what grinds your gears?

ElectroChem · Feb 20, 2015

People who pull up to the drive-through and study the menu like it's a bloody 2-star restaurant. Get out of the way! I've got 10 minutes to be on the other side of town and I want my burger and chips!

Besoeker · Feb 20, 2015

ElectroChem said:
People who pull up to the drive-through and study the menu like it's a bloody 2-star restaurant. Get out of the way! I've got 10 minutes to be on the other side of town and I want my burger and chips!

Yes, that would irk me too. It doesn't because I rarely use a drive through. Not even fast food outlets very much. But I can understand your gripe. I wouldn't use the drive through because I don't know the menu.

Yes I said not a lot irks me but your legitimate gripe reminds me of something that does. And I may have posted this before.

Supermarket queues.
You get to the till as the previous person is settling their bill having taken their time packing their purchases. Then they scrounge around in their handbag to find a purse, dig out a card, then go through a pile of coupons to find valid in date money off or or store points coupons......

Listen you stupid old hag/bag, you knew you would have to pay. Like me, you were in the queue. You had plenty of time to sort that ---- out before you got to the till.

Puting it in perspective, it's not really the time element. That might be a few minutes. It's just the lack of consideration for other shoppers.
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ElectroChem · Feb 20, 2015

Besoeker said:
Puting it in perspective, it's not really the time element. That might be a few minutes. It's just the lack of consideration for other shoppers.
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I'd say both our gripes fall into the general category of wasting other people's time through a lack of consideration and forethought. A few seconds to get your change ready or decide on your order can save the person behind you some aggravation, and you'll also be done quicker.

telectrix · Feb 20, 2015

one that really winds me up is ( usually women) who leave their car on the pump at a filling station while they browse around the forecourt shop, buying donkey snot sandwiches and costa coffee.

frontier219 · Feb 20, 2015

darkwood said:
People who cannot cut tie wraps down without leaving a minefield of razor edges for all other trades... enough said!!!

On the opposite of this, working as an apprentice in London at a large data/comms facility for a big American company. Because one of their US employees had cut himself on a cable tie and sued, we had to file down all cable ties. Guess who got that job...I spent TWO WEEKS filing cable ties. Madness.

shanky887614 · Feb 20, 2015

frontier219 said:
On the opposite of this, working as an apprentice in London at a large data/comms facility for a big American company. Because one of their US employees had cut himself on a cable tie and sued, we had to file down all cable ties. Guess who got that job...I spent TWO WEEKS filing cable ties. Madness.

i would have taken the **** and specced nylon velcro wraps lol

Adam W · Feb 20, 2015

Staying with the drive-though theme for a minute, I was always under the impression they were meant for people who were in a hurry and didn't have time to park, so I resent having to wait ages behind some 17 year old who's just passed their test and taken all their mates to the drive-through, none of them know what they want, all ordering something which has to be specially made, and they all want to pay separately. If they're going to spend ages there, why not just go inside? Chances are one of them will have to get out of the car to put their PIN in the card reader anyway.

Besoeker · Feb 21, 2015

shanky887614 said:
i would have taken the **** and specced nylon velcro wraps lol

My friend, Jimmy, did a lot of the fibre-optic cabling for a data centre in Atlanta. AT&T if I recall correctly.
That used velcro wraps. It was an absolute peach of a job - everything straight and parallel, the cable wraps equally spaced, idents on everything of course. Probably the neatest installation I have ever seen. And I think we do a pretty good job.

shanky887614 · Feb 21, 2015

Besoeker said:
My friend, Jimmy, did a lot of the fibre-optic cabling for a data centre in Atlanta. AT&T if I recall correctly.
That used velcro wraps. It was an absolute peach of a job - everything straight and parallel, the cable wraps equally spaced, idents on everything of course. Probably the neatest installation I have ever seen. And I think we do a pretty good job.

i did 50-100 cat6 sideways mounted on tray in a formation with velcro wraps (took me 2 days)