May. In other words, letting everything get overgrown and unkempt and if last year is anything to go by, not starting to mow again until July. The bee`s might be happy, but it makes the place look a proper st tip.
You should inform them that they are simply a bunch of lazy good for nothing layabouts, a bunch of scruffs. t tip.Sheets Tabuer said:
Had that once in a tesco extra to give you an indication of the size of the car park. It was a Monday night the place was deserted and I parked as far away from the shop as I could, the car park was almost completely empty.
Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
The place was empty but you still had to park a distance away?Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
paulguitar said:
redrabbit29 said:
paulguitar said:
If I'd been annoyed beyond reason by this I'd have spent much of my life annoyed beyond reason.
Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
I understand you're attitude and commend you for it. Factor in a 10-20% chance of travel arrangements getting properly messed up.
It's a sad indictment of the service that you have such a high tolerance and expectation rate. I am tired by continually failings in service and products that we pay for.
That bastion of US immigration efficiency and proactivity.
NOT.
Six and half hour flight over (may have been seven) and just over 50% of that time again, spent whilst one immigration official did their utmost to pee of every single arriving passenger for the whole Sunday.
Did eventually make a connection, but nearly fours hours to then meet Mr I don't care. Sheesh.
Never again, Philly.
cobra kid said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Had that once in a tesco extra to give you an indication of the size of the car park. It was a Monday night the place was deserted and I parked as far away from the shop as I could, the car park was almost completely empty.
Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
The place was empty but you still had to park a distance away?Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
I don't have a brand new Lotus either.
Bluedot said:
I do this, it infuriates the wife
I don't have a brand new Lotus either.
My wife had a moan at me once for parking a couple of rows further away from the supermarket entrance than I could have done. Apparently walking an extra 20 meters was the end of the world, but she quite happily ran the London marathon a month or so later I don't have a brand new Lotus either.
dukeboy749r said:
Ahh, Philidephia.
That bastion of US immigration efficiency and proactivity.
NOT.
Six and half hour flight over (may have been seven) and just over 50% of that time again, spent whilst one immigration official did their utmost to pee of every single arriving passenger for the whole Sunday.
Did eventually make a connection, but nearly fours hours to then meet Mr I don't care. Sheesh.
Never again, Philly.
I think you're being unfair to Philadelphia!That bastion of US immigration efficiency and proactivity.
NOT.
Six and half hour flight over (may have been seven) and just over 50% of that time again, spent whilst one immigration official did their utmost to pee of every single arriving passenger for the whole Sunday.
Did eventually make a connection, but nearly fours hours to then meet Mr I don't care. Sheesh.
Never again, Philly.
I've experienced exactly the same queueing agony in Dallas, Las Vegas, Charlotte and New York (both Newark and JFK).
There's an amusing irony to the fact that you;re going to a country where the people are generally friendly and welcoming, and service is efficient and prompt, but your first experience of it is to shuffle through a hall for hours while a number of miserable, officious and unhelpful work-to-rule types seem to go out of their way make your first entry into their country as slow, painful and miserable as possible.
Yes, there are exceptions - I had a right laugh with one hilarious officer late at Newark one night, but this is very, very rare.
RizzoTheRat said:
Bluedot said:
I do this, it infuriates the wife
I don't have a brand new Lotus either.
My wife had a moan at me once for parking a couple of rows further away from the supermarket entrance than I could have done. Apparently walking an extra 20 meters was the end of the world, but she quite happily ran the London marathon a month or so later I don't have a brand new Lotus either.
Deranged Rover said:
I think you're being unfair to Philadelphia!
I've experienced exactly the same queueing agony in Dallas, Las Vegas, Charlotte and New York (both Newark and JFK).
There's an amusing irony to the fact that you;re going to a country where the people are generally friendly and welcoming, and service is efficient and prompt, but your first experience of it is to shuffle through a hall for hours while a number of miserable, officious and unhelpful work-to-rule types seem to go out of their way make your first entry into their country as slow, painful and miserable as possible.
Yes, there are exceptions - I had a right laugh with one hilarious officer late at Newark one night, but this is very, very rare.
Been through US Immigration maybe 15 times and this lone travellerI've experienced exactly the same queueing agony in Dallas, Las Vegas, Charlotte and New York (both Newark and JFK).
There's an amusing irony to the fact that you;re going to a country where the people are generally friendly and welcoming, and service is efficient and prompt, but your first experience of it is to shuffle through a hall for hours while a number of miserable, officious and unhelpful work-to-rule types seem to go out of their way make your first entry into their country as slow, painful and miserable as possible.
Yes, there are exceptions - I had a right laugh with one hilarious officer late at Newark one night, but this is very, very rare.
has been dealt with in under 8 minutes most times. All they want to hear
is what you will be doing while in the USA and when you'll be leaving.
I think people's inability to fill in the Customs Declaration Form
correctly is a cause of delay, e.g the official doesn't have to ask what is your address while staying
in the US if you've filed the answer, same with your passport number and flight number.
cobra kid said:
dukeboy749r said:
In the US, just hanging up with none of the British etiquette of saying goodbye, used to be a huge thing.
I’ve seen it happen less over time, though.
Same with knocks on the door. As soon as the knock has happened, a shot is fired through the door.I’ve seen it happen less over time, though.
Nethybridge said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Had that once in a tesco extra to give you an indication of the size of the car park. It was a Monday night the place was deserted and I parked as far away from the shop as I could, the car park was almost completely empty.
Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
The odds against that would be astronomicalistic, I believe you.#Went in, did some shopping and came out to find a car parked either side.
I've done exactly that on purpose. You know someone has parked so far away because you know they are paranoid about parking dents, so you park next to them, because...well just because.
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